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The bags are then tied tightly at the tops and pricked.all over with a sail needle to permit the oil to exude and are hung from the be:' davits and weather chains to drip their contents on the raging billows. The bags must not be allowed to get emp ty, but must be refilled every two hours. For six bags ten gallons of oil are used in thirty hours. Some times if it is very cold the oil congeals and will not run out through the holes fast enough. and the mouth of the bag Is then loosened to let it escape In that way. Its effect Is magical on a rough sea. A huge comber will arise, threatening to bury the laboring vessel under tons of water, but will strike a patch of oil -no larger than a common dining table and subside in an Instant into a smooth, round.. swell. which the ship rides like a cork. The use of oil is also a valuable aid In wearing ship in a gale and high seas, A few gallons of paint oil over the lee quarter enable the vessel to perform the maneuver in perfect safe ty without taking a drop of water on board. When a boat ships so much' water that it is impossible to get the, oil bags slung In position without run ning the risk of being swept over board an ordinary bed sheet saturated with paint oil tied to a rope and al l lowed to float will soon calm the seas sufficiently to. permit men to move about the decks safely. Paint oil is agreed to be the best to use. rape seed oil and porpoise oil rank next. but: kerosene is not satis:factory unless* mixed with some other oil.-New York Press. THE SUMMIT OF FUI. When Morning Breaks Over the Very Top of Japan. Suddenly a spark. a fame and then a burst of fire, and, lo and behold, the rosy morning is awake once more on Fuji's pearly crest while Japan, below, Is yet enveloped in the filmy mists of night. The pilgrims fall on their knees and i bow their heads to the ground in ado ration, and with much fingering of rosaries the plaintive cadence of their prayers rises like a lamentation to ths heavens above. At Benares, the sainted city of the Hindoos, as the sun rises each morn ing across the holy Ganges the pray ers of the bathing multitude are as the roaring of the sea. But even this, one of the greatest and most stirring religious spectacles of the world. is not more picturesque than that little band of pilgrims 'twixt heaven and earth, high up in the blue profound. on the very top of Japan, kneeling in praise before the great orb which Is the emblem of their empire. Never to have seen sunrise from the summit of Fuji is never to have really seen Japan. The kindly nature which made this* lovely land has surpassed all Its other efforts. In the lavish profusion with which It has scattered its favors. around the sacred mountain. Rippling rills and roaring rivers, dancing cas cades and thundering waterfalls, feathery woods and deep forests there are on every side, but of all these glories the most enchanting are the lakes which lie embosomed like flash ing jewels among the hills. Of them all Shoji and Motosu are the most beautiful. the latter excelling In the exquisite sapphire blue of Its waters and Its dainty, delicate beauty all other lakes in Japan and challeng ing comparison with the fairest wa ters of the world.--Herbert G. Ponting in Metropolitan Magazine. Gestures. "It will help actors in gesturing cor-! rectly," said a playwright. "to remem ber that all gesticulation is an inher Itance from our simian ancestors. We; show abhorrence best by the same movements with which we would re-' pel a wet dog. We show affection by the movements with which we would receive a loved phys'cal object. We move our heads fron'. side to side to signify 'no* because that was the way our monkey ancestors avoided a prof fered and undesirable morsel of food. We nod for 'yes' because that was the way our monkey forbears reached for an acceptable morsel." Her Lockout. "I must tell you the joke on me," said a business woman who "keeps bach" in a cunning little apartment. "Last week I invited two friends for1 luncheon. As I have just an hour at noon I got everything ready before I left In the morning that could be pre pared and set on the Ice. I made a lovely salad, a dessert, prepared for toasted muffins and tea and set my ta ble In all its glory, even buying some flowers for a centerpiece. My guests met me at the office and we went to the apartment. What do you think I had done? Left my keys inside and locked the door! "There was absolutely no way for us to get in. The janitor had a pass key, but he was away. All the windows on the fire escapes were locked, and no other key In the building fitted. There was nothing to do but take my guests to'a restaurant. Then I found that I had not even brought my purse from the office, never dreaming that I should need It. I had to ask my guests for money to pay for the luncheon, and, as It happened, they only had a quar ter each