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The Sermon Hit Him. A colored preacher was vehe mentlv denouncing the sins of his congregation. "Bredern an* sistern, Ah warns yo, 'gainst de heinous sin ob shooten* craps Au charges yo' de black rascality ob liflin' pullets. But above else, bredern and sistern. Ah demolishes yo' gainst crime ob melon stealin." A brother in a Wck seat made an odd sound with his lips, rose and snapped his fingers. Then he sat down again with an abash ud look . "Whuffo, mah fren," said the parson sternly, "does yo' rar up an snap fingahs when Ah speeks ob melon stealin'?" "Yo just reminds me, pahson," the man in the back seat answered meekly, "wha Ah lef' mah knife." MMUFV IN IIIFAQ TiviibiB mum k#kinv Bell, Howe, Singer, and other millionaire Inventors began life as poor boys. Fortunes await other inventors. Can VOU think oi something to patent? America's greatest t inventor tells HOW TO INVENT in a booklet sent to you face by ! COPP & CO., Patent Attorneys, 745 8th St., Washing* ton, D. C. (?^Be sure to name this newspaper In your letter. Ask Editor about cost of Patent Tax P The Tax Books will be open 15th October until 31st day of De Ta< levy for State Ordinary County Constitutional school County Roads Total levy Special Cheraw Graded School Marburg Orange Hill Pat's Branch Pee Dee Stafford Cheraw (Outside) Bethel 4 . Center Point /^l a /! - I J v^uesierneia Barker Pine Grove ! ihiloh Snow Hill Ruby Vaughan Woinble Hill White Oak Black Creek Cross Roads Center Mt. Croghan New Hope Wexford Winzo Zion Mt. Croghan (Outside) Buffalo Dudley Five Forks Mangura Pageland Plains Center Grove Friendship Jefferson Long Branch Jefferson (Outside) Green Hill ATJllUUVUUV/1 1 McBee wSandy Run Union Aligator 'Outside) Bay Springs Bear Creek Bethesda Juniper Patrick Cat Pond Lewis Ousley Palmetto Wallace Steer Pen For Back Indebtedness and E S liool: Chesterfield School Dis i) ills, and Ruby, 5 mills. Cheraw Township, special l??r, 7 mills for Road Bonds. All unpaid taxes will be subjec I inuarv twn nor vf (.vi win ivi rcuuar After March 31st executions will i Dr. R. L. McManu* : DENTIST Pageland, S. C. Jefferson Wednesday , Ruby Thursday Mt. Croghan Friday Remainder of time at Pageland. Office in Bank. Buildin? When you see that head remember that I sell the choicest meats for the right price. 1 am ready to serve you again. All my old customers and manv new nnpc are invited to call and get i something for the table. I shall collect each Monday, as has been the custom of Mr. Smith R. L RICHARDSON Jotice. for the collection of taxes from icember 1915. 7 mills 7 1-2 mills 3 mills 1-2 mills 18 mills Local Bonds 3 mills 4 mills 3 8 4 3 4 2 1-2 2 4 4 ^ 4- :\ ; a, 4 3 3 5 4 5 4 1-2 3 " 2 4 4 5 6 4 3 4 7 4 5 2 2 2 2 3 fc' 2 3 6 - 5 4 5 3 5 4 * 4 2 " 4 3 5 8 " 4 12 4 8 2 14 " J 2 ' , 2 " i u i 3 u 4 2 3 " 7 3 " 1 3 " 1 5 " ! Extending School Terms, Special : trict, 2 1-2 mills; Ml. Croghan, 5 ' i levy of 2 mills for RoaH?- Aiinra w, :t to a penaltv of one per cent for y and seven per cent for March. Ko. ? / ?? wiiucu iur an tinpam taxes, W. A. DOUGLASS County Treasurer, i i I THE MOMENT'S SPUR I ? , S ::: ? : : By CLARISSA MACK IE. ? jr..... : : fr.v.v.vW,>:W>W^?X*X?X*X'X,X?XW A dozen motor cars waited at Rosebush station for the arrival of the 6:30 train from town. Marjorie Stone sat at the steering wheel of her own little runabout waiting for her father. A train whistled and presently the air vibia*ed with sound as it thundered into the station. Immediately there was a chorus of shouts as a man jumped from the train and ran aoross the platform. "Qtnn him 1.1 ~ I > MWJ/ UlUi OWy UlUAi The fugitive darted around the building, fairly hurled himself into the tonneau of the Stone car and crouched in the bottom. "Start ofT anywhere! I'll explain as oon