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Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup CONTAINS HONEY AND TAR Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. - Relieves Coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar" Children Like It For BACKACHE-WEAK KIDNEYS Try DoWits Kidney and Bladder Pls-Sure ad SafI W. E. BROWN & CO. 8TATE OF SO TH CAROLINA, county of Mand" s Jaimes M. Windham, Esq. Probate Judge. WH~lIEREAS~ A. . arr'o. Clerk of W Court, suit to me, to grant him Letters of Adinistration o- the estate and effects of Joe Nelson. These are therefore to eite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Joe Ne! son.. deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Pro bate,to be held at Manning on the 7th 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. 'Given under my hand, this 20th day of March, A. D. 1908. JAIES M. WINDHAM., [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 OU THTTING 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, 1908, for letters of discharge as guardian for J. A. Reese, formerly a minor. ~A. H.REESE, Guardian Alcolu, S. 0.. April 4, 1908. Prescribes Dr. Slosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first used your Catarrh Cure in the case of my son. who ad chronic nasophar of ten 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. M. J. D. D rT.LER, M. D., Elloree. S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is winning fast in this country. It has efrected some remarkable cures. I do not i:now that it ha? failed in one instance where it has been fairi:y tried. Very trulyyus Lexington. Ky. Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy is for sale by H. R. Boger. Manning. S. C. A months treat meat for $1.00. A free sampie 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 & Hiuggins. Woodmen of the World. Meets on fourth Monday nights at 8:30. Visiting Sovereigns invited. DR. J. A. COLE. DENTIST, Upstairs over Bank QI Manning. MANNING, S. C. Phone No 77. DR. J. FRANK GEIGER. DENTIST, MANNING. S. C. JH. LESESNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. TMCSWAIN WOODS, e. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Manning, S. C Officp Over Levi's Store. R. o. PURDY. S. oLIvER O'BRT P URDY & O'BRYAN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, MANNING, S. C. C HARLTON DU-RANT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NIANNING, S. C. W. C. DAVIS. J. A. WEINBERG. DAVlS & WEINBERG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , MANNING, S. C. Prompt attention given to collections. Cures Cojds; Prevents Pneumonia Makes Kidneys and Bladdor Right Br~g your Joh Work to The Times office. That langui. lifeless feeling tho comes with spring and early summer, can be quickly changed to a feelinz of buoyancy and energy by the judicious use of Dr. Shoop's Restorative. The Restorative is a genuine tonic to tired, rundown nerves, and but a ftew loses is needed to satisfv the user that Dr. Shoop's Restorative is actuall reaching that tired spot. The indoor life of winter nearly always leads to sluggish bowels, and to sluggish circu lation in general. The customary lack of exercises and outdoor air tics up the liver, stagnates the kidneys. and oft times weakens 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 vou are usin! the right remedy. You will easily and surely note the change from day to day Sold by W. E. Brown & Co. CLIMBING AN ICE SLOPE. Vain and Perilous Effort to Scale Mount McKinley. The long trail to the north brings out the best in men and the worst, declares. Mr. Robert Dunn in "The Shameless Diary of an Explorer" As a member of a party which made a vain attempt to reach the top of Mount McEinley he tells something of the hardships of one day's travel: Furtively, imperceptibly, the steep ness had stolen a march on us. As one line of footholds gave out we had' to slide dexterously to another. The steeper slope was swept clear and hard. Steps had to be cut. We have only three ice axes. As I never gave them a thought this morn ing, all of them were gobbled up when we started, and I was left with only one long willow tent pole. It was never meant to balance you in half cut steps that may or may not hold your toe. As the steps changed from a stair way to a stepladder the other three betrayed no excitement, no uneasiness. Neither did I at first, but I felt both.' It was not dizziness, not vertigo, but simply that as I looked down the sheer 2,000 feet from where we clung by our toes imagination resistlessly told over how It would feel, how long it would last, what the climax in sen sation would be, were I to fall. As hour succeeded hour I lived each minute only to make the false step. Courage is only a matter of self con trol anyway. Climbing the highest mountain on the continent with a tent pole! Some times I boiled in those dizzy, anxious places that I had put myself in such a position with such men. Yet I must reap my own sowing. Once I asked if it wasn't customary to rope on such steep slopes, but no one but Fred an swered, and he said: "'V ain't goin' to ketch me tied up to anybody. A man don't want to take chances with any one but himself, haulin' him down from these places." One requisite of explorers besides aversion to soap and water is insensi tiveness. They can't see; they can't feel. They couldn't do these stunts if they did. THE HUMAN BRAIN. It is the Most Marvelous Machine In the World. The human brain is the most mar velous machine in the world. It occu pies less space in proportion to its capabilities than any machine it ever invented. It sends a special nerve to every ultimate fiber of