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A TAG DAY ROMANCE ^ ff^SSIE E. SHERWIM u ilfty ia ?w city *?<! * I It *?? <a* untie* attire whl]i* J>?at L?n< t5"'1 . showed signs of ihend B*? rtUillg^, l ?t the corner o| ML ?* a cardboard ill Jftft PWh.r^ .nation iu the other. Lad. H N K xutl a* to face and r: j^lss " ? mm Ct, J?! w? one of Hie tait Ehw< ""'? rr l.i "."-I '??"? <*? K The h,u"? 'r?? Horn* lofr* EU '"""""kind he?H?!<lBW "a,, E vrttb inotwrl* luter EprwK'"*41 " .. . E?fri ^ veaP tho insignia of the | -you wll8tt knoW yOU art out- of us ?if* (U'rtf p*1""'""',!,.- true Indjr uiuibtrunlve fiW <hP" i " card into <"?? m "row<' E*W t?i >'><?? of Ver I * rVmirt 1>er lonettACM ? l"" I"*" ll'? dreariness ami |?ni I " . her. <?ut ?( ? ???** ''"y' "'r I* T he cheap little room she oc ?!! 7 she was faint and weak, i \i..? good cause!" hulled a l"]h p, ! voice, and the abstracted rri<k # n ?flff and flower drawn from |T,nla felt, tag ? not& BUb6tltuted. Eu'deJedlv she looked up to note I ?iUnK genial young man. For a IS? he'aeemed quite magnetized foment ne t goulfui eyes. thftt lovely m ? I .. ? ?noke to a companion. Ikurry. be M tt crle(| verda. PP^a ?" ?,e Item'1# near restaurant ft tanlfttizl"). te o( fowl. ?>>? turned -touwrda-tt ESv Then she ran awny , JttSL* temptation. She pushed aside i B? Lining '.multitude, staling ahead It trv and discover some tagger t |'?hom ,1,0 couia deliver the dollar. She B m way ov<"> ?<?"> strenuous MlLi *he mod? out the young r' ' I Eiven' her the money. "he neured him. - She put out , tand to holt him. Ho was ?'rlly mUs W? "<,s w,th the " "^please!" panted Verda, extend IK the bank nolo. "I am not a as ?r. 1 had n0 rl*m t0 ta 1 1o_ There she wavered, there ft sudden flu ca mo, across her vision She waved weakly. Bryan Latham nit her In his arms as conscious Kss deserted her. "Do not move, dear," spoke a tie wonianly voice many hours later ud Verda stared vaguely about her. She lay upon a couch In the rest room ?( ?n oftloe building. A screen was Nt aeross a comer of the- apartment ud the matron stood regarding lier with a smile. "Will you not teH me somethlnp about yourself?" she asked. And Verda told her all of her pover ty, of the flower and tag and of her toptatlon to assuage her hunger. The matron wound a sympathizing inn about her. There wera tears of tenderness and pity In ,her eyes. She went away and returned with a server totalnlng a dainty, but strengthening wpaRt. the first food of which Verda bad partaken for a night and a day. it was Mr. Latham1 who left you the woman told her, "a true kind-hearted gentleman, If there ever [tts one. He was very anxious and ln ilwsted. He seemed to surmise that ^bo were in trouble. He has telephoned twice about you and wishes you to re nin here until business hours are Imr." "I am Mr. Latham's sister," inter rupted an intruding voice, and a well ,4res?pd lady appeared Just beyond the tdge of the screen. "Is this the young Udy my brother told me about? He telephoned me and if f can be of any tervlee to yon lot me be youi; friend." She was married and had a family ?t two little children, and when the ??tron had taken her aside and talked *ith her In low tones Mrs. Warner Warned to the side of Verda. ^Too poor friendless dove!" ahe Murmured. klssliiR her. "We are go tog to mend some of the injustice of life that ha* fallen to your lot. My into Is below nnd when you are strong wough to accompany me we will soon jtove yon under a roof where you ttnst welcome a long, perfect rest." Verda I. nnd retired that night the : guest * of h true sonled woman with plenty of spare for those she could Mp. and l'I?kI to bestow It. She did '?nt mention her brother until several toy* later, nnd by that time her little we* had learner) to Idolize the stran ? fe: whose urn 1 1 tiide nnd Joy made her ?Iotp t hf whole voHd. ? Very tmobTruslvely Bryan Latham ; e?nie to the bouse at last. ' He did ?tot obtrude himself upon ye_rdHi bnt : p* eonld not conceal an Interest her . ^ery time he met the glance of the pleading: eyes that had thrilled him | from the first w?s just ? month ngo that y<vp Into my life." he told Verda . when tbev were alone together one ?"