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JLUWi WITH PHOTOGRAF com?, 14 SYNOPSES. Jackson Jones, nicknamed "Broadway" because of his continual glorification of New York's great thoroughfare, is anx ious to get away from hii home town of Jonesville. Abner Jones, his uncle, is very angry because Broadway refuses to settle down and te#te a place In the gum factory in which he succeeded to his father's Interest. Judge Spotswood in / forms Broadway that $250,000 left him by his father is at his disposal. Broadway makes record time In heading for his favorite street in New York. With his New York friend. Robert Wallace, Broad way creates a sensation by his extrava gance on the White Way. Four years pass and Broadway suddenly discovers that he is not only broke, but heavily In debt. He quietly seeks work without suc cess. Broadway becomes engaged to Mrs. Gerard, an ancient widow, wealthy and very giddy. Wallace learns that Broad way is broke an(? offers him 'a position with his father's advertising firm, but It Js declined. Wallace takes charge of Broadway's affairs. Broadway receives a telegram announcing the death of his Uncle Abner in Europe. Broadway is his sole heir. Peter Pembroke of the Con solidated Chewing Gum company offers Broadway $1,200,000 for his gum plant and ? " - - - - 11 HTnllono tnLroc . Broaaway agrees 10 ??a.^w ? the affair In hand and insists that Broad way hold off for a bigger price and rushes him to Jonesville to consult Judge Spgts wood. Broadway finds his boyhood play mate. Josie Richards, in charge of the plant .and falls in love with her. Wallace Is smitten with Judge Spotswood's daugh ter, Clara. Josie points out to Broadway that by selling the plant to the trust he will ruin the town built by his ancestors and throw 700 employes out of work. Broadway decides that he will not sell. Broadway visits thft. plant and Josie ex plains the business details to him. He de cides to take hold of the work at once. CHAPTER XI.?Continued. "Great Scott!" he said, aglow with genial satisfaction. "Talk about ex citement! The whole plant is in an uproar." "What is it. tho owner af the plant inquired. "Why, didn't you send a message out there by Higgins?" , 1 "Er?yes, I did." "Well, that's what they're cheering about. The men are yelling themselves hoarse and the boys are dancing with Joy." The Judge'was beaming like a full moon with gray tufts of hair above its ears. "You'd think Bedlam had broken loose. They're yelling for you. Broadway. Come out and let them see you." * Broadway was in a state of panic, of blue funk, of sheer, unspeakable af fright. He ducked and looked about as if endeavoring to find that avenue through which escape would be easiest. "No; not now, please," he begged pitifully. They might have let it go at that had not the cheering within the works broken out afresh. "Listen to that," .the Judge adjured him, and urged him with a happy hand upon his elbow. His wife went to his assistance. "Oh, do go out and say something, Broad way !" "Yes," the judge Insisted, "come and make a speech." "I can't say anything," said the mis erable and frightened Broadway. "I never made a speech in my life!" josie, sminng genuy, turned irom them. When again she faced them she held in her hand the paper she had thrust so recently into that sacred, secret place. "Read this to them," she suggested. He took it, but he did not see whence it had been extracted, although Mrs. Spotswood did. The eyes of matrons of her age are sympathetically attuned s to sicns of this sort, seeing them when others miss them. smiled at Josie, Josie caught her eye and blushed furiously. "Oh, come on." The judge now took a firmer hold on him. "It will make them all feel good." His faithful wife went to his aid. She took the other arm of the acutely miserable youth, and between them they propelled him from the room, through the short length of & wide hallway stacked on either side with boxes full of chewing gum already packed for shipment, through a breath lessly hot engine-room, and into the main room upon the factory'B ground floor. Their appearance was the signal for an uproar of applause. The loudest cheering of the previous outburst was surpassed so notably that, by compari son, it had been whispering. In the enthusiasm of the moment men, wom en and the younger workers of the force lost all sense of reserve. Broadway ceased to be that terrible thing, a new and untried boss, who must be looked at carefully, addressed " with caution and regarded with re RADIUM FOUND IN