some 500) mus cles, to many. thousand branching twigs of arteries, to every pinhead area of the numerous glands which keep the machine properly oiled, heat ed or cooled, to some sixteen square feet of skin, which is the outpost guard of its castle, with such complete ness that the - point of a pin cannot find an area unguarded. It possesses special quarters for the reception and translation of a constant stream of vi brations that are the product of all things movale or still in the outer world. On the retina of every open eye is a picture of the outer view, a focused imprint of every ray of light and color, and in the visual chamber of the mental palace stands a vibra scope, a magic lantern that receives the retinal picture in its billion speed ing series of light waves and throws them upon its mental screen as a liv ing moving picture of light and shade and color. In the chamber of sound is a vibraphone, over whose active wires passes every wave of sound from the dripping of the dew to the orchestral fortissimo, from the raucous screech of the locomotive to the sighing of the wind through the meadow grass. In the chambers set apart .for scent and taste and touch are the secret service guards to report upon the air and food which give sustenance to the palace and upon the solid qualities of the tac tile world. And, wonder of all won ders. this complex human brain can think in all languages or in no lan guage and even conceive its own phys ical mortality.-Edward A. Ayres in Harper's Magazine. Where the Tips Go. '-But I can tell you something you do'c know about the tipping system in the cloakrooms of some of the large cafes," remarked a midnight diner to his wife. 'Why, don't the small boys just pocket all they get?" inquired she. "Pocket! Their uniforms are made without a sign of a pocket so that none of the tips can find a lodging there. Those boys get nothing but a salary, which is paid by a man who has pur chased the check room privilege for as high as five thousand a year. The tips are all turned into him. You can Imagine what the privilege is worth when he can pay down that sum for the right"--New York Press. The Oldest Encyclopedia. The: most ancient encyclopedia ex tant Is Pliny's "Natural History," in thirty-seven books and 2,493 chapters, treating of cosmography. astronomy, meteorology, geography, geology, bot any, medicine, the arts and pretty near ly every other department of human thought known at the time. Pliny, who died 79 A. D., collected his work in his leisure intervals while engaged in public affairs. The work was a very high authority in the middle ages. The Child's Advice. Little Arthur stood peering down into the countenance of his baby sister. whom the nurse was singing to sleep. "Say, nurse," he finally whispered, "it's nearly unconscious, isn't it?" The nurse nodded in the affirmative and sang on. "Then don't sing any more or you'l kill t"-Llppincott's. The kidneys are delicate and sensi tive organs and are very likely at any time to get out of order. DeWitt's Kidney Bladder Pills ?are- prompt and thorough and will in a very short time strengthen the weakened kidneys and allay troubles arising from inilam ma tion of the bladder. Sold by W. E. Kennedy s Laxative Cough Syrup the congh syrup that tastes nearly as (rood as maple sugar and which chil reun like so woll to take. Unlike near lV all other cough remedies, it does not constipate, but on the other hand it acts promptly yet ently on the bowels, througi which the cold is forced out of the S syStem, and at the same time it allays inflammation. Always use Ken nedlvs Laxative Cough Syrup. Seld by W. E. Brown & Co. BIRDS AS THEY SLEEP. Quail Form a Dense Circle With All Heads Facing Out. The nighteap preparations of the chubby little quail are very interesting. Each evening the covey forms in a new place, and this selection of the spot entails serio:s efforts. Bobwhite nev er quite loses remembrance of the many dangers which make his life in a wild state one great fear. A white throated mate with soft clucks calls together a dozen of his comrades, and for a few minutes they all huddle to gether, but soon from the farther end of the aviary a clear "Whew-bobwhite!" rings out, and off scurry the whole band. this time p^'b)aps to settle for the night in the ,.av place-a dense circle of 11. ..as, heads all facing out. just as i" their native stubble they rest facing in every direction, so that at the first hint of danger from any point of the compass the covey may explode and go booming off in safety. Poor little fellows, their wild life is strenuous indeed! Well for their race that every nest holds from ten to eight een eggs instead of three or four: The woodpeckers sleep resting upon their tails, even the flickers invariably following this custom, although during the day the flickers spend much of' their time perching in passerine man ner. crosswise upon a twig. Small birds, such as thrushes and warblers. sleep usually upon some small twig. with heads tucked behind wings in orthodox bird fashion. but they occa sionally vary this in a remarkable way by clinging all night to the vertical wires of their cages. sleeping apparent ly as soundly in this as in the usual position of rest. A bluebird in a small cage slept thus about one or two nights out of each week. Any explanation of this voluntary and, widespread habit among perching birds would be difficult to suggest The little hanging parrakeets derive their name from their custom of sleep ing always in a reversed position, and when distributed over their roosting tree they resemble some strange, pend ant, green fruit rather than sleeping birds.