?ejiin ar. "See bow I chertfch th* mem *7" he added, nnd he drew ont a llt ^ Wank '.io<?k and within It lay the , ?nA jne faded carnation. ; ^ when their wedding ?? ?in. It wns two of tha little W?r f *r ;hr ,ren -*-ho scattered the name i "WrKifnl fluwer In the patlt'^f btHl I?* room. IMPORTING THK PRIMITIVE Importance of Cove In the Election Population IY\v | *top to think \vh?t m polyglot .)h)|>iiIh tioii wo have out of which to make Americans, or, what la far more to t'he point. how much of (jt.. ulmltlvc wo have Imported into our country, iu our quest for cheap labor. ? *ptie blacks were - brought by the slave trader from the' jungles of Af? rlca, where they were ?hunted and herded aa . buffalo oil the western plains were driven over precipice* for their hide* and -tongues. All thl* was done for money, and those who brought tilie thousands from the Dark <\>ntl uent did It for gain and with neither a thought nor n OR re a\u?ut the rights of t'he blacks of the inevitable influemv upon our population* j, In the early days of emigration the best of the Northern Kuro|>enn peo ples came here to OUlld houic.y and better their conditions. The Infusion wii^ fine. They were poor hut "chock full of day's works." and tJhey dhi their share in developing agriculturally the north and west a* the slaves bad do voiopOd the south. ? t? * ? I\ut when we begHn to imixtrt "un skilled labor," not for- cUltseiifttilp but f(>r t*he money we could make 611 1 of it, then we began to bring in the primitive just as truly as we did in raiding the juugles of Africa.' Our purposes were primitive In both cases. Thl* is what ha* notv only made a distant social cleavage among us. but it la what has split labor iuto two camps, fhe one Ainericou, the otfier essentially primitive. It ?not Indeed Ismaelltlc. It Is this reversion to the primitive tlm-t Is making most of our trouble, for. unfortunately .there Is much of the primitive in all of us, and that Is what Is upiKTiuost. in society, everywhere just now. i*l ?ove - to- -rthpw. Improvidence, ?diaju*. clluntfon to work except as forced by necessity, lack of ambition and a de finite purpose In life ? all this is prim itive; and when It has been long enough iu the ascendancy It will force Final Discharge Notice is hereby given thut one month from this date, 011 Frldaj*, July 3dth, 1920, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final retnrij. as Administ rotor of the estate of George W. MJcLaln, deceased, and on the same date 1 will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Administrator. JOHN D. McLAIN, Administrator. FINAL DISCHARGR Notice is hereby given that one mouth from this date, 6n Saturday, August 2Kth. 1920, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator of the estate of "Stephen F. Hough, deceased, and on the same" date I witl apply to the said- Court for a final discharge as said Administrator. T. B. FliBTCHEtt, Administrator. Camden, ?H., C., July 24th, 1920. society as n whole to (he basis of bare existence, which Is i?too primitive, as Ik the law of ?etf-presefvatlou, which Is dangerou*ly prevalent now. If we do not waat to wreck our lu stltbtlbns we have need to pay aome reasonable attention not ab much to the race or the language a* to the wt?K k that is shlpi>ed In. No stockman con hi ahow with success at fh?t. /airs If hi* herd* were suffering continual In fualona of primitive strains, with no bodj looking after the queallon of con sequences. We look upon education as a con servation of Americanism, and we talk much about the saving .grace of public opinion. But U la a? fair question to ask of importations, "How much ??lu cation can you take and what will you do with It" Just aa it la asked. 