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SUMMONS FOll KJCUJW. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. , lu the Court of Probate. Bailie W. Boyklu, Individually, Md Balllo W. ltoy kin aa Adminis tratrix of tho uatuto of E. B. Cure ton, deceased, Plaintiff. Against John B. Curuton, Rebecca Luoas, Maty C. Curoton, W. C. Cuaretou, J. H. Curoton, J. O. Curoton, A. C. Curoton, E, B. Curoton, H. 3- John aon, A. 1). Cunningham, T. L. Hoy kin. Mlnnetto Hoyklu, William Mc Caa, in behalf of hlmaolf and ga representative aud for o benefit of those who in common with said William McCaa are heirs at law of E. B. Curoton, deceased, through Elizabotb McCaa, deceased, Defendants. To tbo Defendants: You are hereby aumtooned and re quired to answer tho Complaint In thin action which la this day filed in the office of the Probate Court for Kershaw County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subacrlber at. bin office in Cumdeu, 8. C., within twouty days after the service here of, exclusive of the day of such ser vice, and if you fall to answer the compallnt within tbo time aforesaid, tho plaintiff in this action .will ap ply to the Court fpr 'the relief de manded in the Complaint, pated Dec. 22nd, 19 1J. B. B. Clarke," Plaintiff's Attorney tp the , defendants John B. Cure ton, Uebecca Lucas, William McCaa* in behalf of himself and aa a representative and for the benefit of those who in common with said William McCaa, are heirs at law of E. B. Cureton, deceased, through' Elizabeth McCaa, deceaaed; you will pleaao take notice Sb%t Jtbe Complaint herein waa thia day fil ed in the o'fflce of the Court of Probate. Dated Dec. 22, 1911. B.B.Clarke, Plaintiff's Attorney TAX RETURNS. Office of County Auditor, Kershaw County. Camden, 8. C., Dec. 6, 1911. Notice is hereby given that the Auditors office will be open for re ceiving tax returns from January 1st, 1912, to February 20th, 1912, Inclusive. Those falling to make returns <withln said period as re quired by law will be subject to a pen alty ot JLO per cent, ? The Auditor will attend In per son or by deputy at the following plnceB in the poUnty on the dates Indicated' for receiving returns: Bethune, Jan. 16-16. Raiey's Mill, Jan. 17.' Bowers School House, Jan. 18. ICirkley's Store, Jan. 19. Kershaw, Jan. 22. Westvllle, Jan. 23. Russell Place, Jan. 24. Liberty Hill, Jan. 25. Blaney, Jan. 26. ? All trustees, guardians, executors, administrators, agents and others holding property in charge must re turn same. \ Income tax will be enforced. Parties sending tax returns by mall must make oath to same bo fore some qualified officer and fill out ttoe same In a proper manner, Otherwiso they must bo rejected. W. P. RUSSELL, County Auditor. I FOR SALE. v The l? irk wood Grocery. A ??>lendid opportunity for live man. Reason for selling, man ager leaving, no time for per sonal attention. Apply to J. B. Zemp, Camden, 8. C. Fifty Young Men Wanted. Fifty more young men are wanted to learn Telegraphy and accept po sitions as telegraph operators 'on ,thft Tj. ' fr-y*rr-Wa11i?naii;:" jJgjjNwfiFjKi H. Roy, Supervisor, tflUhvllle, Tenn. Zemp's Drays When you want your Trunks hauled jjor^j any other drayage done, Tele phone 37. Prompt and safe delivery|guaranteed. ?A, 35 - ' . ' ? ? Eliza's Engagement ?y John Osbomm VMd (Copyright, mi, by Utwwn Phm.) ""Well, goodbye, HUI? , I hope you'll have a good time," Mid port little Molly Dobeon, flaunting h?r reoently acxjulred diamond solitaire fine In the sunshine. "AiiCJk toy?," the tomd, "that you'll oome home engaged. too, to some nice city man. WHU Mod tell uh all about it." Molly laughed, tut tf the Idea of BUlsa's becoming eng aged Wfre a bum Joke. Kllsa's uncle, John Roftneon? patted her shoulder with otnbarrase ment and her Aunt Fhnma Robinson tried to smile naturally. The station master whistled with toroed cheerful JiOtttt. "That Molly Dobson*s sn awful mean girl," be said to himself A moment later BUlsa Jumped aboard the train that was to take her to the city, and before lone the little group of friends on the station was . just a blur 1ft the <yj?anoe. Eliza was twenty-eight and she had determined to go to the city tor a few months of excitement The oomfort able routine of her Ufe at Dayvllle, where she had lived with her aunt and uncle from babyhood, had begun to pall. Jler days were never empty. There were active hours spent out of doors planttyg and prunlqg flowers and vegetables and tending her chick ens and ducks; and other aotfve hours spent In the ^lefltaant, sunny kitchen