Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thi Change That Was WrGught. The little man was explaining to his audience the benefits of physical cul tre. "Three yiars ago," he said, "I was a miserable wreck. Now, what do you suppose brought about this great change in me?' "What change?" said a voice from the audience. There was a succession. of loud smiles, and some persons thought t'o see him collapse. But the little man was not to be put out. "Will the gentleman who asked -What change? kindly step up here?' he asked suavely. "I shall then be better able to explain. "That's right!" Then, grabbing the witty gentleman by the neck: "When I first took up physical culture I could not even lift a little man. Now (suiting action to word) I can throw one about like a bundle of rags." And finaly he flung the interrupter half a dozen yards along the foor. "I trust, gentlemen, that you will see the force of my argu ment and that- I have not hurt this gentleman's feelings by my explana tion! There were no more interrup tions. Foley Kidney Pills are'a true medi cine. They are healing, strengthening, antiseptic and tonic. They act quickly. W. E. Brown & Co. Lightning Rods. There were no lightning rods In' an cent timin The frst one that the world ever saw was set up by our own Illustrious countryman Benjamin Franklin shortly after the year 1752. He had just had his celebrated experi ment with the kite, in which he dem onstrated the identity of lightning with electricity, and was therefore prepared for the construction of the rods for which the world had waited so long. It is not generally known that rankin was as distinguished in science' as he wa' In statesmanShip and diplomacy.-Exchage. As it Really Was. On the morning after his first ap pearance on the stage the confident but untalented youth met a friend who had witnessed his first perform ance "What do you think of my. act lug?- asked -the would be Hamlet. "That wasn't actim," replied the friend. "That was misbehavior." Do You Have the Rightind of Help Foley Kidney Fills furnish you the right kind of help to neutralize and re move the Poisons that cause backache, headache. nervousness, and-other kid nevand bladderiilments. W. E.Brown &Co. Held Bible and Rudder. Someyears ago Japan was neitherso reenor so friendly with other nations as she is today. In those old.days 2when: a foreign ship, entered the Japa ese ports the-captain-was obliged to lace his Bible and rudder in charge of the chief, offlcer..of the .port and leave them there until he was ready to sa".- Of course he wouldn't sail .wlthout either, and the Japs could easily keep tabs on the movements of ZA'shIpsin their harbors. Thse Seven Sleepers. Thie seven sleepers of Ephesus, a fa voit. subject in medieval art, 'were seven Christians' who to escape the persecution of Decius concealed them 'selves in a cave whose mouth was -closedi by their enemies. The cave was rzedscovered *2( years *af'ewad when the sleepers spioke youthful and in perfect health., Both Wrong. "You have deceived me," she comn plalned.: "You gave me to understand that you were rich' "Well, you deceived. me, too:' he r - plied. "You caused me to believe that you ,would be brave and cheerful I t ever became necessary for us to est alog on a small income."-Judge. 1.ike the Egg. "He always was a bad egg, but no Iody seemed to notice it while he was sich." "Yes; he was all rlght unti he was Ibroke." A Wedding. AR lttLegi of three and a halfbyears ~eflned a wedding as "it's when a lady * goes into church 'with a curtain on her head and comes out 'with a man." Ill cure any skin disease. That's he price of HUNT'S CURE, and It iabsolutely guaranteed. A. B. Richards Medicine Co., .Sherman, Texas. Sold by Zigler's Pharmacy Jefferson Davis and His Nerves. .J.eferson Davis shrunk from the sight of every form of suffering, even $n imagination. When the "Babes In the Wood" was first read to him, a .grown man, in time of illness, he ,rould not endure the horror of it. His sympathy with the oppressed was almost abnormal, "so that," says Mrs. Davis, "it was a -difficult matter to keep order with children and serv ants." All this shows that he was nervous, sensitive, which is a terrible handicap to a leader of men. He suf fered always from nervous dyspepsia. and neuralgia and "came home from his office fasting, a mere mass of throbbing nerves and perfectly ex liansted." He was keenly susceptible to the atmosphere about him, especial ly to the moods of people, "abnormal ly sensitive to disapproval. Even a child's disapproval discomposed him." And Mrs. Davis admits that this sen sitiveness and acute feeling of being misjudged made him reserved and un approachable. It made him touchy as to his dignity also, and there are sto ries of his cherishing a grudge for some insignificant or imagined s~ght and punishing the author of it.