-Outing Magazine. THE BLUE JAY. Why Should He Be Selected as Sand Bearer to Satan? It is said and believed by many that all the blue jays disappear every Fri day, and not one can be seen until the next day, and this disappearance is ac counted for by the statement that the birds are under a compact with Satan and that they devote each Friday to delivering him a supply of sand to heat his caldron at the point of tor ture. But why should the blue jay be select ed as sand bearer to Satan when there are so manay birds of stronger and leeter wing? There are many super stitions thr.t have a reasoning basis. but this particular one has nothing whatever to go on The origin o'f it lies in the fact that the blue jay is a most particular home builder- He knows how to build his house, and he takes a great pride in it. He doesn't hang his nest to a limb nor glue it to a tree. Instead he selects a substantial fork or crotch of a limb, lays down a few twigs of goodly size and strength, and on these he superimposes a strong foundation of clay, with layers of pa pers between, and when his nest is fin ished it is as substantial in proportion as one of our modern steel structures. Thus fitted and finished, it is admi rably adapted to the rearing of a strong and healthy brood, and the blue jay goes about his business with the earnest energy that characterizes all his movements. He raises his young and leads them about from tree to tree and from bush to bush until they have tried and found their wings, and then, his re sponsibilities being over, he proceeds with his career of gayety, a veritable practitioner of rough fun and stage humor.-Uncle Remus' Magazine. Pounds and Weights. Here is a question that will tax the arithmetical powers of a youth. Sup pose that for some reason or another a shopkeeper who sold goods by pounds and half pounds, but never in quantities exceeding twenty pounds at a time, was told that he must transact all this business with four weights only what mnust these four weights be? The answer is half pound, one and a half pound, four and a half pound and thirteen and a half pound. With these it will '"e readily seen that any weight from half a pound to twenty pounds may be determined in pounds and half pounds.-Gateway Magazine. Pleasant Anticipation. The Rev. Dr. C. M. -Lamson, once president of the American board of for eign missions, was called as a pastor over a parish and was undergoing ex amination before a council when the question was asked him, "Do you be lieve in a hell?" The retiring clergyman of the parish sat beside him and. giving him a nudge, said: "Tell them yes. If you don't now you will before you have been here six months."-Argonaut. Jiust the Other Way. Fortune Teller-Beware of a short, dark woman with a fierce eye, She is waiting to give you a check. Visitor (desparingly)-No, she ain't She's waiting to get one from me. That's my wife.-Baltimore American. Carries Weight. "Pa," said Freddy. "what is a social scale ?" "Generally speaking," replied pa, "it's a place where they weigh money." Bohemian Magazine. Advising is easier than helping. Rochefoucauld. Kool For Dyspepsia has helped thousands of people who have had stomach trouble. This is what one man as of it: "E. C. DeWitt & Co.. Chica o, 11.-Gentlemen-In 1897 1 had a disease of the stomach and bowels..I ould not digest anything T ate and in the spring of 1902 I bought a bottle of Kodol and the benellt I received from that bottle all the gold in Georgia ould not buy. I still use a bottle oc casionally as I lind it a line blood puri fier and a good tonmc. May you live long and prosper. Yours very trulyv, C. N. Cornell, Roding, Ga., Aug. 27. odol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. THE PICTURE CRITIC. I If He Doesn't "Quite Like the Face," That Settles It. Some liberal minded people will ad mit to you that a slight preliming.ry training is required before a serious attempt is made to criticise music, but almost anybody with eyes is willing to embark buoyanily on the job of tear ing a picture to pieces. This seems to be because the picture will stand with out hitching. Moreover, it will patient ly submit to all the verbal harpoons you find time and strength to throw, and the average friendly critic will find sufficient of both to make even a reasonably good painting look like a cross between a fourteenth century St. Sebastian and a hedgehog. "Music. on the contrary, is both pro longed and evan""cent. and by ':he time the composi Uon is finished and the applause has quieted down the critic has forgotten most of the good things he intended to say to Its detri ment. But the picture stays, irritating you by its mere passive endurance to the point where after awhile you feel that if you don't say something to destroy its smug self complacency it will go on thinking that it's all right. So then you begin to work over it. and you say: "Yes. I see now. It looked pretty good at first. but that arm is hopelessly bad. and I don't ,'ite like the face." There's nothing to be done if you don't "quite like the face:" there's no answer to that propo sition. It's a clincher. Rembrandt himself would have wilted and would probably have given up trying to be an "old. master."