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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SICBSCR] TION RATES: One year ....................................51 50 Sx months......................- 5 t-out months.-....................... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One scuare. one time. 1; each subsequent in sertion. 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regulax advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three. six and twelve Communications must oe accompanied by the r eal name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personai cnaracter will be published except as an advertisement. Entered at thePostoffice at Manning as Sec ond Class matter. CAPITOL CORRESPONDENCE. Senate Chamber, Columbia, S. C., February 1:3ch, 1909. i The famous dead-lock has at last been broken by the election of Judge Hydrick. This contest was one of the fiercest and most unseemly I have ever experienc ed, or has ever come- under my observation. It was a political straggle from start to finish, with the result that politics won. Judge Hydrick's successor will be So licitor Sease. and his successor will probably be a Mr. Sam Nich ols. The fact of others being in1 want of good political jobs brought to Judge Hydrick's aid the friends of Messrs Sease and Nichols; never before was there such wire-pulling and log-rollinig for the election of a supreme court Judge. It reminded me of cross road primary heeling and in my opinion did not tend to increase respect for the judiciary. Governor Shepperd could have been elected on Tuesday night. had Mr. Cotbran withdrawn, but this Mr. Cothran would not agree to. There never was a chance for the election of Cothran at any time. Then when it was seen that Cothran hadno chance the friends of Mr. J. P. Carey wanted to run him, they had every assurance to win with Carey, but Mr. Carey declined to allow his name used as long as Mr. Cothran remained in the fight. Another effort was made to get Cothran to withdraw but he would not, and then Shep perd withdrew, which resulted in many of Shepperd's friends vot ing for Hydrick and electing him. I sincerely hope never again to witness such another contest when the judiciary is involved. The election for circuit judges will be disposed of quickly, there being no opposition I understand, unless it be for the successor of Judge Hydrick, however Sease is good for the place I feel sure. Very few general laws have been made at this session. and the measures which will provoke the most intense interest are to come up next week in the senate --prohibition, referendum and lo cai option. A large part of this week the House- was embroiled with . a filibuster. The anti-pro hibitionists -have up to now suc ceeded by tactical moves prevent ed the House from adopting a prohibition bill, but in my judg ment they must sooner or later give up the fight, as the Prohibi tionists have demonstrated they have a small majornty, which. if properly handled must win out. * In the senate the filibustering was done by the Prohibitionists. Senator Otts attempted to force the prohibition bills to the fore front, these measures were away down upon the Calendar, and that *they are so far down is not the fault of the senata because Sen *ator Otts the accredited leader of the prohibition forces, is chair man -of the committee having these measures in charge, held1 them back and did not report them until the Calendars were loaded down with other bills. I which the authors of them regard equally, if not more important than prohibition, so when Sena tor Ovts attempted arbitarily to advance his measures it aroused the ire of the authors of other * bills, and they refused to advance a his bills. Senator Otts is a hard and a i persistent, if not a discreet fight- I er. Had'he permitted the Calen- t1 dar to be proceeded with in the regular order, his prohibition ' bills wouil have been reached 2 easily, but he was determined to 1 whip lash the senate and ride his bill over it rough shod, to the ex- E tent that a few of the Prohiz'i- a tionists resented his stubborness i and declined to obey his demands.!g It is as yet not sure how theja senate will finall.y dispose of the r liquor legislation, it is very close r at best, but there is one thing a certain, threats and coercian will t not have a tendency to drive sen- t ators to vote against their inclin- I ations. I for one, am not in favor r of prohibition, under existing t conditions, but as a Representa- t tive of a people who have by their u votes expressed a desire for pro- a hibition, I would vote for a state- b wide prohibition bill, if in it there Ia is a provision to permit counties t not desiring prohibition to vote j back the dispensary. My reason. b is this: * After a fair trial of prohibition, p it is found that a worse condition Ii