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COUSIN DAVIS WRITES TO COUSIN PERCY Hat Made His Income Tax Return.?, "Echo" ii Giving Him Trouble ?Want# Dog That Look* Like Jigg* Dear Cousin:?I guess you have made out your income tax return by this time. So has Big Sister and my .self. My lawyer made them out for us. He squared the hypothenuse and made it equal to the other two sides and had me to swear that it was cor f 'gnesi it was vjthough > I don't know whether.it was or not, but I did the swearing anyway, because you know they will put you in jail if you don't file the return , and they can't put you; in jail for swearing what is not so unless they can prove it on you. Of course I had made a lot of mon ey, the most I made was in building v the Dutch Kolone last year when la bor Mid lumber was high. In that way I got the highest priced house in town. Well, you may think that I lost in that transaction but I didn't be cause you see I-have the house and if 1 had waited until now I couldn't! build one and I would be outdoors, <so you see I made a big profit in that. But they tell me that this is the "un earned increment" and you don't have to pay taxes on that. I don't know just exactly what an "unearned in crement" is, but I would not advise you to build a Dutch Kolone now to get one, that is, if you/can get board pretty cheap in New York. \ You know I told you when you were down here that business was looking up. It is still looking up, or rather I am, for a way to get out. You have heard of "His Master's Voice" I suppose. Well, they have put up an "Echo" over in front of Kerr & Edison. I don't know whether you have any Echoes up in NeW York or not. but this one is a music parlor something like the one Edison, Roy Power and I built, only it has a large dog in the window and have not got this improvement. As you are nearer my partner Edison than I am, and can phone che&per than t can I wish you would call him up on the phone and tell him that we have got . to have a dog i* our music parlor. Jell him that I do not want any bull dog like the Echo, as Kerr & Edison V is hot Anybody's ech^, but we need a dog just the same. And ask him what kind of a dog he thinks we should get. I have been thinking of a hound dog, and then I have thought of a dog fike the one you let me keep for you one ; summer and several othev-kinds, but I am willing for Edison to select tb? dog only tell him to send it on in a hurry. ' By the way have you noticed how much the picture of Edison looks like President Harding's likeness? You might mention this to him which Blight cause him to take a little more interest in the Kerr & Edison busi ness. Tell him that I talk about how much he looks like the president and then bring in the dog questjon and also say that it takes-something more than a dog to run a music parlor down South on ten cents cotton and iie might put in the machines on a credit of about two years, which would selp me to "recreate" some cash. Since I noticed that Edison looked like the president I have been looking at myself in the glass and at >11 the other pictures in the papers to see if I did not look like some promi nent man myself. And I have found . (Will be out of town 2 or 3 days.) Make Your . EYES HAPPY Many a "grouchy" disposition" it tike result of eye strain. Continued eye strain affects the satire system and conduces to irrit aWHty, which properly focussed (tasses will relieve. Ov glasses will make your eyes and your disposition happy L. V. LISENBEE OPTOMETRIST {Becoming Glasses Cost No More) , %\ \ V V \ V VV V V vv\ I \ > v COLD SPRINGS. M ' 1 \ 1 Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hagen and children and Mrs. Blaine, of Green wood, spent Sunday at the home of j Mrs. F. E. Hagen. Mr. Frank Uldrick spent Saturday night with Mr. Marvin King. 'Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Cochran and children spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Ellis. Miss Amy Uldrick spent last^ week with Mr. and Mrs. R. A. j Hagen. I? Mr. Greene McCain spent Satur-j day night with Mr. Roy McCombs. j Royce Blum and Claude Uldrick! spent Saturday night at the home of J Mrs. F. E. Hagen. We are sorry to learn that the twin babies of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Newell are sick at this writing, but hope they will soon be well agan. Miss Ruby Uldrick as spending this week in: Abbeville with her grandmother, Mrs. Mattie Bowen. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kay and chil I dren spent Sunday at the home of ! Mr. T. F. Uldrick. Miss Lula Mann spent the week | end with Miss Dessie King. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hagen and | Royce Blum spent Sunday with Mr. I and Mrs. T. F. Uldrick. Misses Allie Belle and Bessie Mc , Combs spent Wednesday night with Misses Mildred and Janie Winn. Mrs. Floyd Uldrick gave a quilt- . ing Tuesday and those enjoying the day were, Mrs. A. E. Newel, Mts. Arthur Newell, Mrs. Tommie Ed- .. wards, Miss Bessie Edwards, Miss- , es Mattie, Ruth and Amy Uldrick. / ? fn^that I look just like, except he wears spats and a white vest. His , name is Mr. Jiggs. Big Sister does not look like MrsT Jiggs but she has me under some better control than Mrs. Jiggs seems to have her hus band. Have you ever seen Mr. Jiggs around New York? I suppose he goes ' ~ -At. t- - a. . mcic quite uiten us ne seems to travel a good deal. I know you are acquainted with his friend Mr. Dinty Moore because he seems to hang round all the places where there is anything to drink. ^ Do you know Mr. Jiggs' address? I guess he is not in the furniture business or he would not be traveling around like he does? In fact I doubt if he is in any business at all b^caus.e every other business is just like the furniture business and it is not like anything at all. Mr. Jiggs may be a little smarter than other men * who are in business and maybe he got off on a trip before the bills began to come due and before his creditors could get out a warrant. I see he is now riding in Venice in a Gondola which is a new kind of automobile that some mechanic in Venice has in vented. It will run on water. But what I want to get is Mr. Jiggs' address. I want to get up a friendship with him and when I send him my picture and he sees how much I look like him maybe I can get him to take some stocK in the furniture business, that is if he has not been in already. If I can't get his j^dress any other way I may came up to New York and stay around with his friend Mr. Moore until Mr. Jiggs gets back. I know he will be looking Mr. Moore up as soon as he returns, and I might run into him that way and it would be a good recommendation for me maybe to get caught by Mr. Jiggs with his friend Mr. Moore. I have already laid the plans to get him in the furniture business. I see v.hat they use a good many vases and fine dishes in'his business as hus band, and wife and you know I have a side line of china and things of this kind. I will tell him that he can get all he wants if he is a member of my firm at cost and ten per cent, and I think ^his will be such a saving to-t him that he will jump right in. If I|b can get him in I am not afraid of j u cpttitil* Ailf Tinmnao T will ? O ""? o wwwwwv * ffUi right in front of him and if he comes out I will be just ahead of him. We won't leave anything but the corpus delicti as heard Mayor Mars call it when he tried the last liquor case. No, Uncle Jim has not opened an other bank yet. Yours with much love, Cousin Davis. Grown men, as well as children fly kites in Japan and China. ?Watch the label on your paper and h renew your subscription promptly. C W V ^ DUE WEST NEWS.s % v V Garden work has been the order of the day for the last ten days. Commencement Sabbath this year comes on June 5th. Dr. and Mrs. McCain are having somewhat of a family reunion. Dr. and Mrs. Paul McCain and children are the guests of Dr. and Mrs MV^Cain. Rev. J. M. Dallas, the popular pas tor of Donalds, was on our streets a few days ago. United States Marshal C. J. Lyon of Greenville, S. C., was in Due West' last Monday on business. He made only a short stay. Friends will be glad to know that Mr. J. E. Todd continues to im prove at John Hopkins. He hopes to be able to come home in a few days. Miss Irene McCain will talk to the A. R. P. Sabbath school next Sab bath morning at the opening exercis es on China. Mr. E. E. Boyce left last Saturday for a visit to friends and kindred in Charlotte, Kings Creek and Lancas ter. Mr. Francis Mabry of Erskine went some days ago to the (hospital at Abbeville and was operated on for appendicitis. We are glad to say that he returned Monday to college. The students and faculty of the Woman's College did without 'break fast two mornings last week, devot ing the proceeds of the means to the India Famine Fund. Miss Martha Pressly, of Bradley, who has a position in the schools of Greenville, was a guest at the Wo man's College over Sabbath. She is a graduate of this college. Mr. George Collins went down to Coumbia last week to see Miss Sue Morton, who is at the state hospital. We are glad to say that she is bet ter. Mr. Collins hopes to bring her home soon. Miss Mittie Cathcart of Winns^ boro, who is teaching at Antreville in Abbeville ,County, worshipped in the Due West A. R. Pi church last Sabbath. She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Ellis. Mr. Jarman, a successful business man of Covington, Ga., who married Miss Martin, was a visitor in Due West last week. He was a guest at Prof. Grier's home and at the Wo nan's College, where he has a laughter in school. Our people were jlad to greet Mr. Jarman. The Woman's College Orchestra ind Wee Club will visit Abbeville, ind Winnsboro, S. C., Gastonia, N. j., and probably one other city, pre enting programs of boldi vocal and nstrumental music. Misses Gilliary . if the voice department and Crofut . lirector of the Orchestra will ac- , ompany the party and take part in he program. Mr. J. H. Wren and Miss Mjrtle . Vren have returned from Florida, 'hey greatly enjoyed the trip. Took t by easy stages and rested when nd where they pleased. Mr. Wren is Dud in his praise of the country. 1 'hey went down some distance outh of Tampa. Mr. Wren invested n a houes and lot at Orange City. 'hey spent a short time on the Gulf 1 f Mexico. Th^ last ten days have been very ine for farming. A lot of ground as been turned. The farmers have lot generally laid in a supply of J ertilizers so far. A good deal of mall grain has beefy planted this ] pring. The public is cordially invited to ttend the annual celebration of the - Jastalian Literary Society to be , eld in the Memorial Hall at 8 'clock on Monday evening, March 1st. As is customary, the first division * f the program will be made up of ' iterary and musical numbers, and he latter part of the evening will >e devoed to a dramatic program, inusul in style, literary in value. ;nd entetrtaining in theme. 