-Everybody's. Her Ready Wit. Though he had long adored her in secret-worshiped, In fact, the ground she pressed beneath the soles of her dainty little No. 3's-he had never yet been able to screw up sufficient cour age to put his fate to the test. Poor fellow! He was one of those shy, modest, -self deprecating sort of chaps that are growing rapidly scarcer or he would have tumbled months ago to the fact that he had only to go in and vin Gertrude Alicia knew the state of his feelings right enough, but it had pleas ed her hitherto to keep him dang!ing in attendance. At last, however, she made up her mind to land her fish as soon as a favorable chance presented itself. And the opportunity came at thA Smythingtons' little soiree, when thet bsshful swain, entering the conserva tory, discovered his inamorata looking her loveliest amid the palms and flow ers. "Are-are you alone?" he questicned timidly. In a moment the fair and ready wit ted girl saw her chance and took It then and there. "A loan, Hen-er-Mr. Finnikin," she said, with lowered eye lids, "a loan? Certainly not-I'm a gift" And fifteen minutes later, when they emerged from their retreat, Henry was asking himself how he could have been such a Juggins as to postpone his hap piness so long. Neander's "One Work." Doctors, when they send away a busy man for several weeks of rest, d'o not consider that to one accustomed to work an enforced rest is both irri tating and depressing. Neander, the famous church histo rian, had promised his physician on be ing ordered to Carlsbad to drink its famous waters that he would take no books with him except one work, which the doctor with reluctance allowed. On the morning of the historian's de parture the doctor, wishing .to say goodby to his patient, called at his door and saw a cart laden with heavy folios. "But, dear professor," said the phy sician, with the emphasis of displeas, ure, "you promised me to take no books with you."~ "Yes, doctor," replied the childlike professor. "but you allowed me one work, so I thought I might take the fa thers with me to Carlspad." The "one work" Included three or four score volumes. When Marriage Is the Topie. The wedded state is a favorite sub ject with the epigram makers. From a very old ballad we take this: There was a criminal in a cart A-goin' to be hanged: Respite to him was granted, And cart and crowd did stand To know If he would marry a wife Or ratfier choose to die. "T'other's the worst-drive on the cart!" The criminal did reply. More modern is this verse: I would advise a man to pause Before he taktes a wife In fact. I see no earthly cause He should not pause for life. Who, by the vway, is the author who describes a second marriage as being "te trium'ph of 'hope over experience?" Samuel Lover's matrimonial epigram is very apposite: Though matches are all made in heaven, the:: sy. Yet H~ynmen. .who mischief oft batches, Sometimes ceais with the house t'other side of the way. And there they make Lucifer matches. -Chambers' .Tournal. The Lord an dthe Burglar. Lord Iverdale bffd just finished his after dinner speech and the guests had applauded when the butler rushed f or ward and announced to his lordship that there was a burglar in the house. "A burglar! Confound his impu ence! Where is he?" "We don't exactly know, your lord ship. One of the maids, hearing a [noise in the library, looked in and saw a man at the safe. If your lord ship will allow me, I'll put Jarvis in my place here and take charge of the search." "Very good, Haskins. Go by all means. Wait a moment--here is thie key of my desk. Take the revolver you will find in the right hand top drawer: you may need It. As soon as I can get away without alarming the lades I'll join you."--Munsey's. Apprentice Examination. Preliminaries for membership in the Ananias club: "You may not believe it, but;" "Now, leaving all joking aside;" "Seriously now;" "It may seem strange, but."-Chicago Post With a Little Help. "Your customs are enough to make any civilized man boil!" exclaimed the missionary indignantly. "With the help of a little dry wood," assented the cannibals gravely.-Puck. The average amount of rainfall be low the equator Is twenty-six inches, while north of the line It Is thirty seven and one-half inches. Gave Him a Start. Doctor (to patient)-Your heart is rather irregular. Have you anything that Is worrying you? Patient-Oh, not particularly. Only that just now when you put your hand In your pock et I thought you were going to give - me you bil-Landn Telegraph. I TURNING OF THE WORM. His Plain, Blunt, Straight to the Point Talk to His Wife. "Mrs. Lambert. I think we will have to cut down expenses." remarked Mr. Lambert timidly. To his intense surprise she made no reply. Then he grew bolder. "And I am certainly of the opinion that you are spending too much money on gowns and hats." Again no answer. His bravery jump ed up another notch. "And, Mrs. Lambert, I must say fur thermore that we will have no more teas or receptions." Silence. Mr. Lambert grows daring, courageous. "It is simply an outrage the way you lavishly expend my hard earned mon ey. You have no consideration and al low your extravagant ideas to carry you off your feet. Do you realize that we are living beyond our means?" No answer. "Do you know that I am making $100 a month and you are deliberately spending S200? Can't you see the fam ily is bound to land in the poorhouse?" Silence. Mr. Lambert's fortitude Is unbounded. "I have stood your impositions long enough, Mrs. Lambert. Do you under stand? You have henpecked me until life is now unbearable. Now I intend to take hold of the reins. I will man age affairs and you will obey." There was a sudden crash, then a yell. Mr. Lambert's head 'came into contact with the bedpost as Mrs. Lam bert shook him furiously, and she ex claimed: "Can't you keep your mouth shut when you are asleep? What in the world are you dreaming about any way? It is simply barbarous the way you disturb my rest after I work so hard all day keeping the house in or der. And you know I am worn out from tea this afternoon, yet" And Lambert realized it was all a dream and began nursing the slowly swelling bump on his head.