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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT GREENSBORO LIFE INSURANICE COMPANY DECEMBER 3 1st 1907 INCOME DISBURSEMENTS. Premiums........... .... 059 8:: Death Claims.. ... S 33,76 00 ):Dividends and other pay Interest .................. 9,241 23 ments to policy holders 4 04 Annuities Certain........ 0 Paid tnder Annuities Cer taa .... ......... ..... 493 80 Commissionls anld Agency Mon06 Ex.ense .. ......141002, ;1 Medical Fees and Inspec ASSETS. tions ...................2,2)S0 :'6 Advertising. Printing and ReFd Estate .... .........$ 24,'j00 00 Postage ....... .........9,11 06 Mortgage Loans..... .... 1:34,000 00 T axes ...... ... .......... 2,695 253 C~a'Howe office Expenses ... 26,999 491 Coliateral Loars.......... c00 00 St-cksandBons .. ...5 ., 47.500 Total Disbusements. . S$102,137 5(; StCks andExcess Receipts over Dis Policy Loans arid -Notes 48,44t; 58 bursements ........ ....80,866 50 Cash at Interest...........3,221, -- 0 -)Is283,004 06 Cash in Bank .............,000 00 LIABILITIES Furnitnre and Fixtures 2,662 98PoiyRsre(z)...$18290 Agents' Bralance .... ......6,505 00 Plc eev nt . 18690 Death Claims Outstan. - Due and Accured Interest 1,085 89 ...........3,000,00 Due and Deferred Pr'ms 43,692 45 Ai other Liabilities. 521 30 Surplus to Policy Holders 181,529 46 Gross Assets........ Sa23,679 .6 ..6 INSURANCE ACCOUNT NO. POLICIFS A'. O0UNT In force Deccmber 31s,,t, 1907 ..................5,:360 .......$...,399,80.3 00 in force December 31st, 1906 ................... 3,657 .........53,948,178s 00 ain..............e.......................... 1,97 . ,451,27 00 'Writtten During 1907 ........ ..... ........--4,792,29 00 DURING 1907 NO. POLICIES A OUNT Gained in Premium Income .................. S 97,12S 87 47 Gained in Total Income.......................97,006 61 52 Gained in Gross Assets........................ 102,800 SG Gained in Net SrplusT....................... .5,633 60 19 Gained in Insurance in Force ............... 2451.627 00 41 Expected Death Loss. $69,631.00; Actual Death Loss, $4,327.16............... Gain.......35,203 84 49 Interest Necessary for Reserves, $3,943..23; Inter est Earned, '$8,7:37.57 ...... .... ..Gain .... 4.1-94 44 151 $2.27 of Assets for Every $1.00 of liabli ty SUPERIOR IN QUALITY AND ATTAINMENT. Home fficeGREESeORO NeepsOrTHis-INA FOE STdAcue tYLrestea!A etSmer . TIME TO QUIT WORK, Fatigue Symptoms and Tests That Should Be Heeded. NATURE GIVES THE WARNING Tomorrow's Work Will Suffer if You Overdrive Today-The Price a Man Is Compelled to Pay if He Keeps on the Pressure Too Long. When we have set out on a piece of muscular work or head work we might expect to find a steady, regular in crease In the fatigue that resulted from i-so much work, so much fa tigue. But that is not the case. The "fatigue curve" Is not a striight line sloping up from one corner of the chart diagonally to the other. Instead it goes sharply upward at the start. Then for a long distance it runs along on an approximate level, and then it takes a sharp upward turn again. The level stage-the plateau of hard, normal working power, where the cost in energy doesn't vary perceptibly-is the "second wind." You know how It is in long distance ranning. At first the fatigue Increases very rapidly. A man has to push him self with all the will power he can muster. Then all of a sudden it gets easier. It seems as if he had tapped a big, new supply of energy, and he can keep running for a long time with out a:iy great increase in his feeling of fatigue. At last he reaches a point where the exertion tells hard again. Fatigue p1les up terribly fast now, so fast tat unless the runner knows just how rauch he Is good for and has made careful calculations he is likely to be "all ia" before he gets to the end. Every step makes an inroad on his re serve energy. The last spurt costs more than all the rest together. If a man has covered his distance withcut touching this final turn of the fatigue curve he will get zested in a reasoaably short time and be able to go over the course again. But if in stead he has to keep on, teeth set, eyes bulging, "hugging his corncobs" until he rolls over on the ground, it may take weeks for him to get into good form again. In a big race naturally he's got to be ready to do %:hat. There are emergencies in everybody's life when the ,merely prudent thing isn't the right thing. If a house is on fire and a family on the top floor is in danger and you're the only person on the -premises you can't stand calmly aside and calculate your fatigue curve. There's a necessity for acion-at any cost whatever, even life. A man may have a big proposition to put through, some important-combina tion to effect, a new movement to get under way. Perhaps he Is the