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In the early spring of 1848 occurred a natural phenomenon so strange, so sudden and so stupendous that the old er inhabitants of western New York still speak of it with awe and wonder. This phenomenon was nothing else than the running dry of Niagara falls. The story is seldom recounted now, but it was a nine days' wonder for the whole country when it appeared in the newspapers. FQr the first time in history the roar of the grandest cata ract in America was hushed. In the early morning of March 31, 1848, people living in the vicinity of the falls were awakened by a peculiar hush, as startling in its suddenness and intensity as the most thunderous explosion could have been. Many dressed and hastened outdoors, urged by a conviction that something appall ing had happened or was about to happen. Some thought the end of the world was at hand. Others imag ined that they had grown suddenly deaf. Still others thought that the hush preceding a terrific hurricane had fallen upon the air. ,All were oppress ed with a feeling of profound awe and dread. It was soon discovered, however, that the cessation of the roar of the falls was the sole cause of this com mon panic. As the dim light of early morning grew stronger the people were able to see the almost bare preci Pice of the falls, over which but a short time before thousands of tons of water had been pouring. Only here and there small streams, con stantly growing smaller, now trickled down the face of the towering wall. Above the falls, instead of the rush ing, foaming river, only a naked chan nel, studded with black and jagged rocks, appeared. The bed of the river was practically exposed from shore to shore, except for small streams, like mountain brooks, running slowly to the verge of the precipice. The spec tators could hardly believe their'eyes. Some remarkable feats were per formed on that day when Niagara ran dry. People walked from the Canadian side of the river, along the edge of the frightful precipice, nearly as far as Goat island on the American side and never even wet their feet. Some went xpinoring in the river bed above the 'a~is and discovered a number of ent gun barrels, lost probably by sportsmen up the river in long gone days and still after the rotting away of their stocks slowly forced down stream by the current. Caves and curious formations in the rocks were discovered, the existence of which had never been suspected before. All that day, March 31,1848, Niagara falls remained dry, and people who re mained up until late at night, expect ing to see a change, went to bed with out witnessing it. But in the early morning of April 1 the familiar thun der of the great cataract was once more heard, -and every one knew that the mysteriously drained river bed was again pouring its fidod over the falls. Now for the explanation of this strange phenomenon. It proved to be, after all, very simple. The winter of 1847 and 1848 had been one of extreme severity. Ice of such thickness had never been known as formed on Lake Erie that season. When the break-up came, toward the end of March, a strong northeast wind was blowing, which piled the great fields of Ice in floes and then in banks as high as miniature icebergs. Toward night on March 30) the wind suddenly changed to the opposite direction and increased to a terrific gale, which hurled back the piled up ice and drove it into the entrance of Niagara river with such force that a huge and almost impene trable dam was formed. For a whole day the source of the river was stop ped up, and the stream was drained of its supply. By the morning of the 31st the liver was practically dry, and thus for twenty-four hours the roar of Niagara falls was stifled. Then in the early morning of April 1 the ice pack gave way under the tremendous pressure from above, and the long re strained volume of water rushed down and reclaimed its own.-Ex change. _______ Few Beds -in Bagdad. About 60 per cent of Bagdad's pop elation possess no beds. These poor people rest on blankets spread on the floors of their houses in the winter and on the roofs in the summer. Owing to the excessive heat of these regions sleep is made impossible elsewhere than on the roof or in the open gar dens. It Is an interesting sight to see how the women at sunset emerge from their houses to prepare the evening meal on the roof and spread the bed ding for the night. Inasmuch as the climate Is very dry, there is little to fafrmexposure to the night air. Wieaconsiderable number of the roofs are surrounded by latticework to insure a certain amount of privacy, byfrtelarger number are quite ex pose tothegaze of curious and In quisitive neighbors. Learning without politeness makes a dsageealepedant. and politeness wihu earning makes a superficial, frivolous puppy.