Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EVERY YEAR Life is a count of losses, Every year, For the weak are heavier crosses Every year, Lost springs with sobs replying Unto weary autumn's sighing. While those we love are dying, Every year. There come new cares and sorrows, Every year, Sark days and darker morrows, Every year, The ghosts of dead loves haunt us, The ghosts of changed friends taunt us, And disappointments daunt us, Every year. To the past go more dead faces Every year, As the loved leave vacant places, Every year, Everywhere the sad eyes meet us, In the evening's dusk they greet us, And to come to them entreat us, Every year. "You are growing old," they tell us, 4'Every year, You can win no new affection, You have only recollection, Deeper sorrow and dejection, Every year." Too true! Life's shores are shifting Every year, And we are seaward drifting Every year, Old places changing, fret us, Th j living more forget us, There are fewer to regret us, Every year. But the truer life draws nigher Every year, And its morning star climbs higher, Every year, Earth's hold on us grows slighter, And the heavy burden lighter, And the dawn of mortal brighter, Every year. -Albert Pike. I: GOWANS . King ol Externals i Sells itself wherever ?introduced Imitators have tried to imitate,, and substitution has been attempted. But once GOWANS always Gowans for inflammation and congestion. lt given us pleas/ire to recom mend Gowans Preparation for Inflammation, especially of the throat and chest, We have sold Gowans Prrparation for many years and never had a complaint. BURLINGTON DRUG CO., Burlington, A*. C. BUY TO-DAY! HAVE IT IN THE HOME AU Draftgiats. $1. 50c. 25c. GOWAN MEDICAL CO.. Gutranliid, and non tr refundid bj jrtt. ?nuitt FIRE INSURANCE Go to see Marling & Byrd Before insuring elsewhere. We represent the best old line com panies. Harting & Byrd At the Farmers Bank, Edgefield Auditor's Notice. All persons owning property of any kind whatsoever, or in any capacity, as husband, guardian, executor, ad ministrator or trustees are required tr. make returns of the same to the Audi tor under oath within the time men tioned below and the Auditor is requir ed by law to add a penalty of 50 per cent to all property that is not return ed on or before the 20th day of Ecbru ary in any year. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years except those ex empt by law are deemed taxable polls. The 50 per cent penalty will be added for failure to make returns. For the convenience of tax payers, I or my representative will be at the following appointed places on the dates mentioned to receive tax returns: Roper's, Wednesday Jan. 15. Meriwether, Thursday Jan. 16. Collier, Friday Jan. 17. Red Hill. Saturday Jan. 18. Clark's Hill Monday Jan. 20. Modoc, Tuesday Jan. 21. Parksville, Wednesday Jan. 22. Plum Branch, Thursday Jan. 23. Morgan's Store, Friday Jan. 24. Liberty Hill, Saturday Jan. 25. Cleora, Monday Jan. 27. Pleasant Lane, Tuesday Jan. 28. Meeting Street, Wednesday Jan. 29. Johnston, Thursday Jan."30. Herin's Store, Friday Jan. 31. Trenton, Satu?day Feb. 1. The office will be open to receive re turns from the first day of January till the 20th day of February as prescribed "by law. J. R. TftMMERMAN, Auditor, E. C. S. C. No.. 666 This is a prescription prepared espe cially for Chills and Fever. Five or six doses will break any case of Chills and Fever, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c. THE GIRL WHO WON A MATRIMONIAL PRIZE "You can never tell," said the old lady who was visiting from the small town. "About girls, that la. Take Rosina Murr, for example. For one thing, she was prettier than that Miss McElroy you were all raving about last night so madly." "Impossible!" said the chorus. "There couldn't be any one prettier than Kate McElrc-y! Why, she's a perfect, natural blonde!" "Well, Rosina was ten times moro natural!" declared the old lady firm ly. "She was the kind that looks as though she had been made out of roses and cream and peaches. And she had heaps of hair that was so ca nary yellow that all her life her lit tle brother had to lick all the boys in town who said that their sisters said she touched it up and blondined it. It really was unfortunate hair, be cause it looked so gloriously impos sible. She had the figure of an ad vertisement lady and a cheerful dispo sition and a father with money. In short, Rosina was calculated to drive every other woman to hopeless, voice less rage because lt just wasn't pos sible to equal her at all. "It seemed that she had every thing-every advantage as to material things as well as to looks. No other girl had a bit of chance when Rosina Murr was around-but as she waa a generous, good-natured girl, ehe work ed hard trying to distribute her ador ers among the wall-flowers. The cat ty ones said that she did lt only because she didn't want them herself, but I think Rosina ought to have the credit for going to all the trouble, any how. There wasn't a man in town she couldn't have married, if she had wanted to, so naturally she stayed sin gle. "Nearly all the other girls of her age got married eventually to the man who tired of walting for Rosina to change her mind. She outgrew the fluffy stage, where all a girl demands of a man is that he be good looking and happen along at the time. She was witty, too, and it took a smart man to keep up with her. We decided lt would not be any ordinary man that Rosina Murr would make up her mind to marry. 