above their carfare. We went to the cheapest place we could find and had sandwiches and coffee. Wasn't that funny ?" - Philadelphia Ledger. A Card. This is to ceriify that all druggists are authorized to refund your money if] Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or cold. It stops the cough, I heals the lungs and prevents pneumon ia and consumption. Contains no opia tes. The genuine is in a yellow pack- I age. W. E. Brown & Co. All Ia the Mina. On the opening day of one winter session the late Professor Tait of Edin burgh university entered the natural philosophy class room In the midst of the uproarious applause common to those occasions. Presently he looked up at the tumul tuous benches above him with the smile of one who had known the ways of students for a lifetime. At last, when a momentary lull came, he re marked, his gray eyes twinkling: "Gentlemen, I must remind you that there is really no such thing as noise. it is merely a matter of sub lectiv ImnrsSnILn" WEBSTER AND CHOATE. | The Latter a Rapid Fire Maxim the Q Former a Thirteen Inch Gun. "Probably no educational institution in our country has ever graduated two a more eminent and eloquent lawyers fi than old Dartmouth college gave us tf in Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate," ti says a writer !n Our Dumb Animals. g< "It was my privilege as a member of the Suffolk bar to attend many years n ago the trial of one of the most im- E portant cases of the year in our su- s( preme judicial court at Boston. W "On the two sides were arrayed f, some half a dozen of our most emi- je nent lawyers. Daniel Webster and t Rufus Choate, as it happened, were on the same side. c< "A. hostile witness was put on by pi the other side, some of whose evidence o: was of the utmost importance to Web- al ster and Choate, if it could be ob- w tained, and Choate undertook the task %v of obtaining it. No man at our bar had more profound skill in cross ex- d] amination, and the. questions he - put s< to the witness were like the fire of a c M1axim gun, but in every instance he ct failed to get the evidence he wanted c< and finally sat down in despair. te "Then Webster, who had been sitting s In his great armchair, apparently about e half asleep, as though taking no inter- w est in the case whatever, slowly arose -A to his feet, put his great eyes on the di hostile witness, asked him in the most iU serious tone a single question and U1 brought instantly the required answer. Then as quietly he sat down and ap- tl parently went about half asleep agaiL b: It was a scene photographed on my ce mind, never to be forgotten. CZ "The difference between Webster cl and Choate cannot better be explained a: as it rests In my mind than to com- Si pare Choate to a Maxim gun raining bullets of eloquence wherever he. chose and Webster to a great gun that can l send out a thirteen inch shell to pene trate an ironclad. "It was wonderful to listen to Choate. I remember a case in which an ordinary lawyer would have sim ply said to the court that he. moved a bi postponement of the case because wit ness. So-and-so was sick, but in this case Choate arose and commenced by saying that his important witness was B on a bed of sickness and perhaps a bed of death and so went whirling up tr almost to the skies on this simple mo tion, to the great interest of every'body o that heard him. "Our- old chief justice, Judge Sha,w. one of the greatest lawyers of his time, was a plain, practical man, and looked. in his old age as he sat on the bench somewhat like a Chinese idol, and he used to frequently cut off Mr. hoate's eloquence by calling him back to the plain facts." .. - The Reconciliation. W The doctor was soon at the child's ar bedside. Remedies were administered; co then the agonized pair watched the fight for life-skill and vitality on one Bide, fierce disease on the other. When at last the struggle ceased, the gray w dawn of day was looking in at the to window. Life had won. The chil'd hi slept. st "She is all right now;" said the doc- si tor, shaking the man's hand, which ps bad gripped his, and feeling his heart wi ~row warm under the look of muteci ~rattude the woman turned upon in im. tb When he had gone the two stood er ide by side at the baby's crib, listen- dia ng to her regular breathing. Then. e vith one accord, they turned and kiss- w ed each other. And in that kiss the be ey barrier between them melted away. th -Atlanta Constitution. kr sk The French Guide Is a Public Post. pc Paris has produced a species which w: s the lowest embodimernt of sentient el eing. It is the "guide." The guide Is w: in evolutionary "throwback," a rever- ur ;on to type. You must go -deep into les he muck heap whence .the race has isen to find his prototype-back of he ape, back of the tiger, back of the : nouting hog, though he partakes of at he nature of all of these, to the dim sh ges when nameless troglodytes tread- jto 4d in cold lethargy the primardial nc slime. Somewhere In that category M elongs the Paris guide. Interminably de hese ghosts of dead decencies squeak ca td gibber in the streets of the city.