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llANNING, S. C.. EW'N E "19.10 Peablisbes All County and Town 0 ficial Advertisements. Advertusers will please r member that copy for change of ad. MrST be this ofEce by Saturday Noon in order insure nublication the following wee ST. PETERS, NO. 54 A.F. n. NvxWeting June =nd-Xxat MLo Degree. FL wrvrm. W. . FxzD Lr.sxLr S RUTH CHAPTER. NO. 40, ROYAL ARCH5~15~ Royal Arch decree will be con !erred Monday nrxzbt. June 13. 1910. W. C. DAvi. . . Ct.A RK. High Pr-.%t- Secretarv. fMannin-Chapter. .'o. Ordcr of Eatern Stnr. Regular Meetngn First Tuesda Each Month. at S O'clocli P. M Ma.oie HaU. \'itors wekon (M%-s) FRANES DAVis. W. MJ (Miss-) MAL7TRA DAVIS. SC BEN FEED I l MIS Ce. MAKES HENS LAY. FOR SALE BY Weinberg's Grocery. "Where Quality reigns Th~ewrk of continuing the oncre work in Manning has begun. Mr. J. H. Loryea of St. Matthews 1 in Manning visiting his father. Mr. A Laryea. Mrs. John W. O'Dione is in Manninz on a visit to her paants, Mr. and Mirs C. R. Harvin. Died at Statesville, N. C., Monda; of last week, Minnie Grant, the tw< old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarenc E. Wilkins. The electric storm Sunday night wa one of the severest we have had thi season, but we are glad to say that w have net heard of any serious damag done by it. Mrs. Everette Alexander, of Sumte cony, seta part of last week wit hefriedMrs. M. L. Barnett. Sh isaconsin of Rev. Gregg, former pasta of the Manning Presbyterian church. It is strange how some men permi themselves to be so sensitive that the will not see they are wrong. They it agine things that have no particle c foumdationn. and really do themselves a injustice. Quite a number from Manninig wer to Summerton to witoess the game C baseball yesterday, between Summe: ton and Lamar. They report a spendi game in which our Summerton boy won by a score of 3 to 1. Mrs. R. A. Boyd, of Reddick, Fia with her three young boys, who ha been visiting her daughter, Mrs. S. 1 Till, left ytsrterdav, accompanied b Mrs. Till and children, to spend while with relatives at Winnsboro. The Woodmen of Tt-rbeville have ot thanks for their kind invitation to a' tend their picnic. We had intended 1 be with the Press Association at tha time, but we shall forego that pleasu: and be with the Choppers if possible. Mr. Fred Lesesne. Secretary of S PeterstLodge No. 54, A. F. M., hasaboc that will greatly interest all Masonsi this county. He will be glad to have tt Masons call at his office at The Le' Mercantile Company any time to see i Rev. L. A. Cooper, pastorof the Mar ning Baptist church. will speak at tt State Baraca Convention at Savanna next Sunday, and in his absence R~e A. C. Wilkins, of Abbeville, Wi preach in his pulpit Sunday mornir and evening. We have been asked the questio: "who is to furnish diplomas for ti graduates of graded schools, the scho patrons or the trustees?" It is the eu tomn for diplomas to be furnished by ti trustees and they are paid for out the school fund. The DuRant lads put the blocks Manning last Wednesday in a matc game of ball. The Manningites con not play ball a little bit, their siste can beat them at the sport. DuRaa put it on them good and nroper, wit a score of 14 to 5. The annual picnic of the Presbyte ian Sunday School will be held at i home of Mr. Miles Plowden. (old Tind place), on Friday of this week. Wa gons will leave the church at 9 o'cloc Let all who care to go be at the chur< promptly at nine, with their baskets. There are signs of booze about her and the parties who aro selling it, ha better stop. The people regardless their views on prohibition. are not goba to condone lawlessness. and the man w. deliberately set defiance the law w be made to suffer the consequences his folly. Capt. I. 1. Bagnal has accepted a r sition of traveling salesman with Fickc Jordan Company of Charleston. Ca; kHagnal is a grocery man of long exp< ience, and with his nice address and i sincerity it will be but a short time f him to build up a large business in t: territory he will travel in. Ficiken. Jr dan Comnany has done well to e Capt. Bagnal's services. The proposition to vote anothert mill tax for school purposes is meet with approval by the majority of t patrons of the school. The whole thing a nut shell is. that the trustees mnt have more money to run the school, they will be compelled to runt school a much .,horter term. We ha the school. and it has a recordi that: of us are proud of: it is now up~ to: voters to say whether the s.chool is continue and imptrove. or whether would be a --und economy to' runt school a half termn arnd secure in di!T est teachers becausre tey can be e Dr. .ilton Weinberg ;,f this town. wii graduate at Johns Hopkins Give. Sit. -inore. Tuesday e-eninz. 