BALTIMORE DUl Licpusna, nuwcvcr, Hre noi LX pected to Be Commercially Valuable. A deposit of radium bearing ore within the city limits of Baltimore may be seen by anyone who etrolls out beyond the Wyman property, near Wy man park, to the abandoned quarry, which was formerly known as Wyght's Quarry, says the Baltimore Sun. Unfortunately the ore is not plenti ful enough to make It worth while to extract the radium, according to Dr. Joseph T. Singewald of the geological department of Johns Hopkins univer sity. That small deposits of uranium ore were to be found in the quarry has been known for at least twenty-five years, saye Doctor Singewald, by th~ savants of the Hopkins, but it is not commercially valuable. Tha ore is found in pegmatite dikes or layers and crevasses in the rocks. It was probably deposited there, thinks Doctor Singewald, in a molten state M pitchblende. By oxidation and de DM m PLAY or )RGEM.COMiH 1 \ M??IAR5J1ALL '(13 FROrt <5CEND Ifl THE PLAY 'cf*r, nvj,ar cwqjh /r/chafi cohp* tf y spect made up principally of fear. He was young; he had been fair to them; he was their economic savior They went mad, and, at first permit ting him no opportunity to make the speech which he so feared, seized him as if he had been the winning player ?* ? Kn 11 ffomn or?^ Vjfm rAlirt^ at a luviuoii buui^ uvi v. ?wv.uu the great room of the factory upon their shoulders. 'There was affection in the strong arms of the men who lifted him; there were tears in many, women's eyes which watched. Not only was this youth the boss; he was the young boss. They knew he had been plucky in his loyalty to them, rumors of the splendid 'offer which the trust had made had been circulated freely. He was accredited with that intention most admired by real Americans, and these workmen, in this old New Eng land mill, in this old New England vil lage; were principally native sons. He was not content to be an idler; he insisted upon buckling down to a man's job. And had he not decided to take up the burden of gum-manufac ture largely through his feeling of responsibility to them and to the town? Financially the offer of the trust muBt certainly have been more tempting than the prospect of commer cial battle which, even 6hould it win, would inevitably involve a long, expen sive and intensely wearing strain! Would the? ride him round and round upon their shoulders? Would they cheer him till the blood rushed to their heads? Would the woman want to kiss him and. the youn^ters [ iook at him as if he were a species# of superior being? Verily, they woujd. And verily they did. In the meantime, in the office, Clara was left quite alone. She may have been aware that' interesting things were happening in the factory, things which she would very gladly have wit nessed,but beyond doubt she felt that something far" more interesting?to wit; the arrival of Bob Wallace?was likely to occur at any moment In the office. She preferred the smiles of Wallace to the cheers of working-peo ple. and she waited for them. Wallace was not long delayed. She greeted him with cordial liking. "You didn't expect to find me here, did you?" "Well, hardly. This is an unexpect ed pleasure." "Mr. Jones will be back in a few minutes. He went out in the works to make a speech." She gave this Mnformation with the air of one explaining commonplaces. To her everything, in deed, was com monplace, save Wallace. She held him the most extraordinary thing on earth. But he was utterly amazed. "To make a speech!" He burst into a roar "They're Yelling for You, Broadway." of laughter. "Well," what do you think of that!" She smiled at him. She cared noth ing for the cheering, but she would tell him about it, because she liked to talk to him on any subjetet. "Well, you should have heard them cheering! They've made more noise than this old town has ever heard before." "Yes, I dare say it is," he granted, as new cheers burst forth. But he did not go to see the dem onstration, which indicated to him that he must find something most at tractive in this village belle's com pany. What other woman could have held him from the sight of Broadway Jones in his first effort as an orator? composition it is now in the form of autunite, or uranium mica, so called because it is composed of thin flakes like ordinary mica, but has a greenish yellow tone that is unmistakable to the expert in such things. Radium is extracted from autunite in a very small way in Portugal. The only important sources of ra dium known at present are the pitch blende mine3 in Austria and