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|The I Com piiiiHHmiiimiiiiinimiiiiniiiHimni I A SHOT FIRED IN FARAWAY ASTER T Synopsis?Clay Wimburn. a y Kinu. met*i* prtrnv i/apn?ic rvij?, *? Clay Id Wall street. After n whirl Daphne goes to New York with Daphne's brother. Bayard, has just bride. 1 ei!a. Daphne and her mot! Daphne meets Tom Du;;ne. man traded to her. Daphne accldenu ! except for his salary. Bayard un< pectediy. The three women set out young- r women buy expensive go\ Bayard is furious over the expensi Indignant, deelnres she will ee.rn h fnent with Clay. Through an inti Reben. a theatrical magnate, to gi panics. Her first rehearsal is a ri gives her another chance. Suddt gives Daphne her chance, but her s soled by Tom Duane. Daphne tur Iried, but the following day, us a r is cut in half and they are forced CHAPTER XiV?Continued. -lOll was thliS that he hud made himaetf important enough to advance tepidly in his Arm. And he hud put * large share of his salary every week into a savings bank. With his ??tra commissions and hits of unexpected lock he had bought securities mi Itnnreininhlp v?i1iip_ These lie had kicked away In a safe-deposit vault, Tbey paid him only four or five percent. but they were as sure as anything mundane. And twice a yeai ley granted him the lofty emotion ?/ the coupon cutter. lie hud paid cash for what tnerAaudlse he bought and demanded special discounts for it. In time tlu many mickles made a muckle. lie bad fcre thousand dollars' worth of bonds his safe deposit box. And then he married?pawned him elf at the marriage shop. He kept AW* hosrd a secret from Leila. Now he saw a chance to use the Menta that he had buried in a napSin. He filled the ears of Clay and daphne with his market jargon. lie sras as unintelligible to Daphne as a Mid Scot talking golfese. "Look at Q. & O.," he would say; at eighty-five a year ago. Friend of mine bought it. People ?bo- were in the know said it was going up. It ought to have gone up. Ant It didn't. Dropped slowly and hfekeaingiy to forty-three. Today it ts forty-six. If I had gone into the market the other day with five thousand dollars and snapped it up at JbUy-three I'd have cleaned up three Hundred and a half in no time." \ "First catch your five thousand HbJFars," said Clay. *Tve caught it." said Bayard. "I've bad it all along." "You have?" Clay groaned. "If I'd 3nown that I'd have borrowed it to IT* marked on." "Not In a million years," said B.iyHTfC "When I've made a killing with tfils mcmey I'll make you nil a presdat. but you couldn't pry this out of we with a crowbar. I wish I knew jrtuTp to borrow more. If you can any money. Clay, don't you qpend it in matrimony. A fellow can (|D$ married any time, but It's only in** in ten years that you can climb aftesnJ a market after a panic and ?dlr in with the tide." IBe went to his safe deposit vault, Sm& out his bonds, carried them to He rice president of his bank, and Jc*T?wed all that he could raise on itfar securities. The bonds had fallen IHmr par on account of the depres sbdd, bnt Bayard was granted 80 per *nt of their face value, minus 110 iyys* discount at 5 per cent. His nneinic bank acount was sudjLmly swollen by three thousand nine tLmdrcd and seventy-nine dollars and eighteen cents. He sought out a broker, a college friend whom he could trust, to advise Mm honestly. They conferred on the rtocks to buy. The old dilemma #?ul<! not he escaped: those that offcred the most profit offered the most ***k. To buy on margins was further Bangor with promise of further profit, Tet, after all. Bayard felt, to huv Vtttright. however wise, was tame. t*rn if he doubled bis money In * mi Ul have only eight thousand iu jface of his four. And eight thou?bd nas no fortune. Tbe question of what storks to bet m tas a thrilling one. requiring a Aug war council, but at length th< Aspo-*tion was made and he gave his *oker the command to go forward The market crept up and up. ltayard tfrmed his profits baek into his prcwtiition. He was growing rich I** was planning works of lavish atari; y. works of art. the purchase W b >ic?i i tv.n ?r luiiu vi u< Some yeurs before, when President Tatt was in*ununited, every omen *a5 fine. The weather bureau prom iaed fair weather. There was -not a Jan* of storm anywhere upon the eon And then n blizzard "bacUeci from the ocean and played havoc Witt the throngs. So upon the era o? CATERPILLARS CAUSE RASH Several Cases of Blood Poisoning Reported at Emergency Hospital of Salt Lake City. Ho Jess than four cases of blood poiaowivg and body rash caused by a wlrwknt variety of caterpillar have fern reported to the emergency bosjtotl says the Salt Lake Tribune. Mrs. JAean R. Daynes of 876 South West Temple street, appealed to the city ^fecials for advice In regard to a rash iiiiiinii)iiiiniinmiiiiiiiiiiim:inmiiinmii. Thirte mandi II1HHHIIHIMIII11III1IIIII1H1IIIIIHIIIIHIIHHIIHI =tT1 SERBIA BRINGS SUDDEN DIS- ! 