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A BIT Of A SHOCK"
By H. M. EGBERT.
Rittenhouse looked up from his
work impatiently as the spund of
oices came to his ears. But even an
author at work is not proof against
the merry laughter of girls. Rittenhouse
frowned, pursed his brows, and
then laid down his pen and looked out
of the window.
He had rented two rooms in a little,
old-fashioned town for the summer
months, so as to be at leisure to complete
the book on which he was engaged,
without the distractions of city
Bfe. But those girls in the third or
fourth garden would play croquet?or
was it basket ball??and laugh over
their game. He could not see anything
of their garden because of the
row of high elm trees that Intercepted
the view.
"They're Judge Sanford's daughter
and niece," s%id Mrs. Briggs, his landlady.
"You're sure to meet them before
long. Everybody meets everybody
here."
Rittenhouse was resolved that he
would know nobody. He was fond
enough of company, but there was the
book clamoring for his undivided attention.
"A hit, May! A hit!" called one of
the girls.
Rittenhouse turned back from the
window and sat down. His heroine
had to be got out of a difficulty into
which her own folly had led her. It
was a nice problem. He was puzzled:
he frowned again and then took up
bis pen.
? - - - a. t-i_ a j. mUVi
Swisn! tie sprang 10 nits ieei hiui
an exclamation of pain and clapped
his hand to his left shoulder. To bis
amazement he found an arrow sticking
there?a genuine arrow, with a
feathered shaft and a sharp point that
had pierced his coat and stood quivering
in his shoulder. A tiny drop of
blood was oozing over the lapel.
Rittenhouse plucked it out with a
grimace and took off his coat It had
made quite a wound, which was bleeding
freely the arrow had evidently
come through the open window. It
must have been shot over the hedge
? by one of the girls, and, as if Winged
1 ^ .1 ~ aft.
Sprang to His Feet With an Exclamation
of Pain.
by some malevolent power, had passed
through the elm branches and found
its billet in his shoulder.
"Well, May certainly has made a
hit," muttered Rittenhouse.
His first impulse was to break the
thing in two and throw it away, but
on second thoughts he put it in a
drawer of > his desk. That incident
ended his work for the morning. By
the time he had washed his wound his
shoulder was stiffening and paining
him a' good deal.
As fate willed it. that was the day
he wa3 to meet the Judge and his
family. Rittenhouse was on his way
back from the post office when he ran
into Mrs. Briggs, who was standing
beside the Judge's buggy, in which the
Judge sat, and the two girls.
"Mr. Rittenhouse!" she called, and
Rittenhouse crossed the street unwill
ingly.
"Judge Sanford, this is Mr. Rittenhouse,
about whom I was speaking to
you," she said. "Miss May, let me
present Mr. Rittenhouse. Miss Olive
Sanford,.Mr. Rittenhouse."
1.1 IHno niiTTQ
MISS May was a uiuuuc. iuma W1><?
a brunette, pretty, but not so attractive
as her cousin. In fact, when Ritten
house had looked once into Miss
May's eyes he suddenly decided that
. he was not so much averse from
feminine society as he supposed.
He left her, in fact, with a certain
fluttering of the heart which he had
< hitherto supposed existed only in
books, and with some new and realistic
ideas for his love passages.
That was the beginning of an acquaintance
which played havoc with
Jbis work. Days sped into weeks, and
, the gossips of the town began to nod I
' their heads significantly whenever I
I Rittenhouse and the Judge's daughter
j were mentioned.
Sometimes, when he was alone. Rittenhouse
would take the little arrow
out of the drawer and gaze at it and
behave in an absurdly sentimental ^
manner which, if anyone had sug!
gested it to him a few weeks before,
he would have denounced as bad art.
He would never forget those afternoons
in the Judge's garden, when, *
Miss Olive feigning some urgent oc- i
cupation or other, and discreetly with- '
drawing, Miss May and he would )
stroll together among the flowers. i
"Didn't you practice archery?" Tea- t
tured Rittenhouse one day. He ha?l
always meant to tell her the story of
the arrow, but not until a certain propitious
time which he meant to bring
about at no distant date?as soon as
he had assured himself that May
loved him.
"Yes, indeed," she answered. "Father
bought us a shooting set one
day, but the bows were left out in the
rain and got wet and useless. He's
an enthusiast upop archery, you know.
It really was his idea. He's always
speaking about ordering some new
bows from town. You ought to see
my cousin shoot," she continued. "She
can hit the bull's eye from the other {
end of the garden. Some day you
must have a match with her."
"I don't want a match with her,"
muttered the young man sulkily.
