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THE UGLY LEOPARD He Is a Cattle Thief and Even a Human Being Thje. WORSE THAN UON OR TIGER. Szes Its Prey by the Throat and Cflngs With Its Claws Until It Greaks the Spin, of Its Victim or Strangles It. Less in size, but even more ferocious, the leopard has a worse character than the tiger or lon. Living mainly In trees and very nocturnal, this fierce and dangerous beast Is less often seen than far rarer animals. It Is widely spread over the world from the Cape of Good Hope to ttL Atlas mountains and from southern China to the Black sea, where It Is sometimes met with in the C cas Any one who has frequented the zoo for any time must have noticed the difference in size and color between leopards from different parts of the world. On some the ground color is almost white, in others a clear nut brown. Others are jet black. Wherever they lve leopards are cat tle thieves, sheep thieves, dog thieves -.and human being thieves. Though not formidable In appearance, they are im menely strong, and It is not unusual for them to turn man eater. Both In India and In Africa they have been known to set up In this line as delib erately as any tiger. They have four or five young at a birth. The cubs can be kept tame for some time and are amusing pets, but it is extremely dan gerous to have them about In Hongkong an Englshman had a tame leopard. It was brought Into the dining room by a coolie to be exhibit ed to the owner's guests. Excited by the smell of food, the leopard rfused to go out when one of the women, who did not like his looks, asked that it be removed. The coolle took hold of its collar and began to haul it out. It seized him by the neck, bit It thr.>ugh and In a minute the coolle was dying. covered with blood, on the dining room floor. The Chinese leopard ranges as far north as the Sibe- --= tiger and. like the latter, seems to row larger the farther north it is found. The color of tfe northern leopards is very pale. the spots are large and the fur Is very long. The zatives of all countries are unan Imous in declaring that the leopard Is more dangerous than the lion or tiger. They have no fear of the lion, provided they are not hunting for It, for It will not attack unless provoked, but a leopard is never to be trusted. In Africa a number of natives were firing the reeds along a stream. One of them, a boy, being thirsty and hot, stooped down to drink. He was Imme diately seized by a leopard. The boy's brother, with an admirable aim, hurled his spear at the leopard while the boy was in his jaws. The point separated the vertebrae of the neck, and the leopard fell stone dead. But the boy -could not recover. The leopard's fangs had torn open his chest and injured the lungs. The latter were exposed to view through the cavity of the ribs. Be died during the night. Leopards are essentially tree living and nocturnal animals Sleeping in trees or caves by day, they are seldom disturbed. They do an incredible 'amount of mischief among cattle, .'cavs sheep and dos being especia ly flond of killing and eating the latter. !They seine their prey by the throat 'and cding with their claws until they hoceed In breaking the spine or in 'htrangling the victim. They have a hit of -feedin-g on putrid flesh. This 'aeswounds Inflicted by their teeth claws liable to blood poisoning. tNothlng in the way of prey comes 'amiss to them, from a cow in the pas 'tue to a fowl up at roost. 'In the great mountain ranges of cen ral Asia the beautiful snow leopard is fonnd. It is a large creature, with thick, 'woolly cost and a long tall flM a rur boa. The color Is white, clouded with beail gray. like that of an Anzgora cat. The edges of the cloud 'ings and spots are marked with black 'pr darker gray. The eyes are very large, bluish gray or smoke colored. ~It lives on the 'wild sheep, Ibex and thrmountain animals In captivity is fr the tamest and gentlest of the Scarnivora, not excepting the pu Unlike the latter, It Is a sleepy. animal, like a domestic. TeWest African leopard skin is mnre hanme than the Asiatic, the spots being very distinct and cdear. He ashey usually go in coupies are fond of hunig cantonments and ~around native towns, where they pick up a goat and now and then a baby. SOne night I was camped In a native tow and after I had retired the ua ~1eas was their custom, 'were sitting ~about a great fire asking my caravan all sorts of questions, for the African m agis the greatest gossip in the prorld. Suddenly a child's cry rang ear, followed by a great clamor. Rush ~igout to discover the