14th. Messrs. Leon and eram '\nberg, and Mis,. Irma Weinberz. will leave Sunday to attend the exercises. afte-r which thev will go on to New York. ye, f. it is a fact. Mrs. Weinberg is going. May they all have a nice trip. - Married in th- W-aptist church last Wednesday aftern->on by INev. L. A. Cooper, Miss Emmiie R Johnson and Sr. Edgar E. Crow The groom is from Fair Forest. Spartanburg county. The c attendants were Mr. W. P. Coan of Spartanburg. and Miss Julia Cuttino. a school mate of the bride. The church was beautiiully decorated for the occa sion. Mrs. L. A. Cooper played the wed ding march. and Messrs. Frank Moffett and Leon Galloway were the ushers. Af ter the ceremony the couple took the train for the up-country. A Splendid School Closing. The Mannisg graded school enter tamined a large concourse of people last Friday evening in.its magnificent audi torium with the most successful exercis es it has ever given to the public. The audience filled the auditorium to its full capacity, and the number oi persons are estimated at about one thousand. The program was well arranged and most celightfully carried out. The musical D numbers were indeed unusually high class and splendid!y performed, the young ladies acquitted themselves most grandly. One of the features of the oe Le casion was the violin solo by Miss Mar Sgaret Cooper. a child of 12 years. ac companied by her mother on the piano. Mrs. Cooper is a musician. But the most interesting and surprising feature was the debate. The debaters far ex celled the expectations of the audience, and everybody is felicitatinz the teach ers for the manner in which they devel oped the minds of these young folks. and brought from them such happy results. The debate was indeed a revelation to all whose good fortune it was to bear it, and it was no little task for the judges to decide which side had the best of the argument: notwithstanding the decis ion, and also notwithstanding the diffi culty the judges had to contend with. and their intention to be absolutely im partial, there are many who viewed the contest differently and would have given the decision to the other side, however. both sides are entitled to sincere praise. The annual address was a very gratify in feature of this memorable occasion. and the speaker has every reason to feel proud of having his words, so eloquently placed, received with such a unanimity of gratidication. The following is the program: Music.......... .....Miss Bowman. Music......................Miss Appelt. Debate.-Query: Resolved. That For eign Immigration to the U. S. Should be Further Restricted by the Imposi tion of an Educational Test. Affirmative ...........Hughey Tindal. Negative........ .....Maude Bradham. Musi .............. NMrs. Cooper, Margaret Cooper. Affirmative ......... ..Madge Wood. Negative. .............Bennie Fulton. The Star Spangled Banner.. .Quartet. Music ................Miss Brockinton. D Apdress and Presentation of Diplomas ...... ....... George B. Cromer. Class Song-"Annie Laurie".. Quartet. s Delivery of the Melton Medal........ ................S. Oliver O'Bryan. The Tennyson Poems-a prize. ..................Charlton DuRant. r The Reuben B. Loryea Medal-Girlt: 7th Grade........Mr. Harry Lesesne. REPORT. Old Black Joe..................Quartet We regret very much that we ara un able to give to our readers Dr. Geo.B eCromer's delightful address, the effort was made to get from him a manuscript, s then he was requested to give a synop s sis, but he had no manuscript, and being in great demand all over the State for a such occasions, he was too fo'-y to even write out a synopsis, hence he left us high and dry upon the sands of disap r pomntment, for his addrcss was such an i one, that we should have been delighted ato have reproduced it for the benefit of r our many readers, especially those who could not be present to hear it. Doctor Cromer is at home on the platform, he twas a teacher, then an instructor in a r college, later a professor, and finally - the President of the same college, the i Newberry college one of the colleges in the State that has sent out many of the brightest minds in the country. The ad dress treated of high ideals, the kind of citizenship which goes to make a State. He laid especial stress upon the power of education, and told many humorous ancedotes, all of which had a fitting place in his wise and beautiful utter ance The judges for she debate were Hen. John S. Wilson. Chariton DuPant, Esq., and S. Oliver O'Bryan. Esq Judge Wil-: son in appropriate words announced the decision, and also in a happy vein presented to Bennie Fulton the prize. a fiye dollar gold oiece, for the bes.t r style of delivery. But in order to give our readers the function as seen by o another, we herewith reproduce what t the corresnondent of The State gave to e his newspaper: "Manning, June 5.-The closing ex ercises of the Manning grided school -were held in the large auditorium of the graded school building last night,. n whan diplomas were given to 11 gradu-l e ates, five girls and six boys. It is sin 1 gular this ratio was maintrained very ~closely throughout the report made by Superintendent. J. C. Daniel. For in stance. there was a total enrollment of 313-155 girls and 258 boys: uot tardy during the year, 133 and 133 boys: ineither absent nor tardy, 13 girls and 15 bovs. The debate last night by four members of the graduating class was participated in by a boy and a girl on ~either side. Altogether, it seems that .e this is a typical co-ed institution. ) The program last night included sev s. eral charming musical numbers, piano Le renditions of exceptionally high order y by Miss Bowman. Miss Appelt, Miss Bockinton and Mrs. and Mliss Cooper. and vocal selections by a male quartet. :o The subject of the debate was: "Re solved. That foreign immigration to d the U. S. should be further restricted es b the imposition of an educational it test."' Hughey Tindal and Madge Wood * spoke on the affirmative side, while Bennie Fulton and Mlaude Bfradhamn argued for the negative. The decision r- was given in favor of the negative. and e Bennie Fulton was awarded the prize i of a five dollar gold piece for the best delivery, but all the arguments were of - unusually high order. h The feature of the evening was a scholarly address by D~r. Geo. 11. Cro mer of Newberry, whose s.ubject was: e, '-The Call of The State." Hie was intro dduced by Senator Louis A\ppelt, and ofheld the'vast audience for a half hour in rapt attention. iThe Melton medal was delivered by l~S.b. O'Bryan to Hughey Tindai: the oTennyson poems prize wa. deliverea~ by Charlton Dul-ant to Edna IBlanchard. o Jand the Rleuban Bi. ryea metial for 0the best seholarship among the girls *Iof the seventh grade was. de-liveredi by Harry Lesesne to Mi--s Lucy Wilson. At the close of the exercises Maj. .