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Persia's Pipe Guard;an. The queen of pipes belongs to the shah of Persia. Why Is the great chier. tain of pipes a queen? Probably be cause pipe is a feminine noun in French. The little shab's pipe was smoked by his father before him. and by his uncle, and by his grandfather, and how many more of the rulers of Darius' kingdom we know not. The pipe is adorned with all kinds of pre cious stones and is said to be worth ?10,000. It is constantly guarded by a high court functionary, whose duties allow him as much leisure as the super intendent of the Persian arsenal, but as there Is no arsenal in Persia so the extent of the sinecure may be judged. Still, this functionary is responsible. This is how his office was created: Once a grand vizier was found trying to pry out a stone from the pipe with his ponlard. Then the office of guard. Ian of the imperial pipe was created. What became of the -grand visier is not recorded.-London Globe. Labrador's Short Summer. How brief is the summer on the h lands of Labrador! says Hesketh Prichard in the Wide -World. . Snow does not melt till July. then with a rush midsummer comes. Grasses and leaves grow almost visibly, the wild cotton soon flings out its little white penons, millions of berries ripen on the ground. the loon cries, the ptarmi gan calls, and,. you may even see a butterfly balancing in the warm wind. But then also wakens the countless army of hunchbacks, lean and gray mosquitoes, piping blithely for blood. So. summer reigns. Then suddenly one day at the end of August, after the sun has sunk behind the barren crags through a balmy warmth of evening, one may wake up to find everything transfigured and the first snow of an other season already falling. Found Out His Man. A southerner .who was visiting St. Louis wandered into the dining room of the hotel and, seeing a negro servant who had all the importance of an army officer standing near the door, asked him who the "head nigge" was around there. The negro stretched himself to his full height and pompously replied that "there ain't no niggers In St. Louis, sah. We is all gem-men of col or." "Well," said the southerner, drawing a $100 bill from his pocket and finger Ing it. "I expect to be at this hotel for some time and want to make sure that I will be taken care of." "Oh. sah." said the negro, whose eyes were popping from his head, "did you want to know who the head 'nigger waiter' is? That's me'."-Allentown CalL Where Bluebeard Lived. Most of'our readers have heard of Bluebeard, the enterprising gentleman who made a hobby of marriage and nad a way of his own for getting rid of superfluous wives. Probably v6ry few people. however, know, that the .sto'ly has any sort of basisin fact. Yet on the banks of the world famous Bos porus near Constantinople there is situated a picturesque old medieval fortress known as "Bluebeard's cas tIe" and which is said to have been the abode of a terrible old pasha, whose playful little ways gave rise to the story.-Wide World Magazine. First Calculating Machine. The first calculating machine was invented -and constrocted by Blaise Pascal, a~ Frenchman. in 1642, in which year he was but nineteen years of age. It was made by him with the aid of one workman and was present ed to the chancellor of France. Dur ing the revolution it was found in a junk shop at Boi-deaux and at present Is the property of .. Bo'agouin of that city. All of the four simple math ematical.oDerations can'be made with It. . -Flow of Solid Metals. Metals flow into each other just as gases and liquids mir, though more slowly. If a cube of lead is placed on one of gold, the surfaces of contact being kept sanoth and clean, and left for a month .a small quantity of gold will be -foilrd to have penetrated the -lead. Not Playing the Game. Mrs. Fltz Suburbia-The next door person must be a very suspicious character. Hubby - Why so? Mrs. F. S.-She employs a maid who Is deaf and -dumb, the mean catl--New York JIournal. Foley's Honey and Tar Co pound "cures in Every Case." Mr. Jas. MicCaffery, Mar., of the Schlitz Hotel. Omaha, Neb., reco mumends Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound, because it cures in every case. "I have used it mysel f and I have reco mmended it to many others who have since told- me of its great curative pow er in diseases of the throat and lungs.' For coughs and colds it is speedily ef fective. -The Dickson Drue Co. To Give Him the Sack. Two noblemen ini t tie reiyjn of M-xl .mian II.-154-1546-one a GJermanif the other a Spanmard. who bad each rendered a great service to the em peror. asked the hand of his daughter In marriage. Maximilian said that -as be esteemed them both alike it was impossible to choose between them. and therefore their own prowess ust decide It; but. being unwilling .to risk the loss of either by engaging them In deadly combat, he ordered a large sack'to be brought and declared that he who should put his rival into it should have his fair Helena. And this whimsical combat was actually performed in the presence of the im perial court and lasted -an hour. The unhappy Spanish nobleman was first overcome, and the German succeeded In enveloping him in the sack, putting him upon his back and laying him at the emperor's feet. This comical com bat is said to be the origin of the