44 What after all. is the public?" N There are men in the world -thou sands of theui lu everfv country- -who ?belong iu the Stone Age, for that is wheiv I hey are actually living, what ever the language they speak or the form of government they1 live under, and it Is a fair question as to What tyi?ea will blend well with Americans ideals and what will not. Whon David had trouble with, his ?neighbors he punished? them witti n great slaughter, which wan bad enough. Hnt when Solomon fa<vd diplomatic difficulty with a neighboring king, he promptly proposed and generally' eon traded marriage with bis daughter. So was peace assured ? until all his wivej got to quarrollng with men and among themselves about their various gods and their many religions. Tbw* did Solomon fall in bis attempt to lie all things to all men ? and women ? and his kingdom split ? split on the rock of paganism. And that rook will either ftpllt or pu.lverlze any1 i>eople. There la a lim it to which any race can Import a primitive slock ami liapo to amalgam ate It, and that amalgamation, even when" Hucceasru l, has its " influence, as every good stockman knows. Here lleth a lesson for those who may be tempted In the coming days When we shall feel as never before the shortage of unskilled labor and the ducats ','t'h at could be made out of a shipload of huskies brought from no body know where or cares how, so 1/mg as the often renewed supply of "common labor" is kept up. David was a fighter, but be kept bis soul. Solomon was a diplomat and an opportunist, but he lost his ideals ami ' ultimately fell out even with his own] family. If will bo so with us if we j import the primitive type in order to ; make fortunes t^e more rapidly or t<?! avoid certain disagreeable tasks. America will be Inhabited by Ameri cans, whatever that may mean, but the kind of Americans we shall have'j will depend upon whether we draw tibe<( lino against the (primitive types that, shlll linger in the races, and that in turn will depend upon: the extent tof which we are willing to sacrifice our, The Best of Health Both of these menjenjoy the best of health ? the" man on the girder because of his act; ive out-of-door job, the man at the, desk by a different means. He keeps fit by atten tion to personal nygiene ? eats "the right sort of food, gets a certain amount of exercise, but particularly? -mtfkes cer tain of securing regular bowel "movements. Nujol helps him, Nujol work? o?n an entirely new principle. Instead of forcing or irritating the system, it simply softens the food waste . This enables the many tiny muscles in the walls of the intestines, contracting and expanding in their normal way , to squeeze the food waste along so that it passes natur ally out of the system. Nujol thus prevents constipa tion because it helps Nature -maintain easy , thorough kg&el movements at regular inter vals?the healthiest habit in the world. Nujol is absolutely harmless and pleasant to take. Try it. Nujol is sold by all druggists in sealed bottles only, bearing Nujol trade tnark. Write Nujol Laboratories, Standard Oil Co (New Jersey ), 50 Broadway, New York, for ^booklet, "Thirty Feet of Danger'*. The Modern Method of Treating an Old jComfilaint For Constipation own souls for money or to avoid cer tain disagreeable Jobs known as' com mon labor, like farming, for example, as it rests In the popular mind, Whoever does the common labor of a country will ultimately pdssess Its lands and Its Industries, and In time determine tlie level of society. . It is not ancestry, it is not race ; It is not language; it 1m not even reli gion : but it is the imported tyi>e that will ultimately fix the destiny of Amdr iea. For this reason we have had enough of Hie primitive.? nf-ountry Oen 1 1< mi uui. Edgar P, Jone?, a young white man wax killed at the Atlantic Coast. Line Hajllroad eroswdng, " one mile below M loree, last night by train No. 42, run ning from I'reghall ln*o Orangeburg. m 11 Sag It Does! I* good drink, like *g<?l game, brings a sniile of satisfaction. With no bed after- effect*