-Gama liel Bradford. Jr., In Atlantic. CASTOR IA For Tnfants and Children. The Kind You Hara Always Bought In the Wake of the Measles. The little son of .1s. 0. 13. Palmuer, Li:tle Rfock. A k.. had the measIcs. The result was a severe cough which grew worse anct be could notsleep. Sbe says: "One bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound completely cured himi and he has never been bothered since.' Croup, whooping cough, measles cough all yield to Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound. The genuine is in the yellow package ahvays. Refuse substitutes. W. E. Brown & Co. Irving and His Money. John Hare, the English actor, said that one of 'the failings charged to Irving's account was-that of extrava gance-that he did not know the value of money. It is quite true be did not know the value of money for himself, but he knew its value to others- He knew its value to the poor and . less, and to these he gave with a lavish hand. . Once, not long before his, death, playing a three nights' engagement in an unpretentious midland town, his habit was to drive nightly to the thea ter (a very short distance from his hotel)..in the same dilapidated fly. The fare was a shilling. The conveyance was shabby, the driver old, poor and worn out. At the conclusion of the engagement, on entering his hotel, Irv ing said to the landlord, "Have you paid the cabman?" "Yes, Sir Henry." "What did you give him for himself?" "I gave him half a crown, Sir Henry." ".Give him a sovereign," was the re joinder; "he drives very well, and he doesn't drive often." The Myth- of the Doones. How largely Mr. Blackmore drew upon his..imagination for the story of "Lorna Doone" is made clear by F. W. Hackwood in his book, "The Good Old Times." There -were, in fact, no Doones. The word was simply a local bogy, a modified form of "Dane," a memory of the' faroff times when the viking invaders harried the land. "The only vestige of actuality discoverable is a faint tradition that a fugitive from the battle of Sedgmoor, to escape the hangings of Judge Jeffreys, appropriat ed the ruins of some wretched huts in recesses of the Badgworthy glen, now 'the Doon valley,' finding there a safe retreat in which he reared a consider able famiy, which managed to eke out a living by committing petty depreda tions in the district. The 'last of the Doones,' an old man and his grand dghter, are said to have perished in the snow during the winter of 180." Joy In Store For Some One. 'Among the advertisements in a monthly magazine we find this: For Sale or Ezcbange.-A fne -o70g male bobcat and a female coyote; also a mandoLin and pair of ieldglasses. Such opportunities as this are not often offered. The fieldglasses most of us could mnge to do without, but the male bobcat, the female coyote and the mandolin would go far to make life happy for any reasonablein dividual. . All these are productive of music, and music gives joy to all right ly constituted persons. There are, of course, some people who cannot play upon a mandolin, but anybody can play upon a bobcat or a coyote. This fine chance to get a varied and inter eting collection of musical instru ments .will undoubtedly bring many replies.-Rochester Union and Adver tiser. The Laziest People. There is nodobtthat the mos re among the laziest people in the world. Exceptin i'are cases they will not take the trouble to learn when they are young, and afterward, if they. have learned, they will not exert themselves to apply their knowledge to any object which require a sustained .effort. That they possess effort is known te Iany one -who has seen Mfalays engaged in any enterprise which savors o1 sport . They do.not mind the trotfbl if there is only some risk and excite ment in the work-Times of Malaya. A Marked Judge. The descriptive reporter of a certain daily, paper in describing the turnina of a dog out of court by order of the bench recently- detailed the occurrence as follows: "The ejected canine as he was Ignominiously dragged from the room cast a glance at the judge foi 'the purpose of being ab~le to identify b/m-at some future time." Warning to Railroad Men. E. S. Bacon, 11 Bast St., Bath, Me. sends out this warning to railroaders A conductor on the railroad, my worn caused a chronic inflammation of thi kidneys, and I was miserable and al played out. A friend advised Fole: Kidey Pills and from the day I comn menced taking them, I began to regaih my strength. The inflammation clearei and I am far better than I have bee: for twenty years. The weakness an< :hizzy spells are a thing of the past an< I highly recommend Foley Kidne; Pills." W. E. Brown & Co. Three of Them. Dearborn--Do you know the sever wonders of the world? Wabash-Well I know three of them. Dearborn-Only three? Wabash-Yes. I'ye only goi three sons, you know.