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Weak Kidneys Dause more trouble than any other organ of he body. The tanotion of the kidnes is to separate inoanic sal't and water In the pro cess of circIation, and to remove them and the!rattondant oisos from te bodythrough the bl.ader. Thererore when zhe kidneys become diseased and weak they are naturally rinable to Perform thei* work properly and Pain~s lit the back, Inflammation of the bladder and urinary dserders are the result. It Is Imperative that a prompt relief be afforded, which Is Impossible unless you remove the tause. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills promptly elimitate poisons from the system and at the same time make the kidneys well and strong. For Weak Kidneys Backache, in flamm-,xation of the bladder and all -urinary troubles De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are unsurpassed. A Week's Treatment for 25c. Mopey back if they fail. W. E. BROWN & CO. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ounty of Clarendon. By .ames M. Windhan. Esq., Probate Judge. W HEREAS. A. I. Iarroo. Clerk of Court, suit to me, to graut 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 he and appear before me, in the Court of Pro hate.to be held at Manning on the th 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 ranted. Given under my hand, this 20th day of March, A. D. 1908. JAMES M. WINDFAM. [SEAL.] Judge of Probate. APPAREL SHOP FOR MEN AND LADIES Everything of the best for the personal wear and adorn ment of both sexes. We fill mail orders carefully and promptly. DAVID OUTFITTING COMPANY, Charleston, S. C. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon County on the 5th day of May, 190S, for letters of discharge as guardian for J. A. Reese, formerly a minor. A. H.REESE, Guardian. Aleolai, S. C., A pril 4, 1908. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Probate for Clarendon County, on the 28th day of April. 190$, for letters of discharge as administrator of the estate of J. H Hodge, deceased. A. .J. RICHBOURG, Admninistr'ator. Summerton, S. C., March 28, 1908. Prescribes Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first used your Catarrh Cure in the case of my son, who had chronic naso-phar yngenl catarrh, with great benefit to him. I often prescribe it for other of my patients, and I think it is quite the finest remedy for catarrh that has ever been placed on the market. Thanking you ror past favors. I am. Yours very truly. M. J. D. DANTZLER. M. D., Elloree, S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is -vinning fast in this country. It has effected some remarkable cures. I do not itnow that it has failed in one instance where it has been fatiriy tried. Very trulv yours. Rsv. T. H. ALLEN. Leun~gton, Ky. Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy is f'or sale by H. R. Boger. Manning.-S. C. A month's treat ment for 51.00. A free sample for the asking. A postal card will bring it by mail. Eat and Grow Fat FRESH MEATS AT ALL TIMES. EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT. Give us a Trial. Clark & Huggins. Woodmen 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 '7. D R. J1. FRANK GEIGER. DENTIST, MANNING, S. C. jH. LESESNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANN1NG, S. C. MCS WAIN WOODS, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Mannmng, S. C Oilice Over Levi's Store. a. 0. rrior. s. ortivsai o-'R PULRDY & O'IBRYAN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, MANNING, S. C. C HARLTON DURANT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. W. C. DAVIS. J. A. WEINBERG. DAV1s & WEINBERG.' ATTORNE~YS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Prompt attention given to collections. Rringr to The tanr Jnh Work Time office. That langLuid. lifeless feeling tna1 comes With spriu- and early summnuer, can be quickly changed to a feeliniz of buoyancy and energy by the judicious use of Dr. Shoop's Restorative. The Restorative is a genuiine tonic U Linrd ruudown nervc-. iut a fe doses is needed to sat isfv Ihe uIer ;Iat Dr. Shoop's RLestorative is LctuaN reachin n that :ired spot. Tiw in life of winter nearly alway.. lead to sluzgish bowels. and to sli-'.gish cireu lation in gvener-al. The customiarV lack of ex-erises am oliuioor :air tie1) up im liv'er, saguiIates tile kidad :md oft time's Weaklns the ileart's :'w n Esm Dri. Shmoop's eStoraitiv aV (1'w w ''kir and al! will beo Change. .\ e dtays test will tell you that von are using the right remedy. You wiii easily and surely note the change from hiay to dav Sold by W. E. Brown & Co. TIBET'S TEA CARAVANS. The Merchants Carry Prayer Flags and Devotional Wheels. In the valley of Tatsien. west China, we were fortunate enough to meet a great tea caravan. says an eastern traveler. We have met them on the passes and on rough ground till it seemed as if we encountered yak wher ever the road was difficult. but here in the valley we saw them to advan tage, and the sight was unique. The merchants who go to Tatsienfu to trade travel together for protection and mu tual assistance. One man has ten yak, another fifty, until the whole caravan numbers far into the hundreds. The tea is neatly packed in leather cases containing about 125 pounds, and two of these make a load for a yak. They hang easily and evenly from the- saddle on both sides, making the picture uniform. As they fied into the valley and crossed the stream the animals were somewhat in confusion. but ouce on the grass they spread out In a line and moved forward like a squad of cavalry. Each man keeps his own animals separate. driving them before him, so that with a score of squads on the plain the impression of an army of cavalry is complete, with the colored prayer flag fluttering from the guns thrown over the shoul