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Misa Mayhew's Column By CALVIN HENDRICKS. Copyright, 1921. Western Newspaper Union. ' * Miss Alice Kem was the brightest newspaper woman on any of the met- 1 ropolitan dailies. Everybody admit- ' ted that, and besides, McLaughlin, who ' was on the copy desk, told her that 1 he had heard the city editor say so. l'frhaps he was prejudiced in her favor, but his words came to her spirit as balm and nectar at a period when life seemed like a black tunnel stretch^ lng away uatll Miss Mayhew came back. It was no', that Miss Kent had become distrustful of her powers, or blase. No, there was a deeper reason. Miss Agnes Mayhew, who gave advice to distracted lovers in two half-coluuiiis every afternoon, had been called home to Ohio on account. of her mother's Illness, and the worst of it was that she had Just got to the bottom of her basket. Those lovers who had, presumably, been waiting through many dreary days to And the answers which should solve their own peculiar and unparalleled problems, had all been answered. Miss Mayhew took her work seriously. That wus why Miss Kent felt disconsolate. She had been taken off her reporter's Job and set to answering the imbecilities of Cupid's victims. She let the letters accumulate, and by the third day she had quite a batch of them. The first that sne * took In hand ran as follows: "My Dear Miss Mavliew: "You have given so much good advice to others that perhaps you will help me. A young gentleman Is very fond of me. like I am of him." We love each other dearly. There Is only one vice he has. After he takes me to the theater he wants me to kiss him good-by after he takes me home. My friends tell me that I ought not ' to let him kiss me as we are not engaged. What ought I to do?" This time Miss Kent could not go ti.Vi.nn #AV A?\A nf Kar nM^DAoaQAr'Q XVI VliC VI "Vi P4VUWVOWV* M forms exactly covered this common ? situation. Miss Mayhew was adaman- * tine where propriety was concerned. ^ "No lady," she wrote, "will ever offer her lips to a man under any clr- * , cumstances. unless she U engaged to him. You must tell your friend firm- * ly but politely that you cannot permit such conduct." After she had put this letter aside . Miss Kent was quite thoughtful for ' a long time. The paper was crowded ^ that day and there was only room for f one more answer. It was as follows: "Dear miss Maynew: lima blonde and I have been going with a yonng gentleman for a = year. We lore each other dearly. He baa never asked me to marry him. 8 Would it be wrong for me to tell him I love him? I am nineteen and am " considered rather good-looking." Something of Miss Mayhew's g adamantine resolution nerved Miss Kent's right hand. | "No won n ever tella a man that she loves Mm until he has asked her ? to marry him." she wrote. "I wonder," she reflected, as she laid her nen aside, "whether Miss _ Mayhew was writing from experience * when she penned Form 4." c Her task was over at last and she rose np and went to the wardrobe for her hat. B "It Is good discipline to be sponsor r for all the love-struck Idiots In town," she reflected. f "I beg your pardon?" Inquired Mr. McLaughlin. He was passing out ? toward the corridor and had stopped t to watch her pinning her hat to her r hair. It was a nice hat and nice hair. c "I beg your pardon?" he repeated"Did you say something, Miss Kent?" "fk no T 1liut Rftll 1 rwi 111 *- i Ing." she answered. Riving her hat a t final pat to straighten It. McLaughlin paused Irresolutely. "You look quite fagged." he said "Say. Miss Kent, won't you?I mean , would you mind having dinner with me tonight, somewhere? And then maybe we can take In a show after ward?yes?" "I don't know that I ought to." Miss Kent answered, but her smile was distinctly affirmative. So they set out for a Scandinavian restaurant. The> sat down at a table which had been made for two exclusively, and there the lights and the music and the . merry conversation of the other diner* made Miss Kent forget all about Mis* Mayhew and her miserable eorre spondents. And then they fell to chatting and lingered over the meal so long *hat neither knew whether the ftsh rad been served or whether It was rhf ] salad they were waiting for. ( When at last McLaughlin left Mis* ? Kent at the door of her apartment h< < hesitated, and, as he looked back ] over his shoulder at her. fumbling j with the key which somehow would not fit the lock of the door, lie suddenly came back again and took her in his arms and kissed her. To her amazement, all she did was to put her arms round his neck and say: - ~ " ? -? T ?