The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 17, 1917, Image 6
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A Premature
Courtship
h Had to Be Done All Over
AoAin
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By LOUISE R CUMMINGS ,
"Tim," said Norman Fisk to his
friend, Timothy Fonnan, "1 wish
You would do me a favor. 1 must
be absent from home on business .
for a month. 1 don't like to leave '
an old woman and a little girl in the !
house alone, and I'd like you to at
least sleep there while I'm gone, j
though if you like you can eat there
as well."
Fisk was forty-live and Format! |
thirty-four. They were chums, Fisk ;
being a widower, Fonnan an "old j
bach." Fisk's household consisted, |
besides himself, of his aunt, an old
lady of siity-tive, and his daughter,
Blanche, still in school.
"Certainly, old man," replied
Forman. "I'll sleep there anyway.
it won t ue necessary lor me 10
spend my evenings there, will it?"
"Not at all. Blanche usually
studies her lessons'in the evening,
and my aunt goes to sleep over her
knitting."
"Your bouse is only a few blocks
from the club," said the other, dismayed
at the picture.
"Just so, and I'll see that you get
a latchkey. You can go in as late
as you like."
The first night Mr. Korman went
to his friend's house at 9 o'clock.
True enough, there was the old
lady dosing over her knitting and a
girl in short dresses sitting at a table
with a globe lamp on it studying
her lessons. The girl looked up
at Fonnan with an expression on
her face indicating more interest in
his coming to spend some time with
them than mere protection warranted.
Her glance told him that it
would not be entirely safe to treat
her absolutely as a schoolgirl. Her
aunt woke up and welcomed the
custodian, but the girl said never a
word.
The next few evenings Forman
spent at his club. Then one morning
leaving the house Blanche went
out at the same time with a pile of
school books under her arm. They
walked on together, but it didn't
occur to Forman to offer to carry
her books for her till she remarked
that they were very heavy. When
he left her at a corner and returned
them she gave him a look of gratitude.
The next evening Mr. Forman
came in rather early?10 o'clock?
being tired and sleepy. He found
the schoolgirl with a pack of cards
before her playing solitaire. With
a pout on her young lips and a knitting
of her smooth brows she said;
Oh, I can't work this out. Won't
you help me, Mr. Forman?"
Forman sat down opposite her.
From that moment 6he ceased to be
interested in the cards, except for
a pretext, prattling to him and endeavoring
to appear like a young
lady.
"How old would you take me for,
Mr. Forman?"
"Fourteen?perhaps a year older."
"Oh, dear, you are far out of the
way. I'll be seventeen next month."
"You don't mean it!"
Forman remembered a time when
he had considered a girl of eighteen
in her prime and one of twenty-two
passee. Then he thought how nice
it would seem to be back in those
Jrouthful days. How much he had
ost by coming to middle age! And
here was a girl who was plainly indicating
that she wished to be considered
a companionable person for
him. Wouldn't it be fine if he could
go back a dozen years and 6he could
go forward a few years, and he
could love her and she could love
him, and he could get rid of his
wretched club life and all that?
The next evening Forman, who
had received a letter from Fisk,
made a pretext of it to go to the
bouse to tell Blanche that he had
heard from her father. "Take good
care of my little girl" was the injunction,
and Forman made himself
believe that it was incumbent upon
him to afford her some amusement,
so he asked her aunt if he might
take Blanche to the theater. Permission
was given and 'tickets secured
for a Friday night, when the
girl would not be obliged to go to
school the next day and could therefore
sleeD late.
Blanche had been to a theater
but once or twice in her life, while
the drama was an old story with
him. But in his companion's enjoyment
he found a new sensation.
Forman, blase himself, sat regarding
his companion with infinite
satisfaction. When he felt her arm
against his own a thrill ran through
him. When she turned her face toward
his, looking for a companion-!
able appreciation of some noble sen-:
timent expressed by one of the ac- j
tors, he smiled good naturedlv and
sympathetically. Then when the
curtain fell he tock her where they
could get an ice, which to her was
more than a canvasback duck to one
who had been satiated. And that!
night Blanche went to 6lecp dreaming
that Forraan was the hero and i
she the heroine in the play that had 1
been enacted. As for Forinan, he
sank to slumber thinking about the
pretty young thing who had sat beside
him at the theater.
Fonnan passed the next evening
at his club. But somehow the evening
dragged. At billiards the face
of Blanche was always interposing
itself between him and the object
ball. At bridge he lost heeau-e he
couldn't keep !ii> mind on tin* game.