-Exchange.. Desperately ilI. Mrs. Parke-Your husband has bee: 1Il, hasn't he? Mrs. Lane-I never saw *him so ill. Why, for two weeks hi never spoke a cross word to me. Kindness is a language the dutml can speak and'the deaf can -hear and znderstand.-Bovee. - Days of Dizziness Come to Hundreds of Manning People. There are days of dizziness: Spells of headache, languor, back Sometimes rheumatic pains; Often urinary disorders. All tell you plainly the kidneys arf Doan's Kidney Pills are for kidney Here is proof of their merit in Man. Mrs. -Joseph Wells, of Manning, S. C. says: "I was aillicted with kidney comn plaint and I suffered intensely from dull nagging backaches,headaches and dizzi spells. Doan's Kidney Pills proved tc be just what I needed and I had noi used them long before I was entirely relieved. I got this preparation fron Dr. W. E. Brown & Co.'s Drug Store and I cheerfully recommend it." For sale by all dealers. Price 5( Seents. Foster-Milb urn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name-Doan's-and A Sixth Oonse. A.n interesting discussion arose at a recent college lecture concerning the :instnct of direction" 'possessed so 4 marvelously by savage races and by nnimls. Undoubtedly animals are aided largely by scent. In the case ot humans it is different, and some of 4 the pupils argued that the primitive man is able to End his way in the densest forest without taking note of the sun, the wind, the lay of the land or the course of the streams. There fore it was said he must be guided by. a sixth sense because none of the reg.; ular five senses could aid him. Other 4 pupils, however, argued that the In dian found his way in places where there were no apparent guides be cause he knew how, because he had learned all his life bow to do it, just as the writer, for instance, will write page after page of copy, spelling all the words correctly, but yet cannot if asked to spell a siniiple word- This is because he learned the words long ago and his spelling is purely me chanical. It is so with the Indian finding his way through the woods. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Fiction or History. After all, fiction is not always the -worst place in which- to look for his tory. There is a story of Mr. Disraeli at the time of his extremely bumptu ous youth when he had just returned from his travels in the east. As a young man, much. under thirty, he met Lord Melbourne, who was then prime minister, at dinner. Lord Mel-. bourne proceeded to discourse on the eastern question, but instead of listen ing to the prime minister with the re spect which he ought young Disraeli said, "It seems to -me that your lord sip has tnken your knowledge of the east from 'The Arabian Nights.'" Some prime ministers I have known would have snubbed the young man severely. Lord Melbourne was not of that kind. He rubbed his hands with great cheerfulness and- said to the young man, "And a devilish good place to take it fromr-Lord Rosebery in an Edinburgh Address. Warming the Eggs. . There was once an old lady-di Scot land who -kept a few hens. As she lived close to the house in which a church minister lived he asked her to send him two new laid eggs every morning and he would pay her for them. So the old lady sent her girl to the minister's house every moning with two eggs, and the minister's servant always thought the eggs were newly laid because they felt quite warm, As if they had just been taken from the hen's nest. But one day the eggs were- cold, so the servant asked: "Are the.eggs fresh today, Janey? They do not seem warm." The simple girl'looked at the maid and then said, "Ou, aye, they're quite fresh, only my mother could not get the cat to sit on them- this mrning, as it ran away." Locating Icebergs. The captain of an ocean steamer in most cases finds out when his vessel is approaching an iceberg from the men down in thie engine room. That' sounds queer, but it is a fact never theless- It appears that w hen a. steamship enters water considerably colder than -that. through which it has been going its propeller. runs faster. Such water usually surrounds the vici nage of icebergs for many miles. When