J """ I Professional Cards. | Dr. R. C. McCABE Dental Surgeon, Office in Hirsch building, over KingsDrug Co's. 8-28-tf Dr. R. J. McCABE DENTIST, yKMGSTREE, * S. C jMttRce in McCabe Building, next to ^^^ourt House. |M.D. NESMITH, I DENTIST, I T olro r??v S. r. V VETERINARIANS. I One of us will be at Kingstree the ' first Monday in each month, at HelL ler's Stables. / 9-28-tf * KINGSTREE j Ledge, No. 46 f A. F.M. , meets Thursday before full moon each month. Visiting brethren are cordially inyited. R W Fulton, W M. | J M ross. Sec. 2-27-ly Kingstree Chapter, f No. 23, Order Eastern Star Meets .every Thursday night after full - napon and two weeks later. wrcm lL Mrs k e Clarkson, W M. i Secty. 1-28-tf wH^iAngstree Lodge, | jf|f Knights of Pythias Regular conventions every second and ' fourth Wednesday nights. Visiting brethren always welcome. Castle Hall, . 3rd story Gourdin Building. 1-14 lvr B E Clarkson, C C. \ EC Epps, k of R & S. INUUl J - 1 PH Stoll, JM^Bbown. Cierk. Con. Com Look^j| jL^gmething New | Kingstree I I Tl.J. Pendergrass I I his just opened up a new | I 5c and lOc I I DEPARTMENT STORE I Don't fail to call and see th^rri when you come to to^n. We have the greatest values at 5c and 10c that ever struck Kingstree. NET CASH \ our ^nly terms in this del^ndergrass Bros. Co. ?*? q r I JMfil^sircCj K/t w* I 'Phone 14. I Whenever You Need a Qeneral Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE gwH IRON. .It acts on the Liver, Drives oat Miliaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds ap the Whole System. 50 cents. BIESTER SPILLS THE DIAMOND BRAND. A Lad leaf Ask yairDrnulit for A\ Ohl-rhes-fer S IMumond Bfiitd/A\ Fills In Red snd Gold n.-tallic\V/ boxes, teale1 with Blue Ribbon. \/ Take no ether. Boy of your * llrwM. Ask for CIII^IIkK-TER S DIAMOND BRAND FILLS, for *5 rears known ax Best. Safest. Aiwavs ReliiMs )ID BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE ^ mi?v viy j ? ; VV. L. TAYLOR j DENTIST, I Office over Dr W V Brockingtoa' s Store, I KINGSTREC, - S. C. 5-21-tf. I 1866 ? 1814 [A. M. SNIDER, Bourgeon dentist. Over Gamble & Jacobs' Drug Store. j7 dcS. Gilland Atforncy-at-Law Second Floor Masonic Temple Florence, S. C Benj. McINNES. M. R. C. V. S. B. Kater McINNES, M. D.2 V. M. D IF NOT, WHY NOT? 41 W MOULDINGS ^ AND MILLWORK Epps' Market All meats bought and sold for cash. Don't ask for credit. Epps' MarKet flD, Mill VVUl^MlUVU V*4 w* v... Kingslree Instruct,Real Estate & Loan Co, ?. H. WELCH. Manager. CYPRESS ^ SASH \ DOORS BUNDS I %% * ^ te Livery, Feed and j| Lake City, |ST~Ma Grej WHITE i am CLEAR SA1 is n< Going The Record J is equipped to print yoi Automobile, Buggy, W Repair V If your Buggy needs Painti Dash, Top, Shafts, Wheels, Axl to F. A. STALL, JR. If you have an Automobile Top, Curtains or old top recovei you an Automobile that you v Rajer? If so, bring it here. k 1 If your Wagons, Plows or a ery needs repairing bring tnem : . F. A. STA Kingstree, r\ < * ' L? i.i i I ?AlQ%KQXXQ?QiQ?Q2Z2^^ THE WAR I BU1 1 J. L STl 1 HAS B I Horses an I For Sale or E I I. L. STl A I HER MANY CONQUESTS ! I O l By CLARA MORTON. I A* The little stenographer stood at the door, looking dubiously at the descending elevator. Then, with a deep sigh and a solemn expression, she turned and pushed open the little gate. "Ah?am I just?awfully attractive? when you dcn't know me very well?" she inquired seriously of the bookkeeper, her brow wrinkled in perplexity. "I tell you?it's that plaid skirt!" he exclaimed, turning wondering eyes upon the broad bars and stripes. ."It's a perfect magnet for eyes. But who's been troubling you?" He frowned with with an effect of extreme ferocity. "No, It's not that. They can admire my skirt all they want, if they'd only be still about it I But it's lots different from that!" She sank dis many into ner cnair ana rocsea dsck and forth, deriving comfort from the squeaks It emitted. "I've tried to be nice," she said remlniscently. "But I didn't try to be especially nice, I know I didn't. I don't believe I was more than Just