the car notite deposits in Colorado. Formerly that carnotite ore was eent to Europe, to be used for making dyes from the uranuim. Then it was found that the | European purchasers were getting radium as well as dyes and there was a great rush to get the radium mineB. A large part of the deposits have been reserved for the uses of medicine and science through the effort6 of Doctor Kelly working iiji conjunction with the United States bureau of mines. Replacing Delusions. If the popular imagination is to be come heated to a point where it dis cerns an attempt at abduction in every , "dizzy feeling" or momentary illness i suffered by a young woman in a pub- j 1 "Funny," ha remarked, and smiled I at her; "I wus thinking of you as I i passed the drug store just now." i She laughed, delighted. "ThafB strange. I've been thinking of you, ? too!" "Have you really?" e "Yes. Oh, those chocolates were fine! I ate them all before I went to bed." Then, reproachfully, "but you ? shouldn't be spending your money the i way you do!" i He was unconscious of any mad ex- j pendlture of which she could be cogni- t zant and, therefore, was surprised. "What?" . ? "Mr. Jones told me that you were a j regular spendthrift." ' 1 This from Broadway, the most fa- 1 mous spendthrift of New York'B recent years! "When did he tell you that?" i he asked, endeavoring to hide tne meaning of his smiles. 1 "Just a little while ago. He said you ] spent over twenty-five dollars one i night!" For a second this extraordinary i statement almost choked him. He had , been with Broadway when that sum < would have been regarded as a modest < tip for a head-waiter. "Oh, ^did he tell you about that ' night?" he asked, still carefully en- i deavoring to conceal the nature of his i smiles at least. i And as he smiled, it came upon him that for reasons which he did not un- i derstand as yet he should be sorry to , have this particular girl learn details of some nights which he and Broadway ] Jones had passed together on the fa mous street they knew so well. "Yes," she said, prettily admonish- j ing, "and you mustn't-waste it in^hat < way any more." ; She shook her finger at him playful ly, but with a serious light of eyes be hind the playfulness which seemed to < indicate proprietary interest in him. It i ? ^ ' V* /-v f Aim/? if immio. i clLLIUStJU 111 III UUl lie iuuuu ac I takably pleasant, too. i The excited Sam came in. Sam al- ] ways seemed to come at Just those j moments which without him would have been more interesting. j "He's ? shaking ? hands ? with ? everybody," he volunteered. j "Who? Mr. Jones?" asked Clara. | "Yes ? Gosh! ? He ? was?afraid , to ? make ? a ? speech! I ? bet ( ? I ? wouldn't ? be ? afraid! If ? ever ? I ? amount ? to ? anything ( ? the ? first ? thing ? I'm ? going , ? to ? do ? is ? to ? make ? a ? ? speech ? about ? myself!" ] Wall^e laughed. "You've got the rignt idea, Sammy." , "You ? bet ? I've ? got ? the ? ] right ? idea! I've ? got ? darned ? , good ? ideas ? if ? I ? ever ? get? , a ? chance ? to ? use ? 'em!" Clara was reproving. "Sammy, stop j this constant talking about yourself!" ] "Stop ? your ? own ? talking! You ? don't ? understand ? me. I've, , ? got ? brains ? I ? have!" I "N<v one can tell," said Wallace. "Maybe he has.", "I'll ? surprise ? you ? all ? some ? day!" Clara smiled at Wallace. "Ain't It , funny. He really thinks he'e going to be a big man." "Well, maybe he will," said Wallace, considering Sammy's bulk reflectively, "and then, again, he's liable to fall away tb almost nothing." She laughed, delighted at his humor. "Oh, I see what you mean! You're , always joking, aren't you?" "Aren't I the cut-up, though?" he gently guyed her. It was very silly, and he knew how very silly'It was, but, none the less, the city man enjoyed the persiflage with this red-cheeked rural maiden. In the extraordinary ebullition of his spir its he reached out his hand for hers, found it, and stood swinging it. She blushed, he laughed. He yas really burlesquing a flirtation, but she did not know it, nor was the impulse of his foolery entirely burlesque. He was very much contused when an amused cough from behind them told that ^osie had come In. Mo whirlpH "Oh cond moraine. Miss Richards!" "How do you do, Mr. Wallace?" She smilfed with definite satisfaction. "Mr. Jones is causing quite a sensation in the works." "So I understand." "Shall I tell him you are here?" asked Clara. "I wish you would, if It ^ isn't too much trouble; Miss Spotswood." "Nat at all. I'll be only too pleased." She smiled at him. "Nobody ever calls me anything but Clara." Wallace felt that he was most em phatically in clover. "Oh, you Clara!" He was a large young man, with a large, smooth-shaven face, particularly broad. It was one happy smile. She was giggling as she hurried to ward the factory. "I'll tell him, right away.", Wallace .turned to Josie. "Has Mr. Pembroke called?" "No; Mr. Jones was saying he ex pected him at eleven o'clock." "Well, it isn't quite eleven, yet." "He told me of the advice you gave him. 