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-A Comedy of Youth Foun 4ireat Play of the Sa From Phototfr Copyright, 1913, by E chapter xii. ~EtHel and Brent. W % 1 ilKJ, dropped her gaze from his 8^1 faceand said, with the suspicion JJLfc' 'Of-* smile playing si round her Mips: *-T2f .you iiad the right to make love '.straightforwardly?you wouldn't ifc."" -S5r.3?poked at her in amazement. """SPkat-do you mean?" he gasped. only because you haven't the "nA.)ki liKn f Vrtn if hv CllflWpctfnn " ' a4i|n'> 'iuut ,?vu uv tb wj u..00vw..vM, riSifca] pursued. *"3X*ir can .vou say that?" And he the heart he was capable of in'. ) T3#hfe?gQestioa ^"SSwa don't deny it." she said quietly. 2El5^3re*thed hard and then said bititog?y ""What a contemptible opinion you namfe tare of me!" *TEkan we're quits, aren't we?" ~*23wwr/" he-asked. * ""SEjeven't you one of ine?" * .f ou ? Why, Ethel"? ~*Si?ely every married man must contemptible opinion of the wo. Tut: toe- covertly makes love to. If he Afce&a't .;be couldn't do it, could he?" v tttrb n*5?ia she leveled her cold, imrasa-re eyes on Brent's flushed face. ?13 don't follow you," was all Brent -"33aveift you had time to think of acstwnsiver?" ~*? fteaffc know what you're driving ^a?C added. K&faei smiled her most enigmatical safe 1 think you do." She waited ; a. aaaranent. Brent said nothing. This ~wswe s/new mood of Ethel's. It baffled **? * '" fho allonPo hv UJ OUC iciictvu iuw mmvvv saGg&tg him: **"W%at happened last night?" "Hit Qaesitated. Then he answered: ~*33fi cither not say. I'd sound like a <saA iJazning a woman." *13&e*??r mind how it sounds. Tell it. I~i^r*sEist have been amusing." * " Juawsing!" He bent over her again. *he more I look at you and listen Tbtoijim the more I realize I should nev aBrSwre married." ~*RKIjy did you?" came the cool ques f&msL ISsrwit- answered with all the power oammand. Here was the mo> Jseaa&z -to lay his heart bare that Ethel -nES$Bt see. **a?ave you ever seen a young hare, r"f5nB?h from its kind, run headlong into a^Ewxe? Have you ever seen a young <*nsui free of the trammels of college ??Stt?fe iato a net? I did! I wasn't trap - .. A.1 1 ? ?. 11 4-U^ c3Sefporced tne room resuessi.v, an me "oSiwiaP-.'pttT rising in him. He went on: **.2Kt??eas. what nurslings we are wStm we first feel our feet! We're ElSUe children just loose from the lead:<a3? strings. Anything that glitters s5w* <as. Every trap that is set for * .war smwary feet we drop into. I did? * rwpped in, caught hand and foot, mind - scfc soul." trwcul.?" .queried Ethel, with a note .vaPi oatiot. *"TesV" he naswerod. " you mean body?" she sug jested ' ~ii>?^7,rmiud and soul!" he said, with rm rar <Jf. finality. -".Well. *body anyway," summed up .'.'3E>2b??1 "Jiarufor what"?" he went on. "For <wfits*':"* Love! Companionship! That . i* Tiiiat we build on in marriage. And * .did I realize? Hate and wrau, -gizix wxaugliug, just as the common '#??rrS -wlfh jio advantages, wrangle xasrl make it a part of their lives, the : -*?*&. to their union. It's been my curse." -Why wrangling?'' drawled Ethel. nSi>e didn't understand." T-ou3" asked Ethel, in surprise. thoughts, my actions!" * "How curious!*' "~*T?a.mean you would?" ^Ksobahly." sure of at." He tried to take trtjQi'nand. 13he drew it away and set'herself comfortably to listen again: "TfH tue more al)out your wife." " "The -slightest attention shown to r *1,7-other woman meant a ridiculous, . .t-'iruaniliating scene." "-Humiliating?" kosi't idoubt and suspicion humil I.stazrg''" 'They wotflfi l>e a compliment In . -strxtf) cases/' 9" - - They -would put a fictitious value on men." " '.Yea couldn't humiliate in that way," it&vventured slowly. "Wo. I don't tliink I could. If a uian i a preference for any other ? y*ecaan-?lie would be quite welcome to ( JiSES " ""No man could!" said Brent insin> oafisngly. JSfoe looked at him coldly a moment. "iMii-me see?where were you? Just i -asjzrried, weren't you? Go on." " "Then came the baby." He said v.