And so it was in whatever lie did.
One morning Forinan woke up
conscious of the fact that he was
drifting into an equivocal position.
His friend had asked him to look
out for his home and the two people
in it during his absence. What
had he been doing? Turning the
head of that friend's daughter, not
quite seventeen years old. In this
Forinan was wrong. It was not he
who was turning the girl's head, but
she who was turning his head. At
any rate, there was something very
delightful between them. How
would he meet iiis friend when he
returned ? Then suddenly be was
terrified at the thought that
Blanche would give the whole matter
away to her father.
And this is exactly what she did.
She didn't tell him her secret, but
when Forman went to the house
on the evening of Fisk's arrival to
get something lie had left there
Blanche received him so enthusiastically
that her father could not
help noticing it. Forman began to
stammer something that would help
the matter.
"It has been a pleasure to me,"
he said, "to afford your little girl"?
here Blanche gave him a reproachful
look?"some amusement during
your absence. Her aunt was good
enough to let me take her to the
theater, and I gave her a drive in
the park in my buggy."
"Didn't you enjoy it all, too, Mr.
Forman?" interrupted Blanche,
with another pronounced reproachful
look.
"Very much, very much!" replied
Forman, reddening.
4T dare say you've been very kind,
old man," said Fisk, and there was
something in the familiar appellation
of "old man" that for the first
time grated on Forman's feelings.
"I think I'll stroll over to the club
with you tonight for a game of
bridge."That
was the last meeting between
Forman and the little girl for
three years. She was then a young
lady.
"Blanche is home," said Fisk to
i - #_ ?j j art 1
nis iriena one aay. ^ume ruuuu
and 6ee us."
"I will with pleasure," replied
Forman, and he chose a time for
calling when he knew his friend
would not be at home.
When Forman called he saw a
vision of loveliness advancing to
greet him with pleasure in her eye
and a smile on her lips. It seemed
to him all at once that he had been
growing younger as the girl had
been growing older. Surely this
could not be the little girl whom he
had taken to the theater and to ;
whose prattle he had so often listened.
That experience now seem-1
ed to him like a dream.
The child had passed completely
into the woman. Nevertheless 6he
had not recovered from her girlish
fancy, and though she endeavored
to conceal the fact from Forman
she failed. He saw through the disguise
at once and his heart was fill-!
ed with a great joy.
There was a courtship, but a post
facto one. The real courtship had
occurred three years before.
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Auction Soiling In Japan.
Sealed bids are used in auctioning
property in Japan. There is no
TVip anptinrippr Annminrps 1
;
to the audience that he has such
and such a piece of property fori
sale and invites bids. Those who
wish to bid write their bids and
names on slips of paper. The paper
is folded and placed in a box. When
the auctioneer sees no more bids
coming he opens the box and sorts
out the bids. The highest bid takes
the property. It is like a bond 6ale
?no one knows what his neighbor
bids. If a bidder is anxious to get
the property he will not put in a
small offer. On the contrary, he
will very likely bid all the property
is worth. For this reason an owner
never puts up his property for
auction unless he wants to sell it.
Having a Hard Time.
"Here I've been running for
vears," said the hall clock, "and 1
liaven't moved an inch. I wouldn't
mind that so much, but every evening
about 8:30 the young lady of
the family turns me back because
6he says I'm too fast, and then in
the morning the old man comes
along and grumbles because I'm too
slow." ,
CHANCES OF LIFE. j
j
Figuraa That Indicate Your Probabla
Future In Yeara.
i
Do you over wonder how long j
you are going to live? Ask an j
actuary, the man who ligurea it all |
out for the life insurance companies j
and who can tell with almost super- ;
natural precision.
He'll tell you that if you are 20,
and in good health, chances arc 12
to 1 that you'll live beyond 30. For
longer life he'll offer these odds:
To be 40, to 1: to be 50, 3 to 1;
to be 60, 1 2-3 to 1. But he'll say '
that you have less than 1 chance in !
2y2 to be <0. less than 1 in 5*4 to
be 80 and onlv 1 chance in 100 to
be 90.
Suppose you are 30. Your chances i
run this way: To be 40, 11 to 1; to i
be 50, 4y2 to 1; to be 60, 2% to 1; j
to be 70, 4]/2 chances in 10; to be
80, 1 in 5*4; to be 90, 1 in 100.
