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The nxtdayte amn ookth cuan rod then animpanor tri i hardefrt sond streh himlf cmounahmnly rdrond uplon th won d the horse breky hindg very sened apo bis woden.tks rv thm sepad hm ho het o at arnd th-eenan "misut thenou bys tens' o te rpe rseded iml down sel, day wtitheeralegsrong btake and panr one son.e anf took ate bttegecherana sdt wlrg e shold. adloning ofham.an w+ate witdingah ftred ays aond the nmh, hieer seg ttig his baket fon ostthe -the gmeen sodigs. ipeou sTyhn hos aevectayin the owin chnb him-idr cnidstirk onInh fcus fe iASTORIA For Infans a=d Chlden. 'he Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Bignature of In Use For Over Thirty Years ;ASTORIA YOUR VORK ES OFFICE. REAL THREAD OF UFE. A Tiny Wisp of Tissue Imbedded Ia the Heart's Walls. According to tradition, it was Atro pos, the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, who slit the thin spun life, and many of Milton's readers may have wondered whether there was au thread In the anatomy of man the severance of which would be Immedi ately fatal. Injuries to the brain and heart, In both of which the principle of life has been supposeu to reside, may be survived for shorter or longex pedods; but. as an article by Dr. C. E Lea reminds us. physiologists have o1 late years discovered a nerve or bun die of nerves which might well be de scrdbed as the thread of life. One of he developing sciences of our time Is cardiography, the science of the heart beat. The heart, as most people are aware, is divided Into auricles and ventricles. The ventricles are the pumping chambers; the auricles are the collectng chambers of the blood and, like the stroke of:a raeing eight set the rhythm of the heart beat. A little instrument caned the sphygtno gaph is placed on the wrist pulse and magnifies its movements and traces them with a recording pen in a zigzag carve, teflhig the observer what the yen trieles are doing. Another instrument the polygraph, placed on the jugular, records the more delicate vibrations of the auriele. With the aid of these two instrtunents the physician can find what all tbe four chambers of the henri are elng. Now, the auricular con traction acts as a stimulant or start g shock to the ventricular contrae. in. Most stimuli are conveyed alone aves. Therefore'-a little nerve Ia the heart to act as a telegraph wire between andecle and ventricle was tc be espected. Such a thing has beer foud by physlologists; but, rather thar a nieve, It is a specinlied snsietive pots ~of the heart muscle itself. It isa wipof tissue not an Inch long and only one-twelfth of an Inch tlck On this delicate communicating wisp aDed the aurienlo ventrienlar bundle hags eziteuce itself Evolution has asged that it shall be so small and noheltezed In posltion in the heart thai 1 is rarely damaged even by large In eed then the ventricles must stop and Mig must instantandoul cease.--Lon One For the Minister. An old miznister in the south side of Glasgow who was noted for his habit of dishing up old sermons again and again was one day advertised to preach in a suburban church at the annivrsry service there. An old wo man who In days gone by had sat un de his ministry, but who bad now ro. moed from his neighborhood. deter wand to go In and hear him preach on this particular occasion. After the close of the service she waited on the ceryman, who greeted' her cordially and aseda what she thought of his dis course. "E?h. man." she replied can didly, "it's a lang time sin' I first beard ye preach that yin, sir, and I'ye heard ye at it a gold wheen o' times sin' syne." "Aye, Janet." said the minister. "How often do ye think ye've heard it na" "Oh, aboot a dizzen o' times, sir" she replied. "An' div .se mind it aT'" said the minister. "Awee. maybe no' it a'. sir." "WeeL I see I'll need to prach it to ye again. Janet." said the minister, and Janet felt that she had been sold for once. Settled a Great Question. When Thoasm H. Benton was in the ose he was of the opinion that the 3d day of March and consequently the congressional term ended at midnight of that day instead of at noon on the 4th, as unbroken usage had fixed It. So on the last morning he sat with his hat on, talked loudly, loafed about the toor and fiany refused t'. vote oi answer to his name when the rol was called. At last the speaker, the Hon. James L. Orr of South Carolina, picked him up and put an end to these legislative larks. "No, sir; no, sir; no, sir'" shouted