only person who knows the whole situation. Success may depend upon him. In such. a case he must let mere prudence go by the board, and he must stand ready to pay the price, too when that's called for. But such emergencies are not every day matters. Tomorrow we are go ing to have another day's business to attend to, and the probability Is that It will be just as important as today's. Consequently we have no right to over dris e ourselves today, for the price of it 'will be taken out of the quality of tomorrow's work. We have done enough when we have come in sight of t:hat last costly lap. It's the time to quit. A great deal of interesting informa tioni about the nature of fatigue has been made available through the ergo graph, an ingeaious recording appara tus devised by Professor Angelo Mos so, a great Italian scientist. It works something after this fashion: You lay your hand, back down, on a little ta ble, and to the end of one finger is at tached a cord which connects hori zontally over a pulley with a small hanging weight The motion of clos Intr the finger lifts the weight, and as the effort is repeated over and over again the fatigue symptoms in the fin ger become clear and can be observed .d recorded In detail. Now, one of the important discover ies that Professor Mosso has made is that if you keep raising the weight un til your finger Is exhausted it will take just about two hours to rest it-that is, In two hours you can do the same amount of finger work over again-and the least bit more. You would imagine from this that if the experiment were repeated at the end of one hour instead of two you could do just half the amount of work. But it's only one-quarter as much! That's the price of work on top of fatigue. One unfatigued man Is to his work as four semifatigued men to the same work. Using all the strength you have, you can't begin to get nor mal results, and the strain on will and nervous energy Is terrific. Carrying a thing through on "nerve" is the cost liest business a man can indulge in. Some people, especially those of nervous makeup, find it hard to tell when the stopping point has been reached-that is, just where the divid ig line comes between energy funds available for investment and a capital which cannot legitimately be tamper el with. If they get interested in teir work they lose sight og every aing else and are going on sheer nerve before they realize it Though fatigue symptoms vary greatly In different people, it may be worth while to mention a few of them here. Sometimes there Is a flushing ~t the temples. That Is the case with iyself when I have been reading hard for two or three hours, and then I low that I ought to call a halt. I could keep on reading with undimin That languid, lifeless feeling that. comes with spring and early summer, can be quickly changed to a feeling of buoyancy and energy by the judicious se of Dr. Shoop's Restorative. The Restorative is a genuine tonic to ired, rundown nerves, and but a few doses is needed to satisfy the user that Dr. Shoop's Restorative is actually reaching that tired spot. The indoor life of winter Dearly always leads to sluggish bowels, and to sluggish circu lation in general. The customary lack of exercises and outdoor air ties up the liver, stagnates the kidneys, and oft times weak ens the Heart's action. Use Dr. Shoop's Restorative a few weeks and all will be changed. .A few days test will tell you that you are usmng the right remedy. You will easily and surely note the change from clay to day Sold 'by WV. E. Brown & Co. Hit Harder. "Woman Is considered the weaker vessel," she remarked, "and yet"' "Well?" she queried as she hesitated. "And yet," she continued, "man ~a the oftener broke."-Exchange. Be rich in patience if thou in gooda naapor-Dunbar. ished Interest for a good deal loii-er, but it would be at the price of a sleep less night. With some people a sure sign is the increased circulation of blood in the ears or cheeks. Some people have queer feelings in the pit of the stom ach-not nausea, but something sug- I gestive of it. One of the most reliable tests is the control test, holding the arms out hori zontally at the sides and noticing whether or not the fingers tremble. The fatigue condition raises the nerve pressure gate and allows flowovers from one nerve into another. Normal ly a nervous impulse goes along its nerve directly to the point of strain. but when you are fatigued the stimu lus spreads into other nerves as well and is not distinctly transmitted. Sir Francis Galton, the great statis tician. says that the best test he knows is that of restlessness, shown in mus cular movements. Many times, he says, he has sat in a position where he could watch an audience as it lis tened to some long scientific memoir. He took notes of how people