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r HE WAS THE PASTOR. And TW ICapt Hta P?ni GMng Wm (Hmt Han tba Adiirw. WH Canning W cba Qrmt BwkI (Mamas Hfla tMa any ?( a earaatite falatar la wnaSacn Smwi whs Is ?tBo p?toaaHH m?? cbs soty aecaral afcora ta die town. la proaideat < the dig hook la the ptee* and la also a praeHrteg lawyer: On eos aeaaaloa a traveling *Hwnmn aoid tba a>wn mere bant a lot of Jew Hry ITbao ft ?um * wan not ?? rep seeeotsd and was rota rued to the kouMk which, tnwessr, andort^>k to ?-ti?* *>- kit n??i f+L<? tvhnL(MAle W!IK) IL'7 UUI. V houso drew a tight draft on the rrter chant through the bank, which was returned unhonored. Then a letter was ddre?*ed to the poafmaster Inquiring about the financial standing of the merchant The postmaster reported the merchant all 0. K. Finally the account was sent for collection addressed to the leading lawyer Then the minister took his [<en In hand and wrote as follows: 'The undersigned Is the merchant on whom you attempted to palm off your worthless goods; the undersigned is president and owner of the bank to which you sent your sight draft; the under signed is the postmaster to whom you wrote, and the undersigned is the law- ' yer whose services you sought to obtain for yonr nefarious business And if the undersigned were not also the pastor of the church at this place he would tell you where to go."?Kansas SM4-P Star V<V WVU* . [' Won an Answer. Ty Cobb. Detroit's star baseball play er. gets as much mail as a member of congress. Letters come to him from girls who admire his style of beauty, from boys who study bis style of batting and from seasoned "fans " if he attempted to answer them all his batting arm would soon be a wreck. One morning in Chicago during the past seascn he was examining his mail. Out of the fifty odd communications before him be took one. "Tills letter." he said. "Is the only 8 , . one that gets a rise out of me. I'm go tag to write to this old fellow." * He passed the letter to a friend, who * read: SDere Marster Cobb ? How you kumln long? My rispecks to Madom Cobb > - Please sir rite me a line. Dese niggers down here In Mlslsipl says I don't know < you and I wants to show dem yore letter. Tores rlspeckful, BEN JACKSON. t?Popular Magazine. The Wondsr of It. A traveler who was "seeing Ireland" In a small cart berated the Irish driver SV tor falling to point out a sight In a part of Dublin they had just passed. ! "there's a milestone.' few yards farther the cart came to a atop which almost threw the passenger out "Why did you stop so suddenly?" asked the man. "Well. aD' there's a milestone." came the answer from Tat. "But what la there strange about a milestone?" again questioned the sightaeer. "Shure." spoke out Tat, "an' ye seldom see two o' them together."?Philadelphia Times. I Went Him On? Better. Philander Chase Knox was a diplomat long before he beca me secretary of state A good many years ago he and ex-President Harrison represented a group of big railroads in the middle west in an extremely Important case, which they won. Two months later they met in New York. "Well," said Harrison with some pride, "I charged those railroads $25.000?and got it!" "I congratulate you." said Knox quietly. "I charged them $125,000. I also got it"?New York Tribune. Old High Finance. Frenzied finance Is not exclusively a habit of recent years. At the Rlggs National bank in Washington, says the Popular Magazine, there is carefully o-nnrded a Droof of the foregoing as o > sertion. I A Regarding the proof there Is told tills st orj-: HE - One winter morning Henry Clay. 4 finding himself In need of money, went ' to the Rlggs bank and asked for the loan of $250 on his personal note. He n was told that, while his credit was peril fectly good. It was the Indexible rule of the bank to require an lndorser. ?| The great statesman hunted up DanH r. ' M Webster and asked him to Indorse , the note. *rWkh pleasure." said Webster. "But i need some money myself. Why not BB Bake your note for $5C<X and you and u Cva vtt ttr B fblitfaardtt. Amd today the note U B^k In the Mas beak?unpaid. Tt? Scrap Book | ?ua i a P?rOou? Pom Wr awl Ifra -Lao hoc Ivxmner wn tMTfss Barop? a ad had Ju*< arrived art Ptaa Mra L*-h-*aCr*?.voc wn* aO LoitWj spun re??'Mae ttva _ liter !