\. Levi. Chairman of the boaird ofhrustees. r- for 'he year just closed. sayiog it was et the best in the history of th'e school. that the schoo! now ra.nks among the best in the State. and that students t who complete the course here are ad ig mitted to any college in the State with te out furither examination, Hie annonc in eu that so satisfactory had been the ist work done tnat all the faculty had been or re-elected, except one young lady teach eer, who was not an applicant for re e lectionl and that it was with reluctance 'btat 'he was al!owed to go elsewhere. dMajor Levi .-aid' :inally that a Pronosi to ton wou soo be submitted to the ivoters of the .chool diatric: to levy an e additional : mils high ,shol tr x :n~ -meet* the expense of the i:ncrea..ed fac~il -itie's and eldicicy of the schoolA. :or tr. uts, niued to overaowtirz to hear the an::aal serr en by Re2. .. 'dii. If Roc Hiil. The sermon wa: ap~prpriat. it was a consensu-t of op inion that the visiting minister was wise in the selection of his subject. and his manner of delivery was epecially good. The music was rendered by a splendid choir. under the direction of Mrs. G. H. Huggins. The fcllowing was the program: Voleuntzry---Zin .Aw;ake-- 14. %1;chac*. Costa Hymn. No. 1<3. Praver.............. .. tev. A R. Wcoodof n Scripture Readm;-... ...... Rev. F. H. Shuler Antnem -"u Lo.'ver of' My Su" A.shford SCrmon..... . ............. 1i4 I. R. Mij'S Anthem --!. 11ai: The.' Pwer of J-u% Nams--........ ........ - -.T. wn Prayer. ...............Ie-. . A Coop.-r Hvnn No. ot~. The Sern. LIFE.-HUMAN LIFE IN A ROBE OF FLKSH A REALTY, NOT AN X3IPTY DREAM, AND EXACTLY WHAT WE MAKE IT. 1. Our text consists of two ques tions: the first from the fourth verse of the eighth Psalm. and the second from the fourteenth verse of the fourth chan.er of James. They are a- follows: "What is man?- "What is your life" And first we are to con si'ier l.-"WHAT IS MAN7 i. We contempliatc life or humtn existence in this world with amaze ment. Here before us is a man, the greatest tricnotomy in the universe. with body. soul, and spirit: he is in deed the greatest invention of the ages. And first we notice his body a most wonderfully devised piece of mechanism. which the ingenuity of man with all of its cunning has never been able to duplicate, to counterfeit or to make one just like it. Artificial hands and feet, and to a degree use ful devices, have been made and plac ed on ling stumps. but they have been but poor imitations of real hands and feet. And beautiful wax figures. and other imitations of the human body, have been made and sold at fabulous prices to our wealthy Parisian merchants. who have dress ed them in the most beautiful and richest costumes, and placed them in their show windows to please and to catch the eye of the passersby. And thess figures have possessed the most beautiful contour of person; they have had the rosy lips and dimpled cheeks, but the best of them, even the most perfect ones-those representing the greatest skill and ingenuity-have been but poor attempts at anything like a successful imitation They have eves and see not, ears and hear not. lips that never moves. and "the breath of life" could not be breathed into their nostrils. Their bodies could never throb and pulsate with life. The human body cannot be counter feited. 2. Indeed, the human body is a vniracle of invention and only a Di vinitv could have designed and made it. two hundred and fifty bones, a; thousand ligaments, a wonderful sys tem of arteries and veins. and a per fect telegraphic system of nerves: the most wonderful and complicated ma chinery in the universe: and all work ing in perfect accord The most won derful building in all the world is "the house in which we live," with its win dows, the eyes through which the spirits in prison get a view of the outside world; ears with the most per fect accustic properties; and a voice capable of a thousand musical varia tions. The human body is indeed a wonderful piece of mach:nery: And Dr. Hillis in his splendid ad dress on Ruskin calls attention to the fact that all other inventions are only imitations of the human body. The idea of the pump. for instance, came from the human heart with its valres and its action by which blood is fore ed through all the human systeni. The idea of the hinge came from the the human elbow. The id-a of the drum and violin wrhichi are used in music came from the humnan ear. The idear of the lense which is used in the telescope and in the camera caine from the mechanisn' o? the human eye. The idea of a church steeple from the natural position of the hands in prayer. And so on with every oth er so-called invention in life-man is only a copyist, or an imitator of God, the Supreme Artietect and Designer of all things. No idea is original with man; they are all conceived in the infinite mind of God. 4. And still more wonderful than the human body-still more wonder ful than the machine itself-it is spir it, or the life, by which it is actuated: that apparitional self that makes the machine live and move. Over all this machinery and pervading its whole construction is the spirit, that mys terious something which we call life, tht mobile something which the chemist has never been able to har ness and which the scientist has never been able to locate. It defiies the laws of human elucidation. 