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No Color in the Dark. In the dark there is no such a thing xs color. The reddest dress is just the ;ame color as a pure white tablecloih when both are placed in a dark closet If you would understand this assume the presence of a light wave motion in the ether. The color of light depends upon the length of these waves. The light waves producing the colors in the blue end of the spectrum are very short compared with those that pro duce the colors near the red end. The light source that we know as red gives off only waves of a length to produce that particular color. A body appears red because its surface absorbs all the other waves and reflects the red waves back into the eye. If an attempt is made to light a blue body with red light it will fail, because the blue body is capable of reflecting only the short waves producing the blue. and since the red source produces none of these there will be no reflection and the body .will appear black. A thing looks black when it is capable of absorbing all the colors at once.-St. Louis Republic. Improving the Book of Job. I remember the relief with which, after long feeling the sway of Frank lin's imperturbable common sense, I came upon a project of his for a new version of the book of Job to replace the old version, the style of which. says Franklin, has become obsolete and hence less agreeable. "I give," he continues, "a few verses which may serve as a sample of the kind of vcr sion I would recommend." We all recollect the famous verse in our translation, "Then Satan answered the Lord and said, Doth Job fear God for naught?"' Franklin makes this, "Does your majesty imagine that Job's good conduct is the effect of mere per sonal attachment and affection'" I well remember how, when I first read that, I drew a deep breath of re lief and said to myself, "After all, there is a stretch of humanity beyond Franklin's victorious good sense." Matthew Arnold's "Culture and An archy." An Awful Experience. A native diver d~scended into the water to see whether one of the piers, then in course of construction, had set. While he was engaged in this work a great iron cylinder subsided a little, crushing his hand between it and the masonry. When, on a signal being giv en, another diver came down he found his unfortunate comrade imprisoned under water without hope of escape. 'After a few moments of mute despair and harrowing uncertainty a speech less decision was arrived at, and the newcomer proceeded with chisel and hammer to back off his unhappy com panion's hand at the wrist. The pris oner was thus liberated, but died soon after reaching the surface from the shock. Never. I think, has an opium eater in his dreams imagined a more pitiful spectacle of hopeless human suffering.-"Travels In India." Justifiable Protest. "My wife is one of the unluckiest persons I know," began a Cedar ave nue man, who tells long stories about his household affairs. "She sure is," agreed the victim of the conversation fervently. But his mild sarcasm was lost. "She was hit by a street car recent ly," pursued the narrator, "and got a *broken arm. That's the fourth time in less than a year that something has happened to her. When they brought her to her senses this time I leaned over her sympathetically. 'Better, my dear?' says I. 'It ain't fair!' she yells. ~What ain't fair?' I asks gently. 'Why,' she groans, 'you're the one that car ries all .the accident insurance in this family, and I'm the one that always gets hurt. It ain't fair!' "-Cle-eland Plaln Dealer. The Kangaroo's Kick. When a big "old man" kangaroo stiff-' ens his tail and converts it into a sort of revolving pivot bearing the; whole ,weight of his body, leaving his trenmen dously powerful legs free for attack and defense, everybody who does not .want to be ripped& up or thrown in a heap for a considerable distance will give the marsupial a wide berth. Only those who have seen the full grown kangaroo in his native Australian bush with his back to a tree, scattering dogs, bleeding and torn, right and left, can form any adequate idea of the prodi gious strength the animal is capable of exerting when he finds himself in a tight corner. The Old Man's Opinion. Mr. Scrimpps-I asked your daughter a .very important question last night, and she referred me to you. Old Gentleman--H'm! What did you ask her? -"I asked her if she'd marry me." "Well, she won't." "Bh? Has she said so?" "No, but from what I know of the girl I don't believe she would have bothered herself about me if she had heally wanted you."