- to Dollier's. n________ I; HE READ HIS MAN. st .lncoln's Rebuke to a Visitor Who Would Not Meet His Gaze. As 1 came up to the railing in front Md f the president he was reading a pa er that had just been presented to c lm by a man who sat in the chair ~pposite him and who seemed by his v estlessness and unsteady eye~s to be V f a nervous disposition or undir great to reiteent. en Mr. Lincoln., still holding the paper de p a-:d without movement of any kind. aused and, raising his eyes, looked or a long time at this man's face and ~eemed to be looking down into his ~ery soul. Then, resuming his reading If or a few moments, he again paused Ia rnd cast the same piercing 5ko upon a is visitor. Suddenly, without warning, he drop- t ed the paper, and, stretching out hisa ng arm, he pointed his finger directly th the face of his vis-a-vis and said. T What's the matter with you?" ra The man stammered and finally re- ro lled, "Nothing." a "Yes, there is," said Lincoln. "Youel ~an't look me In the face! You have mot looked me In the face since you at there! Even now you are looking ut that window and cannot look me f the eye!" bI Then, flinging the paper in the man's p ap, he cried: "Take it back! There is p omething wrong about this! I will fo ave nothing to do with It!" And the , iscofited individual retired.-T. B. th anroft In McClure's Magazine. ILived 152 Years Wmn. Parr-England's oldest man arried the third time at 120, worked 2 the fields until 132 and lived 20 years Dc ner. People should be youthful at uli . James Wright, of Spurlock, Ky., Wi os how to remain young. "I feel m<i ss like a 16-year-old boy," he wr-ites, hi 'afer taking six bottles of Electric Bit- Ec ers. For thirty years Kidney trouble Pl naae life a burden, but the first bottle at f this wonderful medicine convinced ne. I had found the greatest cure on ~arh." They're a godsend to weak, icly rundown or old people. Try hem. 50c at all druggists. fr A Hypcette. i1 Little Wimle--Say, pa, what Is a hyp- y4 crite? Pa--A hypocrite, amy son, Is el . man who publicly thanks the Lord ty o his success and then gets mad ev- y< ery time anybody insinuates that. he bt mainly responsible for It himsel-f. -Chicago News. Then He Wont. Mr. Saphedde--Enthiusism Is a fine W hng. Now, I am always being car- ~ red away by enthusiasm. Miss Caus tiue-Yes,. but the trouble-is it doesn't carry you far enough.-Philadelphia EARLY CARICATURES. uaint Art and Humor of the Anciei Egyptians. The fables of Aesop prove that tl icients were not Without a liking f< in, and the remains of ancient a 11 the same story. Examples of a ;tic humor are more common than mnerally supposed. A drawing on a tile in the New Yol useum represents a cat dressed as f gyptian woman of fashion. She ated languidly on a chair, sippir Ine out of a small bowl and belt uned and offered dainties by an a et looking tomcat with his tail b reen his legs. .Lhe cat figures largely in the anciei mic groups of animal life. In Lpyrus in the British museum a doc geese are being driven by a c. id a herd of goats by two wolvo Ith crooks and wallets. One of tl olves is playing a double pipe. There is in Turin a papyrus roll th: splays a whole series of such comic enes. In the first place, a lion, ocodile and an ape are giving a v .1 and instrumental concert. Ne: mes an ass dressed, armed and sce: red like a pharaoh. With majest agger he receives the gifts presen I to him by a cat of high degree, i hich a bull acts -as proud conducto lion and a gazelle are playing i aughts, a hippopotamus is perche a tree, and a hawk has climbed ini e tree and is trying to dislodge him Another picture shows a pharaoh J e shape of a rat drawn in a carriai prancing greyhounds. He Is pr eding to storm a fort garrisoned t ts having. no arms, but teeth aE iws. whereas the rats have battl :es, shields and bows and arrows.. Louis Republic. A R'ei6nabTe Eccuie. Bridget," said Mrs. Subbubs ster; "breakfast is half an hour lal ain." 'Yis, mim," -returned Bridget meel 'What excuse have you to offer )u know I told you that Mr. Sul bs must catch that early triln, an nctuality at breakfast is absolutel cessary," said the lady. 'Sure an' 01 overshlep' mesfif," sai dget. 'That is no excuse," said the mi. ass. "I gave you an alarm cloc ly yesterday." 01 know that, mim." Did you wind it up?' '01 did." 'And didn't it go off?" 'Sure an' it did that. It made a ta: )e n'ise." 'Then why didn't you get up?" Sure, mim," responded Bridget teaj fly, "it was that t'ing that's mad the throuble. 01 nIver shlep' nk all night waitin' for It to go of ' whin it did Of was that toired C ldn't move."-Harper's Weekly. To Cure Wrinkles. 