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THE NEW ZIONI PUTS ON A I Beginning Saturdo And running through until the ne We have the fullest line ever car heavy to offset the steady advanci tion a few things we carry, tha, Trunks, Suit Cases, Hand-Bags and Grips. Buy your Luggage now. Cook Stoves, a full line. Ranges, Half Ranges, medium size and small Cook Stoves. We have on hand a solid car of Chairs of all kind a September 25th, we will give you prices which will be comfort of knowing where to trade. New Zion Furn J. H. DuBOSE, Mgr. 10 -E U-f -u-I Ul -l aE C UI= -EA I-Iii ~ L O M 5A MM a"Em BM S EEUEREMMaNmwa 5lam50!%2002020|5115115 UU _JUST ARRIVED Car of Horses and Mules! One of the prettiest bunches that has came here in several seasons. The lot includes animals for all purposes. We bought this lot for the trade that wants good stuff, and we know that we can please you with these animals, no matter what your wants may be. Come and see them NOW. FOR SALE One 1918 Ford Touring Car. Very best of shape. Has been run less than 2,000 miles. L RIDGEWAY& CO. MANNING, S. C. FURNI O-DA. y, Sep xt Saturday nighi ried at this : in Furnitur t you may kr We carry the O Springs of several i Wood Bedsteads. Rockers, Davenpoi Bedsteads and Wa: nd grades. When worth your trip her( iture ( THE STORY Of COTTON The story of cotton is the story of eLothing a large part of the population f the world and of the wealth-even the very economic existence of a large part of our own country. Althoigh we find records that the Hindus used cotton as early as 8001 B. C., for the purpose o fthis story we will consider the development rath r than the history of the plant. Sea Island cotton was found grow ing on the WVest Indies Islands by Co lumbus in 14192, and it was also found by early explorers in both (f the Am The species of cotton raisedl in the United States today is thought to have originatedl in Mexico, but D)eVica, a French explorer, in 1536 found ift growing in what is now Texas and Louiiis iana. The story of cotton is dlependlent on the story as appl)1ied to its manufac ture. Prior to the invention of the cot ton gin the industry of phlan ti ng and cul - tivating cotton for commnerce was practically unknown. The labor of separating the fibre from the seegd wVas prohibitive. Probably the first cotton cultivatedl in America was in Virgin in in 1609-miore extensive cul tiv'ation was practicedl in 1621 when we find~ the price of cotton wool qjuoted at eight shillings per pound. T1he invention of the Spinning Jenny and the Tbhrostle machi ng about 1 769 and the adaptation of the latter to power--fi rst mules, then water, then in 1 790, to steami-ca ted a demand for larger quantities of a fibre which would spin into yarn. In 1773, John Kay, in lEnglasnd, in.. ventedl the flying shuttle. This is the first recorded improvement on the loom and by it the process of weaving was speeded upl. For a quarter censtutry prior to 1785 Lxperiments wvere imde on power loomns lbut in that, year IEdmu nd Cart. wright invented the firast successful power loom. So far cotton has only pla yed a minor part in this story but the dec Velollenst of powVer sp)innltg andl CHICH ESTER S PILLS L adleat Ask our 3ru ggat Sones, sealerd with Blue RiCAbon, Y nPIA oND IHAND P'ILLM, for *6 cnyausknown as Best, Safcst, Always lelabio SO D BRUGGISTS EYERYME~RF| rSI EC U III C CM 01 C1cl TORE SALE tember , October 2nd. place. We'b e prices. We low what we ake Dale Felt Matt nakes. A large select Parlor Suits. Park ts, Chiffrobes, Low ;hstands to match. you come to our s:ore . You will go away iompai NEI weaving is the beginning of the story of cotton. From 1770 to 1792 the cultivation of cotton lagged. In 1792, however, the real impetus was given to cotton growing. A young man named Eli Whitney got a job teaching school in a rural district of the south and as the t ' owdcd he was forced to board with a private family. As part pay for his board he had to pick from the seed one p)ound of cotton lint every night, excep~t Saturday, when, the next day being Sunday, he