the venerable Missourlan. "I will noi vote. I have no right to vote. This is no house. and I am not a member o1 "Then, sir," said Speaker Or? like a flash, with his sweetest manner. "if the gentleman is not a member of this house the sergeant at arms will I~ease put him out." And so this vast constitutional ques LIFE iN MEXICO. Where They Ba $be Windows and Leave tho Doors Open. The City of Mexico swarms with life. yet it is still life. It is the hour of the siesta when you arrive and the streets are deserted of moving things, though every darkened doorway Iossesses Its own colony of slumberers who have east themselves down where they stood to sleep away the heat laden hours when no man works. Even the very Jogs slink into the shadow of the dazzling walls and loll pitifully. The tinkle of mule bells Is hushed. The cry of the muleteer sounds no longer. To walk through these streets with im 1'crious foot, after the British fashion, seems sacrilege. One might be walk 'ag threugh a city of the dead. But the hot hours pass. the city awakens, the mules strain and plunge at the collar, the dogs prowl about be tween the legs of those who pass. the shops are opened, the scent of garlic saturated cookery rises strongly. man tilla shrouded faces peep from ancient tasemates protected by massive iron bars, and the city of sleep becomes a city of leisurely wakefulness. You no tice these barred casemates particular ly. They are a feature of Mexico. Householders bar the windows and leave the doors unfastened, and here you have an epitome of Mexican char acter: Do nothing openly, everythina on the sly, even to wooing your lady love. You might spend a long lifetime in the City of Mexico and still leave much unseen, there are so many fen tures to note-the actual city life, the life beyond those jealously guarded windows. the life lived in the flower scented patios where cooling fountains play with musical softness. Here comes a vaquero riding nonchalantly up the street. a typical product of Mexico, a cattle hand from one of the outlying ranches, a perfect fury un chnined when the liquor of the coun try is in him, a gentle, dreamy child when the liquor has evaporated, and yet between the two events he might have committed a dozen murders with out the slightest compunction. His swarthy face Is allght with merry laughter. His earrings sparkle in the declining sun. The gay trappings of his manifcent horse fling back daz zling specks of color. In his cha parajos (those fringed overalls which protect the speckless white riding breeches from the dust of the way). his bell buttoned jacket, his sombrero, with the haft of a machete protruding from his crimson sash, he might be a hero of old legend instead of a com monplace cowboy.-Frank H. Shaw in Chmbers' Jounal THE PRICE OF GENIUS. What It Means to Man to Be a Pioneer In Thought. To be a pioneer in thought is to stand alone with nature, not for a few minutes, but for life. The isolateness of the few great minds of each gen eration of men is utterly undreamed of, for want of understanding, by those about them. Yet think what it is to pass one's days in a thought world where the thinker roams alone: to ;rapple with problems the very terms of which are beyond ordinary comprehension and the solution appre dlated only in years to come; to con template In lonely ecstasy, after still lonelier despair, the revelation that comes with mouths and more of pon dering. When somt one asked New ton how he came to make his wonder ful discoveries he replied. -Simply by always thinking about them." Consid er Kepler toilng year after year fruit lessly for some ratio that shoulid lick the planet's motionis by a general law, calculating assiduously and putting hypothesis after hypothesis aside as he found It would not work until at last after almost inconceivable toil, he bit upon the one that would. As if this loneliness by nature were not enough. It must needs be accen tuted by man, for he rises In such cases In chorus to condemn. Consider Darwin. in patient study, testing tlhe working out of natural selection and. adding fact to fact, only to have the whole denounced as ridiculously ab sakl Think you the denunciations of the master while living are wholly compensated by the plaudits after he Is dead? The loznelness of greatness is the price men make the genius pay for posthumous renown.