--Chesterfield. S"My three year old boy was badly constipated, had a;high fever and was in an awful condition. I gave him two doses of Foley's Orino Laxative and the netmring the fever was gone and he was ntielywell. Foley's Orino Laxa tive saved his life." A. Wolkush, Cas imer, Wis. W. E. Brown & Go. Gallantry, At a school in Aberdeen a teacher was exmining her class on the Bible, the lesson being a part of Genesis. The teacher asked her class, "Why did the serpent tempt Eve instead of Adam?" For some time there was silence, but at length a little boy held up his hand ansl replied, "Please, mum, 'cause it's ladies first."-Tit-Bits. The Real Thing. --3ow do youh possum taste, suh?" asked the solicitous waiter. "Well," responded the patron who had ordered the article, "It tastes pret ty good, but It isn't possum." S"No, suh," rejoined the waiter, "an' dat'sa si gn it's genuine. De genuine possum isa great pretender, suh; yas, suh."_Phiadelnhia TLedgter. SUPERSTITIONS. They wFind a Place In the Minds of . Even Great Men. A man more absolutely governed by pure reason than Lord Macaulay could riot well be found. But ir: his diary be refers to an after dinner talk ibout the feeling which Johnson had )f thinking oneself bound to touch a particular rail or post and to tread In the middle of a paving stone, and he idds, "I certainly have this very trongly." In one of his Eibbert lec tires Max Muller said to th e students: "Many of you, I suspect, cury a ha' penny with a hole in it for luck. I am aot ashamed to own that I have done ;o myself for many years." Charles Dickens refused lo lie down =nless his bed were placed due north md south. He gave notice of the rule before arriving at a friend's house or i hotel, but a compass was always bandy in his baggage to make sure. Uiss Justin McCarthy has told how Parnell gravely checked her stirring :offee "the- wrong way" and insisted that she should take another cup. A ;entleman of Portrush sent Lord Rob rts an old horseshoe when things ooked ill in South Africa. Gratefully icknowledging it, the general added :hat he would keep this horseshoe in :ompany "with one I picked up the lay I entered the Orange Free State ind another I found at Paardeburg "he day before General Cronje sur 'endered."-Pall Mall Gazette. BLUE EYED BAEIES. They Are the Favorites For Adoption Out of Orphan Asylums. "Every baby who expects to be idopted out of an orphan asylum ught to make-it a point of being born ith blue eyes," said an asy.um direct r. "That precaution will insure him i maximum of home comforts with a inimum of endeavor. Taere is no loubt that in an institutian of this dind blue eyed babies up for adoption ire more popular than the dark eyed oungsters. The brown eyed, black yed or gray eyed girl or boy may be ust as pretty, just as amia'ale, just as Ikely to achieve future eminence as :he blue eyed child, but It is hard to make benevolent auxiliaries of the tork believe so. In their opinion blue yes indicate special virtuet. "'I know he will turn out to be an xonest, reliable little fellow because he xas such heavenly blue eyes,' is the ay they explain their preference. "So on the strength of these 'heaven y blue eyes' the baby is chosen. The oun,;;ster will no doubt do justice to its bringing up, but it is hard for the hildren with eyes of another color to >e so discriminated against"-St. Lou s Post-Dispatch. As Smart as His Boy. When Sir Williain Gilbert was twen -y-seven and was known to the world is a promising writer, his father, who as a retired naval surgeon, wrote a ;emi-metaphysical, semi-medical book ?titled "Shirley Hall Asylum," his Irst book. Edith A. Brown, when preparing a >iography of the younger man, having eard that the son was the incentive "rom without, which spurred into ac Ion the inherent but dormant literary alent of the father, asked If such was he fact "Yes," replied the author of the Bab Ballads" and the wittiest libret os5 ever written. "I think the little uccess which had attended by hum 1e efforts certainly Influenced my ~ather. "You see," he added, with a suspi ion of a smile, "my father never had in