ders of the men. ,We made the stage to Bakmed be fore noon and had a refreshing meal of barley flour and butter tea before our dinner was ready. While we did not attempt to live on the native food. we found it most acceptable whenever we arrived tired and hungry after the day's journey before our goods came up. We visited a lamasery where we saw a prayer wheel six feet in height, raised three feet from the floor and turned by ropes with handles hanging conveniently from the bottom. In the same room was a scroll containing 1,000 Buddhas; the painting was very well done. The Tibetans have cer tainly outdone every other form of re ligion in the matter of religious ma chinery and observance. When driving yak they say prayers, especially when climbing a pass; the rosary is in constant requisition when the hands are not otherwise engaged or a prayer wheel is turned In the hand-at times both. This does not preclude the necessity of putting up prayer flags in every conceivable place, so that the wind with every flutter of the flag will be saying pray ers for the owner or placing a numn ber of prayer wheels in a stream where the water will keep them turn ing day-and night or perhaps attached to a windmill for the same purpose. The prayer wheels are packed full of prayers written on strips of paper and wound tightly in such a way that the turning of the wheel tells off the prayers in the right way; to turn a wheel backward would say the pray ers backward. It is easy to see that the large? the wheel the more prayers are said by one turn. The one we saw was a very handsome one, beautifully finished and doubtless very popular. An Apt Comparison. When Ab del Hakk was poor he was one day traveling across a weary plain, says the author of "Life In Morocco," and was very hungry. So he came to the house of the Widow Zaidah, who was also poor. But when he made known his want she set before him two hard boik-d eggs, all the food there was in the house. Later, when Ab del Hakk lived in Marakesh and was very rich, Meludi, the lawyer, disliking him, persuaded the Widow Zaidah to sue him for the eggs, but not for the eggs alone, for they would have become two chickens, which in time would have so multi plied that the whole fortune of Ab del Hakk would not now pay for them. When the case came to trial the rich man was not in court. "Why Is the defendant not here?" demand si the judge. "My lord," said his attorney, "he Is gone to sow boiled beans." "Boiled beans?" - "Bcoiled beans, my lord." "Is he mad ?" "He is very wie my lord." "Thou mockestl" "Surely, my lord, if hard boiled eggs can be hatched boiled beans willI grow." The suit was promptly dismissed, with costs to the plaintiff.-Youth's Companion. Olives at Sorrento. The olive yields an abundant crop once in two years. The season when olives are plentiful is called by the contadini "l'ano grasso," or the fat year; the other, when they are scarce, being "l'anno magro," or lean year. In the month of September the fruIt begins to turn a bluish black, but it is not fully colored till October. It Is of ten attacked by small maggots, such as are found in cherries, and then it falls from the trees; but, though the olives are partially spoiled, they are picked of the ground, and an Inferior kind of oil is made from them. The longer they remain on the trees the better is the quality of oil they produce. In other parts of Italy they are seldom gathered before the month of Decem ber, but on the coast of Sorrento it is generally necessary to harvest them earlier. In 1S97 the crop was abun dant and promised well, but owing to the want of rain in August the fruit became dry and shriveled, and when the heavy rains cameC in September much of it rotted and fell, and most of It had to be gathered before it was en tirely spoiled. In such am season the end of October will see the trees em' tirely despoiled, and the fine crop wJI bring in a poor harvest and produce an inferior quality of oil.-Chamb'ers' Journal. The kidneys are dielicate and sensi tive organs and are very likely at any time to get out of order. DeWitt's Kidney Bladder Pills rare pr-ompt. and thorough and will in a very short lime strengthen the weakened kidneys and allar troubles arising from inllamma tion of the bladder. Sold by W. IE. Kennedy's Laxative Cough SyruP the coughi svrup that tastes nearly as 41oo a1 ma-)e sugar and which chil drn-ii like so well to take. Unlike near y a ther couh renedies. it does uot cons(iate. ou l U th. othel hand it atsi pr m tl et.e ty oil lite- w thlrough wich1 [lte oh)iJ is forced u! (If he I m, anld at lt-b Ilam t ime- it aiiav, inlainniation. A hrsav. l-n nedy's L:txa ive Cough syrup. Sbiby WV. i*. lrown . ' Co. LINCOLN THE FATHER. Memori.es of the President's Affection For His Youngest Son. Many Ltories are told of Tad's mis chievous pranks and of his father's close coinpanionship with hisl, favorite boy. Tinker records that on one occa sion Linlneiw' caie ilto the telegriaph oflice chuckling to himiself over a fai ry story book that some one had given to Tad, iwho was holding his father's hald as he entered the room. Ie thereupon repeated the story to the cipher operators. It told how a moth er hen tried to raise a brood of chicks, but was imel disturbed over the con duct 4'r a sly old fox whivte several of the youngsters while Msil! profess ing to be nii honest fox, so the anxious mother had a serious talk with the old reynard about his wickedness. "Well. what was the result?" asked one of us when it nppeared that Lincoln did not intend to continue his narrative. "The fox reformed." said Lincoln. his eyes twinkling. "and becaie a highly re spected paynmster in the army. and now I am wondering which one lie is." The significance of this rdference is in the fact that about that time there were rumors of fraud'in the paymas ter's department. ,Mr-h has been said about Lincoln being influenced by his dreams. For instance. it has been stated by good authorities. including members of his cabinet. that before each of the great battles of the-' war and also before tih occurrence of some other speciallf not able event in his life he had a vivid drean which led him to look forward at such a time with great anxiety for the announcement of some disaster or other incident of a particularly impor tant character. It is related that on the night before his assassination he had an unusually exciting dream, which he rhought was a portent of Im pending danger of some sort. That lie did have this habit of being deeply af fected and influenced by these visions of the night is clearly shown by the following telegram: Washington. D. C.. June 9. 