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p> * ______________________ "THIS SHOP TO LET But Fate Was Kind to Walter Gibson, When He Had Almost Given Up Hope. For over an hour no one had entered Walter Gilston's little shop. "Trade's dull/' he muttered; aodas he reflected on itle situation he stared at the ground, with lipa aet anxiously together. People seetned to prefer dealing with I^eke's Universal Stores, Limited, at the market town a few miles away. Their? prices were a little cheaper, and the stock more varieu than his. With an effort he roused himself and moved to the doorway. A girl caught sight of him and crossed. Fie wished her good morning. "I'm going away?to business in London," announcer! Lily Coleridge excitedly, ".lust for n week on trial at C'ranthorpe's, the big milliner's; and if I like it I shall stay, of course. 1 start off this afternoon. Father and mother are rather cross and upset at the idea, hut they'll soon get over that." "I wish you luck," Walter Oilston stammered. She remained chatting for a few minutes. When she had passed on he nod* led gloomily to himself. Eighteen mewtlis previously, seeing her regret at Robert Hurley's departure, Walter Oilston had realized that he had no chance, his dreams could never possibly come true. Hurley was in Canada now. and doing well, they said, while he?he was still struggling on with his little shop, with disuster in sight. It was three nights later, after he huil closed his shop and put up the shutter, that someone rapped on the door. "You?" He had to stare before he recognized the caller. Then he gave an exclamation. "Hurley! But whv?why ?" "I'm hack," returned llol>ort Hurley, nodding. "But it's quite unexpected. No one knew?" "Hadn't any time for letters. 1 was sent off in a hurry. It's a business trip really, hut as I've a da\ or two to spam I thought I'd run down here. The old place looks much it ti me same. "Will you come inside?" Walter (lilston suggested awkwardly. "No, thanks. There's one thing 1 wanted to ask, though. What's Lily Coleridge's address?" "Miss Coleridge's address?" echoed Cilston hesitatingly. "Yes; I wondered if you knew it, being such an old friend of hers. I've got to catch Fridav's boat hack, so there's no time to lose." Walter (lilston was deliberating. Suppose he let Robert Hurley go hack to Canada without meeting Lily Coleridge at all? His former jealousy returned. Why should he assist this rival ? The temptation was irresistible. "She left a few days ago," he said abruptly, "but naturally she doesn't write to me." "You can't help me, then?" Hurley answered. "11'm! That's a pity." He turned awav. "Well, goodby'. Clad to have seen you again." (lilston stood motionless outsid* the shop, watching. It was not until Hurley's figure disappeared in th( dusk that he realized what he had done. In his selfishness he had not given a thought to Lily Flushed with shame, he locked tin door behind him and set off at t run. "Big milliner's ? Cranthorpe's ? that's where she is!" he panted, ai he overtook Hurley at last. "1 remember she mentioned?" "Sure? By Jove, then, I know their place well." He patted flilston'i flliniililor * 11 ........... .. i iin11ivm, tiwiiuiy. Walter (lilston gave a gasp nf relief as ho moved awav. He felt von glad that he had spoken. By the morning he had decided that there was only one course tc pursue, and immediate action wni necessary. Closing the shop, he traveled to town. At IiCeke's head office, when he expressed a wish to see the head of tin firm, he was kept waiting an houi or more. At last n clerk showed hiir grudgingly into the inner office. "You're Mr. Iioeke?" he blurted. "I've come to make you an offer You're going to open a branch jusl opposite my shop. I wondered ? wondered whether you'd care to Inn me out?von understand so as t< avoid competition." lie was overawed by the magnifi ecneo of the big premises and tin sum he quoted was considerably leas than the minimum he had settled upon during the train journey. But even when he mentioned this price Mr. l/ccke gave an ironical, half-inI credulous smile. "Why, when we've l?een open a month you'll he glad to take half as much, (tooddav!" Walter Gtlston reddened u he itood up. | "lt*j my living rou'n Ukiog iway!" he* cried. """That shop was my father's?my grandfather's, too. Vou come everywhere, you and your stores, and you crush men like me. You don't care if we starve. All you think of is your profits! I'd have fought you. I would not have given. in n-lllinni n ctmirnla " TTlS rniOP U J J n 11U" 111 Ck Oil ' vivv dropped. "Bnt I'm?I'm helpless." "Business is busi-ness. Bnt, personally. I'm not a hard-hearted ~ -man." Mr. Leeke" leatfed "forward. 