*.jKRc.wfth a significant meaning and j.ayausjedJ-tQ sge. tbe effect. oi? Ethel. U PEGH O' MY HEART By J. Hartley Manners ded by Mr. Manners on His me Title?Illustrations aphs of the Play lodd, Mead Company j it had any Ethel effectually conceaiea it. Her only comment was: "Ah:" Brent went on: "One would tliink that would change things. But no. Neither of us wanted her. Neither of us loves her. Children should come of love, not hate. And she is a child of hate." He paused. < >- cl, a lOOKHliT niltrilll.y iiL liiuci. IWH.U understanding^ at him, then dropped her eyes. Brent went on as if following up an advantage: "She sits in her little chair, j her small, wrinkled, old. disillusioned > face turned to us. with the eyes watchj ing us accusingly. She submits to ca! resses as though they were distasteful, as if she knew they were lies. At times she pushes the nearing face away with her little baby fingers." He stopped. watching her eagerly; Her eyes went down. "I shouldn't tell you this. It's terrible. I see it in your face. What are you thinking?" "I'm sorry," replied Ethel simply. "For iue?'' "For your wife." "My wife!" he repeated, aghast. "Yes,'' said Ethel. "Aren't you? No? Are you jus's sorry for yourself?" Brent turned impatiently away. So this laying open the wound in his life was nothing to Ethel. Instead of pity I for him, all it engendered in her was ' sorrow for his wife. I IIow little women understood him! There was a pathetic catch in his j voice as he turned to Ethel and said ! reproachfully: i "You think me purely selfish?" j "Naturally," she answered quickly, j "I am. Why not be truthful about our' selves sometimes? Eh?" "We quarreled last night?about you!" he said desperately. "Really?" "Gossip has linked us together. My , wife hns heard it and put the worst construction on it." | "Well?" "We said things to each other last 1 night that can never be forgiven or ! forgotten. 1 left the house and walked j the streets?hours! 1 looked my whole I life back and through as though it . were some stranger's." He turned abiLl | ; ;?c| ' v *'& >S:: i\ % w Ho Impulsively Stretched Out His Arms, Embracing Her. | ruptly away to the windows and stayeu a moment, loomng aown we drive. Ethel said nothing. lie came back to her in a few moments. "I tell you we ought to be taught? we ought to be taught, when we are young, what marriage really means, I just as we are taught not to steal, nor lie, nor sin. In marriage we do all ! three?when fve're ill mated. We steal i affection from some, one else, we lie in ! our lives, and we sin in our relationship." | Ethel asked him very quietly: "Do you mean that you are a sinner, a thief and a liar?" Brent looked at her in horror. "Oh, take some of the blame!" said Ethel. "Don't put it all on the woman." "You've never spoken to me like this before." "I've often wanted to," replied Ethel; then she asked him, "What do you intend doing?" "Separate," he answered eagerly. "You don't doctor a poisoned limb when your life depends on it; you cut it off. When two lives generate a deadly poison, face the problem as a t surgeon would?amputate." 1 "And after the operation ? what ! tbiui?" asked Etboi. "Don't say that. We have a common bond?understanding." -Think so?" "I understand you." "I wonder." "You do me." "Yes?that is just the difficulty." "I tell you I am at the crossroads. The finger board points the way to me distinctly." "Does it?" "It does." He leaned across to her. "Would you risk it?" "What?" she asked. "I'll hide nothing. I'll put it all before you?the snubs of your friends; the whisper of a scandal that would grow into a roar; afraid to open a newspaper, fearing what might be printed in it; life at first in some little continental village, dreading the passers through, keeping out of sight lest they should recognize one. No. It wouldn't be fair to you." Ethel thought a moment, then answered slowly: "No. Chris. I don't think it would." "You see I am a cad?just a selflsi cad!" "Aren't you?" and she smiled up at him. "I'll never speak of this again. I would have spoken now?only?I'm distracted?completely distracted- Will you forgive me for speaking as I did?" "Certainly." said Ethel. "L'm not offended. On the contrary. Anyway, I'll think it over and let you know." "You will, really?" he asked greedily, grasping at the straw of a hope. "You will really think it over?" "I will, really." "And when she sets me free," he went on, "we could, we could"? He suddenly stopped. She looked coolly at him at* he hesitated and said, "It Is a difficult little word at times, isn't Jt?" "Would you marry me?" he asked, with a supreme effort. "I never cross my bridges until I come to them." said Ethel languidly. "And we're such a long way from that one. aren't we?" "Then I am to wait?" "Yes; do." she replied. (To be continued.) * * * * * * !