'We have a good deal to thank you for. I'm sure of that." "I don't see why," he protested. "He's only doing what is right. Any man with a conscience would do the same. Of course my influence may have had some bearing on his decision, lie place, it will be unsafe for a man ^ to offer the slightest pivility to any person of the other sex whom he does I not happen to know. To assist a wom an into a car will subject him to sus picion, and to go to her aid if she fo into <n thn ,1 ? _ 1J IU4WI^ III LllC OUCCl TV All 1CUUC1 Ulili 11 able to arrest as a white-slaver. Anatole France says somewhere that one result of getting rid of old delusions is that they aro often re placed with others of worse aspect. This present phase of popular credul ity on the subject would deserve to be regarded merely as silly if it were not for the tendency of an exaggera tion of the fancied dangers of the evil to confuse the public mind about its real dangers. Are Harvard Men Going Back? Twentieth century Harvard etudents are not as clever in the classics or the sciences as the freshmen of a cen tury or more ago. The Harvard Alum ni Bulletin, discussing the question, states that class after class 150 years ago contained freshmen 12, 13 and 14 years old. In the class of 1770 a boy was entered who was 11 years of age. )ut, believe me, his mind was ma*e lp when you got through with him last light." She was very earn? "Oh, It means 10 much to so many! ' "Any way, I think he'd be a fool to lell." "You dor "Certainly. A proposition which ihowed the profit this did last year? vlthout any advertising! Why, it's vonderful! I know what I'm talking ibout I'm with the biggest adver ising firm in New York city." "But we couldn't afford to advertise, ?xcept in a small way," she said in ex ilanation of what he evidently thought :heir lack of enterprise, "and the big Irms wouldn't take a petty contract." "Why didn't you try the Empire \gency?" She shook her head. "We did. They efused to handle us at all. They do nost of the Consolidated's work, you see. I guess that was the reason." He was quick to deny this. He did not wish anyone to think that the great Empire Agency would favor :>ne concern to the extent of shutting Dut another in fair competition. "Oh, no," he confidently asserted, 'we don't make that sort of agree ments. No corporation can dictate to 1G Tha TT.mnlrQ'o mv firm Mv Cliv'. aor's Its president" VOh, well, then, perhaps, you know ill about It." She evidently did not ;are to be so firmly contradicted. This daunted him. "You say they refused to handle your work?" "Absolutely." For a moment he stood lost in :hought, then suddenly reached a res jlution of' importance. "May I use pour 'phone?" he asked. "Certainly." "Give me long distance," he demand ed of the operator; then, while he was waiting, he turned back to Josie, say ng almost angrily: "That's a pretty otten trick, if it's bo?to squeeze the ittle fellow out like that. You're ab solutely sure it was the Empire?" "Yes; we tried all the big advertis ng firms." x "There isn't any other big advertis ng firm," "he valiantly declaimed. His ausiness patriotism was unquestion ible. "If there was we'd whip it over :o the Empire in pretty quick shape." The receiver, which he held at his jar, showed signs of life. "Hello, I tv-ant New York," he told the operator, rhen, to Josie: "What's this num ber?" "Two-two Main." ' "This is two-two Main, the Jones plant," he informed the operator. "All right. Get them for me as quickly as you can." After hanging up the receiver he turned gravely to Josle. 