-Bohemian Magazine. MUSIC LOVING NAPLES. It Has the Poorest and Happiest People In the World. It is estimated that a quarter of a million people In Naples live from hand to mouth, and there are hundreds of children who subsist out of the gar bage boxes and who sleep in churches and on doorsteps. The taxes in Italy to provide war ships .and to keep the nation on a war footing with the other powers are real ly stupendous. There is a tax on ev erything, says the Delineator-grain in the field, fruit on the vine, old bottles. Fuel and foodstuffs are very dear. Only labor Is cheap. For the very poor meat is a luxury unheard of. and even macaroni Is too dear to be indulged in often. There are any number of per ambulating street kitchens, where va rious kinds of soup, cakes and fruits are sold in portions costing 1 cent. And yet these people seem very happy. Bands of musicians are always play ing in the streets; the guitar and the mandolin are to be heard everywhere on the boats, in the hotels, and the stranger is lulled to sleep by a soft serenade under his balcony. The story teller thrives in Naples, as there are so many idlers there. He col lects a little crowd around him and proceeds in the most dramatic way, gesticulating wildly and working his face Into the most ex:cruciating 'ex pressions, to relate stories of adven ture or other events, much to the edi fication of his hearers, who to show their appreciation are often betrayed Into giving a sou which might have been better spent for bread or polenta. The public letter writer Is another street dignitary of importance and in great demand, especially with timid and buxom maids of all work who have themselves neglected to learn the art of writing. Of such the public letter writer holds all the secrets of their loves and is often their adviser as well as amarnuensls. Pineapple Juice. Garlic eaten raw will cure a cold In the head, grip or Influenza in the first stages, but in cases where prejudiced people refuse to test its virtues Irish moss lemonade made after the well known fiarxseed lemonade recipe and taken for both meat and drink stands next on the list. Pineapple juice will relieve inflamma tion of the throat in the most advanced and chronic cases and will cure all or dinary attacks. In both membranous croup and diphtheria pure pineapple juice either raw or from the canned fruit will cure when the entire apothe cary shop has been tried and found wanting.-National Magazine. Von Hutten's Misery. Very sad was the fate of Ulrich von Hutten, one of the greatest writers Germany has ever produced. Unable to earn a living, he was reduced to tramping through the country, begging food and .ehelter from the peabants. One bitter winter's night both were re fused, and next morning he was found frozen stiff and cold in the drifting snow outside the village. "The only thing he died possessed of besides the rags he wore," says his biographer, Zuinglin, "was a pen." The Nub of the Thing. "Man runs to cliques," audibly rumi nated a grizzled citizen. "He thinks pretty well of his country, of his state or province, of his town, of his own street, and then we get at the nub of the thing-the man thinks pretty well of himself."-Kansas City Newsbook. When a man is being operated on by a barber It is best for him to keep his mouth shut. The case is different when the patient Is in the dentist's chair. .A Dumas Story. Dumas the elder was rarely spiteful to or about his fellow men, but one day, when he happened to be In that mood, a friend called 4o tell him a piece of news. "They have just given M. X. the Legion of Honor," he said. Then he added In a significant tone, ~Now, can you imagine why they should have given it to him?" "Yes." answered the great dramatist promptly. "They have given it to him because he was without It." The French Brand. Customer-Why Is a pipe made from French brier root better than one made from American brier root? Tobacco nist-Because anything that's French is a little tougher than the same thing In any other country.-Chicago Trib Those Girls. She-He kissed me when I was not dreaming of such a thing. Her-I'll wager you were not. You always were wide awake when kissing was in sight. -incnnati Enquirer. SHAKESPEARE'S TOMB. Its Would Be Desecrators and the Poet's Imprecation. The fact that would be desecrators of Shakespeare's tomb have not dared to risk the falling of the curse invoked in the lines cut upon his tomb is a strik ing testimony to the powerful effect upon mankind of such an imprecation. J. 0. Halliwell-Phillipps. writing in the eighties, said: "The nearest approach to an excava tion in the grave of Shakespeare was made in the summer of the year 1796 In digging a vault in the immediate lo cality, when an opening appeared which was presumed to indicate the commencement of the site of the bard's remains. The most scrupulous care, however, was taken not to disturb the neighboring earth in the. slightest de gree, the clerk having , been placed there till the brickwork of the adjoin ing vault was completed to prevent any one making an examination. No relics whatever were visible through the small opening that thus presented itself, and as the poet was buried - in the ground, not in a vault, the great probability is that dust alone remains. It is not many years since a phalanx of trouble tombs, lanterns and spades in haind, assembled in the chancel at dead of night, intent on disobeying the solemn injunction that- the bones of Shakespeare were not to be disturbed. But the supplicatory lines prevailed There were some among the number who at the last moment refused to in cur the warning condemnation, and so the design was happily abandoned." A correspondent of the London Athe naeum wrote in 1381: "I remember .a a visit to the grave of Shakespeare in 1827 or 1S28 remarking that i.t was lit tle creditable to the authorities that the raised covering to the tomb should have been allowed to fail into such de cay, for I could see into the grave through the hole formed by the sinking of the stones. The reply was that. 