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Stock of Seasonable Merchandise. Entire Bankrupt Stock of Aaron Abrams, consisting of Clothing, Shoes, Dry Goods, Millinery, Fancy Dress Goods, Embroideries, Etc., must be disposed of-in the next 30 days, at 50 cents on the dollar. Sale begins Thursday, March 31st. Don't miss this great Bankrupt Sale. The Store That Flies The American Flag. MANNING, S.0. LIQUIDATION SALE. RESIDENCE A one-story eight-room house, with barn, stables, and other valuable improvements, on one-half acre lot, on West Bonn dary Street, in Manning. PEOPLE'S TOBACCO WAREHOUSE A large tobacco warehouse. Building alone cost,- about $5.000. On eighty three hundreth of an acre, Cburch Street, Man ning, S. C. Will sell one third interest for $1,050. FARM One hundred and sixty-fire (165) acres five miles of Man ning. Bounded by lands of J. A. Gibson. L. R. Gibson, and Amzi Tindal. FARM Two hundred and ten (210) acres tive miles Northeast of Man ning. Bounded by lands of D. W. Alderman, C. H. White, and J. E. Kelly. AU this property will be sold at very low figures, either for all cash, or part cash and balance on time. GASOUNE ENGINE A 9-horse power gasoline engine is offered for sale at a bar gain. STORE FOR RENT The store building heretfore occupied by the W. E. Jenk inson Company is offered for rent. Possession can be given in about forty days. NOTICE TO DEBTORS Having disposed of the stock of general merchandise, all accounts will now be placed in the hands of our attorneys for collection. W. E JENKINSON CO., Manning, 5. C. HORSES, MULES, 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 sing-le article. Come and see us, if unable to do. write or 'phone No. 10. BOOTH-HARBY LIVE STOCK CO. SUMTER. S. C. BRING YOUR MJ OB W OR K TO THE TINES OFFICE. WHITE FACES. Effect They Produce When First Seen by Co;sred Races. Either Stanley or Livingstone per haps told the world that after long living in Africa the sight of white faces produced something like fear. (And the evil spirits of Africa are white.) Well, even after a few months along with black faces I have felt that feeling of uncomfortableness at the sight of white faces. Something ghostly, terrible. reemed to have come into those faces that I had never Imagined possible before. I felt for a moment the black man's terror of the white. At least I think I partly real ized what it was. You remember the Romans lost their first battles with the north through sheer fear. The fairer the weirder, the more spectral the more terrible. Beauty there is in the north. of its kind. But it is surely not comparable with the wonderful beauty of color in other races. To appreciate the beauty of colored skins it Is not simply enough to travel. One must become familiar with the sight of them through months and years. (So strong our prejidices are:) And at last when you perceive there are human skins of real gold (living statues of gold with blue hair, like the Carib half breeds) and all fruit tints of skins, orange and yellow and peach red and lustrous browns of countless shades, and all colors of metals. too bronzes of every tone-one begins to doubt whether a white skin is so fine. (If you don't believe these colors, just refer to Broca's pattern books, where you will find that all jewel colors ex ist In eyes and all fruit colors and metal colors in skins. I could not be lieve my own eyes till I saw Broca.)i I have seen people -vbo had griss green emeralds Instead of eyes and topazes and rubles for eyes. And I have seen races with blue hair.-Cor. Lafeadio Hearn in Atlantic. TRICK ANIMALS. Sometimes the Trainer Has to Do His Work Quickly. "You wouldn't believe how fast you have to work to train an animal," said the man who has broken everything from elephants to geese the other day. "Why, I can tell just how many hours' it is going to take to break in any kind of animal you might mention. "A woman came to ine the other day and said: 'I want a trained goose for my magic act. How much will you. charge me to break one? "'Sixty dollars.' said I. ''Well, how do you figure that out' she asked. '"Why. It's very simple,' 1 said. 