'There must be some mistake about this," he assur ed her. Evidently he was seriously worried about th9 charge of favoritism brought against his firm. "I have all the correspondence, If you'd like to see it." "I'd like to very much." "I'll have it here in a very few mlnr ules. Excuse me." Fortunately for his telephonic en deavors there had been a period of quiet in the outer factory. But now, as the crowd approached across the vast workroom adjoining, from a visit to the other portions of the plant, the roar of cheering was renewed. He went to the door and opened it, look ing into the workroom. Almost at^the door were the Judge and Mrs. Spots Wood and, just behind them, Broad way. They were smiling happily and proudly. He' was somewhat wilted, but elated. He rushed forward, grasp ing Wallace's hand, greatly to the latter's surprise. "I've shaken hands with everybody In the world,1" said Broadway. CHAPTER XII. The celebration over, the mill once more settled down to that industrial peace which is accompanied by the deafening roar of machinery, the clamor of the busy hammer on the nail, sinking home in packing boxes, the shouts of workingmen and women forced to thrust' their words above the 3trident medley which surrounds them There waa new life in the old mill, new confidence had taken place of fear and fierce antagonism in the hearts of hundreds, an esprit de corps had been born suddenly such as had not existed in that factory for many years. In one happy sentence of his bashful speech Broadway had struck a keynote. He had said: "And?er?now, you fellows, keep pour brains?er?busy with this situ ition. I have bucked the Trust. I've bucked the Trust for you anJ the old ;own. Now if you don't help me beat It to the ropes, 6tagger it, blind it, pulp it, put it down and out as the all powerful force in the gum-industry, t's going to wipe me off the map, and ;vhen I'm wiped you're wiped. "I've fought for you, and lots of !olks will say I am a fool for doing it. [f you start in and fight for me; if >ve both fight heart and soul and night md day to win against the wildest competition that was ever known in jhewing-gum, we WILL win. Anything ?lse means our sponge in the air and a :all for doctors and an ambulance, or nore likely, undertaker, for Jones' WRONG TO SHRINK FROM PAIN Eminent English Divine Points Out How Its Action Is for the Benefit of All Mankind. An address dwelling upon the value ind benefits of pain was delivered by Doctor Inge, dean of St. Paul's, at the tnnual meeting of the Southwark jranch of tne unarity urganizauon so :iety, says the London Globe. "A revolt against pain," he said, "is >ne of the most prominent features in >ur life at the present time. We dis ike the very thought of pain as our mcestors did not dislike it, and we hrink from Inflicting it even with good eason. The recollection of pain suf ered is a safeguard; and in other ways >ain is the best effectual means that :ould be devised to protect us against rarious dangers. "It Is quite clear that God does not lonsider death to be an evil or an in ustice, and it is equally clear that he ntended his creatures to suffer pain. 5ain is a condition that is most pre :ious in this world. Would mother iood be what It is without pain and Pepsin Gum, Fts owner &r*s lb* ?? who work for hliii." These words had struck home. The workmen had all understood their truth; furthermore, they fully recog nized the justice of the burden Broad way laid upon them. Workingmen ar? fair; they are fairer in old, little towntf like Jonesville than they are In great industrial centers, where the element of personality has passed out of ift dustry and the worker is a cog, whil* the oy/tjt is an unseen and mysterious power. The men had shouted wildly that they tU itcuW help and meant it After he had fcrft the shops theyxhad reiterated among themselves thifi pledges of their fealty- end they mean1' them then. Sweethearts, that day in the Jone?i plant, would have scornfully rejected sweethearts who showed any sign of treason to the young proprietor; fa thers would have thrashed a son who sneered at Broadway; mothers would have chided daughters (more likely would have spanked them fiercely!' who offered slurs upon what had oc curred. The capacity of mixers, cook ers, drawers, molders, cutters, stack ers, wrappers, packers, boxers, ship pers increased as if by magic. Foi.' their hearts were in their work; they were hustling for the boss who had declared his firm intention of hustling for his workers. Therefore in the works everything Duzzea ana nummea ana Dangea ami clattered with a pleasurable and con tagious enthusiasm.' In the office thA? was a warm glow of satisfaction, D& Broadway's smile, after the ladies had departed, Clara and her mother to make calls and pass the joyful newu about the town triumphantly, Josie to attend to necessary details of her du \ The Judge Beamed Happily. ties, became somewhat weaker than it had been. He had gono into the fight, but wa* he going