The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 01, 1915, Page SEVEN, Image 7

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?v.? ? J | Professional Cards. J Dr. R. C. McCABE Dental Surgeon, V Office in Hirsch building, oyer Kings tree Drug Co's. 8-28-tf I Dr. R. J. McCABE f { DENTIST. nmrocratJC ? Q f | ^Ml^l OD1 IVCLf r w. v V Office in McCabe Building, next t< Court House. | M.D. NESMITH, F DENTIST. I Lake aty, S. C W. L. TAYLOR DENTIST. OfficeorerDr W VBrocklngton'a Store, KINGSTREE, - 8. C. 5-21-tf. J1S66 1914 *A. M. SNIDER, SURGEON DENTIST. Om Gamble & Jacobs' Drug Store, J. DcS. Gilland Atforney-at-Law Second Floor Masonic Temple Florence, S. C Benj. McINNES, M. R.C. V. S. B. Kater McINNES, M. D.. V. M. D VETERINARIAN S. One of us will be at Kingstree the MTirst Monday in each month, at HelW ler's Stables. 9-28-tf f KINGSTREE I ^No> 46 I Meets Thursday before full moon each month. Visiting brethren are cordially ioyited. R K Wallace, W M. J M ROSS, Sec. 2-27-ly Kingstree Chapter, No. 33, Order Eastern Star Meets every Thursday night after full moon and two weeks later. Mrs b e Clarkson, w m. Mm stglla Cook, Sect'y. l-28-tf v Kingstree Lodge, No. 91 JR Knights of Pythias Regular conventions every second and fourth Wednesday nights. Visiting brethren always welcome. Castle Hall, trd story Gourdin Building. 1-14lyr BEClarkson, C^C. ^ S C Epps, KotR&S. @The Third Monday month. HSgfnSSTS oowi or hanf about on tb< P H Stoll, J M Brown, Clerk. C<m. Com ( Look! Listen! SsmsfbingNewi Kingstree T. J. Pendergrass has just opened up a new 5c and lOc DEPARTMENT STORE Don't fail to call and see them when you come to town. We have the greatest alues at 5c and 10c that ever struck Kingstree. NET CASH our only terms in this department I Pendergrass Bros. Co. Kingstree, - - S. C. 'Phone 14. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Yoar druggist will refund money if PAZC OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days " The first application gives Ease and Rest. 30c Russia's standing army isn't find ing it so easy to sit on the Ottoman CHICHESTER SPILLS WLcs. TIIE DIAMOND EBAND. A /TEA Lad Irs! Ask your Druggist for A ?ii Ohl-cheo-ter a Dlamoud Braad/fvS jyfl lBTOi Pills la Bed and Wold iwtallic\V/ V, boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. \/ ffil Skwa Take bo other. Buy of your " 1/ flr Druggist. Aik for CIIjUCirEK-T FK g I L J/ DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for gft VW M years known asBest.Safest.Always Reliablo SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE L?& SAFE SIDE? | : IF NOT, WHY NOT? 5 Whose fault is it? It is noi - ours. We offer you the necessarj requirements to place you on th< safe side, and would be more thai delighted to WRITE YOU A POLICE ? that will protect you from all loss - by fires at a very low rate. We represent the best and most re liable companies on earth. Klngstree Insurance,Real Estate &Loan Co W. I. WELCH, Manager. CYPRESS ^ SASH \ DOORS ^ BLINDS I * m. w MOULDINGS ^ AND MILLWORK i Epps' Market All meats bought and sold for cash. Don't ask for I credit. Eppt' MarKet Cr. Actdaay A Mill St*. U6HrNIN6R0DST h. l. whitlock, L?k? Cfttr* c.? Special Sales Agent f .. . Representing the largest man* ufaeturers of all kind* Im JfigsSKSfe. proved Copper and Galvanizec Section Rod*. (Endorsed bj SuHBjSj^x the Highest Scientific Au i tboritie* and Fire Insurant* Companie*). Pure Copper Win ' Cables, all sixes. Our Fall Cos yyfflft-r-ry ' Guarantee riven with each job 73ra *7.7,1 } I sell on close margin of profit dividing commission with mi customer*. *-7-fc WATTS'JEWELRY STORE KINGSTREE. S. C. I keep on hand everything to be found in an up-to-date jewelry house Repairing and engraving done with neatness and despatch. :: As a home dealer, guaranteeing quality and prices, I Solicit Your Patronage. Near flaw Railroad Station. THE BAILEY-LEBBY CQ /Dnifecci ' ROOF/NG CHARLESTON, S.C. Registration Notice. The office of the Supervisor of Reg istration will be open on the 1st Mon day in each month for the purpose o registering any person who is quali > fied as follows: Who shall have been a resident o the State for two years, and of thi * county one year, and of the polling pre 5 cinct in which the elector offers b . vote four months before the day o election, and shall have paid, si: * 11 * rnoncos Deiore, SUJ pun uaA uieu UU ? and payable, and who can both rea< and write any section of the constitn tion of 1895 submitted to him by th Supervisors of Registration, or wh can show that he owns, and has paii all taxes collectible on during th present year, pioperty in this Stat assessed at three hundred dollars o more. H A Meyer, r lerk of Board. Automobile, Buggy, Repair If your Buggy needs Pai Dash, Top, Shafts, Wheels,. to F. A. STALL, JR. If you have an Automobi Top, Curtains or old top recc t you an Automobile that yoi T Racer? If so, bring it here. 1 ?????????????? 