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THEIR COLLABORATION By CAMPBELL B. CASAD. After an absence of four weeks I 'was again at Betty's side. For a mo (ment I stood in her cosy little sitting (room, admiring her. "By Jove! Betty," I cried, I was i thinking that we might collaborate OD ia play. A regular romantic drama." "What'B the first act to ber' she [demanded. '. "Let me Bee. Oh, yes, the scene is tat the seashore, say Atlantic City." Betty looked snspiciously at ma "How very peculiar!" she mar [mared, "that ls where we first met_ [But go on." "The heroine of our play," I began, tas If reading from a written descrtp jtlon, "ls a beautiful, young girl with jhair of spun gold, eyes of azure blue, ?and teeth of pearly whiteness." "She must be a peach." quoth Betty. u1 should like to see her." "Then kindly step this way," I an fnotmced in formal tones as I took her farm and gravely led her before a large i plate-glass mirror at one end of the ; room. There I stopped and ceremon iously cried: "Madam, behold the divinity of oar ?play." "Mr. Winton, you are a Billy goose," >ehe assured me. Now for the hero." "Well, let's see; the hero meets her ion the beach, gains an introduction i through a mutual friend and every thing seems smooth sailing. But, alas! ihe finds out on better acquaintance ithat she is a heartless coquette-" , "Slr!" This time Betty is vexed, i "In the play," I calmly continue. J "Oh!" "The climax of the act comes when ?she leaves for New York In an auto mobile accompanied by the hero's ai val-" "Now, Harry, I protest-he was not the hero's rival." the adorable protests ?with spirit 1 "Bot this is tn the play," I again basare her. "Well, I don't like lt even In the rpray." "All right, HI let you try your hand ion the next act" I concede. "Where does lt take place?" she (asks. "In the auto that has broken down ?half way to New York." "Really, Harry, on second thought fl believe that you had betted write ?this act. You have such a vivid im agination, yon know." "Do you think so?** I ask. "Well, -thea, how's this? As the machine ls ! hopelessly out of order, to avoid a i scan dal he suggests that they hunt up ia minister and get married-" "Which suggestion she emphatically (declines to agree to," Betty breaks in. "Why?" I query with assumed inno cence. "The reason is made known in the [last act" she replies with irritating ?evasiveness, '.'but to continue. While ?they are plunged la despair a life-sav ing countryman, seated in a rickety ?farm wagon makes his appearance -and takes them in tow. In this man ,ner they reach the city and the act closes. The last act ls the strong lone. "The action takes place in the he !rolne's home and the setting is idea .tical with these rooms. The hero af ter a month's absence has called on lier for the first time. He is very j moody and as the conversation is. far ; from animated, suggests that they i write a play-" At this moment the doorbell rings fand the maid enters. Sho announces: "Mr. and Mrs. Philip Armstrong." At this announcement I start in sur prise, then angrily cry: "What that chap calling on you? I And ne married, too. The nerve of ?him." "Why, yes, he was even married rwhen we took our automobile ride to Igether," Betty laughs; "that was one treason that we couldn't marry after kthe accident." "One reason? Then, what pray, ?was the other?" "He was already my brother-in flaw." "Gee whiz! what a chump I am," I (humbly acknowledge. "I think so, too," the unfeeling girl (tells me. "Can you ever forgive a siUy-niUy {like me?" "If you coax hard enough, maybe," fcBetty relents. "Then suppose you let me into this framfly affair," I suggest "What do you mean?" "Suppose you give me the right to ?call him brother-in-law as well as (yourself." 1 "Do you think that you deserve it?" jshe asks. "Well, that's the way all good plays .should end," I explain. 