cause of alarm. I wsa Informed that a leopard had sinlen from the anesse and quick as ~a flash had grabbed a -four~year-old chbM and made off with It. The child jwas seated In the midst ef the grown men and women. The latter could oniy lament their loss. They knew it jwas useless to try to pursue the beast into the dense bush. The leopard is so bold that even in daylight he wtil wander about a town or a white man's premises. It Is not ~at all unusual te get a good shot at a 3eopard from a bungalow i-oranda or a mud hut door-Plttsburg Dispatch. No Need to Stop Work. When your doctor orders you to stop work, it staggers you. "I can't you say. You know you are weak. run-down and failing in health, day by day, but you must work as lontt as you can stand. What you need is Electric Bitters to give tone, strength,. and vigror to your system, to prevent breakdown and build you up. Don't be weak, sickly or ailing when Electric Bitters will- bene:i: you from the first dose. Thousands ble.s them for their glor:ous health and strength. Try them. Every bottle is guaranteed to satisfy. Only c4. at all druggis.s Only That. "I don't know whethe: I ought tc tecognize him here in the city or not. ~Our acquaintance at the smashore was .very slight' "You promised to marry him. didn't you?' "Yes, but that was al."-Louslle t man ought to feat g to the purpose be orge lint A WILY ORIENTAL Guile of a Tricky Native Snake Charmer In India. GATHERED IN THE SERPENTS. It Was No Troub!e to Him to Lure the Reptiles Into His Basket, and the Supply Was In No Danger of Giving Out and Losing Him a Job. Among the numerous objectionable and dangerous creatures peculiar to the orient none Is more repulsive than the snake. One shudders Involuntarily as one thinks of Its wiggling body and vicious characteristics. During my residence in India T never felt safe from its presence. I bad my closets, bed and even my bath'.ib searched er ery day lest one should be found coiled up in .some corner, writes Eliza K. Van Bergen in the Christian Intelli getcer. I was always on the watch for the creatures and ever In mortal terror of tread g on one. It never occurred to me to sleep without a light, and a stick was always near at hand lest I might find one unawares and be un prepared to meet It. I even looked upon my thin mosquito curtain as a slight protection, for It would at least break Its fall should a snake tumble down suddenly from the ceiling. The creatures have a decided pref erence for cool, damp places and often choose the bathroom and sometimes the tub for their habitation, much to the discomfort of its rightful habitue. It is not unalloyed bliss to live in a place infested with serpents. With such formidable enemies, one never forgets to be cautions, nor to guard against their presence and sudden at tack. It makes one alert to be in the midst of danger and adds spice to life. Well, as I started out to say, my garden was infested with snakes, and I was persuaded to have a native charmer summoned to lure them away. His hideous occupation, weird Incantations and strange pets sur round the snake charmer with a pe culiar fascination. His magnetism and skill are considered phenomenal in the cast. This specimen was tall and lank and had deep, cavernous eyes and an ab stracted air. Some of the creatures were c*lled around his wrist, which made him still more repellant. He handled them as if they were per fectly harmless. About the neck he wore a chnin with a flute attached. Two other jugglers accompanied him. snimlarly attired. but minus the snakes. One carried a closed basket on his arm. He stopped at a respectful distance to make his esalam." which Is the customary salute of the county. Then he approached the aloe hedge which inciosed my grounds, squatted himself' tailor fashion on the grass and began to produce weird, plaintive sounds on the flute, to which music the reptiles entwined themselves around him and seemed to sway their bodies to and fro. After some time a snna appeared, gliding slowly and stealthily out from the hedge toward the spot where it beard the enchanting music. The charmer allowed it to come quite close and to wind itself around his arm. Another followed and yet an other, while the other two men stood by hokding a basket ready to receive them as soon as they unwound th~em selves. At least a half dozen ap peared and were disposed of in this manner. After being captured they appeared as if in a stupor. Horrified with his performance. I begged him to stop and bade him leave the place. He assented and, picking up the basket, departed with the