0 BAYARD. oung New Yorker on a visit to Clevelose brother is in the same office with wind courtship they become engaged. t her mother to buy her trousseau. * married and left for Europe with his P ler install themselves in Bayard's Hat. c -about-town, who seems greatly tit- * illy discovers that Clay is penniless, t his wife return to New York uncx- I on a shopping excursion and the two f vns. having them charged to Bayard. * i\ seeing hard times ahead. Daphne. 1 er own living and breaks her engage- I rodu tion by Duane, Daphne Induces e ve her a position in one of his com- P aseo. but Ileben, at Dunne's request, n illness of Miss Kemhle. tlie star. r icting Is a dismal failure. She Is conns to Clay and they plan to be mar- fi esuif of the hard times. Clay's salary 1 to u andon their pians. 3 good feeling and democratic equality v und civilized peace the European war ' backed in from nowhere. 1 A voting man from Serbia shot a 0 grand duke of Austria, and the world 1 lu-ard of Sarajevo for the first time, 1 > hut not the last. The bullet that slew 1 the Austrian heir multiplied Itself us > :..?A .?# mtooiloo A S ' j i?> III.I^IV mm miuun.^ wi iiu^iiv.o( n I young shoemaker from Bavaria, to his 11 .! great surprise, killed an old Belgian * ( schoolteacher he had never heard of. v : The schoolteacher fell Into a ditch s ' still clasping his umbrella. The shoe- *' i maker moved on with a strange ap- j c petite for shooting. j f Refugees iu hordes fdled the roads'? I j with a new Pharaonic exodus. So ' j many children plodded along in hun- !l I j gry flight that Herod might have been I s ! hunting down the innocents again. i ' With the moral cataclysm went a financial earthquake. The European exchuuges Hung their doors shut. The American exchanges tried to keep their shop windows open, but bad to t close them down. c Bayard Kip was among the first cas- n unities. Before he could put In a stop t order his inurclns were cone. He hud v said that prices, having struck hot- 11 torn, could go no lower. Now the hot- c loiu itself was knocked out. Prices stopped falling at last bocause of the closing of the markets. 1 Europe established a general inorato- < rium. America established one of ,v sentiment. Everybody owed somebody else, and everybody gave tolerance be- ' cause everybody needed it. Night fell on the commercial world, . a night Illumined by horrors unknown 4 before. P.ayard's factory could not ( meet even its diminished pay roll. The ' president of the concern could not ! borrow a penny at the bank of which j * lie was a director. The factory shut ! i down, sending all Its workmen into j the hordes of the unemployed. The j oflice forces were reduced to a mini- > luum and the salaries of the minimum ' further reduced. Clay was thrown out of even Lis half-Job and Bayard j J was put on half-pay. ' Bayard's sober thoughts concerned ' themselves with extricating himself ' ^ from the wreckage. It was not pos- j v silde to deharrass himself of everything. lie could n-'t give up his expensive apartment. It was leased for 1 a year and a half more. He could not I dismiss ids expensive wife: she was leased for ninety-nine years. He i could not give up his character, his I costly tastes, his zeai for front, the maintenance of a good facade. The instinct of lovable bluff was seen in his telegram to Leila. lie " j wanted her at home to comfort him, i now that he had no business for tier to hamper. Besides, he could not af- 0 ford to keep her at Newport. Out of t . his ominously small funds he tele- n I graphed her a liberal sum to pay her t hills and her railroad fare and parlor j , car fare. He met her and found her f , astonishingly beautiful in her million- n , aire uniform. He felt like the pauper who received . a white elephant for a present. But j' she was gorgeous in her trappings. r] ! They embraced with