'The summer that Judge Wagner's brother came to recover from typhoid we thought she had met her fate. Mr. Wagner was tall and distinguished looking and a lawyer and had traveled abroad and just to look at him you knew he would be perfectly at home If the toastmaster called on him un expectedly for a speech. "Judge Wagner's brother took to Rosina immediately and seemed to think that she was the right medicine for a typhoid patient. Anyway, you rarely saw her when he wasn't along. And she seemed to enjoy it, too. I never saw her look prettier or laugh more or put herself out more to be charming than she did when with him. "We had the wedding all planned and the girls who knew they'd surely be asked to act as bridesmaids had decided on the color of their gowns and then Mr. Wagner went away rather abruptly and Rosina smiled on. One of the girls asked her if she didn't like him and Rosina said he* was perfectly fine and she had so en Joyed her summer. She didn't seem to realize how mad and disappointed we all were with her. "It waa just the same when James Miller came to visit his sister for a week and stayed a month. He was something In stocks In Chicago and one of those dark, clever men who scare you, but he didn't scare Rosina. She sparkled at him and he became instantly a groveling worm. He was her slave and not only did he not care who knew it, but he wanted to shake In the public's face the chains that bound him. "He had heaps of money and we thought how fine it would be for Ro sina to be able to go in the best city Boclety and have a limousine. She al ways did have beautiful clothes, but now no doubt she'd have whole er mine wraps and never wear the same dress twice. But Mr. Miller also de parted abruptly-and Rosina smiled on. "People scolded awfully about it She waa getting older each year and even her beauty would not last for ever-and what on earth did the girl want? She had had chances that most girls never come within reaching distance of and each one she tossed overboard. We said she would end by picking out some one who was no account and that it would serve her right. There's the old proverb about going through the woods and picking up a crooked stick at last, and we harped on it strong. No doubt she would end her days over the washtub supporting a worthless husband and regretting that she hadn't acted sen sibly when she had the chance. It always turns out that way." "Well, what did she do finally?" asked one of the girls. "Marry the town drunkard or elope with a carpet beater agent who deserted her at the next town?" The old lady smiled. "No," she said. "When she waa 29 Rosina went away on a visit and met the man she married the next summer. He waa JuBt aa good looking in his way aa she waa In her3, had a fortune of several | millions and I forget which foreign country he is mlnlater to now. So you see. aa I mid, you never can tell. The general rule falls sometimes!" "Well, we are perfectly disappoint ed!" chorused her listeners. "She didn't deserve it!'.' Daily Thought. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minda rise above lt.-Washington Irving. BILLY ADMITS THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF LUCK By LE8LIE W. QUIRK. Billy Winslow did net believe ta luck. Now, as any gray-haired philo sopher who lives and loves by rule of-thumb will admit, there really is no such thing as luck.- Perhaps there Isn't. But Billy Winslow was not old enough to be gray-haired, and he did not live nor love by rule-of-thumb. Hence his constant observations on the subject v/ere tiresome. Today his dissertation on luck had been particularly positive and pro longed. So long had he denied the possibility of chance, indeed, that not once in the whole afternoon had he found time to propose to Helen Thurlow. The oversight carried its sting. Any girl finds pleasure in lis tening to a proposal, even when, as In this case, the man proposes some two or three times a day on an aver age, only to be politely but dlmpllng ly rejected. Down in her heart Helen Thurlow loved Billy Winslow, and meant in the fullness of time to say yes. "But don't you think. Billy," she asked finally, "that sometimes luck, or chance, or fate-" "Ah, fate," interrupted Billy, "is quite another thing. If lt ls ordained that a thing ls to be, some power works for that end. But the act, while lt may seem the veriest dip of luck, Is really nothing of the kind. Now, if