183. Mrs. A. Lincoln. Philadelphia: Think you had better put Tad's pistol away. I had an ugly dream about him. A. LINCOLN. Here are two telegrams out of a large number in which Lincoln refer red to his children in an affectionate manner: Aug. 31. 18G4. Mrs. A. Lincoln. Manchester. Vt.: All reasonably well. Bob not here yet. How Is dear 'lad? A. LINCOLN. Sept. 8, 1564. Mrs. A. Lincoln, Manchester, Vt.: All well, Including Tad's pony and the goats. A. LINCOLN. On another occasion Lincoln wrote to his wife as follows: * * Tell dear Tad p-or Nanny goat Is lost. * * * The day rou left Nanny was found resting herself and chewing her little (cud on the middle of Tad's bed, but now she's gone. ** A. LINCOLN. The president's affection for his youngest boy was such that they were together much of the time, even while the father was -receiving callers or at tending to official business in the White House, and nearly always when visiting the army at the front or in the deenses around Washington. They camne to the war department hand in hand many times. Lincoln went to City Point in March, 165. As usual Tad went with him and remained with his father after Mrs. Lincoln returned to Washington a week later. Tad became a great pet among the officers and men. Each afternoon during their two weeks' stay the headquarters' band marched up to the open space near the president's tent anid played popular airs for an hour or so. Tad enjoyed the music of the 1)rass b: nd very greatly and was on the loo~tout each afternoon when the appointed hour approached. As soon as he heard the strains of music in tue distance he woul jump up and down and shout: 'There comes our band: There comes our band!"--Da vid Homer Bates in Century. The Bachelor's Wife. King. the artist, was a queer charac ter. He was an old bachelor, but he felt the need of companionship, and so, according to his fancy, he imagined he had a wife and had a room fitted up for her special use, as if the fancy was real. "On a sofa are Mrs. King's shawl, her hat and gloves," said a visitor, "she having just returned from a walk, it is supposed. You knowv with suc~h a wife he is not troubled by feminine extravagances, such as shopping, for Instance. Near her chair stands her embroidery frame, the needle sticking there as if she had just laid down her work, and against the wall leans her guitar." Indeed, this was 'a fanciful idea, and the visitor said that as a child he always entered this room with feel ings of respect and awe for Mrs. King and readily paid the "coming out fee," a kiss for the- lady, which he always exacted from the privileged few who were allowed to enter this sanctum of the imngination.-Chicago Record-Her al d. The Scallop. The scallop accomplishes locomotion by a series of leaps. When it is alarmed or wishes to change its lo cation It opens and energetically closes its valves, thus expelling the water. The reaction shoots It back ward. By this means the creature is able to travel long distances. Some times scallops make considerable jour neys in large companies. One can scarcely imagine a lovelier sight than that of a flock of these pretty crea tures, with shell of every hue from purple and white to black, enlivened with shades of pink, yellow and fawn, darting about in clear water. In their fightl ike movements, vertical, hori zontal and zigzag, they are more sug gestive of a flock of winged animals than of bivalve mollusks. Kodol For D~yspepsia has helped thousands of people who have had stomach trouble. This is what one man sas of it: "E. C. DeWitt ,: Co.. Chica go. TI.--Gentlemen--in 1897 I had a disease of the. stomach and bowels. I could not digest anything T ate and in the spr-ing of 1902 I bought a bottle of Kodol and the benefit I received from that bottle all the gold in Georgia could not buy. I still use a bottle oc casionally asI find it a fine blood puri fier an~d a good tonic. May you live loar and prosper. Yours very truly. C. N. Cornell. Roding. Ga,. Aug. 27, Kodol Dyspepsia Gure Digests what you eat. SUNDOWN DOCTORS. A Class That Is Peculiar to the Na tional Capital. "1Sundovn dctors" are an institution peculinr to Wa:uhington city. They are an aminble company of medical prac titioners who ply their trade only after nightfall. Not that these gentle men prefer darkness to light if they had their rruthers. nor are their deeds ofI questionable complexion that looks bC-st in the shade. Sundown doctors have no ways that are dark or tricks that are vain. They are as open as the day that they may not utilize. If they practice their profession by candle light rather than by the sunshine, that's Uncle Sam's fault, not their own. Sundown doctors begin to get busy only after 4:30 in the afternoon. From 9 to that hour, poor souls, they are holding their noses to the grind stones over the government desks, for one must live, don't you know. however soaring one's scientific ambi tion, and Uncle Sam's wages do come in miglhty regular and handy. So that in a pigeonhole Is the story of the origin of the struggling fraternity of sundown physicians at the federal capital. There are thousands of Instances. Embryonic young physicians, with their careers yet to carve, secure clerk ships in some of the governmental departments of Washington in order to keep the pot bubbling while they are getting their medical education after ofmce hours. Their diplomas thus 'a boriously achieved, they hang out their shingles tentatively, holding fast, how ever, to their government positions un til securely established professionally. A job in the hand, you know, Is worth a whole city directory full of uncaptur ed patients. Never let go a sure thing till you are sure of a surer.