-P'ercivat Lowell In Atlantic. ThE COOK'S FAULT. No Wonderethe Bird Was Not Tender When Served. One of the most annoying things about swans is that they live to an extremely great age and that It is Impossible for- the ordinary observer to guess what their years may be. President Grover Cleveland .once h'a an amusing experience with .. swans, according to a writer In tne American Magn-rine. He had been in the south shooting and brought home a number of wild swans. one of which he sent to- each member of his cabi net and to some other associates. "All the boys," said Mr. Cleveland. "thanked me politely for having re membered them, but none of them seemed to have much to say about how they enjoyed the birds -r'nisle, I found. had his cooked on a night when he was dining out. Another, when I asked him. said he hoped I wouldn't mind. but be had sent his home to his old mother. Thur ber didn't mention his bLrd at all for two days. Finally I asked him about "Thurber. did you get that swan all right? "'Yes, sir-h, yes. I got the swan al right, thnk you,' and he beat over his desk and seemed very busy. "'Fine bird.' I said. "'Yes, sir. fine bird.' and he went on woninge "'1njoy eating him, Thurber? "He waited a minute. and then he said: 'Well, sir. I guess they didn't cook him right at my house. They cooked him only two days.' And he went on working without cracking a sm le." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ediblo Flowers of India. Many edible flowers, it appears, are to be found in Ina.n One of the most appreciated grows on a tree about which we have very little Information, but which in the country Itself Is named the -'mhowad.'' The natives consume an enormous number of these lowers, whose pale yellow corollae are pulpy and thick, and they prepare them in various ways. When they are fresh they are put in cakes- to which they give ' a sweet flavor. but they are more especially used for making bread after they have been dried and reduced to flour. By allowing them to ferment a kind of wine Is produced, and by distilling theni a brandy Is obtained of which i-doos are very fond.--Milearisa. MANNiNG THE STATIONS. Discipline Aboard Ship at Sea In Times of Emergency. At 11o tine is the perfect organiza tion atboard ship so well Illustrated as in the Otme of an emergency. The slightest scent of darager In the wind must find every man ready. And every man is ready. Every man has a number. Every man has a station. A bell tap may send your dining room steward off at a run just wheu he IsI serving your soup. At the bell tap he is no longer your steward. le is' "No. #S" In the ship's emergency or ganization. and when he gets to hisI station he finds Nos. 5, 4i. 23G. 11. 24S and some others there to act with him like a machine. Aboard a big ship there are sometimes as many as sixty stations about the vessel, and at the sound of an alarm bell thirty see onds have not elapsed before every man has responded to his number at I his station a:d is ready to act. to fight fire, to man the lifeboats. or what not Up in the wheelhouse is further ex emplifination of what system will do. Within reach of the officers are a dozen contrivances of machinery that connect with every part of the ship. A touch of one lever closes a bulk head in this or that compartment of the hold. a touch of another mans all emergency stations, a lever here mans lifeboat so-and-so. and a lever there mans any one or alL Here is a tele-I phone. Its wires extending to everyI part of the ship. and an officer's voice carried to a distance station In the bowels of the ship Is so magnified by mechanical means that it can be heard twenty feet from the receiver and fairly bellows Its orders. A sailor or steward never knows at what minute. day or night. he may be called to his station. At the sound of the signal bell he must be at his post. There is a drill of some kind every day aboard ship. but the men never. know whether they are running to a reel re or only a drill. Boats are un covered. falls overhauled. davits swung out. Every boat must have its com pass, night signals. fresh water and provisions ready for immediate action. Prom the chart room the captain can start a squad in the most remote part of the ship simply by pressing a but ton, and the flashing of tiny electric lights faithfully record how every de tal of the drill is being carried out A chart gives the location of all bulk heads. and a tiny light sparkles when this or that water tight compartment is closed. In case of a colision every bulkhead below the water line is closed by a turn of a lover in the wheelhouse. makirg the modern ship practically unsnka ble.