we go back into the hlBtory of the ancients-" "Please," pouted two pretty lips, "please let's keep to the present. Now, Billy, what were you about to say?" And Billy, being neither gray haired nor guided by rule-of-thumb in his loving, forgot ancients and luck, and proposed again. "I-I don't know what to answer," said Helen, looking a little startled, as if this were the first time. "I am not sure I love you enough to marry you. But, Billy"-and her face light ed roguishly-"If you are certain that we are merely the playthings of fate, I am willing to leave my answer to-to luck." This was striking in a wholly un fair and poignant manner. "Please explain." "Well," said Helen, "tonight I shall go to my desk and write you two notes. One will be an acceptance of your proposal and one a rejection. I shall inclose both in similar en velopes, with nothing to indicate which is which. Then I shall shuffle them fairly-oh, quite fairly, Billy, that no telepathy of mine shall in terfere with that which is to be-and one I shall stamp and mail to you, and. one I shall toss into the fireplace, without opening to know which has gone to you, and-" "Helen! You're insane! You'll do nothing of the kind! Love Js>^?co sacred to trifle with in this fashion; I won't allow it." "But, Billy, some power -will work for the proper end that has been or dained. You have just said so your self. You know, Billy, there is no4 such thing as luck. Now, not a word. Here's your hat. Tomorrow morn ing, when your mail comes, you will find my note. Good-bye and"-she could not resist the final boon of the last taunt-"good luck!" For a man who had not been ac cepted-yet-the hour of Billy'B call the next morning was little short of scandalous. But early as he was, Helen was walting for him. She met him at the door, and after he had .ruing it to, that the curious world outside might not share in his happi ness, he took her in his arms without a word. For a long minute neither of them spoke. Then Billy lifted the girl's face to his. "It's yes," he declared, not as a question, but as the repeating of a set form. "Ifs fate, Billy," whispered the girl. Her whole face was wreathed in a smile of contentment. After they had talked of many other things, the girl said abruptly: "I think, Billy, I must have been mad yesterday to leave the decision to luck-that 1B, fate. After you had gone, and I had written the notes, 1 began to grow afraid. But I was stubborn enough not to give up the silly plan, and I burned one and mailed the other. Then, Billy, I be gan tc* wonder what you would think of me, and whether you mightn't stop loving me altogether; and I lay on the bed and cried myself to sleep. I-you'll forgive me, won't you, Billy?" "Forgive you! It was my fault, Helen. I suspect I've been a babbling fool with my theories. I am the one who was to blame, because I goaded you Into making the test to open my eyes. I-well, girlie, after this I am going to admit there is an element of luck in what we do. Shall we for get the whole wretched business ?" But she seemed not to have heard him. "I was Jesting, Billy; you know that. After I had mailed the note to you, I thought of the horrible possi bility of your takrng lt seriously, of your considering it as my final an swer." "You mean you were afraid you had sent the wrong note?" "I was jesting, I tell you. But, Billy, I was afraid you mightn't un derstand. I was mocking you for your belief in fate. I-Billy, I hardly dare confess lt now for fear you won't want me, but I wrote both of the notes exactly alike." "I think," said Billy Winslow, soothingly, holding her close, "that I am the luckiest man on earth." (Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary Preaa.t Everything For the Cold Weather We can supply the wardrobe of men and boys with everything needed for the cold weather. Stylish suits iii worsteds, serges and cassimeres. Large as sortment of overcoats and raincoats. Heavy underwear of all kinds. Full stock of shoes for worK or dress* Come in to see us and let us supply your needs Dorn & Minis Free! Free!! lin On December 17th, we will commence a special piano sale in our store on Maxwell avenue, and continue until twelve pianos are sold from the store and we we will also have anoth er lot of twelve pianos sold which are out on trial. One Piano from Each Lot Will Be Given Away If yon want a piano and wo'.ld like to get one free do not fail to come to this opening at half past ten o'clock on that day. All particulars will then be fully explained. If you do not live in Greenwood it will pay you to take the train and come to this opening, before any of the 12 pianos are gone, We expect to move into the Grier & Park tire proof building on January ist, and wish to sell out our present stock before moving. Then we need the money and will sell these off at rock bottom prices. We will sell for eithei cash or on accomodating terms. Holland Bros. Index Bldg. Greenwood, S. O