exists than we had under the n county dispensary system, the ti people in such county by major- c ity vote get relief. A provision of this sort should be agreeable n to the Prohibitionists because, if a prahibition is a success there is a absolutely no danger of the peo-f ti ple voting the dispensary back,I but if it is a failure. then the Pro- 51 hibitionists themselves will help y to vote it in, if zt is voted in, for I t 'without their votes it will be im- d possible to vote back liquor. They p should be willing to tust them- d selves, and especiahy should they I: be willing to trust the majority. I am opposed to the referen- ti . would vote for straight iron clad t prohibition. To refer the question t] :>f prohibition or no prohibition g to a vote of the State, puts the .c lower tier of counties wholely in h the control of the big upper coun ties, where Spartanburg alone c, polls more votes than Clarendon, d Sumter. Williamsburg and Lee 1( counties all put together. It is at ii varience with the principle of de- t( mocracy, and especially local self I government. tl And then too, I do not think it p right for a section of the State i by a vote to force conditions up- p on another section, which may be n altogether undesirable. I am sure f< if the big counties in the upper c part of the State were opposed to s prohibition, those now advocat- it] ing state-wide prohibition would o be using the arguments I am now ir making. There is no harm in n preserving the doctrine of local ii self government for the people, u and time will prove I am right. tl Under the law as it stands a ma jority in a county can do ss Clar- n endon has already done, vote out ti the sale of liquor, then why u should the legislature by legisla- S tive enactment take away this t) right and put it in the power of s some other county to dictate pol- b icies for others? b Prohibition was not an issue in d the last election: if there was an a issue at all, it was Governor An- p sel's platform, which was state- t1 wide prohibition, with the right I p to counties not wanting prohibi- a ion to vote back the dispensary. c, If I am correct in this, I would regard a state-wide prohibition p bill without such a proviso, as an a Act of bad faith on the part of ti the legislature. The present pro- o hibition leaders in the Senate and s, House who were elected in the d ast election ran on the platform c with Governor Ansel, and if they 11 do not agree to allow the proviso tl to go into their bill they have ob- ei tained their present position by t' false pretense, even if now their o enduct is endorsed by the prohi- sl bition party, it is nevertheless de- tj 3eption. e: I was elected to. the senate on V a local option platform. I still d stand there, because it is demo- s] -ratic and right, by this platform tj I had the right to oppose prohi- o: bition, to oppose a vote on the h guestion, but 'when a vote was C taken my right ceased then and 'T here, and that is the main reason 13 E did not atteipt to take advan- v tage of my legal rights to pre- w vent our illegal election from be- ji ing enforced. The people spoke, si nd although they did not speak tr as the law directs, they dia speak, s] nd I accept their verdict. Hav- g ing been elected as a local option- a ist. I have no right to take away tt from the people the principle of 1 local option, but I am willing, not h altogether as a matter of princi- it pe, but solely of expediency, to v ieclare the policy of the State for o prohibition, with the principle of o local self government preserved. b The House has, as it. has for c rears past done,-sent to the sen-.s ate a bill to repeal the lien law, le w~ithout providing for the repeal >f the mortgage clause. I do not c< inow how it will terminate, but ti im of the opinion the repeal will bi :e adopted, but unless the mort- si ~age clause is adopted also the it eoplie will tind that they have ai ~een fed on froth. . t All of the Clarendon measures I ~re virtually through. My liquor ti ~ommissioner bill passed to its bi ~hird reading in the House toda.y ti ~hus insuring its safety, and the ci >ill providing for a bond issue di or school district No. 20 is in the tI ame condition. This bill is Mr. ti -reen's. I got it through the If ~enate for him and when it reach- D d the House he had his bill tab- di ed, and mine substituted for it, es y this move the passage of it is fa ssured. The bill provides for a m 5,000 bond issue to be first sub- bl nitted to the qualified voters of ai chool district No. 20. If the vot rs of that district want to they th ~an now have a modern school 3 >uilding of small size. 