-Washing ton Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal. "N ny Dumny." In his "Hig.ways and Byways In Devon and Cornwall" Arthur HI. Nor way tells of a fragment of antiquilty that still "lingers In the neighborhood of Redruth. where the country people when they see a ghost say, 'Numny dumny!'" and he adds, "I leave the riddle to be solved by any one who is curious enough to undertake a useful piece of practice in unraveling the cor ruption of language." The phrase Is probably a corruption of "In nomine Domini," the Latin for "In the name of the Lord," a phrase so familiar in the devotion of the middle ages. His Compliment. A few weeks back a wedding break fast was given by a substantial farmer blessed with five daughters, the eldest of whom was a bride. A neighbor, a young farmer, who was honored with an invitation, thinking no doubt that he ought to say something compliznen tary upon the revent. addressed the bridegroom thus: "Well, you have got the pick of the batch." The faces of the four unmarried ones were a study.-London Graphic. Boiling It Down. "I should like to manage this paper for about six months," said the new reporter of a country paper. . "The present editor doesn't know his busi ness." "What's the matter?" he was asked. "Why, last night I was told off to re port a fire in Broad street, and I wrote it up in grand style, making a half column article of it. I began 11t In this way: "''Suddenly on the still night air rang the shrill cry of fire, and at the same moment the little licking tongues of flame, whose light, playing along the roof's edge, caught the eye of the midnight watcher, leaped forth, no lon ger playful, but fierce and angry7 In their thirst and greed. Like glowing, snaky demons, the lurid links entwined the doomed building. In venomous hisses and spurts the flames shot into the overhanging darkness, while from every window and door poured forth a dense suiphurous smoke, the deadly suffocating breath of an Imprisoned fiend.' "I went on In that style for over half a cole .' s aid the new reporter, "and this is wh. appeared in the paper this morning: "'A fire- broke out In Broad street last night, but was quickly suppress ed.' Do you call that journalsm?" London Standard. Love and Wedlock. A man of middle age and a ;outh of romantic appearance sat alone in a smoking compartment of a nearly empty evening train. In the solitude the youth took a puhotograph from his pocket, looked at It and then said to his companioni feverishly: "-Were you ever, sir, in love?" The man of middle age started. He laughed. "Was I ev-er in lover' he repeated as he relighted hi.' ipe. "Was I ever in love? Well. I don't knowv if" "You dont know?"f cried the youth. "Well, if you ev-er had been In love oud know it. Why, when you're in love your life is a sweet dream, you have no taswte for food, you think of nohng but the beauty of" "-Werc you ever married?" snapped the middle aged man. "No. but" "-Well, if you ever had been you'd know it. Why, when you're married your lifeis But the youth, with a scowvl, edged off to the far end of the carriage and got out at the next station, disgasted. -London Scraps. His Awful Fate. An Americ-an visitor in a German city bought a dachshund. The ani mal's length of body, short and pecul arly shaped legs and '"highly intelli gent dachs face," he writes, wvould have made the dog conspicuous among the finest of his breed. "One day we missed him and were unable to find our pet. Next day his dead body, a little longer than In life, was shown to me by the man who came to tell us he had found the dog. He was very dead, but I did want to know how lie met his untimely end and after inquir ig learned that he had been run over by a 'spiegelscheibentransportragen.' I could readily understand how that would have killed even an ele phant and wanted to know why the in.fernal machine had been allowed to come in to the city. It was a relief to beC told that a spiegelscheibentransportLwagen is a wagon on which mIrror plates are transported. Poor little dachs!" "Packing Off of Widows."' Some curious customs in the way of pastimes prevail In Korea. Am:>ng the farming classes there is one known as the "packing off of widows." This means a raid on a certain village known to contain a young widow. A widower, accompanied by friends, en ters the village, carries off the woman n, ..estin -a marries her. The Reward of Haughtiness. The other day a chemist was awak ened about 1 o'clock in the morning by a lad clamoring at his shcp door. Open in- his bedroom v:indow, hh saw a small boy. who was gesticulating wildly. "What's the matter?" inquired the chemist. "I want a penny'trth W camphorated chloroform for t' toothache!" howled the lad. The chemist was not overjoyed when he found how small the order was for which he had been so rudely awakened from his slumber; but, tak ing pity on the sufferer, he dressed himself and went downstairs to sup ply the much desired relief. While measuring the drug he could not help doing a growl at the lad. "It's like your cheek," he observed, "to wake me up at this time of the