5. And then folded up somewhere in this robe of flesh is the soul-the psyche, the divine part of this most wonderful trinity, the part that came from the bosom of Giod, and which will return unto Him "when this house of this earthly tabernacle is dissolved." And it is in obedience to the behests of tnis deviner self that the hands move, the~feet walk and the lips speak. And thus we see what man is, that God should be mindful of him. He is the greatest t-icbotemy of the Universe-body, soul and spirit, a trinity in unity; the last and the no blest work of God. 6. Dr. Munsey, that wierd divine of the old Holston Conference. in speak ing of Man has thus summed up the whole situation in a very beautiful metaphor: The human being: is a great metropolitan municipality-a little kingdom in itself-of which the head is the capitol. And in the pal ace of the brain are domiciled the of ficers and wardens of the kingdom. In charge of the records of state is a great historian-Memory -who never forgets. And adorning the parlors and the corridors of the palace are the superb paintings of that master artist-Imagination, who is daily hanging pictures on memnories wall which can never be erase-d. And then in the great halls of state, each in its own particular sphere, is Reasons Judgment and Conscience: Con science being the chief justice of the municipality and before whom we ar raigned a thousand times a day and made to give an acceount for our thoughts, our words and our deeds. And there also in the great throne room of the brain, er-mined and dia demed in royal authority, is the Will. the real "power behind the throne" Iat whose command the wvhole king dom moves: and thus is Giod's master-i piece seen in motIon. WVonderful in deed is mnan: 7. And now as we take a retrospect of man and consider his most miracu lous and divine concept ion: his most wonerful construct ion, the vile (lust of the earth becoming ilesh and bonge: when we consider his great capacities and almost unlimnited possibilities; his achievements: and, furthermore, his m ot myterious pasnge through th is life, we canz but exclaim with the ~rph~et of Gjod. in this ii master it.ce, Behold What Goed Hathi ' rought: Here in man is Giod's hihest and nsoblest earthlly concep) tion, his highest and his noblest earthls idal: ln'dee.d lie is the cous necting link bet ween earth and hiea en. Thue Psalmist sav's t hat Giod made man "only a little lower than the angels," and, therefore, hath lie crowned him with glory and honor. and given him dominion -r all the works of his hand-, and "hath p~ut all things under his feet: all sheep and oen, yea and all the beasts or the field: thie fowl of the air and the fish of the sea." 3But now what of the life of man through this world and unto what which I am especially anxious for us to consider in this addre-s. We can not tell yon in any abstract terms iun exactiv what the apparitional or the soul life i-: for it cannot be explained. No philosopher, no Old Testament seer or New Testament prophet. no poet or artist have ever been able to tell us just what life as the power to move and do the actions of life is, and as has already been remarked. no scientist has ever been able to bar ness it. And yet we may know some thinz of its most mysterious passage from time to eternity by observation and experience, and we may illustrate its wandering from the cradle to the grave. II.-LIFE A REALITY. 1. And at the very outset experience teaches us that life, human life in a robe of flesh, is a reality. It is not a "delusion of the mortal mind which Christian science,' false so-called. "corrects.- Lit -re is a real exis tence, with its real and actual con tent, and its logical conclusions and sequences. all as real and as actual in its existence, as God himself is real and existeth. Think all you may wish to think that life is not real-that it is only a dream-and you cannot change the fact of your existence. And, furthermore. every projection of life is real; all the feelings, all the pleasures and sorrows:-all the sin and disease, are realities which must be reckoned with. Indeed nothing could so ex'actly coincide with "the eternal fitness of things" as human experience-the feelings. pleasant and therwise-the man in his knowing and feeling existing. 2. Indeed, human life in all of its phases is exactly what God had in view when he made this world. Why magine if von can, this old world for E moment without human life-with >ut man, its master tenent. and all :hat he has achieved, and it would be a failure, the tremendous failure f the devinity who made it. It takes the life of man to complete iod's pur pose in the creation. t ;. But the soul ushered into &ife ith almost the pangs of death knows aothing of the hard path that it is to tread. It is unconscious of the fact that the dawning of life's morning it but prophetic of the closing day with its setting sun and dawning shadows. which day may be one of gloom or a unshine, of cursing or blessing. ac- I ording to the will of the Father and c the choice and violitions of the indi I ridual. And, indeed. the great ma S jrity of men and women, in a long life of even three score and ten years. r never learn the full meaning of life- C aothing of its possibilities, its oppor tunities or its great responsibilities. hey never get a vision of the full C meaning of life: and so like turtles they shut themselves up in their own little sphere and exist