*k?? J put- j / wJva forod up .tea spi V ^ *tairw?y. toatln* b?r hnsCS* bead LacuuMIj awaiting bor re af~*Yi A* sb? wtrticb ?d Jmitjf* JiJ$ a shade oter t:ie 200 mark. b?r bnsband alwara nCggpU dujr up nil excu-^ 1 y ^ when It came to W aocompanylDKher on any altitudes -?tr BACir. f1""?, <",ar bag distance. He was Just pondering on the beautiful flow of unintelligible language used by their guide when from the topmost rampart came the "hi-lee-hl-lo" tr.ll ] of bLs wife, who was leaning far out and waving a scarf. Mr. Asobenbrenner obligingly looked up and then came to life with an an- ! gulshed roar: "Grefchen. for your lite get back! You're bendiD* the building:"?Harper's Magazine. Get a Transfer. If you are on the Gloomy line Get a transfer. If you're Inclined to fret and pine Get a transfer Get off the track of Doubt and Gloom. Get on the Sunshine train; there'* 1 room. Get a transfer. If you are on the Worry train Get a transfer. Tou muit not stay there and complain. Get a transfer. The Cheerful cars are passing through. And there Is lots of room for you. Get a transfer. If you are on the Grouchy track Get a transfer. Just take a happy special back. Get a transfer. Jump on the train, and pull the rope. That lands you at the station Hope. Get a transfer An Escaped Ghost. 8am Lewis, thin, cadaverous and gpectral of appearance, is one of the best known song writers on BroadTKa nthnr riot? \f p F httrfl fV*. r* . A US? ViUV* ?H?. MV I casion to visit a i friend In Brook- _ rv/* lyn. At the eonelusion of bis vis- I It he started for 1 the elevated. X*\w and. like every ^?"jj| RTfcSj other Manhattan- J)yf\ Ite who ventures y \\ j Into Brooklyn's j trackless wilds. and by he found 30==3 himself at the ^J^y/ gate of an enor- jyr/ ? H mous cemetery. " - H A cab came along. W driven by a nep.0 **tou cah't fool "Here." said KE-" Bam. holding up his cane at the driver. The cabman stopped. "What you all want?" be asked suspiciously. "I want to take your cab," said Lewis. "Where you all want to go?" asked , the cabby. "Back to New York," said Lewis. I [ "You caln't fool me." said the driver, j j whipping hi9 horse. "You might Jee' as well go back to your grave."?New York Cor. Cincinnati Times-Star. Then He Knew What Kern Meant. Wheo United States Senator John W. j Kern was defeated a few years ago In i the Indiana .legislature for the office of United States senator a reporter | asked him what he had to say about | his defeat Mr. Kern referred the re- j porter to Bret Elarte's poem. "The So- ; | clety Upon the Stanislaus," calling particular attention to the sixth stanza. | i Tbe reporter rushed to the library of the newspaper on which he was emi ployed to find out just what Mr. Kern meant The stanza referred to he found to read as follows: Then Abner Dean of Angels raised a point of order when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in j the abdomen. And he smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up on the floor. And the subsequent proceedings interested j him no more. ?Indianapolis News. | { Still Unsurrendered. A etnrv which was doubtless Invent- I ed to Illustrate the thoroughness of Prussian rule wherever the Prussian ; black and white has established Itself ; Is reported In E. A. Bray ley Dodgetts* : book, "The Douse of Hohenzollern." The strict devotion to duty of the j Prussian disciplinarian has not always ( contributed to his popularity. The estimation in which he has generally been held by conquered neighbors Is Illustrated In the famous Joke about j the Hanoverian farmer's wife ?after j the annexation?and the Inquisitorial i l Prussian gendarme. I "Well." the gendarme Is made to say j In truly terrible admonitory accents, j j "are you all good Prussians here? No Hanoverian nonsense, eh?" "Oh." the trembling old woman replies, "we are all good Prussians now ?ell except the hena." "The hens? What do you mean?" ! roars the gendarme, sniffing hidden ini subordination. j "Ah." says the old country wife, j j "they will persist In laying Hanore- ; ,4u eggs. always white and yellow, i: j eannot get them to lay black end white GERM( For continued big yi Fertilizers they do not G1RMOFERT FERTILIZERS ar Aanoaia and Pataah in varying gradaa. 