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Where Two | Paths Meet I 1: ? * By INA WRIGHT HANSON. J * ! * * < 1 I- * 1 > 1' In the birch blossom path 1 saw her first, and my mind was full of .annoyance because my sister, who kept my house, should invite a girl to visit her and thcu insist that it was my duty to help to entertain. * I would do nothing of the sort, I was thinking, when a turn in the white blossomed pathway brought her to my view. She was slender and had a great mass of brownish yellow hair, pinned up with gold pins, one of which glowed sardonically at me with its topaz eye. While 1 was wondering why she didn't comb her hair smoothly she turned, and her eyes, of a wonderful vivid blue, seemed to look down into my very soul. "Stand perfectly still, Mr. Angove, and shut your eyes. Is there anything so sweet in this wide world as a birch path in springtime? Don't open them, Mr. Angove. 1 want you to get the fragrance uninterrupted by any other sense." Why I should have stood there with my foolish eyes shut tight I don't know, but I did until she gave me permission to look at the white feathery sprays and at her. Then quite sociably we strolled the rest of the way together. 1 began to Jfeel interested in knowing what she would say when we came to the end of the path and she saw? "Why, I don't know your name," I said abruptly. "At fir6t you are going to address me as Miss Britland," she replied promptly. "Afterward you will say Frances, and at the end you will call me Caprice." "Why in the world should I call you Caprice?" I asked. "I don't know," she said. "Don't you ever say things just as if somebody inside of you were saying them with your own tongue?" My reply to this amazing question was hindered by the ending of the-birch bushes. We stood facing a little pagoda of white marble. 1 looked at the girl. tier nanas were tensely clasped; her red lips were quivering. "It's like walking down the pathway of lore and suddenly coming ' to the very temple of lore itself!" he exclaimed. I frowned. Why should my sister prattle to strangers of our ancestors' conceptions? She seemed to divine my thoughts. "Why do you look at me like that? What is it? What does it mean?" I showed her the inscription on the worn threshold ? "Temple of Love"?and with a sudden swift grace she knelt above the lettering. Then she sprang up. "Come, Mr. Angove," she cried gayly; "I will run you a race!" So back along the birch lined path we ran like two children, and only my sister's amused smile at the end of the race reminded me of my forgotten dignity. 1 6pent mat t\i fhe Hftv nmnDlT mv books and alone. Next morning Miss Britland and I selected a walk opposite the birch path. This was a straight path through an avenue of stately pines. Yesterday the girl had been fanciful or merry; this day she was neither. She walked sedately by me, talking quite learnedly of the future of radium. I began to see why I might some time call her Caprice. , "This is the path of the pines/' I said when we had exhausted radium. "We should have taken this one first, for it leads straight and true as the compass needle to the temple, while the birch path meanders foolishly this way and that and makes one many unnecessary steps to reach the same place." "One welcomes unnecessary steps when one walks with the spirit of the woods," she answered. "Anywav, you should not have told me " " 11 1 ? J- x- AT, ? tnat ID18 paxn Jeaus iu me same place. It would have been nicer for me to discover it for myself/' "So it would," I answered humbly. "How shall I atone?" "By telling me of yourself," she replied. "There isn't much to tell," I said, feeling pleased at her interest. We sat in the pagoda, and for me at least it was the temple of love. Let him who will prate of long growing affection. To me love came as the sun rises suddenly over the mountain. I told her of my life as a boy in college, as a man in the business world till this estate came to me, neglected and long uninhabited. Another day I told her about the temple, how my ancestor had laid Xit these paths to typify his love M , .>' , * for his fair young wife and her love for him?one path, quick and true as the compass needle, the other sweet in its shy deflections, but ending just as surely at the temple. "What was the young wife's name?" she asked. "I don't know. His diary is full of her beauty and sweetness and accomplishments, but it never mentions her name. He had his own names for her?Sunbeam, Starlight, Heartsease. Love like that should not die when the bodies of the lovers are dust." "How do you know that it does ?" she demanded. "How do you know but their souls are living again and loving just the same?" She had so many strange thoughts, this little Frances, and she had so many moods?gay, serious. learned, childlike. How I loved her! I could not wait much longer to tell her so, but I seemed to lack the right