must pick two pounds. During the long evenings Eli would grow tired picking his pound of cotton as he preferred using his brain to usin gh is fingers, ie tinally decided his job would be easy if he could get something to hold the seed~ while something else pulletd off the Ii nt. Hel ar"ranged a rack to hold the seed and a ni uber of thin ciricular comb~s or' saws to pull off the lint. The saws were mounted on a square har of iron which was pivoted at eacht end in a fradme so that it would rotate. lie put the grindtstone ceran k on one end of the sha ft antd poured the seed cotton on the rack. Did it work ? All Eli hadl to do a fter that w as turn the erianik anl his handlady was supplied with more Iinit cotton than slhe and her Iiv\e da ugh ters could1( spin0. Fromtn this biegi nning it was easy ando the gin was entlarged and madeo to run by mule p~owerC. Somieti ime het weeni 1850 and 1880 steam power was applied to gin sin or der' to speedl utP the priodluct ion of lint rot t on to keep patce wvith the world's dlemand. Wi' know thait the 1914 crop of over sixteent million hales was the peak oif pr'oduction unde r'the horse farming met hod; we k now that. this inimense crolp was used, leaving the following year i' ittlet ovet' a normal surplus; we know t hat the prod uction in the past live yea rs ha~s not ('qual led 1911. The demand is is ever' imereasing. IIlow are we going to meet it with adequa to supplies ? One answer is mnach iie o wer''t farmnting. P owe r, thraoughb spe'eding up' the te'xtile' ini dustryv, has created the demand, andtv po we r t h rough s peedl w il Ia ss ist in mioret t'conomiuicail prodttttion of1 the rawv mater'ial. WVII.~M I NGT'ON 01"FIClIA IS Sl'll' OVE l HIlSK EY WVilmiing ton, N. C., Sept. 26. Charged with obstructing ant otfficer ini the (di.. 25! ought men have. ress, Cots and ion of Iron and )r Chairs and Base Dressers, Saturday, with the ly9 ZION, S. C. MANNING PROOf Should Convince Every Manning Rleader The frank statement of a neighbor, telling the merits of a remedy, Bids you pause and believe. The same endorsement By some stranger far away Commands no belief at ali. H ere's a Manning case. A Manning citizen test ities. Read aind be convinced. WV. N. Hill, says: "About two years ago I was troubled with my kidneys. Tlhere were pains across the small of my back and it felt as if someone were sticking a knife into me. My nerves were all1 unstrung a ml often tines I had dizzy spells. I felt as if I wantedl to sleep) all the time. A friend recoinmendedl Doan's Kidney Pills so0 bought some at Dickson's Pharnmacy. D~oan's Kid ney Pills entire'ly curedl me of the trouble andl I have~n't been bothered P'rice' l;((, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney reme'dy-get D~oan's Kidney Pills--- the same that Mr. IIlill had. l'oster- Milburn Co., M fgrs., IButfalo, N. Y. (barge of his duty, D~eputy Marshal A. 11. West and it. N. Carr, an empiloye of the Southern Railway IExpress Comn pany were a rrested ton i gh on war ran ts sw~orni out. by C h ief oif Police Williams. Tlhe marshal later was re.. leasedl on $250) bond b ut (air was held jieninig the airrangement of bail. The a rrest s grew ouit of the opi sodle last niigh t when Marshal West is al legedI to L,we" t aken possess ion of a case conita in ing whiskey whliich Ch ief Williams was searebing for the chief asserting that the marshal acted with - out the proper a uthority of havintg a warrant in his Possession. An inter est ing: sequtiel is ex pected to grow ou t of' t he conflict bet ween governimen tal and municipal iuthority in booze seiz lre (a ses herei. TWOV( K I I.llD, T A NY I I RT WHEIN ('Al T'iCNS OVER Nash villeI, Sept. S. TIwo women werie killed~ an al; score of persoins ini jured here today when a one-main stree't car turnedi tu0rtle after jump ~ing the track at 'lbi rd Avyenue North and Ch urch street . Thle dead are : Miss / H attic Dauvis, sectary of the Uinited Charities and an unidentified white woima n. It was nce(ssarmy fo r firemen to chop a hole in the (ear to rescue many of the injunenl