acted under the strain of protracted atten tion-how often they moved. At the beginning of the hour they would sit quietly; then they would begin to move on the average of once every four seconds, then every three seconds, and he says that it is possible to trace right through any audience every de gree of fatigue by the number of mus-_ cular movements made. He has simply put together mathe matically some data that are familiar to all of us. We have all seen-and, alas, been a part of-an audience that was trying to endure the last half hour of an unendurable speech. Ev erybody was shifting his position, crossing one leg over the other or back again, moving the fingers, playing with watch charm or chain, yawning, twitching, folding programme, wiping eyeglasses, adjusting back hair, twist ing mustache. Those were all fatigue signs. A. loss of self control in small things -that's the symptom in different terms, and another name for it is irritability. At first it seems strange that this undue sensitiveness to slight stimuli should be so sure an effect of fatigue; but it means that the resistance gates are down and we become aware of sensations pouring in from all sides, slight sensations that ordinarily we take no notice of because-by the laws of attention-they are quietly shut out from our consciousness. But when our attention is tired-no longer focused, but scattering-all these slight nerve pricks attack us insistently and we cannot neglect them. A noise that you will not hear when you are rested will be. perfectly dis tracting when you are tired. You will go over and shut a window; you will walk around aimlessly; you will swear at the faint crackle of a distant grapho phone. If there is a light above you at an evening lecture it will hurt your eyes almost beyond endurance. In stead of making the nervous system a less responsive instrument, fatigue makes it more responsive-more re sponsive, but less serviceable. Every man who is anxious to hit his job between the eyes should make a study of his own fatigue curve, and he should put the moral of it to heart. To know when it's time to quit-and to quit when it's time-is one of the first lessons in the primer of efficien cy.-Dr. Luther H. Gulick in World's Work. Mountain Terraces In Luzon. Governor General Smith of the Phil ippines recently made a tour of the mountain provinces of northern Luzon, chiefly inhabited by pagan tribes. On his return to Manila he said: "The journey thr.ough the mountain country was a revelation. I have never seen such cultivation as we'saw in the mountains. Those people have ter raced the mountains in some instances a thousand feet high, and every bit of the land is under cultivation. "I do not believe there is anything in the world that can equal the manner in which the people of the mountains have made their country productive. It certainly surpasses anything I have ever seen. The terraces in Japan are pygmies compared with it. The earth and stone were brought for miles, and the most wonderful part about it is that the terraces are as solid and sub stantial as if they were part of the mountain itself. "Some of them are seventy or a hun - Ad feet high and remain undisturbed through all sorts of weather and land slides. And at the time these terraces were made the people were under arms, working with their knives and shields close at hand and with sentries on every high point of land and moun tain top." Sonme Novel Races. A London newspaper some years ago contained an account of a strange sort of contest which two noblemen got up for their own amusement. It consist ed of matching a flock of turkeys against a flock of geese for a race on the London and Norwich road in the middle of the last century. The tur keys would insist upon flying up into the roadside tre~es to roost, while the geese, keeping up a steady waddle all night, reached London from Norwich two days ahead. The same journal also mentions the feats of the Hion. Tom Coventry's sprinting pig. In 1803 this speedy animal was matched against a celebrated runner and start ed a strong favorite on the lay of the race, which she won with ease. The pig bad been trained to run the dis tance each day for its dinner. Anoth er odd contest about this time rook place between two sporting noblemen, who raced against each other on a windy day on Ilemapstead Heath. one running hackward in jack boots and the other holding up an open umbrella and runing forward.. Manzan Pile Remiedy comes ready to use. in a clapsible tube, with nuzzle. One application soothes and heals. reduces inflammation and re lieves soreness and itching. Price 50e. Sold by The Mannin;: Pharmacy. Windmills. The windmill is not yet superseded as an engine driven by the power of "unbought wind." In Holland they are used for sawing