'Look at a paralytic if you thiri -inkles incurable," said a beauty do t. "On the side be Is paralyzed a: wrinkles disappear. Though he b ty or seventy, his profile on tha le is the profile of a youth. So th ralytic shows us how to cure ou inkles-namely. by keeping our fi t muscles still. If we keep our face perfect repose, never laughing whe e comedian sings his best song. ne' weeping when wife or sweethear s. we will have no wrinkles wha1 er. The skin wouldn't wrinkle if re not exposed. The skin of th dy is much disturbed by action C a muscles underneath-as at th e, for instance-yet this unexpose In never wrinkles. Not being e: sed to the bad indluence of sun n .nd, it has not lost the oil and th isticity of childhood. And that 1ere I come in with my creams ani guents and massages." -New 01 ins Times-Democrat Taming Patti. Patti was to sing on a certain dat Bucharest but at the last momen e declined to leave Vienna. It wa y cold; snow everywhere; she woul, t risk catching her death of colt .Schurmann, the impresario, was I spair until a' brillant liispiratio me to him. Quickly he telegraphe the advance agent in the Roum: m capital: "At whatever cost Pati ist receive an ovation at Buchares Ltion from the Italian aristocrac: nd me by return the following wire be members of the Italian and Rot mian nobility are preparing to giv me. Patti a magnificent receptio: Le ministry will be represented. Prc ssions, torches and bands. Telf aph the hour of arrival.'" The ac nce agent carried out this instru< in, and when the telegram dictate him over the wires arrived in Vi na it was handed to Patti. with th sired effect. "How charming!" sh irmured. "What time do we start? His Wonderful Invention. Lustralia, as is well known, is it sted with rabbits, a most destructiv~ d multitudinous pest. Not ug ag man invented the following plan: Eou go out into the field from whic rabbits are to be removed. Yo w down a tree, and on the slant C stump you paint a black spo1 Len you keep very quiet, so that thn bbits will come back from their bit ws and feed as usual. When -ge enough number has collected yo p your hands sharply. The effet 1 be electric. The rabbits will jum haste for their burrows. At leas e is sure to mistake the black sp( Shis hole and make for it Invaris rhe will dash his brains out. Thi cess, repeated often enough, rranted to exterminate the rabbi he reports do not say whethe re are any rabbits left in AustraliL Kills to Stop the Fiend. ['he worst foe for 12 years of Jobn ye, of Giadwin, Mich., was a runnir fer. He paid doctors over 8400.4 thout benefit. Then Bucklen's A :a Salve killed the ulcer and cure n. Cures Fever-Sores, Boils, Felon zema, Salt Rheum. Infallible f< les, Burns, Scalds, Cuss, Corns. 24 all druggists. Evils of Tobacco. n illustration of the evils resultt om the use of tobacco ds found in ti 'e of a Georgia man of eighty-tm ars who has chewed since he w: even and is now the father of twel -five children. Cut out tobacc muig man.--Clio (Ala.) Free Press. Willing to Tay It. A fool and his money are soon par ,," quoted the pessimist. "Yes," rejoined the optimist, "but it orth while being a fool to have tl oney to part with."--Chicago News. Family Prescience. Nearly every family picks thevwror ember fo the oal.-Life. Human at Least. An American player who fulfilled several London engagements under the late Sir Henry Irving tells a story of a young man employed as the tragedian's dresser when Irving was the lessee of the Lyceum theater. The young fellow had been recommended for the place by Clarkson, the celebrated wigmak er. Irving was as exacting In matters of makeup as he was in everything else relating to stage equipment, and be succeeded in impressing Clarkson with a deep sense of responsibility. Shortly after his entering upon his ! new duties Clarkson calledMupon his former empioyee. As Clarason had noticed that he did not get as many orders for wigs from Irving as he for merly did, he had begun to suspect that the dresser was accountble. t "Are you making Sir Henry's wigs?", Clarkson demanded without prelimi nary. "Sometimes." it "Do you call that a wig?" sneered: the caller, pointing to an article on a the dressing table. "Do you mean to tell me that you believe that thing it looks at all like a wig?" "No. sir, I don't." hotly replied the e dresser, now considerably Irritated, S"but I do mean to say as how it looks like the 'air of the 'uman 'ead!"-St. r. Paul Pioneer Press. it Character of the Montenegrins. Nowhere is love of country more in . tense than among the Monfenegrins, to whom exile is the greatest of punish ments. When Mr. W. J. Stillman was there in the seventies all the free men y were away fighting, and be observed .I how, when a messenger was wanted. e- the official took a man out of the rnison -and sent him off, with no fear that he would not return. One such messenger was sent to Cattaro, in Austrian terri tory, with- 3,000 florins for the bank, and duly came back. Another asked a: Russian at Cattaro to intercede with Prince Nicholas for his release from prison. "But you are not In prison!" , said the Russian. "O':," said the man, "I have only come down for a load of d skins for So-and-so, but I must go y into prisori again when I get back to Cetinje." One guard watched all the d prisoners when they sunned them selves out of doors, and if he were y called away a prisoner would take his k rifle and do duty for the time.