1 ? Sulpkuru Acid. Th jtJ^Sfcv cat aabtraAing from iti Sk. ic***_ i mailt.H . Statemrn* of Town Cleik a;i Tieasurer, Kir,*;,;e\ i. C ::iM1-12. | Mr M H Jac -i s T < * ' -r* and Treas-; urer, in Acc< ty of Kings- ( tree, for th* Y ::nd 1911 to 1 January it), 191 To town taxes 1; J i 4,095 03 i *' foot tax 1910 276 ('0! " dog tax l9l*i. 6 00 " license 1910 i 109 50 " fines and forfeiture.- 012 00 " town taxes 1911.... ... 4.016 15 " foot tax 1911 -In 00 " license 1911 1 *02 50 " fines and forfeitures 19.1 . ,1- 5 ?0|' " cash from dispensary ar>' other sources 19 i 0 and 191' *.' . )7 " cash for rents " ' " 22; lil t " " received from fire d> 44 " " " county " ! ' 44 44 *4 with bids !. ' 44 total of all moneys received 1910 and 1911 to January 10. 1912 $.6,970 34 Total disbursements of all moneys for the years 1910 and 1911 to January 10,1912 15,073 26 Cash on hand January 10,1912 $ 1,903 08 Cash in Banks as follows: Bank of Williamsburg $ 4-~?l 94 Bank of Kingstree 360 66 1 Bank of Wee Nee 1,102 98 1,915 58 Outstanding checks not yet paid Dy banks... 12 50 , ' I Notice of Election. On Tuesday, February 6, 1912, an ; election will be held at the Bethel joint : school house, District No 53, for the ; purpose of determining whether or not a special tax of two (2) mills shall be < levied in said district for school pur- < poses. Those in favor of such levy will vote 4'Yes", and those opposed will vote ,4No". The polls will be opened at j 8 o'clock a. m. and closed at 4 o'clock p.m., and the undersigned, Trustees of ' said district, will act as managers for ] OUl.ll ClCCllVtl. R E Burgess, W II McElveen, ? C L Burgess, Trustees School District No 53. l-25-2t i Citation NoticeSTATE OKSOl'TH CAROLINA, ' County of Williamsburg'. ( Whereas, RA Brown has made suit t<> < in*- to grant him lettns of adininistratio?i ot th<- goods, chattels, rights and ' creditors of A A Brown, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite the kindred and creditors of the said A A ] Brown, deceased, to be and appear be- i fore me in the Court of Probate to be ] held at the Court House in Kingstree < in said county and State on the 3rd day 1 of February, 1912, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they know, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and official seal this 20th day of January, A D 1912. P M Brockinton, 1 Judge of Probate, Williamsburg County. l-25-2t Corporators' Notice. By virtue of a commission issued to the undersigned corporators by Secretary of State R M McCown, dated January 9.1912,book8 of subscription to the capital stock of the People's Insurance & Real Estate Company will be opened at Bank of Greelyville, Greelyville, South Carolina, Monday, January 29, 1912. Said capital stock is $5,000, divided into 50 shares of the par value <>f $100 per share. J F Montgomery, S V TAYLOR, C E Register, E B Rhodus, 1-25-lt Corporators. Notice. I will sell on reasonable terms two tracts of land. No 1?125 acres, 80 cleared, 2 good tenant houses. No 2*-65 acres, 50 cleared, one new 5-room dwelling,one good tenant house. Situated 6 miles from Kingstree, 3 ' miles from Cades. School-house conveniently near. W P McGill, i 1-18-3S Kingstree, S C. | )FERT || elds apply Germofert ; make your land acid. J a eoai'Ut* aoarcaa of Fkoaphorio Alii, rat, unlika moit fortilixara thoy contain 4 thay add to your land'* yiald witk- g iweatneii and fertility. " a thi?, GERMOFERT FERTILIZERS jl aluabla garmicidal propartiaa tkat tand | iota haalthy plant lift. 5 idreds of farmer* are raiiiip bigger crope, Q g up their farms by their use. ^ r the big demand for GERMOFERT ja RSwefrere compelled to build a new > three times as large as original facto: 7. ji is a tested brand for every crop You /J enow about these fertilizers. Pick up a ^ >aper, NOW. Write and ask for our ^ telling what these fertilizers will do for \ >il. J mofert Manufacturing f Company, <! ILESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA X \ v. Legal Notices f Registration Notice The office of the Supervisor of R?v iteration will be open on the Is- Monday in each month for the purpose of registering any person who is qualified ?