to win the fight? It was fin* to fight, undoubtedly, but it would b<i painful to get licked. His knowledge of the business world was amply rep resented by the figure "0." The Trust's knowledge of the business world war represented by the figure "0" and thei' another figure "0," the two precede' by the figure "1." They knew 100 per cent, of thai game of which he knew absolutely nothing. He had defied them, shied his hat Into the ring, and now waa obliged to chastise them drastically. He sighed, thrust his neck out stiffly and said, trying to be cocky, but, no\t that the excitement had died dowi, realizing that it would be easy to b4 gloomy: "Funny Pembroke i^n't here." He proposed to scorn that persots, h'i was keyed up to a mighty candl?r power of hot contempt, but he wanteil to get at it, get it over with, befori his energy had oozed away. "He'll be along," said Wallace. "Is it eleven, yet?" "Just." Out came Broadway's neck agabi He was even rather nervous. "What are we going to say to him when hi gets here?" "Remember that you promised to l<rt me nanaie mm, saia wanace warn ingly. "He thinks Tm your eecretary." The judge saw that they were wo*? ried. "If you boys want to talk thingj over I'll skip along." "No, stay here, Judge," Broadwaj urged. "We may need a lawyer." The Judge's face glowed with hJ* satisfaction. (TO BE CONTINUED.)" Borax Water for Stains. Keep upon your toilet table a bottl* of borax solution, made by dissolv. ing a teaspoonful of powdered boraa in a pint of hot water. When th* first suggestion of soil appears upod any of your light cloth gowns rub the spot with a piece of absorbent cob ton wet with the solution. This sim ple operation will remove dust, mud spots and perspiration stains. It la better than gasoline or naphtha, aa its application does not leave the uglj circle of stain that so frequently fol lows the use of other cleaning fluids. self-sacrifice? Would p^ty and charitj have any scope in a pai.iless world' Would a world in which no one d? served pain be a moral world at all? "We must not shirk pain, for it is In itself beneficial and part of God's of1 dering of the world. It is a gi-eat puri fier; we cannot get rid of moral evf without it. Where pain ends gain ends Success is rooted in apparent failure and in the highest pleasures there S nluro ve an linHorn Afo nf noln " Replenishing Menageries. Trapping of wild animals for zool ogical gardens is a much larger busi ness than many would imagine. Mr. Hagenbeck alone employed more than 20 European hunters, and during thi last few years he established numer ous depots where freshly caught anl mals are sent. He has five In Alaska, three in Africa, several in Europe and one In America, two in Canada and another in Siberia. It was his be liof that the trade'will be fully main tained for some time to come on so count of the many zoological gardensr that are being built in all parts d the world.?LondoD Globe. A FORAGE CROP W W. W. LONG SUGGESTS CLOVER AND VETCH CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. VETCH SEED ARE CHEAPER, Farm Demonstration Work Director Has Found New Supply at Low Prices. Columbia.?A plan Is on. foot to have a clover and vetch day among the farmers of this state. On this day, which has not yet been named, it is urged that all farmer* meet and discuss the advisability of planting clover and vetch, and set aside two weeks to seeding these important crops. "Last year," said W. W. Long, head of the farm demonstration work in South Carolina, recently, "without any definite and concerted action, farmers in this state planted about 100,000 acres* of clover and vetch. The idea of having a clover and vetch day this year was suggested by the wonderful success of last year, and I believe that we can see 500,000 acres this year, as the interest already man ifested has been very great. "The farmers will be asked to meet at the county court houses on the day appointed and discuss the ways and means of seeding the largest clover and vetch crop in the history of the state. At this meeting, the farmers will be requested to set aside two. weeks for the purpose of devoting their entire time and attention to seeding these important crops. With the aid of all !ae forces in the state education, demonstration work, health officials, country preachers and the press, I feel certain that a remarkable record will be set. "I have made arrangements," Mr. Long continued, "where vetch seed can be obtained now at 8 cents a pound. The seed comes from t*er many, ana farmers are requested