and die unto themelves and the world is not bless d or made any better by their hav ing lived in it. But happy the man like Milton or Hugo. or Jeremy Tay- r or. or Luther or Knox. or Wesley or t WVhitfield, who feels something of the s -reat responsibilities of life and gives s himself a living sacrifice upon the al- s tars of love to bless humanity and I this old world: Happy the man, and a iappy the age in which he lives. True. 1 we cannot all be men like these just t mentioned. but through a wise choice s >f the better things of life and the f right exercise of' our minds we can at c east be happy ourselves and in Jesus c the Eternal Rock of Ages find a sweet : efuse from the storms that would v therwise wreck and ruin a strug- C ling soul tossed upon the surgisag %illows of the sea of life; and indeed t -o good man ever died in vain. II.-3IETAPHORS-LIFE ILLt'STRAT KD. 1. But now unto what shall we lik- i an i e~ The Bible speaks of it under II multitude of metaphois, or flguresj( f speech, which are at once striking1 nd full of instruction, and they af-J ord us a wide and interesting field of study. And now in the light of some these striking presentations found I in the Bibles and also in the writings f good men, let as see how life may I e illustrated. And, first, we would t suggest that - (A) LIFK IS A DIAL- - . Life is a dial upon which time asts its passing shadows, with .its morning. noon and night; its rising ind its setting suns, its lights and its hiadows; its spring-time; its summer;C its autumn and its winter; its begin inig and its end. Life is a dial; and we know that "time is fleeting." and,. therefore, that the hands on the clock n the steeple of Time will neither atop nor turn backward. -'Time and 1 tide wait for no man." A man may top and sit down and waste the gold, n opportunities of life, but timne noves on. The hands of the old clocks f Time are always turning towards eternity, and thus bringing the man nonnt by momenc, and hour by hour. nearer to the Judgment and toa n accounting with his Giod. 2. How true to life that old, old tory, in which a man in the autumna nd winter of life is represented ass oing back to the old plantation, to the old house at home." now the 1 habitation of strangers, and after look ing about the premises, he getsa pe mission to go up into the garrer. and there he finds among the rubbish, his little trundle bed about which his nother taught him his evening pray ers. -Now I lay mne down to sleep." nd in which she used to tuck him 4 snugly awny at night, and giving hima the good-night kiss, leave him to slumber and to sleep. And now as these memnories of a long ago are pass ing like shadows through his mind, and as he hears again her lulabys, and feels ago the imprint of holy lips, and hears her good advice, which he has not followed, and as he thinks of the tolden opportunities which he has, thrown to the winds, he prays: - rurn backwara. 0. Time. turn bucanard m t .E make me a cbud again. ;ust Cor to-night B'ut every tick of the old clock, and < every stroke of the hammer upon the gong, seem to moc.k him while he pras. Time will not turn backward. in its flight, and therefore he cannot go ack and gather up the lost oppor tunities. :And so opportunities are like; childhood days: wheu once they have passed. we cannot recall them. They are gone forever. Therefore, when a man 51pends his timne in foolishL.ess, as for instance, in playing 1-> ball pool or in gambling his life awvay, he is punching golden opportunities im to meshyv pockets that will never give* them up. l am sorry for the man who must lament the follies of a misspent youth and the days of lost opportun 4. And now hear me. young man.; and let these wordls sink down deep into our heart: Fortunes are made and determined early in life. There fore the Bible says. "lUemember now th Creator ini the days of thy y'out h, whle the evil days 'omelL not, nor the1 year draw ni:gh. wthen thou shalt sayv, i have no pleasure in them." Rtemem-i er God now: in the b~almny days of early liie, wile the sprinig-birds oft youth are singing ini the treetops of hope and while the soul Ike a tender ough or plant. may he easily t rained about the rounds of the ladder of faith, and thus early caused to look uoi -not down-and given sucha isirn of heaven, its eternal home, and the rewards of a life well spent, thea.t it will be strong in the Lord and in the poe of his might." Few ar the men who turn to God in the au tmn and winter of life. Their will: w-ill not bend to God-s will, and so hey live and die "without God and without hop'e in the world." The! strongest characters, those who have bcome pillows in the great building of our Jehovahism, have been men ror illustration. Moses. David, Sam nel. Timothy and a host of others. . - honest conviction i. that if a oung ~man is now 21 years of age and is not anything. the probabilities are he will never be anything. I know it is said that he must sow his "wild at.' but it. is the devil's lie. for if he apends his youth "sawing wild oa's." be must of necessity spend] the rest of bis life. or at least a good part of it, reaping tbem: *for whatsoever a man oweth that shall be also reap." 6. The men who have brought things! o pass in the by-gone days have been nen and women who have done things n a hurry, have done them in the *pring-tme of life' Alexander the 3reat was conqueror of all the world rhilo yet a very young man: Napoleon Vas Emperor of France while vet a ery young man, and lI:obert E. Lee vas commander-in-chief of the armies )f the Confederacy while yet a young nan: and among women .Joan of Arc ras commander-in-chief of the armies )f France at the tender age of only 17. tnd Grace Patti was delighting the vorld with her melodies while she was, -et in her teens. Men and wu.nen vhose character; are not made, and he die to whose lives is not cast by the ime they are twenty-one are seldom. f ever, worth anything irolife. . at the great trouble today with >ur voung people is that the majority >f them have the wrong ideas of life. [hey get the idea that it, must be all unshine. one continuous round of pleas re and dissipation. But life is not all unshine. It is not all all a yachting ex ursion across some placid lake or sea r a picnic in some beautiful wood or ook. It has its shadows as well as ts sunshine. and there must be work S well as play. 8 Neither is life all shadows. Some >eople of a pessimistic turn are forever 'looking into dark holes," and on the lark side of things. They judge the ord by feeble sense. And true. "The bud may have a bitter taste. But %weet will be the !lower." And dark may be the clouds, and breatening the skies, but every cloud as its "silver lining." and it is not ight everywhere. "Somewhere the %un i% shining. Somewhe-e the song birds dwell: Hush then thy sad repininz: God Alves and all is wel.'' Acress the brightest life, sbadows nust sometimes fall, but the poet. "The nan worth while." is the man who an smile," when everything goes gainst him. And so our first conclu ion is this: 9. "The man worth while." is the an who makes best of the life as it omes. and lays hold upon present op ortunities, and by the grace of the ternal God suamounts the difficulties f life. does his level best: and He who does the best hI" circumstances al lows. Acts nobly, does well: Angels could do no more." (B) LIFE IS A SENTENCE. 1. And now in the next place we may emark that life is a sentence; some imes simple, sometimes complex and ometimes compound. We have seen the imple life. the Christ-like life, the life o simple and so sweet that we were ale to think of the very angels of God; nd. as a rule, these are the evangels of ave that bless the world and make it etter by their having lived in it. How weet the life that is "hid with Christ a God:" Its setting sun must always ast a gleam of light across the horizon If our spiritual vision that must bless .nd cheer and help us the longest day re live. And- then we have seen the omplex life. Such a life was Peter's, , life which is -sometimes up and some imes down." And then we hare seen he compound life, the Jykie and Mr. lde sort of life. But whether a long r'short life, simple, complex or com-. ound, they must all come, sooner or! ter, to the period, to the stopping soint., and be brougnt, face to face with od before his judgment to be remem eretd by what they have done, and udged according to the deeds done in he flesh. 2. Again, life is a sen?'-ce declara ie. It, dect.res ,,he existem.... of God. h.~ever we consider man's environ ent, the various expressions of life in he world about us-the budding trees, he fragrant flowers and climbing vines. he luscious fruits and ripening grains, il in rich profusion about us. we can tut exclaim, '-Behold what God hath irought"' for back of all of this crea ion, back of all of this life, must be irst cause. and that cause is God. "In he beginning God." Life is a sentence teclarativye. 3. Again, life is a sentence interroga ie. '"What is you life'?" Exactly what ou make it. And this is the one great act that I am trying to get before your1 ainds in this address. Life is exactly rhat you make it. by the help of God. -How' careful that ought we to live. 'With what religious fear, who such a trict account must give from behavior." (C) LIFE IS A V*OY.WAE. . And then life is a voyage. Hapoy he man who takes Jesus for his pilot .nd the Bible for his chart: The trou des of life may be manp, but he. who athered up the waves of the sea in his .rms and said. "Peace be still," and tilled the tempest. can also still the torm~s of life in the troubled heart. appy the man who takes Jesus into ~e boat of life with him to be his pilot .nd his guide from the cradle to the! :rave. st)) LIFE KS .1 1OOK. 1. Again life is a book, with its pref c, its beginning, its content and its ud. We are all :ravelers to the judg nen, and as we travel we are writin book. the book of our lives. Lowell tas said: Oni which each oru- mus-. wri:e .i- r.'- :n ncu -,n:r ie night of death and the book is tin shed. During life we are making hi5 orv and writing in a book. This book vill be :inished at the hour of death, ealed and sent up to the jucgment: and his is the book that shall be opened rhen we are judged, when the secrets f all hearts anal be revealed, and out > it we shall be judged. I\~.- ONCLL*SION. So then the :inal conclusion is simply his: We shape our own destines and etermine our own feature. WeC spek if sel-mde men. .1ll men are self nae. Therefore, if we go wrong taie autis ours. We make the history and e wr'te 't down with our lives. 2. o '-ow in closing I w;.at to impress i- fact. upon your minds: Your pres n' life i-. an index to your future des .in. .indm so rememnber th,- words of ,'akepeare: There a.l tl.c hono.tr : ut more especially reiimmber the xords of H~cly Writ.' -Quit you like men, t' strong in the Lord. and in the power tf his might." 1 Finall:.. I 'aul .peaks of~ life as a race. And says he, "Forgetting the~ hings tha't are behind, let us !ay aside every weight, and the stn whieb dothi o easily beset us. and let us run with patience. the race that is set before us. ever looking unto .1esus. the author and finisfer of our faith." Hiave you made mnistakes? Uf course. you have. Forget them. Do btter, and the world will a: o forget them. .