'g The commutation road tax for a 1arendon will be three dollars, $g nd an additional provision has rc >een made empowering the coun- mn y board of commissioners to em- ar loy an attorney to prosecute ne hose who fail to pay said tax, or p ork the roads in lieu thereof. m he purpose of this being to put g< stop to the practice of shirking io oad duty. we At the last meeting of the del- fu gation we were confronted with h~ ,condition that was embarass- er aig, what information we could ht :et showed-a deticit, but the ex- gi t amount was not definite, and 1y ight here I wish to state I have vc iade every effort possible to get or n accurate statement of the coun- mi fs financial condition, and was b nable to get it, what I did get ar ras unsatisfactory and unbusi- fo: ess like, and I hope the new VE oard will see to it that the clerk m< axey select will, whenever called pon, be able to furnish a full a< nd comprehensive statement- ye ad the delegation such a state, co ent they would have known to be e cent the county's condition. bi] Te went over what figures we er ad and finally decided to raise ku ie levy for ordinary county ex. se: enses, including roads, three.- tbt yurths of one mill, and one-half an till to pay off back indebtness, tic ius making the levy for the th: >unty as follows: on County 4 mills, court house 1 mn iill, bonids 4- mill, total 51- mills Hc ; against 44- mills last year. It sp ill thus be seen that the delega- ec< on made a raise of only one ch ill, which I am sure will be in- pr ifficient, and at the end of this tmr ar no matter how economically int te board is, there will be a large wi ficit: therefore I want the tax. tic yers to understand that the ect slegation realizing what taxes ,jai ean, out of consideration for the pit ,xpayers concluded to liquidate the ie county's delicit by degrees. Ib iis raise of one mill, he wanted ie levy to remain as it was re ardless of the deficit and the artailment of revenue. He said e was satisfied he could finance ic county with its present in :)me, the rest of the delegation id not agree with him and the vy as above mentioned was sent 1 to the ways and means conimit e to be put into the supply bill. is my honest judgment to put Ae county on a business cash aying basis. at the present un 1st and unequal assessment of roperty, instead of a raise of one iil. we should have raised it >ur mills, but rather than take bances of raising too much we imply provided for that part of ie back indebtedness we knew f and made scarcely no provis )n for the curtailment of reve ue, and next year we hope to be i a position to know just how iuch money it will take to run 2e county. We have given to the people a ew board composed of substan al business men, but if these are nable to put the county upon a abstantial business basis, then ae fault will be in the law, and bould it appear the law is to lame, then it will '>e my purpose efore the next session to have rafted a new county government ct. even if in doing so it must rovide for the abolishment of 2e present system, office of Su ervisor included. We must have sound, safe and economical punty government. Senator Otts has a bill pending roviding for the appointment of legislative committee to inves gate the county dispensaries. I pposed it on the ground that the ate now has a state inspector of ispensaries whose business is to beck up and investigate these istitutions, and if he finds any ing wrong it is his duty to pros :te. If Senator Otts' bill goes 2rough with the appropriation f $5,000 its effect will be to give me senators and members of ae House junketing trips at the xpense of the state, to do just hat the state has an 6fficer to o and is being paid for it. No I Jall do all in my power to keep is prohibition leader's hand out L the public treasury. i think e wants to manufacture political ipital at the public expense. 'hese dispensaries are practical r local affairs under state super ision and with a state officer to atch them, and a county grand iry where'they are located. I am ire we have all the protective achinery necessary without pending an additional $5,000 to ive a few political conspirators, b the expense of the public a job >.manufacture political thunder. would however be willing to ave the Governor to send a man tto any county dispensary to in estigate, if the state auditor is therwise engaged, there is no bjection to the investigations, ut inasmuch as they are practi dlly local affairs the local people aould look after them, and not a igislative delegation. There have been some rumors >ncerning the State hospital for le insane and a commission will a appointed to investigate. I 2pported this measure. because is a State institution solely, ad the inmates thereof need ie protecting care of hamanity. hope the commission will find tings well with the institution, t if there is anything at all in te rurnors, and some of the larges are in the shape of affi tvits, there will be a sensation. tat is calculated to eclhpse any ting we have had in this State. there is anything rotten