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: Uncle Walk= DOMINANT WOMAN itnPHERE'S much truth In the old A saying that a bachelor is merely half a man," observed the professor. "I suppose you are trying to take a fall out of me because I don't get married," said the low-browed man. "It may be true that a bachelor Is only a half a man, but when he accumu Blates a wife, he's usually only a quarter of a man, or maybe oneeighth. The more I see of married men, the more thankful I am m that I hare never loomed up at the altar with an orange wreath on a r v my head. ^ "Old Doolittle has been married a _ h* long time, and he's got so used to belt lng bossed by his wife that be doesn't know what to do when she Isn't around. If jrou offered to lend him $5 hi he'd say he'd have to consult Eliza ri Jane about It. One time, when his ? wife was away, visiting, he ate about a peck of green cucumbers, and the colic shut him up like a folding bed. It was the worst case I ever saw. I g beard him yelling ror tne pouce, ana fc -v -when I njshed over there and saw him 7 on the floor, with his feet clasped } i across the back of his jjgck, I Dhoned for a doctor at once! We ?>ut him to bed, and the agony that man endured was sickening. And as he rolled, around there, expecting to go off Ute ;a books every minute, he kept saying, 7, 'What will Eliza Jane say when she hears I called in a doctor?* is "After his wife came back, I was 3j over at their hoose one night, and she ^ roasted me to a crisp for sending for a doctor. She said that If I had the first ja Instincts of a gentleman I'd pay the bill, for I wasn't authorized to call In sj f * sawbones, and she didn't want one In & the house. Doollttle sat there and beard his wife roasting me until my 8* whiskers curled and, although he knew the doctor saved bis life, he never said a word. 1 "After I left the house, he sneaked t , out and overtook me, and told me he ^ was sorry for what had happened, but experience had taught him that It's no use to butt In when his wife has the L floor. "Gooseworthy came over this mornt lug while I was feeding the cows, and tc ' ( told me a tale of woe. His wife has f about five hundred female relations, , aunts and stepsisters and cousins and such people, and she keeps the house n, fall of them all the time. He has to ]e i sleep on a sanitary couch In the hall, $] L -while his own feather bed is occupied & ty an aunt who weighs about 400 H pounds. He has a comfortable rocking 06 chair he bought for his own private ^ use, and now he never gets a whack ^ |p at it His wife's step-sister, who ai $| brought her tortoise-shell cat along, Is pi If always using It. He said he was get|| ting plumb disgusted with such a con- ^ W dltlon of affairs, but he didn't know *e what to do. ^ [ i 1 asked him ^?y he didn't read the ar k authorized version of the riot act to his to wife, and tell her to ship all those re*- m lcs out of the hoa9e. He seemed sc shocked at the suggestion. Ton don't ^ know what you're talking about,* he w said. 'You've never been married.' r The queer thing about it Is that Gooseworthy is a great stickler for his co rights when he's away from home. He's be } as sassy as a bobcat, and will fight at lithe drop of the hat If anybody tries to ~ Impose on him. He walks with his head back and his chest out in front of I him, but as soon as he reaches his own front gate he begins to look so blamed abject that the neighbors pity him. Then, there's old Major Sendoff, 4 who distinguished himself on many a crimson battlefield. He has courage enough for three regiments. But he ? married tbe Widow Bunkum a couple I * of years a go and she makes him do the family washing, and hang the clothes on the line, and I suppose be does the Ironing, too. I oenld tell yon of a hundred such cases?" "I suppose you could," sighed the J professor, "but I don't care for sense- j tlonal fiction." - ? Russia. | The Russian empire, prior to the world war, comprised 3.764,586 square miles. Cyclopedlsts divide this terrltoiy, one-sixth of the world, Into four parts. Russia In Europe (lnSHnlnnd). the Osu <CI UUlUg IViOMU , _ casus, Siberia. Russian Central Asia. Russia in Europe has an area o? 1,$11?S2 square miles. / French Presidents. Of the presidents of France, M. Polncare was only the fifth to stay the = ? full term. Thiers, the first field ofr flee for only tfiree years, as did Mac- ~~ Mafioo. Faure died at the end of his G fourth year, and Caslmier Perier resigned after one year. __________ in His Status. A "What do you know about the high ** cost ot living?" H "Nothing. I'm merely existing.