exalted Idea of my ability. He -hought If I could write anybody rould, and forthwitlh he began." Antiquity of Death Masks. Although there Is no mention of leath masks In the works of Homer or n any of the later classics, modern ex lorers have satisfied themselves that n the early burials of all nations it was the custom to cover the heads and yodies of the dead with sheets of gold so pliable that they took the impress >f the form, and not infrequently, when in the course of cerituries the ~mblmed flesh had shriveled or fall m away, the gold retained the exact ast of the features. Schliemnann found . number of bodies "covered with arge masks of gold plate in repousse work," several of which have been re ,roduced by means of engraving in his 'Mycenae," and he asserts that there :an be no doubt whatever that each e of these represents the likeness of he deceased person whose'..aice It coy ared. Dickens Character-s. All those elements that disgust Mr. Pugh In Dickins, the clowning and :aricature, the preposterous figures md the practical jokes, Mr. Pickwick ettng into the wheelbarrow and rony Weller hardly getting into his waistcoat-all this Is simply the life md laughter of the actual English people. One has only to go down the Battersea park road on a Saturday ight to hear it.-G. K. Chesterton In [ondon News. Couldn't Fool Johnny. Widow Jones-How would my little ohnny like a new papa? Johnny (aged flve)-Oh, you needn't shove the responsibility on to me, ma! It isn't a new papa for me, but a new hus band for yourself, that yoc. are think ing of.-Boston Transcript Our Helpful Maids. Louise-I'm In an awful boat. After [ started to bleach my hat- I found I bad only enough to do haif of it, and ielson Is coming tonight Julia-Nev er mind, dear. Let him sit on the perox-se-Harper's Bazar. Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any ise of kidney or bladder trouble that s not b~eyond the reach of medicine. ures backache and irregularities that f netlected might result in Bright's iseae or diabetes. W. E. Brown & Co. .Doing Double Du':y. "It was one of those sleepy, one horse, back water towns, like Squash," saId a congressman, describing at a Hot Springs dinner a town that he dis liked. "Squash is the limit. A gentleman arrived there the other day and want ed a hair cut. He found the barber shop and, after shaking the barber vigorously, managed to awaken him. "'How long will it take you to cut my hair, barber?' he asked. "'Not long, boss,' said th e barber. "And he rose, yawned and stretched himself. Then he called upstairs to his wife: "'Hey, send the kid down to the newspaper office to tell the editor I want my scissors just as s;oon as he's done editin' the paper. There's a gent here waitin' for a hair cut.' "-Wash STILT. WALKING. In Some Parts of France It Is an Ab solute Necessity. In some parts of the world, partic ularly in the low districts of France, I P stilt walking Is a necessity. In Gas cony there are great level plains cov ered with stunted bushes of dry heath. These waste lands have a soil that is so permeable, s( soft and yield ing, that the slightest fall of rain makes them practically impassable by ordinary methods of pedestrianism I But these wastes must be traversed! at all seasons by the poor people of h .Gascony, and necessity has according ly made the Gascons a stilt walking people, and men, women and children 0 may be seen at all seasons of the year sE stuck upon high stilts, trudging C through the waste lands, carrying bas- o kets, bundles and the like. The stilts T used are about five feet long and often 0 longer. The shepherds of Landes all go on a, stilts. The shepherd is provided with w a stout staff that answers for many d purposes. At the proper place in the d staff is a flap, which makes a com- c( fortable seat when turned down. On ti this the shepherd quietly sits and 0 watches his flock, and while he sits up there he knits or spins with a dis taff thrust in his girdle. The Landes stilt walker can do mar- - velous things with these five foot leg extensions. He can run with a speed that will tax a horse, pick up a pebble or pluck a flewer as the cowboy reaches to the earth from his pony, and he can drop to the ground level and L regain the perpendicular as quickly as a boy can turn a handspring.