phrase "Give him the sack." so com mon in the literature of courting. The Day of the Carver. Carving was once a serious thing The sIxteenth century carver wasa professional. He had to make thi joint fit the guest. The size of hi slices was the thing. Then he bad t< .now his guests and cut accordingly A lord, for instance. at the table. anc a pike was dished up whole. Smallea fry, and the pike came on in slices The same procedure with pig. Thb rank of the diners decided whether I should appear at table in gold 'leaf o1 naked, whole or sliced. With bread too, there was a difference. New o three days old baked was at the dis cretlon of the carver as he sized up th visitors. And as for the apportionhin. of the tidbits according to precedenci there was no end. The old time carver In fact, was born and then. made. Tondon Standard. The Danger of La Grippe is its fatal tendency to pneumonia. To cure your la grippe coughs take Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. R. E. Fisher, Washir.ton. Kas., says: "I was troubled with a severe attack of la grippe that threatened pneumonia. A friend advised Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and I got relief after taking the first few doses. I tooc three bottles and my la erippe was cured." Get the genuine, in the yellow package. The Dickson Drug Co. Peru's Garcen of the Gods. "In the Andes. inf a tlousnd feet higher than 'ike's peak. is to tN found the Peruvian Garden of the Gods. ad mired by every traveler fortunate enough to visit it." writes William V. Alford, F. R. G. -S.. in the Century. "It is locally called the Rock forest. though in no sense of the word is it a forest. It simply resembles one when viewed at a distance of ten miles. The traveler may be forgiven the error of thinking It a forest as he sees it for the first time and forgets that be is no longer where trees grow, but with In-half an hour's ride of the highest city In the world. Cerro de Pasco, perched like a condor on the high peaks of the Andes. "The Garden of the Gods in Colo rado boasts of a few spectacular rocks. but. they are few in number, and the area which they cover is not large Tlie Andean garden covers nearly a hundred times the ground and in beatity and interest surpasses its northern counterpart In the same ra tio." Escaped With His Life. "Twenty-one years ago I faced an awful death," writes, H. B Martin, Port Harrelson, S C. "Doctors said I had consumption and the dreadful cough I had looked like it sure enough. I tried everything, I could hear of, for my cough, and was under the treatment of the best doctor in Georgetown, S. C., for a year, but could get no relief. A friend advised me to try Dr. King's New Discovery. I did so, and was com pletely cured. I feel that 1 owe my life to this great throat and lung cure." It's positively guaranteed for coughs. colds, and all bronchial affections. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free ait all druggists. BLOWING THE PIPES. A Scotch Music Lesson by a Clever Highland Master. -A highland piper who had a pupil to teach originated a method by which. says -a writer In Blackwood's Maga zine, he succeeded in reducing the dif fculties of the task to a minimum and at the same time fixed his lesson in the'.pupil's mind. "Here, Donald," said he, 'tak yer pipes, lad, an' gie us a blast "So! Verra weel blawn indeed, but what's a sound, Donald, wi'out sense? You May blaw forever wi'out -making a tune o't if I danna tell ye how the queer things on the paper maun help ye. "Ye see that big fellow wi' a round open face"-pointing to a semibreve "between two 'lines of a bar? He moves slowly from that line to this, while ye beat ane wi' your fist an' gle a long blast "If ye put a leg to him ye mak' twa o' him, an' he'll move twice as fast "If, now, ye black his face he'll run four tim'es faster than the fellow WI' the white face, and If, after blacking his face, ye'll bend his knee or tie his leg he'll hop eight times faster than the white faced chap I showed ye first "Now." concluded the piper senten tiously. "whene'er ye blaw your pipes. Donald, remember this-that the tightet those fellows' legs are tied the faster they'll run and the quicker they're sure to dance." Kill More Than Wild Beasts. The number of people killed yearly by wild beasts don't approach the vast umber killed by disease germs. No ife is-safe from their-attacks. They're n air. water, dust, even food. But grand prctetion is afforded by Elec'tric Bit ers, which destroy and expel these leadly disease germs from the -system. Tbat'~s why chills, fever and ,ague, al malarial and many blood diseases yield promptly to fhis wonderful blood puri ier. Try them, and enjoy the glorious ealth and new strength they'll give ou. Money back, if not satisfied. Only 0e at all druggists. How a Wild Horse Bucks. Rufus Steet.:. in "Mustangs. Busters and Outlaws of the Nevada Wild Horse Country," In the American Magazine. tells of the glorious sport of capturing and training wild horses. "'Busting" snosotfor a novice. Real busters are trained to the game from child hood. He writ'es: "A touch of the spur or a flick of the quirt signals the start. His knowl edge of what to do must be a heritage from his ancestors, for all horses do it, and all American wild horses are sprung from horses that once carried men. He pops down his head and levi