^? S fontsvllUt C.onHer-Jonmal. I ?? - * A* c . ' . * -' %. , LUCKY STRIKE cigarette. Flavor is afieSkiDtytoasftg -;V^v. Digger and Filler. new trench-digging machine axlvitea in front of It and fills In band aa It proceeds along it* tracks. Look Into Thin If things don't come your way, perips Ifs because you are not tn the Kht place.?Boston Transcript TAX NOTICE. The tax books will be open for colction of taxes for the year 1920 on te 15th day of October. Tax levy as llows: For State 12 milU For Constitutional School 3 mills For Good Roads 2 mills For All County Purposes 11 mills For San tee Bonds 1 mill For Federal Aid Proj. No. 80_1 mill School Cjstricts having 4 mills specJ school tax are Nos.4, 10, 69 60, 35, 18, 57, 38, 51, 9, 45, 30, and 31. School Districts having 8 mills specJ school tax are 46, 48, 50, 34, 4, 5, S, 39, 41, 52, 6, 17, 19, 25, 29, 43, 49, I, 55, 56, 14, 28, 40, 8, 37, 61, 54, 11 id 13. School Districts having 6 mills specI school tax are 47 and 32. School Districts having 12 mills >ecial tax are 22, 58, 27, 15, 42, 12, 1, and Andrews No. A-12. Schools Districts having 14 mills >ecial tax are 16 and 24. The following school districts have >nds as stated: No. 22 4 mills No. 48 6 mills No. 58 6 mills No. 52 4 mills No. 25 4 mills No. 11 4 mills No. 15 8 mills No. 42 4 mills No. 12 6 mills Clarendon Bonds on Clarendon wnship, Nos. 14 and 53, Vk mm. A tax of 60 cents on dogs. Drainage tax is due and payable at te same time with other taxes. All parties between the ages of 21 id 60 years, inclusive, are liable, unss exempted by law, to a poll tax of 1.00, also to a commutation tax of LOO. Upon all unpaid taxes after Deimber 31 a penalty of 1% will i Ided for January, 1% for February id 5% to the 15th day of March next, iter which the books will be closed id executions issued upon all untid taxes. Those who desire to pay their taxes trough the mail may expedite matrs bv dromnne the Treasurer a card iking for tfie amount of their taxes, ' as to avoid sending the wrong nount, also stating the township or wnships (if property is owned in ore than one) and if possible give hool district where property is loited. After paying taxes, examine >ur receipts and see if all your propty is covered; if not, see about it at ice. By following the above suggestions mplications and additional cost mav i avoided. R. B. SMITH. 16-D3-15 'ounty Treasurer. CYPRESS t . SASH \ DOORS BLINDS * w _ y MOULDINGS i and MILLWORK GASOLINE SYSTEMS Oil ^mki and Pumps, Air Computlg Scales, Floor Scales, Show Cases, ccount Registers, Rebuilt Cash Betters, Safes, Store Fixtures. THE AMILTON SALES CO., Columbia, , C. 1-29-If \ k Uncle^yfc Siori/y&i THE SURPRISE PARTY 44/^LD Slnglefoot Is going to c v/ brate his golden wedding morrow," said the assessor; "we planning to give him a surprise pa and would like you to go along." "You couldn't drag me there wit . team of gov* ment mules," the meanest to ipSP$ you can play a i Jm K Is to spring a < prise party oo t I 0?? ? 1 Jorlty of surp njT^H parties are faJ Hie victim ?nJBB| advance that hi I going to bo i boshed upon a < tain data, and makes his preparations accordin Then when the visitors arrive at abode he pretends to be 1mmem astonished, and says he never dreai of soch a visitation; but the fact 1 he Is wearing his Sunday shirt, i has his hair parted in the mid gives the lie to all his protestatii "There is no serious objection t surprise party when the victim warned in advance, although, as I h shown, it encourages skullduggery i hypocrisy, for no man can be tl oughly honest who pretends ami ment over a visit he has been p' nlng forT' "But the genuine surprise p2sq an outrage, and people whs resort it should be severely