-Chicago - News. WRECKED VESSELS. a J Difficulties That Beset the Werk of the Salvers. J What it means to salve a wreck is n something that few outside of prac- ti tical seamen can properly appreciate. F The wreck is -, ponderous, unwieldy a mountain of steel and oak. weighing 4 between 3,000 and 12,000 tons, often le dangerous for any vessel to approach, d and this must be lifted bodily and b floated from the decks of pitching, pn- si stable scows and barges. The wreck may be submerged beneath fifteen or " thirty' feet, of water and so stove in i that divers must go down and effect temporary repairs before It can be raised. - It may be a wreck so shat- tl tered that it is not worth raising, so it that the wrecker's work consists mere- i ly in blowing up the hulk and re- 0 moving It as a menace to navigation. ss Or the vessel may be fairly intact, but sunk too deep to make attempt at b raising advisable, the wrecker's work consisting in salving valuable cargo. Often the wreck is one not submerged at all. A ship may have run on to a reef, where it lies, nose on a crag and - stern afloat, rising and falling on the ocean swell, pounding, poundin'g and S pounding until the very ocean bottom drones and she is gradually broken-to pieces. Or, again, the wreck may be that of a steamer which has pointed its nose shoreward in a fog, finding a T beach, plowing a furrow through the yielding sand and never coming to a halt until it Is stuck fast all but high and dry, a helpless victim to the next J storm that comes screeching up the coast to pile breakers against her and J crowd her even higher upon the beach. C -Appleton's. Failure of a College Education.r "Well," observed old man *Potts, ' "I've spent a heap of money on my I boy Bill's education, more'n $900, jest s to see him through Yale, and I ain't A through yet It shorely makes me 14 sore to think of the money I'm wast in' on a boy who ain't got as muchd sense now as he had before he went to college." 1 "What's the matter, father?" asked o Mrs. Potts. "Mebbe you're a little t hard on Bill." "No, I ain't, Mary," answered the s old man. "Just to show you, a little while ago I says to him I thinks it was going to rain tomorrow. What C fool answer d'ye suppose he made t me? 'Tm sure I don't know, father.". "He begged my pardon!"-Harper's Weekly. '_______ A Case of Urgent Need. - 1 It was in the hotel o'f a mlndng town that the New England guest, register ing in the office, heard a succession of loud yells. "What in the world is thata a murder going on upstairs?" he de manded. "No," said the clerk as he slammed the book and lounged toward the stairs. "It's the spring bed up in No. 5. That tenderfoot up there don't get the hang of It, and every few days he gets one of the spiral springs screwed' into him like a shirt stud. I guess I'll - have to go up if there ain't anythIng 0 morelcan do for you for afew min utes."-Youth's Companion-. a A Sever. Sense. a Grateful Mother-Oh, are you the no ble young man who rescued my daugh-2 ter from a watery grave? Nobler Young Man (who is truly modest)-Yes, madam, but I assure you I only did it 1: from a sense of duty.-Exchange. 0 Her First Chance. "How long has she been talking to the crowd?" "Two hours." "Why doesn't she stop?' "Stop! Why, this is her first chance!" --Cleveland Plain Dealer. ] Boots to Suit Arctic Tastes. Shoe Dealer-Here is a pair of boots that will suit you exactly In your next dash for the pole. How did you like c the last pair I sold you? Arctic Ex- E plorer (reminiscently)-The best I ever tasted.-Chicago News. Near Death in Big l'ond. It was a thrilling experience to Mrs. Ida Soper to face death. "For years a i severe lung trouble gave me intense suffering," she writes, "and several times nearly caused my death. All rem edies failed and doctors said I was in curable. Then Dr. King's New Discov erv brough quick relief and a cure so permanent that I have not been trou bled in twelve years." Mrs. Soper lives in Big Pond, Pa. It works wonders in . Coughs and Colds. Sore Lungs. Hemorr hages, LaGrippe, Asthma, Croup, Whooping Coug h and all Bronchial af fections. 50c and 31 00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Dr. W. E. Brown & Co., and J. E. Arant.1 Fat Singers-Why? A medical gentleman. writing In Comloedia, eyplains that the physical massiveness of the majority of famous singers comes mainly from abnormal development of the lungs. We must confess that we had been under the impression that it was due to a lauda ble effort to make grand opera amus ing.-Puinch. *He who foresees calamities suffers tm twice over.-Porteous. TRIED9 TO BE JOCOSE1 Snicker Was In a Jovial Mood and Hungry as Well. BUT HE SPOILED HIS MEAL. 