'Then for the sake of our play, I consent," and Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong .entering at this moment surprise two very red-faced youngsters fondly em bracing. (Copyright, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) Old City Found. Surprising discoveries have been made in the effort to excavate the vast baths of Caracalla at Rome, that have lain hidden under 200.000 cubic .meters of earth. Ia this latest ex cavation it has been found that un derneath the baths proper was a subterranean city, consisting of over 4,000 yards of vast galleries used by the slaves and attendants and for marvelous hydraulic, heating and ven tyating systems. The drainage ls de scribed as splendid, and but for the rise In the lovel ot the river Tiber, which makes it Impossible somolently Bo slope the pipes, Uaoae drains could REFORMING OF TAMMAS By ALBERT LOUIS WOOD. Among the fourscore and odd men who worked under me when I was pit boss in the Black Diamond mine, as far as I can remember, Tammas Sar gent was the only total abstainer. One afternoon a prematurely fired shot projected a ton of coal, more or lees, in Tammas' direction, distribut ing it somewhat impartially over vari ous portions of his anatomy. As was my custom when any of the men was hurt, I made it a point to drop in on him for a few minutes every day. "The doctor says," ho volunteered to me on one such occasion, "that ma pure blood an' guid habits be better than his physic That'B wm' o' the dummy." "The 'dummy,' Tammas, and what may that be?' I queried. "I've never told a soul. But I'll gie it to you in confidence. It's the story of ma reformation. Time was when I drank with the best or, mayhap, the worst o' them. "Them days David Stephens and me was fast cronies. One night I had na been feelin' weel the day, David comes to me, as usual, to go to the tavern for a few drams. 'Come to the tavern, David says. 'Perhaps, as you're not feelin' ower weel, a bit o' brandy would be better than ordin?r" speerit, Tammas.' So I ca'd for the brandy an' feelin' some better after the first one, I kept a callin'. Now, bein' sick like at the start, and the brandy bein' strong and unqualified, it soon went to ma heid. By an' by David said summat not to my Ukin', an' I took ex ceptions to it. To mak' a long Btory ?short, we soon parted in anger. "I declare I never felt so strange afore nor since as I did when I got the air that night. The sense of direc tion left me an' I lost ma way in a place I could ba' mapped ont In my sleep. I walked and walked till I was fair knocked up. O, it waa a peetiful condition! At last my pins gied out beneath me. I sunk down in a stupor. It must 'a' been two o'clock when I awoke, awoke, doused wi* dew, stiff an' cauld. My senses were still befuddled, but not so bad as before. I was lyin' in a ravine near where Hallen's street sewer empties Into Williams' creek. "My first 'edin's was of anger with myself and David. With myself for bein' such a beast, an' with David for ower persuadin' me to drink with 'im. "As I rubbed ma eyes, tryin' to get the cobwebs out o' them, I caught sight o' some one lyin' on the groon near by. Lookln' close, I 6aw 'twas David. 'Here,' says I, 'be you followln' me, mon?' There was no answer. 'Haud up yer heid an' be ceevil, else I'll baste tba snoot, mon,' I said. Still no answer. TU mak' thee talk,' I yelled, an' just then ma han' touched a bit stone. In my anger I heaved lt at 'im and lt struck fuU on his held. "There was still no soun' from Da vid. I rose up and staggered over to 'm. I put my 'and on 'im. David was cold as deith. "That seemed to sober me. Ma heid ajeared up. The 'orrible truth came to me. I 'ad murdered ma best friend in cold blood. I could na bide the place, but turned an' ran as fast as I could toward whoam. Once there, I went to ma room and fell on the bed. "When daylight come. I thought ev ery footstep was the constable comin' to 'ale to jail. On a sudden there was a knock on the door an' David en tered. "I was never a believer in ghosts, but at that moment my views changed. AU the buried superstitions o' my an cestors was resurrected. 'David,' I gasped, ' 'ow came you 'ere?* "David took ma 'and. I shuddered. But twas with relief to find it warm an' *uman, instead o' clammy an' ghostlike. 'Forgi'e me, auld mon,' he said, 'I was In the wrong last night' " 'Thank God, you're alive, David,' says I, 'I might 'a' killed you in the drink.' " 'No fear you'd hurt a friend, drunk or sober,' he 6ayB. "'But did na the stone hurt you. David?