|| "U, KlCHHru, 1 iu>r ,?>>u >11111 U1> IIIheart." And then, grinning, out of its cor ner :i shadowy remembrance crep? into fully fledged life. "O. Richard!" she cried hysterically, "cant you d<> one thing for me? Ask Mr. R. r.p to take me off the agony column. I can't live up to Miss May? A Rival With a Past By CLAIRE SMITH. Copyright. 1921. Western Newspaper Union. I don't know which was the more inpopular in our tQwu, Anthony Barrett, the banker, or Charlie Meudows, 1 lis secretary. I think on the whole 1 iiat It was Charlie. Long Corners has always prided itself on being exclusive. But we areu't ludes. So when this fellow Barrett, if whom nothing was known, opened lis bank and took Charlie to be bis I xmfldentlal secretary, and they put >n the airs of millionaires, and wouldn't mix with the rest of us felows, it naturally set Long Corners igainst them. The first time I met Barrett was at :he house of Luella. Luellu and I had tl*Y&ys understood that we were to >e married when I could support her. [ couldn't keep her in much style on Ifteen a week, which was all that Bar ett allowed me as one of his bookkeepers. But I hadn't reckoued on Barrett butting into the game?a man f forty, with nothing known about his >ast, except that it was rejvorted he i lad'been a jailbird. Luella grew pretty cold to me when : taxed her about him. I thought for sure she would ten j 3arrett and he would fire me, but ap- 1 ?arently she had too much sense, and 1 hings went on In their usual way, v'one of us fellows in the hank had iny sort of respect for Barrett. I was eeling pretty bad when I happened 0 overhear a conversation between Barrett and Charlie. I heard Charlie strike him for a raise n salary. "You're getting $35 now, Mr. Mead>ws," said Barrett, in his cold, leartless way, "aqd that Is $10 more han you could get anywhere else." "Mr. Barrett," answered Charlie luietly, "I happen to know that you lave served a five years' sentence In j tate's prison for the misappropriation > >f bank funds." 1 had just time to hurry away be- ! ore Charlie came out. He had been llschareed. Barrett thought he could i luff Long Corners. But he couldn't luff me. I laid hold of Charlie. "I guess you are feeling pretty sore," said. "I happened to overhear what j Jarrett was saying to you. Are you ! :o!ng to make it public?" "You bet I am," he answered, and lis rage made him quite friendly. "I'd give a hundred dollars to know ust where to hit him first," said Charle. "I got the whole story from some f his private papers. Confound him! 'erhaps he'll try to buy me off. I felt ure I was good for that extra J15." "Ill tell you where to hit him first," said. "He's stolen my girl?Miss iUella Mason. Isn't that enough? I'm olng right round to tell her." \ "Wait till tomorrow." he urged. "He aay think better of it and offer me a housand to keep quiet If he does ni ,lve you ten per cent" 1 I couldn't neglect my duties, and I pas supposed not to know what had appened. I didn't mean to lose my osltlon; I was not going to Luella out 'i nrrcugc, uui no n mcuu. i I was at her house at eight o'clock, >nd by good luck she was alone. When be Raw me she looked unpleasant; he scoundrel had completely ousted ae In her esteem. "Well, Mr. Coolldge?" she began. "Well, Miss Mason," I retorted ocklngly "That friend of yours, Barett. Is a thief and a scoundrel." "Rather hard words to say about a rlend of mine," she said. She refused to hear me, but I was letermlned that she should. So I told ler everything that Charlie had told ne that morning. "When did this Interesting episode ccur?" she asked, when I had ended. "In 1917," I answered. "Four years ago. But I thought you aid he had served a five-year senence." "Well, I suppose they let him out >arly for good behavior," I answered, [hen Barrett walked Into the room. Luella turned from me to him. 'This gentleman," she said, meaning ne, "has been so kind as to tell me hat old story about the County and National, Anthony." Isn't It a dlsgustng name?Anthony! "You seem to have a host of friends, hiella," he answered. "This Is the enth, isn't it?" "The twelfth." she answered, and hen she turned to me. "You are very ilow. Mr. Coolidge. Mr. Barrett told ne all about that weeks ago, and so lave many of his well-wishers. Only rou left out the fact that he was j?arloned before the first six months were >ut because the real th.'ef confessed. 