'By the Time He Managed to Order His Breakfast the Glow of Genial Good Humor He Tried to Shed Around Him Had Turned to Gloom. Mr. Snicker is well known in his home town as the most facetious man In seventeen counties. His method of expressing what ideas he has is en tirely along lines of pure jocosity, but now and-then his wit falls upon unap preciative ears. On a recent visit to New York Mr. Snioker arrived rather early in the morning, and the pangs of hunger would brook so little delay that he went immediately upon his arrival to a prominent hotel in the vicinity of the station for his break fast. "Good morning, Henri," he chortled In his usual salubrious manner to the waiter as the latter hung his hat on a book over his table. "Has the butcher come yet?" "Ze what, sir?" asked the waiter, with a puzzled look on his face, for he was not used to Snickers. "The butcher," said Snicker, with a merry wink in his left eye. "You know -the chap who brings the food. I thoughi: perha " "Wait one r .at, sir," said the waiter, his perpse ity growing deeper. "I will bring ze head waiter, sir." "Oh, never mfind," Snicker began, but the waiter had departed to return in about three minutes with the head waiter. "What is it, sir?" asked the latter, with a great show of civil interest. "Oh, nothing," returned Snicker rather sheepishly. "I just asked Henri here If the butcher had arrived yet, fearing that possibly" "The butcher, sir?" repeated the head waiter, like his subordinate, very much mystified. "Yes," said Snicker, ,with a faint smile. which he hoped the head waiter would find contagious. "I was only jok" "Wait till I find ze superintendent," said the head waiter courteously. "I have no doubt we can accommodate monsieur if we can only find out what it is that he wants. I will send for him." Snicker again started in to explain the mere facetious bearing of his in quiry, but the head waiter, too, had sped away in search of a superior offi cer who might be expected to be equal to this new and unexpected emer gency. Several omnibus boys and Snicker's waiter as well were dispatched to the kitchen and elsewhere to find him, but apparently without success. Five, ten, fifteen minutes elapsed, and Snicker began to feel that it did not -really pay to be as funny as he could under all circumstances. Finally, however, the head waiter returned and courteously .explained that the superintendent had not yet arrived at his post of duty, but that he had telephoned up to the office for the manager of the hotel, who, 'he assured him, would be down in a very few mo mets. "He Is rather busy at this time of the morning, sir," he vouchsafed, "but he said he would be down right away." "Well, rm sorry," said Snicker rue fully. "You'd better head him off ig you can. You see, when I asked if the butcher had come yet, it was only meant as a joke" "Ah, here is the .manager," inter ripted the head waiter as a tall, Im pressive gentleman with a majestic front loomed up in the dining room door and made his way across to Snicker's table. "'This Is the gentle man, 'Mr. Pingletoni," the head waiter added when the manager had reached Snicker's side. "Good morning, sir," said the man ager breezily. "I hope there is no trouble, sir. I am sorry to have kept you waiting, but this is the busy end of the day with me getting things started along, and our dining room su perintedent, I regret .to say, is off duty this morning. What can we do for you, sir?" "I-I--want a' hard boiled egg and some Lyonnaise potatoes," said Snick er.Tohn Kendrick Bangs in Lippin cott's Magazine. Cats Disguised as Snakes. "Do you know why a cat hisses when in rage or danger?" said a na ture student. "Well, sir, she hisses as a fying criminal puts on blue goggles and a false beard. With that hiss she tries instinctively to disguise herself s a snake. "Did you ever notice the markings on a cat's tail? They are transverse, like a snake's markings. The primi tive cat in the wild state lived in rath er tall grass. When danger approach ed he hissed and at the same time put up his tail and waved it slowly- The oncomer heard that serpentine hiss. He saw the tail, and only the tail, which waved in an ominous, serpen tine manner. .He said 'snake in the grass' and withdrew. "The cat of today, hissing horribly and waving to and fro his erected tail, follows ancestral precedent. It helps ilm not at all; nevertheless he always does it, thinking it