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The splendid values we are ociu: you sihould induce you to ejuil) you
farms with the most un-to-date plows and implements. Our stock of Turn Plo('s
i. without doubt the best ever hrou:r to this market, both in value and variet v.
We will be glad to have you inspect. them. We have all the various kinds o
Guano Distributors and Cotton Planters usually carried and are offering You
for the second season the Cole Cotton and Corn Planter. The Southern CultiVa
tor, a farm journal published in Atlanta, Ga., rw(t. highly recommends this
planter for both cotton and corn, and parties to % %- we sold in our county
last season are loud in their praise of this machine, aside fiorn the splendid re
suits to be obtained by the use of this machine in p:anting. It is well' made of
the best steel and casting and will last for many years. We will cheerfully furn
isha names of purchasers last season for reference.
-. MILL SUPPLIES.
We continue to sell lots of mill supplies. We always have in stock such
iitings as are most wanted and can start You up in short order. We cut pipe up
to two inches. We have lately added to our stock Circular Saw Teeth for in
serted tooth saws. We carry in stock the best quality of Lace Leather, Pistern
Packing, Sheet Packing, Babbit Metal, and Lubricating Oil. All at the lowest
p:-tces.
PAINT YOUR HOUSE.
It will improve your property more than any othet investment. A thousand
dollar house well painted iooks far m'orelattractive than one many timesits valuc
not painted. We have the very best grades of paint at prices that will interest
YOU.
H OUSEKEEPERS.
* We have most beautiful Floor Sains. Let us induce you to stain the floor
of one room and note how much easier it is to keep clean than the others. It
will be only a question of time when all your floors will be stained. Floor paint
and stains are mixed and ready for use. You have only to brush the paint on
the clean floor and the work is done. It dries quickly.
The splendid values we are now offering in O. K. Cook Stoves contitiues
to bring us customers. There is nothing like 0. K. Cook Stoves made for the
same money- The handsome appearance, the splendid workmanship displayed
in their make-up. the fine quality of the iron used in the castings. all go to
make the 0. K. Cook Store what it is. the best Cook Stove ever offered for the
money.
Very truly yours.
Manning lardware Co.
GET READY.
Let us show you the best Assortment of a
GARDENAN ELD SEEDS
in the county. We mention below a few of Wood's Fatuous
Specials that we handle in bulk:
Early Dwarf Lima Bush Beans.
Earliest Red Speckled Valentine Bush Beans.
Early Buspee Stringless Green Pod Bush Beans.
Old Homestead or Kentucky Wouder Pole Beans.
Stowell's Evergreen Sugar Corn.
Mammoth Sugar Corn.
Truckers' Favoite Corn.
Gentry's Early Corn.
Golden Dent Field Corn-Makes in 90 days
Virginia White Dent Field Corn.
Improved Snow Flake Field Coru-.kes in 100 days.
Albermearle Prolific Field Corn-Makes 4 to 7 ears to stalk.
Early Amber Sorghum Cane.
Pearl or CatiTail Millet, for feeding green to cows and stock.
Early Irish Cobbler Potatoes.
Late Peach Blow Irish Potatoes. Just what you need.
Improved Georgia Rattlesnake Watermelon.
Carolina Bradford Watermelon-The finest known.
We handle nothing but the best and are daily receiving
fresh,stock. If we haven't what you want we'll get it for you.
The Busy Seed 'Store.
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Opp. Coffey & Rigby's Stable,
Before you let the coutract for that
Turned Work or Log Cart. Our prices
are very reasonable when quality of
work is considered
Our blacksmith work is up to the
standard and when you need work in
that line remember that we are just
as accommodating as ever, and we are
always glad to see you.
NEW MARKET.
I have opened up a Meat Market in
the Galluchat Building, below the post
office, where I vill keep the best Fresh
Meats of all kinds there the market
affords. All that I ask is that you give
me a trial.
Yours to please,
R. D. CLARK.
'Phone 71.