"Why?" inquired May with appar- g
ent ingenuousness. "Don't you like
Olive?" I
"If I do any shooting it's going to c
be with you," cried Rittenhouse, tak- \
ing her by the hand. "I want to do s
everything with you?shooting and \
walking and eating and?everything. 1
May, don't you see how I care for j1
you? I've wanted to tell you a dozen v
times a day, but could never gather
up the courage. Can't you love me a t
little if you try awfully hard?"
May looked at him and suddenly 0
threw her arms round his neck. p
"O, my dear, I think I can," she t
said. v
That was all, and it was not in the
least like anything that Rittenhouse o
had ever written. But the two young *
people paced the garden in such hap- r
piness as comes only once to men and ?
women, when they love for the first r
time, which is also to be the last ?
Tf"U>flSt have fretm two hours later i
when they were suddenly recalled to r
their surroundings by seeing the sun t
drop behind the hills.
"And now I am going to speak to your
father," said Rittenhouse. "He 1
doesn't know, does he?"
"Father!" exclaimed May. "Why,
he never dreams of such a thing about a
me. He only thinks of me in connec- a
tion with his hobbies. Just now it's t
archerv. But he's a dear and I don't ?
think you will have a very hard task I
before you. Are you really going to
speak to him now?"
"Now," repeated Rlttenhouse boldly,
and they went into the house together,
thrilled with a delicious terror. (
The Judge was in his library, and 1
on the table were two new bows ^
which he was stringing. He whirled J
round enthusiastically as the young
people entered. ^
"I've got them," he exclaimed ex- 1
ultantly. "I didn't tell you, May? '
going to surprise you, you know. Here
they are. Now tomorrow we must 1
set up the butts again. We'll teach
Rittenhouse and make a first-class
archer of him."
"Judge," said Rittenhouse, "I want
to speak to you about something." '
"Yes, my boy. What is it?" '
"I want to marry May," he blurted 1
out. 1
The Judge stared at him. "Did you 1
say you want to?to marry May?" he j 1
exclaimed.
"Now, father," said May, putting her | '
arms round his neck, "you know you , 1
always said you could never deny me j
anything. So don't make any difficul-1
ties, because Arthur and I love each j
other and we are going to be mar-;
ried " - - - ?
The Judge sat down ana siareu :
about him in a dazed way.
"This will play the deuce with our t
j archery team," he said. "You'll lose
your sight, May; you'll be thinking of? j
of love instead of keeping your eye on j
the target. It was my dearest hope to t
beat the Claybury team, and now?"
He ran his hand through his hair i (
and got up, looking like a man who ^
has reached a great decision. I g
"Never mind," he said. "It's a bit i g
of a shock, but?take her, my boy. j
Well, I guess the fates were against, f
me, anyway. I knew it when I shot j j
that arrow over the wall and lost It r
two months ago." t
And Rittenhouse, remembering cer- a
tain sentimentalities connected with
what lay in his drawer, had the grace g
to look foolish.
Saving.
"Speaking of stingy people," said
the shopkeeper reflectively, "there's 8
no one can beat old Scrimp.' ^
"What about him?" queried the customer.
'
"Why, he even looks over the tops ^
of his glasses for fear of wearing j3
them out." 1
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It Is only 801 feet above sea levsi,
and is the highest determining
>olnt in the state.
Pat's Effective Retort.
An Irishman knocked at a door one 1
lay and asked the lady of the house
(who was very ugly) if she could help
lim, as he was hard up and on the
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Protection for Canary.
Canaries kept in cages are apt to
jet a minute red insect in the feathjrs,
especially under the wings; when
mch is the case, the bird should have
r little insect powder sprinkled under (
.he wing, and the cage should be
maided out, and dried thoroughly in I
:he sun, or before the fire. A small!
aag of sulphur should be hung up in-'
jide the top of the cage.
Billy's Ingratitude.
"A rich man can be a Christian
vhile he's got his money, but he
:eases to be a Christian when his
noney gets him."
The speaker was Secretary Bryan;
he occasion a Washington dinner. I
"Old Billy Bones was a rich man," j
Hr. Bryan continued, "whose money I
lad got him. Billy was in the lumber
rade.
"One day he was bossing a lumber
:rew that was guiding a lot of loge
nivAr Cn/IHnnltr tho 1 r\cr "Rillv
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itood on slipped and rolled over. Billy
;ank in the deep and icy water.
"But a young Christian plunged in
rom a nearby log, and, at the risk of
lis life, saved the old man. The youth
laturally expected some reward for
his heroic feat, but Billy only nodded
l gruff 'Thank you' and went his way.
"When, the next week, he turned up
it camp again, the young Canuck approached
him.