* I speired. "He looked at me dumfounded an' edged away. 'Tammas, you're sick an* out o' your head. I'll get a doctor,' he says. " 'Na, na, none o' thaL' says L " 'Tammas,' he says again, ' twas an ill trick I had played on me last night. You'll min' it was 'Allow E'en. I left ma door unlocked an' the boys got Into my room, took ma best rig, hat, shoon an' all, then got a dummy from Myers' store an' rigged it out in all ma finery. Then they paraded through toon wi' Meester Stephens, as they ca'd it. They left a note sayln' I would get ma duds by callin' at the back door o' the Hallen street sewer. Com'1, Tammas, an' ha' a drink or so.' " 'Na, na, David,' says I, 'I'm through drinkin'.' An' I was." (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Si'-iple Rules for Long Life. Wlie:: a man of ninety-seven talks on hea! \, we listen, and especially if his nan? . is Smith. The oldest living graduate >f Yale, August Smith, says: "Get to bed early every night. Take your meals regularly. Eat only plain and wdi'-oooked foods. Don't gad around ail over creation attending balls and parties and things." Add to this the advice of a noted neurologist who says: "Don't harbor a grouch. Don't Uve In the paBt Don't play *;he martyr, but Instead, play ball, get busy and saw wood." Before the average man reaches the age of twenty-five he has either made a fool of himself or has employed 30?ne woman to do lt tor him. MIGHT SERVE AS A MODEL Beautiful Rural Home, Properly Laid Out and Kept Up, Nearly Ap proached the Ideal. A short time ago the writer rode past a rural home that certainly should satisfy any earthly being for a place of residence. A hundred feet highway frontage had been reserved in the middle of an orchard of 20 acres about square. The house stood about one hundred feet back, the whole plat was inclosed by a neat wire-mesh fence covered with roses and various climbers. A few clumps of shrubs were arranged just inside the gateway along front and side fence and about the foundations of the house. Very few trees were in the foreground and these few were kept out of the lawn center, but on either side of the house yet not close to the building were flanked quite a number, thinly planted in front but more thickly about rear of house so one could not look beyond a point op posite the rear corner of the house. In the front was a blue grass lawn, fair ly well kept and occasionally mowed, though quite long at the time of obser vation. The lawn did not look as though lt had teen "barbered" for a month nor as though lt proved a prob lem to keep it up except with great labor. Two or three vines lightly draped the house, a few flowers were to be seen in ail parts and in some spots a bright mass spoke of flowering annuals or perennials. All was neat and clean yet did not look as though raked and swept every day or eren every week. The whole place harmon ized with the spirit of nature and rurality, where every prospect pleases and not even man is vile. The home and all surrounding looked so suffl cient, so satifying, so rural, without a suggestion of the artiflcialty found In cities or suburban districts, that it called vividly to mind the happy pas toral scenes of old suggested by Gold smith's couplet: "A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground main tained its man." It costs but little to so arrange the home grounds, its upkeep calls for but little of time or money, yet euch homes are the country's strongest asset, speaking volumes for the prosperity and happiness of the rural residents. INFLUENCE OF HOUSE PLANTS] Their Positive Value Extends Not Only to Those In the Home, But to the Passerby. The cultivation of house plants has a refining and quieting influence on families where they are grown; they adorn the house as nothing else can, and give to the cheapest furniture an air of elegance which no other orna ment can impart. And the influence of flowers is not confined to the house or household where they are culti vated; they are a most graceful form of charity to the poor passerby who has no