-New York Week ly. _______ Tommy's Decision. Teacher-Now, Tommy, suppose a man gave you $100 to keep for him and then died, what would you~ do? ,Would you pray for him? Tommy 'No, sir, but I would pray for another lkebhim. Domestic 'Joys. ".Do you and your wife play cards much?' "No; we have plenty cf other things to quarrel over."-Detroit Free Press. Not at All Hard. Borrowell-I tell you, it's hard to be poor. HarCauppe-C-ee! I find it the easiest thiei in the world.-Philadel phia Record. The Polite Chesterfield. A nobleman of questionable veracity told Iord Chesterfield one day that he had drunk six bottles of champagne. "That is more than I can swallow," remarked his lordship. A Historic Irish Bull. Notwithstanding the large amount paid for medicine and medical attend ance very few deaths occurred during the year.-Fromn an Irish Benevolent Society's Report. The Woman Question. Tommy-Pa! Pa-Well, what is it now? Tommy - What's "the woman question?" Pa-Did you mail that let ter?-Toledo Blade. CASTOIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the mionatnre of "Catgut" Frome Silkworms. Probably but a small percentage of the fishermen who use flies strung with fine translucent "catgut" are aware that the almost unbreakable substance that holds the hooks against tho fiercest struggles of the struck fish comes from silkworms. The principal center of the manu facture of this kind of catgut is the island of Procida. in the bay of Na pies, but most of the silkworms em ployed are raised near Torre Annun ziata. at the foot of Vesuvius. The caterpillars are killed just as they are about to begin the spinning of cocoons. the silk glands are removed and sub jected to a process of pickling, which is a secret of the trade. and afterward the threads are carefully drawn out by skilled workers. mostly women. The length of the thread varies from a foot to nearly twenty inches.-Sci entific American. Chopin's Likes and Dislikes. Bach and, above all. Mozart were Chopin's ideals. "his gods.- Hummel. Field and Moscheles were his favor ite pianists. Field's nocturnes were greatly prized by him. He admired Schubert. though not without reserve. Weber and Beethoven only partially satisfied him. He disliked much of Mendelssohn's music and found still less to praise in Schumann, never us ing any of his pieces in giving his les sons. He disapproved of Berlioz. and, while he liked Meyerbeer personally, be heartily disliked his music. Liszt says truly that Chopin sought in the great masterpieces only that which corresponded with his nature. "What resembled it pleased him. What dif fered from it received scant justice from him."-Dole's "Famous Compos ers." The Thirsty Elm. It has been computed that it the leaves of an elm tree sixty feet high were spread out on the ground edge to edge they would cover five acres of land. These leaves, averaging 7,000, 000 to a full grown tree, will absorb .water to the amount of seven tons during the normal summer day. Were it not for the ingathering by the sto mata during the night a few elms would soon draw off all the water from a district. Do You Have the Right Kind of Help i Foley Kidney Pills furoish you the right kind of help to neutralize and re move the poisons that cause backache, headache, nervousness, and other kid ev and bladder ailments. W. E. Brown & Co. A Long Credit. The motto of the highland host that battIed for the Stuart cause, which bonny Prince Charlie headed, appar ently was that heaven helps those who help themselves liberally. They levied toll on the henroost, stable and, ac cording to the author of "The Land of Romance," even on the pockets of the Covenanters. t Swarthholm a party of these ma rauders overhauled the house of a tai lor, and when one of them was about to cut up i web- of homespun that had taken his fancy the good wife earnest ly remenstrated "A day'll come when ye'll ha' tae pay for that," she solemnly assured him. Scissors in