natural! Do I have to turn into a perfeet sphinx?or Into a prim old maid, to be comfortable?" "You've got me," admitted the bookkeeper. "Now, If you'll just give me, say, three clues?or maybe a good hint, I'll see If I can guess, that Is, if it's a riddle." He waited invitingly. "Honestly?I'm serious!" insisted the little stenographer. "I may have to quit if it gets worse, though I don't know how it could!" She seemed very woebegone. "What's really up?" asked the bookkeeper sympathetically. "Is It wrong to smile?at towel boys and elevator men and window cleaners and janitors and painters and ?and even messenger boys!" The question ended in an impetuous exclamation. "Not if you like to," declared the bookkeeper, judiciously. "Well, the towel boy, one day he asked me what my first name was. And was hurt "because I wouldn't tell! And the nicest of all, the messenger boy, the one that I always wanted to call, and the one that I thought was about fourteen, he took hold of my hand with the message the other day and wouldn't let go. Oh, it was dreadful?though I'd never said anything to him but good morning or some such thing! "And?and," the little stenographer flushed, "the janitor winked at me yesterday when I smiled at him!" "Wait till I see him?" said thej bookkeeper. "But that's not all," she broke in. j "for when the men were painting here. ?I'd seen them around the hall for years, and never thought anything of smiling in a friendly way at them, just j J|pCiz5jt | <> ? "Asked Me to Go to a Show." to show that I wasn't a snob?one of them said of me: 'That's my girl.' i And they both laughed. Oh, it was j awful! 3ne of them kept coming back ' into the office for brushes, and every j time he'd say that it was just cnco' mire to see me! I kept still about | It, for I was ashamed! "But the watchman stepped ine in , the halijjthis morning and .asked where j t liwcJ/Beeause he wished I lived imar j hidRiouse. for he had a fine phono- j graph! "While I was all wilted through and j through I get in the elevator, and it I was empty. I unconsciously smiled at the man and agreed that it was nice iveather, and he said yes, fine for the show. And then and there he asked me to go to a show with him! I didn't know what to say! I don't like to tiurt him. He seemed a nice sort of good natured boy?but, oh?" she paused. "Well, It's not so bad." comforted :he bookkeeper. "Oh, but?" she blushed. "Jack happened to be waiting downstairs when the man called after me to think It over and try to go!" The bookkeeper whistled softly. 'Oh, I see!" he said, with understandng.?Chicago Daily News. His Opinion. Bill?Western Australia produces nore gold than any American state, sends more pearls to Europe than any >ther country except Ceylon, and is | i&id to have the richest beit of hard vood titnoer in the world. .Til!?Well, what use is it if it u-cr,'t t h'"-fb'1!! "a:n? . i agon and General fork. ug, New Curtains, a new les or any repairs take it that need Painting, a new i red, bring it to me. Have vould like changed into a ny of your Farm Machin- I lllj jr., i South Carolina I BONUS r I JCKEYI OTH 1 d Mules I Exchange. 1 JCREYl Sale Stable gj South Carolina |j DW j On! I I, ob Office ur 1915 stationery r , '. ' \ ' " ircus' . J ii D \ ' "> GOODS d ANCE LE i j BEAUTIFUL MAID MARY j *i J By HARMONY WELLER. J Mary Perkins did not answer the advertisement for a maid out of a spirit ot adventure. On the contrary, she was in absolute need of employment in order to make both ends of her financial life meet. The embroidery she did was not remunerative enough to pay expenses and Mary had no further business training. The young author who had advertised had pondered long and deeply before putting forth his need in the newspapers, yet there was no alternative. He must have some one to look after his home and he was old-fashioned enough to feel that a woman and not a man should do it When he answered Mary Perkins' ring at the door bell Everly hoped It would be an applicant waiting there. The girl standing outside was slight. Her