to communicate with me. I have also secured a form of lime that can be purchased at 60 cents a ton. This lime has been recommended by Dr. Cyril Hopkins of Illinois." Five Meetings at Chick Springs. ) Greenville.?The new Chick Springe hotel will be completed in time to accommodate the five state conven tions which will be held there during the coming summer. This hotel will have approximately 100 rooms, all of which will be connected with bath, and all of which will have outside ex posure. A roof garden, a handsome ball room and other special features will make the hostelry especially at tractive. " All conveniences, such as electric elevators, card rooms, loung ing rooms and so on, will be provid ed fer. The hotel Is three stores high and Is of brick veneer construc tion. State Doctori Adjourn. Florence.?The three, days' meeting of the State Medical association clos ed here recently. A number of inter esting papers were read and discuss ed with profit by the doctors and there Is a general feeling that the meeting was a successful one and a very pleasant one. Resolutions of thanks to the people of Florence for their kindness and hospitality were passed before adjournment. The banquet was generally voted one of the most delightful that the association han held. The decora itons of the hall and the service by the young ladies were particularly pleasing to the doctors, and it is gen erally agreed that few banquets have such a fine list of speeches. Every one was good, and all of the greatest interest. The musical program ar ranged by Mrs. J. D. Smysor was par ticularly pleasing, and the numbers were encored again and again. New Lights for Camden. Camden.?That Camden will be one of the best lighted towns of the size in the country is the belief of the en gineers working on the modern muni cipal plant here. A brilliant "white way," extending from lower Main | street, near York street, to Lafayette avenue, above the business section j is now in the course of construction as is the "white way" on DeKalk street from Main street to Lyttleton street. Tobacco Is Not Hurt. Florence.?The latest reports from the tobacco farms is to the effect that the plant beds were not hurt so bad ly as the farmers thought and that if there is a good season for tobacco there will be a good crop in this sec tion. Inquiry has been made by the tobacco warehousemen and buyers and they have personally investigated the situation and feel very much en couraged. There will be a great deal more tobacco planted around Flor ence than there has been in recent years. Good Roads For Lexington. Lexington.?Lexington county will have the distinction of being the first county in the United States to receive instructions from the federal govern ment in the matter of maintaining her public highways. It will be the first county on the . great capital-to-coast highway route from Washington to Atlanta to turn its part of the road over to the engineers from the office of public roads of the United States department of agriculture, under the plans mapped out by the federal nur yey party. Four Cities Want Convention. Columbia.?Four cities?Baltimore, New York, San Francisco and Colum bia?will make a fight to secure the next National Drainage congress, ac cording to Phil R. Kellar, general sec retary, who was among the visitors in Columbia recently. Columbia will send a strong delegation to Savan nah in an effort to secure the con gress. Commissioner Watson of the ptate department of agriculture Is vice president of the congress, and he may be leected president. Jos. Hyde Pratt has also been mentioned. tflHMnONAL LESSON (B7 E. O. SELLERS. Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute^ Chicago.) LESSON FOR MAY 3 THE PRODIGAL SON. LESSON TEXT?Luko 15:11t32. GOLDEN TEXT?"I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and In thy sight." Luke 13:18. The parables of Jesus, are marvel* nf iinltv nnrt rnndensation. yet HO 1160 eseary detail is omitted. This, per haps his most famous, is no excep tion even though it does carry a dou ble lesson. Who thinks of the, older brother when this story is mentioned? Though designated the "Story of the Prodigal," we need to remind our selves that the word "prodigal" never once occurs in the story. The open-' ing sentence speaks of a father and of two sons. It Is really the parable of a perfect father, the unveiling of the true heart of God. Against that background is set off a self-centered' son lacking in natural affection. Also alongside the wayward son is the mis