\nd, !f forgriven. Cod will forget them. Says Bobby Uurns: .\d ge -r far demen vo-at Timece'-e n :th kindI ..i.i-nv 'a 2. Then let me exhort vou. Lay aside th weight and the sin which has been continuahr besetting you, and run with all our might the race that is set i~efore vo. If yon have been neglecting the ra.ce and have stopped by the way. it is indeed necessary that you now r-un wita all ,..u,. migh- in order to make up. if you can. for the neglect and the foies of the past. . The fact i.e rime wo R and Dlav wi th the thoughtless and giddy world. We are "rleeing from the wrath to come..* :ud this does not mean tO fool along, but as Marrison has said. to .cratch the dust and get." In our1 church vows here at the altars of th. church, we promised ".o flee from the wrath to come. But some people are like the little negro boy. who in slave times belonged to my wife's grand-fath - er They would send "Rastus" to the soring, and he would forget to come back. and thev would have to send some one for him, and when he was brought up to account for his neglect he would sav. '-Clar fo Goodness, Miss Sue. I fo go:." Some Christians are acting as though they had forgotten their vowb: and their Master's business. "The King's business demands haste." There is no time for daily-dallying and play with the world. 4. May God help us then to realize this morning, that we are travelers to the Judgment: and let us so live build ing up Chistian characters, that when we come to (ie, we may be able to say like one of the greatest men the South has eve.r produced: -Come, (now that the great journey of life is finished, and let us cross over the River. and rest under the shade of the tre-s: % ea. "by those rivers of pleas ure wrhich are at God's right iand for evermore." 5. "What is z.an?" The creature with tne greatest possibilities in the Uni verse. "What is your life?" Exactly what you make it. May you make it a success by the help of God. Court. The court of general sessions assem bled Monday morning, with Judge R. W. Memminger. of Charleston. presid ing. Solicitor Stoll gave out the bills of indictment to the grand jury, and they made the following trie bills: The State vs Richard McLeod. car breaking. guilty. and given two yers. Bennie .ifller. murder. Charlie Thompson. Housebreaking. not guilty. I. F. DuBose, murder. J. M. Rav. assault and battery with intent to kill, and carrying concealed weapons. Charlie Meyers., larceny of live stock. sentenced to tive years and Ai. Hays Fulton. larceny of bicycle, sen tenced to five yerrs and $1. W. F. Harrington. charged with un lawfully trapping fish. not guilty. In the case of Gilbert Miller. charged with abduction. no bill. Jerry Cornell. assault and battery with intent to kill, and carrying con cealed weapon. Ethan Graham. having carnal knowl edge of a woman under age, no bill. Judge Memminger annouced to the court that he had accepted an invita tion to deliver an address to the law class of the South Carolina University for Tuesday evening, and therefore he would not hold court Tuesday, but would reconvene Wednesday morning. There was considerable comment on the streets regarding this, and many are asking if it. is of any consequence to this people. who are taxed to bear the court's expense. whether or not the law class at the university is addressed by one of the judges whose time be longs to the taxpayers, and especially so at this time of the year are the jurors and witnesses anxious to be attending: to their private affairs, and they do not relish being held up at expense, while the judge is entertaining the students t a school. They claim that His Honor when he discovered the address would conflct with his duties. should have notitied the law class of his inability to: be with them. I The business of the court was re sumed this morning, and the attraction I was the bringing down from the peni- I -:.diary Willie Bethune. the negro' convicted of the murder of G. B. Slims Bethune was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. but since then it is al !eged that he has lost his reason, and he cannot be executed. Dr. Frank Butler, the penitentiary physician. i here to testify as to the mental con ition of Bethune. Honor Roll, Manning Graded SchooL. First Grade.-Virginia Rideway, Le land Smith, Alice Clark and Virginia SecondGrade.--Thomas Bagnal, Viola Thames, Mlaude Sprott. .\oses Ievi Ruby McElveen. Daisy Flowers, Dee Jones. Leila Margaret Dickson and I Helen Baker. Third Grade -Pearl Adams. Daisy Barrineau, Bessie Reardon. Georgie Sauls, Isabel Wolfe a.ud Violet A ndre w'. Fourth G--ale -Carolyn P'lowden. George Sistrunk. ."'hie Barron. lBeu la Williams and Irma Mclelvev. Fifth G rade.- -Jtanette Plo wden. Wil iaai Wolfe. N-etta Levi. Addie Wein berg. Henry Grill, Alice Wilson, Sue 31. Sprott. James Barron and Edith Mlims. Sixth Grade.-Aileen Fladger. Mae Spencer. Celeste Ervin. Joseph Burgess and Emily Geiger. Seventh Grade.-Lucie Wilson, Irma Weinberg, Preston Thames. Clara Bag gatt. M1aydell Bagnal. Mary MecLeod and Annie Hirschmann. Eighth Grade.--Pauline Cantey, IRob ert Voodson. Mabel Todd and Clyde Johnson. Ninth Grade.-Julian Creecy, Ciiov Clarke, Louise Huggins. Croswell Davis. Rita Nimmer, M\aria Strange, Pammie Brad ham. Ludlow Timmons, Helen: Boger and DuRant Epps. Tenth Grade.-Hughey Tindal and Bennie F'uton. Invitation to Woodmen. Cvoress ('amp No. 20> W. 0. WV.. will gve 'its annual picnic on the 16th inst.. in the grove behind Turbeville's store. .