'It's $1 an hour, and it will take ine ju-t sixty hours.' -Yes, sir; I can train a geose-that is, to follow me around and do some slimple tricks-in sixty hours, a pig in thirty hours, and so on. But as for a peafowl and a guinea hen-they can't be trained In a hundred years. "Now, you take a troupe of trained dos. That doesn't take half as long' to do as people suppose. No, sir; a man with an animal show has got to work fast. Why, maybe the boss, comes around on a Monday morning and says: 'Here-here's a bunch of ai es Now make an act out of it for next Mondays show.' "'There are six green dogs to maki into a troupe in a week. Can't b done. you say? Sure. It can' On< dog-one trick-one day. That's th principle. and you can do It too. Enl dog will learn a trick each day al right. One will learn a back somer sault. one a front somersault, one tc walk on his hind legs. one on his front legs, one to roll over, and so on. Them by the end of the week you've got a nice little act. and all the people ar acclaimin; about your years of pa tience and that sort of stuff. Patlence is a good thing. of course, but the secret is just 'know how;' that's all, --New York Post. TRICKED THE SAVAGE. The Explorers Forced Him to Lead Them to Water. A party of explorers, four in num ber. were traveling across the sandy plains of Western Australia. They had been struggling on for weeks and were now greatly in need of water Their two camels had not had any water to drink for nearly a fortnight. After a time they came to a deserted camp hidden among some trees. While they were looking at the still smoldering camptires they were star tled by some dreadful yells, and a shower of spears, thrown by a num ber of black savages, came fiying about them. This made the travelers so angry that they rushed after the blacks, who fled in au directions. After a stern chase they found one of the savages up a tree. As he would not come down, one of the travelers climbed the tree after him. Presently a branch of the tree gave way, and they both came tumbling down, but without hurting themselves much. The travelers asked the black man where they could find some water. but he would not say. Then they tried to get friendly with him and gave him some food. But. although be enjoyed the 'ood. he would not tell them where water was to be found. Then one of them had au idea. He took some tinned ment. mixed Into it a handful of salt and gave it to the hungry savage. The black soon cleared It up and seemed to enjoy It. much to the amusement of the travel ers. Then they sat down and waited. in about an hour the savage began to get fidtety and wauted to leave them, but they would not let him go. Presently he began to wail: "Wa ter! Water'" Jumping up, he ra:n to tue denses: part of the scrub, followed by the white mets. Clearing away some twigs. he re vealed a hIdden pool of clear water That is the way the spring was dis covered. Beastly Business. Plainfleld Commuter-Tht's a beast ly business Shortly has gone in for. Somerville Commuter-What's he do ing? Plaineid Commuter - Raising bull teriers.-Subaurbanite., If we have not <quiet in our owsn minds, outward comforts will do noth ing for ust-Eunnan. A TIMELESS WORLD. What Would Happen if We Were En tirely Inclosec by Clouds. i .f astronomers are right in ascrib L U- the wonderful brightness of Venus I to the existence of an atmosphere con tin-ally filled with clouds. then she must be a world withoUt time-at least there can be no measurement of time there such as we have here. It is because we can see the sun and the stars that we are able to traverse the oceans and run railroad trains i across the continents. Surround our earth with an unbro ken shell of clouds and what wou:d be come of all our clocks and chronom eters? Not a ship could safely cross the sen; not a railroad would be abc-! to run its trains without a series of frightful wrecks. In a few weeks every clock and watch would be hope lessly wrong and all exact timekeep Ing would cease. Probably there are few who stop to think of the way in which our every day life depends upon astronomical observations. Our great primary time keeper is the earth rotating on Its axis. If we could not see the-sun and stars because of clouds we shouid not know that the earth rotates and there would be no standard to which we could refer our timepieces and by which we could correct them. In fact, we should probably have no time pieces. There could be no hours and min utes, for they are exact divisions of an ideal day based upon celestial.ob servations which would be lmrossible to us. They could not be based upon clocks or other mechanical devices. because the most exquisite chronometer that can be constructed will not keep time indefinitely and must be continually corrected by means of cbservations of the stars made In the observatories. There could be no accurate maps of countries or charts of the seas, for such maps and charts can be made only by the aid of astronomical obser vations. There could be no parallels of lati tude or meridians of longitude, for they, too, are based on celestial ob servations which would be impossible to us. We should not know with any cer tainty where we were upon the earth. We could not measure the distance from New York to London nor from New Yorlk to San Francisco. Poetical minds. moved by the spec tacle of Venus in her glory. have drawn bril!!aut pictures of the delights of life in that radiant world. but thare is another side to the question of which we mny well thin! as we gaze admiringly upon her electric splen dor.