in enmaark financially, morally, or 2e to negligence it will be un ~rthed and prosecutions must llow. It is the demand of hu anity, and the General Assem y will act with determination d justice. There is strong opposition to e appropriation of $36, 000 for nthrop, because last year, we ~ve that institution $48,000 for new dormitory. now they want 6,000 for enlarging the dining om, kitchen' and other equip ent. They are going to get it, id should, because, what in the Line of sense was the use to ovide dormitory room for 200 ore girls. if we were not also ing to make adequate provis n for their comfort. I for one, >uld not be willing to have the ture motherhood of the State Ldled worse than the prison s in the penitentiary, they are iman, even though they be rls and cam~ a help it. Serious. .I would ' .4shamed to raise myv ice i - position to any reas .able demnand Winthrop might ske. Support the appropriation all means, and twice the ount if so much be necessary e the health, comfort, and con nience of South Carolina's >t precious jewels. I think we will be able to get ut in the State levy, but as t it is raot sure. The finance mmititee of which I am a mem r, will on Monday take up this . for consideration, and where. er it is possible to stick the ife without crippling theI evice we are going to do it. I' ink we can lop off a little here d there, so in the end a reduc n might be made. But I find is condition. nearly every e of the boisterous economists the legislature, both in the >use and Senate, in their eches are constantly urging >nomay, at the same time, a ck up of their work will ave they are all the time put g in bills which if enacted o law, must necessarily carry th them good size appropria ns. These fellows cry ont >nomny while they try to a their hands up to the arm-! s into the treasury. To keep n away, they must be driven almost force. For instance, ] a man would cream eonomy when an appropriation for school purposes comes up, be cause he claims the State is un able, yet he would make an ap propriation to give every cone federate soldier, whether hs needs it or not. a pension. This man knows to do what he want would require an additional ap propriation of $200,000 or more. I cannot appreciate his idea of economy. A fish bill created a great deal of discussion this week. The provisions are so drastic that I am forced to oppose it. The bill is still pending with amendment. If it had gone through as ori ginally presented, it wo~ld have put the ishermen of Brewington out of business, and the good Lord alone knows when we would have been able to eat a fresh water fish caught and sold legally. It provided to prohibit the sale of tish from March to November, even if caught with hook and line. There is too great a tendency to abridge th privileges of the masses, and if this continues there will be such a revulsion of feeling that a revolution cannot be averted. This is not Russia, we are a people who were nursect at the breast of liberty and raised to resent all encroachments up on individual freedom. and when the lawmakers propose to take the bottle away from -ur lips, we reluctantly submit, but when they go still further and try to deprive us of a food we enjoy. it is going farther than we like. The next step I suppose will be to require -how we shall dress and the quantity oi "terbacca" we shall chew. The few people who earn a livelihood fishing and selling their catch ought not be interfered with so long as they do not resort to useless destruction of the finny tribe. To protect the fish and game is good enough, but there is a great difference between protec tion and prohibition, especially when that prohibition is in the interest of fishing clubs and other pleasure seekers, who are rapidly getting control of our lakes and streams, and hunting grounds. The birds of the air and the fish of the streams which God in his infinite wisdom placed here for the food of man, will soon. be monopolized by the few, and become articles of com merce for foreign consumption, the same as is the case now with ducks and shad at Georgetown. I am opposed to any legislation which means deprivation, espec ially those things. which nature provided for us. If a man has a private lake he should be pro tected against the public, but in the public avaters what ,i in them belong to the publi,c to use but not to destroy. When the Audubon Society wants legislation providing for a license on guns, the next thing wanted will be a license on pocket knives,. this will probably be followed bv a license on spoons and frying pans, in fact, it will get so, if some people are allowed to have their way, that a man will not be allowed to wear pants without first taking ota license, not so with the the women, however, they are never required to pay a license for anything. One of the Senators has a bill on