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We Have Moved .to Our NEW STABLES which is one of the largest. most convenient and up-to-date build ings in the State. We have spared neither pains nor money in making our stables a comfortable and safe piace for the accom modatica cf our friends and patrons. New Horses and Mules There never has been in this market a cleaner lot of Horses and Mules than can now be found at our stables. Every Horse or Mule we sell goes with our guarantee. Farm Mules, Draft Mules, Carriage Horses, Buggy Horses. Saddle and Driving Horses. Also Dr. White's famous Horse Remedies. New Buggies and Wagons. If you want a good, strong, handsome Buggy. Surrey or Wagon, we can supply you at prices to meet competition. Come to see us for Harness, Saddles, Robes and Whips, and anything pertaining to this line. We want your personal inspection of our stables, and we feel assured -that we can suit you to a Horse, Mule or Buggy. Surrey or Wagon. COFFEY & RIOBY. OOd rops Oand high prices for cotton and other produce means money in the pockets of all our people. This money will a be spent, and we hope it will all be spent in our own a town and county. This being the case, then we are go a ing to use every effort to get a good share of the trade, a and if the Square Dealigs I the best goods, and smallest profits will insure this, why we are going to have it. We hav'e now the largest and Z most complete Stock of Hardware we have ever had since a being in the business. General Hardware of every a discription, Ranges. Stores, Heaters of all sizes. The a 0 best Stock of Crockery and Glassware in town. Paints, 3 SOil, and Varnishes. Headquarters for Guns. Shells and 3 Z Sporting Goods. A full Stock of Keen Kutter Axes, a Knives, Razors, Scissors and Shears; every piece guaran- 3 m teed. Enamelware in all the latest designs. The famous Pittsburg Weld, and Ellwood Wire Fenc- a ing, Barbed Wire also, and at prices that cannot be dupli Scated. A cordial invitation to all. ithe Levi "Busy" Block. A CAR L.OAD OF THE NICEST ilorses and Mules ever shipped to Manning, to arrive Thursday morning. I)ecemnber 23rd. Come and see them. If you need a Horse or Mule look them over before you buy. An article well bought is half sold. My Stock is bought right. Come and get yours before they are picked o'ver. I carry a large stock of Tyson & Jone's, Hackney and Wren Buggies. A car load of Piedmont Wagons just arrived. The best on the market for the money. Call and get my prices before you buy.. F. C. THOMAS, MANNN. S. C. I HIORSES, MULES,I BUGGIES, WAGONS, HARNESS. Building Material, Lime, Cement.Acme Wall Plaster, Shingles. Laths. Fire Brick. Clay. Stove Flue Drain Pipe. &c. HAY AND GRAIN. *SEED. Oats, Wheat, Rye, and Barley. A carload or a single article. Come and see us, if unable to do. write or 'phone No. 10. BOOTHHARDY LIVE STOCK CO. SUMTER. S. C. _Physicians Advise th s fagoodl.ntive, to keep the bowels ope and prevent the pelsons of undigested producet ofsoec Is vEVO Lantive Liver Syrup, purely vegetable,.ena reable and of a pleasant, aromatic taste. velvo acts on the liver, as wea s n h bloaness, sick headache, feveulhes, cclens e ,e etc. Try -VF 1 V t VA I.AXATIVE SLLIUILIVER SYRUP Eat and Grow Fatl VH E N YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT FRESH MEATS AT W}fE L LS ALL TIMES. EVERYTHING GOOD I H AVINtG SA LOON TO EAT. wbieb : ittea nrp witb ami Give us a Trial- e,.:ua o tn.rort otsi Clark &_Huggins. "HAIR CUT,1,(e SHAVIN1AND W. 0. W. SAPON Woodmen of the World. DOne wt neatness an 8- ets on second Monday nights at dispatch.. .. ... Visiting sovereirns invited. A coria invitation u' extended... ,as ' GadsPeet aesl Manning Times Block. THE TRUE BLUEBEARD He Was a Cruelly and Malevo lently Maligned Frenchman. NOT A MURDEROUS MONSTER. He Had Matrimonial Misfortunes, It Is True, but He Seems to Have Been the Only One Who Cama to Grief on Account of Them-His Tragic End: The supposedly detestable Bluebeard. the monster of murderous polygamy. the very name of the ogre Into whose mouth one used. If one could, In child hood's happy hour. to throw india rub be= balls, was In truth a man who has been as cruelly and malevolently ma ligned by history as Nero, Richard III., Macbeth, tutti quanti. So says M. Anatole France-and pray who can speak with iilgher authority on the real facts of faery?