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Trespass Notice
All persons are hereby warned not
to trespass in any manner upon the
landsof the undersianed, either hunt
ing, fishing, haulinr straw. wood or
or otherwise, as they wdl be prose
cuted. J. F. COLE
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The Juice of the Grape.
The Arabs say that when the first
grapevine was planted the demon Iblis
sacrificed a peacock on the spot where
the plant was set. As soonl as it be
gan to- sprout fortb he sagrificed an
ape over it. When the grapes began
to appear he slaughtered a lion, and
when these were ripe he offered up a
pig; hence it is that he who drinks
wine feels at first as proud as a pea
cock and becomes subsequently as
tricksome as an ape, as bold as a lion1
and at length as stupid as a swine%.
Definitions.
Asked to define a suffragist. a Brit
ish schoolboy auswered. "A person
who creates a disturbance." One boy
described "surf" as "a form of sea
weed which grows - in the Pacific
ocean." In an essay on the canine race
a pupil declared that "small dogs im
prove by keephig." and another gave
the singular of "twain" as "worsted."
There Yet.
Scott-My wife's mother has visited
us only once in five years. Mott
That isn't bad. When do you expect
her to pay her second visit? Scott
Oh, she hasn't got through her first
yet-New York Telegraph.
Then She Talked. -
Reporter-Well, I've interviewed her.
Edior-Did she talk without restraint?
Reparter - I should say nit! She
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came in and told her to keep still.
P.hiladelphia Inquirer.
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Nutriment of Bacon.
Professor Snyder of the Minnesota
food station gave in a report some rea
Sons why bacon should become popu
lar. In refecence to a test b says that
bacen ws cut in ibi slice adl(! baked
or broiled in the oven until crisp and
brown. All the fat which was cooked
out was saved and eaten with the
bread and other foods which made up <
the daily fare.
On an average about 00 per cent of
the protein arid 96 per cent of the fat
of the ration containing bacon were
digsted and ahout -8 per cent of the
eixergy was available. Calculated :al
ues for bacoi alo;e showed over JO
per cent proteinl and 'G per cent digest
ible fat. ftiures which compare fa-or
ably with those which have been ob
tahied for other animal foods.
. "Lean bacon contains as much pro
tein and about twice as much digesti
ble fat as other meats," says Professor
Snyder. -iaking it at the same time
and even at a higher price a pound
a cheaper food than other meats. Ba
con fat is easily digested, and when
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Literally Speaking.
Hi Harix-Heow be yore son gittin'
along sense he went tew th' city? Si
Meadowgrass-oh, he's flourishin'. Hi
Harix-I'm powerful glad tew bear it.
What's he doin'? SI Meadowgrass
He's a-teacbin' penmanship In one oV
them business colleges. - Pittsburg
Press.
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CULTIVATED HIS MIND.
A Story of Odd Moments Utilized and
Brain Rebellion.
"I read somewhere one day that no.
me was justified in wasting a single.
nomient of his time," said the reflec
:ive man. "The article said that in
>rder to make use of spare moments
ne should always carry a small vol
ime of one of the world's great think
rs. Odd moments could thus be used
a the cultivation of the mind. The
dea struck me as a good one, and I
It a little guilty as I thought of the
nany valuable moments I had squan
lered. In accordance with my new re
;olve I purchased a small pocket edi
:ion of Emerson, and when riding
Jackward and forward between my
iome and my work I read 'Emerson.
When I had to wait in a barber shop I
:)ulled out my Emerson. When wait
ng for an audience with some business
man I filled in the time by communing
with Emerson. When my wife was a
half hour behind time in meeting me
at a place agreed upon I did not fidget
about, but calmly produced by Emer
;on. When Emerson was finished, I
substituted Carlyle. Carlyle digested,
I took up Ruskin. This went on for
several weeks.
"Gradually I noticed that I was be
ginning to feel heavy and 'dopey.' My
eyes began to puff out as. if I were dis
sipating. My fancies being carried so
constantly into a higher world, I be
came absentminded and concentrated
my thoughts upon business with diffi
culty. I went to bed dead tired at
night and woke up unrefreshed in the
morning. Still my anxiety not to
waste a moment of time increased.