words. One daj in the temple I had been long silent, though I had not realized it till she interrupted my thoughts most saucily. " 'I wish that it could speak, for it looks so very kindly that its oice must needs be pleasant,'" she quoted. "It is going to speak," 1 said, turning suddenly toward her, but she pointed, laughing, toward the door. Down the path of the pine6 came my sister, eager, breathless, waving a letter. "A secret drawer in the wall, back of my wardrobe!" she gasped. "And three nights since she has been here has Frances dreamed or finding letters!" I saw with a curious feeling the peculiar chirography of my ancestor. I read aloud: "Look under the threshold of the temple, thou man of my own blood, but think not to appropriate to thyself what thou shalt find there. They are for her whom thou lorest as I loved my own Caprice." "Dig, dig!" exclaimed my sister, dropping on her knees and trying to pry up the step with her bare hands. "Don't sit there and stare at each other, you two. Let's find what's here." It was not a hard task, for time had loosened the marble steps till they were easily removed. It was an exciting moment when my sister's eager hands dragged to view a small iron box. "Open it, brother!" she cried. "Jewels!" cried the sweet, excited voice of my dear girl. I have always admired my sister, bat never more than at that moment, when her curiosity nrast have been well nigh uncontrollable. She cast one swift look at us two; then she started up the pine path. "I know that careless Martha is letting the bread burn," she called Dack over her dear motherly shoulder. I took a string of diamonds from the box and put them around my sweetheart's neck. An amethyst in its quaint setting I pinned at her white throat, a coronet of pearls 1 placed on her golden hair. On her slender, trembling fingers I put rings?rubies, diamonds, emeralds. On her pretty arms I hung bracelets of queer design, and then I fastened her girdle?dull gold, set with a great white opal which broke into marvelous colors as my sweetheart touched it reverently. When I had finished, she looked like a sweet barbaric princess. I knelt before her, kissing her hand. "All yours, my queen/' I whispered, "for I love you as he loved? Caprice." "Maybe I am his Caprice," she answered dreamily, "and maybe you are he." "Tell me that you love me, dear," I pleaded. She put her flowerlike face to mine. "My first thought of you and my last are the same, beloved," she answered. "And the thought is this ?that you *have a heart for whose belated waking queens might keep vigil.'" Wh?n th? Sun Grows Cold. Dr. Fridtjof Nan sen predicts the fate of the earth in the far distant future, when the sun grows cold. The simple, low organisms, he says, will probably live longest,' until even they disappear. Finally, he says, all water on the earth's surface will freeze and the oceans will be transformed into ice to the bottom. Some time later the carbonic acid of the atmosphere will begin to fall on the surface of the earth in the form of snow. Some time after that the temperature on the surface will have reached about 330 degrees below zero F. New oceans will then be formed by the atmosphere being turned into liquid, and the atmosphere of that future earth will be only hydrogen and helium. The sun will go through the same process. It will continue on its way as a dark star through space, accompanied by the planets. *** I - \ * j ChanfinskiA filinjifd VIlHlVgvmVIv VIKIIVIllLv IS A CONSTANT THREAT TO THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE. Dr. Hartman, of Columbus, Ohio, discusses an important health topic. He says: Yes. it Is the climate, not the germs, that we have to fear in this country. The germs are present, to be sure, and are of some significance in diagnosis. Climate, a changeable climate, is the true cause of disease. The atmospheric pressure varies, the humidity of the atmosphere changes. Every day the temperature rises and falls. All this presents to the body very great trials to adjust to. The area of high pressure forms in the northwest Moves rapidly southeast, subjecting millions of our population to its influence. The result is, thousands upon thousands of people catch cold. A small per cent, of these thousands do not get well of their cold. It goes into prenmor.In, or chronic catarrh, or bronchitis, or ( laryngitis, or pleurisy. Now, what I am getting at is this. These climatic changes are inevitable, j No one can prevent them. The very best we can do is to prepare for them, defend ourselves against them. Good health is the best preventive. The very best Vigorous health, with excess vitality, this is Nature's own preventive and protection. We do not all have this, however. Some of us must have assistance. The assistance that I use fpr myself, would recommend for my friends to u3e, my lieiguuuia auu mj wv/uiiu;men. is Pe-ru-na. Keep Pe-ru-na in the