the calendar to require those selling dressed meats to expose the head and ears, but what good would the exposure of the head and ears do, if the cow was branded on thae hind quarter. Bills trivial in their nature must be considered alonig with those of merit, and there are in the Generak Assembly many bills costing thousands of dollars to the taxpayers when put on. the statute books are not -worth ten cents. I think we will close up shop next Saturday, and when we do the session of 1909, wh ile per sonally I have gotten -through about all I intended to go through, will, be written in history as having had more bills and considered less of them than any privious session in many years. The cause can largely be attributed to the House being made up most;ly of inexperienced members. A. Deafness Cannot be Ci tred by localapplucations. as they ca noa .reach the diseased portion of the' ear. There is only C.ne way to cure deafness, atnd that is by constitui tional remedies. Dea.rness is e aused by an in fianied condition of the muco' is liningr of the Eustachian Tube. When this I ;ube g.ets ininm edi you have a rumblimg sound o r imperfet hear ing, and when it is entirely el osed deafness is the result, and unless the in&r immation can be taken out and this tube resto .red to its normal condition,hearing will be destr oyed forever: nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed cond tition of the mu cous surfaces. We will give One Hundred. Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by r :tarrh) that can not be cured by Ball's Catarr a Cure. Send for irculars, free. Sol F. J. CHENEY i aCO., Toledo, 0. Sodby druggists.'75c. Blair's Family Pills are the . test. A West Point crank. Writing on "Wes t Point before the War" in the .Metropolitan Magazine, Genera\ S. W. Fergu son tells how Fitzbu~ngh Lee loved to play pranks: Fitz was alway-S niost popular-, full of fun and re ady for- any dev ilment. Once dur ing the encamp - nent we were br >th under arrest for some caper, and, as was cus ;omnary, we had, to maarch to the mess hail with 4the guard instead >f with the b?.ttai~&n. At that ime Scott's t actics were used, mnd we were always formed in two ranks. 'The sq~uad. under ~ommand of Corporal Montague, was marchi.ng to the mess ball md had alriest reacheil1 the ch.ap-' 1l when General Scott hims~elf ~ppeared and crossed c'ur path. in riont of us. The corpo:ral on see ne the great general s traighten ~d -himself like a r-amr od, .called~ )ut in his most martdal tones,1 'Close up there!" and stepped~ >ut, toes pointed and ey es rigid y to the front. Fitz ax id I were amazement and consternatio Fitz jumped one side. picked u a round stone and sent it bowlin along the flagstones close by th general and was back in his plac as rigid as any one in a seconc The old general stopped, looke up. then around. There was nott ing in sight but the squad of th guard. He could not imagine the the stone came from such a sourc and resumed his walk. We ha not gone more than a few ster when Fitz repeated the perfoi mance, saying on each occasio as he got back in his place, -H old big general you can't catc me!" By this time we had passe the front of the chapel, and th general was out of sight. Th last glimpse I had of him he wa looking around for the sourc whence came the rocks. I hav often wondered what would has been the thought of the corpor had he known what was going oi and I have wondered, too, wh report he would have made was badly scared, I must confes. but it was nevertheless very fu. ny. One must have known ti pompous old general to be ab to reahze how indignant he lool ed at the carelessness of any or allowing a rock to be thrown near him, the commander in chii to the army. A short time aft( at the grand ball always giv( before striking camp for barracl Fitz walked up to the genera introduced himself and had qui an animated conversation wil him. Soldier Balks Death Plot. It seemed to J. A. Stone, a civil w veteran, of Kemp. Tex., that a plot e isted between a desperate Jung trout and the grave to cause his death. contracted a stubborn cold." he writi "that developed a cough that stuck me, in spite of all remedies, for yeai My weight ran down to 130 poun Then I began to use Dr. King's N( Discoverv, which restored my heal completely. I now weigh 178 pounds For severe Cold, obstinate Coughs, He: orrhages. Asthma, and to prevent Pne monia it's unrivaled. 50c. and $1.( Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Dr. I E. Brown & Go., and J. E. Arant. The Future of Cotton. - Southern interests are deman ing an extension in -the uses cotton. On this subject the' A lanta Constitution says: If the country merchant. who interests lie with the farmE when he buys a hundred poun< of sugar or some other produ< will demand it in a cottod bag, I will get it that way without a ditional expense and at the sat time, contribute to that extent t ward increasing the value of cc ton by increasing the demand. The farmer who needs a ro] should call for a cotton one whe it will answer the purpose. C( ton twine should be in daily u: in ' every mercantile estabhs ment in the South. After all is said and done, it demand that is going to do tJ work. Cotton bagging upon cott< bales must ultimately come, ai the producing South should nc be working more diligently that end. Decreased tare alone will most, if not quite, mIake up f the difference in cost between ju and cotton, added to the increa ed valae of cotton itself, it w more than do it. The new year should witness determined and vigorous car paign for the more extended ns of cotton. The South must get away-fre the losing policy of selling greatest crop for 's are pri of production. This can be dione 4n only 01 way, which, in last analysis, the proper regulation of the su ply to the demanbd. It is possible to decrease t] supply and it is possible, lii wise, to increase the demand. But there must be proper e ordination between the two c through over-production, disa ter will come upon the produce The difficulties of holding dos the supply are ivell known; tl possibilities irtbuildig up the c mand are great. There is much in the future, the producer will ~out reach o a.nd take it. But this success is depende at last largely upon his own enm gies and his own efforts. "On to RichmonE." Senator Bacon, of Georgia, h suggested that the proposed Li colu memorial highway should e tend from Washington to Ric mond rather thar. from 'Washin ton to Gettysburg, as has be. planned. We agree witt the C lumbia Record that Mr. Bacor suggestion is eminently prop and is in accord with fhe "ete nal fitness of things." The capit of the United States and the cal tal of what was once the Sout ern Confederacy thus bound i gether by such a highway wou. not only be a most striking mei orial to the man whose consux ing desire was to see the unic restored, but it would be an el during monument of the .fact< such a restoration, freed of all ti misunderstandings and biternes es that provoked separation an a fratricidal war. The buildir of a Lincoln highway from Was. ington to Richmond would bea 'On to Richmond" march in sense entirely different from whi that cry meant in the sixtie: Then it meant war, the sheddir by kinsmen of kinsmen's bloot now if baply this peaceful mot on Richmond is made, it mear for coming generation~s the tar gible sign of a new order things-union in the bonds < fraternal love, peace, and a jo; ous common destiny. So, we sa: * On to Richmond" with the Lir coln memorial road.--Orange burg Times and Democrat. Pin esalve ACrs I2E OUL Cmanbliand POEMS C SKIN MZSZA A Good Problem. P The Geneva (Neb.) Gazette = says: "J. N. Taylor brought to 4 e this office a, copy of his old-home 4 e paper, the Adams Coanty Record, 4 L published at West Union, Ohio, i n which a fish story that has caused considerable 'tiggerin.' is e published. The problem is as 4 't folows: 'Work out the fol ;e lowing problem without any help, 4 d and report to this office. Charley is met his friend James upon the Istreet and told him that he had n been fishing. 'How many fish did , you catcb?' asked James. Charley 4 h replied: If to the number of books 4 d of the Old Testament you add the e number of books of the New Tes .e tament; multiply that by the num s ber of apostles who were present .e at the transtiguration; divide by e number of books written by Luke; 'e subtract the number of times tl the Israelites marched around 2, Jericho; multiply by the number tt of pieces of silver Judas received 1 for betraying Christ; divide by s, the number of spies Moses sent 1- into Canaan; add the number of 4 ie letters in the name of the city in le which a man climbed up a tree to i- see Christ; divide by the number ie of apostles that were called the I o 'Sons of Thunder,' the answer ,f will be the number of fish I ,r caught.' The problem has caus n ed all Bible students in that vit Is inity to sit up and get busy and 1, the paper has a column or so of ue answers to the same. If you are h good at Bible lore and also at mathematics get busy on this one." ar 'Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that d may develop into pneumonia over nigl are quickly cured by Foley's Honey ana Tar. and it soothes inflamed membran s, es, heals the lungs. and expels the cold tO from the system. W. E. Brown & Co. Is. News From Sardinia. th rn- Editor The Manning Times: Z- Our little village is vieing with New York city in sky-scrapers, judging from the great number of tall tobacce barns that are undergoing construction. We hope to make the tobacco warehouse people of Manning hustle this year to take care of the noxious weed. d- The majority of our citizens are mem of bers of the Farmer's Union, and through t. its teachings are learning some valuable lessons in diversified farming. Prof. 1. 