mutual approval, j , He laughed: |, "I was going to begin economy by j, cutting out the taxi business, but I i eoublu't any a Cleopatra like you in I a i i the subway. You look like all the t ' moii. y in the world. And you're worth | ; if." In the tnxicah be crushed lu-r to ! ( : him again in a dismal ecstasy and. t i j sighed gayly: "You're too grand for ' j . i me, honey. I'm busted higher than a ^ ; kite. You didn't bring borne any u change, of course." i "Idid better than that." she beamed, t ; and, being married to him. made uo s bones about bending and disclosing, i one entire silk stocking most ele- (; gantly repleted. It was transparent, t , translucent, indeed, like gossamer r : over marble, and of a sapling sytn- v i metry except for one unsightly knob c which she deftly removed and placed t t in the hand of Ikiyard. J j He did not need to glance nt iits t I palm to tell that it was full of bank- j ' i notes. i i ri "A hat's nil tlr -'" b-* said. 11 that had broken out on her baby's o back. Mrs. Daynes said she bad found f: an ordinary looking yellow caterpillar l In her baby's clothing and discovered p the rash later. She was advised to t call in a physician immediately. "Caterpillars are the larvae of a p lepldopterous Insect, not necessarily a t butterfly, in the first stage of meta- v tnorphosis," according to Webster. The c larvae of such insects as the geom- t etrld moth or the hawk moth are u smooth and are not poisonous. The large yellow haired ones have a pencil c i 1 i I -.;??r r.m'iMiiiiiiiiinmiininiiniiniH enth nent niiiHiiniiiiniiiimmiiiHinnmHiiiiiiiiTil And she, prim and proper ntrnin, hortled. "That's the money you tele?V1 n fA ?-*?? Tr m T7 Hll ] G With " ' ,ni|?uru mt? iu yaj ui/ i/mw ? ? "But?" "This Is no time to pay bills." "You're a genius," he said. And she was, iu her way. When they were at home again he old her of his rjlnous speculations. *he did not reproach him. She was rambler enough to thrill at the high hance, and sportswoman enough not o blame him for losing his stakes. "Don't you worry!" she said, from lis lap, us from u dais. "We'll be ich yet. You mustn't imagine anvhing else. There's everything in hinting u thing is going to happen, 'm too sensitive to be n Christian Scientist about pain, but I am one about rood luck. You must Just tell yourelf that you're going to come out rll ight and you will. "And we must keep up appearances ! :o that other people will believe in j is. IC* the only way, too, to keep 'our <?^ctit good. I learned that at Newport. People who are people up here never pay their bills. That's rhy they get trusted everywhere, and save plenty of cash. Their creditors ( lon't dare insult 'em or sue 'etn. The nily people who get sued are the poor Ittle dubs that pay cash most of the line and then ask to be trusted when hey're hard up." Bayard had rebuked Leila for pending money on clothes and on imusenients. But she had had the tin: she still had the clothes; and vhere wore the fruits of his years of elf-denial? Where were his hoarded arnings? Ills few bonds were irreleeniabiy in pawn. And on the roads if Belgium uud East Prussia myriads if wretches who had kept thrift and niiided them houses were staggering dung in hungry penury, fugitive from hnttcred homes and wondering about he uoxt day's bread. CHAPTER XV. Bayard tried Leila's recipe for a Ime, but there were expenses that he ould not charge, and even the wad of uoney she had smuggled out of New- j ort did not last long. Other people I rere no more willing to pay bills than le. Moneys that were owed to him he ould not collect. He could not re >he Ran to Her Father and Flung Her Arms About Him. pond to i>.? multitudinous appeals for ihurlty. This was a real slmme In! lines of surh frantic needs. He could lot do any of the honorable, plousnnt hint's that one can do with money. Ie had to do many of the dishonorible, loathsome things one without , iionev do. In his desperation Rnyord's thoughts everted to his original rescuer, his at her. He never appealed to the old nan In vain. Ruyanl had often proinsed himself the delight of sending mine a big chock as a subtraction com his venerable debt. But it was ! promise easy to defer, in the face of !! the other temptations and oppor- j unities. His father never pressed ' tiin. never expected a return of the i in?ney lie had been investing in the my. For a child Is a piece of