1 If your Wagons. Plows o r J ery needs repairing bring the A. ST. Kimgstree, THE WAR 1 Bl 1 J. L ST 1 HAS 1 1 Horses ai i r^-4 Irui t jcuc ui J. L. ST Livery, Feed a Lake City, YOUR E H ^ I | is now here "a you whenever] ! for it. And you ! [ ed with it, for ! fortunate in se stylish and di I hats at very m< All styles are re for all ages. We will be deli you look them i i S. M< f , I Kingstree, - S I ! The Recor e o j e e r is equipped to print; Wagon and General Work. inting, New Curtains, a new A.xles or any repairs take it le that needs Painting, a new ivered, bring it to me. Have 1 would like changed into a r any of your Farm Machinim to ALL, JR., South Carolina sc# sc# ><# ><# w# ><#><# > IS ON US UCKEYl BOTH I id Mules I Exchange. 1 ucreyI nd Sale Stable jg South Carolina |j :aster ^ T nd| ready 'for jyoufarefready will be charmUTA ViQVA KAAH VV 11 CI V ^ curing a very irable line of )dest prices. _ presentedfand ighted to"have over early.1 "i .rwssm . ircus outh Carolina d Job Office your 1915 stationery | The Doctor's \ | Patient ! i t f E By H. M. EGBERT 8 (Copyright, 1515, by W. O. Chapman.) i When Aunt Sally, the black servant, admitted a tiny boy into Doctor , Carter's office, the old physician at first saw nobody. Then, looking down, he saw the dark hair and sunny eyes < of his own wayward boy, Harold, as he had been at six, and as he always j would be in his memory. For of Har old Carter at twenty he never eonaent* ed to think. "Hello! What's your name, sonny?" he asked. "Harold, please, grandfather!" "What!" cried the doctor, Jumping out of his chair. He had destined his son for his own profession, but folly had succeeded folly, and at last there had been a scene at the end of which the doctor ordered his son from his presence, never to enter it again. Harold had complied?twelve years ago. Perhaps if his wife had been living the old man's heart would have yielded in the end. Indeed, it had softened, and often and often he had deplored the loss of his onl> child. But his professional cares absorbed all his time and left him little for mourning. He was the best loved doctor in a southern city, and the most sought after. Now and again, at Intervals of years, he had had news of Harold. He knew that, after roaming in the West, he had returned to dwell in an obscure part of the same town. He had heard that he had a position with a manufacturing company and was atoning for the wildness of his early years. But the old man was too proud to seek him, and his son was a replica of the father. Now he looked down with an emotion which left him speechless at the little boy who claimed his name and, approaching, slipped his hand confld- ( lngly Into his. , "Well, who sent you here?" Doctor i Carter demanded. ] "Nobody. I corned," answered the ] little fellow, climbing upon the doe- i *1 Tried te Keep My Promise." ?T?m IOA T tlvBva wanted KM lOlCO. M VH UW| w " ?J ? a g'anfather," he continued, "and mother said everybody knowed where Doctor Carter lived, only she wouldn't , let me come till father was sick, and { then I?I runned away. And please come quick, because father's mighty sick," he ended, with quaint earnestness. Doctor Carter looked down at the little boy; then he removed him from his knee. "Come along, Harold," he said, putting on his hat and going into the garage, where his high-power automobile stood waiting in readiness by light and day. Doctor Carter never knew when he would be summoned. "What is the matter with your father?" he inquired, as he drove the aehine through the suburban streets. It was Ave in the afternoon, and he made a detour to avoid the shopping crowds. It was only afterward that it occurred to him that he took his main direction from the child by telepathy, though the boy guided him along the last street and up to the cottage door. "Is this your father's house?" asked the doctor. "Yes, g'anfather," answered the child. But it was not The young woman who hurried frantically along the street at that moment spied the boy and, snatching him from the automobile, held him to her breast and covered his face with kisses before she turned to thank the gentleman who had. as she supposed, brought him home "Mr, Carter and 1 have a room on the top floor," she said, looking at the doctor dubiously. The resemblance to some photograph that she had seen seemed to strike her i "I am Doctor Carter, madam," said the old man gravely. "And you are, I presume, my daughter-in-law." It was a beautiful face that looked into his. the eyes swam with tears and the roiee vu tremulous. "Oh, sir, 1 do hope jou don't think I sen^-seat Harold?" she began. "To see me? No, I haven't dared hope that," answered the doctor. 