\i! Woodmen and their families are in vited :o come. but don't fail to bring along well tillevd baskets. Clerk Cypress Cam;p No. 208 W. 0. XV. Tuirbe ville. S. C.. .1 unce 3. 191l'. BUSINiESS .0CAI.S. F::ieof Mattintra:. .1. White & I iav vocr l-urnriture from the Furni ture Stor". .\. .1. White a Co. For Saie- One Cadiliae .\utomnobile. .\ppy to Chas. B. Geiger. Manning S.C. We guarantee everything we seil at! the Furniture Store of .. J. White I orSale Cheap. -One Engine. .ip: ply to C. F. liaaliramon Co.. D~ar: Station. S. C. W\her. in need of Furniture. ge't our ;rice'i. If you can save money. buy from us: if not. buv fromx~ th- :ether' fo. \ Dr. Clitor's Engagement. 1). i ton FEye. Ear. No,e ani Throat cialti : at '7.eiger'- l'hrm'acay :Ir Trea:.'e.. oper-ation=. Eve Ghat.e-': al che.e reasonable'. Exmia iu fre Ct early. )>:e day on;y. :utr NOTICE. A meeting of the Democratic Execu tive Committee for Clarendon out:' is hereby~ c'alld to nmet in the Court House. ~ut Manning~ on Monday, the 1;:ti dav of Jlune next, at Il o'clock -\ I.. for the p;irose of arran~ging for' the tounty campaign mneetings. u-ee.* mert of candidates. and: a' end toan oter busiess that mtay proper>y com:e before the conmittee J. M. WINDHI.iM. 'o- Ch' COMMENCEMENT SEASON IS HERE! How about that Commencement Dress ? Did you know it i. time you were arranging for this? !)on-t, wait to teiephone, but come at once, I'll take pleas ure in ,howing you the mo,- up-to-date line to be found any where. Klnowledge of facts isn't a thing to be absorbed, it must be experienced or acquired by actual investigation. i am showing a handsome Line of Shanting and Foulard Silks. Prices from 50c. to $1 per yard. The Shino Silk is an excelleut value at 25c. A wide variety of colors. Persian Lawns. 25.c. to 35c. per yard. and as smooth as silk. Yet anotber. "Lingerie." nothing better for this pur pose. rnly 20c. per yard Do You want real value? Why not buy Flaxon? Take advantage of a line thiat is not only distinctive, but one of the most profitable of its kind in the market this season. Cotton Foulards, colors that will suit "you," only 15c. per yard. All stylish women and espec:ally the particular ones. will find it to their advantage to come and carefully inspect my line. The time to buy n now, the place is here. It takes values as well as low prict . o make bargains. KLOSFIT PETTICOATS. Fits without a wrinkle. $L50 to $3.00. A bia Line of Laces, from 5c. to 25c. per yard. Em broideries and Insertions, various styles, widths and prices. Forty Dozen All-Linen Handkerchiefs. only 5c. each. Ladies' Hose Supporters, 25c. and 50c. Kid Gloves yet in the desirable colors. FANS! FANS!! My prices will please you as well as the pretty designs. s Never have I had a better lot of pretty fresh and dainty Fans in a more varied or artistic lot of styles. Let us sbow you those wash Buttons in various colors and size-s, also a lot of large Pearl Buttons, very serviceable. MRS. HOUSEKEEPERS! Let us interest you. I have a Line of Table Linen. sec ond to none, especially for the price, only 50c., 75c., 81 and $1.50. per yard. Doilies from 5c. to 35c. each. I have a few very nice ones et on hand. Buv some of those 15c. Towels now for 10c. Some very nice Afl-Linen Towels, 35c. to 50c. each. Bif; bargains in Bleach. Long Cloth and Cambric, yes, at the tid price, fror 5c. to 15c. per yard. This will be a saving investment to you. - Bed Spreads (all new). 75c. to $4. Best 10.4 Sheeting, 35c. to 45c. per yard. Should you desire cheaper. I nave it. Handsomely stencilled Curtains only 20c. and 25c. per yard. Will show you something caeapershould you desire it. Pillow Cases, 10c. to 25c. Pillow Tubing only 20c. yard. A few 75c. Straw Rugs, now going for 50c. The above items are liste.l at prices that forcibly de monstrate strong values, every item is of the highest stan 6 dard of quality. Your early inspection is respectfully soli- f cited. The thrifty housewife mar quickly recognize the superior shopping advantage now offered. Knickerbocker Suits for Boys. I have just received a few dozen Boys' Suits, sizes from S4 4 to 17 years. These are not the cheap, slazy kind, but are all high-class articles. Good enough for any boy, be he good or bad. Think over these things. J4i. H. RIGBYqI IORDER BLANK. D. 0. RHlAME, Druggist, Summerton, S. C. S Enclosed find S............in Stamps, or Money SOrr. Send at onebym7 lo T ExpETs......---, S Please return the change. if any, in stamps. Signed . . . . . . . . . . -- - - - - - - -- - ' MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPLY AT Ri-HAME'S DRUG STORE, Summerton. S. C. THE POPULAR I. I.F. "80"1910 TOURING CAR $1250.00. Mohair Top. Extra S65.00. Freight $50.00 Extra. This is a 1 cylinder siiding gear transmission, cone clutch, 3 wed forward and one reverse car. ~The FLANDERS -'20." same as above E. M. F. car only smaller. :2x:: tires: wheel base~ 100) inches. This is one of the lat est cars out. Designed for the usC of owners and need not employ illed e'raufYours. as every effort has been made to make it fool >iol:. $73u. Freighit 850. Touring~ car mohair top, $55. Runa iout Top. S:30. Rear Seat. S5C'. This Car can be used as a runa bout or tourmgL car. The CHLAL.\IRS DETROIT new 1911 will be ready for dehiv ry in Jl.uly. $1.5c,00. Top and freight extra. We expec few M1-XWELLS soor.. Buggies and Surries. .lust rce.ived two cars of new Butgies and Surries. Two niew cars of Wagons. See our usual stock of Horses and .ules. T.:rmus to suit and right. SHAW & DRAKE, ', 12 and 14i Sumter St., SUMTER. S. C. Loca -a Lone Distance 'Phone 553.