tates straight heavenward. While he and you are high in the air he arches his back and stiffens his body to iron rigidity. Thus he comes back to earth. The sensation to the rider is as if his spinal column had been struck by a pile driver. The impression Is not analyzed at the time, for the horse Igoes into the air again immediately. Be swings to right or left, or he 'changes ends' completely while in the air, and you come down facing southward, whereas you were facing northward when you ascended." No Reason For It When Manning Citizens Show the Certain - Way Out. There can be no just reason why any reader of this will continue to suffer te tortures of an aching back, the an noyance of urinary disorders, the dan gers of kidney ills when relief is so near at hand and the most positive proof given that they can be cured. Read what a Manning citizen says: George June of Manning. S. C.. says: I"I am pleased to make the fact known that I haves been benefited by Doan's Kidney Pills. My kidneys troubled me and the kidney secretions were unnatu ral and were filled with sediment. My -back was lame and I did not get much Irest at night. Doan's Kidney Pills which I obtained at Dr. W. E. Brown' & C'sDrug Store, removed the lame ness and after taking this remedy. I felt much better in every way. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, Newv York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the namne-Doan's--and Nil The Impressi Iu Take With You whe o eave our store after havis r.hased during the Sale here. w be favorable to us, we kno,. - eeling of satisfaction acc ;me es every purchaser who deals us. They know that novwr ;eise could they have ob-_ tai.- : 1tter goods At the same. - price That's why they all come back wnever they need goods. - D.F Chmann. IR, JENU S.ON White Front r Brown Block. * MANNING. (We wan: y: -onfidence more than your money; we shah T them both for we shall deserve them.' For Buggies Surries, Wag ons, Harneszs, Horses, Mules Farm Im~plements and Auto mobiles. See us. Prices and terms ighi. Just Rem-ived For 1912: 2 car loads of -:. 1 Bug- 1 large car of the celebrated es. Moline new Cotton and Cort nBu-Planters (no gears and no chains 1 car load of - -Bu-to break.). ~ies. New Molinie Improved Cottot 1 car load of . oggies. Stalk Chopper. 1 car load of 7 - - ggies. One horse and 2 sizes 2 horse 2 c-ar loads o 1 horse Blue Bird Plows. Wagons. Middle Bursters. 1 car load ot K 2 horse Harness. Wagons. Pea Thrashers, &c. D. Ce SHAW & CO VIMTER, S. C. 10. 12 an- d4 M inmter St. 'Phone 553. We~ Want to Announce at the begi g-i the season that we have a very com plete line of Farm haplements, Cultiva tors, - sk Harrows, Two Horse Ilows, Steel Plows ol several Lakes and all sizes. T HE LAR6 (~ ND MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF Wire Eicing in the coun ty, and wi th lowest prices, Ranges Stoves, Heaters, Paint ils, and Varnishes. -EVE Nfl NEEDED IN OUR LINE. COME TO SE E US. . (R. Sprott, F. D. Hunter, Pres:dent and Treas. Vice-President and Sec. Sol BllS OIL DLLE 0 Manning, S. C. -MANUFACTURERS OF Cotton Seed Products E AND High Grade Fertilizers fCorn plete Line. : I HAVE ARRANGED TO CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF * - AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES. * 04 on hand and have bought -them right . so as to mneet the competition of the . big dealers. - Everything I carry. is alright in . every respect and will be sold at a 9 reasonable profit. Tires. Tubes, Prest-0-lite Tanks, Horns, Lamps, and in fact anything 9 you want, and the price is right. Stop with us and get your Oils, NGreases and Gasoline. - a TO OUR FRIENDS 2 3 AND PATRONS: We take this method and time in thak Sour friends and patrons for the many kind Sfavors they have shown us during the past year, and hope we may have an increase in -our business with you for 1912, May everyone have a very happy and g prosperous New Year in every way, is the _ -sincere wish of 1 J,.NL RIGBY, [ i Happy New Year G Thanking you all'for past patronage -and hoping to have a con- . tinuance of your ca fidence andtradewe wish everybody a Prosperous NE W Y EAR. Rigby Dry Goods Co. LEVI BLOCK. IT PAYS TO TRADE AT Protect YourselfA against loss by fire with a po in a reliable com~pany. Snac surance offers.the one safe * sore protection. Have us issae you a policy to day. Who ktno' but what to-morrow may " . - iare. Troubje ofteu come-ou * night. The Manning Realt-y-a Insurance Agency I%~7Q 5~1 .with everything on need b* g ~j, ~* -yon start out in your mach. 7 I have a good Stock and ain. Screasing it each week with ( Sbest, anil selling it at a readc -able profit. Buy an Overland Car if want the best. H. H. BRADHA. - PURE DRUGS. are essential to hastening th retu - health of those who are ill. We 56 our stock of Drugs fresh, so that-.y_ *3 doctor's prescriptibn may he filled pr * erly. We also keep on band all reliable preprietory medicines andr edies, and the finest toilet necessit - Remember the name. _ ZEIGLER'S At Manning, S. C. ITISEAYTOWRT a hc n amn o il.Mc aie hnconigou(h c losofu checkbook oyent ean tuhesea uthing i out t o cash. byRemember! Wehave a positive COLD CURE. If taken bdirections, when the first symptoms o Cold appear, and it does not cure, we wil gladly refund the cost. - so Cents for 12 Capsules. Dickson Drug Storeg