hand, Donald paused. "n' when will she pe hafing to do that?" he asked.0 "At the last day," said she. "An' that will pe a fery goot long credit," the robber coolly returned. "She wass going to pe only taking a coat, but now she will pe taking a waistcoat as well." A Mountain In the Sky. Somewhere many miles away from this earth an enormous mountain twenty miles high is flying through space. The mountain is known astro noically as the planet Eros. The or dinary man has long taken it for granted that all the planets are more or less round in shape. The small planet EL-os, however, is an exception to this rule. According to the latest astronomical information, it is a mere mountain in space, "without form and void," and as it turns upon its axis first one corner and then another is presented to view. These small worlds (few are over ten or twenty miles across) are not large enough to have sucient gravity to draw their struc ture into symmetry and remain as when launched into space-mammoth meteorites. A tantalizing fact for as tronomers is that Eros passed very close to us about Jan. 24, 1S04-before the planet was recognized-and that quite so near an approach is not due again till 1075. Foley Kidney Pills are a true medi cine. Theyvare healing. strengthening, ntiseptic and tonic. They act quickly. V. E. Brown & Co. Diana of Philadelphia. At the mint in Philadelphia are a lumber of coins far more precious ihan any which iud their way into circulation. They are- a collection of curios, and many of them date from times of great antiquity. Perhaps the most inter-esting among them is a hands-;me coin be:u-ing onl its face the profile of a woman whien has a strik - ing resemnblance a' tme goddess of Liberty of our own cur:renc'y. Ujnder neath is the singile word "-Demos," which is the Greek for people. On the reverse of the coi~n is a beautiful figure of the? godde-zs Diana arching her bow. and the inscription trans lated into English reads. "Diana, Friend of the Philadeiphians." The coin wvas minted more than 2,000 years ago at the city of Philadel phia, in Asia Minor, where there grew up in later years one of the seven churches of which St. John writes. The prize was discovered some years ago in Europe by a citizen of our own Philadelphia, himself an authority on coins. By him it was appropriately presented to the mint in Philadelphia. -New York Press. Carlyle's Sneer at Gladstone. J. E. Boehm, the sculptor, once met Gladstone at a country house and~ was immensely impressed by the esxtent and diversity of the statesman's knowi-I edge as revealed In his conversation Boehm was still full of the subject when the morning arrived for Carlyle's sttting for a bust, and to the philoso pher the sculptor poured forth his ad miration for Gladstone's intimate ac quatance wvith subjects so far apart as gardn'ag and Greek. Carlyle lis tened for a time in scornful silence; then he said, "And what did he say a'out your work?" "Oh, nothing." sid Boehmi. '-Ue doesn't know any thing about sculpture." -'Of course," growled Carlyle, "of course, and he showed his knowledge about things that y-ou didn't understand. No doubt if you asked Bllackie he'd say that Gladstone knew nothin,~ about Greek, and the gardener would tell you that Was Good *once. A: certain well known composer now tn the full vigor of his established rep ntation was at one time when he was comparatively unknown engaged in writing the music for a production fa thered by two managers who knew exa'tly what they wanted, in addition to knowing next to nothing of the mu sicl classics. After having burned much midnight oil and worked himself into a state of semicollapse in a vain endeavor to produce a finale which would please them the composer tore up page after page of rejected manu script and in despair took to the the ater an entire section of "Faust" to which he had somehow managed to fit the words assigned to him. He played it over, and one of the mana gers said quite unfeelingly, "Well, Gus, the others were pretty bad, bue this one is the rottenest of them all." "So?" remarked tee weary musician dryly. "It was considered good when Gounod wrote it!"