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GIVEN AWAY RREE! To show appreciation to our customers for their liberal trade, we offer them a discount on the purchases. READ THE CARD BELOW. iKrasrolff s StOreAA pt o a > !t a 10 0b I -0 SLIW. - - 1tb 0 o ~1~on 'Doi CUT THIS CARD OUT and present it at our store when trading, it is worth oe One Dollar To You! In addition to the above, we offer siso the THE BEST ROCKING CHAIR FREE You mnay select in our Furniture Department, to the one Sp who will xeturn to us, three days before christmas, the aisu most Cards checked. For further information call at Krasnoff's Corner Store. when Squis er's SAL TE L J Pl-IC NF 1A The Shilling Bequest. The wealthy auctiodeer who reduced the inheritance of a daughter to an annuity of E104 because she bad be come a Socialist reminds one of the old fashioned "cutting off with a shU :ing." Why a shlUing rather than noth Ing? Blackstone explains. The Ro mans used to set aside wills as de tleient in natural duty If they disin herited or totally passed by any child of the testator. But the smallest leg acy was accepted as evidence that the testator had not lost his reason or his memory. as the law otherwise as sumed he had; hence the groundless belief in England that a father could not disinherit his child without a shilling. although the Engiish law knows no presumption of insanity or rorgetfulness in such a case. Of Sheri-: Ian and his son Tom (and of other fa :hers and sons) the story Is told: "Fa :her-I'll cut you oM with a shilling. ;on-l'd rather hare it now, dad."-St. rames' Gazette. Appealed to His Pride. It was the most obstinate mule in he lot and refused to enter the car of train held up at a little wayside sta .on. Threats, cajolery and blows were like useless. The mule refused to; adge. and the slant of his ears told iose of the passengers who were fa dliar with mule ear talk that where. e was he intended to stay. Then the ;ed African who was trying to load im in said in honeyed tones: Whutro- yo' bebave dis way befo' I dese strange people? Why. yo' fool ule, doan' yo' know dat dese people I ll jes' believe dat yo' neber done I ibeled befo* In all yo' life?" he long ears lost their aggressive tnt. and the beast went sedately up e Inclined plank with the air of a w entering a drawing room car for a ? first time and determined not to b tray the fact.-Exchange. a To Lady Correspondents. )ur young lady correspondents wil ifer a favor If they will write on: y one side of the paper. We mean. o: course, by this correspondence in ded for the paper. As to the other, Intended for publication. we don't e if they write on all four sides even across It-Sylvania (Ga.) cu ephone- trr Rkh Men's Gifts re poor des this: "I warn to go on record as og that I regard Electric B:tters as of the greatst-t rifts that God has e to woman, writes Mrs 0. Rhine- i T. of Vestal Center, N Y. - can th ,r forget what it has done for me." an glorious medicine gives a woman a 'ant spirits, vieor of body and jut. I healtb It quickly cures Nrv,)u. Sleeplessness. .\elacholy. Head Backache. Ftioting. and Dizz w Is: soon build, up ite wtak, ailiun riv dcklyv. Try t:em 50e at all drug- Ie the An ilustration. pas Ow- Harold." said the teacher to sMP naUl but unusually bright pupil. con an illustration of the superiority COU lad over matter.- tha :r a moment's regection Harold T ad: "I hare to mind you. That's han is the matter.--Chicgo News Pa the Alice Alias Alys. a fi Squiggs-Whzat's the little Nu-- and irl's namne? .'enuidn't catch it her mother intrdu-ed us, \Mrs. de s-Plaln Alier. unly tar mnofh. a Tying to pr--+-n--e're i: 'Co you'l mar It "Alys."-PhI.ade~hla Bulletiln *fll On Satui selling all S Men, Boys at This is the loon if you w CIA' An 'ntortaining Catbird. Nothing esapes the eye of our pe catbird, for he is curiosity person fed. He wants to know the why no wherefore of everything that is a lit tle strange and does not rest anti! h< has found out. When let out in : room he will carefully examine ever? nook and corner. He is an inveterntc joker and delights to play jokes on his fellow prisoners. while bis sense of humor is almost humuan at times. The pincushion is a constant wonder nnd delight to him. Be flies to It as soon as let out of his cage and either pulls the pins all out or drives them into the cushion as far as possible. If he pulls them out. he hops to the edge of the table and drops them on the door. flirting his tall and uttering a note of great satisfaction when they strike the door.-Suburban Life. How He Felt. He was an Englishman of the ultra sort and recently arrived. but he was striving stremously to catch up with American idioms and New York slang. He had made some progress. He loomed up in the breakfast room of his hotel the other morning after a too .onvivial evening and encountered one of his companions. "How do you feel. old chap?" asked the latter. "Feel?" repeated the Englishman. 'Feel? Oh. yes. I see what you mean. >ld fellow. Well. really. don't you mnow. I feel like one and six." "Like what?" "Like one and si,. as you chaps say tere. No! Hold on. there! I mean 0 cents. you know; feel like 30 cents. es."