furnitire bought on the instalment plan to ;o into somebody's else house as scon is it is paid for. Bayard put off the appeal to his faher as long as he dared, hut at last at down to the hateful letter. He hutcd to trouble his poor old' Utd at such u tiiue (lie wrote with ruth), hut his very life depended on aiding some immediate money. He vas young and husky and he would he in his feet in a Jiffy. He would pay ack every cent !u a short while, even f he had to borrow It of some one lse. Anyway, In a few weeks the innicky conditions would be over and msiness would riturn to the norma'.. Ie knew, he wrote, that "Old Reliable f hairs that look like horns and a I aslcule of hairs that resembles a tall, t Is the sting from these hairs that olsons, as It Is almost Impossible for he Insect to bite. No case of a caterpillar sting has iroved fatal, so far as the officials of he Salt Lake hospitals know. Mothers i-ere advised to keep their very young hildren off lawns and from beneath rees, unless some one was in attend,nce to watch them. George Williams, thirty-eight years ild, of 537 South West Temple, also fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiirHl 15 1?1 V I El " I ~ I n I I1 ? d _ = i] By |=| RUPERT HUGHES P | 1=1 1 = ? Ooprrtfhtby HarpMABroUMn 1 = 1 j iniiiiiHiMiiiiiiHiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiHimmli) , Kip" could perform his usual miracle \ and get blood from some of those t Cleveland turnips. Fie was so sure of his father that he | ended his letter with an advunce pay* ( tnent of thanks. This was the first ] payment he had made In advance for 5 a long time. j He sealed the letter, put a special \ delivery stamp on It, and took it to the branch post office so that It would reach Cleveland without fall the next morning. When he got back to the house s there was a telegram from home. < "leaving beaver due tomorrow a. j ra. don't meet me but be home must ? see you Important mamma well love. 1 "FATHER." The next morning Bayard rose be-, times to meet his father at the train. And Daphne went to the Grand On- : trul station with him. She ran to i her father and tluug her arms ubout him, and Bayard hugged him and car-; tied his suitcase for him. It was no i time to be tipping a porter. Nor to be j making use of tuxicabs with the Jit- . ney subwuy at hand. Bayard lugged his futher's suitcase aloug Fifty-ninth : street. The hull boy, who had not been i tipped for some days, observed a strict neutrality. He was feeling the j pinch, too. j When breakfast was ended Wesley j noted that Leila herself carried the j dishes away, with Daphne's help. [ When the table was clear she closed the door on the two men and said: j "We'll leave you two aloue to talk ! business." The two men regarded each other askance, as uneasily as two wrestlers circling for a hold. Wesley was the first to speak, lie said: "Well, my bey?" "I wrote you a long letter Inst night, dad," Bayard said. "You did? What about?" Bayard had guessed the situation; he saw the cruel Joke of It. He j thought he could dull the edge with mockery, lie snickered, rather cravenly: "I wrote to ask you to lend me some money. I guess I wasted the postage." "And I guesS I wasted the fare over here. I thought I oughn't have taken a berth In the sleeper, but your moth- j er Insisted?said I'd not been foelin' any too well." Bayard laughed outright?a laugh wet with vinegar tears. Wesley sank Into a chair with the Utile whlinflBfcf a sick old mun. 'Bnyanl^Q^^fe his father and put his arm abort^ilm and regretted his Wall street disaster with a ferocious remorse. Hei could not* speak, and there was a. long dumbness before Wesley sighed: "I guess we got to lose the home, then." That "then" was a history In a word. Bayard bent his head In shame at his helplessness. As usual, It was Wesley who found a shabby comfort In the situation?found It for his son. "Don't you think anything more about it, my boy. I'm kind of relieved." He giggled with a pitiful senility. "1 been so ashamed at trulpsln' over here to bother you instead of rushln' over to help you like I ought to?being your father?that I'm kind of glad you can't help me. I got no right to add to your troubles. I'm supposed to take care of vou." Bayard kept groaning: "To lose your home! To think of J you losing your home! And me standing by!" "Why, it's nothing, Bayard. After * all, we're not in Belgium. We've