over savory preserve kettles or the week's fragrant baking. There were long placid evenings on the vlneoov ered plazsa under the stars or be side the glowing s^ttlng-coom stove, with the dosing Uncle John and chat terlng Aunt Emma and purring Tabby for companions. There wets oooa atonal excursions ? plcnlos and carry all drives and onoe In a while a Jaunt with one of the young men of the vil lage. But Ellta knew that the yean to come would be Identical with, ths years that had passed, and she grew discontented. It was Sis perfectly oofnAortabk state of affairs but wholly unoomfdrt able state of mind that had Induced Eliza to set forth on the first rest ad venture of her Ufe. She made bet voice an excuse; it was a swooi. light Planting and Pruning F1oWn? .voice that led all tbe others la the village choir, and although BMaa knew that It was not worth cultivation, It served aa an excuse. She wrote for circulars from singing masters, gaged a room In an inexpensive but comfortable boarding house' la ? the efty^enill smt be* savings In her pock et, started forth to see the world. But until Molly Dobson** taunting I words were spoken Eliza had not real- J ly considered matrimony aa a possible culmination of her city visit Molly's words, however, put' an Idea Into her head. Why not pretend, after a few weeks away from home, that she WW engaged? It would be fun to writ* the letters describing tbe lucky man. the things tdfey did together and their plans' for the future. Then, later, Ellsa thought, ahe could write to- say I that the engagement was broken, and | could return home heart-free* "And If she thought I really had | been engaged." thought Sua*,, i shouldn't care how much that silly little Molly did tease me. And it won't exactly be a He. 1*11 pick out some nice man at the boarding bouse, and pretend he's tbe one.** With this Justification for her pro posed action, and with tbe excitement of her plan flushing her tanned obeeks . .and brightening her soft biWn agree, [ Eliza walked into Mrs. Benson v Brown's rather shabby boarding boose that same evening for dinner. Sh0 looked furtively from one end of the lone orowded table to tbe other to find the choeen man. Three or lour middle aged women who looked as If they had spent moat of th$lr time gos slplng over fancywork, their eouaUy monotonous-looking husbands, the timid pale young daughter of one ot tbe women, who giggled and bluabed whenever anyone spoke to her, a dapper young man who cracked Jokes for the benefit of the whole table, a lam* old man, a near sighted old lady fchff buxom fired tbe table. Alter bad been Intmitnn^l to over/body present ?Ue san k baok Luto her Chair with a feeling of disappoint ment. "Why, he list here," she thought "1 ouuida't even preteud h? ?u that ?111/ young man that mskes Jokes; bonldoa he and the pale little girl teem Quite taken wtth each other. Ohl" Eliza etarted. Opposite her wee a vacant chair. A serious looking, tall young man. with keen gray eyee wee Just taking hU place there, and Mre. Beuaon Urown wae baying: "Oh. Miss Morgan, this U Mr, Wll bur." * "How do you do Mlea Morgan," said the man. t*la face lighting with a smile of friendliness. "Sorry I'm late. Mrs. Brown." Eliza breathed more easily. and the fenext day she mentioned Ma very pleas ant young man ? about thirty-five I should say ? Whoae name is Wilbur,** In her letter io her aunt, and a few days later she wrote to Molly Dobson of a walk in the park she had had with Mr. Wilbur, "the nioeet man you ever saw." The weeks paaeed quickly with Eliza. Bach other she wrote home contained some reference to Mr. Wil bur. Once he had brought her a book ? she had given him the money for it and had asked him to get It, but she did not mention these facts; again he bad brought flowers, and ahe shuddered when she wrote this down, for it was true. There were brief references to real conversations be tween the two. and long aeeounts of Imaginary talks and excursions to gether. Finally, at the end of three months. Eliza's friends in Dayvllle re oelvod word that ahe and Mr. Wilbur were engaged. "There are still three mouths to break It In." thought Eliza. It was three or four days after Elisa had announced her engagement. She had come down stairs to look for let ters on the hall table, and eat in Mre. Brown's dimly lighted parlor reading them. There were half a dosen ? all letters of good wishes and congratu lations, "I know youll be happy; It's lovely to be engaged," wrote Molly' Dobson. Eliza trembled guiltily as she them. She left her uncle's