snakes without ever caing to play his uncanny tune. His compan ions gathered up the rest of his be. longings and followed him. I paid a certain sum for each snako thus dis patcher!. He came repeatedly thereafter and went through the same performance,. conjuring up more reptiles and dispos ing of them in the same way until I began to uspect some trickery. He . refused to allow the snakes to be kill ed, insisting that they were sacred and must not be put to death. It looked as if he replaced the snakes in the . hedge after removing them. and thusC be multiplied their number and in- 1 creased his gains. I was finally forced to have him re moved by the police and threatened with punishment in order to keep him away. Nothing would persuade me to permit one of the fellows to enter my premises again. Amply Qualified. Proud Parent-If you would win my daughter, young man, you must prove to my satisfaction that you have forti tude, patience under discouraging cir pumsences, strength of character. courage, an indomitable will to suc ceed and, above all, an abliity to bear with misfortune. Hare you those qual ifications? Suitor-I'ye known your: daughter for some time, sir, and am asmen you for her hand. Do you wish1 other assurances? Geo! Cause For It. "A friend of !.mine who visits that newly married couple saw the husband the other day throwing stones at hiL "Good heavens! Was she hurt?' "Notabit of it. She wasjust tckled to death. They were damonds." Balmore American Never let familiarity exclude respect -Vanburgh. The polnsetta. which was named aft er .Toel Poinsett of So.uth Carolina. !s a shrub of Mexican origtin which makes a very interestingt and attrac-tive house plant. The leaves are remarkably large and smooth and shiow a mo'st interest Ing variatk'n in outline,. while the bloom is e-qually unique. the: yellow blosson bein:: b-.rr.-e just abo. ve a cr ce o.f beautiful crinsen* 1gets o'r smal leaves. The plan1:t thrives und~er aver age conditions and has no, pe.sts wh!ch molest It. Durinzr the p'ast ntnh 'cotton has seen th hhs pri V rerdsine the cvil wrapr-ic-e ofSMOpr ae being id therf.z 'n t be Ne'w Yor-k otton 1-'xzh:en;:. This unusual .prl~c CASTOR IA : For Tnfants and Chuidren. The Kind You Have AMways Bought Bears the Si~naL-o f ~7 6cE4 HOLD THE RIGHT IDEALS. Latent Courage an4 the Powar of Men tal St.ggestion. We not only can strengthen mental weaknesses and deficiencies, but It Is perfectly possible to Increase the gen eral ability through the power of sug gestion, says Orison Swett Marden in Success M3ag-azlne. Indeed, the sus reptibility of all the mental faculties to Improvement, to enlargement. Is something remarkable. Sometimes very strong faculties are latent until especially aroused. There are many people who pass for cow xrds. -o are humiliated because they have ... little courage, when. if they mnly knew how, they could strengthen this deficient faculty wonderfully by ttolding the courageous Ideal. by thinking and doing the courageous leeds. by carrying the thought of fear lessness. by reading about heroic lives, by constantly thinking the heroic thought and trying to live It. The !ourage may be small In a person be :ause It has never been called Into utlicient exercise. It may need only to be aroused. There are many people living lives of mediocrity who might lo great things, might become mental ;Iants. if their dormant faculties were roused their general ability Improved md enlarged. The Number Nine. There were nine earths, according to mediaeval cosmogony. nine heavens, aine rivers of hell and nine orders of mngels. The number being perfection ;luce It represented divinity was of ten used to signify a great quantity, as In the phrnses. -A Line days' won ler," "A cat has nine lives" and "Nine tailors make a man." In Scotland a Uistempered cow was cured by wash ng her in nine surfs. To see nine mug ges was considr.--ed cxtremely lucky. Nine knots maide in a black woolen thread served as a charm in the case )f a sprain. It was also believed and Ls still by some that if a servant girl ands nine green rpeas In one pod and Lays them on the window sill the drst man that enters will be her beau. Nine grains of wheat laid on a four leaved clover enables one. It Is said, ta ee the fairies. The Curse of Genius. The somber, long haired, seedy look ng man was speaking In a voice of -oiling thunder. "A million times a million fateful urses sit balefully athwart his hateful head of tow! Through the gloomy eons nay his Llack soul fit homeless for ter!" "Off his balance. I suppose?" ob ;erved the stranger. "Oh, no." said Smith; "that's Rlmer, he well known poet, swearing at the -ditor who rejected his verses."