-In "Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux." One knew al ready that Charles Perrault Srst wrote. in about 1060. the historical biography of Bluebeard, but one did no! know until now how deeply Perrault, prob ably through false information, wrong ed the memory of an excellent and Ill treated personage. From M. France we learn that M. Bernard de Montra goux, of old and noble descent, lived in 16Z0 or thereabouts at the ancestral Chateau Lea GuElettes. on his estates between Compiegne and Pierrefonds. The castle, of frowning outward as pect, was inside a treasure house of taste and wealth. Its owner. contrary to long .:sting tradition, wore no beard. only a mustache and a little tuft below the lower lip. He was known through the countryside as Bluebeard because his hair was very black, and therefore his close shaven cheeks and chin were markedly blue. He was a fine figure of a man who. In spite of his manifest advantages as a good match, did not get on well with women of his own rank In life. This was due to an Incurable shyness on his part Pleasant and pretty girls who had been well brought up attracted him immensely. but also filled him with an Indescribab- terror. The first notable result of this af fliction was that the unfortunate or phan, for such he had been since his early youth. incapable of making pro posals for. the hand of any of the at tractive and high born ladies in the tzeighborhood, married a certain Co lette Passage, a fascinating girl in her way, against whose character nothing seems known, who was going round the country with a dancing bear. Things went well enough for a few months, and then Colette, who had at Arst reveled In being a lady of qual ity, began to long for her old freedom. The longing became IrresistIble, and at last she took her departure secretly with her justly beloved bear. It Is noteworthy that they made their es cape by way of a room that had a door leading to what had been water meadows, and so to open country. Perrault called this room -le petit cab inet." but It was also known as "the wretched princesses' room." because a Florentine painter had covered Its walls with the most lifelike figures of Circe, Niobe and Procris. The tragic efect of these paintings was enhanced by the porphyry flooring of the room. which suggested bloodstains. Montragoux appeared mnconsolable at the disappearance, which was com plete, of Colette. his first wife, and doubtless his lot would hare been far less unhappy If he had never tried to console himself. This, most unfor tunately, he did by marrying one Jeanne de la Cloche, who turned out to be a violent dipsomaninc. Blue beard was of a nature so kindly and noble that, although In a fit of mad passion she nearly killed him with a kitchen knife, he continually hoped to reclaim her by kindness. But Or.. usy she strayed into the generally shut up princesses' room, took the painted fig. ares for real people and was so terri fed that she rushed wildly Into the open fields, tumbled into a deep pool. and so was drowned. So things went on, a new affliction with each new wife, and in each case the final catastrophe was associated with the princesses' room. The climax to the unhappy career of the more than worthy and lovable Bernard de Montragoux came with his seventh wife, Jeanne de Iespoisse, cleverest admost fascinating of a family of utterly unscrupulous adventurers. No one knew anything about the supposed late husband of the mother. Of the two brothers, a dragoon and a musket eer, one was a low rascal and a mere sponge; the other lived on gaming and on the good nature of women to whom he made love. Anne, the sister, was the incarnation of malicious cunning Essocated with this precious family was a certain Chevalier de Merlus, who had a great deal to do with the final tragedy of Md. de Montragoux's career. The nature of this tragedy may be- Inferred, but It Is cnrious that, while Perrault represented Bluebeard as taking a journey In order to lay a rp for his wife, the fact was exactly opposite. Both before and after his marriage he had heapedI benefits on all these wretches. When he was obliged to