got friends. And relations. There's no y danger of anything happening to us." 5 Daphne and Leila overheard this con- f versation while listening in the hall. Daphne clung to Leila and buried her face in Leila's bosom to smother her frenzied grief. Leila, mopping Daphne's cheek with her own handkerchief, caught the glint of a diamond on her finger. It glistened like u great, immortal tear. It inspired her with a new hope. She had often consoled herself with the thought of her Jewels as a final refuge, but she had put off the evil day. Now she felt that the time had come. She threw open the door and spoke Into the gloom with a voice of n seraphic beauty: t "I couldn't help hearing what you v wore saying. You needn't he down- i hearted, though, for I've just thought a of a way to help daddy out." He was u "daddy" to her also. !| Bayard and Wesley turned and i stared at her in amazement. Sin' 1 went on in a kind of ecstasy. > "My rings!" she cried. "Don't you 1 sec! My diamonds and rubies! And " I've got a necklace or two, and some ehnlns and brooches. They're worth ii lot of money. And you're welcome to 'em, daddy." t The men were confused with too tl many emotions to know what to feel, t much less what to say. Leila's mis- t slon was so divinely meant that It was r sacrilege to receive it with reluctance, i! And yet for Wesley to let this new r daughter-in-law pawn her trinkets for r him was post-graduate humiliation. s The end of It was that Bayard de- n of Salt Lake, was bitten on the thigh S by a caterpillar while in bed. Within v an hour the poison had spread through n his entire system and a rash had a broken out on his arms and back. He a< was treated at the emergency hos- S pltal, bringing the caterpillar with ft him. d ri Feeding the Soldier?. tl Although he would a great deal e rather he taking part In cavalry raids, h Tapt. John C. Pegram, for 15 years at- w tachod to the cavalry of the UDlted[a mnded the melum.hotj priviie^ , islting the pawnshop himself. Leila mule a heap of her adornments. Lust if all she took from her neck the little ilaque he had given her with its starlust of diamonds frosting a platinum iligree. lie kissed her mournfully and hurled away to the pawnshop, fie ikulked In and out like a burglar, and te brought away a pack of tickets and i lump of money. 'I he pawnbroker ipologlzed for lending him less than tnlf the value of the gems; so many ieople were looking to the pawnbrokrs for salvation, he said, that he could lot find cash enough for all. Tin e.} vere hard Indeed when the pawnbrok;rs were overworked. Bayard went home and surrendered :o Lelia her funds. She passed thora iver to her father-in-law. Poor Wesey peeled off the minimum that would terve as a sop to his creditors and ;ald he would take the afternoon tr? In lome. CHAPTER XVI. Daphne had watched Leila's little scene with as much confusion us the >thor two Kips. She felt a normal lmount of Jealousy, of course, a* wt min to woman, but no more than a dealthy amount, for she liked Le'la ind she was grutefu! to Leila for heng able to rescue her father and toi icing willing to. It was a fine tlil-ig for Leila to Rtrip herself of her Inst tplendor to help an old fnther-in-luw ray the interest on a mortgage on u louse in another town. Daphne gcve Leila full meed ofvjDpluuse for that What embitterA^Daphne was tint it hnd to be Leila ami not herself ti nt saved her futher, and that Leila b id to do the deed by speudlng things she tiad not paid for herself?ornamerts, jewgaws, gifts. Leila had collected from life perhi.ps three thousand dollars' worth of j< \v ?ls and Duphne hnd collected a fifty ilollar check, framed?and that ch?c-H was in lieu of work. As soon as .?ne remembered that check she ran up t<j tier room and took it down from rhe wall, ripped off the back of the frame ind removed the check from the mat She studied it and thought, "The Qrst money und the last." Then a rigor and determination clenched all tier muscles in a kind of lockjaw. She mine out of the spusm in a tremor ol tiystericai faith. She spoke hot thought . loud in a fury: "It sha'n't be the last, it sha'n't, it sha'n't, by golly!' The feebleness of the expletive disgusted her. She tried to be poweiful t).v way of powerful language, lief ?r? she knew it she ripped out a resoundng oath that would have pleased good Queen Bess. 