night for a paltry penn'orth of chloro form." "Oh, is it?" said the boy resentful ly. "Then I'll tek mi custom some wheer else. Yer can keep yer chloro form. I wean't her it neaw'for yer blooming sauce!" And he didn't. le went off quite in dignantly, nursing his Jaw, to wake up another chemist-Pearson's Weekly. Easily Turned. A small boy was askcd to take din ner at the home of a dis':inguished pro fessor in Princeton. The lad's mother, in fear lest he should commit some breach of etiquette, gave him repeated directions as to what he should and should not do. T'pon his return from the great occa sion the mother's first question was, "Harold, did you get along at the ta ble all right?" "Oh, yes, mamma, we: enough." "Are you sure you didn't do anything that was not perfectly polite and gen tlemanly?" "Why. no-nothing to speak of." "Then something did happen. What was it?" "But I fixed it all right, mamma." "Tell me at once." "Why, I got along pretty well until the meat came, but while I was trying to cut mine it slipped off on to the floor. But I made it all right." "What did you do?" "Oh. I just said sort of carelessly, 'That's always the way with tough meat.' "-Youth's Companion. Disraeli's Nuptial Joke. There was a little joke between them (Disraeli and his wife) which I heard from the late dean of Salisbury. "You know I married you for your money," Disraeli would say to her. "Oh, yes, but if you were to marry me again you would marry me for love!" was the regular reply, "Oh, yes!" her husband would exclaim, and the little nuptial comedy ended. But what Dissaeli said to Bernal Os borne once about his marriage is much better worth the telling. It was at a dinner party after dinner when the men were alone. "What did you mar ry her for?" Osborne asked in his characteristic way. Disraeli twiddled his wineglass in the pause that fol lowed thIs point blank inquiry. Then he lifted his head slowly and looked the other very expressively in the face. "For a reason." he said, "which you cou!.d never understand -grati tude."-From "Lord Beaconsfield and Other Tory Memories," by T. E. Keb bel. The Smelts Were Biting. John Quincy Adams of Massachu setts, third of that name, was very fond of fishing and not especially fond of his legal profession. One day, the story runs, a case in which he was counsel was down for trial in a Mas sachusetts court Mr. Adams did not make his appearance, but sent a letter to the judge. That worthy gentleman read it and then postponed the case with the announcement: "Mr. Adams is detained on impor tant business." It was afterward learned by a col league of Adams that the letter read as follows: "Dear Judge--For the sake of old Izaak Walton, please continue my case till Friday. The smelts are biting, and I can't leave." The Owe Sheridem. Richard Brinsley Buitler Sheridan, the great Irishman, was all his life long in dire straits for money, and when he died in 1816 the bailiffy were actually in possession of his house. Sheridan's forbears had been O'Sher idans. "Why," asked on one occasion his little son-"why have we not the 0' as well as they?" "Heaven only knows," was the fa ther's reply. "We ought to have it, for we owe everybody." Only One of a Kind. "Why do you think he is such a re markable man?" "He's the only one I ever knew who had nerve enough to make the re sponses in the marriage service loud enough so that any one e-ould hear him."-Chicago Post. Her Selection. Blanche-The most difficult thing is to make up one's mind what to take and what to leave behind. Henriette Oh, I don't think so. I take all my frocks and leave my husband.-R~ire. Fault of a Wornan's Watch. Miss Hiborn-It seems to run very well for about a day and a half, and then it will not go at all. Watchmack er-Yes; it should be wound occasion ally.-Jewelers' Circular-Weekly. Correct. Teacher-What became of the chil dren of Agamemnon? Pupil (after ma ture deliberation)-I. think they're dead by this time. Fun 2rn Space. I dreamed last night that I was pres ent at a committee meeting of the sun, earth, moon and stars. "I'm no coward," said the earth. "No, but you have two great fears," said the sun hotly. "And those are?" "The hemispheres." You've forgotten the atmosphere," put in th'e moon. And the comet, who had no business to be there, wagged his tail with joy. Hit Thern Both. Jones-That was a scathing sermon on mean men the parson gave us last Sunday. Wonder what Smith thought about it? Brown-Singular! I met Smith yesterday. and he said he'd like to know your opinion on it.-London Telegraph.________ Confidence. Jackson-Heaven bless him! He showed confidence in me when the clouds were dark and threatening. Wilson-Ia what way? Jackson-He lent me an umbrella.-London Tele ah. DON MIGUEL HIDALGO. Tragic Fate of the Hero of the War of Independence. One of the dates which .exicans celebrate in the1 most s.lemui mnnier is that of the <bthtl of iilalgo). the old pries~t who, being in his eighties. dared to face the colonial .overnment and started thy revoiution1 which ended in the indepennilen of Mexico. Iidalg. was shot inl the carly days of the war of independen-e. It is well known that he asserted on different occasion.s with the strong firmness of a prophet that lie was too old to see the end of the fi-ht and that he would be sacrificed before the end. He started the rebellion at dawn on the 16th of September, and for the first days he found no serious opposition on the part of the Spanish troops. His first journeys met with great success, and in a very few days he was at the head of a large army, and it seemed as if nothing could resist him. He attacked Guanajuato and in a few hours took the city. He then marched in the direction of the capital, and when he arrived at Las Cruces. in the mountains which bound the valley of Mexico on the