1 hare simply come to see a patient" Silently the girl opened the house ioor and the doctor ascended tht stairs until he came to the room tn which his son was lying, racked with fever and delirious, upon a bed. "He must be moved at once," said the doctor. "I am going to take him away to the hospital in my automobile." It was all he could nerve himself to do to utter the words, for a son, even though lost for years, is still a son? at least, to most of us. Wrapped in rugs the patient wan transferred to the automobile, which made its way at a slow pace into the suburban district where the doctor lived. The story that Mildred told was a painful one. For years her husband bad been working for the company;be had started at the bottom and waa lust getting a fair salary when he waa attacked by a mysterious disease^ After a month's absence he had lost his position; that was two montha ago, and the disease, which no doctor :ould diagnose, had made inroads upon his system until his life seemed about ended. "But this isn't the way to the hoa> pital!" she exclaimed, as the machine turned into a pretty lane and stopped before a comfortable-looking house. "It is my house?my private hospital," answered the doctor. And half an hour later Harold waa eomfortable in bed and feebly coeicious. He looked up and recognised the face of his father. Now, according to ill rules of literature, father and son 3ught to have fallen Into each other's irmi. But, oddly enough, the moment lis son recognized him the doctor felt the old pride tie his tongue and re? itrain the hands that were so anxious to enfold the young man's. "You told me never to let you see me again," said Harold weakly, "and [ tried to keep my promise." "You are here as a patient, Mr. Carter," answered the doctor. "You owe tne no gratitude; it Is my duty to heal prlth ail the means In my power." The young man averted his face. He, too, had pride. Nevertheless, In the days that followed the doctor found It difficult to Bonceal the love that came into his heart Mildred was just the little daughter-in-law that he had always pictured to himself. And little Harold, blissfully unconscious of anything hut loving kindness, was creeping into his heart daily more and more until it The doctor came up to him. "W?H*.v Carter, It was touch and go more thaa once?but he will live now," he said. "Live!" In an instant the old man had caught up little Harold upon his shoulder. And, as the child crooned Joyfully, and Mildred wept tears of happiness, he knew that he, too, was just beginning to live. Words and War. "You Americans are always talking about dollars and cents," said the vis* itoi from abroad. "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne; "we do talk a great deal about them. But we try to draw the line at fighting ' < over them." - - ii ?i? ??? i seemed impoBBioie iutit uc vuiuu c?? let him go. And, despite his years of practice, the doctor was unable to diagnose his son's disease until the famous physician for whom he had sent to New York came down and saw him. It was a very rare disease, hardly known in America, and, until recently. Incurable. There was a remedy now; It consisted in an extremely difficult operation. Only five cases were on record where the operation had been performed; three had died, two had recovered completely. Mildred, standing dry-eyed beside the famous physician, listened to hie explanation. Doctor Carter turned to her. "My dear," he said softly?he had never called her that before?"the decision rests with you." "Operate," said Mildred firmly. And an hour later the house waa filled with the fumes of the anesthetic. A hrlnw hlmiAlf i/ociur twivr tuuiu uui u>u?B ...... ? at the last moment to assist He had sent instead for an anesthetist from the city hospital. Little Harold, dimly conscious that some terrible issue was at stake, clang to his mother, whimpering, in the doctor's ojSce. Doctor Carter paced to and fro distractedly. An hour had passed since the operation began, and still the house was filled with those nauseating fumes. At last he entered the room softly. The operating physician looked at him and shook his head. Doctor Carter, very grave, very white, went slowly downstairs and shut himself in a little room. He knew what that look meant, he who had seen it so often in the hospitals. His son's chances of recovery were hopeless. In that moment the remnants of his pride fell from him like a tattered garment. He went out into the office again. "Mildred," he said, "if Harold lives Iwant him to come back to me. I want you all to be my children. I want my son to?to forgive." Nobody knew the effort it cost him to utter that last word. Mildred looked at him speechlessly, J*he understood the meaning of his words. Suddenly there was a fresh drift of ether fumes through the house as the door upstairs was opened. Carterr heard the operating doctor come down the stairs. With one arm supporttaff Mildred he braced himself to bear the. now? he feared.