" 'Monsieur,' he said, 'I see you fall
lans l'eau?een ze vawtaire?and I
ave your life. The pourboire, the regard,
n'est ce pas, monsieur?'
" 'Look a here, young weller,' he inerrupted
the stumbling youth, 'if
rou'd been tendin' to business as you'd
irter, you wouldn't ha' seen me fall
n!'"
TAX N<
The books will be open for the <
day of October, 1913 to December 31
Tax levy for State
Special school 4.
Constitutional School
Ordinary Co.
Past indebtedness
Int. on R. R. Bonds
Road and bridges ?
rn _ x _ 1 l
I (J lb I lCVjr
Cheraw Graded School, S{
Marburg "
Orange Hill "
Pats Branch "
Pee Dee "
Stafford Mill
Bethel
Center Point "
Chesterfield "
Parker "
Shiloh
Snow Ilill "
Ruby
Wamble Ilill "
White Oak "
Center "
Cro&s Roads '
Elizabeth "
Mt. Croghan "
New Hope "
Wexford "
Buffalo "
Five Forks "
Pageland "
Plains "
Dudley "
Friendship "
Jefferson "
Long Branch "
Green Hill "
Middendorf "
McBee "
Sandy Run "
Union
Bay Springs "
Bethesda "
Bear Creek "
Juniper "
Patrick "
Cat Pond
Lewis "
Ousley "
Palmetto "
"Wallace "
Cheraw special Road
Commutation Road Tax is $2 ai
day of March, 1914.
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September 15, 1913.
AUDITOR'S
NOTICE.
The Auditor's office will be gr
opened for the assessment of both Bi
Real Estate and Personal prop- ^
erty from January 1st, 1914, to g
February 20th, 1904. 19
All male citizens between the bi(
aires of 21 and 60 years are deem- tal
fid Taxable Polls, except those 1)g
who are maimed or for other ]>0
causes are incapable of earing a pU
support. by
I1 str
dn
piKUl^ (UMR'U Hi IclAtS I'll I'lUJU-l- WJ
ty subject, to taxes and not returned
for assessment onor before
the 201 li of February, 1014. fer
da
I will be in the Auditor's office t0
January 1, 2, .'1, 5, 10, 16. 17, 24, pn
and 31; February 2, 7, 12, 14, 16, ne
17, 18, 10, and 20, and at the following
places on the dates named:
Middcndorf, February 3, from 10
to 4 o'clock.
McBee, February 4 and 5.
Cheraw, February 0. 10 and 11.
Odom's Mill, February 13, from 1
to 3 o'clock. II
T. W. EDDIXS, "
County Auditor.
What la Your Aim?
It is not enough to be Industrious;
o are the ants. What are you in[ustrious
about??Thoreau. C
3TICE
collection of taxes from the 15
, 1913.
5*4 mills
1 "
3
- 3 y2 ?
iy4 " i
11/2 ?
2
171/2 ?
>ecial 3 mills Bonds 1% mills
" 8 "
99 O 9 9
o
>> A ??
" 3 "
" 4 " Bonds 2^ mills
l> A >t
" 4 " <
" 9 " Bends 3 mills j
t> 4 >t ]
if y ?
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" 8 "
" 3 "
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" 9 "
" 6 "
" 3 "
" 8 " Bonds 4 mills
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" 6 " Bonds, 5 *mil'iK?
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" 3 "
" 3 "
" 2 " Bonds 4 miller
?? 4 "
8 Bonds
"j'o " ;* ?B
" 7 ^^^1
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" 5 "
" 4 "
" 3 "
" 5 "
" 2 "
.
id must be paid by the firs?
W. A. DOUGLASS,
County Treasurer
MASTER'S SALE.
State of South Carolina
County of Chesterfield ?
Pursuant to a decree heretofor^^H
anted in the case of the
lilding & Loan Association vs.
Chapman, et. al., I will offer for^|
le before the Town Hall in Cherawy^H
C., on the 16th day of February,^?
14, at 12 o'clock, M., to the highest^H
Ider for cash, the following real es-^H
to
All that lot in the town of Cheraw^M
ing that part of said town known as
we Town, known and designated on i
in of said town as Lot 66, bounded
lots 65, 67 and 77 and by Third
ect and running back three hun3d
(300) feet, preserving the samedth
all the way.
repins of sale: One-half cash and
> balance in twelve months, the dered
payments to bear interest from ^
te at the rate of seven per cent and
be secured by mortgage of the
emises. Purchaser to pay for all
cessary papers.
P. A. MURRAY, JR.
Master.
Fresh Beef and Pork
and Pork Sausage
at
. A. Burch's Market
PHONE 80
Covington Hotel Building
Second Street
heraw, S. C- |
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