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Loan We are prep; improved Far: mortgages to r interest. For partic Messrs. Purdy THlE SO' HE ST FERTILIZER to use this year is a mixtude of equal parts of Acid Phosphate and Cotton Seed Meal. This mixture will analyse NINE per * cent. available Phosphoric Acid, and TH REE AND ONE-H ALF per cent. Am monia, and nearly if not quite ONE per cent. Potash. Weare prepared to furnish both the above materials and also Blood and TVankage. and we solicit inquiries. MANNIN OIL ILL Manning, S. C. Our Representative is as near as your pos.tombeo or y~our telephone. A card or a long disitatee call, and our service is at youlr disposal. * TYPEWRITERS RENTED. Writing Machines Repaired by Experts. We carry a full line of 0Omee Fixtures and Supplies and1( are' sole dlealers in ~L. C. SMITIJ & BROS'. TYPEWRITERS. (Tphe "'Silent Smrith") and SHAW.WALKER FIILING CABIINETS AND FIXTURE7S. RODGRS OFFICE SUPPLY (P. 57 road St. .. - Charleston. S. C. s on arm red to handi mu Lands in un for five ye :ulars see o1 & O'Bryan. UTIERN ATLANT FRENCH CARRYING SYSTEM IS FAULTY Need of Better Interior Lines of Com merce Felt. Paris, Dec. 20.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-Nothing has availed to check the increase of the cost of living in France. Breand only has escaped the tendency. Everything else considered, it costs at least 75 per cent more to live in France to day than it did three years ago. War, of course, is the first explanation, but economic experts declare that difficul ties of transportation and high freights form the chief factors and that these difliculties are due largely to the failure of the government to have ever carried out the projects for interior navigation wvhich were urged by de Freycinet Baudin andl Audif fred, years ago, in the opinion of these same econimie authorities the failure of France to realize these ca nal projects has beea responsible for her anomalous position in the world carrying trade. Although some 200 to 500 miles nearer A merica and from two hun dIred to two thousandl miles nearer the extreme Oriental markets than Ant werp or Hamburg, the French port, of Marseilles before the war wVas sur passedl by those Belgian and German ports in Central European trade to the Orient, while Bordeaux,Hlavre and other French Atlantic ports were far behind them in trade with the two A mericas. Trhe marvelluos internal organization of navigation andl trans p)ortaition in Belgium and Germany enabled them to dIrain toward their ports nearly all the roreign bound traflic of Central Europe though lengthening the route and increasing the time of (delivery. Geneva, for instance, is further from Antwerp than it is from Bior dleaux, yet in 1912 Bordeaux received almost nothing from Switzerland wvhile Antwerp received 31,0001 tons to be shipped by its longer route to European ports. In the same year Bordeaux rece ivedl and forwarded to Genev'a only 4,5001 tons while Ant werj) was a way station for '14,000 Long going nito) Switzerland. The new necessities created by the wvar, howVever, madec Bor~ieau x the port for 35,000) tons of cotton and grain and other commodlities en route for Switzerland in 1915. Economie authorities argue that wvith proper fa cilities four years ago Bordeaux would have received a lion's share of the 75,000 tons of ingoing and outgo ing Swiss traflic in 1912. The question is one of the Rhine against the Rhone so far as concerns Central European traflic for which Switzerland acts as a sort of "turn table"' and wvith it are connected in timately the long discussed projects of the Rhone canal, the canal from Marseilles to the Rhone, and the ca nal from the Rhone to the Gironde with Marseilles andl Bordeaux as the termini. De F'reycilnet and other far-seeing statesmen who elaborated these canal projects tell from powver before they wvere realized but economic authori tiesbelieve that the era of reconstruc t ion after the wvar will une ranneo Impr, LandE .e Loans secu Clarendon ars with a ve itr Attorneys MORTOA A, GA. turning first of all, in the matter of public improvement, to the question of transportation. Two of the most important pro jectes waterways remain to be built; one of them lateral to the Rhone will continue the system from Havre and Paris to Marseilles by way of Lyons and will enable the Rhone to compete with the Rhine for Swiss trade to the Mediterranean; another comlecting the Rhone with the Dordogne-that is to say connecting Lyons and Mar seilles with Bordeaux-will give Swit zerland a shorter route to American ports than that by the Rhine. Ill-conveived rivalry of the strong er railroad interests is accused of re trading these projects as well as a shorter line, but of comparatively greater importance,in the North and East connecting the canals of the Es caut. the Meuse, and the Chiers, and serving as5 connecting link between the iron and coal districts. Iland the canails built and projected b~een inl eflicient operation at the be ginning of the war, it is probable that they would have eased transpor tat ion (diflicult ies so as to have kept the cost of l iving miuen nearer nor mal; they wvouldl at least have kept coal from going from 410 francs to1 130 francs a ton. C'ouyh~ Medicine for Children. .\rs. IIlugh Cook, Scot tsville, N. Y., says: "About live years ago when we were living in G;arbutt, N. Y., I dloc tored two of my children suff'ering from (0olds with C ha mberla in's ('ough Remedy and found it just as repre sented in every way. It promptly checked the ir coughing and cured their colds quicke*r than anything I ever usedl."' Oblta inable everywhere. -Adv'. MlEItCII A NTS. SJIOUI) GIV E LOW~VER P'RIC'ES IN CO(L~LECT' Merchants shouldl cooperadte wvith the orga~nized farmers b~y securing for them the lowvest possible pirices wvhen they buy collectively, and thus encourage the spirit of community or ganization. TIhere is inow' much more prejudice anmong merchants against organized farmers who buy and sell coopera tively than exists among organized farmers against local mercantile in terests. Since there can be nod niota blt ru rad comimunity development without c'omun ity organization, the merchant ho really w'~ants to see the wvealth-creat ing powver of farmers in-. ereased should encourage andl a id members of the Farmers' Union in making the organization re*nder het - ter servie.-J-9. Z. Green, in The Pro gressive Farmer. Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S C A STOCR I A Ved red by highly ounty. The ry low rate of at Manning, IE CO. VINOL! A MODERN TONIC. It is recommended to Improve the Ap petite. gjive tone to the stomach, build tip that run dlownl cond(ition and( promote strencith. Order a bottle today. Dickson's Drug Store "Tm elswa yo-ddyetrdy ou nti yeterday." I f fo no by- resontanintiunge-,e denBank i~e inbuna if, ouoe ousefa inu n oe day" li's at dlly. btciiias youi havei't l1.e power tot 10 dii. the fil ' - )1 V ht , :: t ~iite pow r t stari at llan~ik ;ieroiit aind !uurt if for tlb' fuit Ir'. I~ihi 'd w-' w int, i Ii b - p 'V -','i Vyo'iiie in.>n to succee'id. l'~ieI iniday with 8. The Bank of Manning. BRING YOUR IC) 1THE TIMES OEEICFF