the right thing. Is not man sometimes like the cat in this respect?" ________ A laugh costs too much If it is bought at the expense of propriety. Quintillian. The Lurid Glow of Doom was seen in the red face, hands and body of the little son of H. M. Adams of Henrietta, Pa. His awful plight from eczema had. for five years, defied all remedies and baffled the best doctors, who said the poisoned blood had affect ed his lungs and nothing could save him. "But," writes his mother' "sever bottles of Electric Bitters completely cured him." For Eruptions' Eczema. Salt Rheum, Sores and all Blood' Disor ders and Rheumatism Electric Bitter5 is supreme. Only 50c. Guaranteed by Dr. W. E. Brown & Co.. and J. E. Arant High Art. "Are you blind, prisoner?'' inquirec the magistrate. "Yes, your worship." "You are charged with vagrancy How did you lose your sight?" "By a fit of appleplexy, sir." "But there is a picture on you breast representing an explosion in mine, through which, it is stated, yoi became blind. How is this?" "Please, your worship, I couldn't af ford to pay a hartist as could paint ap piepiex."-ndnn Answers. 'he State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. C hillis Charles in her own right and S as Guardian ad litem for Anthram S Charles: Maybell DuPre. and Henzy DuPre, Minors, Plaintiffs against earson Charles, Vangilist Charles, Willis Charles, Arthur Charles, Sam Henry Charles, and Annie DuPre, Defendants. o the Defendants, Willie Charles and Arthur Charles: Please take notice that you are reby Summoned and required to swer the Complaint in this action, copy of which is filed in the Clerk's ffee for Clarendon County, and to rve a copy of your answer to said omplaint on the subscriber at his Tee in Manning, S. C., within wenty days after the service here , exclusive of the day of such rvice, and if you fail to answer id Complaint within the time oresaid, the Plaintiff in this action ill apply to the Court for the relief amanded in the complaint, and the afendant will take notice that the ' >mplaint in said action was filed in o ie office of the Clerk of said Court ] a the first day of March, 1909. J. M. WOODS, Plaintiffs' Attorney. Manning, S. C., March 18, A. D. a 109. b TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Clarendon. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. evi Mercantile Company, Plaintiff I against esley Miller, Williamsburg Live Stock Company, and John S. Wil- I son as Administrator of S. M. Nex sen, deceased, Defendants. dgment for Foreclosure and Sale. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A udgment Order of the Court of Com ion Pleas, in the above stated ac on, to me directed, bearing date of ebroary 19, 1909, I will sell at public ction, to the highest bidder for sh, at Clarendon Court House, at :anning, in said county, within the gal hours for judicial sales, on Mon y, the 5th day of Aprily, 1909, ing salesday, the following de ribed real estate: "All my right, title and interest of, and to all that piece, parcel or act of land lying, being and situate the County of Clarendon, in the tate aforesaid, containing forty-two / 2) acres, more or less, and also all iat parcel or tract of land situate said County and State containsing teen (15) acres, more or -less, both said tracts of land having the. me boundries as follows, to wit: - orth by lands of Ben Lemon; East y lands of Estate of J. J. Frierson; outh by lands of Nias, Miller, and Test by the Quackenbush lands." Purchaser to pay for papers. E. B. GAMBLE, Sheriff Clarendon County. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Clarendon County. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. he Sumter Savings Bank, Plaintiff - against .P. Roland and D. M. Green, De fendants. udgment for Foreclosure and Sale. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A udginent Order of the Court of ommon Pleas, in the above stated etion, to me directed, bearing date 'ebruary 19th, 1909, I will sell at ublic auction, to the highest bid. er for cash, at Clarendon Court [ouse, at Manning, in said county, ithin the legal hours for judicial ties, on Monday, the 5th day of pril, 1909, being salesday, the fol >wing described real estate: "All that tract of land in Claren on County, in said State, lying on be East side of Pudding Swamp, antaining fiftpysix acres, more or is, bounded on the North by land f R. R. Tonmlinson; East by land of he Estate of Robertson; South by nd of Green. and