-Vn Vlet Adiing in Book keeper THE POSTOFFICE. It Seemed to Be Located In a Rather Lonely Place. A veteran stagecoach driver in Idahc used to tell of an incident that hap ened when he drove the stage over to Boise City from the Union Pacific line. hehad on one trip only a single passenger, a little tenderfoot of a New England scboolna'am going to take charge o: a school in that town. She had never before been farther from Boston than the Hudson river. Along about dusk one evening as she sat on the box by the driver and the team wound its way around the shoulder o1 a bleak mountain a highwayman sud denly stepped into the middle of the road and held up his hand. A cocked rifle rested easily in the hoilow 9f his arm and its muzzle pointed straight at the driver's head. He quickly pulled "Throw over Wells-Fargo's box!" said the man with the gun. The driver reached down and fiung the box Into the road; then be started to gather up the reins. "Hold on'' the other cried Impatient ly. "Where's the mail bag? Don't you thInk 1 want that?" For reply the driver swiftly kicked it overboard. "All right," said the man on the gound in affable tone: "you can drive on now." For half a mile they rolled along in slence. schoolma'am and driver. The former seemed to be in deep study. At last, turning to the driver, she said. "I don't know anything about the west, of course, but that certainly does seem to be an awfully lonesome place to have a posto~ee."-Washington Post. BUSINESS BASEBALL The Advent of Gate Receipts in the~ National Game. The professiona: baseball player. asj Isuch. was unknown before the civil' war. One finds, indeed, signs in the newspapers qi the period that our' "sporting men" drew no vrery sharp line between the amateur and the5 oc enslonal professional. That perhaps Iwas only natural. Athletics were a new thng tous. We had yet to learn the dangers and the finer ethics of sport. For example. the first conven ton of amateur clubs, held in 1859. felt called upon to pass a rule against paying players. There was no money in the game as ht. only glory. but cer tain rich nonplaying members of the fashionable clubs had begun to lure 'stars from other clubs by offers of money or "jobs."I The foundation stone of professional baseball, however, was laid when th Atlantics. tbe Eckferds. the Mutuels and the other crack teams of Broo. lyn began playing on the old Union ground. This arena w'.a a fenced hasin used in winter as a skating rink. In 1862 the owners decided to make it continuously profitable by turning It into a summer baseball park. Experimentally they charged a regu la ten cent fee at the gate. They found that spectators were willing to pay even when they raised the price to 25~ cents. Half of these fees went to the ground owners and half to the' clubs. So came the appetite for gate receipts, and -business" had entered the game.-Coler's Weekly. Utter Contempt.I -I s'pose you wouldn't marry me if were the only man on earth?" -- wouldn't even be engaged to you." responded the girl. -if you were the only rnan at a summer resort."-Louis 'yle Courier-Journal. And the Parson Passed On. "And what are you here for, my frend?" asked the visiting parson of an Inmate of a reformatory. 'Cause I can't get out, thank you"j replied the victim.-Ladies' Home Jour-I Lots of Company. Stranger-You n'ust find it very lonely on these hills. Shepherd-Lone y No. I don't. Why. there was a man an' a 'oss passed yesterday, an' there's you today.-London Punch. Greatness Is the ability to meet thel neneted.-Stowell. BUENOS AIRES. A City With All the Finish of a Par;s er a Berlin. Buenos Aires. ie c:pit:il 4,f the Ar :entine Republic. is in sniLe respects he most cosniopo4litan city In the vorld. No import:Iit European naritin ut has contributel its capit:l niud it-s people to the- upbuildiri:: of this ;gre::t netropolis. It :ilso hais the distinc .ion of being the second city of Latin )opulation in the world. being larger han the largest cities in Italy and ;pain. There is perhaps no city which ex ilbits a greater variety otf pleasing ,ontemporary styles of domestic ar :hitecture. The city couneil! tries to ncourage beautiful building by an imally offering, a god tnedal to thi- ar hitect who.' is found to haVe Ilaune-d :he :niost attractive facade and by reeing from the bulding tax the ailding thus favored. The outward aspect of Buenos Aires s rather that of a European than of n American capital. It has all' the Inish of a Paris or a Berlin. The ab ;ence of the irre;ular sky line. caused n North Ameriean cii- by the e x reme height of some business build as s well :s the tawt that :!h ;round of the city Is qluite unifornil yuilt upon, even in the more outlyin: -egions. keeps the city from present ng that untinished appearance which ,en our largest cities have.