erly, selfish 'one who lacked all the good qualities of his brother, but who was truly a wanderer and out of har mony with God the Father. In the background we see the cithfens of the far country who helped this young Jew to his place of want, famine and degradation. Remember,. it Is our Lord speaking to Jews. When the Gentiles of the far country sent him to feed swine they insulted him by compelling him to get his living through an occupation instinctively repulsive. i First Fruit of 8ln. The father makes equal partition "divided unto them." (V. 12) though neither son had a right to demand a partition of his estate. At the bot tom of the son's request was a desire to have his own way?to be Independ ent of God. He did not go away from home at once, though his heart was already in the "far country." ' I. Into the Far Country, w. tS-1f. Fun is the first fruit of sin, and that the son readily found s6 long as his 1?i 11.OKI T5i,f thft UiOUOjr -moicu (IICV. consequences followed closely on Its ^ trail, for when he had "spent all" he began to be In "want" There are f\F| many attractive things about this 1 \ young man, but those qualities were perverted, they lacked control, they . were good servants but bad task- . ij masters. It is not always physical, ^ temporal want that comes to the sin- . ';< ner, there are deeper and more In- ' Ji tense longings?soul want and soul , . r hunger. These always come to the " T>?1 boui sway iroin uua. ceiug m nau> does not mean that a man's will has U been subdued. Some prodigals in the most abject temporal need are as ,/ proud as Lucifer, and boast of their . rebellion. So he "Joined himself to a . citizen of the country." He did not 1//J belong there?the citizen did. Hewai < i set to the most degrading task Im aginable for a Jew?feeding swine. Like a Lost Sheep. ' II. The Home Coming, w. 17-24. The first step was for the son to stop and really think. Th&t Is where sal vation always begins?In thinking. He knew he was lost, e. g., out of adjust ment, In the wrong place, out of his element and like the lost sheep, "ready to die.',' He saw his condl? tion, money gone, friends gone, hogs ; for companions, no food for his bus-, _ tenance. He saw his value. He was more Important than the servants of his father's'home. He saw his fath er's love, already manifested in what had been given him and we fain would " believe that when he left home 'he had the father's urgent plea to re- >1 turn. He saw a way to escape from his present,position. All of this after hq "came to himself." Before that, Impenitent, he was morally insane, now he has reasoned, Isa. 1:18. With . ^ his reasoning also came the deter mination to make a full confession. % "I will say unto mm, uui muuu wu fess his need but the fact that he had Binned. This is the only way for a sinner to come to God, Ps. 32:3-6; I John 1:9; Luke 18:11-14. He did not stop with resolving but "he arose and came to his father," v. 20. He ex pected to apply for a servant's posi tion, but never had the opportunity for the father saw him "a great way off" and "ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." Notice the kiss of recon ciliation was given before he even had a chance to confess. In his confes sion his first thought is that he had sinned against God and then against his earthly father. The father had not once forgotten him; he "had com passion" even though the son was un merciful to himself and to all of his loved ones. The father kissed him before he was washed or otherwise made presentable. His real need was paramount to that evidenced by his rags^ hunger, or the ravages of his dissipation. When he did make, his confession (vv. 20, 21), we note no reference to the matter of his be coming a servant. It is doubtful if "s the father gave him an opportunity to state that part of his resolve. Then there came forth the "best robe" (Isa. 61:10; Phil. 3:9 R. V.). And a ''ring" the pledge of his sonship, Eph. 1:13, 14; Gal. 4:6. and shoes also, Eph. 6:15. Then there was the fatted calf. feasting and merriment, of which 11 " ~ ? ?? ^ m nnm 1 mere was iiu cuu. uia blessings there was an end, not so of the spiritual blessings of reconcilia tion and communion with his father. We see that It is the father whose character Is emphasized. This Is Christ's great word picture of the father, his father. It explains, so far as It Is possible for us, all the suffering he endured, the compas sion of his' heart and the resolute, yet profuse, manner wherein he gave himself to those who were most in need.