'By G?, I'll pay my way I ?honestly! like a man!" All her powder exploded in that one letonation. She fell over Into a chair In horror, The blusphcmy seemed to rattle aboul [he little room. It terrified her. Mrs, Chivvls ran down the hall, carrying hei ?verlasting sewing, and tapped on tht loor and asked: "Did you call me, my dear? Ai? rou ill?" "No, thank you. I'm all right. 1 iidn't say anything." That was doubly false. She had ;ald something. In the slang of the nour she bad "said something." She tind "said an earful," also a henrtful, Mrs. Chivvis supposed that what she tiad heard was some voice from the street, and went back aiong the hall, stitching as she walked. Daphne took the check and went lown to Bayard's apartment. Bayard vas on his way to the pawnbroker's, Leila was in his room. Old Wesley sat In a chair facing a wall. He seemed to see through It. Dnphne went to ilm and put the check In his hand, * t gaining what It was. "It's all I ever earned, daddy, and 1 vant you to have it." He looked at It und smiled and tear^ fairly shot out of his eyes. He patte.] ler hand between his and said: "Why, honey, I couldn't take yout loor little earnings! Not for anything n this world." "Please, daddy; it would make tr< jver so happy!" "But it would kill me! You don't van! to do that, do you? You must ipeno it on yourself. Buy yourwelf something nice with It." "-**T Daphne becomes a real "working girl," and she experiences some of the trials that-beset the path of the working girl in a,4iky 'ike New York. Go on w^f the story in the next issue. ii CO BE CONTINUED.) Canadian Money Orders. Canadian money onlers are Issued m blanks of various denominations, aeh with the amount of money for rhioh the order is issued printed on t. A lady living In Ontario, send'ug i bunch of 30-cent money orders to uake up a remittance to a Huston tirni, pologizes thus: "I apologize for all hese post otliee orders. It seems that he local postmaster got in a stock six ears ago. and the MO-cent orde-s were he slowest to sell. He has no others >n ii a mi now." Household W?'^ Savers. Use plenty of newspapers ahoul he kitchen, spreading them the oor when anything is likely to spat it. It Is easier to gather them up linn to clean up. If there is a kitchen unge not in use in the summer time t is well to prevent dampness and ust. If the kitchen has hut a gas nnge, then a good-sized waste bnsket hould be kept and the papers dift osed of in wbntorpp wnv hoc* mm i m0 ~-*0-n0 tates array, Is now putting In some ery hard strokes In the way of comilssary preparedness, so that If an rmy travels on Its stomach, as It does, ccordlng to tradition, the United tates forces will be able to go very lr Indeed. Captain Fegram has been etailed by the war department to repesent the commissary department at ae camps of the eastern and northastern departments. He has been In lew York for some time co-operating 1th the hotel and restaurant men who re enlisting cooks for the new army. IMPndVED UNIFORM INTELTiai RinAl SDNMrSOIOOL Lesson (By REV. P. B FITZWATER. D. D., Teacher of English Bible In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright. 1019. by Wesfe.w Nrwupsper I'Blon.l LESSON FOR APRIL 6 GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY. LESSON TEXTS-Oenesla 1:1. 27; Pealme 103:1-14; Matthew 6:24-34. GOLDEN TEXT-Our Father who art In heaven, hallowed be thy name.?Matthew 6:9. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL?Deuteronomy 6:4. 5: Psalm* 14T>:1-21: Isaiah 6:1-3: Matthew 22:3o-?S: John 4:24; 1 John 4:7-t6. PRIMARY TOPIC?The Heavenly Father's care for his children. JUNIOR TOPIC?God our Creator and Father. INTERMEDIATE TOPIC-What we owe to our Father In Heaven. > I. God the Creator (Gen. 1 :1. 27). I God was before nil things. God the uncaused en use Is the cause of nil i things, "Refore the mountain^ were t brought forth, or ever thou hndst formed the enrth and the world, even .. /in wvnumiiiik 10 everlasting, ,tiiou art God." (I'salm 90:2). The universe came Into being by the will and net of the personal being called God ! In verse one Is enunciated the rubi lime philosophy of every right life. In the beginning of all sclent e nnd ph'los[ cphy?God; In the beginning of every : life?God; In the beginning of every 1 year?God; In the beginning of every . day?God; In the beginning of every , business?God; In the beginning of every thought, plan and human relationi ship?God. Conviction as to this sets . one free froin the false philosophy of . the age. Man himself Is a creation of : God, not an evolution. Man was cre, ated In the likeness and Image of God , This precludes the foolish Idea that , man ascended from nnd through a , brute. He came Into being by u special creative act of God, having been , preceded by n special council of the , Godhead (Gen. 1:20. 