West by the said wamp." ALO That other parcel of land in said t ounty and State, containing forty- ~ wo acres, more or less, bounded on d be North by land of R. R. Tomlin- t n, East by S. C. Turbeville, and 1: oth and West by land of the Estate f f Robertson. Said land being more t lly represented on a plat made by amuel Tomlinson, dated November Purchaser to pay for papers. I E. B. GAM1sLE, Sheriff Clarendon County. tate of South Carolina, Clarendon County. yJames M. Windhamn, Esq., Probatd Judge. HEREAS, Malachi Cantey made I suit to me. to grant him Letters of ministration of the Estate and Effects f James Cantey. These are therefore to cite and ad ionish all and singular the kindred nd creditors of the said James antey, deceased, that they be and ppear before me, in the Court of Pro ate, to be held at Manning on the 5th day of March next, after publica Lon thereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore oon, to show cause, if any they have, rhy the said administration should not e granted. Given under my hand, this 8th day f March, A. D. 1909. JAMES M. WINDRAM, [SEAL.] Judge of Probate. ITATE OF SOUTH CARGLINA, County of Clarendon. y James M. Windham, Esq., .Tudge of Probate. IIHEREAS, Henry M. Mimns made I suit to me to grant him Letters Administration of the estate and* ifets of George B. Mimis. These are therefore to cite and ad onish all and singular the kindred ,nd creditors of the said George B. urs, deceased, that they be and .ppear before me,in the Court of Pro iate', to be held at Manning, S. C., on he 25th day of March next, after >ublication hereof, at 11 o'clock in he forenoon, to show cause, if any( hey have, why the said administra ion should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 9th lay of March, A. D. 1909. JAMES M. WINDHAM, [SEAL.1 Judge of Probate. Prescribes Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first used your Catarrh Cure in he case ot my son, who had chronic naso-phar ngeal catarrh, with great benefit to him. I. rten prescribe it for other of my patients, and think it is quite the finest remedy for catarrh I hat has ever been placed on the market. Thanking you ror past favors, I am, y yDloree, S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is wcinning fast in his country. It has effected some remarkable ures. I do not iKnow that It has failed in one nstance where it has been falriy tried. Very truly yours, Lexington, Ky. Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy is for sale by I. R. Boger. Manning. S. C. A month's treat nent for s1.00. A free sample for the asking. E postal card will bring it by mail. uckten's Arnica Salve The Dest Salve la The World. lhe Bank of Manning, Manning, S. C. apital Stokk................. 840,000. urplus... 40,000 ockholders' Liability........ 40,000 otal Protection to Depositors. $12.000 RESIDENT A LITTLE TALK ith our President or Cashier will soon )nvince you of the advisability of akpking with us. THE RESOURCES 2d connection of this Bank assure safe :id profitable management of all your siness. kPPAREL SHOP OR MEN kND LADIES Everything of the best for the personal wear and adorn, ment of both sexes. We flU mail orders carefully and promptly. )AVID )UTFITTING OMPANY, Charleston,. 2at andGrw FRESE MEATS AT ALL TIMES. ' EVERYTHINGGOOD TO EAT., ive us a Trial. Slark & Huggrs PUTTING IN OPEN PLUMBJN( 1place of the old enclosed plumbing at hid the. germs of. disease is what e are called upon continually now~to o. We. willifit .up your bathroom' in te latest modern fittings in tub,'wash - asn foot tub' and shower batha cures. that will enable you to have Liis luxury at a reasonable cost. R. n ATES 27129 King Street, Charlesto, ScC KU LTHCOUGI4 ADCURE1EIANOS nDR.KMNG'SM ANALIREAND WUNGTROUDIES OR MONE VR.DNDED. Arant's DrugStore. )R. J. A. COLE, DENTIST, Upstairs over Bank of Manning. MANNING, S. C. Phone No '77. )R. 5. FRANK GEIGER. DENTIST, MANNING, S. C: w. C. DAVIS. J. A. WEINBERG. )AVlS & WEINBERG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Promptattention given to collections. JH. LESESNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. McW OODS, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Manning, S. C. Office Over Levi's Store. . 0. PUEDY. - S. O.IvSR o'BRT URDY & O'BRYAN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, o MAiNNING, S. C. ~HARLTON DURANT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ,MANNING, S. C. (OldSKIUETCURE as Kidony and Blnddege Right