house. If the children Indicate they are catching cold, give them Pe-ru-na. If the parents, the grandfather or grandmother, present those symptom* that are so well known which precede a cold, a few doses of Pe-ru-na and the deed is done. Some people are very subject to colds. Others who have weak lungs and are timid about our winter weather, take Pe-ru-na off and on during ? the whole winter season. The plan is a good one. The medicine is inexpensive. It does no possible harm to the system. It keeps the appetite regular and keen. It assists digestion and helps the user through the inclement weather of winter. Ask your Druggrlat for Free Feruna Lucky Day Almanac for 1014. ^ V BELSER SCHOOL j ? ? ? ? ? ????? Belsjr's X Roads, March ft:?St Valentine's day was appropriately celebrated by the pupils of this school by the rendition of the following programme: Song by school "America" Recitation by school, "Four Little Valentines" Song by school. "Maryland, My Maryland" "Valentine Greeting" "Wand Song" The exercises were much enjoyed by all, and after all the valentines were distributed the time was filled in with singing and recitations by some of the visitors. The following f?Ain a lorlv nrpaprt woo Aivsti* u imvijf |/> "Once more the day of the dear old St Valentine has come. This day, along with Easter and new year's, binds us to the past and makes us think of what we have done with the time our Creator has given us? our precious time, which shruld be spent so that our reaping shall be golden sheaves, some time, somewhere. The world moves onward and upward, and have we done anything to keep it on its upward march? Have your fun, give pleasure, tell the girl of your ahoice the old story, but don't hurt anyone's feelings through the agency of old St Valentine. Don't try to get even' with anyone, but just remember, 'As ye measure.it shall be measured to you.' Now, we allbknow of the little god of love,Cupid.who is often depicted on valentines and in other places as a fat little boy, with wings and a bow and quiver of arrows pn his back and with these he strikes right through the hearts of the boys and girls who are in love. Thousands of years ago the ancient Greeks worshiped all kinds of imaginary beings and among them was Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, who was the mother of Cupid. One of our largest stars is named Venus in honor of this goddess. It is one of the most brilliant in the firmament and is sometimes called the Morning Star: "Oupid once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head. Luckless urchin did not see Within the leaves a slumbering bee. The bee awaked with anger wild, The bee awaked and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick he runs, he flies: 'Oh! mother, I am wounded through; I die with pain, in sooth. I do. Stung by some little angry thing, Some serpent on a tiny ring. "A bee it was, for once I heard A rustic call it so." "Thus he spake, and she the while Heard him with a soothing smile: 'My infant, if thou so much feel The little wild bee's touch. What must the heart, ah! Cupid, be, The hapless heart that's stung by thee?"' * b \ % * ' i PRESIDENT NO "VISITOR.Looks "fimfllr" to Old Doorkeeper, After a Tramp In Snow. Washington, February 24:?President Wilson demonstrated today that he does not class himself as a "visitor" at Government departments. On his way back to the White House, after a long walk through the'snow-covered streets, he decided to take a short cut through the long corridor of the Interior Department, and at the entrance he was confronted with this sign: "No visitors admitted after 2 p. _ ft m. When the President opened the ^nr* orrnr) r? AArlranrusv ofonnA/i UUUI | Oil uuvinvvpvi hv*. forward, and asked: "What do you want?" % "I'm Woodrow Wilson," answered the President with a smile. "Well, well," said the doorkeeper nervously: "I thought your face looked familiar."--New York World. Senator Bradley Monday submitted to the United States Senate 10,000 protests from Kentucky, against the passage of the resolution for a constitutional amendment for national prohibition. CbanberlaiD's Tablets tor ConsttpatlOD For constipation, Chamberlain's Tablets are excellent. Easy to take, mild and gentle in effect. Give them ? ?i?t Vnii cola Ku oil Honiara d 11 iai . 