the propeller's action therefore is accelerated withqut the steam pow-. er being increased word is' passed up to the officer on the bridge that ice-. bergs may be expected; and a close lookout for them is established. There are natural reasons for the propeller acting in this way, and sea captains will assert the same thing. A Remarkable 'Shawl. The empress of Russia pas once-pre sented with a shawl of a remarkable kind. It is contained in a bor only a few inches squar'e, in which.it fits eas ily, yet when it is shaken out it is ten yards square. This notable gift was, the work of some women weavers in Orenberg, southern ussia, by whom it was presented. The box contining it is of wood, 'with hinges, hoops and fastenings of beaten silver. Trapped. "I saw the cutest thing today," be-. gan Miss Passay coyly. " It was a painting of the-er-what is the name of that little god that represents mat rimony?2" "Well, now," said .Mr. Timmid, "you've got me." "Oh, Mfr...Timmid, this-is so sudden!"' -Catholic Standard and Times. Force of Habit. 'A burglar went home one night, fum-* bled noiselessly at the keyhole and let himself in without ma-king a sound. He was about to creep softly upstairs when his wife appeared on the upper landing. "Dan,"~ said she, "wot makes ,ye come in so quiet?' "Blame it," bellowed the burglar, "I thought I avas In another house!" ' The Puzzling Point. Teacher-And did you make out a list of the nine greatest mien in the history of the world, as. I told you? Willie-Almost I can't pick out the best catcher, though, to save my neck. -Puck. A Taste of It. ,Missonary-And do your know noth ing whatever of religion? Cannibal Well, we got a taste of it when the last missionary was hiere.-Toledo Blade. One virtue will efface many vices; one vice will -efface many virtues. Bazac. Tsar and Czar. Frequently the inquiry 'is made as o why the spelling tsar, to designate the emperor of all the Ruzssias, should be preferred to czar. The most nat ural and obvious answer is that. the spelling indicates the Russian prommn cation of the word, which' czar does not. The title comes from an old Slavonic word, which some authorities are agreed is not derived from the Latin caesar. but there are authori ties who hold that its ultimate deriva ton is from the Roman. The origin of the common spelling is supposed to be the writings of Herberstein, about 1550. The letter "c" in Roman Slavonic has the sound of "ts." The letter was copied. but the sound wvas not. The letter "z" never belonged in the word. Tn?e spel1Eng czar is now regarded by many as old fashioned. With some Germans the spelling is zar, which is pronounced tsar. Many of the French have adopted tsar as the spelling, and that form is increas ig in English. The London Times. a most careful authority, employs it, and so does the Encyclopedia Britanica in its supplementary .volumaes.-Chica IOR YOUR H OME WE WILL GIVE AWAY AN EXPENSIVE Highm-Grade INSTRUME5NT Manufactured by UNITED PIANO COMPANY, Jacksonville, Fla. The Piano s 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. ~L M E, C E M EN2 9' Acme Plaster, Shingles, Laths, Fire . 9' Brick, Drain Pipe, Etc Rice' HAY, GRAIN. Rc'Flour, Ship Stuff, Bran, Mixed Cow and Chicken Feed,: * HORSES, MULES. Buggies.. Wagons and Harness.-No . Order Too Large or Too Small::: BOOTHKARBY LUVE. STOCK CD . SUMTER, SOUTH' CAROLINA and lear bypesn xprec.Mn y intebn oentbr i +a flosh vi dayour mpokes. Have you putveri yhougarh t nerl a, take it out to buy anything you see You tbink twice and tbmnkin means saving. Reliable Spring Goods At D. Iiirschman's. IOUR~ prices are right, that's our secret of holding trade, and why we are growving larg er all the time. Always pleasant to fill 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 ance of your trade is looked for, it will pay you to call on us. Get Busy! Almost anything in the line of Men's, Uoy's, and Children's Clothing at Cut Prices. D.Hirschrnan. The ignoble Goorgo IV. Then there was the precious regent What a creature' Good men and bad men unite in saying that he was abso lutely without a virtue. The shrewd. calculating Greville described him in words that burn; the great duke, his chief subject. uses language of dry - scorn. "The king could only act the 4 part of a gentleman for ten 'minutes at a time." and we !and the common est satellites of the court despised the wicked fribble who wore the crown of England. -Faithless to women. faith less to men, a coward, a liar, a mean and groveling cheat, George IV. never theless clung, to a belief in his own virtues, and if we study the account of his farcical