go away In the matter of an Inhcritance he gave ala his keys without reserve to his wife, warning her out of pure love against the un happy associations of the princesses' room. As soon as he was out of the way a trap was laid for him, and It was In that very room that he was most treacherously assassinated. The worst and the best of It was that M., de Merlus, after marrying the wealthy widow, became an exemplary husband and subject of the king. Pneumonia Follows a Cold but never follows the use of Foiey's Hot ey and Tar, which stops the cougrh, heals the lungs. and expels the cold from your system. Take at firsL sign of a cold and avoid a dangerous illness. W. E. Brown & Co. No Tim. For Little Boys. A&n Edinburgh genoman died the oth er day, and a small boy, open eyed and sllent, watched whie the coffin was placed in the hearse. "Have you said your prayers, Wil lie?' said his mother, after tucking him into bed that night. "No, ma mma," said Willie. "Well, say them now" "i'm not going to say any prayers tonight," replied Willie, with the air of one who had fully made up his mind. "But you must." "No, not tonight," Willie persisted. "Why not?" asked the mother in as tnishment. "It's no use," said Willie. "They will be sojusy In heaven tonight un packing AI'r. Jones that they will have no time to listen to the prayers of lit ie b ys,"_Edinhnwh Tispnatch. A CURIOUS CHIMNEY. One in Wales Two Miles High With a Brook Running Through It. Who ever heard of a chimney two miles high with a brook running through it? Yet such a chraey exists in connection with the copper works at Cwmavon. near Aberavon, in Gla morganshire. south Wales. This is how it came to be built: About sixty years ago the copper smoke from these works was the plague of the neighboring countryside. It settled upon and destroyed the grass for twenty miles round, while the sulphur and arsenic In the fumes affected the hoofs of cattle. causing gangrene. The owners of the works tried ail sorts of devices to remedy tbe trouble, but In vain. Finally Robert Brenton. who was afterward a suc cessful railway engineer in India. solv-I ed the problem. The copper works are at the foot of a steep hill. Mr. Brenton constructed a flue, or chimney, running continu ously from the base to about a hun dred feet above the summit. following the natural slope of the ground. The brick which lined it and of which it. was largely constructed was burned close by. A small spring gushing out near the summit of the hill was turned into the chimney and allowed to flow through almost Its entire length to condense the smoke. Once a year it is swept out and about a ton of precipi tated copper obtained. Its top can be seen for between forty and fifty miles. -London Answers. BRAVE MME. ROLAND. Her Last Request Before Her Death on the Scaffold. How Mme. Roland bore herself on her journey a!ang the via dolorosa of the revolution which led from the Con clergerie to the Place de la Guillotin the world knows. No recorded pil grim of the long train that fared that way in those heroic days showed a sublimer indifference to its terrors. A spectator who saw her as she passed the Pont Neuf wrote of her as stand Ing erect and calm In the tumbril. her eyes shining, her color fresh and bril liant, with a smile on her lips as she tried to cheer her companion. an old man overcome by the fear of approach ing death. At the foot of the scaffold she asked for pen and paper to write the strangeI thoughts that were rising In her. When the executioner grasped her arm to as s1st her in mounting the steps she drew back and begged that her com panion might be allowed to precede her. The custom of the guil'otioe ai lowed her, as a woman. the privilege of dying first, but she wished to spare the Infirm old man a scene that would augment his fears. Sanson objected. "Come, citizen," she urged him, with a smile. -you cannot deny a lady her last request " Her wish was granted.