-Metropolitan Magazine. One Story Eclipsed. "Hot in Brazil?'" said the young man who had just returned from a trip to South America. "Well. I should say so. Do you know, for days at a time we couldn't take our after dinner siesta on account of the peculiar noises." "What noises?" asked the blond ste nographer innocently. "Why, the coffee popping on the trees. You see, the sun was so hot the grains just roasted before they were picked." The old traveler yawned. "Rather warm down there, bub," he rejoined laconically, "but when I was down there you couldn't sleep at night. Every once in awhile there would sound the most extraordinary crack ling noise that ever fell upon the hu man ear." "What were the sounds, Mr. Bings?" And Mr. Bings yawned again and replied, "The rubber trees stretching themselves."-Chicago News. Where One's Breath Falls as Snow. Verkhoiansk, a small village in the northeast of Siberia, Is the coldest place in the world. It is a convict station. No precautions against es cape are needed,' for 'Verkhoiansk is guarded by the wind. Though the average temperature of the three worst winter months is S5 degrees of frost, intense cold like this is easy to bear in calm weather. But a strong breeze at that temperature or within 20 degrees of It will kill every living thing not under shelter. In the icy cold of Verkholansk an iron ax head dropped on the ground smashes like glass. - A board of unseasoned wood, on the other hand, freezes as hard as steel. Frozen nicotine blocks the stem of tobacco pipes, while one's breath falls at one's feet in a fine white powder. Going Too Far. Along a country road walked a man and woman. The latter, a gaunt, stern faced female, was bullying the meek little fellow, who trudged just in front of her with downcast head. Suddenly the woman, turning, saw a bull racing down the road behind them. She quickly took refuge in the hedge, but her companion. unconscious of aught but his woes, kept on his -way. The bull caught up to him and sent him spinning into a muddy ditch, then con tinued on its wild career. As the woe begone figure crawled out of the mire he saw his better half coming toward him. Plucking up a little spirit, he whimpered. "M-M-Maria, if you hit me like that a-g-g-gain you'll really get my temper up, so I warn you." More and More. The gravedigger in "~Hamlet"' was a very witty man, wittier far than many of the epitaph makers who have adorned headstones with their jingles. A sample of the punning rhymes which are cut on tombs follows. It comes from th-e grave of William More, at Stepney, near London: Here Uies one More, and no more than he. The More and no more-how can that be? Why, one More and no more may lie here alone, But here lies one More, and that's more than one. Curiosities of Etymology. It is extraordinary how words for the same thing differ in even so small a country as England. Take "left handed;" for example. In Gloucester shire such a person is described as "scrammy," in Staffordshire he be comes "craggy," the phrase for a left handed Yorkshireman is "gawkrod ger" or "callick handed," and in the next county, Durham, he Is "cuddy paw"-London Telegraph. Experience Teaches. "I wonder what has happened to Mr. Green?" said Mrs. Brown to a lady friend. "He seems so dismal now, and he used to be a practical joker!" "Ah," was the response, "he pro posed as a joke to his present wife. She accepted him, and he says he will never indulge In a joke again." A Prank of the Types. A sentimental novelist, describing his heroine as one who "always kept mod estly in the background," was horri fied to find it recorded in print that she "always kept modesty in the back ground." _________ As Usual. "So your Shakespeare club is a great su~ccess?2" "Yes. We have accumulated enough fines for nonattendance to take us all to a musical comedy."