Or 40 years old. Actuaries' odds
are: To be 50, 8 1-3 to 1; to be 60,
27/g to 1; to be 70, 5 chances out of
10; to be 80, 1 in 5% plus; to be
90, 1 in 100.
Fifty-year-old prospects are figured
: To be 60, 4~/g to 1; to be 70,
about 1^4 to 1; to be 80, only 1 in
5; to be 90, 1 in 100.
Say you are 60. It runs this way I
at that age: To be 70, 2 to 1; to be
oa 1 a . oo 1 ;n an
ou, l unaum in *x f iu uc ku, a ju vu. (
If you are 70 your chances of !
turning the 80 year milepost are 3 j
to 8; to bo 90. 1 in 50.
Eighty-year-old men and women ;
have only 1 chance in 17 to stave
off the funeral until after 90.
If you are 90 there's no hope for i
you. The actuaries have no figures.
Hor Kind of Economy.
Persons who had heard the man :
declare many times that unless he j
could find a truly economical worn-'
an he would never marry laughed j
cynically at the announcement of |
his engagement to a woman who ,
had figured in a thirty dollar hat I
episode.
"Surely," said his friends, "you j
don't consider a woman who buys i
thirty dollar hats truly economi- j
cal ?"
"I do," said the man. "Just recall
the circumstances. She was
found lying in u faint in a millinery
store anteroom with $200 in cash
and a bill for a thirty dollar hat in
her pooketbook. I claim that any
woman who will pay only $30 for a
hat when she has $200 in cold cash
in her pocketbook is economical to
the core, and I am going to marry
her."?New York Times.
Finest Food For Horeee.
It is stated that, no matter what
class of animal is brought to Jerez i
de la Frontera, Spain, in two gen- j
erations it acquires remarkable'
toughness and endurance. This is
attributed partly to the climate, but
principally to its feeding on a rich
wild clover called "zulla,M found ,
only In the province 01 uaaiz, wmcn
people there say is the finest food
in the world for horses. The zulla i
is very rich in sustenance and grows
to three or four feet in height and
with more luxuriance in chalky, j
clayey soil, such as is found here in !
the vineyards which produce the
famous Jerez wine or sherry. It is \
never sown or cultivated, as it i
seems to grow beet wild.?London j
Spectator.
The Torpedo Fieh.
The torpedo fish, known to scien- i
tists as the Torpedo electricus, are
the electric catfish of the Nile.
They can give an electric shock
similar to that of an electric Leyden
jar. This is useful to the fish
in stunning prey and in confounding
their enemies. This shock, like
any other electricity, may be conducted
through a metallic substance
and is often unpleasant, though
not dangerous. It is conveyed
through an iron spear or knife, so
that the person holding either of
these implements may receive a
shock when it comes in contact with
the fish.?St. Nicholas.
Killing One Fly.
Every fly begins as an egg deposited
in some kind of organic
filth. It hatches into a tiny maggot
within a few hours, begins to feed
1 M.Avirfk An/) !
ana grow, compieie? iui giunm
comes out as a perfect fly in possibly
ten days. It then requires at
least fourteen days to mature its
first batch of eggs, and it may live
to mature and deposit at least six
layings of from 120 to 150 eggs
each. This means that in killing
one fly we may be preventing the
hatching of nearly a thousand others.?St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Drinking Horn*.
Drinking horns were beloved of
the early Saxons, who always took
their mead in this manner. Many
of the old drinking horns were
fashioned from the horns of the
rhinoceros under the belief that "it
sweats at the approach of poison."
Ilencc, according to this superstition,
the drinker would be in a position
to tell at once whether an !
enemy had been tampering with his j
beverage.?London Globe.
BAD EYES MAKE BAD MEN.
Dofootiva Vision Is Oftsn a Causa of
Criminal Tsndsnciss.
Defective eyesight frequently is
the cause of c riminal tendencies or
moral delinquencies, according to
Judge William H. Wadhains, who
bases his belief upon a long period '
of observation as judire of the New '
York court of general sessions.
"Bad eyes make bad men," Judgs
Wadhams said in an address to the
Society of Medical Jurisprudence.
"The man who cannot see straight
cannot think straight and cannot
act correctly," continued the jurist,
as quoted in Case and Comment, a
legal publication.