as we're on the way!" he begged. For answer Marjorie pulled the starting lever and the beautiful big car glided away from the platform just as the pursuers panted around the building. In a moment the big machine purred swiftly away from the depot and disappeared around the bend of Bushy road. When they were ten mlleB from the station the man raised himself and stepped over the seat to sit beside Marjorie. For the first time she took a good look at him and noted that he was young In spite of the gray hair that edged his temples. He was well dressed, but his clothing was covered with dust. "Why did you save me?" he asked abruptly. i Deueve it was your gray nair," confessed Marjorle, with a swift glance in his direction. "I thought you were old, aud I?I do pity old people." "I feel old enough today!" muttered the man. "You are in trouble?" she asked, softly. He nodded. "It seems there was some trouble in Benton?the large town beyond here. I was there on business for my firm when I received a telegram saying that my father was dying in Albany. I sprinted for the railroad station in order to catch the express. The whole town was out Chasing a bold thief who had been working in daylight. I crossed his trail and they thought I was the man, and I couldn't persuade them to the contrary. So I shook them off and I held 'em off with my revolver until they reached here. I saw you sitting there and jumped in, and you know the rest!" "And you want to go to Albany?" asked Marjorle without questioning his statement. U> I ? 11- r "We ^are the Central railway,"^ which will take you to Poughkeep- * ie," she aald. "We can reach there j In time for the 7:30?and I do hope j you will reach there in time." "You are good," he aald with deep feeling. In a few minutes they drew up at ; the Central depot and she watched j him board the train and answered : the wave of his hnyd with a fluttering handkerchief until the rear car disappeared in the woods. Then she drove swiftly back to the station, to find that her father had ' arrived and was waiting. As they . drove home in the twilight she told him the story of the fugitive and how she had helped him to escane. Mr. Stone laughed skeptically and shook his head. "Oh, my romantic daughter!" ho ; teased her. j Marjorie blushed divinely. "If you : had seen his eyes, daddy, you would i never have doubted him," she pro tested. The next evenirrg he showed her the newspaper he had brought from town. In it was a full account of the Benton burglary and a picture of the thief, who had been caught. "Daddy, It's not my passenger!" cried Marjorie; "so he did tell the truth, after all." Several weeks later Marjorie waited once more at Rosebush station for bcr father's arrival from town. When the train cam? In Mr. Stone was accompanied by a man whose fo :n was familiar to Marjorie. Ir wan her fugitive! Tawny e; os ar.d violet ones met in a glad g ance and then the man's hand went oei in greeting as Mr. Btone introduced him. "Marjorie this la a son of my old friend, Arthur Gray. Gray died in A1 any a short time ago?and you will be glad to hear that you helped young Arthur to reach his father in time to bid him farewell." "Thanks to you," said Arthur. Marjorie said she was glad, and then she became suddenly very shy, 30 that the two men were compelled to talk to eaoh other as the big car whirled them toward home. That was the beginning of many rides for Marjorie and Arthur Gray, ind with each return of her strange passenger be appeared to grow younger. At last they took one Important ride together, and when they returned Vfarjorle wore a magic ring on the third Anger of her left hand, and loth wore a look of unmistakable joy n their faces. Copyright, 191 &, by the MoClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Optimistic Thought. Any time Is the proper one for say. nt what is just, I I BOBBY THE BUTLER I .