'Why. now I come to think of it, I know vou're K.hop jjry well. I come from that part of the country myself. Twenty years ago I was a hav at school there. Let me see, what is your name? Of course, now I remember you !'' Walter Clilston swung around. "You're Charlie Leeke. Your fathom was John Leeke of the Manor farm? Yes; I can see the likeness. I never guessed?never <1 reamed?" He opened the door abruptly. "We were hoys together. You'd forgotten that. Well, go and do your worst." With an angry wave of the hand he passed out. ****** "Oh, I haven't been waiting a minute!" Lily Coleridge stammered. "Now"?she laughed uncertainly? "1 cun't think what 1 came to buy!" Walter (iilston's embarrassment kept him silent. "I didn't like the Cranthorpes a hit, so I haven't even stopped the full week." "Ifohert Hurlev?he found you?" ,, "Quite easily, lie was glad you told him where to come. Lucky I mentioned it." She hesitated. "He had some news for me. A little Lit unexpected. 1 was surprised when lie showed me her photograph. His wife, you know," she added ierkilv. "Hurley's married?" Clilston gasped. "Only three months ago. But he couldn't bring her over to Kngland." Walter (lilston stared at her as if through a mist. "But I thought?understood?" "1 said he was very brave to bring the news here, where he must have flirted with no end of girls." She smiled. Her eyes were shining. They iihU Walter (.Jilston's. and the glaneo thrilled him. Then he repressed an eager inquiry, and lowered his head. ''You know about I.eeke's Stores? They're coming here." She nodded. "Things mustn't he as had as they , look. I'm in trouble, too. I've nowhere to go. My father and mother, that is?they were angry when I left. They're worse now. They say it serves me right and I must try to find another situation somewhere. They don't want me at home any more." "If only I had a home to olfer you." Walter (lilston heard himself answering. "1 would ask you to marry me. But as it is?" "1 made believe I was tired of a country life," returned Iuly Coleridge in a whisper, "hut 1 went away ?partly?because 1 thought you didn't love me even a little bit. Are you going to make me say any more ?" "l.ily," he said indistinctly, "remember I.eeke's Stores are coming, and I'm hard up, even now." "Can't we share our troubles to ! gother ?" They drew apart as the postman : entered. As the envelope lay face downwards she read the name on the j flap." "Why, here's a letter from Leeke's! Of>en it! S?*e what they say!" A moment later Walter Cilston gave a cry. lie stumbled round point inglv excitedly: "Dear Oilston: For old times' sake 1 hope you'll accept the offer of a permanent post. Will you give up vour own shop and manage our new branch? You know all the people in the neighborhood, their likes and dislikes. The salary will be?" "More than enough for two!" Walter (lilston exclaimed. "Lily, do vou understand?" i At her low answer he slipped an i arm about her. "And I thought I had no friends." he laughed aloud in sheer happiness. , "What a mistake I made!" COAL MINER DIED A HERO. A hero of the pit was discovered bv a search party in the Senghenydd mine, where "TO victims of the reI cent Wales colliery disaster are still entoml>cd. The explorers readied the Pretoria district mwl fnnn<l tKJrU i bodies, amongst them l>eing a little l?ov and a miner around whose neck his arms were still clinging. One of the search party said the position of the bodies showed that the man was carrying the hov, in a hrave attempt to save his life, when he was overtaken by the fumes. "Scribble savs that when he is in the throes of composition he forgets to eat." "That's convenient." "How so?" "The chances are that he can't eat. j anyway, unUI he has turned out aume THE F< frmmffional | sunmcsciiool Lesson <Cy E. O. SELLERS. Director of Evening Department. The Moody Dihle Institute. Chicago.) LESSON FOR APRIL 5 j' CHRIST'S TABLE TALK. l.ESSON TKXT?I.uke 14:7-21. ! t?Ol.l>HN TKXT?"Everyone that exaltoth himself shall he humbled: und he that humhleth himself shall he exalted." I.uke , 14:11. This lesson Is connected directly with that of two weeks ago. the events occurring in the house of the "chief Pharisee." 14:1. I. An Honorable Promotion, vv. 7-11. ?The spirit of humility here emphasized by Jesus is not that of commending the man who piously, osten tutiously, takes the low seat, and then is angry if lie Is not promoted; tinman who says "no" and is angry if he is taken at his word. These words are not only to be applied literally but have a wide scope and embrace all the followers of Christ in every walk ' of life. The sincere evidence of this spirit is proof of the nearness of the disciple to the life of his Lord; see Phil. 2:3. 6. 7 and Matt. 18:4. Men scramble for position and power to bo obtained at the hands of other ( men. Jesus, the keen observer, saw men striving in this house, and criticizes such conduct. "l^est haply." 