When once I went off from home with
out my book, I '-lt the hour I wasted
that day in short waits was gone, nev
er to be restored. ' The loss of that
hour weighed upon me like a thousand
dropped in Wall street. Still that feel
ing of heaviness increased. My brain
seemed to be covered with a sort of
veil or mist. -I could not account for it.
"Finally I went to a friend who hap
pens to be a specialist in nervous dis
orders. He examined me, asked'ques
tions and then said: 'You are suffering
from a very bad case of brain fag.
What have you been doing?' I told
him nothing unusual, except that I
now filled in all my odd moments by
reading. I explained my plan of culti
vating the mind.
"He listened to me sarcastically- and
then said: 'If you keep this alleged cul
tivation of the mind up, In a year you
will be a stark, staring maniac. You
are an office man, you use your brain
all day long, and the few minutes it
gets to rest you utilize by.forcing it to
go to work on Carlyle! Cut It out! You
are stifling your brain by never giving
it a chance to breathe. Throw all those
pocket editions away. Hereafter you
let those wasted minutes take care of
themselves.'
"I followed his advice. I threw Em
erson, Carlyle aiid Ruskin into the dis
card, I frittered away my odd mo.
ments as of old, and in a week or two
I was feeling normal and active again.
And now when any highbrow talks
loftily of the cultivation of the mind
during odd moments by communing
with superior minds I stab him to the
heart with my own experience."-New
York Press.
Much confusion exists regarding the
origin of thg word "teetotal." Nol
many abstainers probably know the
real story or recognize the fact thai
the Introduction of the word marks ar
epoch in the annals of temperance
There are two traditions current as tc
the making of the word which are noi
founded on fact. It is said that Rich
ard Turner, the apostle of temperance
when delivering an address said.: "We
not only want total abstinence; WE
want more-we want t-total .absti
nence." Another legend. is that Mr
Swindlehurst of Preston, who had ar
impediment in his speech, pronounec
the word "t-t-total," which was adopt
ed as a shibboleth. The true origil
was explained by the late Dr..Brewer
Previous to 1833 the temperance pledgi
did not absolutely. forbid the use- o:
stimulants, but at that time the Tota
Abstinence party arose. The Moder
ates, to distinguish themselves fron
the others, put the letters.. "0. P.,'
meaning "old pledge," after thei:
names, while the total abstainers. usec
the letter "T," meaning -"Total."
Dundee Advertiser.
Some Tall Chimneys.
The highest chimney in England I;
that at Barlow and Dobson's mill a
Bolton. It is 368 feet in height, anm
the material used in its constr'uctio3
was 800,000 bricks and 122 tons o
stone. This big smokestack is. excellei
by at least two in Scotland. The SI
Rollox chimney In Glasgow is 44
feet, and the Townsend chmney in th
same city is 468 feet high. But th
steeplejacks make no more of elImbii
such shafts than one a third of thei
height, though the vibration is. muc.
greater and more serious at times. A&
chimneys vibrate, especially in a galc
It is a condition of their safety, bia
the oscillation at the top is a seriou
matter for any one at work ther
during a high wind, and in such cond
tions the job Is postponed to a calme
day. Lancashire also boasts one c
the crookedest chimneys in the world
a shaft at Brook mill, Heywood--whic
is nearly 200 feet high and more tha
six feet out of plumb. It has be
belted with Iron bands and is cons1
ered safe..
Beyond Criticism.
"Why do you always insist on pla2
Ing difficult and unusual music?"
"Because," answered Miss Cayenn
"It is very improbable that any of m
auditors will know whether I am pe
forming correctly or not."-Washini
ton Star.
How to Avoid Appendicitis.
.Most victims of appendicitis are tho
who are habitually constipated. Ornm
Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chron
constipation by stimulating the liv
and bowels and restores the natur
action ot the bowels. Orino Laxati
Fruit Sy rup does not nauseate or gri
and is mild ond pleasant to take. B
fuse substitutes. The Arant Co Dvri
Store. _ _ _ _ _ _
Champion Jumper of the Ocean.
