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PROCEEDINGS OF PRESBYTERY Held With the McBee Presbyterian Church Last Week. * (Written for the McBee Courier) The past two weeks were great weeks for McBee. On September 2nd the Rev. W. A. Hafner, of Fort Mill Presbyterian church, came to aid the pastor of the McBee Presbyterian church in a meeting. The meeting closed Sunday night with the largest congregation we had ever seen in the McBee church Every one was pleased with Mr. Hafner's preaching. Then on September the 9th Bethel with ta-ontv ministers and twenty one ruling elders present, con. vened in the McBee church, and continued in session until Thursday morning. Rev. F. W. Gregg, of Rock Hill, preached the opening sermon Tuesday night. Rev. H. R. Murchison, of Lancaster, was chosen Moderator, and Rev. F. W. Gregg, temporary clerk. On Wednesday at 11 a. m. Rev. E. E. Gillespie. D. D.. of Yorkville, preached a very tine sermon from Isaiah 1:1$. At the lust meeting of our Synod a committee was appointed to bring in a report at the next meeting of Synod rearranging the boundaries of the Presbyteries. Should the report of this committee be adopted by the Synod it will place that part of Chesterfield county now in Bethel Presbytery in Pe<' Dee Presbytery. The Presbytery, by a unanimous vote, favored this change. Mr. Howard D. Smith, a student of our college at Clinton, was received ufider the care of the Presbytery as a candidate for the ministry. Rev. J. M. Holliday, D. I)., of Winnsboro, preached a strong sermon cn Thursday at 11 a. m. The McBee church, feeling that she had grown strong enough to have a regular pastor, called Rev. A. W. White, who had been serving the field for six and a half years as Stated Supply, to become their pastor. This call was placed in his hands, accepted and the Presbytery appointed Rev. J. M. Holliday, D. D , Rev. J. R. Millard and Mr. W. A. Clark a commission to conduct the installation services on Thursday at 8 p. in. This was done to the complete satisfaction of all concerned. The people of McBee, of all the denominations, entertained the PresW bytery in a handsome way. The Pres<*? bytery experessed its appreciation in i;j| the following resolution: Resolved. 1st That Presbytery place on record its hearty appreciation of the effoits made by the good people of McBe? of all churches and of all denominations and of the Board of Trade, which resulted in making our stay among them so pleasant. 2nd That the pastor read this resolution from the pulpit and conimunitt>f s:niii? m the other churches. And, now. in behalf of the Presbyterian church of McBee, I wish to thank 'lie friends of the other churches for their hearty cooperation in the entertainment of the Presbytery. When we can do anything for you, call on us. A. Walker White, Pastor. Home of Dwarf Races. In Luzon, the Philippines, there dwells a race of dwarfs known as the Aetas, whose average height is four feet eight or nine inches. They live In the mountains of the Interior, thus bearing out the theory of one authority upon little peoples that most. If not all, of tb? dwarf races survive only in the most inaccessible parts of the continents or islands to which they belong. Everybody Pretty Qreen. "It's no wond?r that Cain turned tot so badly." "How so!" "Neither his parents nor anybody else In the neighborhood had had any txperlence In bringing up children.* Don't Let Baby Suffer with Eczema and Skin Eruptions. Babies need a perfect skin covering. Skin eruptions cause them not onSy-^intenfce suffering, but hinder their growth. Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment can be relied on for relief and permanent cure of suffering babies whose skin eruptions have made their life miserable. "Our baby was afflicted with breaking out of the skin all over the face and scalp. Doctors and skin specialists failed to help. We tried Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment and were overjoyed to see baby com. pletely cured before one box was used' writes Mrs. Strubler, Dubuque. Iowa. All druggists, or by mail, 50c. Pfeiffer Chemical Company, St. Loujlfe, Mo. , Philadelphia, Pa. Advertisement. GRANDMOTHER'S DESK Old Love Letter the Newly Weds Found in a Secret Drawer. By PRANK PIL80N. Grandmother Penderby was one of those sweet-faced, silvery haired old ladles who aeema to hare stepped straight out of the pages of some seventeenth oentury novel. She ruled by J love, but unquestionably. In the old house at Lynbrook. Nobody would ever have dreamed of disobeying or thwarting Grandmother Penderby. Even "Squire" Penderby, hot-headed and Impetuous as he was, j had never done that. One glance from grandmother, one wave of the uplifted j finger, and the Squire was reduced to, a condition of trembling obedlenca That was why the quarrel between i Mildred, the old lady's granddaughter, I and her fiance, Will Hurlbut, was made up so quickly. They had been J engaged two years and they were to be married at Christmas. But Will: - - . I had been attentive to another girl?at least, so Mildred fancied?and harsh I words left harsher feelings in their1 wake; and the end of It was that Mildred threw her ring at Will and Will clapped on his hat and slammed the door. "Quarreled? Did you say you and Will had quarreled, Mildred?" exclaim-; ed her grandmother that evening, when she had succeeded In forcing an explanation of her grandchild's tearstained face and dejected spirits. "How can a girl quarrel with the man she is engaged to marry?" "Because I have found out that he Is false," sobbed Mildred unhappily.1 "He?he?he didn't love me; he has never cared