means of gratifying hiB taste for the beautiful. To him. blooming flowers, surrounded by their leaves of different shapes and shades, even when only seen at a distance, through a window, give a positive pleasure which those more accustomed to such gratifications can scarcely appreciate. It ls impossible to overestimate the effect of youthful association and daily companionship with such exquisite shape and coloring, which foster tn the minds of children a taste for simple and natural forms of amusement and recreation. Growing Trees From Top Down. A foreign railway company has solved the plan of getting good shade trees in a short time, though they may be small. These trees are so ar ranged that after two years' time they will give as much shade as trees ia the ordinary way of setting out would give that are fifteen or twenty years old. The company gets a small elm tree, preferably digging this, roots and all. from the ground. The tree then ls Bet, the top part being set Lalo the ground and the roots are left In the air. The tree then grows, forms roots on which originally was the top of the tree, and the original roots that now take the place of the branches begin to leaf out and form a complete foliage very quickly. Beautiful speci mens of Buch Inverted trees are to be seen by the fountains in Kensington gardens, London. Garden Spirit. "If you want to have beautiful roses in your garden, you most have beautiful roses in your heartB," con cluded a speaker in some memorial remarks on the late Dean Hole, who had achieved an international repu tation as a lover and promoter of roses. The remark touches on the true secret of success in gardens; there must be a very deep, real and penetrating affection for plants or the fullest succeeB' will not be obtained with them. And this affection must be clean and honest or the result will still fall short of full measure. The true garden spirit lies In the heart; and the inward beauty ls nourished and enlarged by the nature beaatjr without. Programme Woman's Missiona ry Union, Edgefield Associ ation, Antioch, August 2627, 1913. 1st Session,, Tuesday morning. 10 a. m. Intercessory Service, Mrs. M. D. Jeffries. Words of Welcome, Mrs. Mary Brimson. Response, Mrs. F. P. Rush. Roster of Woman's Missionary So cieties with reports. Annual Address of Superintendent,! Mrs. J. L. M i ms. Presentation of Missionaries and] Visitors. Distribution of apportionment cards j with discussion on. What is dor e with the money con tributed to Bible fund of S. S. Board, Mri. J. 0. Marshall. For what, ia our Home Mission con tribution used, Mrs. W. E. Lott. Our part on Foreign Missions for next year, Miss Jennie Pattison. The importance of raising appor tionments. Some plan for raising apportion ments. Report of standing committee on literature, Mrs. Fannie Grims. Recommendations of State Execu tive Board, Mrs. J. W. Peak. Standard of Excellence. Is it attain able and how? Miss Josie Shep pard. Noonday quiet hour with the Bible conducted by Mrs. Talbert. Greetings from missionaries aad visitors. Election of nominating committee. Appointment of committee on time and place, and resolutions. Announcements. Dismission. Lunch Hour. Second Session, Tuesday afternoon. Young Woman's Auxiliary Hour. Devotions, Miss Mabelle Strom. Report of Superintendent with fi nancial record. Discussions. The beauty imparted by the Mis sionary Spirit, Miss Royal Peak. God's share of their salary or spend ing money. Miss Snow Jeffries. Report of Standing Committee on Training School, Miss Helen Sal ter. Recommendations of State Execu tive Board, Miss Helen Tillman. Noondav quiet hour led by Miss Edwardina Blalock. Learning Love's Lesson or Personal Service, Mrs. J. R. Fizer, Cor. Sec. W. M. U. Announcements. Dismission. Wednesday Morning. 