-Garrett '. Serviss in New York The Last Word. Y 6.uld bear in miud. said the pub'lisher. -that fou:-liths of the peo pie who read novels are women." "ThaLts why I ca:! my new story -The Last \Vord.' " replied the nUve~sis. -:very woman will want it.-Phia Impoverished Newlywed -Whmat. $C0 for a hat: iWhy, it's simaply ridin!ous, my dear: .\:r. Newlwed-Thats what I thouht. liarold: but you said it was all w. ciinld affrd.Ulninentt NAMES OF CMTES. They Are Frequently Miscalled bl Travelers Abroad. "How far are you going?' asked m: fellow traveler as we came across thi St- Gotthard. . -To Paris," I replied He looked puzzled. Then I recollecte< that he was an Italian and that he bas told me he bad never been out of Itali before. "ParigL" I said. smiling an( he knew at once what I meant. Then it occurred to me to mentior London to him and see *f he under stood. He obviously did not. "Loa dra." I translated. "Ah, Londra!" ho repeated. -Yes, yes." Here were tw( of us journeying together across Eu rope in an ::ze which is supposed tC have broken down the barriers that once hindered free Intercourse, yet we were not even agreed as to the names of the principal places on our route. He called 111an Milano. Florence Firenze. Turin Torino. Naples NapolI. For Basle he said Basile= and Lucerna for Lucerne (which the Swiss them selves call Luzern. pronouncing the "z"- like ts). Stop a moment, though. When I say he called Florence Firenze. and so on, I am laying myself open to miscon ception and the charge of insumar In solence. Rather should I put it that we English call Firenze Florence, just as we call Padova Padua and Livorno Leghorn. We cannot even give the Eternal City Its proper beautiful name. Instead of Roma we say Rome. which is only a trifle better than the Ger mans, who deep down in their throats grunt out -Rom." The Germans are very bad ofenders in this matter of miscalling places, for they give them often such cacophonotis equivalents as one would never think of connecting with the real name. The first time I went to Italy I let the t'.:n leave Belii:zona without me. I was drinkin.t a cup of cofee and it slipped of. I thorou.th!y enjoyed a sunny September afternoon's ramble amid vineyards and along the shore (so far as I recollect) of an enchanting little Inke. Then I went back to the station to catch the evaAing service to \ilan. Presently a lon7 and Important look Ing train thundered in. On it were boards-"Berlin-Malland." I regarded them idly. wondering where Mailand was and why I had never heard of it before. I* w:as only when I saw a friendly porter wildly summoning me to enter and heard a guard crying out. Chiasso, Como. M3lano.' that I re dized the situation and understood iland to Ie German fo' the city we ra!l Mian. Te German for Venice is even more ill sounding-"Vcnedi;.' Who would ever associate that harsh trisyllable with the -lorles and lovel. Less of the miracle city of the lagoons? -London fa*I. A Wife's Early Lesson. . euriolus custo~m used to accompany anl .::-Saxon betrothal. After the _.i-; of tej rint the father -ave the on-in-law ne of his daughter's shoes. vi:h which the son-in-law hit his wife in the head to teach her subjection: ater on a more modAerate i': castign tio.n wa.s su;:gestedt. an Lhree blows ith a b'roomnstick became the custom: -"The Mionths of the Year," bys I1er. Pemberton Lloyd. ,The Sumter Iron Works, SUMTER, S. C.. Under New Management. MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES. Struthers-Wells Steam Engine. Stover Gasoline Engine. Nagle Boilers, all sizes and types. The Hege. Central Foundry and Machine Co. "'Vance Saw Mills and Wood-working Machinery." The Buicks & E. M. F. AUTOMOBTILS All types carried in stock forimmediate shipmant. All at the right prices and on satisfactory terms. Drop us a line for full particulars. Give us a trial and let us show you. Yours very truly, The Sumter Iron Works. FERTILIERS! FTILZES" We are now manufacturing at Manning all grades of Commercial Fertilizers and so licit your patronage. We use only high grade material and "NO FILLER." MEAL MIXTURES A SPECIALTY. We make the price right and guarantee satisfaction. See us before you buy. Manning Oil Mill C. D. SDROTT. President and Treasurer.