1VI OWIW KJJ MX* W* Monday Morning Fire. What might have resulted in a disastrous fire early Monday morning in North Kingstree was probably prevented by the course of the , wind. The stable and an out house occupied by servants on the premises of Dr C D Jacobs wfere burned about 6 o'clock. The fire was caused by the carelessness, or rather ignorance of a negro boy,who, upon ' returning, about 4 a. m., after a cold drive with the Doctor, took a i lighted lantern to bed with him. The boy was slightly burned. There was a negro woman also asleep in the house who in her efforts to get her elothing and other belongings was considerably blistered. Had the wind been blowing in that direction the home of Mr R D Mills , and the Presbyterian manse would have been devoured by the flames. Weak, Ron Down? Here's Joyons News Wonderful BOOT J JICE, Will 1 Make You Feel "All Made Over" in a Week?Guaranteed. Here's something worth knowing; a way to get more real joy and pleasure ana comfort out of your life than you ever dreamed was possible?the Joy that is bound to come to every owner of a sturdy, healthy, vigorous body. Wonderful ROOT JUICE Is for people who are weak, run-down, fagged out, nervous, sleepless, appetltelees and the remarkable results it brings about In such cases is the wonder of everybody who ever tries it Tou never saw anything work like it in all your life Have vou lost ambition, energy and interest In things? Do you get nervous, befuddled, rattled, cross, Irrttable and cranky? Do you feel tired, half sick, have I headaches, get constipated, have backt "Look At Me. Tea Days Ago I Could Hardly Drag About. ROOT JTIJICE Did It." aches, and weak or dizzy spells? Do you have to get up at night on account or weak kidneys, have bad dreams, indiges > lion, Deicn, moat auu suuci anu , Do you have a sort of "Don't give a hang1' feeling, don't want to work feeling,? things look gloomy? Brace up! You don't know what you're i missing. Life's not dull. One bottle of wonderful ROOT JUICE, pure, safe, guaranteed, money-back ROOT JUICE will , have you feeling like Nature has given you a new body and a new, bright, active, happy brain. You'll see a difference in yourself in a week, a wonderful difference. You'll feel better, brighter, stronger, happier than you've felt in many a day. ROOT JUICE helps the whole body. It cleans ou. the blood, regulates the lazy bowels and liver, strengthens the stomach and the kidneys, tones up the nervous system. You'll eat like a wolf, enJoy what you eat and digest what you eat And sleep? Yes, indeed, good, natural, restful, refresMng sleep and get up ' in the morning feeling fresh and fit Come! You're doing yourself an injustice to go on feeling as you do. Give this wonderful bocfy restorative a week to freshen you up. You're taking no chances this time. ROOT JUICE has got to help you, it has to satisfy you, remember that, and you can get back your money instantly if you want it. That's how good ROOT JUICE is. All good druggists sell ROOT JUICE at a dollar a bottle and guarantee it You don't have to take a barrel of It and wait six months for results either. Unless your case is a rare exception youil feel wonderfully improved in a week. IffWItlUlllffHHWIMII il Legal Advertisements. *i i Summons for Belief- i " 1 (COMPLAINT SERVED). STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, , COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG. j In Court Common Pleas. 1 Jessie Cannon, Plaintiff, 8 j Louis Simmons, Stewart Simmons, Wil- , bur Simmons.Harlan Simmons, Rosa- ] mond Simmons, Emily M Simmons , and Verdie Simmons, Defendants. ] To the Absent Defendant, Stewart Simmons: You are hereby summoned and re- < quired to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy 01 your answer to the said complaint on 1 the subscriber at his office at Johnson- ' ville, S C, within twenty days after the serviee hereof, exclusive of the day of ! such service and if you fail to answer 1 the complaint within the time afore- 1 said,the plaintiff will apply to the Court < for the relief demanded in the com- 1 plaint Norval N Newell, % Plaintiff's Attorney. < Dated at Kingstree, S C, January 25, 1914. Take Notice, That the complaint in the above stated case, together with a copy for you, has been this day filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Williamsburg County. Norval N Newell, Plaintiff's A**orney. Kingstree, S C, February 2c i>14. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, county of williamsburg, In Court Common Pleas. Jessie Cannon, Plaintiff, vs Louis Simmons, Stewart Simmons, Wilbur Simmons,Harlan Simmons, Rosa mona Simmons, j&muy m simmons and Verdie Simmons. Defendants. notice to infant defendants. To the Absent Defendant,Stewart Simmons: Take Notice?That unless you procure the appointment of a Guardian ad litem to appear and defend this action for jou and on your behalf, within twenty diays after the service of the summons and complaint herein upon you, an application will be made to H 0 Britton. Clerk of this ? ourt, at his office in Kingartree, S < , by the undersigned at eleven o'clock a m. on the twenty-first day after the service hereof, for an order appointing some suitable and competent person Guardian ad litem to appear and defend this action for you ana on your behalf. Norval N Newell, Plaintiff's Attorney. Dated at Kingstree, S C, January 25, 1914. Tajcb Notice?That the complaint in this action, together with a copy for you, has been this day filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Compwn Pleas for Williamsburg County. Norval N Newell, Plaintiff's Attorney. Kingstree, S C, February 28, 1914. <x oc cf ?r?v-v? Summons for Relief. (COMPLAINT SE&VBD). THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OP WILLIAM8IURG. Court of Common Pleas. Paro Williams. Louisa Cooper, Prince Williams, Centry Williams, C W Williams and Nelson Cooper, Plaintiffs, against Sinah McKnight, Maggie Graham, Prince McKnight, S Poston & Company, Alberta Timber Company ana the unknown heirs of Cloe James, deceased, Defendants. To the Defendants shore named: You are hereby summoned and re? - -^i? 1_:_* quirea to answer me cutu^iaun m uu> action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office in Kingstree, S C, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service: and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action wilttralg to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint LbRoy Lee,* Plaintiffs' Attorney. Dated February 6,1914. I To the absent Defendants. John Do* and Richard Roe, unknown heirs at law of Cloe James, deceased: Tau Notice: That the original summons in this action, of which the foregoing is a copy, together with the complaint, was tiled in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas of Williamsburg County on the 12th day of February, 1914. LeRoy Lee, S-19-6t Plaintiffs' Attorney. Final Discharge. Notice is hereby riven that on the 23rd day of March, A D1914,at 12o'clock, noon, I will apply to P M Brockinton, Judge of Probate of Williamsburg county, for Letters Dismissory as Guardian or Minnie Ruth Bryan. Jakes Bryan, 9- lfl-it Guardian. Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that on the 4th day of April, A D 1914, at 12 'clock, noon. I will apply to P M Brockinton, Judge of Probate of Williamsburg county, for Letters Dismissory as Administrator of the estate of W A J Moore, deceased. L W Moorl, 3-5-4t Administrator. Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that on the 23rd day of March, a D, 1914, at 12 o'clock,noon, I will apply to P M Brockinton. Judge of Probate of Williamsburg county, for Letters Dismissory as General Guardian of the person and esestate of Sugar John Coker. H E Montgomery, 2-26-4t Guardian. Notice to CreditorsAll persons having claims against the estate of Naomie Courtney, deceased, are requested to present the same, duly attested, to the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate are requested to settle same at once. 3-5-4t S V Taylor, Greelyville, S C. Executor. Notice of Public Sain Pursuant to a resolution of the stoc^^Bg solders of the KingstroejTobacco W&iflHH bouse Co. the Board of Directors iflH jell to the highest bidder, for Quh, Monday. 12 a. m., March 16, public auction before the Court HouseflHI ioor, all of the assets of the Kings tree robacco Warehouse Co, at the upset price to aggregate not less than $6,- i >00.00. Then, if the $6,500.00 cannot Pe realized for sale of assets as -taken J is a whole, the assets will be sold as 1 follows: Lot on Hampton Avenue for 4 lot less than $4,800.00; lots in North --1 Kingstree for not less than $V50.00 \ \ iach, and the old warehouse building ia North Kingstree for not less than$200.00. Purchaser to pay for papers, n E C Burgess, Chas C Burgess, Pres. Sect'y & Trees. 3-5-2t Notice to Stockholders. J Ho tie* i? hereby given to the Stock- fj holder* of the Bl&keley-McCullough T Corporation that, pursuant to a reach- tion of its Board of Directors dated tha 5th day of February, 1914, said stockholders are ealled to meet at its office st Taft, S C, on March 9, 1914, to sonsider a resolution providing for an increase in the capital stock of said Blakeley-McCnllough Corporation to an amount not exceeding thirty .thousand dollars. J A McCullough, H E McCullough, Prest Secty. \ 3-12*4t " Registration notice. The office of the Supervisor of Registration "will be open on the 1st Monday in eaeb month for the purpose-.of registering any person who is qoaifc fled as follows: J Who shall have been a resident of the State for two years, and of the He county one Tear, and of the polling pre-^^H cinct in which the elector offers Tote four months before the day ofW| election, and shall hare ^paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both rati' aB and write any section of the constita- w tion of 1896 submitted to him by th? 1 Supervisors of Begistration, or who can show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectible on duriar^ha present year, pioperty in this State assessed at three hundred dollars or ^ more. H A Meyes, 4 Clerk of Board. gjM The price of subscription for Ths^BSj Record is $1 25 a year; we allow cents discount when a whole year HjH paid in advance. If you are months or a year behind don't exSpB pect a receipt for a whole year foiflH ? - a one dollar. 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