-London Chronicle. Heard at Breakfast. "I used to be a weather prophet in my home town," confided the new. boarder as he speared a potato with his fork. "Sh!" commented the comedian boarder laconically. "Yes, and every time I look at that a steak it reminds me of a winter's day." "How so?" 'Cold and raw." "Quite clever. How does the coffee strike you?" "That repinds me of a November day-cloudy and unsettled." L "Good. And do you notice that the,, e landlady is watching us?" t "Yes, and she reminds me of a March e day." r "Tell us why." "Because she is cold and stormy." And the look that the landlady passed down .to that end of the table would have congealed a redhot stove..-Chi cago News. - Lincoln's Speeches and Writings. tLincoln's great speeches are short. but how fit in expression, how packed; ewith meaning! Take, for example, the eone delivered to his friends on the eve of his departure for Washington. Like the second inaugural or the ad dress at Gettysburg. It contains no esuperfluous word. Every one fits into place as perfectly as the carpenter's braces and timbers into the completed building. As a writer, Mr. Lincoln was most painstaking. He sought always the simplest, shortest and best word. He e knew that the simplest and shortest' word usually is the best The real se-I cret of his greatness as a speaker and La writer, however, lay deeper. It was athe supreme greatness of his soul Swhich shone through his words that charmed and still charms the world. J l. A Edgerton. t Women Indispensable. "I'm the president of the Progressive Woman's league," said the spare fe male with stern features as she grab-! e bed the London bus conductor by thie -. sleeve and made him register over, again one of the fares he had just ~collected. "I can't help that, ma'am," replied the conductor in a rather short tone. ~"Nobody asked you to," she went on "I'm gathering statistics, and I spent e twopence just to get on this bus to in ,terview you. The statement has been made in some newspapers, in an at tempt to prove that our sex Is incapa ble of handling the reins of govern ment, that one woman gives more e trouble In a public conveyance than a Sdozen men." "Well, ma'am" b "Perhaps I'd better put it more a plainly." she said, interrupting him. S"Let me-ask you as a conductor, would -you find your work easier if no women eat all rode in the omnibuses?" -"It might be a little easier, ma'am," a he replIed. "but I don't see how in the a world we would ever get along with t out them." P "Hold on!" she cried joyfully. "Let tme write down every word you've* t said. Once more, I see, we will be Sable to silence our enemies. Now, my a good man, tell me why female passen-~ s gers are indispensable." t "Bcue ma'am," returned the con ductor, "if it wasn't for the women r we could never get rid of all the bad L money we happen to take." 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Y., writes: "Mv little girl was g-reatly ben etlitted by taking Foley's Orino Laxative Aad I think it is the best remedy for -o, tipation and liver trouble." Foley's Drino Laxative is best for women and hildren, as it is mild, pleasant and ef ective, and is a splendid spring medi :ine, as it cleanses the system and clears he complexion. W. E. Brown & Co. An Elixir of Life. "An annuity is the best elixir of life I know of," said the examining physi ean of an insurance company. "It sometimes seems as If annuitants never die. We have lots on our books who top eighty, ninety and even nine ty-five years. I have passed many a sickly and decrepit old fellow as a good annuity risk-the sicklier they are. you know. the better risk they ake-and the next year he has turn ed up to collect his annuity rejuvenat ed. rosy, spry as a boy. The secret? The secret Is that financia- worry, fear of the poorhouse, ages and kills off more peop)'e than all the deadly dis oases coibined. Release an old man by mean's of an annuity from all this worry, and he throws off his years and walks erect and happy and fearlessly young." CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Relative Hardness of Precious Stones. The relative hardness of various stones is easily determined by testing the power of one stone to make scratches on another. If a diamond Is rubbed with one of the points of a topaz, the topaz point is blunted and the mark which will be seen on the face of the diamond is only the dust of the topaz, which can be brushed off with the finger. But if the topaz is rubbed against the diamond the lat ter is unaltered and the surface of the former is marked with a scratch which can be removed only by fur ther polishing down. It is on the basis of this process of comparison that a scale of comparative hardness has been formed represented by ten sub stances. of which diamond is the high est and graphite the lowest in the scale. It is a curious fact that these two extremes of the scale. the brilliant and hard diamond and soft black graphite, are both chemically the same substance-pure carbon.