for me at all." "He cared for you enough to offer you his hand and name, Mildred," re-! piled her grandmother. "And I pre "Didn't You Ever Break an Engage-! ment, Grandmama?" sume that you had some knowledge of his nature and disposition before you accepted him?" "I was deceived," said Mildred. "All girls may be deceived. We claim the right to act for ourselves nowadays. It isn't like It was when you were ; young and women had no power of Initiative. Didn't you ever break an engagement, grandmamma?" The old lady's cheeks had suddenly' grown scarlet "From the day when I accepted Mr. Penderby," she said, "my will was his will and his wishes were mine, and I placed the most implicit trust in him." So the quarrel ended, because that **V??nlncr U'hon Will mo Vioolr In a penitent mood. Grandmamma Penderby led him straight Into Mildred'* boudoir, and made Mildred put her hand in Will's, and then wisely went out and left them together. And ten minutes later, when they appeared before her, as she sat in her chair, knitting, the faces of both were radiant. The Penderby homestead was one of those quaint, old-fashioned houses that are still to be found, here and there, upon the very borders of our modern cities. It was full of little nooks and closets, and its attics were stacked with the accumulated debrie of generations: old trunks, old furniture, old papers. A week before their marriage, Grandmother Penderby, who had been rummaging in what she called her private store room, appeared before Mildred and Will, flushed and triumphant. In her arms she bore a heavy, old-fashioned writing desk. "This is to be one of my wedding presents to you children." she said. "And don't turn up your noses at it, either of you, because my mother thought enough of It to give it to me when I was engaged." Mildred had. often ma the little desk, but Instinctively she li*d_ Refrained from tampering with It She knew that grandmother valued It highly?bo highly that she had never allowed It to be used, but had kept It on the high shelf among her most cherished treasures. She had always suspected that some of grandmother's treasured relics were kept hidden In It But when she opened It It was empty, and only the faint odor of dead rose leaves betrayed the fact that It had contained anything but dust "We'll keep?what shall we keep In It Will?" Mildred asked. "Our love letters," responded Will, promptly. "That Is, If It Is Mf enough. But Isn't It strange, Millie, that a desk of this size should have such a very small Interior? It almost looks as though It might contain a secret drawer." "There does seem to be a lot of space underneath the drawer," said Mildred, fingering the edges of the desk. "Why, Will, It rings quite hoi*low. Just tap it and listen." ?? ?jij v. _l i a ~a u i lb bciutiuijr uiu img uunuvy. nuu it. did seem as though there were soma i second drawer under the first But the cunningly arranged veneering gave no evidences of any opening. Will tapped and tapped In vain. "I guesa there Isn't any secret drawer, Millie," said Will, and set the desk down upon the table with a bang. And then a curious thing happened. The Jar apparently set some long devlBed spring to working, for: the whole front of the desk flew open, i revealing a little, flat compartment lm-! mediately beneath the drawer. A single sheet of yellow paper, covered with faded writing, fey there. Will looked at It and then snatched It up and began reading. "Will!" exclaimed Mildred reprov-, ingly. "But I must read It," he exclaimed.! "Look at this signature?It Is that of my grandfather, Ebenezer Hurlbut. It may be some long-lost will. But it was no will. It was a letter ( addressed to Grandmother Penderby, and it ran as follows: '"My Dearest Own Elizabeth: "Your cruel words to me today,; though they have sorely wounded me, cannot quench the passion for you that burns in my bosom. So, since you have said that this unhappy misunderstanding of ours must end our j engagement, since you have forbid me 1 to approach the shrine and alter of j my devotion, I shall place this within your mother's writlpg desk, hoping that some impulse will draw you hither, to open the little drawer you once showed me, and to find this outpouring of my soul. Elizabeth, you cannot mean that we must part for ever, that you will bestow your priceless self upon that dullard, Nat Enderby, for when your marriage bells ring out my life will become unbearable to me and I shall end this wretched exist-I ence. Without you, life will become Impossible. "Till time shall end. thine, "Ebenezer Hurlbut. "Jan. 24, 1857." Will Hurlbut folded up the paper and looked at Mildred. Her eyes were moist and her lips were quivering. "It must have lain there unnoticed these fifty years and more," she said. "We must not let her know, now." "No," answered Will, and, tearing the paper into strips, he let them flut- ( ter slowly out of the open window. j "Will," said Mildred, presently, "do you roraember the date of your grandfather's marriage?" "It was in the spring of 1858, I think?it must have been, because my j father was born that Christmas." "And grandmother was married in; the summer of 1857. It didn't last: long, this desperate passion, Will? But, dearest, do you know what grandmother told mo once?it was just after our stupid quarrel? That when she was young no girl ever dreamed of quarreling with the man she was en-, gaged to marry." Will laughed as he kissed her. "Oh, well, I guess that human nature was pretty much the same In those times as it is nowadays," he said. "But, Mildred, dearest?" "Will?" 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