"When the nervous functions become
disarranged the morals also
are affected. One of the first steps
the state should take in the correc
HULL U1 L11U Li 1LLILLICUD ID LA1C1U1 LA"
amination and treatment of their
eves. A very large percentage of
the men who appear before me for
sentence are suffering from defective
eyesight, and I attribute their
moral delinquencies largely to this
cause/'
The effect of ocular ailments upon
delinquency was considered by that
careful observer, Dr. William Healy,
director of the Psychopathic institute,
juvenile court, Chicago, who
states in his work, "The Juvenile
Delinquent
"In our estimation of causes of
delinquency it appeared that defective
vision could be regarded as
either a major or minor factor in
over 10 per cent of the cases. Vision,
to be sure, was not perfect in
many instances, but in these it was
hardly to be regarded as any cause
of the delinquency. There are several
sides to the resultant effects of
hnd pvoflifrht. far as delinouericv I
is concerned.
"Eye strain notoriously leads to
irritability, discontent, headache,
various feelings of bodily discomfort?all
of which may be contributory
to the individual's delinquency.
Now, eye strain, it should be remembered,
is not always to be measured
readily by what the individual
can see on a test chart.
"Defective vision may exist without
strain, and strain may result
from not readily discerned defects,
such as astigmatism."
Squ?lcH?d.
A Kansas City woman, says the
Kansas City Times, tells this story
of her husband:
One morning he glanced at the
dining room clock and said, "We
must be later than usual this morn
ing." "Don't place too much confidence
in that clock. It stopped at
5 o'clock, and I set it by guess," replied
the good wife. "Were you up
at 5 o'clock?" asked the husband.
"Of course not." "If you weren't
up at 5," replied the man, puzzled,
"how did you know when the clock
stopped?" "Why, dear, it stayed
stopped," was the reply. The man
did not say another word that morning.
Wanted Soma.
"Going far?" a^ked the talkative
one.
"To London," roared the traveler.
"I'm in the jewelry line; forty- j
^ - j rr?I
six ana marneu; uuinc, nuiauv
Brown; son, nineteen years old, in
the civil service; he gets 30 shillings
a week; father died last July;
mother is still living; one of my
nieces has red hair; our maid has
left, but we've got another one.
Anything else?"
The talkative one thought for *
moment.
"What oil do you use on your
tongue?" he inquired. ? .Fearson'8
Weekly.
Couldn't Koep It Quiet.
Being called to his feet unexpectedly
at the gathering and asked to
respond informally to the toast
"The Ladies," Mr. Gilfers hemmed
and hawed and began:
"My friends, all that I am, all
that i have in the world, I owe to a
woman?my wife."
Here he was interrupted by that
lady herself, who arose and said:
"I told you when you put the
property in my name you'd give it'
away the iirst time you opened your
mouth."
The Cooks at the Feast.
An Englishman and a Welshman
disputing in whose country was the
best living, the Welshman said,
"There is such noble housekeeping i
in Wales that I have known above 1
a dozen cooks employed at one wed
am# dinner.
"Ave," answered the Englishman,
"that was because every man toasted
his own cheese."?Argonaut.
Ordeal of Fir?.
Throughout the dark ages of Europe
an accused person had to carry
a piece of redhot iron some distance
in his hand or to walk nine feet
barefooted over plowshares at white
heat. The hand or foot was bound
up and inspected three days after*
ward. If the defendant had escaped
unhurt he was pronounced innocent;
if otiierwi.se, guilty.
? Why 1
/; Suffer? y.
y Airs. J. A. Cox, of Al- /* '
/ derson, W. Va., writes; A
yj "Aly dai^hter . . . suf- yl
A fered tert)ly. She could r\1 ,
y not turn in bed ... the yi
y doctors gave her up, and 'yl
^ we brought her home to ^1 '
m ym uic. one iiau buiicrcu &u m ym
WyM much at. .. time. Hav- K4
Wyk ing heard of Cardui, we l/l ,
Wj4 got it for her." f/l
CARDUI
Woman's Tonic
/ "In a few days, me be- /. i
/ gan to Improve," Mrs. /. i
/ Cox continues, "and had /
V no trouble at... Cardui /
y cured hef, and we sing /
y its praises everywhere. y
/a We receive many thou- y
/. sands of similar letters y
/ every year, telling of the /.
/ good Cardui has done for /
f/ women who suffer from /
y complaints so common to /
by their sex. It should do y
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Arrival of Passenger Trains at
Klngsfiree.
The Atlantic Coast line railroad ,
has promulgated the following schedule,
which became effective Monday
May 29, 1916:
North Bound.