southwest, his army numbered more than 100,000 men. The Spanish troops faced him at Las Cruces, but were defeated. Hidalgo could then have attacked the city and taken it without great effort, but he turned back. however. Histo rians have discussed this action, and almost all of them admit that his hesi tation and his final retirement after victory was a great mistake and re sulted in the continuation of the war for ten years longer. Still it is said that Hidalgo was mov ed by a humanitarian idea. His army had no discipline. It was merely a mob that in Guanajuato after the tri umph had stained its banner with rob bery and disorder. He feared that this mob, intoxic-ated by triumph, would fall on the City of Mexico and repeat the scenes of Guanajuato. He retired, and then defeat began. The Spanish forces were organized and re-enforced, and at the same time dissension started in the insurgent ar my. Hidalgo was defeated at Calder on and marched north, ptrsued by the Spanish troops. At a place known as Norias de Bajan he fell into an am buscade and was captured with many of his companions. He was taken to Chihuahua, where he was shot on the 30th of July, 1S11. The head of Hidalgo was cut off and placed in an iron case at one of the corners of the Granaditas fortress. where he had obtained his first great victory. From there it was taken twelve years later, when the war-was ended, ir 1S23, and brought to Mexi' co, being placed in one of the altars of the grand cathedral.-Mexican Her ald. Do Animals Reason? Do animals reason? The interroga tory seems to be a fruitful source of discussion. During my boyhood days on the plantation in the good state of Alabama I remember that the family horse. Old Cream, exhibited an in stinct of a high order if not establish ing a substantial claim to being able to reason. Old Cream's daily routine, being the saddle horse, was to carry my fa ther throughout the plantation. The service usually began ,in March and~ continued until the cotton picking season ended during November. Leav Ing the "white house," our residence, about S a. in., father would not return for dinner before noon. Thereupon he would dismount and command the an imal to "go to the barn." Forthwith he proceeded to the gate through which entry was made to his stall. When closed the gate was held in that posi tion by a peg possibly six inches long that rested in a hole bored In a post that abutted the face of the gate. Old Cream, with much skill, pulled the peg from the hole, nosed the gate open and proceeded to his stall with the dignity of the lord of the manor. Instinct, did you say?-Alex ander .T. Mitchell in Harper's Weekly. The Glastonbury Thorn. Not least of Glastonbury's curios ities is its famous whitethorn, which blossoms twice a year, in the spring and again at Christmas. Tradition de clares that the tree, which stands in the abbey grounds, is descended from Joseph of Arimatheas staff, which burst into leaf and flower when plant ed in the earth by the saint on his ar rival at Glastonbury on a Christmas dty. That original tree was cut down by fanatic reformers in the time of Elizabeth, but its descendants still fioursh about Glastonbury, and at Christmas still burst into the same blossoms with which they are now white. In his possession this writer has sprigs of many which he gathered from the Glastonbury thorn in Christ mas week a year or two ago. A con siderable trade is done by Glastonbury in the sale and export of -cuttings of its famous whitethorn to all parts of the world.-Londoni Chronicle. Blaclk-and White Popper. "It has always amused me," re marked a botanical expert, "to hear people talking of their preference for black pepper over white and the vari ous explanations they give for the same. Little do they know that both black and wvhite pepper grows upon the same shrub. Over the pepper seed grows a black covering. The seed itself is white, or nearly so. To make black pepper the seed and !ts external covering are ground up, while the white pepper is the seed alone ground up. White pepper is milder than black, the greater part of the pungency being in the covering. A pepper made of the covering alone would be such, to use a slang term, hot stuff tbat it would burn the mouth. The black covering of the pepper seed contains the oil." ManZan Pile Remedy comes ready to use. in a colapsible tube, with nozzle. One application soothes and heais. reduces inflammation and re Iieves soreness and itching. Price 50c. Sold b5 The Manning Pharmacy. .Whisky and Typhoid. It may be interesting for you to know that habitual whisky drinkers never recover when once attacked with typhoid fever or pneumonia. The whisky makes the system unfit to withstand the ravages of the disease, and death Is always the result. Emi net p)hysicians all over - the world have noted and studied this fact.-E. V. Conden in Nashville Tennesseean. How He Judged. First Man-Writing must have been very expensive in the middle ages. They used feathers for pens. Second Man-Why should they be expensive? First Man-Well, I was only judging from my wife's hats. Nearsightecs. Ella-I have seen twenty-two sum mers. Stella-I wish I were as nearsighted as ynoun re-T11strnted Bits. CLOTHES AND THE MAN. Dante's Rebuke to the King With Whom He Dined. That clothes made the iuan was as much a trite truth in Dante's day as now-. according to an old story told by Sercambi. Dante was Invited by a king to dine with him, along with a few other chosen friends, but he came attired quite shabbily, was given a plaee below the salt and was over looked and apparently forgotten until the feast was over, when the king. hav ing recollected himself, asked: -By the bye, what has become of the poet I had intended to talk to?" Dante, offended and hurt by the slight, had taken his departure, but re turned when followed and invited anew. This time he came to supper superbly dressed in crimson velvet and gold and was served with extreme at tention, but the courtiers observed with amazement that he poured the soup down his sleeves, tucked cutlets into his breast and smeared his rich attire with sauces. "Good gracious, your majesty," ob served the boldest of the supping no bles, "why has this poet such man ners?" The question was passed on to Dante, who gravely replied: "When I came here dressed shabbily and sat quietly in my corner, I was forgotten and snubbed. I now come In fine clothes and am very much attended to. I therefore concluded that It was rath er my clothes than myself -that you admired and Invited and was willing to bestow on them a just share of your hospitality."