|J * * * * * & # * ? ? * ? * ANTREVILLE *. * . + $ $ * $ $ The Antreville ball team met Starr at iva ivionaay in iavor 01 otarr. Mrs. A. M. Erwin and son, Albert, visited Anderson Wednesday for the Holland-Blackwell wedding. Antreville ball team went to Starr Thursday to play Starr in favor of Antreville. Rev. F. B. Frasier, D. D., of Anderson, and Mr. Gilbert, (student of Frasier Fitting School) were here Friday evening. Rev. Frasier addressed the graduating class of Antreville High School. The address was fine. About eighteen boys and girls were gathered Saturday morning to contest for the medals offered by Miss Mamie Bowie and Mr Mac Nickles. Little Miss Bess Killingsworth won and Mr. Albert Erwin. The medals were offered for declamation. We were proud of our Antreville children. The closing exercises were all very good, and attendance fine, and all had a good and pleasant time. Prof. A. W. Ayers, of Calhoun County, S. C., was with us for the the closing exercises. We were all glad to see him, and have him with lie? OflTQin The Gymnasium team, with Prof. Ayers, gave an exhibition Saturday evening. Mrss. Ann Clinkscales was a visitor at Dr. Anderson's for the Antreville closing exercises. Space would not allow me to give the names'of our many welcomed visitors. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Erwin and sons, Langdon, Henry and Albert, worshipped at Varennas Sabbath. "That is wny i am uere lacing jt>u. Do you understand what I mean?" "Oh, dear, yes?perfectly! I have been waiting for you to gel; to the point." "Ethel!" and he impulsively stretched out his arms, embracing her. She drew back slightly, just out of his reach. "Wait." She looked up at him quizzically. "Suppose we generate poison? What would you do?amputate me?" "You are different from all other women." "Didn't you tell your wife that when you asked her to marry you?" He turned away impatiently. "Don't say those things. Ethel; they burt." "I'm afraid, Christian, I'm too frank. Am I not?" "You stand alone, utiiei. xou seem to look into the hearts of people and know why and how they beat." "I do?sometimes. It's an awkward faculty." He looked at her glowingly "How marvelously different two women can be! You?my wife!" Ethel shook her head and smiled her calm, dead smile: "We're not really very different. Christian. Only some natures like change. Yours does. And the new have all the virtues. Why. j I might not last as long as your wife did." No. 3421. REPORT OF TH] The National Ba at Abbeville, in the State of S. C., at the eloi ItESOf 1. n Loans and discounts (notes held in ba b Commercial paper deposited to secur Total loans 2. Overdrafts, secured, $3,204.62; unsecurei 8. a U. S. bonds deposited to secure circuit Total IJ. S. Ijonds 5. Subscription to stock of Federal Reservi a Less amount unpaid b All other stocks, including premium o G. Banking house, $5,000.00; furniture and I 7. Other real estate owned 8. Due from Federal Reserve Bank 9. a Due from approved reserve agents i and St. Louis b Due from approved reserve agents in i 10. Due from banks and bankers (other than 13. a Outside checks and other cash items . b Fractional currency, nickels, and cent! 14. Notes of other national banks Lawful money reserve in bank: 16. Total coin and certificates 17. Legal-tender notes. 18. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (i culation) Due from U. S. Treasurer Total LIABIL 1. Capital stock paid in 2. Surplus fund 3. Undivided profits Reserved for Less current expenses, interest, and 4. Circulating notes ? Less amount on hand and in Treasi in transit . 9. Demand deposits: a Individual deposits subject to check.. b Certificates of deposit due in less than c Certified checks d Cashier's checks outstanding h Deposits requiring notice of less than 15. Bills payable, including obligations repi Total State of South Carolina, County of Abbevill j I, H. G. Smith, Cashier of the above-n above statement is true to the best of my k , Subscribed &.nd sworn to before me this Correct?Attest: AMOS B. MORSE. ,T. S. MORSE. A. M. SMITH, Directors. Miss Ethel Patterson decided on Sabbath to teach ?Moore fore life. Prof. Moore ana imss nerron were re-elected and accepted. Miss Mary Anderson was elected for the Primary room. Master Boyce Wakefield returned home Friday jfrom Shelby, N. C. Mr. Hunt, of Shelby, N. C., is visiting relatives here. Ellit-Cromley. At the home of Mr. T. Sloan Ellis, at Due West, on last Thursday afternoon, his accomplished daughter, Miss Lois, became the bride of B. F. Cromley, of