The most stupendous of all leape
of the sea is the whale, but the wha
is not a fish. I have seen a monst
weighing hundreds of tons, possit
eIghty feet In length, rise slowly a
deliberately out of the water until
appeared to be dancing on the st
.face, entirely clear of it, then si
slowly back. Such a leap is on reco
in the annals of the British gavy.
large whale cleared a boat, going co
pletely over it, an estimated leap
twenty feet in air--how many in
lateral direction was not knowf
Ce.,.. Holider in Outing MasI
He Took a Hand.
Mr. and Mrs. Stockson Bonds are in
veterate bridge whist players, andI
their home -is the meeting place of
bridge players of all grades. On one
evening -in every week they are "at
home' to any of their friends who wish
to play, and en other evenings they en
tertain parties of their own selection
for games which range from a cent a.
point to a much higher figure. Recent
ly, long after the house had. been closed,
a noise wa5 heard downstairs, and,
regardless of his wife's protests, Stock
son Bonds went below to ascertain the
cause. The noise continued and grew
louder, but no answer came to the
wife's calls from above. She became
alarmed, opened the window, saw a
policeman, and he made a rush for the
basement door. A few minutes later
the husband appeared before his panic
stricken wife and told her he had found
the servants playing bridge and wran
gling over the propriety of a certain
play.
' "Did you send the whole party
away?' asked the wife.
"Why, no. I took a hand and decid
ed the question before I realized where
I was."-New York Tribune.
He Held On.
"In a town back in Vermont .one
time," said a doctor, "a big, . husky
lumberman entered the office of a den
tist I knew and showed the doctor a
bad tooth. The dentist decided that
the tooth should be pulled.
"'All right," said the lumberman.
'But listen now. If I tell you to'stop,
you stop pulling oi I'll beat you up.'
"The dentist agreed, and the lumber
man got in the chair. The dentist took
hold of the tooth and began pulling.
Almost immedi4tely the lumberman
yelled, 'Hold on!',
"The dentist continued to pull. 'Hold
on!' yelled the lumberman. The dentist
kept pulling, and the tooth came out
Then the lumberman jumped from the
chair mad.
"'Why didn't you stop when I- told
you to? he asked fiercely. -
"'You didn't tell me to stop,' said
the dentist
"'I did too! I yelled "Hold on!"
twice.'
"'Oh,' said the dentist innocently, 'I
thought you meant to keep hold of it'
"The lumberman believed him and
cooled off."-Denver Post
Agility -of Hares and Rabbits.
Interesting figures on - the relative
agility of hares and rabbits are given
in a volume by J. G. Millais. '"When
rnning at ease," he says, "the length
of the hare's stride is about four feet,
but under conditions of fear its leaps
extend to ten and twelve feet, while
some authors claim that it can jump
fen ditches twenty to twenty-five feet
in width. Perpendicularly a hare can
jump on to a five foot wall, but seems
to be nonplused by one about six feet
The stride of the rabbit is about two
feet When necessary It can make
leaps of six or seven feet horizontally.
About three-feet is the highest that a
rabbit can attain to even when helped
by the asperities of a stone wall." Mr.
Mllis tells how rabbits swim-when
compelled to: "They swim with the
head held as high as possible, while
the hocks of the hind legs appear
above the element at each stroke. The
shoulders and front part of the body
are buried beneath the water, while
the rump and tall are high and dry."
Tyranny of; Clothes.
Place a man in a silk hat.ankfrock
coat and transport him to a: fafmyard.
Agricultural pur-suits may be the one
passion of his life, but clad in these
garments he feels in such surround
ings miserable, out of place, essential
y urban. Clothe him, conversely, in
fannels or knickers and place him in
a chureb,. and it is utterly Impossible
for him to assume a fittingly devo
tional frame of- mind. Unlimited au
tocracy itself cannot impose such tyr
anies on the subject Civilization
is the slave of its clothes, and there is
no prospect of freedom. - London
Graphie.
-Bitten by a Spider.