punished. The nothing more humiliating to a i respecting man than to have a wi neighborhood blow into his dwell when he ffen't looking for 1 "Whsa^ 1 am at: heme I sacri everything to personal comfort take off my shoes itgd collar and ni and rr>ll irn mv '^dilrtsl0ev& i slip my suspenders down over arms. I don't care how I look tf I feeling at ease. If l am expect visitors. I go to my boudoir and myself up so I look like a brldegao My wife nas theories, similar to m and doesn't believe in being arra In porple and fine linen all the tl Bnt she wouldn't be seen look slonchy for anything. "Some months ago my wife casxu remarked to a neighbor that my bli day would occur on the follow Wednesday, and that neighbor, be a confirmed busybody, got busy i organised a surprise party. I ne received the faintest hint of scheduled catastrophe, and on evening of my birthday I was lying the floor of the sitting room, v about a hundred newspapers aroi me. My wife was wearing an wrapper, and was popping corn on kitchen stove. There was nobody < in the house, and we had no Idea v tors would come, for It was a I night. "About eight o'clock, Just whei was thinking of going to bed, tb was a knock at the front door, wife thought It was some boy on errand so she went to the door wit stovehook In one band, and the c popper in the other, and she gav< shriek of anguish when she saw mags meeting on the front porch. 1 mlnnt* door was ooen all th delegates poshed themselves In, si ing and giggling as though they w doing something mighty fnnny. "Our house hadn't been In such < order In twenty year}. It looked though a couple of amateur teams 1 been playing basketball In It wife and I began apologising and plaining, as people'will do under si conditions, although they know t nobody will believe What they s the guests assured us that it was light, but I could see them squint around and making mental notes future reference, and Inside of aw the story was all over town that bouse was a fright and no respecta cow could live in it "That was the most miserable ev lng I ever spent, my friends, an< have never forgiven the people v took part In that uprising. And ; may be sure I'll never treat anot man as I was treated." o Let your money work for you, bi more now than next summer D. & B. Ice Co. The County Record Is S1.5C year in advance The Nelson Warehouse is givi away tobacco seed. Get yours at C. Burgess' Store. Rub-My-Tism cures bruises, ci burns, sores, etc. The County Record is the o newspaper published in Williamsbt County. Ice book for sale at special pr Thone 179 D. & B. Ice Co. I Subscribe for The Record. 'Phone 179 for 10 or more lbs. of D. & B. Ice Co. j - 1 NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING TO DI80LVE ^ CORPORATION. Notice ie hereby given, that a meeting of the Stockholders of The Farmers Company, a corporation duly charX tered and created under the laws of A the State of South Carolina, will be H held on Monday the 7th day of March, H 1921, at twelve o'clock noon, in the fF office of The Farmers Company near IT] Central Church, in the County of Wilyy liamsburg, State of South Carolina, for the purpose of considering the liquidation and dissolution of the said The Farmers Company, the winding up of its affairs, and the surrender e,e" 01 its charter. to- Dated at Kingstree. S. C., this the are 1st day of February, 1921. rty, S. Y. TISDALE, President. R. W. TISDALE, General Manager, h 0 Secretary and Treasurer. ?[J 2-3-5t-L&S?rn IZ NOTICE OF APPLICATION 3 FOR FINAL DISCHARGE, out _____ rick ! Notice is hereby given that at 11 o'clock, a. m. on February 21st, 1921, I will apply to W. E. Snowden, Judge dm. of Probate for Williamsburg County, ma- at his office in Kingstree, S. C., for rise Letters Dismissory, discharging me teg. as Administratrix of the estate of x__ jonn S. *"uiton, aeceasea. SALLIE W. FULTON, ~ Administratratrix of the Estate of ? John S. Fulton, deceased KB* l-20-5t-lwg. car ha NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR tfy. FINAL DISCHARGE, his ; lely Notice is hereby given that on the Qe^ 26th day of February, A. D., 1920, I Ij-t will apply to W. E. Snowden, the