'on account of the anathema inscribed upon the tomb,' no workmen could be per suaded to meddle with it." An earlier incident is thus set forth by a contributor to the Monthly Mag azine of Feb. 1. IS18: "Notwithstanding the anathema pro nounced by the bard on any disturber of his bones, the church wardens were so negligent a few years ago as to suffer the sexton in digging the ad joining grave of Dr. Davenport to break a large cavity into the tomb of Shakespeare. Mr. - told the writer that he was excited by curiosity to push his head and shoulders through the cavity. that he saw the remains of the bard and that he could easily have brought away his skull, but was de terred by the curse which the poet in voked on any one who disturbed his remains." The attempt at a later day to med dle with the tomb had no more -effec tive ending.-New York Tribune. South American Animals. Many curious animals haunt the marshy parts. of South America north of the pampas. Frogs big and fero cious (the ceratophyrs), given to mak ing vicious springs when closely ap proached; the capybara, a cavy "con tented with the bulk of the sheep;" the huge coypu rat 'and the swarthy tapir are frequently seen. Along the forest margins troops of peccaries are often, met with, occasionally the jaguar. sometimes the puma: likewise that toothless curiosity the great ant bear, long in claw, long nosed and remark ably long tongued. Very plentiful, too, are those "little knights in scaly ar mor," the quaint, waddling armadil loes. Long toed jacanas pace about upon the floating leaves. A familiar object Is the great jabiru, a stork with a preference for the desolate lagoons, where it~may often be observed statu esque on one leg and wrapped in pro spection.________ Big Tips For Little Favors. "It is surprising," said a veteran Pullman porter, "hoWv big a tip a por ter sometimes gets for doing a very little thing." He added: "A passenger once tipped me extra' because he said I did not leave his shoestrings coiled up Inside his shoes ater I had blacked them. He said nothing- made him madder than to slip. on his shoes in a hurry in a sleeper oniy to find that he had to take them off again because the shoestrings were inside. Ever since that time I have been careful not to leave shoestrings inside of the shoes I black, and more than one passenger has thanked me for being thgughtful. But it wasn't me that did the thinking. The tip did that for me, and I never forgot it."-Les lie's Weekly. In the Right Direction. Bishop Blomfield was one of the many witty Englishmen whose good things have found their way into a volume of reminiscences, "Leaves From the Notebooks of Lady Dorothy Nevil." Bishop Blomfield was led into a con troversy one time with a learned man as to the mental superiority of the east over the west and his opponent as a parting shot said: "Well, at any rate, you can't dispute that the wise men came from the east" "Surely that was the wisest thing they could do!" retorted the bishop. A Futile Boast. "Love me and the world is mine," he said.. "What's the use of saying that?" she replied. "I've been loving you for weeks and you haven't even succeeded in getting a good ;job."-Chicago Ree ord-Herald. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their lippiness.-Mme. de Rieux. ManZan Pile Remedy comes ready to use, in a :oapsible tube, with nozzle. One application soothes and heals, reduces inflammation and re lieves soreness and itching. Price 50c. Sold by rhe Manning Pharmacy. Wilil: Is Barking. Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens. the youngest son of the novelist, emigrat ed to Australia and died in Sydney at the age of lfty-one. Hle represented a constituency in the parliament of New South Wales for six years. Once when ho was addressing the house in Syd ney lhe was again and again snappish ly interrupted by a member named Willis. At last Mr. Dickens stopped to emiark: 'Mr. Speaker. my father coined a famous phrase, 'Barkis is will in'.' Under present circumstances I am si-rongly tempted to reverse it and say, 'Willis Is barking.'" The house laughed and the Interruptions ceased. No Chance. "Do you think his interest 1:a art wii! ever amount to anything?" "No," answered Miss Cayenne. "ile is too well off to become an artist him self and not rich enough to become a oniseue"--Wsbington Star. WHITMAN'S WILD RIDE It Was Worth Three Stars to the American Flag. SAVED US VAST TERRITORY. The Perilous Journey of Four Thou sand Miles From Oregon to Washing ton Made by a Brave Man ar the Results Which Followed In !ts Wake. The ride of Marcus Whitman was over snow capped mountains and along dark ravines, traveled only by savage men. It was a plunge through icy riv ers and across trackless prairies, a ride of 4,000 miles across a continent in the dead of winter to savea mighty territory to the Union Compared with this what !was the feat of' Paul Revere, who rode eight een miles on a calm night In April to arouse a handful of sleeping patriots and thereby save the powder at Con cord? Whitman's ride saved three stars to the American flag. It was made in 1842. In 1792, during the first administra tion of