0. Marsh of New Zion, gave se an interesting lecture at the Sardinia r, school house on last Thursday evening on the subject of "Perfected -Wood craft." Although he touched upon oth er topics of interest, the excellent in le surance features of the W. 0. W. was d- made clear and his talk was happily en 2e joyed. 0e Miss Lizzie Aiken, the Sardinia school teacher, has recently visited the home it- of Mrs. Edith Ferrall, of Greeleyville. One of our popular young men reeeiv ed on last Monday asa gift frovi a young e lady a black cat-not the magazine of that title, but the real four-legged fel ine. We trust that this appreciated do se nation will ever keep its presence h.- known by howling on Williams' new housetop at night. .* We feel'that; we owe an apology for 18mentioning Win. Millsapps in our let ae ters, but as he is aspiring to enter pol itics some day we tryv to favor him by Skeeping his name before the public. Clacious McFaddin, who ha been in 1bed for over eighteen weeks, is now able or to sit up, which we know is delightful tonews to. his many friends. ,. Quite a number of the Sardinia Knignts visited the Turbeville lodge L- last week to see their "William" put in or his bloody work on Messrs. Morris and te Livingston. UNCLE PIKE. 11l. Foley's Orino Laxative cures consti pation and liver trouble and makes the bownls healthy and regihai-. Orino is superior to pills and tablets as it doesJ nnot gripe or nauseate. Why take any es 1thing else. W. E. Brown & Co. Prescribes Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first used your Catarrh Cure in 0the case of my son. who had chronic naso-phar yngeal catarrh, with great benefit to him. I -often prescribe it for other of my patlehts, and I I think it is quite the flnest remedy for catarrh - that has ever been placed on the maret. . 13aThanking you ror past favors, I nm, Elloree, S. C. Dear sirs-Your medicine is -tinning 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 fairly tried. O-very truly .ous r, Lexington, Ky. Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy Is for sale by S- H. R. Boger. Manning, S. C. A month's treat r. ment for $1l.O0. A free sample for the asking. A postal card will bring It by maig. Notice. if I hereby forbid any one to hire, har utbor oc feed Matthen McCutchen, who is about 4 feet 9 inches -high, very black and weighs about 100 pounds. He is 16 nt years old and wore a black cap with ~r- 'black patent leather front when he left home. Any one knowing of his where abouts will confer a special favor by notifying me.ADM CUTHN as Brogdon, S. 0., February 8, 1909. SNollte Sole ol Pelsooul ProAelly. o- I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, at the residence of the late Nor 'man L. Carraway, deceased. on the 0- 19th day of Februarf next, the follow L' ing Personal Property: One small lot er corn: one mule; one lot of fodder: one se r- lot cotton seed: one wagon; one buggy; one lot blacksmith tools; lot farm imple 51 ments; 20 bee hives and one lot sweet J 1- potatoes h.DAVID E. GEDDINGS. 0 PaxvilleAdministrator. ~ PxilS. C., February 1, 1909. frm SHIELD YOURSELF s fro loss by Fire. Don't wait 'till af -. ter the Fire to give the matter your f consideratiou; now is the time to think f about it.. S FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES ~issured for very moderate rates. Reli 1 ability is the foundation of all our busi ness dealings. sjle F. N. ffIon l1suhahle All8n. . C. HOR2TON. Manager. Seed Potatoes! Seed Potatoes ! NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT IRISH COBBLERS AND RED BLISS. We have the finest Maine Seed you ever saw at 50c. per peck as cheap as the genuine article can be sold. Specializing as we have been for the past five years on high grade Garden and Field Seeds enables us to offer every year-to our host of customers throughout the county, We will also handle late varities of Seed Potatoes when the time for planting comes. Mingle with us on The Busy Block. Manning Grocery Co. This Space Belon t D. HIRSCHM iTTENTIteN tiwan and: Plow 1 a HI6H-6RADE FERTILIZERS For Cotton, Corn, Tobacco and al Crops Made from the highest grade materials'o Don't be induced to buy other fertij;s that you know nothing about becaus they are cheap. The Best are the Cheapest. You know it.-.stick to them. Manufactured by Etiwan Fertilizer Co,. Charleston, S. C A strictly Independent Factory, Insist upon your dealer providing you with ETIWAN and PLOW BRAND and then see how much better your crops are than your neighbor's. .ime. Cement. hingles. Laths. Building Material Generally. Wagons, Buggies, Harness Car Horses and Mules ~rrived January 30th. BOOTIHRBY IV STOCK CO, .SUMTER. S. C. BRING YOUR AJ OB W OR-KD~ TO THE TINES OFFICE.