-New York Globe. Willing to Try. Harold-Couldn't you learn to love ie? Amelia-No, but 111 try awfully ard. Papa has promised to send me broad if my health breaks down from rerstudy. you know.-London Scraps. Men are the sport of circumstances hen the ekcumstances seem the sport men.-Byron. Mrs. S. Joyce, Claremont, N. H., '-tes: "About a year ago 1 bought two Wes of Foley's Kidney Rem.'dy. J. red me of a severe case of kidnev. amble of several years standing. It. 'mainly is a grand. oud nzraicline, u. eartily recommnend it." W. E. Brow, t C t A Chinese Superstition. t] 'engshul is the Chinese superstition v Lt determines good site or locality, fi i if a town on the Yangtue has not c ;ood fengshi trade will not come to ha and it will be ruined. A town ti ned Peishih had Its pagoda In the =ng place-not far enough down the F er-and the result was that all traf- pl which should have come to it was pj pt past. Peishih being left out In pi cold. The people pulled down the th oda and built another one in the zo posed right spot. as nothing would em vince them that the depression pc id arise from any other cause than ev t of a bad fengshul. te city of Wanshein. on the other d. has a perfect fengshul. two One adas. and is very prospernus. Rn: "a fact that Wansbein is situated in ar srtile valley, where wheat. barl--y - the poppy flourish abundnt!?-. asi le Peishib Ls barren and misernbtre.. not concern the inhabitant n wo h as the feng'ebuI <~te Thi.<~ r- t one of tbo"neds ik'e It. ['CL -day, Januar uits, Overco; id Children t c a plain truth, ant first ChOi< DLII Gct His Money's Worth. A lady palmist ws rc.-utly prose cuted. and an amusing lucident was noted in connection with the case. One of the wltneses .-il!ed by the polic, was an individual who diAl not appear to be overhurdened with intelligence. During a simart cr exm ination de. fendant's cobunsel as-ki-d him: "On first goiLng into the room did you pay -! shilling fee to the defend. anty' "Yes" was the reply. - "What did sthe tell you In return for the money': "Oh." said the witness. -she towid me lots o' things. sone on 'em true. some on 'emn half true an' some on 'em less." "Now." continued the counsel after the laughter had died away. -this Is the point I wish to get at: Was there any attempt at imposition? Did you lady Impose upon you at all'" "Oh. dear. no:" was the response. -1 knowed it wor all gammon. so there. couldn't be no imposition. Besides, It wor a bad shillin' as I guy her. to start with!"-London Tit-Bits. Marriage In Picardy. A Picardy custom. founded on a broad basis of common sense as well as the Idea of complete partnership. Ia that which puts a new bride through a kind of examination In the trade of her husband. It may. of course. have be come something of a burlesque. and the bride may purposely show less dex terity than she need. Still, the consid eration of the wife as a helpmate is very clearly shown ia the performance. If the young wife's husband be a farm er, sbe will be asked to harness a borse and cart and to harrow a small pece of land. If her choice has fallen >n an Ironworker. she must hammer a slece of Iron: if on a miller, she must neasure out .vheat from a basket at he church door. If on a smith, she Is rupposed to be able to strike the anvil:, f on a sailor, she has to clean and Dend some netting. and so on with theC ther occupations. Evidently the keep ng of an idle wife Is not understood in icardy.-T. P.'s London Weekly. Whale at.' Elephant Meat. There is sometr.ag unpleasant about he thought of eating whale meat. but it Is said that the reality Is very pala Lble. Japan has quite a trade in ti zuned and salted whale meat, and P xere is to be a campaign to educate xe European peoples to like It Somej 'haling companie have distributed 'om their headquarters samples of tb Laned whale meat. and those who th tre eaten it describe It as tenderer E an beef and much like it in taste. : Whale steak seems no queerer than a rankfort sausage made out of an ele- Si rant. which is what some Gierman am ople have been eating. An enter- th :sing butcher over there. hearing G at an unruly elephant In the Ghent ological gardens was to be killed. gaged the carcass. He made 3.00 unds of sausage out of It and sold mry pound at good prices. Friends. to Dear friends." said the philosopher. to e scarce Item in this world. They too few to be counted." What d'ye call a friend?" he was :ed. .e A friend." he replied. "Is one who old lend you money if you wanted Lnd to whom you woald lend money 'you had it."