No 80 - - - 7:25 a m '
*No 46 - - 11:83 a m
No 78 - - - 6:13 p ro
South Bound.
fNo 83 - - - 10:40 a m
No 79 - - - 11:03 am
No 47 - - - - 6:47 p m
No 89 - - - 9:22 p m
Daily excent Sundav
+Stops on signal for Charleston, Savannah
and Jacksonville passengers.
GLASSES!
If you need Glasses* come i
to me. Single and double
lenses fitted correctly at low- '
est prices. Broken lenses duplicated.
T. E. 8A66ETT, Jeweler J
Undressed Lumber1
always have on hand a lot of undressed
lumber (board and framing) at '
mv mill near Kinratree. for sale at the I
lowest price for ^>od material. See or
write me for further information, etc.
F. H. HODGE,
# WHAT IS ,
LAX-FOS
LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA
A Digestive Laxative
CATHARTIC AND UVER TONIC
Lax-Fos is not a Secret or Patent Medicine
bnt is composed of the following
sld-fashioned roots and herbs:
cascara bark
blue flag root
rhubarb root
1 BLACK ROOT
MAY APPLE ROOT
SENNA LEAVES
AND PEPSIN
In Lax - Fos the Cascaka is improved by
the addition of these digestive ingredients
making it better than ordinary Cascara.and
thus the combination acts not
only as a stimulating laxative and cathartic
but also as a digestive and liver tonic. '
Syrnp laxatives are weak, but Lax-Fos "
combines strength with palatable, aromatic
taste and does not gripe or disturb
the stomach. One bottle will prove
Lax-Fos is invaluable for Constipation,
Indigestion or Torpid Liver. Price 50c.
For Your Child's Cough.
Here's a pleasant cough syrup
that every child likes to hikes, Dr
Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey. If your
child has a deep hacking cough that
worries you give him Dr Bell's PineTar-Honev,
the soothing pine balsam
relieves the cough, loosens the
phlegm and heals the irritated tissues.
Oet a bottle today at your
druggist and start treatment at
once. 25c.
Visit Odom & Dennis' Cash Store, (
at People's Mercantile Co's old stand j
on Academy street. 1
| Professional Cards. |
MISS EULA HERRING,
KINGSTBEE, S. C.
Trained Nurse,
Prepared to answer emergency*^
calls night or day. 'Phone 115.
Dr. D. Zed Rowell
Dental Surgeon
Kelly Building; Fir?t Room in Front
Andrews, - South Carolina
DR. R. CLAUDE McCABE,
Dental Surgeon,
Office in Hirsch building, over Kingstree
Drug Co'8. 8-28-tf
DR. ROBERT! McCABE,
DENTIST.
JONGSTREE, , S. C
Office in Nexsen Boilding, 3 doors from
Poetoffice. Phone 78.
M. D. NESMITH,
DENTIST,
Lake City, S. C.
W. L. TAYLOR
DENTIST,
OIBc* la Nexaea Baildiag
KINGSTREE, - S. C.
5-21-tf.
1866 , 1916
A. M. SNIDER,
SURGEON DENTIST.
Office at Residence, Railroad Avenue.
J. DeS. Gilland
A AA ? A V
Anorney-ai'Law
Second Floor Masonic Temple
Florence, S. C.
General practicioner in all State and
Federal Courts.
BenJ. M-'NNES, M. R.C. V. S.
B. Kater MclNNES, M. D.. V. M. D
VETERINARIANS.
One of us will be at Kingstree the
first Monday in each month, at Heller's
Stables. 9-28-tf
~ kingstreT
Lodge, No. 46
/^r\ A. F.M.
meets Thursday before full moon each
month. Visiting brethren are cordially
inyited. S P Harper, W m.
J D Bbitton. Sec. 2-27-ly
CAMP NO- 27.
th? Tblrdl*ond?y
VVwC^H^/' W/J Vial ting chopper* roi
Vv^Bnyry llally fnvltea to oom?
ycfaSgSLUggyvy op and sit on a stump
or hang about on tbr ?
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Folks Who Know
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Had heavy headache. Vomited
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t>f Granger Liver Regulator made me
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Mother had sick headache. Grange.^
Liver Regulator did her more goou
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I never expect to be without it i"^
my home.?Jenie Usey, Gadsden, Alu.^
i It is a great saver of doctors' bills.
?Louis N. Kent, Honoraville, Ala.^
There is none better.?Dr. T.
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