-Washingtonl Herald. Naturally. A girl feels flattered when told she looks well in anything, but a wife thinks such a compliment only a plot to get her to wear old clothes. will cure any skin disease. That's the price of h-UNT'S CURE, and it is absolutely guaranteed. A. 13. Richards Medicine Co., Sherman. Te-xa. Zeigler's Pharmacy rlake iiar.e and Bladder Right An Ordinance An Ordinance to Prevent Cruelty I Animals within the Town of Mai ning, and to Provide a Penalty f< the Violation thereof. Be it ordained by the Mayor an Aldermen of the Town of Maniiin and by authority of the same: SYcTIoN 1. That on and after tl approval of this ordinance it shall 1 unlawful for any person or persor to wilfully abuse or cruelly trea cruelly drive, work. when unfit f labor, overload, overdrive, overworl torture, torment, needlessly mutilat< ill treat or otherwise inflict unnece sary pain or suffering upon any horsi mule or draft animal or beast of bn den within the incorporate limits the said Town of Manning. SEc. 2. That every person violatin the same, upon conviction thereo shall be fined not more than S15.( or be con fined upon the public worl of said Town for a period of not mot than fifteen days. Ratified in Council, this .3rd day April, A. D. 1911. R. C. WELLS. A. C. BRADHAM, Clerk of Council. Mayo: Annual Reunion United Confederate Veteran Little Rock, Ark., May 15th-18th, 1911 For this occasion the Atlanti Coast Line Railroad has authorize special low rates, May 13th, 14th an 15th; limited until May 23rd Tickel can be deposited at Little Rock, an upon -payment of a fee of fifty cent: at time of deposit, limit of tick( can be extended to, and includin June 14th. 1911. For rates and information, appl to nearest Agent or T. C. Wbiti General Passenger Agent, Wilming ton, N. C. The Confederate Monument. The movement so long neglected hz at last begun to erect a monument t the memory of the heroes who wore tb gray,-soldiers whose record was th marvel of the civilized world. Clarendo now proposes to place upon the cou house square a suitable mark of its p: triotism by having erected a shaft i honor of those who responded and lai down their lives upon their country altar. All contributions'sent to TE MANNING Tnms will be acknowledge through its columns. J. H. Lesesne...................$10 C Louis Levi...................... 10 C Fred Lesesne ... ........ ....10 C .\rs. E. Appelt.................. 10 C David B. Jones.............. 10 4 D. L. Green..................... 5 C C. M. Mason.................... 5 C R. F. Ridgeway...... ........... 1 C R. M. Strange................. 5 C W. T. Wilder...... ..... R. R. Harvin, Tadmor, Tex..... 10 C H. 1. Strange.................... 5 C .J. T. Touchberry .... ......... 5 C Florida---Cuba. - Why not take a trip to Florida c Cuba? They have been brought witl in easy reach by the splendi Through Train Service of the A1 lantie Coast Line Railroad. Write fc illustrated book-lets, rates or an other information, which will b cheerfully furnished. T. C. WHITE, Gen. Pass. Agent, Wilmington, N. C What You Save Makes You Ricd Through our purchase of th bankrupt stock of The Mode Grocery Co. we secured a choic line of goods at about half thei regular value. These goods w offer at less than wholesal prices. We quote only a partii list of our many MONEY SAVERE Thoroughbred.Tobacco 29c. Lb. Octagon Soap 7 Cakes 25c. Snow Drift Wesson -Oi 2 Lb. Can 25c. Eagle Thistle Soda 1 Lb. Package 3c. Pink Alaska Salmon 12c. Can. Soda Crystal Soap 9 Cakes 25c. Remnant Lots Tobacci 35c. Lb. Above prices to close out sma: lots of several pounds. Thes tobaccos are regular 45c. to 60c grades. All fresh and sound. It will be worth your while t get our special bankrupt pu chase figures on Soap. Bakin, Powders, Sal mon, Tobacco, Sods Lye. Matches, &c., by the cas' Will wallop any price you've go1 MannRing Grocery Ci ARANT'S DRU6 STOR] The Licensed Druggist, Sells Everything in nDRUGS and NMEDICSINI NOTICE. 0 Notice is hereby given that an el a- tion will be helId at Sardinia May 20 yr 1911 for the purpose of voting an ad tional levy of five mills for school p d poses in Sardicia School District ' *g 28. Only qualified electors cen vote said election. Polls open from 8 a. ie~ to 4 p. mn. o L. B. McFADDIN, is D. R. DuBOSE. J. T. GARLAND, >r Trustees District No. 28 ed FOR SALE! r A HERE IS A BAR6Alf , 605 acres of Clarendon laud wv )O be sold cheap, 300 acres clear :s and stumped. e This land is well located 1 f farming. Church and school nel For particulars address, C. F. RAWLINSON & CO., Davis Station. S. C. ec Wintrop College d d Scholarship and Entrance Exa: :s d ination. The examination for the award vacant scholarships in Winthrop C lege and for the admission of ,n y students will bo held at the coun court house on Friday, July 