1 NOT TO CANCEL DEBT Chicago, March 16.?Great Bri ain has no desire to allow the Uni-i ed States to cancel the Anglo-Am srican war debt, according to Sir Arthur Steele-Maitland, M. P., un ler secretary of state for foreign iffairs in Great Britain during the var, who is here to give a series of ecures at Northwestern university. "Brtain is able to pay her debts," ie said. "Mutual respect does not ome from begging favors. "A NIGHT IN HONOLULU." v The scenes of this latest play of Hawaiian life are laid on the Islnd of Hawaii. There are three acts. The action takes place in a small village on the bay of Hilo, not far from the volcano Kilauea. It concerns an epi sode in the life of a beautiful Ha waiin voodoo woman, an Englishwom an an Englishman and their child. The play reveals the story of a night long past as one pictures?a terrific siorm raging on tne outsiae 01 a nui. The voodoo woman amid the chants and weird music of her native com panions is heard praying for the re covery of her infant who lies near death and for the safe return of her lover, who has gone to Hilo. Xn old Servitor enters and tells her the lov er will never return to her; that he has gone to Hilo to await the arrival of the boat from England, which will bring him his white wife and baby. He swears by the goddess Fele that his information is correct, sh^ws her frt>m the window the English vessel driven far out of her course by the \ storm and struggling in the breakers sending out calls for help. The na tives in their superstitious fears do not dare aid the ill-fated vessel i d it la ??i cci\cu, vvaoiuu^ aouvi c iitaiijr of the passengers, the majority of whom wepj drowned; among these is the white wife of the Englishman, but" the child survives. The Hawaiian wife substitutes the white child for her own, rears her,^and in the fol lowing two cts, which are supposed to take place seventeen years later, the child is seen as the girl "Kalama" favored by the gods and the idol of the natives. This attraction plays The Opera House, Wednesday, March 23rd. for one night only. MORSE'S LOCALS i We Have just received ^Vhite and Golden Dent Seed! Cora. Fresh lot of Spring Barley,^Cat Tail or Pearl Millet and Onion Sets. Our lot of-Garden Seed ii com plete. Beans, Peas, Corn, Etc. We have Wood's Paper seed at 5c a paper. 2t-:i, 18 AMOS. B. MORSE CO. MASTER'S SALE The State of South Carolina, ^ COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. h Court of Common Pleiu. ABBEVILLE SAVINGS & INVEST VENT CO., a Corporation, Plaintiff against JAS. S. COTHRAN, JR., and others Defendants. By authority of a Decree of Sale by the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, in said State, made in the above stated case, I will offer for sale, at Public Outcry, at Abbe ville, C. H., S. C., on Salesday in April, A. D. 1921, within the legal WANTS FOR SALE?Young Milch cows, fresh in. Apply to D. "Wardlaw, at the Post Office. 3, 18-ltpd WANTED?Man with team or auto to sell FcConnon's products direct to sell McConnon's products direct McConncm & Company, Winona, Minnesota. "Mention this paper." i, 18.2t-pd. FOR SALE?Stable manure at $5.00 per ton, delivered anywhere in the city. T. G. White. 3, 16.-3tc WANTED?Agents for Accident and Health Insurance. For information Write Albert Nickles, Hodges, S. C. 3, 16.2tpd. LOST?Auto license plate No. D? 3542, between Abbeville and Due West. Reward if returned to this office. FOR SALE?Cleveland Big Boll Cotton Seed. Carefully selected and ginned one gin system. See or phone J. T. STOKES, Abbeville, S. C., Route 1. 3-14-4t. pd. rO LAND OWNERS?I bought one I of the Martin Ditchers and Terra- 'fj cers of T. M. Boaz, Calhoun, Ga., j? .advertised in the Progressive Far- H mer, at $40.00 each, cash with or- g der and am more than well pleased m both with the machine, and the work of same on my farm. Address j? Q. W. SIMS, Abbeville, S. C. ?, ll-4tcol. 1% ( Some are Here and More are Coming!! i New 5 Drcs Not a*handful of < real line of the styles and t , popular m They should al Thursday, Twi ' Some 'will Ar Th< Rosenberg M< ours of sale the following described ind, to wit: All that certain tract or arcel of land, situate, lying and be 1 g in the City of Abbeville, in the .bbeville County, in the State afore iid, Containing Three (3) Acres, lore or less, with the three dwelling ouses thereon, the same being ounded by- lands of W S. Cothran n the East (Hodges lot), on the DISPL4 Walk-OA worth si I see. New Sprin ? # new shades in OXFO I That Fit and ^ I New Low S Parker & Ipring closeouts, but a ; very latest :he most aterials. \ 1 be here by snty-Fourth rive Today We Want You To See Them!! r ircantile Co. >uth by Seaboard Air Line Railway, i the West by lands formerly of Bob irrow, and on the North l>y Mosely jrry Street. This tract of land de& ibed above will be divided into ree (3) lots and sold as divided. TERMS OP SALE?CASH. Pur aser to pay for stamps.and papers. THOS. P. THOMSON, 18.3t. Master A. C., S C rer Oxfords topping to ig styles and leathers RDS ^ear Well at Prices. Reese