progress through Scot land we find that he imagined himself a to be a useful and genuinely kingly w personage. No man, except perhaps m Philippe Egalite, was. ever so con temned and hated, and,until his death O he imagined himself to be a good man. 0 -Runciman "Sidelights." . Her Splendid Economy. Their dinner for two cost $15, but 'the man's .wife argued that in the end it was economy to dine at an expen sive restaurant because it gave her a - -chance to study the fashions. "If we ate in some cheap place pat ronized only by dowdily dressed won en," she said, "I would have to hire an expensive woman to design my new a dresses, but by -eating here I get 'a O chance to study the clothes worn by - women of position and can-design my own gowns." ( That sounded convincing. There was. no blessing on earth, the man rcflected, equal to an economical, managing wife, and he settled the bill with -con parative cheerfulness. Three' weeks' later he was given another bill to set-, tie. That called for $150. " --What is this for?" he demanded. "Oh," she replied, "that is the cost of a dress I. copied in the restaurant the other night."-New York Sun. Hters as Hospitals. - "Next to a hospital give me an uP toi date hotel in which to take care: of a very.sick patient," said a New Yorld trained nurse. "I've- nursed in most of the big hotels bere in New York and it's really wonderful the supplies that can be brought at a moment's no tice. Ice bags, hot water bottles, crutches and wheel chairs are alway-0 on tap, there's always so-me one avail able to help lift a patient, and .f the patient's a manthere's always a bar, ber at hand to shave hin- And there's the woidan.in 'the sewing room to stitch a- rapidly cut binder. There's an operating room at your disposal if surgery has to be resorted to, -and there's a protected roof to take your patient to during convalescence. Al together the modern hotel is the rival of a hospital -when it comes to con venfences: fo the sick."-New. York Sun. Curious Transferenoe of Heat. :Kworann= inl; the obevtr at 'oulouse bas-invited attention-to a sin gular phenomenon. A: bar of iron is taken by the end, and the~ other end is plunged into a ire, heating'it strong ly, but not so much. that the- hand cannot retain its hiold. The heated endiis then plunged into a pail of coldX -'atrImmediately the others end'be comes so hot thiat it is impossible to Shold it. This phenomenon, nm t to some repellent action they suppose 4.+ the sudden cold-exertsempon the heat *contained in teio hc stu 64 driven to the opjposite extremiity.-Chi *cago ecr-ead + 'AnIrsmnadhsEgihred + vere out rabbit shooting. They had * been very unsuccessful and were re * tarning downhearted when they saw +' a bare dart~out of the hedge. MItike, in amazement, failed to shoot, + and the hare escaped *: "Why didn'.t you shoot it?' asked o1 +. the Engwsam + Sure" said Mike, "I didn't see it * till it iwas out of sight?" -.London am SIdeas. * Clever Man. . * With a sigh she laid down the maga sine,. article upon Daniel O'Connell. * "The day of great men," she said, "Is .gone forever." "But the day of beautiful women is not," he responded. She smiled and blushed. "I was onlhe * oking," she explained hurriedly. 4+ Western Christian Advocate. 4. Didn't Need. It +' A.,book canvasser went into.a bar * her shop and asked the proprietor if he +. could sell him an encyclopedia. to g * "What's that?' asked the barber.- a1 + "It's a book that contains informna ~tion -on every subject in the world." +. There was a 'victim in the chair, and *he put in feebly, ''He doesn't need it!" The Queer Part. +' "Queer, isn't it, that lawyer is such i a lover of dogs?' +"Whiat is there queer about it?"'nt +' become attached to the fee-line spe Scies!"--London Telegraph 4+4 LostD .- Weary Walker-I lost 'arf a crown yesterday. Tired Timotheus-Did y' S'ave a 'ole in yer pocket? Weary B Walker-No; the bloke wot dropped it heard it fall.-London Tit-Bits. Its Penalty. Arit (indignantly)-You talk as if panigan ugly woman's portrait for haninmttr.-alimreAmerican. V The highest friendship must always ever Slead us to the highest pleasure-Field-So LONSNEGOTIATED Ea ~ On Fist-Class Real Estate a p Mortgages. t Purdy & O'Bryan, Cut SATTORNEYS AT LAW, Manning, S. 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JOHN.G. CAPERS, (or South Carolina). I .- Ex-Commissionler Internal Revneue. JTOSEPH D. WRIGHT. 71.S & WEINBERG. APR AEs&-WRIGH~T, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ATNY A J MANNING, S. C. Evans Buildin. ' ' WASHINGTON. D. C. ap attention given to collections. Telepohne. Main 8891