-New York Times, .E AAR L C r1,we will cc its and Trot plainly put. 4 CLOTH]I A Surprise For the Hunters. "If the fair of a leopard Is known." sOys a writer in the Wide World Mag aziDe. "stones will generally dislodge the lurker. I recall one occasion when a leopard was supposed to be Wocated in a care near camp. The guns were placed around in positions command- I Ing tb exit. and a few stones were I then thrown In. There was no result at firAt. but as more and larger stones crasbed in there came a faint hurn ming and then a roar like the sea un der the cliffs. In a moment the air above the cave's entrance grew dark with-bees: As one wan sportsmen,; and gun bearers ded for the camp. A few were slightly stung before they could re-ab their tents and pull the flaps over the entrances. which the , bees for some time besieged. incredi ble thoigh it may sound. !t Is the truth thi-t. although the camp was full of na. tire servants. horses. etc.. none of those who had remained behind and were not concerned in the attack on I the bees' cave were stung. It was a: considerable time before the bees beat a retreat. but during all the time that they stayed In the camp it was the'3 tents of their aggressors exclusively f round which they angrily buzzed." runerat: *zone. The great French artist Ingres when in Itowe had a violent cold. and Mot- b tez asked him how he managed to catch it. Ingres replied that it was through attending the funeral of M. X. "What-X.. the art critic?" said Mot tez. - thought you hated hIm." -That is why I went to see him buried." said ingres. Several years ago, at the funeral of - L well known lre insurance offical in Liverpool. much detested by his staff. t was remarked that an unexpectedly arge number of them attended. On one of them being asked for an planation he said: "We wouldn't are miseed it on any axcount. We rant to be-sure that he is buried." The g.reat artist, like the obscure lerk, has his littlenesses. The Caspian Sea. The Caspian sea Is. as Herodotus ild 2,000 years ago. -a sea by itseLf. aving no connection with any other." E very schoolboy knows that now. but E Is remarkable to find Herodotus & tying so. because centuries after his me such authorities as Strabo aos , , lRy believed that it was connected | ith the northern ocean by a long and E trrow gulf. Geography seems to tve had a setback In the interval rough false Information received at e time of Alexander's conquests. erodotus says that the Casplan's 2gth was ffteen days' voyage with C rowboat. Its breadth eight days'. nce the actUal dgures are 750 miles d 400. this shows that a rowboat of L time did fifty miles a day.-Londoti aphie. Her Discovery. lusband-Think of It! Here is aI irpin I have found in the soup! Wife es? Now I know where our things 4 re gone. A xhne horn dsappeared Z -Barper's Bazar. Just as Well. Rtatisctics show that Japan has two thquakew' a day. Gece. a mw~n might as well be mar I as to live In Japan!"-Houston fattwais '"-r -*- nrnverb ays, "1t-. '?''nat !Ls.'.. at 'rst." ~mmence 1LI isers for set here ' JO CO To Our Friends and Customers: THE MANNING OIL MILL has been recently bought from the South Atlantic Oil Co., and at the beginning of our career under the present ownership we extend our thanks to all of our friends for their support and patronage. We have tried in the past to deserve your support by being absolutely fair and honest with all of our cust-ners, and we ask for a continuance of your support for the following additional re.:,5ons: FIRST : Ours is a local company-not a dollar of its stock is owned outside of South Carolina. SECOND: We pay arnually to the Town and County rreasurers over $600 taxes which helps that much towards pay ng the expenses of our local government. THIRD: It costs us about $80,000 per year to manuf cture he seed we purchase, and of this amount, $20.000 is spent right iere at Manning. In other words, when you sell us a ton of seed 66 2-3 bushels) you get market price for the seed and the com aanity gets $4 of the amount it costs to manufacture them. When ou sell a ton of seed to the other fUlow, you get the ma ket price Dr the seed, and SOME OTHER COMMUNITY gets the benefit f the money paid out to manufacture them. We could mention a number of other reasous, but we think ie above is sufficient to convince you that it pays to pat onize ome industries. Yours very truly, Manning Oil Mill, C. R. SPROTT. President and Treas: rer. !t llmmmMImmrlm*mnmrimillmmmmm , 1ii'1 Good Crops - and high prices for cotton and other produce mear : money in the pockets of all our people. This money w: I be spent, and we hope it will all be spent in our tvo i town and county. This being the case, then we are at ing to use every effort to get a good share of the traid and if quare Dealings ; the best goods, and smallest profits will insure this, wl 3 we are going to have it. We have now the largest ai most complete S:ock of Hardware we have ever had :n. being in the businew.s. General Hardware of ei' -o discription. Ranges. Stores, Heaters of all sizes. TI - best Stock of Crockerv and Glassware in town. Pa :it Oil, and Varnishes. H.-adquarters for Guns. Shelh, lv Sporting Goods. A full Stock of Keen Kutter A tx Knives, Razors, Scissors and Shears: every piece gui a teed. Enamelware in all the latest designs. The famous Pittsburg Weld. and Ellwood Wire Fer - ing. Barbed Wire also. and at prices that cannot be d; p %we cated. A cordial invitation to all. In the Levi "Busy" Block. ING Coyih re yHafshfIr&Mr UPAY *JMT ~F1LC