until but finally she tore It open. "If you are sure he la the right man, dear child, I am glad. But don't make a mistake; you seem so far away from everything and everyone that you are used to and know. Don't do anything you will regret later." Eliza buried her head In one of Mre. Brown's sofa cushions with a eofc. "Don't do anything 111 regret," she repeated. "Oh, how wicked, wicked I've been." Then, suddenly Eliza realized that what she. waa crying for was that she and Mr. Wilbur were really not engaged. Eliza heard a footstep by ber side and looked up into the grave eyes of Mr. Wilbur. "Why, you poor little girl,** be said gently, kneeling down and putting his arms about her. "Don't cry Eliza, pulling herself free. "Oh, you musn't," and she rushed past him into the hall and up to her room. Onoe there she locked the door and set to work to write a confeeslon. "I must tell you," she wrote, "aV though you will bate me when you know. I cant explain why, but I wanted this folks at home to think me engaged ? to you. I never thought it mattered until I found that I cared ? and that you do, too. I dont ask you to pardon me; and aa I shall ^ev er have to kmow how much you de* aplae me for it I am going home to tell them that my engagement la bro ken." The next day Eliza, pale and tired, arrived unexpectedly at the station at Dayvllle. V "Hello, Miss Morgan." aald the sta tion man. as he helped her with her bags ? he waa baggage master, porter, telegraph operator and ticket agent all in one ? "I certainly am glad to aee you. ? Queer message come over the wire for yon. Just gotaff&eend it .S3W to: ? . " El lea took the yellow telegram and read: "Don't tell anyone it is broken. Am coming on the next train to help you mend It" "Anything valuable that's broken?** querrled the man curiously. Eliza flushed and smiled. "It*s the most valuable thing I ever had," she aald slowly. "But the cracks will nev er show after K's mended.** ' Risked Life for Comrades. A story of wonderful heroism in the rescue of the stokehold stall of the deatroyer Kangaroo after an explosion of a steam pipe waa related a few days ***? the inquest at Haalar Hospital, Hants, England, on tfie two men who were killed ? Chief Stoker Henry Hutfled, and First Class Stoker Ernest William Fryer. Members of the crew, the oommander included, desoended with towels round their heeds Into the inferno of steam to deaver to rescue the sufferers, but Hot* field and Fryer had been killed In* stantaneously from asphyxia by the scalding steam. . The pipe that burst was a bent branch pipe, which had been straightened out by the pressure of the steam. When 'It tyent Wrong. "He told her that he would gladly 1 die tor her." "The same old btyff. Did It catch herr . "No. She told him she would glad' ly let him.* ; . In Proof. la one of the moat neighbor ' I .ever aaw," ~:?-: . I'tM ttor . \| He seams determined, sooner Disposing of Veronica "There le one peculiarity about get ting exasperated at a man," wrote the girl at a summer resort to hor dear eat friend at home. "It la that you think you never cansbe more exasper a ted than on that apeeial occasion? and then the very next time you get exasperated you are astonished to find how much more so you can be I 1 don't know anything better calcu lated to Infuriate one than to aee a perfectly nloe man Idiotically In the tolls of another girl whoae motive la transparent to every woman In sight, though the men are blind and Imbe cile in her presenoe. "Wbeij Veronica Bondy first appear ed on the hotel veranda and I had watched her ten eeoonds I sighed be* cause I knew what waa ahead of me. 1 was to view the spectacle of every man on the plaoe trotting around 1* her wake carrying things and asking her anxiously If the hot sun didn't make her head ache and couldn't they get her something cool to drink and didn't s^te want to go and look at the moon! "Nevertheless, I privately eicepted Arthur Daw from the list of lunatics because ? well. Just because. And that very night at a dance he said In the middle of a waits: 'Hasn't that new girl, Miss Bondy, the most wonderful face? Like a ohlld's In its lnnooent appeal!