-St. Louis Republic. FAIRLY WARNED. The Little Sister's Advice to the Prospective Bride. It was big sister's wedding day, and mother was In the kitchen helping the cook. Little sister was there, too, and added frayed nerves to the excitement by demanding to know every other minute what-a marriage was. Finally mother became exasperated. "If you speak again," she said, "I'll show you what a marriage is," and -lit tie sister sat down very meekly. But little sister had caught the ex citement and could not keep quiet Just as mother and the cook were busi est she asked her question again. For a full minute the kitchen resounded with walls, and then mother placed lit tle sister on the chair again. "Now," she said; "you know what marriage Is." Thaf night the clergyman stood un der the marriage bell in the parlor. Into the room came big sister on the arm of her father.. Halfway up the stairs little sister watched her through the door and cried softly. Finally she could stand it no longer. Just as the ceremony was about to begin a form came flying down the stairs and little sister burst Into the room. "Oh, Milly, Milly," she' cried convul sively, "don't you get married or you'll get an awful spanking."-New York Press. Wanted a Square Deal. There was once a sporting parson at Eastington, a place on the English coast which was a favorite landing place for woodcocks at the time of their immigration to England. When the birds arrived, exhausted by their long flight, everybody in the parish, including the parson, at once turned out to join in the sport of knocking them down with sticks. One Sunday the people were in church and the par son in the pulpit when the church door was cautiously opened and a head ap peared. wIth a beckoning finger. 'Well, what is it?" asked the parson. "Cocks is coom!" The parson hurriedly shut up his sermon case. "Shut the door and lock it!" he cried to the clerk "Keep the people in church till I've got my surplice off. Let's all have a fair chance." Good Reason to Hurry. The trials of a musical accompanist are many, If we may credit all the stories told of them. A young pro fessional recently played accompani ments for the performers at a private entertainment for a fashionable char Ity lasting for nearly -two hours. "Here, you see, I have no chance to take a breath for ten bars." said the amateur flute player, indicating to the accompanist a passage in his opening solo. "There are a number of such places in my solos, and if you'll hurry the time whenever you come to them it will be a relief 'to my wife, for all my family are subject to apoplexy and I've already had one slight attack." Cleaning the Typewriter. The most important thing in clean ing a typewriter is to get the dust and grit out of the machine-not farther Into it, as Is too often the case. -At least twice a year every typewriter should be thoroughly cleaned with gas oline, and then the machine should be left alone until all the gasoline has evaporated. Then all points of fric tion should be oiled and the ribbon, which was, of course, removed at the start, replaced. Simply as a business proposition it pays to keep typewrit ers covered when not In use.-Circle. - A Tempting Chance. Jones-That young man who plays the cornet is ill. Green-Do you think he will recover? Jones-I am afraid not The doctor who Is attending him lives next door.-London Tit-Bits. Both Better Off. "Don't grieve: your husband Is bet ter off." "So am I," responded the young wid ow; "he carried $25,000 life Insurance." ~-Hoston Post. The world Is too small for the covet ous.-Latin Proverb. Thirty days' trial 31.00 is the offer on Pine uk-s. Relieves Backache, Weak Back. Lame Back. Rheumatic pains. Best on sale for Kid neys. Bladder and Blood. Good for young and old. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re funded. Sold by The Mlanning Pharmacy. Another Reason. An English clergyman visiting In this country told of a jilting that had happened in his parish. He said that he had an appointment to marry a couple at 4 on a certain afternoon. He appeared duly, and the bride appeared, but not the bridegroom. The clergy man and the lady, silent and embar rasedl, waited in the quiet church from 4 till 0. Then they sadly depart ed. A week later the same couple wrote to the clergyman again, ap pointing another afternoon at 4 for the ceremony.. And again the clergy man and tihe bride were on hand duly, and again the groom failed to turn up. As the two waited time passed slowly l the still and empty church. It grew darker. 