timber, cutting tobacco, grinding trass and draining the polders. Holland has 10.000 wind mills, each of which is said to drain 310 acres of land, at an average cost of 1 shilling an acre a year. In Nor folk they have been of inestimable service for works of drainage on the marsh lands. A fifteen horsepower windmill erected at Faversham raised in ten months 21,000,000 gallons of wa ter from a depth of 100 feet, saving 1C0 tons of coal. In the United States iron skeleton windmills were employed to pump water for domestic purposes long before they were applied to irri gation work. Powerful milhis have given farmers living on the plaims a cheap source of powe'r for various purposes, among other things to intro duce town luxuries into their homes. omanhester Gardian. INDIAN SUPERSTITIONS. The Whirlwind and the Thunder Ob jects of Curious Theories. The Dakotas believe that there is a close relation between the whirlwind and the fluttering wings of a moth. The cocoon is regarded as the myste rious object from which a power sim ilar to that of the whirlwind emanates. as attested by the emergence from it of the moth. Dr. Wissler explains in Discovery that the whirlwind meant by the Da kota is the harmless little whirl one sees upon the plains every clear day. The long, slender column betraying its presence makes a profound impression upon the Indian. In the whirlwind somehow and somewhere resides the power to pro duce confusion of mind. Thus it was natural that its aid should have been invoked by the warriors on going into battle, for to be as intangible, invisible and destructive as the wind was their one great desire. When a man loses his presence of mind he is said -to have been overcome by the whirlwind. A cocoon of a moth taken with a portion of the twig upon which it was found and wrapped in an eagle plume or down is regarded as a perpetual prayer to the power of the whirlwind. This prayer is not only symbolized by the genuine cocoon worn upon the per son, but also by its image in stuffed buckskin or by its sketched or paint ed representation. The Blackfeet see a relation between the moth- and sleep and appeal to it when they desire to have dreams, for with them power is always conferred in a dream. In the case of unrequited love the whirlwind is invoked. It is believed that it can confuse the mind of a girl to such a degree that she cannot resist the pleadings of the en amored swain. Some of the Dakotas believe that the bear controls the power of the whirl wind and that a prayer must be ad dressed to the animal for the assist ance of the whirlwind. Sometimes a person will receive power from the bear in a dream or vision and thus come to have the aid of the whirlwind because of the conceived relation be tween the two. Finally the power of the whirlwind is also supposed to be associated with the buffalo and the spider web. A deity of equal importance among the Indians of the plains is the thun der, which usually is associated with military exploits. While the Dakotas generally regard the thunder as a bird, usually symbolized by the eagle, they sometimes speak of it as a horse, a man or -a dog. The horse has always appealed to them as a creature of mysterious ori gin and in many cases is assumed to have been given by the thunder. In any event there is an association in their minds between the power of a warhorse and the thunder. The thunder is often represented by a zigzag or wavy line, usually in red. But Dr. Wissler says that this symbol really represents the power of the phenomenon in the abstract, because the Indian lacks the conception-of a' force in nature, so that the symbol is also a general sign for the presence of mysterious supernatural power. Whistles made from the leg and wing bones of eagles are employed by the Dakotas to symbolize the cry of the eagle as a representative of the thunder bird. In battle or sometimes in stress of great trial they are sound ed to summon the aid of the power of the thunder. As a rule, a zigzag line is scratched down the sides of these whistles. The yellow winged woodpecker is looked upon as an associate of the. thunder bird, because when a storm is approaching it utters a shrill cry not unlike the sound of the whistle and is believed to be speaking to the thun der. The spider is spoken of as a friend of the thunder, and it is the general belief that the thunder will never harm it, so that it is itself a protection against thunder. The observed fact that a spider manufactures a web and that this web is not destroyed by ar rows or bullets, since 'they pass through it, leaving only a hole, is cited as the basis for. the conception that the spider has power to protect people from harm. Stonewall Jackson's Order. A Virginia veteran told how Stone wall Jackson used bales of cotton in the ramparts