* V .;. *;j: By HARMONY WELLER. I;! The room was so dense with smoke that the twelve heads surrounding the dining table seemed to waver over the damask like .so many ghosts of bachelors. One of the twelve was soon to take upon himself the yoke of matrimony, and this was his farewell dinner. Out of the smoke the voice of the Honorable Bobs continued the trend of an argument on social questions started by Major Graham. "And I say that there is work for every man right here In this city? if employment is really desired." "Since you are such a wonder,'* chipped In Lord Henry, "let's see the kind of a mess you will get yourself Intn hv trvlnor ? aw??? M?w WJ v? J lug ivi OCVU1 c V11C Ul 111CDO many positions." Having turned the conversation into a lighter vein as was Lord Henry's wont he took greater Interest. "I'll bet you the lateBt thing in aircraft that you can't support yourself by your own labor for three weeks." "It's a go!" Honorable Bobs then reached across the table and he and Lord Henry clasped hands. Honorable Bobs remained quite undisturbed. That he was going to win that biplane and show some people that there was work for willing men was shown In the delightfully steely expression In his blue eyes. So patriotic was Honorable Bobs that the first months of the war saw him back from the front with an arm so shattered as to disable him for a second trip to the trenches. The result of Major Graham's bachelor dinner was that Honorable Robert Ingraham accepted a post as a kind of butler in a refined and quiet boarding house in Holland park. His wounded arm, his peculiarly attractive manner and his evident desire for the nnfi? inn on vn Mm ?rAmw* ??? QUf V UltU f/lUUiyi DUttCDO TT ilU the lady to whom he made application. Things ran on smoothly until the advent of Leona Martin. Leona was the most dainty of American girls. She had come to the boarding house to live for a few weeks before returning to her home. The first morning that Honorable Bobs knocked at her door with her cup of tea, Leona felt aggrieved that she must leave her cozy bed and unlock the door. It was a cold, morning in January and Leona shivered as she slipped into her pink kimono. "Your tea, miss," said Honorable Bobs, and put the cup into the girl's hand. He could not remember having seen anyone who seemed so naturally born to rob a man of his liberty as did Leona Martin as she ?ioou mere in ner pms Kimono ana pftftiih 0 sa>J!o u^haskf on h?r 1 Ipm. Honorable Bobs began to (eel that he wished he had never seen Lord Henry nor any of the major's friends who were responsible for his present position. However, he was a sport in every sense of the word and continued to take tea to sleepy boarders, stand behind their chairs at dinner and open the door like any fullfledged butler. Leona talked, with American freedom, to him. When she found out he had been fighting her sympathy was wonderful, and Honorable Bobs was guilty of conversing longer than he had any right to as a servant in the house. If his blue blood flowed even under the butler's uniform and if Leona blushed when his eyes looked straight into her own, no one was the wiser. Leona marveled at the blue blood, but remembered that all good Kngllsh servants possessed refinement and beautiful voices. It did not occur to the American girl until after he had left the house, that her interest was other than sympathetic. When she knew that the butler had taken away her heart with him she shrank from the knowledge, l.llt n-lt V, -i -v omciunii ihuck ueierimnea to fight his delightful image from her mind. The further result of Major Graham's bachelor dinner was the meeting again of Leona and Hon. Robert Ingraham. Leona, standing beside her hostess at a great dance in the Long Island home, started