Washington, Captain Robert Gray, who had already carried the American flag around the globe, dis covered the mouth of the Columbia river. He sailed several miles up the great stream and landed and took pos session in the name of the United States. In 1805, under Jefferson's administra tion, this vast territory was explored by Captains Lewis and Clark, whose reports were popular - reading for our grandfathers, but the extent and value of this distant possession were very slightly understood,.and no attempt.at colonization was ~made save the estab lishment of the fur trading station of Astoria in 1811. Strangely enough, England, too, claimed this same territory by virtue of rights ceded to it by Russia and also by the Vancouver surveys of 1792. The Hudson's Bay company establish ed a number of trading posts and filled the country with adventurous fur.trad ers. So here was a vast territory, as large as New England and the state of Indiana combined, which seemed to be without any positive ownership. But for Marcus. Whitman It would have been lost to the Union. It was in 1836 that Dr. Whitman and a man of the name of Spaulding, with their young wives, the first white wo men that dver crossed the Rocky mountains, entered the valley of the Columbia and founded a mission of the American board. They had been sent out to- Christianize the Indians. but Whitman was also to build a state. He. was at this time thirty-five years old. In his journeys to and fro for the mission he soon saw'the vast pos sibilities of the country, and he saw, too. -that the English were already ap prised of this and were rapidly pour ing into the territory. Under the terms of the treaties of 1818 and 1828 It was the tacit belief that wbichever nation ality' settled and organized the splen did territory would hold it. If. Eng land and the English fur traders had been successful in their plans, the three great states of Washington, Ore gon and Idaho would now constitute a part of British Columbia. But It was not destined to be. In the fall of 1842 It looked as if there would be a great inpouring of English into the territory, and Dr. Whitman took the alarm. There was no . time to lose. The authorities at Wasshington must be warned. -Hastily bidding his wife adieu, Dr. Whitman started on his hazardous journey. The perils, hardships and delays he en countered on the way we can but faintly conceive. His feet were frozen, he nearly starved, and once he :came very near to losing his life. He kep,t pushing right on, 'and at the end of five terrible months he reached Wash ington. He arrived there a worn, bearded, strangely picturesque figure, clad en tirely in buckskin and fur, a typical man of the prairies. He asked audi ence of President Tyler and Secretary of State Webster, and it was accorded him. All clad as he was, with his frozen limbs, just in from his 4,000 mile ride, Whitman appeared before the two great men to plead for' Ore gon. His statement was a revelation to the administration. Previous to Whit man's visit it was the general Idea in congress that Qregon was a barren, worthless country, fit only for wild beasts and wild men. He opened the eyes of the government to the limit less wealth and splendid resources of that western territory. He told them of Its great rivers and fertile valleys, its .mountains covered with forests and its mines filled with precious treasures. He showed them that it was a country worth keeping and that it must not fail into the hands of the English. He spoke as a man in spired, and his words w'ere heeded. What followed-the organization of companies of emigrants, the rapid set tlement of the territory and the'treaty made with Great Britain in 1846 by which the forty-ninth parallel 'was made th'e boundary line west of the Rocky mountains-are matters of his tory. The foresight and the heroism of one man and his gallant ride had saved three great states to - the Un ion.-Omaha World-Herald. . . Two Ways. Jack-In the oriental world a girl never sees her intended husband until she is married. Floss-How odd! In this part of the world she seldom sees him afterward.-New York Globe. Thirty days' trial $1.00 is the offer on Pine ules. Relieves Backache, Weak Back. Lame Back. Rheumatic pains. Best on sale for K~id nes, Bladder and .Blood. Good for young and old. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re funded. Sold by The Manning Pharmacy. Can We Pull Anything? Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent Eng lish scientist, said in a lecture that there is no such thing as pulling. To speak of a horse.pulling a cart was, he said, incorrect. The horse did not pull the cart. It pushed against its collar and thereby produced motion in the cart. Similarly the oarsman pushed the water, and the man drawing a handcart had to clasp the handle, and the driving force was caused by the part which clasped the handle and was therefore behind it. Even if the cart was fastened to the man's coat tail he did not pull it. He pushed against his clothes. Considerate. "And would you marry me If I were a poor girl, working for a living?" ask ed the heiress. "Daring," responded the ~accepted suitor, "it wouldn't be fair. You'd be doing enough in supporting yourself." SHEFFIELD PLATE History of This Now Very Rare and Valuable Ware. Sheffield plate differs from all other plated ware in that the plating was done on the sheet metal before the article was shaped. Before and since then plating of various sorts has been applied only to the finished piece, as in our electroplating process. Moreover, the plating was done on copper, while modem base metal is usually com posed of an amalgam of