that he threw up in de fense of New Orleans, and it was.nat urally a matter of indifference to him whose cotton he employed. Some of It happened to belong to a rich mer chant The merchant followed his bales with doglike devotion. He could not bear to tear himself away from them. He was standing over them when Jackson happened to draw near, and, running up to the chief, be said: "Monsieur, it is damage for your men to take my cotton. All property is sa cred and must be protected." "But," said Jackson, "are you sure this is your cotton?" "Oh, sure, most sure," said the merchant "I know the marks all of them. Et puis, alors, this cotton, sir, must be defended." Jackson tui'n ed to a private and told him to fetch a musket at once. The musket being brought, the general laid It in the mer chant's arms and said with a grim smile: "My friend, you are the most ~roper person I know of to defend your own property. Stay here, then. and do so. Stir at youir peril." Snake Poison. The poison of a snake, -taken Inter nally. isn't much worse than a dram of a bad whisky composed of wood al cohol and fusel oil. It doesn't enter into the circulation unless it comes in contact with a sore or wound. If your friend is bitten don't be afraid to suck the wound-unless your lips are bleeding. hirty days' trmal $1.00 is the o:fer on Pine ules. Rtelieves Backache. 'Veak Back. Lame Back. Rhenmatic pains. Best on sale for Kid ncs. Bladder and Blood. Good for young and old. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re funded. Sold by The Mannmng Pharmacy. Famec In Certain Quarters. Edwin Markham was one of the guests of honor at a r'eception given by a wealthy New York woman. During a conversation she said: "My dear Mr. Markham, I've wanted for years to meet you and tell you how I just love that adorable picture of yours-the one with the man hoe ing, you know-and he is taking off his cap, and that poor wife of his-at least I suppose it's his wife-bowing hcr head, and they both look so tired, poor things: I have a copy of it in my own den, and the children have another in their playroom, and it's-it's The Angelus.' I presume you mn-ny' repjlied the poet gravely. -re," doubtfully, "but we always call it -The Hoe Man' " "I am glad you like it, madam," said Mr. Markham. And he took an early opportunity of escaping from his sin cere but mistaken admirer.-Success FLAGS OF NEW YORK. National Emblems Under Which the City Has Been Ruled. The first European visitor to Man hattan Island was Henry Hudson, who in 1G00 sailed up the river now bearing his name. The flag rndex which he sailed was that of the Dutch East In dia company, which was the flag of the United Provinces of the Nether lands, orange, white and blue arranged in three equal horizontal stries, in the center of the white stripe being the letters "A. 0. C."--Algemeene Oost Indise compagnie (General East India company). From the time of the discovery no visitor came into these waters of which there is record until 1612, when Manhattan was settled under the East India company which continued in possession unti 1022, when the govern ment fell into the hands of the West India company. The flag of the Dutch West India company was the same as that of its predecessor, save that it bore the letters "G. W. C."-Gooetro yeerde West Indise compagnie (Privi leged West India company). This was the dominant flag till 1664, when the island was surrendered to the English, and the union jack (cross es of England and Scotland) of Great Britain supplanted the tricolor of Hol land, and the name of New Amster dam was changed to New York. The union jack at present is derived from the union of the three crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick, adopted in 1801, when the act of union with Ireland was passed. In the month of 'July, 1673, the Dutch again took possession of the city, which they occupied until Nov. 10, 1674, when by virtue ,of a treaty of peace between England and. Hol land the union jack again floated over the city. From this time there was no inter ruption in the supremacy of the Eng lish until the year 1689, when the memorable rule of Leisler, speedily - terminated by his death, occurred.. He was a warm supporter of William and M1ary, and it is possible that while he held possession of the fort the ag of William,- not then -proclaimed king of England, might have floated over New York. But there is no record- of this. Were it so, however, it could have been but for a very brief -period, and the English flag waved undisputed un til the era of the American Revolution. At the beginning of the Revolution here, as in New England, the people, although aggrieved, were loyal, and upon the same day, June 25, 1775, New York witnessed the double entry of George Washington, just elected by