* 1 think I exhibited great Belf-oon trot. Instead of telling Arthur that she waa a selfish, cold blooded, designing little minx with no sense and whoae motto in regard to womankind waa *No quarter!' I agreed with him. This, encouraged him to add that such a girl, who was so helpleea and con fiding and trustful always brought out the beat In a man, somehow. Where upon I told him Td like to alt down and rest # "Of course there la nothing else so plentiful In the world as men; still, 1 didn't fancy letting Veronica Bondy walk off with Arthur just to show me tjtat she ootild do it "So when Veronica blockaded the way as Arthur and I started out to walk three miles through the woods to a farm house where they sejj ap ples, and said pathetically that she waa so lonesome and there was noth ing to do, I promptly asked her to oome along. That three miles Is most ly climbing hills or oomlng down them, and part of the way the sand is deep. She had on delicate pumps and silk stockings and a frilly dress ? and I was garbed In khaki and walking boots. "She hated to walk ? I aaw It in her eyee ? but she hated worse to tat me escape with Arthur for the whote aft et*hoon. So she started. When Ar thur walks he walks ? and though he slowed down when I murmured that we were tiring Miss Bondy he chafed under it He dislikes sauntering. When we had stopped for the fourth time so be oould help Veronloe re move the sand from her absurd shoes, his lips were setting in a straight line and he looked to me for sympa thy, but I merely beamed. "When we started back If began to rain steadily. If there. Is anything soppier and wetter than the woods when it pours rain IM like ?o be in formed of H. My hair curls naturally and rain doesnt hurt khaki, so I dldnt care, but Veronica waa Indignant. She complained dreadfully and somehow conveyed the Idea that the rain was due solely to Arthur's oarelee&esa. The more her oomplexioa ran off the more she ootntftUj&d. and at the en&; of -a-mfle her hair looked Uke seaweed. Her style demands fiuffiness or coif fure to appear well. At every , hill she stormed. She Said onoe that it must be nice to be a great, husky, muscular creature like foe and be able to nego tiate bad roads like an amsson, but as foe a delicate, womanly person Hke herself, it was different. "That was when I blithely suggested to Arthur that he carry her. She'd have let him, I truly believe, only he pretended not to hear me. She in sisted on clinging to his armjMwerer, and being dragged up the hfn. How, a man has got to be utterly hopelessly In love with a woman before he en low dressing up a "niii when she is quite capable ei t walking by her self. X think the sight of me amfrllng merrily along as though I was good for another U miles added to hie irri tation. "When we were la eight of the ho tel 1 turned around and smiled hap pily at them. At that moment I ap preciated to the utmost my curly hair and the -eolor the rain had brought to my ohoeks, And Arthur had had to look at her tor three solid mllee. ** Tve bad a perfectly beautiful timer I was hateful -enough to say. M 1 hope,' said Veronica, in a voice of rags for she knew how she look ed ? that I doCt have pneumonia and die from this!' I " 'H?re,' Arthur stormed the minute he got dm alone. 'What on earth dkl you over aik her to go along tarV \ " Dont 70a like to hare the beat that I* in. 70a brought outr I asked roproachfnDjr. ^ " :"i? X~t? -And he said one o i the moat brief and atjaiMlv words In the Batttah Ttrg"*f under hie Surf th bat I. heard him. Then I knew that Veron ica had batn wiped off the map!" MILLINERY Only a few days left to sup^ ply your wants in Millin ery before the New Year. The Misses Gerald Af?nU for Standard Patterns OPERA HOUSE Price* $1.50, $1.00. 75^ and 50c. Seats on ?a* at F. Leslie Zemp's Drug Store. "K Thereto Freight for Me?" If ycm had, a telephone on your Farm a con versation like this would save you a long and prob ably useless trip: "Hello 1 Is this the depot (or express) Agent?" "Yes." "This fe Mr. Johnson on Rural Route No. 5c Is there any freight for me today ?" "No, it hasn t come yet." "Thanks. ' I will call you tomorrow." If you .'want to know how to have a tele Shone on your Farm, at small cost, write for our ree booklet. Address SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY loi> fryor BL, AlUnta, <a. WANT a Better ne&s colleges COM BIN ED. 4? College to 18 * Bookkeeping. Bookkeepers all over the United States say that Draughon'g New System of Bookkeeping caves them from 25 to 50 per cent In woik and worry. takin U. 8. offi. New 8y*tem of Bookkeeping i 25 to 50 per cent In woik Practically all da! oonrt reporters write the Shorthand Draughon Colleges ~ Whyf Because they know It is tk* DRACGHON'S U?| Latter VrftiM, Mm m mxuhli ooodiuoo** >? Thousands of bankcash rn, and stenographers are positions as' the result of i's Home Study. ?_r For prices on 'fiBsons write jNfe. F. Draughoh,