copper, nickel and zinc. Furthermore, it Is possible for the collector to secure examples of early Georgian and so called Queen Anne work in -Sheffield plate, while the rarity and high money value of silver ware of that period make its acquisi tion extremely difficult Sheffield plate histqrically and artistically is as worthy of a place beside old china and old mahogany as is old silverware. In 1742 one Thomas Bolsover of Sheffield. England. described in the histories as an "ingenious mechanic." accidentally fused some silver and cop per while repairing a knife. He bev" experimenting, seeking for a method of plating copper with silver for the man ufacture of small articles. In 1743, to gether with Joseph Wilson, he set up a factory for the manufacture of buc kles, snuffboxes and knife handles. Joseph Hancock soon gdt hold of the secret and, perfecting it, demonstrated that it was possible to imitate .the finest and most richly embossed silver ware. Settling in Sheffield, he started the manufacture of.all sorts of domes tic pieces. Beginning modestly with horsepower, he later added -water pow er for the rolling process. .Other man ufacturers followed his example, and' Sheffield plate soon began to -replace pewter on the tables of the .Engish middle classes. Altogether we know of twenty-three Important manufactur- - ers of this ware. The industry , flourished until the middle of the nineteentir. centuy, and. so few pieces of copper -rolled plate were -made after that time that they need not concern the collector. Electro-- ' plating was discovered or invented 6by.. -- a medical student of Rotherham,nar - Sheffield, and the new process was patented on March 25, 1840. By 250 the new ware was on the market ev erywhere, and the, Industry had been revolutionlzed.-Country Life In.Amer Ica. BISMARCK'S ANGER. The incident That Mader'Certain' the Franco-German War. The Princess Bismarck, so the'stpr goes, changed the politicalristoi-or France unwittingly, and but. for er the Franco-Prussian war mighnever have been waged. -. Bismarck was. unfriny toFrance. but the Empress Eugenie hOped with her beauty to-influence him so that the little trouble with France aendGer many might he smoothed over.She therefore invitedtlie German prlne and his. wife to visit tiescourt- - France, and the PrincesandPrin Bismarck arrived In great state at the Tuilerles. That evening there was's grand-re ception, and Eugenie received the guests In a gown which made ben so ravishingly lovely that even Princet Bismarck, German, stolid azndin love with his wife, stood and.gazed uipon her -with airiation. And. Eugenie was not slow to observe the effect-of her beauty upon him. She called him to her side, and Bisnarck came, with' his wife upon his arm. Now, the Princess Bismarck 'was tall and gaunt, and her feet were~ gener ous. As -she walked she. showed a great deal of sole. While Bismarck .stood talking with Enigenle an audible titter was heard along the line of ladies.. Bismrk who was quick as a -fash; followed the glance of their eyes and sawthem rest upon the feet of his 'wife. That settled the matter. The polit! cal history of France was altered from that moment A year -later, when Paris :was be sieged, Bismarck himself -fired a, can non over the ramparts, and those who were near him heard him shout: "Take that for the feet of the Prin cess Bismarck!" The slight was avenged. EDISON THE VICTOR. He Humbfed the Pride -of the Fast Telegraph Operator. Edison made his first record as l telegraph operator in Memphis.! A'con~ temporary says he came walking Into the office one morning looking. like a1 veritable hayseed. He wanted a -3db, and, although his appearance was not prepossessing, the office -was short handed, and he was assigned a desk at the St Louis wire, the hardest in the. office.: "At the end of the line was an operator who'- was chain lightning and> knew it," says Francis Arthur Jones' "Life of Edison.; "Edison had hardly got seated before St Louis called. The newcomer re sponded, 'and St Louis started on a long report which he pumped in like a house afire. Edison threw -his leg over the arm of his chair, leisurely transferred a wad of spruce gum from his pocket to his mouth, took up a pen, enamined It critically and started in about fifty words behind. He didn't stay there long, though. St Louis let out another link of speed, and still an other, and the instrument on Edison's table hummed like an old style Singer sewing maichine. Every man in the office left his desk and gathered around the jay to see what he was doing with that electric cyclone. "Well, sir. he was right on. the word and taking it down in the prettiest cop perplate harnd you ever saw, even crossing his 't's' and dotting his Tls' and punctuating with as much care as a man editing telegraph for printers. St. Louis got tired by and by and be gan to slow down- Then Edison open ed the key and said: "'Hello, there! 'When are you going to get a hustle on? This Is no primer class.' "Well, sir," said the gentleman in conclusion, "that broke St. Louis all up. He had been rawhiding Memphis for a long time, and we were terribly sore, and to have a man in our office who could walk all over him made us feel like a man whose horse had won the Derby." Agreed With Him. Father (alling from head of stairs at 11:30 p. m.)-Jennie, don't you think It's about time to go to bed? Jennie Yes, papa dear. What on earth keeps you up so late?-Pathfinder. Not Unusual. "Sometimes," said Uncle Eben, "I ketches myse'f lambastiri' -a mule fob doin' purty .much de same as I would do if I was in de mule's place!" Washington Star. Nature creates merit; fortune brings