3rd session, 10 o'clock. The Bible as our ?guide, by Mrs. Carrie Burkbalter Freeman. Minutes of afternoon session. Address, Mrs. W. W. Lawton, missionary to China. Recommend itions of executive flS Y0U1 Mereh Are Arra Cr? FOR THIS E By this systen showing how mi with what degre The book will sh the credit sta man, who trades rating the poor r secure a higher i does not. NOW IS T OLD ACCC I Good i committe of association,. Report of nominating committee. Election of officers. Report of committee on time and place. Y. P. S. hour. Ila. m. reports from Sunbeam bands and R. A. chapters. Report of superintendent, Mrs. M. N. Tillman. Discussion-What should be the leader's aim? Mrs. J. T. Little john. Missionary memory book. Developing officers. Sunbeam flag parties. Whnie does the Sunbeam money go? Miss Ruby Watson. How does South Carolina's Sun beams stand in W. M. U. of S. B. Cf Guida Pattison. Recitation. Paper. Mrs. W. S. Middleton. Song. R. A. Armor, Miss May Roper. Sunbeam play, "Mootber Goose and her band as mission workers,' by Antioch Sunbeams in charge of Mrs. Prescott Lyon and Mrs. Louise Lyon Smith. Collection. Announcements. Discussion. Wednesday Afternoon. 4th session. Jubilate service, open meeting. Processional of societies march ing with banners singing Jubilate songs. 100th Psalm repeated in concert. The Woman's Hymn. Sketch of Adoniram ?nd Ann Hasseltine Judson, Miss Hortensia Woodsor. Hymn, "How firm a foundation" Twenty-five years of organized wot k of Woman's Missionary Un ion, Mrs. J. R. Fizer. Reading, "Sing, ye women of the Southland," Miss Florence Peak. History of W. M. U. of Edge field association, Mrs. J. L. Mims. Jubilate hymn, Mrs. Royal Shan nonhouse. Our pagan fields- -Rev. W. W. Lawton, Chon'gchow, China. Children of Light, by Y. W. A. with representatives in costume from different nations. Jubilate offering. Hymn. "The morning light is breaking." Chorus recessional. The Woman's Hyam. Come women, wide proclaim Life through your Saviour slain; Sing evermore, Christ, God's effulgence bright, Christ, who arose in might, Christ, who crowns you with light, Praise and adore. Come, clasping children's hands, Sisters from many lands, Teach to adore, For the sin-sick'and worn, The weak and over-borne, i CREDIT e Representatives of ' ants' Cn jiging for the Publics edit Gui USTRICT AS A BASIS i each individual is iny places they sei e of promptness thc ow, riot the financi; liding, of everyb< ; on time, and as it nan who pays his bi rating than the m; 'HE TIME TO ITJNT AND ? Credit I I AU who in darkness mourn, Pray, work, yet more. Work with your courage high, Sing of the daybreak nigh, Your love outpour, Stars shall your brow adorn, Your heart leap with the morn, And by His love up-borne, Hope and adore. Then when the garnered field Shall to our Master yield, A bounteous store, Christ, hope of all the meek, Christ, whom all earth shall seek, Christ, your reward shall speak, Joy evermore. -Fannie E. 3. Heck. Raleigh, North Carolina. No better buggy made than the Brookway. Have you ever used one? Let us show you our stock. Wilson & Cantelou. The late models that are out in the American lady corsets to fit all figures, Rives Bros has and sells them.-Adv. When you want a good buggy try a Tyson & Jones. They have stood the test of Edgefield roads for years. Wilson <fc Cantelou. A beautiful assortment of mat ting art squares. They are cheap er and more appropriate for the summer season than the heavy wool art squares. Buy one for your front hall and you will not regret it. Ramsey & Jones. We can supply you with roof paint, a good quality, in red and black at 50 and 75 cents per gallon. Just as good quality as that which costs more. Penn & Holstein. A lot of odds and ends in summer goods that can be found at Rives Bros at a price-Adv. A fuFl supply of mineral water always on hand. Can furnish either Harris or Glenu Springs water. Penn & Holstein. A large assortment of Iron and Enameled beds just received. Pret tier than any we have ever had be fore. Ramsey & Jones. For a complete line of spring and summer goods call on Rives Bros. For farm wagons there is noth ing better made in this country than the celebrated Studebaker wagons. Ask the man who uses one what his opinion is. Use a Studebaker once and you will always use them. . Wilson <fc Cantelou. ' GOOD? Hie edit Co ition of a ide J OF CREDIT placed on record ?ure credit and >y pay their bills. ? standing, but )dy, man or wo is not a financial ills promptly will ui of means who PAY THE SECURE A