Through blood poisoning caused by a
spider bite. John Washington, of Bos
queville, Tex., would have lost' his leg,
which became a mass of running sores,
ad he not been persuaded to try Buck
le's Arnica Salve. He writes: "The
Ifirst application relieved, and four box
-es healed all the sores." Heals every
sore.-25e. at The Arant Co. Drug Store
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
"The largest, broadest, deepest and
most ineffectual genius of the nine
1teenth century"-thus has Coleridge
Sbeen described, and probably no bet
Iter description of the great philoso
pher and litterateu~r can be found. He
was a youth of impulses and tried in
~*turn to become a cobbler, a surgeon
Sand a soldier before he settled down
and gave proof of his vast literary at
tinments. Some of his poems have
1been accepted as the noblest pieces of
imaginative writing produced by a
modern poet, while as .a literary critic
the had few equals in his genera'tion.
SHe was a born journalist and lecturer
too.-Pearson's Weekly.
rNo Coat For Nineteen Years.
fDuring the journey from Victoria
-falls to Kimberley i big, sun browned
mn boarded the Zambezi express .ml
ams his coat, with his shirt sleeves rolled
Iup. He took a seat at dinner, and the
chief steward remafked to him that as
there were ladies present perhaps he
would have no objection to putting
on his coat. "Great Scott," the mar
replied, "I haven't worn a coat foi
nineteen-years. You will have to wait
~,my friend, until I can buy one at Kimn
berley."-South-African Railway Mag
- azine. -
Polite. -
Robecchi asked a friend to dinne:
and then returned home furious
'What Is the matter?' said his wife
a "Do not speak to me! It Is a shame
io I always thought a-politeness produce<
L one in return, so I asked Dobelli ti
r lunch."
l"And has he refused?'
e"Refused! I should think not He
has accepted."-Caricaturistai.
Would Improve Mankind.
If the resolution not to lie were at
strong as the determination not to b<
s called a liar, the world's veracit
e would be greatly enlarged.-St. Loi
r Post-Dispatch.
d God rights the man that keeps s
it lene.-From the Persian.
CASTOR IA
For Tnfants and Children,.
a The Kind You Have Always Bough
- Bears the
Signature of
A PLT TMAT FAILE
The Scheme to B!ow Up Napoleon li.
With Gunpowder.
An intercstiug story is that of a frus
trated plot against Napoleon III. which
tas never got into the history book,
but which is one of the favorite stories
)f M. Victorien Sardou.
In 1900, when the frontage of -the
rheatre Francais was rebuilt after the,.
isastrous fire in which one of the
most charming actresses of the Maison
le Moliere lost her life, several shops
lisappeared, among thembeing that of
the famous Restaurant Chevet Itwas
ot properly speaking a restarah
Chevet used to sell liqueurs, groceries;
smoked meats, etc., and-In a couple of
low ceilinged rooms on the -frst floor
he would serve a meal or two to con
noisseurs. One day in 1865 or 1866
two young men of fashion, Russians
both of them, came In and called for
dinner in one of the little rooms which
were above the shop. They asked for
caviare, but when they got it they pro
tested loudly that the caviare was of
inferior quality and called for the own
er of the shop. He came, apologized
and was met with the remark, tender
ed laughingly by one of the diners,
that next time they camethey would
bring their own caviare. They came
again and brought.it in a little white
wooden barrel, and when they left they
had it put on one side for them. From
time to time the two young Russians
came and dined chez'Chevet, dined in
variably in. the same room and always
began their dinner with their own c.
viare. One day they finished the bar
rel, and a few days later, In the after
noon, one of them brought another one.
"Put it in the little cupboard, In- the
room we always dine in," he said to
the waiter, "and do not let anybody
touch it until we come to dine." The
waiter took it, but on his way upstairs
something peculiar struck hibl.
"Look at this barrel," he said to the
restaurant keeper._ "There Is some
thing queer about It"
"That is no business of ours," said
the -master of the establishment, "and
I am not going to-look at it, anyhow.
What will our customers say if they
find we have opened It?"
"Oh," said the waiter, "we can open
it and close it again, and they will nev
er know. It is certainly different from
the last barrel. It is heavier, to begin
with."