-World roday. SWISS TRAMPS FEW. AO Poor Place For the Mao Who Doesn't Want to Work. switzerland is not a place for tramps, because the man out of employmeut d who makes no effort to tind work is not tolerated for a moment in that yountry. The district authorities will secure him a job at hard labor and ittle pay, and such an nffer can be re hsed only under the lenalty of going to a penal workhouse. These institu tions are under military discipline. the work severe, the wages a penny or threepence per day. and release is granted only upon the advice of those in charge. No didiculty is experienced in determining between beggars and anemployed. because all legitimate la borers have papers given them by the Istrict in which they live containing nformation cencerning the position they have held. In every part of Switzerland are es tablished "relief in kind" stations for the exclusive use of respectable unem ployed. Only those are admitted who have had regular work during re previous three months and have been out of employment for at least five days. These men must be on the look out for work and accept any situation that is offered, because the chronic loafer is soon detected by the police and his papers are marked so that he can never again seek refuge in a "sta tion."-Exchange. PICKPOCKETS. Th Manner in Which the "Dips" Do Their Thieving Work. As a usual thing the pickpockets rary their methods to suit circum stances. Only the lower grade dips work in pairs. These are the variety who operate on street cars, elevated station platforms and similar places where they will find crowds of pushingI people and at the same time have op portuity to escape if detected. One of the pair shoulders a victim roughly while the other does the work and makes a "getawaly." Arrests are fre quent, but convictions are rare. be ause the man captured seldom has the loot. Not but that the higher grade dips work in such places. The difference i that they work In groups and choose times when prosperous passengers will! be in the majority. During the fash onable shopping hours and after the~ theaters at night are considered her rest times. One method is to block the exit as the intended victims are about to alight and in the jumble make the "touch." Provided the victim dis covers his loss within a minute he is too late, because the car or trainha sped on. hs Last winter a trio of. dips worked a: clever method In Chicago. Garbing themselves In evening clothes, they mingled in fashionable crowds in bli cafes theater exits and railroad sta tions. One of the party was always hopelessly drunk, and the' others. aip parently acting the part of Samaritans, were hard put trying to keep him on his feet. With all their care, however. he would stumble occasionally and fall Into groups of ladies and gentlemen. Invariably the sober companions had apologized and taken their charge: away before any one discovered the* loss of valuables.-Bohemlan Naga-1 WouIdrft 8. Fooled :Againi. A shepherd once, to prove the quick ess of his dog, which was lying be tore the fire In the house where we; were alking, said to me in the middle~ of a sentence concerning something else, "IPm thiking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes." Though he purposely laid no stress; on these words and said them in a~ quiet, unconcerned tone of voice, the' dog, which appeared to be asleep, imme-. dately jumped up and, leaping through the open window,-scram2bled up to the turf roof of the house, from which he could see the potato field. He then, not seeing the cow there, ran and look-; ed into the barn where she was and., indng that all was right, came back to the house. After a short time the shepherd said the -same words again, and the dog re peated his lookout, but on the false alarm being the third time given the! dog got up and, wagging his tal, look-: ed his master in the face with so com ical an expression of interrogation that he could not help laughing aloud at~ him, on which, with a slight growl, he aid himself down in his warm corner with an offended air, as If determined not o be made a fool of again.