hair was neatly brushed back and her eyes looked curiously large through the thick-lensed glasses she wore. Her skin was of a dull, almost Indian hue. "I have come In answer to your advertisement for a maid," she said, and Everly opened the door. His writing den was nearest to the entrance, and thither he led Mary Perkins. "All that is essential for me is," he said to her, "that you can keep house intelligently?and quietly." He looked at the girl in so helpless a way that Mary was tempted to laugh. "If you could manage in half a day I would much prefer your being here only from ten o'clock until after my dinner in the middle of the day." "That will suit me," Mary replied. And from the very beginning Mary took complete possession of Everly's establishment. So excellent was Mary's cooking that Everly ventured to suggest one of the dreams of his author's mind. Always, since the beginning of his literary career he had wanted to have ? editors and publishers dining at hh own table. "That Is," thought Everly, "It is easy If Mary will stay and serve dinner." He went forthwith to the door and called her. When she stood bcsida him, Everly found his eyes opening a trifle wider than was usual with them. Mary seemed so different, so altogether different from the girl she had be It took him a moment or so u that the thick-lensed glasses had been discarded; that the skin was curiously fair and the hair wonderfully riotous. "You called me, sir?" Mary suggested. "I called the old Mary. What have you done to yourself?" "I grew tired of looking so plain," she admitted. "When I applied for the position I was very much in need and I felt certain you would not engage me as a maid if?" she broke oft with downcast eyes. "I most certainly would not!" said Everly with conviction. He sighed a second later and Mary asserted her rights as a successful domestic. "My fingers have not lost their cunnine* TrWh th#? cnlinarv art iust because I am less homely than you thought me. I can serve as good a meal and keep your house as clean as I ever did." "I am perfectly well aware of all these facts," Everly admitted, "but that does cot alter the fact that you are far too lovely, too altogether beautiful to?" he broke off and smiled at the humor of the situation. "Too beautiful to what?" asked Mary. "Well?the fact is," admitted Everly, "that it has been the dream of my life to have a home to which I can invite my friends. I wanted, next Saturday night, to give a small dinner party to six men, that is?providing vnu would have been willing to ar range everything for me." "And why may I not? I can stay all day Saturday and I will plan and servo, a dinner that will make the editors accept every story you send them." "And have them all vying with each other for your attention when they see you?no, thanks." Because Everly was completely mystified as to his own sudden emotions and quite unable to cope with the situation he turned to his typewriter. That movement had always been Mary's cue to exit. It was scarcely five minutes before he heard her soft knock on his study dcor. When she came in ho laughed aloud, partly from relief and partly because of his new emotion. Mary's skin was dark; her heavy u'ora in nlaee and her hair 5 1CIOOC.0 HVI V AAA was severely drawn back. "How many covers shall I arrange for?for the dinner party, sir?" she Questioned. Everly jumped to his feet, took th? glasses from her eyes, dragged tho pinioned tendrils of soft gold hair from their captivity and laughed whimsically down into Mary's flushed face. "I have thought of the only possible way to keep you," he said breathlessly, for things had happened rather suddenly, "you understand?do you not, dear?" A moment later Mary looked up. "But the dinner?I want to serve Miat." "I have told you the one condition under which you can preside," Everly said firmly; "either you are here as my wife or not at all. I would have to get a strange girl if you?" "Tf I let you?which I will not," Mary wliispercd softly. 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