1 twice repeated, gives us the clew to i this section, (luests are not to seek the higher seats, "lest haply" more | worthy ones should appear who ought to occupy them. Real Hospitality. II. A Holy Recompense, vv. 12-14. ?The man who makes a feast invites those who can return his favor or else thereby pays his obligations to society. Not so the members of tin* kingdom (Matt. 6:1-6, 16-18). "Recompense" is here the key. Those who are needy cannot make any material recompense and the one who gives the feast does not need any ?? . 1.-. -? * uiuci i cwui|i(-iinr uiuii mm ui tu?" Kratltude of those served and the approval, "well done." from tlie king, i This does not forbid the interchange ; of hospitality and courtesies but does warn us lest in our elaborate feasts we overlook the poor, but worthy ones. In the kingdom, hospitality consists of a desire to give rather than to get. 111. A Heavenly Invitation, vv. 15. 24.?Ono of the guests seems to have been impressed with the words of Jesus and exclaimed, "Messed is lie that shall eat bread in the kingdom of ; God" He seemed to realize that the i conduct Jesus was speaking of was to be found only there. In answer our . i Edisto High ( For Se McElham Fort Mi | " THE LPS DOtVI Come to EVERYBODY you are making mone saving it. then when you will have somethi ? Be independent. Sta with the "Old Reliabl Savings Bank W. B. MEACHAM, Prisidcnt lBlSH5H5a5H5H5Bg5gsaini55a5H)i I DID - II |2 That we are better Oi to furnish the best of fl CROCERY line? Tr) Qj order and you will lei great advantage in 1 KJ filled promptly with tl K on the market. The < Cj is par-excellent, our uj perfect and we gladly {(j that proves unsatisfaci c; | PARKS G jj] E. S. PARK. i nacacaqccaCTaciqocacacIa 1mMBBHHB^HBEBUE9KBSUKIHMEB9V I ThViES the HnfMom of God. Do our feaBts call forth wisdom or sensual pleasure oa'y? I J. Harry Foster, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rock Hill, - - - S. C. I irade Guano ile by sy & Go., 11, s. c. and NS Of LIFE if. Right now, while y. you ought to be the ''Downs" come illP" t n fnll ho/ilr n?A.? 0 . w ... I a vuvn UJfUli. II rt a bank account >6 ii of Fort Mill, W. B. MtACHAM, Jr.. Cashier 18 ?5a5Sagg52SBSB5B5H5a5HS5p) Ml p> a - KNOW prepared than ever ^ everything in the n) r us with your next in irn that there is a jjj laving your orders .0. le very best eatables (3 quality of our goods i^j delivery service is ||0 take back anything [in tory to you. Ijjj )GER Y CO. I: S, Manager. Ifljj JBII1T r7TmJr^^TTKSjEZaBMIC3?I| DRT MILL Ia>rd gave us this parable of the great upper In which he describes an atmosphere like that created by his host and the guests there present. By this parable he replies to this man. contrasting the admixing of an ideal and being willing to be governed by that Ideal, (a) Those who refused. This was a "great supper," a time of great Joy and many were invited, see Gal. 4:4. 5: Matt. 3:2: Mark 1:14, 13. All men had to do was to ".'ome." Isa. 55:1; Matt. 11:28: John 7:37: Rev. 22:17. There were three who made excuses, yet all three refused the invitation. The first (v. 18) was the man whose property stood In his way ] (II Tim. 4:1ft; I Tim. 6:9). The second allowed a dumb ox. that might have received attention later, to take precedence over the glad feast. Domestic demands and godless home ties :?re used frequently by the evil one to keep men out of the kingdom. The ( third excuse (v. 20) was still less justifiable, for this man should have brought his wife with liim. It was her place as much as his to accept the j Invitation. However, to spurn God's Invitation does not mean that there -hull be any lack of guests, see John. 1:11 and Matt. 21:21. (2) Those who accepted this Invitation (vv. 21-241. Thus to be spurned made the master of the house "angry" (v. 21). God's Method. This is God's method of filling empty churches. If we wear out consecrated shoe-leather during the week men will not forget us on the Sab- ! bath, and guests Will always be found for God's table. "Compulsion" tv. i.?) Indicates intense, earnest effort in bringing men to Christ (II Cor. 5:20; Col. 1:28; II Tim. 4:2). Men should be reluctant only through a sense of their unworthiness, which is in reality their greatest possible fitness. Here again the question of host and | guest is thrus. upon us. In society we ask our friends and rich neighbors, lest haply they hid us in turn, or repay by making some other reeom- j pense. Our hospitality is a quid pro quo business. Thus there is set before us the blindness of human hearts ! in the excuses they make in answer j to God's invitation. In the matter of entering the kingdom of God it is the man who humbles himself that is exalted within. Men must stoop to reach the heights, we undergo in order to overcome. 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