-Puck. No Ptactical Difference, "I made a mistake," said young Mrs. rorkins, "and picked up my locket In itead of the little gold watch you gave ne.". "Never mind," replied her husband. "The only difference Is that the watch loesn't tell time and the locket doesn't ven pretend to."-Washiftton Star. Knew What They Were. Examiner-Well, my good boy, can ron tell me what vowels are? irst Boy-Vowls, zur? Ess, of course I can. Onaminer-Tell me, then, what are rowels? First Boy (grinning at the simplicity of the question)-Vowls, zur? Why, vowls be chickens*-Lonadon An swers. Sundays Only. Mrs. Hoyle-Your husband's business keeps him out of town all the week, I mderstand? Mrs. IDoyle-Yes, he is at home only one day. I call him my Sunday sulpplement.-New York Press. The Easy Way. "You must take rigorous exercise If rou expect to regain your health." "Aw, shucks, doet why can't I take ome kind of a patent pill?-man 3lty Journal. No man or boy Is ever the slightest ;ood in this world unless he has ambi :on.-Lord Stanley. A Dreadful Sight o H. J. Barnum. of Freeville, N. Y., ras the fever-sore that had plagued his ife for years in spite of many remedies te tried. At last he used Bucklen's trnica Salve and wrote: "it has en irely healed with scarcely a scar left." leals burns, boils, eczema. cuts,bruises, wellings, corns and pil -s like magic. )niy 'L35c. at all druggists. COMPRESSED ICE. sinks in Water and Crumbles Into Powder When Warmed. All know that ordinary Ice will float. lhis relative lightness of Ice with re pect to water is due to expansion of he water at the moment of freezing. [T water is frozen under immense >ressure ft seems that this expansion s prevented and lee heaviler than wa er is produced. G. Tamman has prepared this modi Icatlon, which he calls Ice III., as ~ollows: He compressed water to 3,000 dlograms (6.614 pounds) and cooled t in solid carbon dioxide snow and inally In liquid air. Under these con ltions a colorless, transparent Ice Is 'ormed. It Is much denser than ordi tary Ice and heavier than water; con equiently It sinks when placed in wa er-. Ice IUT. Is very unstable, anid on light warming it swells out and' >reaks up into a dense white powder. Ehe volume of the resulting powder s apparently four to eight tImes that >f the original Ice. This powder form si by the breaking up of the dense orm is nothing more than ordinary ce In the form of fine crystals, which, ~f course, on further warming melt at :ero degrees centigrade. Experiments on Ice III. show that it s Impossible to obtain It by separa ion from v:atier at atmospheric pres nre and then suddenly cooling. There vould never be a possibility of this mnstable form of solid water being 'ormedl in nature.- New York Tribune. A Prosaic interpretation. Prnfesso.r Brander Matthews of Co umabia in one of his brilliant addresses n the drama said of an unimaginative .nd ;'r..aic dramatist: "H~e it was, I ami sure, who in his -couth vi beingr asked In examination that Shakespeatre meant by the phrase armons In stones' wrote in reply: 'When passing by a tombstone you nay learn the name aind the dates of ii'th and death of the departed one .nd also from the inscription a vain ble moral lesson from his or her life. Valkng along a road you may see roma the milestones the number of ales to the nearest towns and thus ac u-re geographical information. Heaps f stones by the roadside Indicate that' epairs are to take place and so indi nrit a tamm In nentnae, "-D..etrot r,.. Nurse Says: 1H "I know what is good JH for young and old peo le,' writes M'Vrs. Clara ykstra, a traned nurse of South Bellingham, Wash., "and will say that I consider Cardui the best medicine for girls and women. It makes them feel like new persons, re lieves their pain and reg ulates womanly troubles. N "Both my daughter and I N received great benefit." E 51 51 eCARDUIl Take The Woman's Tonic As a medicine for fe male trouble, no medi cine you can get has the old established reputation, that Cardui has. Fifty (50) years of suc cess prove that it has stood the greatest of all '0 tests-the test of TIME. As a tonic for weak wo men, Cardui is the best be cause it is a woman's tonic. Pure, gentle, safe, re liable. Try Cardu. 