violentlv onH went straight into the air. "And who," she asked with tilted nose, "is the gentleman next to Dickey?" "That," said Mrs. Chutney, "is the adorable British hero whom I have selected an a befitting ir.ato for my loveliest American bud. He is Hon Robert Icf raham. commonly kno\ n as Honorable Bobs." "Humph!" Leona was guilty of a sniff. When explanations had been made it was Leona herself who made a quick way back to Mrs. Chutney. "Please don't, fling your loveliest bud at his head." she said, plaintively. "Men are so susceptible." "I am sorry," her hostess told her with a short laugh, "but I have already introduced them. Run along hack to him." Honorable Bobs was waiting impatiently. The loveliest bud smiled. (Copyright. 1956. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Making Conversation. "I always encourage my husband to explain public questions to me," said the cheery woman. t uu nave great respect for his opinions?" "1 dcr't try to understand them The lof? I understand tbem the more fua be Mm bxpUioing them to mi/' ? I??? i Colds, Croi j Pneumo IThis is the time wl take every precaution ag; which attack human being \kl~ L__? .1 J mc nave ine guaranteed t and all the winter-time ai J you need something to \< I Mangum Di \ Treats You Sq KING CO is on his throne af is circulating tr rrnu^ Aa ? * me tune 10 gei the time to sav money is tn circ use to get it unles it. No better w than to deposit r the bank* The experience proved the adv; bankfaccount. C condition" of those I bank a<*<*nnnt an<i tojhold their cotto own condition. Begin now. Bri posits to the!Bank as hundreds ot < done?already. THE BANK OF 1 ri Auditors N< TVip AMHiforc' ftffi r?n xxtill Ko /\rvn?A % x. av.vti ?v? U V'lIVV TT III UW sonal property from January 1st 1916 tc All male citizens between the age deemed Taxable polls, except those \vl causes arejincapable of earning a supp< The Law requires 50 per cent pern ertv subject to taxes and not returned f the 20lh of February 1916 I will be in the Auditor's office Jar and 31: Feb., 5, 7, 10,11, 12, 14, 15, 16, the following places on the dates nam* Patrick Jan. 10 from 11 to 3 Plain o'clock. Cues Cedar Creek Church Tan. 11 o'c from 11 to 3 o'clock. Ml. C lohn C. Wallaces'Jan. 12 from 4o 11 to 3 o'clock. Dudl Cashes' Jan. 13 from 11 to 2 o'c o'clock. Page Grants Mill Jan. 14 from 9 to o'c | 12 o'clock. Rub\ I Westfield Creek Jan. 15 from 10 o'c to 12 o'clock. Midd Cross Roads Jan. 17 from 11 to Q?c 3 o clock. . Jefferson Jan. 18 and 19 to 12 o'clock. ?c Catarrh Jan. 19 from 1 to 4 McB? o'clock. Chen T. W. EDDINS, Coi M. M. JOHNSON ATTORNEY AT LAW j W ill be In ageland Wednesday ^efor Thursday and Friday of each week. 'J'om ... _*. want Dress Goods should be bought frnm MiinnrA D?/*? ttvw PiMUKU WiUtt | up and I >nia. f . f ion you need to ? ainst the diseases ? is at this season. J remedies for each * ilments, and when J ike remember the J rag Co. i uarely. f TTON lain. Money eely. money and e is when ulation. No >s you save ay to save egulariy in : of last fall antage of a ompare the : who had a I~were able n with your ng your deof Paaeland Jthers have PAGELAND >tice. d for the assessment of Per) February 20th 1916. s of 21 and 60 years are 10 are maimed or for oilier 3rt. iltv added to taxes on propor assessment on or before i., 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, lr?, 29, 17, 18, 19, and 20, and at ed: s Jan. 20 from 9 to 12 s Jan. 21 from 11:30 to 2:30 lock. "roghan Jan. 24 from 11 to 'clock. ey Jan. 25 from 1 to t lock. land Jan. 26 and 27 to 12 lock. r Jan. 28 from 11 to 3 lock. endorf Feb. 1 from 11 to 3 lock. 4us Feb. 2 from 11 to 3 lock. ?c Feb. i and 4. aw Feb. 8 and 9. unty Auditor Monuments will pay you to see me e you buy a Monument or bstone of any kind, if yon to save money, G. R. KNIGHT.