-Lon How Rtats Move Eggs. Strange as the story may appear of rats removing hens' eggs from the bottom to the top of a house by one rat lying on his back and grasping tightly his ovoid burden with his fore paws while his com:a-Aes drag him away by the tali, I have no reason. writes a naturalist, to disbelieve It. I have seen two rats accomplish the feat from. stair to stair In a farm house In Banffshlre, the first anxious rodent pushing the egg up on Its hind legs and the second assistant lifting it up with Its fore legs. It was the best athletic feat I ever witnessed.: but It is not out of the common. The rat will extract the contents from a flea-k of Florence oil, dipping in his long tail and repeating the maneuveri until he has consumed all'that can be Human Heart as a Power Engine. A great physician once remarked :hat, despite its complexity. there was ao organ of the body readier to adapt Itself to circumstances or more capa ,le of repaying ordinry care than the beart. This is very true, and an ap preciation of that fact should cause us ill th. more carefully to follow the rvise -nan's advice and to keep our hear* with all diligence. When we have regtard to the tremendous work the heart acco'mplishes we might well with Wesley say. "Strainge that. a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long." Estimated in scientific rashion, a man's heart in twen:y-four hours performs an amount of work which if represented by M9.e energy d manded for a big lift would raik l's tons of weight one foot high. S!h a calculation can be accurately deter mined by measuring the force exp-nd ed in one beat or cycle of movemen' of the heart and multiplying the short work into that of the day. Thus in no small degree does the heart's labor contribute to swell the big total of the energy the human engine expends each day it lives.-New York World. Culinary Courtship. Janet had molded the domestic af fairs of the family with whom she lived for so many years that the news of her intended marriage had much the effect of an earthquake. *Have you and David been engaged long?" entured the mistress of the house hold. "One week when next Sabbath comes." stated Janet briefly. "And-and had you any thought of marrying before that?" asked her mis tress. "Times I had and times I had not." said the imperturbable Janet. "as any person will. But a month ago when I gave David a wee bit of the cake I'd been making and he said to me. 'Janet. L-tve you the recipe firm In your mind. lass, so yon could make it if Mrs. Mann's book would be far from yoir reach? I knew well the time wwu draw ing short. -And when," said Janet, closing her eyes at the recollection. "I said to him. 'David. lad, the recipe is copied in a little book of my own,' and I saw the glint in his eye I reckoned 'twould be within the month he'd ask me." Hippo's Mouth an Impressive Sight. The hippopotamus is a sort of float Ing island which Inhabits the .African rivers. To see a hippopotamus rise out of the water and go away is as discon certing to the tourist as it would be to see a sand bar get out of the Missouri river and chase a cow. The hippo life Is too short to write his full name -is a big brother of the pig. He eighs five tons. and a gargoyle is cute and pretty beside him. He is fat and flabby, covered with a reddish skin adorned with bristles and has a broad, flat head as wide as a dinner table. The moutli of the hippo is an other of nature's African extrava gances. He has mouth enough to do the eating for a boys' boarding school. His jaws are very flexible, and those who have gazed into the inner works of a hippo when he has opened his vast pink lined mouth, studded here and there with tusks that look like broken off Grecian colnmns, have been, Impressed with the sight- Collier's Weekly. _ __ _ Her Souvenir. "Why did you hurry so?" he asked her when he had fina11y caught up with her -at the foot of the stairs of the cafe. 'Do yon remember how the waiter prepared to put a clean tablecloth on our table for fresh guests," she asked, "before we got through listening to the music?" "Yes," said he. 'Well, then, here," she said and showed, him a large white tablecloth that had been hidden under her coat. "This isit. He laidt on thewindow~ sill. Serves him right." q He gazed upon it in amazemuent. "Why didn't you let me know," he queried, "and I might have taken the table and walked out with that?"