Pro. bate Judge of Williamsburg County. T? for letters dismissory as the admin(Ue? istrator of the Estate of W. S. Dennis, >08. ceceased. L. S. DENNIS, o a Administrator of the Estate of W. S. Is Dennis. l-27-5tc aVB January 8th, 1921. and lofw To prevent a cold take 666. ue. ,rr- ? ^ AUDITORS NOTICE r 5 . From January 1st, to February 20, : to inclusive, the Auditors office will be re's opened for the purpose of taking tax elf- returns for the year 1921. Returns iota for pwonal property must be made, doe All changes of real estate noted. All - '" men between the ares of 21 and 60 TS year^ inclusive, are liable to poll and ft>ad tax and are required to return > I same. All dogs are liable to a tax of >ck?. $1.25 each, and must be returned and along with other property. Be sure my to give township and school district ,m in which you reside. In returning automobiles be sure to give name, "T* model, year made, style of car *.nd 111 passenger capacity. Farmers or o - others owning tractors must return Ine, same along with all other farming yed implements and machinery used on me, the farm. After February 20 a penally ty of fifty per cent will be added for non return. J. J. B. MONTGOMERY. Ulj i-6-7t-d2-18 Auditor, rth1ng ling I z Palmafesta the Palmetto State Festival on ;>? Colombia, Mar. 28 to Apr. 2 old the ?? ?lse lslbad To abort a cold a I and prevent cornea plications take orn id ^ 5 f.UL exhat ay; The purified and refined *n calomel tablets that are ,ne nausealess, safe and sure. for eek Medicinal virtues retainoup ed and improved. Sold lb,e only in sealed packages. Price 35c. en1 I cho fou ' hW ^Sr imni iys lodge. No. 46 _ /"*5r\A.F.M. I Meets the second Thursday night in each month. Visiting bretheren 7"" cordially invited. B. E. Clarkson, W. M., J. D. Britton, Secretary. E. its* BEr-H I B Bfl ? <^^\\nouMjmAn9 nJy "* tf H^T*imiT . bA e?M. Ym aah I?m m mm ice, Mwmjf ImA Cmmrmmtml Try ^^^ ?ltflt?arfi*TOBAY. Mc*7Sc. JIHV IwalilMdi to ? W. Y. Broddngton, M. D. Ice 666 breaks a cold quicker than any remedy we know. HIHIHHHIMOMMMIHMUHMMHMMHMIIIIIM . j] KNOX HATS | :: It has always been the policy of this house ! j ;; to look beyond the edge of the cash drawer. ;; j | It is fine to make money, but it is finer to j; :: make money and loyal friends at the same j | II time. ^ . . __.... 'II ;; We have always sought out manufactur- !! j! ers with the same business policies?that ;; :: is why Knox Hats are in our store. j j ! I You are invited to our store to look over j\ ;; the new styles for Spring 1921. ! I | McGILL BROTHERS il Store For Men j; ; Kingstree, South Carolina ; ihHinminiiiiiimiiMniiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiinir Our prices for job printing are reasonable. mnillllllHIl IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIQIIIIIIIHHHIIIMII % I P. S. COURTNEY II J FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMEB j; ;; I keep on hand a large assortment of A I ii Coffins,Caskets and Vaults if ;; of all kinds, and will gladly deliver them to i: j | any place in the county on short notice. \ \ ii 1 I! I can furnish all kinds of shrouds?Ladies', ?\ \; Gents', Boys' and Girls'. ;; | I also have a nice motor hearse. ; :: In connection with my funeral business, I \\ : represent three floral houses and can fur- \| 1 nish cut flowers and funeral designs ' ' am. nAn I UU iSUUll uuuuc. I; PHONE No. 91. . EINOSTBEE, S. C. ;; I The People's Market COLD STORAGE PLANT I n " Dealers in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal and * a - Sausages * Everything up-to-date in a first-class | market. * We are paying market price for Hides. . 1 1 H. A. MILLER, Prop. | Kingstree, South Carolina ?? i??* i* m 111111111 n 11111? n i ii ii 11 m m n n CHICKENS WANTED!;! Am I will pay 20c a pound for hens and ? > ! fWgSUrfgm; 15c e pound for young roosters, cash. \ Will buy any quantity. I The People's Market:: i " * C0LD STORAGE PLANT, i | ! ~ ' H. A. Miller, Prop. Kingstree, S. C. J J hi 11111 hi 11111111111111 h u ii m?hi i ii ii mi nun The Record carries the largest line of printing papers ever carried in Kingstree. 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