the provincial congress general -in chief of the American forces and on his way to take command at- Cam bridge, and Tryon, the English gov ernor, who had arrived the day before. It was about this time that the first raising of any but the English .fag in New York occurred. Before this, In deed, liberty poles had been raised and cut down again, but now, March, 1775, a Union flag, with a red field, was hoisted in New York upon the liberty pole on the common, bearing the inscription, "George Rex and-Athe liberties of America," and upon the other side "No popery." The British, under Governor Tryon, vacated New York In 1775, but there Is no record which gives any positive date as to the raising of the American fag here. The city was held by ~American -- troops after this event until Sept. 13, 1776, when Washington retreated to Harlem and afterward from the Island, and the city was occupied by Sir Hen ry Clinton and from that time heLby - the British until the close of the war. They evacuated the city Nov. 25, 1783. Since then no flag but the stars and stripes has waved over the city In token of power and authority.-New York Sun. AN OPTICAL DELUSION. The Story of a Martinet Colonel, a Captain and a Sword. The colonel, a rigid martinet, is sit ting at the window of his room when, looking out, he sees a captain crossing the barrack yard toward the gate. Looking at him closely, he Is shocked to observe that the rules and regula tions to the contrary notwithstanding, the captain does not carry a sword. "Captain!" he calls from the window. "Hi, captain, step up to my room for a moment, will you?' The captain obeys promptly, borrows a sword of the officer of the guard, the guardroom being at the foot of the stairs, and presents himself to the colo nel in irreproachable dress. - The colonel Is somewhat surprised to see the sword in Its place and, having to invent some pretext for callng his stibordinate back, says, with some con- - fusion: "Beg your pardon, captain, but really I've forgotten what It was I wanted to speak to you aboug. How ever, it can't have been very impor tant It'll keep. Good morning." The captain salutes, departs, returns the sword to Its owner and is makng off across the barrack yard, where he again comes within range of the colo nel's vision. The colonel rubs his eyes, stares, says softly to himself: "How in thun der is this? He hasn't a sword to his waist!" then calls aloud: "Captain! Ho, captain! One moment, please!" The captain returns, borrows the sword again, mounts the stairs and en ters the colonel's presence. His com manding offier stares at him intently. He has a sword; he sees it; he hears It clank. "Captain," he stammers, growing very hot, "It's ridiculous, you know, but-ha! ha!--I'd just remembered what I wanted to say to you, and now -ha! ha!-it's gone out of my head again! Funny, Isn't It? Ha, ha, ha! Losing my memory.. Never mind. .I'l think of It and write you. Good morn ing." The captain salutes, departs, returns the sword to its owner and makes for the gate. As he crosses the barrack yard the colonel calls his wife to his side and says, "See that offier out. there?" "Yes." "Has he got a sword on?" - The colonel's wife adjusts her eye glass upon him, scans him keenly and says, "He hasn't a taste of a sword." The colonel: "That's just where you fool yourself. Yes, he has."-London Graphic. ____ Majesty. "My wife adores the majesty of the Alps, whereas I the majesty of the ocean," said Pfeif. "And your daughter?" Inquired a friend. "Oh, she just adores majesty by it self."-Lustige Blatter. No Chance to Dance. Clara-Coming home from the dance the other night, I met Charlie Spooner In a crowded car, and he didn't offer to give me a seat. Maud-Perhaps he knew you had been sitting down all he eann.-Life. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, . Gouty of Clarendon. By James M. Windham, Esq., Judge of Probate. W HEREAS, W. E. Jenkinson made suit to me, to grant him Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of Edwina D. Jenkinson. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Edwina D. Jenkinson,deceased,that they be and appear before me,in the Court of Pro bate. to be held at Manning, S. C., on the 16th day of April next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administra tion should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 31st day of March, A. D. 1908. JAMES M. WINDHAM, [SEAL.] Judge of Probate. Eat and Grow Fat FRESH MEATS AT ALL TIMES. EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT. 6ive us a Trial. Clark & Huggins. W. O. W. Woodnen 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. . J. FRANK GEIGER. DENTIST, MANNING, S. C. ' H. LESESNE, d. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. McSWAIN WOODS, 0. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Manning, S. C. Office Over Levi's Store. R. 0. PURDY. S. OLIVER O'BRY PURDY & O'BRYAN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, MANNING, S. C. CHARLTON DuRANT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. W. C. &AVIS. J. A. WEINBERG. DAvls & WEINBERG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , MANNING, S. C. Prompit'attention given to collections. Rring- tn The yonr Joh Work Times office. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, NO,! of Clarendon, By James M. Windham, Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, A. I. Barron, Clerk of Court, suit to me, to grant him Letters of Adinistration of the estate and effects of Joe Nelson. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Joe Nel son., deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Pro bate,to be held at Manning on the 7th I day of May next after publica tion thereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. 3 Given under my hand, this 20'th day of March, A. D. 1908. JAMES M. WINDHAM, [SEAL.] Judge of Probate. State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. IN THE COURT OF PROBATE. In re Estate of William Bozier, de ceased. Summons. To Harriet Bozier, Thomas Bozier, Richard Bozier, William Bozier, Jr., Martha Bozier, Mose Gibson, Hester Wright, Betsey Carter, Elliot Pier son, Rufus Glover, Lucy Hamilton, William Bennett and Louis Bennett, heirs-at-law of William Bozier, de ceased: You are hereby required to appear at the Court of Probate, to be holden at Clarendon court house for Clar endon County on the 25th day April Anno Domini 1008, to show case, it any you can, why the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of William Bozier, deceased, sold by me should not be paid over to John Bennett, administrator of the said William Bozier, to be applied by him to the payment of the debts of the said - William Bozier. Given under my hand and seal. this 11th day of March. 1908. LSEAL.] J. M. WINDHAM., Probate Judge for Clarendon Co. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon County on the! 5th day of May, 1908, for letters of discharge as guardian for J. A. Reese. formerly a minor. A. H. REESE, Guardian. Alcolu, S. C., April 4, 1908. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Probate for Clarendon County, on the 28th day of April. 1908, for letters of discharge as administrator of the estate of J. H Hodge. deceased. A. .1. RICHBOUR G. Administrator. Summerton, S. C., March 2S. 1908. Prescribes Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first umed your Ca:tarrh Cure in the case of my son. who had chronic naso-phar yneal cauarrh, with .great benetit to him. I often prescribe it for other of my patients, and I think it is quite the linest remedy for catarrh that has ever been placed on the market. Thanking you ror past favors. I am. Yours very truly. M. J. D. DAN'rzi~.FitM. D., Ellorec, S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is winering fast in1 this country. It has effected some : emarkable cures. I do not imnow that it has failed in onie instance where it has been fairly tried. Very truly yours. Lexi aun. Ky. Dr. Blossers Catarrh Remedy is for sale by H. R. Boger. Manning. S. C. A month's treat ment for s1.00. A free sample for the asking. A ponacard wil hring it hy mail. FIGHTING AGAINST SLEEP. Experienc.~of a Traveler In Crossing the Gobi Desert. Many diffculties must the traveler contend with when crossing the desert of Gobi, and one of these is the almost overwhelming desire to sleep. Hans Doring writes in the North China Daily News: "Hitherto I have thought that traveling by carts over stony roads and staying in Chinese inns at night was the hardest thing a foreign traveler in China was called upon to endure, but since I have traveled with a caravan of camels I have changed my opinion. The monotony of the des ert by day and the bed of camels' sad dles at night, the evil smell of camels and the slowness of their drivers and the acrid, choking smoke of the little fire on which one's food is cooked none of these things is so trying to the foreigners as the sleepiness which attacks one in this high region. This to me was a real torture. Traveling through the cold night with no other company than dull Chinese, who seem to sleep while walking alongside the camels or while sitting on their backs, and being weighed down by heavy sleepiness is the worst thing I have endured. "You sit on your horse and, in spite of every effort, fall asleep. Presently you wake up and find yourself on the ground with your horse standing be wildered at your side, wondering whether you are alive or dead. Then you try to keep yourself awake by walking and talking a bit to the camel drivers, but you soon find that they are just