-Edtor of "Her Private Memoirs.' Paris Student Restaurants. Student rest'iurants In Paris are an insttution that Amerlcans may well envy. They are run solely for the ben eft of the students, although stran;:ers; are welcome. There are certain little' formalitIes that must be observed. For Instance. It is the duty of every one entering to bow to the madame and say. "Bonjour. madamne." or -Bon soir, madame." according to the time of day. After one has fini'shed his1 meal he asks for the "additione." asi the bill is called. When it is presented by the trim little waitress it is con sidered only proper to say. "Merci. mademoiselle." Hie then leaves a tip; of 10 centimes, or 2 cents, and, again bowing to the madame and saying, "Bonjour" or "Bonsoir," he is at liber ty to leave. The highest priced article on the bill of fare is 75 centimes. or 15 cents, and this in all students' res taurants is a chateaubrifand, a tender piece of beefsteak surrounded with potatoes sousle. Never drink French coffee. It Is execrable. The French do not consider coffee good unless the bean is burned to a black crisp.-LY ceumite. Oak Mark For Government Surveyors. The sky line north ot Mountain Home. Ark., rises In two long curves, then flattens out and leaves in silhou ette above the crest of what is known as Wallace knob a solitary tree. It Is such a strikingly lovely tree that no visitor to the town falls to notice it and ask how It got there. Then he hears that several years ago the gov ernment engineers decided to find out the exact fall of the land from Denver to Atlanta, Ga. Wallace knob on ac count of Its elevation was chosen as one of the three chief observation points In a huge triangle. To mark this knob with a conspicuous object to sight at all the trees on It were cut off but this one marker. It is an oak fifty or sixty feet In height.-Kansas City An Expensive Wedding Gift. Harwood-But If you hate the chap that won your old girl why did you send him an expensive wedding pres ent? Cogger-Hilst! I sent him my old automobile for revenge. It breaks down every few miles and costs a rich man's income to keep in repair.-Chi cago News. Interchange of Opiniorn Said William's Wife - Willia.'n canI make money. but he will never be able to save any.I Said Willam's Mother-That is just what I warned my son when he want ed to marry you.-Baltimore American. Encouragement. Mr. Park-Last night I dreamed that I proposed to you. Miss Gramercy How much more sensible you are asleep than awake!-Judge. A Wild Blizzard Raging brings' danger. suffering-often death to thousands, who rake colds. coughs and lagrippe-that terror of Winter and Sprig. Its danger signals are "suffed up." nostrils, lower part of nose~ sore, chills and fever, pain in back of head, and a throat-gripping cough. When Grip attacks, as you value your life. don't delay getting Dr. King's New Dis' cover. "One bottle cured me.'' writes A. L.'Dunn. of Pine Valley, Miss., after being 'laid up' three weeks with Grip." For sore lungs, Hemorrhages. Coughs, Colds. Whooping Cough, Bronchitis. Asthma, it's supreme. ~>0c.. $1.00. Guar anteed bv all druggists. The Funny Door. "How children do coin words and phrases for a household:" exclaimed the young mother. "When may little boy first began to talk he called every sort of opening a 'door.' It was an Iassociation of Ideas for him, and he applied it to everything. One night as his father took off his shoes a hole in Ihis stocking was disclosed. 'Funny Idoor, funny door!' exclaimed the little a hole in the stocking is always a 'fun y door.'"-New York Press. THE LOAFER. rom Browne, the English Artist, anc One of His Models. Tom Browne. the En:lish black and white artist, told the following stor3 )f one of his models: I used to Lave a i model a long. thin youth who was olf caddie on Blackheath. I made ater color study of him and put in ;treet corner background. Before send ng it to the frame maker's I wrote ot :he back in pencil : sugaestion for : >ossible future title. "A Loafer." Th< %rame maker after framing the sketcl put It in his window until such tln4 is he could send it up to me. with mard on the picture bearing the title 'A Loafer-By Tom Browne " One morning the caddie came to th ide door and asked to speak to me. "There's a picture of me in a shol winder darn in Greenwich." "Really?" "Yus. an' all me pals 'are seen It.' 