04 Sheriff's Sale. By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Clarendon coun- ' ty, State of South Carolina, in the case of J. C. Scott and James E. Atkins, Plaintiffs, against T. I. Walk- M er. Fannie-Alice Walker and D. W. Alderman & Sons Co.. defendants. i will sell at public auction for cash to to the highest bidder in front of the court house in Manning. S. C., on salesday in March, 1911, being the 6th day of said month, within the usual hours of sale, the following real estate: All that lot, piece, or pircel of land with the buildings thereon situate, lying and being on the North side of Main street in the town of Summer ton, county of Clarendon and State aforesaid, measuring and containing in front on said street forty-seven (47) feet, on the back line fifty-three (53) feet, with a depth of one hundred (100) feet, be the said dimensions more or less, butting and bounded as foi lows: North on lands of S. M. Col lough and J. C. Lanham; East by lands of J. C. Lanham; South on Main street; and West on lands of S. UI. Colclough. Purchaser to pay for apers. E. B. GAMBLE. Sheriff Clarendon County. GrocerieS OF ALL KINDS Alway FreshI AND Prices. Right Mouzon's Grocery P. B. MOUZON. PaoP. W. KL TAVEL, Civil Engineer AND Land Surveyor, 'Sumter, S. C. Office Over Blank of Sumter. NOTICE. Estate of Ola Pearl Cox(now (.askins). Notice is hereby given that on the 9th day of March, 1911, I will apply to the Judge of Probate of Clarendon ounty, S. C., for a final discharge as Gardian of said Ola Pearl Cox (now askins). WV. F. KENNEDY. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. all persons indebted to the estateI f the late Dr. W. E. Brown are re- j~ cqired to pay the same at once or N the same will be put into the handsj of an att- -ney for collection, and ali persons l...ving claims against the estate will present them to MRS. MA RIAJH S. BROWN. Executrix of the Estate of Dr. W. E. Brown. LOANTS NEGOTIATDE On First-Class Real Estate Mortgages. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Manning, S. C DR. J. A. COLE, DENTiST. Upstairs over Bank of Maomiog. MANNING. S. C. Phone No ~7. Foley Kidney ' Pills What They Will Do for You ~ They will cure your backache, strengthen your iidneys, cor.. rect urinary irregularities, build up the worn out tissues, and eliminate the excess uric acid that causes rheumatism. Pre vent Bright's Disease and Dia. bates, and restore health and NEW The People's Bank~ ~th e opening of its door middle of next month. CORPS OF OFFICERS: ~ .HCRIGBY. Viceresident. N= R. C. WELLS. Cashier. Place of Busine3 The building form M, SClare ndon, adjoining Sready equipped with be en secured for this i: field. A new, trippl< lock, Manganese steel Shas been purchased a Cdays. ~All Banking chased and is expecte( ness about the middle CAPITAL STOCK The capital stock of SBank of the People is g $2o,ooo.oc 8 divided into four hur Sshares of $50.00 each. 8 stock already subsc 3 for, 25 per cent. of whi Inow in the presid hands, the balance 1 8 called for in 10 per cen 8stallments per month 8been well placed anion Ihome people, not a doll eit being owned out o: Icounty. TheCourteou: Themany well wi Sprise, who have expret eto give us their accoun uif you live out of to, cto the president or cas Stion on any point, whi and courteous attentic Searly day to place bar ~your hands. LTDE PlOP C)F My BANK of Manning announces 's for business about the DIRECTORS: W. C. Davis. J. H. Rigby. A. C. Bradham. Jno. D. Gerald, L. H. Harvin. S. 0. O'Bryan. is and Equipment. erly used by the Bank of store of J. H. Rigby, al- I an excellent vault, has M rivasion of the Banking M a movement, Yale time- E safe, and best vault door 9 id is expected in a few e upplies have been pur- . l in ample time for busi- E f March. 0 00 POLICY. this Not a single man has M been allowed to take over @@ One Thousand Dollars @@ worth of stock. We have had applica }tions for stock from out of g the county, but following gg out our policy to have it @@ idred owned and controlled by e@ - our own people. we have The held these applicants offg until all of our people are g bdin who care to come with - 1h is"WestiU have afew thous. 0@ ent's and dollars of stock for 0 sale, which we desire to :o be place among our people in . one. two, three. four, five @@ . in- and six share distributions. @ hasThe public can at once @ hasSee we have not orqanized 2 a close corporation. with g gour all of its stock in the hands @@ f of a few men. but that itis @@ ar of to be what its name signi- @@ [fth ies. the Bank of the Peo the ple, absolutely free from any handicaping alliances. sAttention. shers of this new enter sed their determination ts and do business with ~ vn, may address a letter a hier requesting informa chi will receive prompt >n, and we hope at an ik and check books in Respectfully yours, A\NNING3.