Saluda. Mrs. Cromley is a graduate of the Woman's College at Due West. For the last two years she has been teaching in Saluda. She is a young woman greatly loved and esteemed by a wide circle of friends. The groom is engaged in the profession of teaching. He is a graduate of Erskine College and a young man of fine character and attainments. The good wishes of a host of friends follow the young couple. LfOivRound FOR EVERYBODY ( '"* * 1 * weaooai u iMii . "The Progressive Ra Richmond, Va. Annual Reuniot June 1-3, 1915. Birmingham, Ala. Sunday Sch< Convention (Colored), June i San Francisco and San Diego, ( tional Exposition, and Panai Atheny, Gu. Summer School, U July 31, 1915. For specific rate, schedul call on Seaboard Agent C. S. COMPTON. T. P. A., S. A. L. Ry. Atlanta, Ga. E CONDITION OF nk of Abbeville, se of business May 1.1915. fRCES. nk) ,r *221.324.35 e circulation 38.99S.05 260,322 40 i. *708.70 3.973 32 ition (par value) *13,750.00 18,750 00 8 bank *0.300.00 4,200.00 2,100.00 n same 500.00 2,600 00 fixtures, S 5,000 00 5,000 00 3,800 00 n New York, Chicago, f 7,463.03 :>ther reserve cities 15.606.94 23,069 97 i included in 8 or 9) 1,845 99 *1,111.42 3 75.75 1,187 17 1,775 00 7.485 00 3,360 00 timfo fhan lur r\n plr. .T. 7!7!\ !?.*. :.T 2,327 50 2,327 50 $340,496 35 JTIES. f 75,000 00 30,000 00 fl6 410.27 * 16,410.27 [ taxes paid 7.405.76 9,004 51 46,550.00 iry for redemption or 40,550 00 $145,661.41 I 30 dayp 22,966.68 18.35 1 9'It 4A 30 days'.169,941 84 resenting money borrowed. ... 10,000 00 .' $340,496 35 ,e, ss: araed bank, do solemnly swear that the nowledge and belief. H. G. SMITH, Cashier. 8th day of May, 1915. W. H. WHITE, V??f-jirv Piihllp. The Benevolent Society. The Benevolent Society held 'its regular meeting last Wedne^'.ay afternoon in the Baptist Church. This is a society formed of members of the different churches and they do much work in tha way of distributing food and clothes and medicines to the poor people of the city. The club was the out growth of the work done some years ago by the Civic Club during the continued cold weather in which so many people became needy. Much work has been done by the Society since, especially among the people at the mill village and elsewhere. The society is always glad of donations of clothes, money, school books, provisions and medicines. Mrs. S. C. Seal is president of the organization and is capable and efit* AifAttir nrow QVl o 1Q qq. IiWiCIlb ill Ctciji naji Miiv sisted by a corps of excellent officers in Mrs. C. D. Brown, Vice President; Mrs. T. H. Furman, Secretary and Mrs. F. E. Harrison, Treasurer. If yon want a nice flash lijfht or an extra battery go to Speed's Prug Store. 11 Lye in the Slop disease is caused by germs r into worms. Stop it at the * ;e by feeding Red Devil Lye. _ jf t r A 'ents disease ana your nogs itxu ;r. See directions on the can. r cans ? try it ? that's the test. Sar - Hogs and Feed fSm^m jg^BIGCANSW| I Trip Rates )FFERED BY THE L,ine Railway ilway of the South" i, United Confederate Veterans, x>l Congress, National Baptist >-14,1915. "alif. Panama-Pacific Interna na-California Exposition, 1915. niversity of Georgia, June 28e.s or other information, 3, or write FRED GEISSLER, Asst. Gen'l Passenger Agt. r Atlanta,- Ga. SUNDAY SCHOOL f Lesson VIII.?Second Quarter, For May 23,1915. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. ' i Text of the Leaaon, II Sam. ii, 1-7; v, 1-5?Memory Venn, v, 2, 3?Golden Text, Pa. xxviii, 7?Commentary Pro* pared by Rev. D. U. Stearna. In the two portions assigned for this lesson we have the record of David's second and third anointings over Jadah and over all Israel (11, 4; , 3>, the tlrst anointing being at the *** hands of Samuel (1 Sam. xvi. 13). Aa. all anointings are suggestive of the work of the Holy Spirit and of Him whom God anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power (Acts x. 38). who also anoints and seals the believer with the Holy Spirit (II Cor. i, 21, 22), we will turn for a few minutes to the other lesson for today in 1 Cor. xii. 1.13. tci nnflpA thnt no on<? can sav that Jesus is tbe Lord, but by tbe Holy I Spirit, and that by tbe same Spirit eacb believer receives gifts for service as the Spirit sees tit; to every man according to bis several ability, to every man bis work (Matt, xxv, 15; Mark xili. 34). As our Lord Jesus Christ. tbe sou of Dnvid. is waiting for-His kingdom. when He will occupy tbe throne of David, so all true believers, anointed | kings and priests, associates of Him wbo sbail be a priest npon His tbrone. tbe true Melchizedek, are waiting with Him and for Him. He at the Fatherfa right band and we in the conflict here (Luke i. 32. 