1-iye o'clock sounded, then (1. And then the bride broke the silence with a fierce ejaculation. -Irat him:" she cried. ""Tain.'t his trousers this time, 'cause I bought Laughed Away the Danger. An old traveler tells of an experience of his in midocean. The day was fog gy, and mest of the passengers were below listening to two evangelists who were holding a particularly fervid gospel meeting in the saloon. Suddenly and without the slightest warning there was a terrific crash and the en gines stopped. Every one rushed on deck. The steamer had run into an ice berg. Nobody knew what damage had been done, and everybody was ready to fly into a panic. The boats were lowered, and then for the first time the two evangelists, who had been forgotten in the saloon, appeared on deck. They wore their overcoats and their hats, and they carried rugs and handbags. They elbowed their way rudely to the rail, with the evident intent of secur ing for themselves first places in the boat. It was just r.t a time when a breath would have sent the passengers panic stricken into the boats. ThR sight of the two evangelists was about to undo the work of cool headed officers when a pert little cockney stepped up to the gentlemen with the rugs and handbags. "Beg pardon," said he, tipping his cap, "'ave a cab, sir?" And in the general laugh the danger of panic was. averted. Could Not Risk It. A. dealer In real-estate tells this story: A middle aged widow came to his. of fice to try to make arrangements for the purchase of a house and lot. "We can make a small payment down," she said, "and would sign a mortgage run ning for a period of five years to se cure the payment of the rest of the money. My daughters have good posi tions as bookkeepers In a large mer cantile establishment and can save enough out of their salaries to meet the payments as they become due." The real estate man hesitated. "I should want to be sure of you paying for the property in the stipu lated time," he said. "I should feel like a criminal if I had to foreclose the mortgage at any time-and yet busi ness is business. I.shall have to see your daughters." She brought them to his office the next day. "Madam,' he said, shaking his head, "you will have to give me some ad ditional security. Your daughters are too handsome. They will marry and lose their jobs long before the five years are up." Indestructible Cat. While expounding to his wife the alleged fact that men can control their tempers better than women can, Mr. Hinks fell over the cat and nearly broke his nose. "That settles it!" he hissed. "I've often threatened, but now I'll drown the brute!" His wife begged him to be mercifuL but his mind was made up. Accordingly he placed the offending feline, along with two. large- bricks, in an old flour sack and hastened upon his murderous errand. On reacing the canal he threw in the 'bag with such vigor that he overbalanced and. fell Into the muddy water. Atter strug gling for half an hour and incidentally drinking half the water In the canial he returned home wet and weary, At the door sat the cat "Well, of all"-- exclaimed HInks. "Why, I drowned the brute!" "I don't think so," said his wife as she let him in. "You didn't give me, time to tell you that there was a hole in that bag!"-LondoniAnswers. :Waves of Water. -- Wayes are deceptive-things. To look at them one would gather the imipres sion that the whole water traveled. This, however, Is not so. The water stays in the same place, but ,the mo tion goes on. In great storms waves are sometimes forty feet high, and their crests travel fifty miles an hour. The base of a wave (the~distance from valley to valley) Is usually considered as being fifteen times the height of the wave. Therefore a wave twenty five feet high would have a base ex tending 375 feet The force of waves breaing on the shore is seventeen tons to the square inch. He Picked Them. An English commercial traveler vis iting a large Glasgow warehouse made a bet with the manager that he could pick out all the married men among the employees. Accordingly he stationed himself at the door as they came back from dinner and mentioned all those whom he believed to be married, and n,almost every vase he was right "How do you do it?" asked the man ager in amazement "Oh, It's quite simple," said the traveler, "quite simple. The married men all wipe their feet on the mat; the unmaried ones don't"-Gasgow' Times. _________ Tennyson's Cynicism. Sir Tere de Vere was the eldest son of Sir Aubrey de Vere, the sonneteer and friend of Wordsworth. His broth er, Aubrey de Vere, was a more than well known, a famous poet, and to him in his youth Waiter Savage Lan- . dor addressed the exhortation: Make thy proud name still prouder for* thy sons.. He had no sons, however, never hav ing married. Neither had his brothers, Vere and Stephen. Thus the name, as a family name, disappears. The De Veres were early friends of Tennyson's, and It was from them that the poet took the nam4which he made proverbial and syrubolical of a class-"the caste of Vtee de Vere." Lady de Vere, the only Lady de Vere of fact then living, was inclined to complain that her name should be be stowed upon the black hearted Lady Clara of fiction. Tennyson wrote dainty verses, but was not master of dainty manners. He growled: "Why should you care? But of course you don't. I didn't ma~ke your namesake ugly, and I didn't make her stupid. I only made her wicked." They Needed the Medicine. Some years ago a railway was be ing made In the west of Scotland, and It was arranged that each of the nu merous laborers employed should pay" a penny per week to a medical prac titioner, so that they might have his services in the event of accident or medicine in case of Illness.. During the summer and autumn nel their illness nor accident occurred. But when a severe winter followed all at once the "navigators" began to call on the doctor for castor oil. Each brought his bottle, into which an ounce was poured, until the oil was exhausted, and the doctor was forced to send to town for a further supply. When that, too, was getting low the doctor one day quietly asked a healthy looking fellow what was wrong with the men that they required so much castor oil. -Nothing wrong at all, doctor," he re plied, "but we grease'our boots with t."_Tndn Chronice.