3ood evening, Mr. Coolidge." Well, I walked out. I wouldn't demean myself by arguing with that sort if man. And I'm still In his bank, rhat Is his confounded hypocritical running; he won't discharge me and Sa lrnn'f rnlRA mv cnlnrv Anrl I.nAlle md he were married yesterday. Front Page Celebrities. "Son. there are no short cuts to fame." ' "But. dad. people do things In a few minutes and get their names In' all the newspapers." "Yes, and^^^^^^^^ptf^Vnd prison fares^^^^^^^P^hey have to sen<WBW^^PB^meals." A Business Revival. "Many more girls are going back Into service." says nn evening paper. Croobe~ manufacturers are looking ovward to better times.?Passing ine nousenoid cares or years wearing away from her. All the same he did this with a suppression of sad- I ness she never penetrated. It was with an aching heart, and that heart i beating next to a certain letter he had ! received and kept secret from her, i that the old man smiled at her simple Joyousness. f "Just think of It. John." she said, j "only two weeks more and we start j for the boy's farm! Did I show you ! the?photograph he sent me of the dear j place, with hlfaself and his wife, j Laura, and the two little tots on the ' pretty porch? Isn't It delightful to think of you and me passing our last I days among such lovely surroundings, | after Just vegetating In this ram- j hartlv nlH rnln runHv tn fnll tn pieces after a century's use?" It was Indeed a veritable ruin. It ' had answered the needs of two gen- 1 eratlons, however. "Don't worry," Sarah Hayden had j smiled brightly. "It will last our time. | Only a few days and we will bid It goodby; we are going to make our home with the dear boy. David, out west." The small patch of ground around the house had no value whatever, even for average garden purposes. As to the house, a millwright had offered $90. Intending to tear It down and use the old lumber to build sheds on his own place. It was this that the Haydens had depended on to pay their way to "the boy's farm" out west. "It will kill her when she knows the truth," groaned John Hayden as he moved away on his crutches from the house. men me oiu man suugui a seciuueu spot near the river and for the hundredth time took out the secret letter and pored, over Its contents. David Hayden had met with dire misfortune. The year before a scamp of a traveling swindler had Induced him to specialize on a new grain. The crop was a total failure. "Worst of all," wrote David, "I had borrowed $300 to try the experiment, and I gave the little farm as security. H?ey have foreclosed, for $300 Is a lot of money out here. Unless I pay that and a penalty of $80 Inside of a month By farm will be taken away from me ?the dear little place Laura and I here worked so many years to secure." No wonder, therefore, with this dreed secret on his, mind, that John Hayden took Mttle interest In the gay, careless, gifted group of men and worn m?actors and actresses tney caueo themselves?who. dally posed and. maneuvered before the camera to supply city dime shows with attractive motion picture films. Mrs. Hayden did some extra cooking for them. The man In charge of the movies, one Rupert Dale, appreciated all these little courtesies. Twice when he needed an old couple In the scenarios he paid husband and wife a substantial sum. Mrs. Hayden was as pleased as a child. MI am going to tell her?I must tell her," John Hayden said one day, after a long spell of deep thought In his favorite solitude by the river slde.v . Yes, the blow could not be averted lstnarAr CT(? nrlf? milSt IrnOW th? tmth. About to take up his crutches and proceed on his cheerless mission John Hayden paused. Some one had halted . Just beyond them, engaged In conversation. He recognized the tones of one of the speakers as that of the rollicking, good-natured leader of the movies, Rupert Dale: "Yes," he was saying, "we're ready to report In now, almost. There's two more scenarios and then we're through." "How about the finish up of that big feature film?" "We've got to burn up a house to act that out." "Well, why don't you find one to burn?" demanded Dale's companion. . "I haven't run across an empty house In our travels just suited to our purpose," replied Dale. "Why, the Ideal old barracks to work In the fire and the explosion Is that old ruin I noticed right beyond here. Do you know who lives there?7 "An old couple named Hayden. "Offer to purchase It." "How much?" "Oh?aay $500," was the careless reply of a" man who made money so fast that the amount was a mere Incidental trifle. Til take It, oh. 111 take It!" cried a quavering voice, and John Hayden staggered Into view and from very joy and gratitude fell a senseless heap at the feet of the two astonished mojtlon mcture men. iMgraphlc, sensational style the old hone went up In smoke the next day. JjFlowlng a secret telegram John HayJ? 4 a honntr nM pniinlp uen seiu tu mo ouu, ? took the train for that little farm out west. Sarah Hayden was never to know how narrowly the Joy of living had escaped the bleakness of despair And all the way of that rapt train Journey, the heart of the happy old man wf-.s- singing a glad strain of gratitude and perfect happiness and oeace. How the Movies Saved a Farm By DOROTHY WHITCOMB. Copyright, 1921. Western Newspaper Union When the movies came to B^oceoaie airs. Hayden took a great Inter- ( est In their doings. She and her crip-" pled husband lived a mile from town along the river. It was there that nit* iiiuuuii |uciure men asNeinuieu. John Hayden had not seen her so pry and animated for years. He was glad to note her Interest In trifles and , A KINGSTREE INTERVIEW MR. EPPS TELLS HIS EXPERI- 1 ENCE. The following brief account of an ir;terview with a Kingstree man four j years ago, and its sequel, will be read with keen interest by every citi-, zen. D. J. Epps, 515 Liveoak Ave., says: "A few years ag:> I had a terrible backache and when I stooped there were shooting pains through my i back. I was always tired and languid. 1 My kidneys didn't act right and I | had to get up at night to pass the j j secretions. At times they passed too : i fieely and again were very scanty, j "Doan's Kidney pills were recom- j mended and after I had usea them ( I was entirely cured." (Statement 1 given January 21, 1918.) 1 On February 23, 1922 Mr. Epps said: "It has been a number of years j since I have had trouble with my i back and kidneys and I credit Doan's < Kidney pills for my cure." 60c, at j d! dealers. Foster-Milbura Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. NOTICE. The County Board of Commissioners of Williamsburg County will receive bids at their office in Kings tree S. C.. on Tuesday, September 6tn, and on the first Tuesday in each month thereafter, for groceries in bulk lots for the chaingang for one month at a time. S. J. SINGLETARY, County Supervisor Williamsburg Co. 8-18-21-tf. j NOTICE All claims against the county to receive attention of the County Board of Commissioners must be filed in the 1 office, properly verified and itemized, t not later than Saturday before the reg- s alar meeting on the first Tuesday in I each month. I S. J. SINGLETARY, I County Supervisor Williamsburg Co. I 8-18-21-tf. I 666 cures Chills and Fever. 1 ============ 1 DR. FRANK 0. LENTZ c DENTIST Office Over Baggett's Jewelry Store, j Main Street OFFICE HOURS: c 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. and 2 to 5 p. m., c 1 1 IMIMIIHH HMMMI HIM j I AnfA T ivarv I ? ;; iiUiV jui t vi j NEW FORD ; I J | Prompt and Safe Service. I J 5 Reasonable Rates j j J PHONE 132 jjt C. J. Thompson!! ( ( llllMllltlHIMIMIIIMt j mi YARD I i i; Phone 125 or 66 i j' i | Stove Wood, Pine $4.50 j , i: Fire Wood, Oak - 5.00 j |. DELIVERED j: MO C " t f S A Wish "] have taken Cardui for rundown, worn-out condition, nervousness and sleeplessness, s and 1 was weak, too." says n I Mrs. SUvie Estes, of Jennings, II s Okia. "Cardui did me Just lots II e of good?so much that 1 gave it II ? to my daughter. She com- U a plained of a soreness in her sides II and back. She took three c bottles of H b CARDUI : Hie Woman's Tonic I t and her condition was much II o "We have Hved here, near II J Jennings, for 26 years, and now II t we have our own home in town. II p I have had to work pretty hard, II t e *KJc fmtntrv BRMfl't htfOt UtV 11 f I w ? _ 5 II aad it made it hard for us. II t II "I WISH I could tell weak II o II women of Cardui?the medicine II b II that helped give me the strength l| ? U to go on and do my work." IU g. 666 quickly relieves a coid. b Subscribe for the Record now. FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER KINGSTREE HARDWARE CO., Day Phone 35 Night Phone 126 NOTICE OF SALE. [NTHE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED -STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. [n the matter of Enterprise Mercantile Company, bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that