< follows: Who shall have been a resident o' the State for two years, and of thr county one year, and of the polling pre iriet in which the elector olfers to yote four months befor? the day of election, and shall have paid, si* months before, any poll tax then dut am! payable, and who can both reac and write any section of the constitution of 1895 submitted to bim by thr Supervisors of Registration, or win can shotv that he owns, and has pair all taxes collectable on during thr present year, pioperty in this Stat* assessed at three hundred dollars 01 more. J. Y. McGILL, Clerk of Boaro ; Auditor's Notice. I will be at the following places, on dates named below, for the purpose of taking tax returns for 1912: January, i Greelvville, 10 and 11 I Gourdins, 12 I Suttons. 13 I Andrews, 15 ( Trio, 16 Benson, 22 ! Bloominrvale, 23 MorrisviTle, 24 R D Gamble's store. 25 W C Wilson's store, 26 Cades, 27 J L Gowdy's store, 30 Mouzons, 31 February. Salters, 1 Walter Poston's store, 10 Church, 12 Rome, 13 Lambert, 14 Ard's X Roads 15 Johnsonville, 16 Vox, # 17 Kingstree from .1; y 1 to February 20, inclusive, except on above dates. All males between the ages of 21 and 50 years,not exempted by law,are liable to poll and commutation road tax and must return same. All transfers of real sstate should be reported by both seller and purchaser. All parties making returns should bear in mind that number or name of school district as well as township in which they reside or property beine returned, must be given. Parties liable to income tax will return same while other returns are made. A penalty of 50 per cent will be added to all returns made ; after February 20, 1912. J J B Montgomery, !2-7-t2-15 County Auditor. [ Administrator's Notice ; All persons having claims against the estate of William W Wilson, deceased, . will present the same, duly attested, to the undersigned,and all persons indebted 1 * ~ will molro noumpnt tn LU UJC ?<*IU CSUllC Will 14*1*1* V, ?w J S Fclmore, Administrator Estnte of William W Wilson, deceased. l-ll-4tpd WATTS & WATTS THE KIN6STREE JEWELERS We keep on hand everything to be found in an up-to-date jewelry house Repairing and engraving done with neatness and despatch. :: As home dealers, guaranteeing quality and prices, We Solicit Your Patronage ( NEAR THE RAILROAD STATION. 1-4-tf Receipt Books, Blank Notes, Mortgages and all Legal Blanks in demand, for sale at The Record office. If we nave not the form you wish we can print it on shotr notice. Dr. HUet' Anti-Pain Pill* for sciatica. { v. L J. STAC! Tin Ciffifls and Cask t offers his sen | Day and $ in the 3) 2> FIRST flFFICF OVER STACKLFY'S J 5) Yours to Serve \ L. J. STAC* D ?:?? ?:?:?:?:?:?:?: 4?:?:? The Fall Term KINGSTREE GRADED AND will begin September 1< AH departments in Good Working Parents who intend entering theii will please do so during tne first week Patrons and friends of the School I to visit the school at an / .ime. Any further information applying to J. W. Swittenberg, Superintendent CI Kingstree, S. Go To St WHEN YOU" NEED ANYTHING A record of more than twenty ; hind him. With a bunch of nice on hand, he is always ready for Also Feed and Livery ij J. L. Stuckey, ' u I O I I Ol ] WHAT IT M A Bank's Sur Is the fund along with the Capital ? Profits that protects the depositor* 1 fore the larger it is, the greater ] positor has. This Bank has a Capital Stock of Surplus Fund of Undivided Profits of Additional Stockholders' Liabili D Total This means that this Bank must lose { Oof its depositors could lose a cent. nfor you. Do business with The never lost a Dollar. The Bank of Ki: UD. C. Scott, President. J. A. K F W. Faibey, Cashier. N. D. I Wm. W. Babb, Jb., 1 kley"|1 ;ets Man <?> m ices ? j| Night \ \ DRY 600DS CO.'S. ? I :ley. . | y of the HIGH SCHOOL 8, 1911 | are now J I Order. j| children in the school H of the fall term. H are cordially invited may be had by . E. C. Epps, erk Board of Trustees, C. ' , I i * '. t ^ uckey ^ 1 1 IN HORSEFLESH r vears stands bei horses and mules a sale or a swap. Stables. Lake City, S. C. gj r?rcoo [EANS [ plus stock and Undivided 3 from loss; thereprotection the de- 1 ?30.000.00 & 20,000.00 \ l 8,279.77 t ity. 30,000.00 $88,279.76 II I; ?88,279.76 before one || r This Drotection is a Bank that has J ngstree > [ELLEY.Vice Pres. ItESESNE, Asst. Cashier, teller. (