'With a sudden fury.) "I ain't no loaf r, I ain't. I'm a respectable caddie. iam, and you've got to take It hout o1 he winder." I assured him that I knew nothin f the matter and was very sorry. "That be blowed for a tile." he re orted. "I'll mike yer pye domergeL or this. I've been to my solicitor. an( e sez 'e can mike yer." In the end I flxed It up by a little tip n old coat and a drop of something 5f course I had the picture taken ou >f the window. The caddie has not sa !or me since. THE NARCISSUS. )ld Legends About This Beautiful anc Ancient Flower. The beautiful narcissus Is a very incent Dower, and poets of all time, 2ve sung about it. It bloomed ever is long ago as when gods and god lesses were supposed to live on th4 !arth. The old Grecian legends say I was the flower the maiden Proserpin' was gathering when Pluto took he: ,way to his dark home under tho ;round. Another legend tells about a beauti ul youth named Narcissus. His fa ther was a river god named Cephissu d his mother a nymph called Lirlope The wonderful beauty of the youtl aused many to love him, but he wa yold and indifferent to all. A poor little nymph called Echo love4 im so dearly that she pined away an( lied because he would not care for her At last Nemesis, the goddess of retri bution. decided to punish him for hi: bard heart. She caused him to fall in love wit as own image as he looked into 1 ream, and as he could never read this beautifn. reflection he gradualla perished with hopeless love. His body was changed Into the beau iful Cowers which have ever sino borne his name.-Pearson's Weekly. Laughing Disclosures. Concerning the laughter of th, Frenchman. it should be noted tha yur neighbors have worked out a sys em of character reading by the vowe mn which one laughs. Laugh In A (ou English "Ha. ha!"). and. -according to Larousse. you reveal yourself as fra:'k nonstant and fond of noise and move ment. Laughter in E ("eh, heh! would be the English rendering is to phlegmatic and melancholy. Chlidrei ad simple persons laugh in a Frencl ("He. he!"). showing themselves de roted, but timid and Irresolute, and I [ observed that blonds laugh "e be!" '"Ho, ho. ho!" Is not tbe laugh >f an ogre. but of one who is generou i sentiment and bold in action, though ,f a woman who laughs like that on' sould beware. But both men and wc men who laugh in U should be shun med like the plague, since they hay given fair warnings that they ar misers. hypocrites or misanthropes. London Chronicle. To Rule a Husband. To rule your husband. my dear lady lo exactly as you please. but alway pretend that you do as he please hat is where your ability comes im iHen are ruled, as children are, by th prospect of a reward. The reward o your husband is your amiability, you weetness, your devotion and you beauty, of which you should take: :onstant care. Love has to be fed cot tantly. Always let hIm suppose tha It is for him that you wish to remait beautiful. The woman who believe that she Is asserting her independene every time she puts on a hat partict larly displeasing to her husband Is a lever and as intelligent as the Irist man who buys a return ticket at a rait road office and on entering the car r4 marks to the passengers: "I have pla3 d agood joke on the companly. I hay bought a return ticket, but I don mean to come back."-Max O'Rell 1 "Her Royal Highness. Woman." Otherwise Sane. Eaminintg Physician-Have ther ever been any Indications of Insanit i your family? Applicant For Lif Insurance (with visibie reluctance) Yes, sir; one. My father was the vk4 tim of a haliucination that I was bor to be a great musician.-Chicago Trit Had Him Fast. Cynicus-It is impossible for a w< man to keep a secret. Henpecke don't know about that. My wife an I were en;:aged for several weeks b< fore she said anything to me about i -Philaephia Record. Not Merely Fractured. "Does pour new baby break yot rest much?" "Break It! He pulverizes lt!"-E: change. _________ OpIum is used as a medium of e: change in some parts of China. i t s a dangerous thingr to take a coup nedicine containing opiates that merel .tifle your cough instead of curingi Loles Honev and Tar loosen~s and cure .e cough :and eXPels the poisonol ermns, thus preventing pneumonia at onsumption Recfuse substitutes at ke only the genuine Foley's Hlon< id Tar In the yellow package. W.1 Brown a Co. A Bunker. Howe-Don't you know anythii abo't golf? Wise-Not much. Why? Howe-What's a bunker? Do yC know? Wise-I suppose it's one of tho: cranks that simply live'on the links. Milwnkee Wisconsin. The Jest which is expected is alrea( dest royed.