His insistence prevailed, and the bar
rel was opened. The restaurant keep
er and the waiter., started back in
fright ThE'e was no cavafre, but-gun
powder in that little barrel, which was
ip infernal machine. The littledining
room was exactly underneath the/mpe
ral box, and there is little doubtthat U
the emperor's next visit to the.Comedle
Francalse would have been his lasthad.
the carefully laid plot not been discv
ered. 'Te plotters never were caught
although the secret of the, plot was
carefully guarded and, traps were laid
for them in Chevet's restaurant for. '
several days.-St James' Gazette.
Turkish. Political Pri6onpers.
When a Turkish political prisoner is
sentenced to be deported to Tripoli or I
to the Euphrates, his friends bid him.
farewell. They know that they wilr
never see him again- alive -and in all
probability never hear-of. him again.
unless enormous sums are forthcoming
to bribe scores of different officials: In
fact, the only difference, betweeni a
death sentence in Turkey and one of
transportation is that the former Is'
more rapid and more merciful. The
overment prefers the latter bsecause
It is less public.. Now and then,.how,
ever, news leaks through. Of poor
Midhab Pasha, for -Instance, it is
known that near Bagdad his. brutal
guards beat out his brains with the
butt end of their rifies,-Lonldon An
swers.
Mr. S. L. B3owen, of Wayne, W. Va.,
writes: "I was a sufferer from -kidney -
disease, so.-that at times I cold uot-'get<
out of bed, and when I did I could- not5:.
stand straight. I took -Foley's :Kidney~:
Cure. One dollar bottle-and part of the
second cured me intirely.' Foley's Kid -
ney Cure works wonders where others
are total failures. The Arant Co. Drug
Store.
WHY SILHOUETTE.
A Curious Bit of History Wrapped
Up In -the Word.
The making-of silhouettes can hard
ly be classed amnong the lost arts;since
there is so little. art.about.themie The
best of them represent the hhiman plb
file in -a crude way, and they were re
gardedas rather a cheap .kind.of-pi
tures even in the days when they were
most popular. Indeed, the very word
silhouette means something poor and.
cheap.. and it had itssorigin in a spirit
of ridicule. It is taken from Etienne
de Silhouette, who was a French cab
inet minister in the year 1759, wheft
the treasury. of France was very low
because: of costly wars with Britai
and Prussia and by the extravagances
of the government. When Etienne de
silhouette .became minister of fiane
he set about making great reforms I
the public expenditures. He was by
nature a very "close" man, a& he
went to such extremes -in keeping'
down the public- expenses- that . he
brought great 'ridicule upon himself,
and finally anything -that was cheap
and poor was referred- to as a -Ia Sil
houette.
A very crude picture was popular at
that time. It was made by tracing the
shadow or profile of a face projiected
by the light of a candle on a sheetof~
white paper and the outline defined'
with a pencil. This was such. a very
poor and cheap sort of .picture that
It was at once called -a silhouette in
further derision ef the very saving
French minister, and the. name has
"stuck." It Is an instance of the curi
ous derivation of some words in com
mon use, and this unkind slur on a
man who was really trying to into
duce needed reforms in the spending
of the public money has long been ac
Scepted as a good and proper word. .In
i *deed. there is no other word -used for
> pictures of this kind, although athere
were .suclh pictures long before M. Etl
enne de Silhouette had diis name at
Stached to them in so emabarrassing. a.
way.-Morris Wade in Century
A Card.
This is to certify that all druggists,
are authorized to refund your money' if'
s Foley's Honey and Tar fails ,to cure
your cough or cold. It stops the cougb,
heals the lungs and prevents serious
t- results from a cold. Cures la strippe
ougs, and prevents pineumnomaad
onsumption. Contains no opiatesTe
e ubst. Tnhae Arant C. Drug Store.
His Name.
Lawyer - What Is your full nae
Witness-K. K. K. Karl Benson. Lavw
vWhat do all the K's stand for?
Wtness - Nothing; the minister who
c hristened me stuttered. -Boston
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