33; Rev. I. 5. 6; Zech. vU 13; Gen. xiv, 18; Ps. cr, 1. 4). While we wait it is our privilege to suffer with 'Him and to serve Him in any way or place which He may assign to us. !? ?? wwl M ? +I*A+ rrlAmt A# Li la Hn ftliuw lll^j U1UI iUC feiuij VI niu^dom will abundantly recompense for . all suffering or service during the little while of waiting. Returning to our lesson in Samuel, we note that, though * Saul was dead, the rule over all Israel did not come to David at once, but in ! Hebron over Judab for seven years and then In Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah for thirty-three years (chapter v, y). * . ^ We may And an analogy in the conf ing of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ when all the kingdoms of this , world shall have become His (Rev. xi. 15). and we may then see more clearly the significance of David's three anointIngs. , % ? We cannot help noting David's la1 mentation over Saul and Jonathan, with its thrice repeated "How are the mighty fallen!" (II Sam. i. 19, 2o, 27). How he could say that Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives 1 do not know unless on the same principle that God did not see iniquity in Jacob nop perverseness In Israel (Num. xxlll, 21), grace covering up th? ' wrong. We can more easily understand how Duvld could say of Jonathan. "Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of w<ftnen" (1, 20), and thut leads us to the greatest love that was ever seen or known?the love r>f a,ifi in Ohrfst Jesus to sinners (Rom. r, 8; John 111. 16; I John 111, 10; fl lv. 10). See David's habit of inquiring I of the Lord concerning guidance in all S matters of the kingdom (11. 1; v, 19, 23; fl also I Sam. xxiii. 2, 4; xxx, 8). remind-* fl lng us of some of the good advice Of fl his son, Solomon. "In all thy ways ac- fl knowledge Him. and He shall direct ,fl thy paths" (Prov. lii, G). fl Although David knew that the king- fl dom was now his, he would not do * fl anything without the Lord's guidance fl as to when and where. At the Lord's B command he went to Hebron with bis I own and his faithful followers' house- 9 holds, and there the men of Judah flj anointed him king over the bouse of fl Judah. See the story of Hebron in H connection with Abraham and Isaac Bj I and Caleb, and let us learn to live in . H fellowship with God. David's words S to the men of Jabesb-gilead are for H us also, that we may be strong and H valiant for God (li, 7). The intervening ? chapters In our lesson story tell of the opposition to David by the bouse of H Saul, but that David waxed stronger H and stronger and the house of Saul H weaker and weaker (Hi. 1). In our H present conflict it cannot be said that H the devil is waxing weaker and weak- dfl er, for his greatest effort will be just B before his final overthrow, but in due H time he will be overthrown, and Jesus Ifl Christ shall reign (Ps. lxxii, 11). S After David became king over au , n Israel it is written that "David wen& fl on and grew great (went going and growing?margin), and the Lord God H of hosts waff with him" (v, 10). That M the Lord was with him is repeated ' SB again and again in his story (I Sam. |9 xvl, IS; xvili, 12, 14, 28) and reminds B us of this blessed assurance to Isaac,. flfl Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Gideon and others and of His word to all who go I forth in His name as His messengers IB I fGen. xxvl. 3; xxviii, 15; Ex. Hi, 12; Qfl Josh. 1. 5; Judg. vi, 16; Isa. xli, 10;: SB Hag. ii, 4, 5; Matt. xxviii, 20). The H Lord's presence does not insure us ' freedom from all adversaries, but it does assure us of victory over them. HH David bad to say concerning some with whom be had to deal, "I am this day weak, though anointed king, and ! H these men, the sons of Zerniah, are BB too hard for me" (ill, 39). Compare Num. xi, 14; I Kings xix, 7; Ps. xxxv, j H| 10; lxxill, 1G, and then thank God that I Hfl nothing is too hard for Him (Gen. xviii, I 14; Jer. xxxil, 17), and roll all cares ^ |H and burdens upon Him, and trust Him to carry you and them. All real work I for God must be by the Spirit of God, BB and when He is in control we will | fifl fear no mountain nor despise any small ' things (Zach. iv). |