-Johnson. A Changed Girl. "How is It that Julia is so- jealol and luarrelsomfe? She used to ha such a sweet disposition~ "I know, but the past year she h: been singing in a church choizr."-Be ttnor a meriC3/d BREAKFAST. It Should Be a Substantial Meal, Says a Physician. It is customary to make the first meal of the day slightly the lightest, and distinctly the plainest and sim plest of the three. If there be any deficiency of the appetite breakfast is the meal at which this is most likely: to show itself. Put this lack of appe tite I-: in n!nc cases out of ten clearly traceable to sleeping in an unventilat ed room or to late hours Ir foul air the night before or to insufcient exercise the preceding day and is no indication: that the body really requires less food at this time. Perfectly healthy men who sleep with their windows open and go to bed at a reasonable hour will tell you that they enjoy their break fast as well as any other meal of the day, and many even call it their best! meal. Another popular delusion in regard to the lightness and unimportance of the breakfast is that widespread sub terfuge. the "continental breakfast." consisting of a cup of coffee and some fruit or a single roll. This is a very pretty breakfast as far as It goes. but It doesn't go far, and the sole basis for its adoption on the continent is that it is only intended as a temporary tide over until the real breakfast of meat. eggs, fish. etc.. which is taken at about 10 or 11 o'clock, like a very early luncheon. If you haven't got a good appetite for breakfast make It your business to go and get one instead of allowing yourself to be blinded in this morbid state of affairs and deciding that all you really need is a cup of coffee and a roll or an orange.-Dr. I Woods Hutchinson in Woman's Home Companion. A TENNYSON STORY. The Poet's Mistake and the Way He Tendered an Apology. England's great poet Tennyson was, a somewhat gruff and formidable man., whose manner with curious strangers was by no means gentle and pleasant. Once a young woman who had been just Introduced to the great man at Freshwater was left alone with him on the seashore. She stood In immense awe of the poet and therefore did not interrupt him as he sat speechless, gazing straight ahead of him at the The long silence was broken at list in an astonishing manner by Tenny son. He was going to open his lips and utter some lovely thought, the young woman imagined. Instead he opened them and in gruff and gloomy tones gave voice to this remark: "You creak." The girl started back in horror. Tennyson added an explanation: "You creak. Your stays creak." This so startled the young woman that she ran away and went indoors. where a large company. she found. was gathered together over te.. In a litJe time Tennyson appeared. a vague expresvion on his countenance. as though something had gone wrong with him. The girl. now accounting him possibly mad and certainly lmpo r lite. tried hard to hide away from him. In vain. His eagle eye found her out. He threaded his way among the other guests toward her. took her hand and said in resonant tones before the whole company of them: -'My dear. I beg your pardon. I find It was my braces." Three Great Books. Pride goeth before a fall. according to the proverb. but it often happens that the fail does not take place as ex pected by the cynic-al observer. Mrs. Benedict, for example, was very proud -of her daughter's attainments at schooL iMrs. Benedict herself had had little schooling, but attempted to make up for it by retailing Margaret's triumphs to her friends. One day the minister's wife was call ing. "Yes. ma'am2." Mrs. Benedict said in -reply to a question; "Margaret Is way up In all her classes, 1 can tell you. They've been reading Shakespeare's -plays latterly, and Maggie's buying SIthat little edition one by one so she can have it at home. She keeps them rup in her room. r "t me see; she's read 'Hamlet' and --there was two more-oh. yes, one of - 'em was 'Romeo' and the other 'Juliet.' ti "I enjoy hearing her do them out oud, Mrs. Bradley."