under md by virtue-of an order of Honorable R. J. Kirk, referee in bankrupt:y, made in the above stated matter, ind dated the 24th day of October, [922, I will sell at public auction, yefore the court house door, at Kings-1 ;ree, South Carolina, to the highest )idder, for cash, on Mondey, Decem>er 4th, 1922, the same being saleslay, during the usual hours of sale, die following described parcels of eal property: Tract No. 1: All that certain piece, larcel or lot of land lying and beng in the County of Williamsburg, state of South Carolina containing >ne hundred (100) acres, bounded North by Central Railroad; East by andSw of Boyd and Mishoe; South by ands of Oliver, and West by lands if Gourdin, Gamble and Floyd. Tract No. 2: All that certain piece, larcel or lot of land in Williamsburg Dounty, South Carolina, measuring ind containing 300 acres, more or ess, and bounded on t)ie North and East by lands of Greelyville Land [mprovement Company, on- the South iy lands of Oliver, and on the West nr fho "fiinorlofnn Irflct " The first mentioned tract is unen:umbered, and the second mentioned vill be sold free of liens. . A. H. W. BUGGEL, Ll-9-4tc. Trustee. TAX NOTICE.. The tax books will be open for colection of taxes for the year 1922 on he 15th day of November. Tax levy is follows: ror State 7% mills ''or Constitutional School-?3 mills "or Roads 7 mills 'or County : 4 mills ror Santee Bonds 1 mill For Federal Aid Proj. No. 80,2% mills rotal ?25 mills School Districts having 2 mills speial school tax are No. 33. School Districts having 4 mills ?peial school tax are Nos. 2, 7, 9, 10, 8, 21, 30. 31, 38, 45. 51. School Districts having 6 mill? speial tax are 32 and 47. School Districts having 8 mills speial school tax are 4, 5, 6, 8, 11; 13, .4, 17, 20, 25, 29, 34, 35, 37, 39, 10. 43. 48. 49. 50. 63. 54. 65, 57, ?9, 60. 61.' School Districts having 10 mills ipecial school tax is No. 19. School Districts having 12 mills ipecial school taif are Nos. 22. 23, !7, 41. 42. and Andrews A-12. School Districts having 14 mills ipecial school tax are Nos. 16 and 24. School iDistricts having 19 mills ipecial scnool tax is No. 12. The following school districts have >onds as stated: *o. 5 i 7 mills 'Jo. 22 4 mills <o. 36 2 mills Jo. 42 4 mills Jo. 45 6 mills Jo. 48 6 mills Jo. 61 6 mids Jo. 52 4 mills Jo. 25 4 mills Jo. 11 4 mills Jo. 12 r ?11 mills Jo. 12-A 14 mills Jo. 55 1 7 mills Clarendon Bonds on Clarendon ownship, Nos. 14 and 53, 1% mills. Drainage tax is due and payable it the same time with other taxes. All parties between the ages of 21 ind 60 years, inclu-ive, are liable, uness exempted by law, to a poll tax if $1.00, also to a commutation tax ?f $2.00. Upon all impaid taxes after Decem?er 31 a penalty of 1% will be added or January, 1% for February and i% to the 15th day of March next, iter which the booksi will be closed aid executions issued upon all unpaid axes. A tax of $1,25 on dogs, (which inludes tag) due and collectable durng month of January and must be >aid not later than February 1. ,,TLTMitt fkaiV fovoc iUUBO WUU UCOU6 IV yvkf U1VI1 n>?vU hrough the mail may expidite matera Dy dropping the Treasurer a and asking for the amount of their axes, so as to avoid sending the rrong amount, also stating th$ townhip or townships (if property is wned in more than one) and if posible give school district where proprty is located. After paying taxes, xamine your receipts and see if all rour property is covered, if not, see bout it at once. By following the above suggestions omplications and additional cost may e avoided. R. B. SMITH, County Treasurer. 0-26-22-D3-15-23. REGISTRATION NOTICE The office of the Supervisor of Registration will be open on the 1st fonday in each month for the puro&e of registering any person who s qualified as follows: Who "hall have been a resident f the State for two years, and of he county one year, and of the toll: j precinct in which the elector ffers to vote four months before he day of elction, and shall have aid,' six months before, any poll m-m tlim dn? RTld TTAVsbl?. ftnH who an both read and write any section o him by the Supervisors of Repsration, or who can show that he wns, and has paid all taxes collect!le on during the present year, proprty in this State assessed at three undred dollars or r,">re. R E. CI. * RKSON, Clerk of Board. The County Record is mailed to ubscribers at $1.50 the year, invarialy payable in advance. 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