7, at a. i. Applicants must be not 1 than fifteen years of age. Wh Scholarships are vacant after Jul, they will be awarded to those m ing the highest average at this amination, provided they meet t s conditions governing the award. A o plicants for scholarships should wr e to President Johnson before the i e amin.tion for Scholarship exami n tion blanks. t Scholarships are worth $100 a - free tuitio'n. The next session -m n open September 20th, 1911. I d further information and catalog 's address E Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, 5 d Q' C OLARENDON C1 Wai I make a specialty of | farm lands. My sales of t- amounted to- about 8200,C d letters from several hundr property in which they ex If you have farm property e sonable prices, I would be the very best service possi My commission rates E City, Farm and Timber Property Sold on Comission I 1U 1 REAL ESTA Sum1 ~GREAT SIN PIANO , Great chance for all ing E Zreceive for each boo Ask more about new contestants eve T I - Get busy. every wise is sufficient-se the 17th of May. Zeigler' s THE PRESi Maninii I SIN ST4 BELL& Notice. C- Notice is hereby given that an .h. election will be held at Trinity di- School House, May 26th, 1911, for the r- purpose of voting an additional levy 0. of one mill annually for school par in poses in School Disrict, No. 27. m. Only qualified electors can vote in election. Rolls open from 8 a. in to .1. J. NETTLES, .T. M. LEE. J. M. GRAHAM. . Trustees School District No. 27. Delinquent Land Sale. 1 By authority vested in me by exe cutiots issued and directed to me by L. L. Wells, County Treasurer. I will offer for sale for cash at public out ed ery. the following tracts or lots of land on the 5th day of June at the or court house in Manning. at 12 o'clock, . M.. at the suit of the State for taxes: Fulton township-James P. Brown, 2 lots; Henry F. Stack. 38 acres. Calvary township-John H. John son, 1 lot. Santee township-Little Sam Dukes, 5 1-2 acres. _ Concord township-Lillie Richard son, 11 acres. Manning township-P. J. DeLane, 1 lot; Estate H. B. ivy; 1 lot. Harmony township-P. J. DeLane, - 100 acres. Purchasers to pay for papers. E. B. GAMBLE, of sheriff Clarendon County. ty 4 W. K, TAVEL, -7 Civil Engineer h e te AND a- Land Surveyor, ill or Sumter, S. C. u e C. Office Over Bank of Sumter. UNTY PROPERTY 2 ated ! umter and Clarendon County farm lands the past season 00. I now have on my files ed parties inquiring for farm ppect to invest the coming fall. which you want to sell at rea pleased to list it and give you ble. re 5 per cent. on the saie price. Real Estate Loans, Money Invested at 6, 7, and 8 per cent TE ATTORNE, er, S. C. CONTEST! contestants. Sell Tr-ad ooks at . k sold, 25,000 votes. themn. We are getting ry day. Why don't you body-A word to the nd in all Blue Votes by CRIPTIONISTS, ig,5S. C al other Envelopes The majority of motor ists throughout the world are satisfied users of Michelin Inner Tubes. They are the best judges. Ask them. Look for *) $ on leading this sign garages )CK BY RcKELVEY. i,5.C, FOR YOUR E WE WILL GIVE AWAY AN EXPENSIVE HighGrade Manufactured by UNITED PIANO COMPANY, Jacksonville, Fla. The Piano is now on display in our store. Come to the Store And have us explain how you can get the Piano Absolutely Free. Rigby Dry Goods Co. i LEVI BLOCK. C 4all and see us when in need of a first @ class horse or mule right. JUST RECEIV .D: 2 cars of fine Horses and Mules. 1 ca of -Moline, 2and 4-horse Wagons. 1 car of Moline, 1-horse Wagons. 1 car of the celebrated N~ohine Farm Imple Sments, consisting of the following: Stalk Choppers. Harrows, Corn and Cotton Planters, Blue Bird one and twe-horse Steel Turn Plows and Cultivators. AUTOMOBILES e SEE US: The Hudson, Chalmers and Hup, in all models. LcladLong Distance 'Phone Sute.S.C SReliable SprinigGoods i At D. Hlirschman's. OURl prices are right. that's our secret of holding trade, and why we are growing larg 2 er all the time. Always pleasant to Iil! your mail orders, or see you if you are coming to Manning, and you can depend upon getting a Square Deal just as advertised, as a continu acet ofyour trade is looked for. it will pay Get Busy! Almost anything in the line of Men's. B~oy's, and Children's Clothing at Cut Prices.