-Youth's Compan - Doubtful Ccmpliments. s The colonel who, taking his leave at a garden party, Inquires, "Have I had - tho pleasure of saying goodby to you. Miss Mary?" the hostess sweetly e~s -suing a distinguished pianist who has e risen abruptly from the instrument t with a sarcastic protest lest he should disturb the conversation that he does not do so at all; the young man who, on being told that a possible rival had taken the lady who is speaking in to dinner the previous evening. declares i' that "that's all hes fit for"-these are e deided Instances of this class of bad - compliment, while for a well meant but lukewarm one poor Nc -eman Noggs' reply to the collector's query respect ~-ing the Kenwigs' new baby, that it wasn't a very nasty one, may be cited. -London Academy. Well Off. Counsel-YOU speak of Mr. Smith be ilg well off. Is he worth $10,000?! Wtness-No, sir. Counsel-Two thou -sand? Witness - No, sir, he isn't worth a shilling. Counsel-Then how is he well off? Witness-Got a wife. sir, who supports him, slr.-New York rJournal. -To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals, and to have a def erence for others guides our mann'o. C- tere. F'or indigestion and all stomnach trou hbles take Foley's Orino Laxative. It 13 7 the natural remed-- for imdigzestion, -dv~pepmia, hear!' .. bad breath, sick Sheadache, torp)". ,.er, biliousness and habitual constipation. lFoley" Ormno d fxati'e sweetens the 5tomach and dbreath. and tones up the entire alimen tar systemf. W. i-. Brown & Co. Cvnis was the nmime applied to a school of philosophers founded by An gg tisthen.', a pup!! of Socrates. The 'nain ten'et of the extreme cynies was Ithat civilization is a curse. *sad true uhappiness can be obtained only by gratifying the most primary physical eappetites which mar- has in common -with brutes. The general attitude of the cynics as distinguished from that Iof the stoics, who regarded everything in the external world with indiffer ence, was vne of contempt. They were not an important phIlosophical school numerically, but attracted attention s largely by their eccentricities and inso e'-e. On account of their contempt foT relnemtnt their name came subse s quently to be applied to any one who d-- takes a mean view of human life. ew Ynrk Amnerican. A The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 3 years, has borne the signature of - and has been made under his per. sonal supervision since its infarny. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Al Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pieasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotie substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, eures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates. the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend. CENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kid You llHae Always Bougli In Use For Over 30 Years. TU MW CtU4 mAR. TV KuULAY 9.mCC.. new YOUE CITY Are You Honest? With your land when for the sake of saving a few dollars you use a fertilizer whose only recommendation is its analysis. It requires no spe cial knowledge to mix mate rials to analyses. The value of a fertilizer lies in the ma- - terials used, so as not to over feed the plant at one time and starve at .another. This is why Royster brands are so popular. Every in gredient has its particular work to do. Twenty-five years experience in making goods for Southern crops has enabled us to know what is required. See that trade mark ison every bag TRADE MAR1K REGIST EREC' F. S. Royster Guano Co. NORFOL.K, VA. In theFightJi The decks are cleared for action. I am now in the race r cash trade, and I have a splendid stock of everything eeded on the farm or in the household. I cordially invite an inspection of my stock of ry Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hate, lothing, Crockery, Tin, Wooden and Hardware. GROCERIES alkinds andi ini large q1uant1ies. Cone to myl store. price myI goods. examinell the quality. nd if not aS cheap) as the cheapes~Qt. then: don t buy from me. I have made special arrangemenfts to do a large cash trade his season. and I rally realize that I must. to do busmness. meet sharp competition. This I have prepared. :or. I want you r trade. Yours. etc.. B. A . JOH N SON . BRING YOUR AJ OB W TOTHTE TIM