as sleepy as yourself. A few words are exchanged and then you are too tired to open your mouth to talk or even to think of anything but sleep, sweet sleep. Oh, for just a few min utes there at the roadside in the soft sand! But, no, you must go on and fight against this desire. It is too dan gerous to sleep by the roadside on the ground. The caravan cannot wait and your servant would not watch over you; he would soon fall asleep like yourself. The wolves would then have an easy time. "Yet in spite of all this reasoning you feel as if you were drawn to the ground by the power of a thousand strong magnets and soon yield to sleep again. Suddenly your watchful horse. whose reins you have kept slung around your neck-this is a wise thing to do-pulls up. starts and jerks you wide awake. You jump up, not knowing where you are for some.sec onds, but you see your horse trembling and realize that danger is near. "For a few minutes you are fully awake and feel glad and refreshed. You jump on your horse and catch up with the caravan, which has gone a few ]i (a li is 054 yards) ahead. "After another ten li or so sleep creeps on again like a huge boa con strictor embracing you in its irresisti ble grasp. The same fight has then to be fought over again. Then at last the caravan arrives at the halting place for the night." A Dangerous Question. "Would you marry again, George, if I were to die?" "No, indeed:" "You brute! You want the world to believe that I'm such a bad wife you would not want another!"-Houston Post. A wise man will desire no more than he can get justly, use soberly, distrib ute cheerfully and leave contentedly. Baon. KNEW HUMAN NATURE. Logic of the Man Who Fiddled In the Midst of a Flood. When Davy Crockett was on his way from his Tennessee home to Texas to fight for the new republic he rode over land with some chance friends from Little Rock to Fulton. One day they were startled by hearing the high notes of a distant violin playing a rollicking air. Putting spurs to their horses, the men hastened toward the sound and soon observed several others running through the fields in the same direc tion. At last they came over the crest of a ridge in view of the river and be held the fiddler seated In the middle of the flood in an almost submerged buggy playing as fast as he could shake the bow. "Hello, there! Turn back!" shouted the men who came through the field. "I can't," replied the fiddler. "But you've missed the ford. You'll drown!" "I've known that for half an hour." "What are you going to do?" "Sit here till you chaps come out and turn my horse the right way." The horse was with difficulfy keeping his footing and seemed about to be swept away. One of the men who had been attracted by the fiddling waded out and by a precarious way reached the horse's head and led him round to the ford and back to the bank, the pas senger fiddling all the way and wind Ing up with :1 merry Jig. "What do you mean by sitting out there fiddling In the face of death?" demanded Crockett of the rescued stranger. "Well. colonel." sid the fiddler, "I am a student of human nature. When I found I had missed the ford and needed help. I set out to get It. I might have shouted myself hoarse and I no one out here would have paid the slightest attention to ine. But there Isn't a man west of the Mississippi who wouldn't come running at the sound of a fiddle In the woods." "And he was right." said Davy, "for there we were. the lot of us, our horses all of a latber, for running to satisfy our curiosity about that squeaking fid dle In this out of the way place." Youth's Companion. The Word "Ale." What could be more English than the word ale? It carries us back to the banquets of our dead ancestors In Wal halla, and some of its compounds open up vistas Into that old England which is fast disappearing, becoming a tale that Is told, obsolete Itself. Such are alebush, a tavern sign; ale conner, "an oficer appointed in every court leet and sworn to look to the assize and goodness of bread. ale and beer." Ale cost, the name of a kind of tansy used to flavor the rustic's home brewed, has a good old English look. Yet it bears witness to the mongrel nature of the speech of this mongrel nation, cost be itg from the Greek kostos, a savory herb of species unidentified. Alegar Is eager or sour ale, used as vinegar. Cornhill Magazine. Wellington and Waterloo. Helne, in speaking of Wellington's good luck at Waterloo, says: "This man has the bad fortune to meet with good fortune when the greatet man of the world Is unfortunate. We see in him the victory of stupidity over genius --Arthur Wellington triumphant when Napoleon Bonaparte was overwhelmed. Wellington and Napoleon! It Is a won derful phenomenon that the human mInd can at the same time think of 1)nth these names."