-Jewelers' Cir cular. WINTHROP COLLEGE Scholarship and Entrance Examination. The examination for the award of acant Scholarships in Winthrop Vol ege and for the admi-ssion of new stud mts will be held at the County Court louse on Friday, July 2, at 9 a. m. Ap >licants must be not less than fifteen rears of age. When scholarships are racant after July 2, they will be awar led to those making the highest aver Lge at this examination, provided they neet the conditions governing the' ward Applicants for Scholarships hould write to President Johnson be ore the examination for Scholarship 1anks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free uition. Tbe next session will open september 15, 1909. For farlber infor nation and catalogue, address President D. 1B. Johnson, Rock Bill S. C. YOUR HOUSE. Lhen if fire comes you will be savec nny a worry and MANY A DOLLAR. n this age of the world when the pro :ection of a good Fire Insurance Policy osts so little, and the risk of tire is se reat. it is simply poor business to se misured. E. C. hORTON, Mana~.er.. We Ask You to take Cardui, for your-female troubles, because we are sure it wiE help you. Remember that this great female remedy has brought relief to thousamd of other sick women, so why not to you? For headache, backache, periodical pains, female weak ness, many have said it is 'the best medicine to take." Trylit! Sold in This City es Notice of Election. A Petition of one-third of the resi ent electors an d a like proportion of he resident free holders of the age of ~wenty-one years. within School Dis ~rit No. 19, having been filed with the andersitned Trustees of said School District praying for an election upon the question as to whether the said School District shall issue bonds to an .mount not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars, to build and equip a Graded School Building at Paxville: Notice is hereby given that an elec tion will be held at Paxville on Tues day, May 18th, 1909, to decide whether bonds in a sum not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars shall be issued or not. The poll will be opened at eight o'clock a. mn., and closed at four o'clock p. m. Managers of the election are J. M Hicks, E. Md. Bradham and J. D. Pack. In such election only the qualified electors residing in said School District shall be allowed to vote. Each elector must produce his rea istration certi'icate and his tax receipt for the year 1908. By Order of the Board, F. S. GEDDINGS, JT. W. MIMS, T. P BROWN, Trustees School District No. 19. Paxv~ille, S. C., May 3, 1909. .tOL~ tEYSouh aRdTARsu The Bank of Mahiiiiin1, Manning, S. C. Capital Stock.................. 40,000 Surplus.................... ... 40,000 Stockholders' Liability........ 40,000 Total Protection to Depositors. $120,000 PRESDENT e A LITTLE TALK with our Presidentor Cashier will soon convince you of the advisability of Banking with us. THE RESOURCES and connection of this Bank assure safe and profitable management of all your business. APPAREL SHOP FOR MEN AND LADIES Everything of the best for the personal wear and adorn ment of both sexes. We fill mail orders carefully. and promptly. DAVID OUTFITTING COMPANY, Charleston, S. U Eat and GrowFat FRESH MEATS AT ALL TIMES. EVERYTHING GOOD - TO EAT. Give us a Trial. Clark & Huggins, PUTING IN OPEN PLUMBJNG in place of the old enclosed plumbing that hid the germs of disease is what we are called upon continually now to; do. We will fit up-your bathroom ln; the latest modern fittings in tub, -wash bsio, foot tub and shower bath at fi-ures that will enable you to 'bave this luxury at a reasonable cost. R. fL. flASTERS, 27-129 King Street,'Charleston, S C AND LHOTN WIRULS ~6/ARANTEED 4SAT/SFACTORY - OR MONEV RER/NfDED. Arant's Drug Store.-~ DR. J. A. COLE. DENTIST, Upstairs over Bank of Mannin. MANNING, S. C. .Phone No '77. DR. J. FRANK GEIGER. DENTIST, MANNING, S. C. W. C. DAVIS. J. A. WEINBERG. D AV1S & WEINBERG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. ~Prompt attention given to collections. T H. LESESNE, ATTORNEIY AT .LAW, .MANNING, S. C. J MSWINWOODS, J.MCST~RNEY AT LAW, Manning, S. C. Office Over Levi's Store. a. o. PUaDr. s. oLivEa o'rY PURDY & O'BRYAN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, MANNING, S. C. rHARLTON DURANT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. 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