-: New York Press. Halcyon Days. The term "halcyon days" is derived from a pretty little fable of the Sicil ins, who believed that during th'e seven days preceding and following the winter solstIce. Dec. 21, the halcy on or kingfisiter floated on the water in a nest in which her young were de posited and that during this time of her brooding the seas were c'alm. Our Indian sumtner corresponds to the hal cyon of the Sicilians.-New York Tele Persona Grata. The Old Bulldog-They're going to chain us up on Sunday nights now. The Young Bulldog-How's that, gov ernor? The Old Bulldog-The new fel low that's started cann on Miss Ma mie has got money.-New York Press. Handy With an Ax. One Important feature In connection with the conducting of mining opera tions In Siberia is the aptitude of the Russian workman for the ax. Wood i so plentiful in the country that min-' ig timbers may be figured on at a low rate. The current anecdote that a Russian workman will for a twenty kopeck piece lay his left hand, with fingers spread, on a board and with full strength make an asx cut between each finger cannot-b~e vouched for, but It is certainly true that in pick timber ing in bad ~round. In erectin~ build' Ings, log cabins and all ma"nner of wood joining the equal of the Russian, pesant cannot be found. - London Globe. The Word "Bad. It is believed by at least one writer that ~It is because baldness in women has nearly always been studiously con cealed that no gentle way of evading the blunt word -'bald" has been evolv ed in contrast with the many way! of dodging "fat." '"Stout" (which aly meaus sturdyi. -portly." "com fortable" and "embonpolnt" are in stances of this evasion. But "'a'rd" always remfains- "bald." - Chicago News. Badly Expressed. She (effusively)-H~ow nice it is to have met you again after all thesc years. my dear Captain Burlington. He-Major now. That was ten years ago. you k:now. She (still more ef fusvey)-How time files' Well, con gratulations and goodby. I hope you'll be a general when next we meet. Punch. He Knew Better. Farmer Hulltrooth-Thxis here paper se that a man in Chicago unloaded 50.00) bushels of corn one day last week. Now, Marier, you know as well as I do that there ain't enny man in the bull state couid do that much work In the Fight.. The deeks are clearel :or ;! I 1 J1mow in the race o* cash trwie, ande I ave a splenda .c4 ek of everything ni-dd w-1 the farim or in th- ho:ho I vor-lially in rit mn in-)peetu o my -k of Dry Goods, Fancy Goods,, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Crockery, Tin, Wooden and Hardware. GROCERIES of .111 kinds and i! large quanfitie. Comit to my store. price my goods, examine the quality, and if not as cheap as the cheapest. then don't buy from me. I have matle special arrangements to do a large cash trade this se-ason. ind I fully realize that I must, to do business, meet sharp competition. This I have prepared for. I want vour trade Yours, etc., B. A. J O H N SO N. i YOU ARE I cordially invited to at- . tend the FALL OPENING of our newly enlarged and perfected MILLINERY AND DRESS GOODS 3 DEPARTMENT, AND LADIES' SUITS; which will take place on Thursday and Friday, September 3O0 and October 1st. A great deal of attention has been given to display a haddsome line of the nestsies. L ISMI A Coffee Drinkera We can certainly interest you with our new Line of High Grade Roasted Coffees which we are offering at Special Within-Reach-of -Ali-Prices: Big Value. Roasted and Pulverized. 15c. lb. True Blue. Roasted arnF Pulverized, 20c. lb. These are two brand new members added to our' Coffee Family. which we are handling exclusively. Kept in air tight drums. Parched and ground every week. Sales increasing by leaps and bounds. Suppose you investi gate' Manning Grocery Co The Big Store on the "Busy Block." A FULL CAR LOAD OF THE FAMOUS HICKORY BUGGIES Just received, and you can select just the kind you want. A Nob bToffv Turnou. can be had for the asking.. ~ Ian selling the best line of Bug~eries and Wagons for the least money of any dealer in the State. Comie and see. Cash customers esecially solicited. A full Repository on hand. A nice line of old men's. young men's and fancy driving Ve bies of the best makes, can be bought for less money at all times. F. C. T HOM AS. MANNING. S. C. SEED OATS:-^A~PERANDPOF SEED WETBEARDE VARITIES. Seed Rye and Barley. Grain Pasture Mixture, composed of Turf Oats. Wheat Barley and Vetch. The best winter Horse, Cow and Hog pasture you can possibly plant. There will be a Roller Flour Mill in Sumter by January. 1910. t !OTHIARRY LVE STOCK CO. Eerson's Old Stand. SUMTER, S. C. SBinE Your Job Printing to The Ime8.