27). Those *.?ho I believe this record repudiate thp Par, winlun theory of man's origin as not \ only a human vagary, but a vicious , philosophy Inspired by the devil. When , man ?:atne forth from the Creator's . hands he was neither a savage nor a baby; he possessed the powers of a innfliro nmn A a 111! ovn.nr.l? *>" , maturity of his Intellect, he named the nnlmals as they passed before hire. I II. God the Preserver (Psalms 103: I 1-14). All created things would perish were It not for the preserving mercies of r,od. It embraces the following gracious heneflclal acts: 1. Forgives all Iniquities (v. 3). Pardon Is the prime necessity If mornJ things are to be preserved. 2. Healeth all diseases (v. 3). This refers to the healing of the body and the soul. Renovation of i man's moral nature Is necessary. 3. Redeemeth the life from destruction [ (v. 4). Redemption Implies the pny- ' inent of all demands against the debt I or. God In Christ performs the part , which the Individual failed to perform , and crowns him with the full right of citizenship In his kingdom. 4. "Satj Isfleth thy mouth" (v. 5). This means | that God satisfies all legitimate desires and thus the youth Is renewed. The original capacities are restored to th ?Ir native vigor. .1. Executeth rlghteousj uess and Judgment (vv. 0-14). The wrongs of life nre righted and thus 1 man Is relieved of the burdens which they entail. He extends his pity to! ward us. 1 III. God Our Father (Matt. 6:24-34). Christ came to reveal the Father. ; The subjects of the kingdom will love him us a child loves Its father, i 1. Undivided nfTectlon (v. 24). Th<t 1 child of the heavenly Father makes the unequivocal choice between God and the world, for unless God has the first [ place he has no place. 2. Not anxious about food and cloth ? Ing (vv. 25-32). (1) It is useless (v. 27). Anxiety can bring nothing. "My Grd will supply all our needs" (Phil. 4:15). (2) It shows distrust of the Father (vv. 28-30). In the measure Hint nnn l? nnvlnn<j nhnnt thoco fhlntrs he shows his lack of faith In the abll* Ity and love of God. If we would please God we must come to hlra In faith (Hob. 11:0). The birds and flow ers shame us In this (vv. 26-28). (3) ? It Is heathenish (v. 32). We do not wonder that those who are Ignorant of God should manifest anxiety, hut for his children to do so Is to play the heatlvn. He knows that we have need of temporal things and If he cares foi the flowers and birds he will sureb not allow his chlldi en to suffer. 3. He diligently seeks the kingdom of God (vv. 33. 34). He subordinates temporal things to things of the spirit This shows the right relationship that I a child of (Sod Is to sustain to seen | iar affairs. Tills does not mean that a j , child of God does not exercise proper forethought in making a support for ! himself and family. The warning I* ' . not against legitimate forethought ; j hut anxious worry. , Nature of Love to Serve. There Is no other servant like God There Is no other being that labors with so much assiduity and that sc ' | humbles rumseir nnn sn nnwis UUWII un- < d:*r weakness mid so lifts up with his < strength and s<> wastes the unwastnble < existence of the Infinite as God In the , plenary service of love. Not only Is , this thnt which constitutes divinity, , hut It Is the life sind the Joy of God , doing pood, not easily, not pleasing, not reciprocally, hut to the Just and to the unjust, to the good and to the j bad alike. And It Is the nature ol , love to serve.?Henry Ward Beecher. What Would Christ Do7 In my dally life I am to ask "Flow would Christ have acted lu my clr , cnmstnnces? How would ho have in? act? How would Christ fulfil m> duties, do my work, fill my place, mcci my dltficultles, turn to account nil mj , capacities and opportunities?" Thb Is to he the law and Inspiration of mj whole life; not only of my oiifwnrr i acts, hut of nil my Inward thought.' | and desires. There Is to he a man! i gestation of the Divine Nature In rue | ?The Bishop of Vermont. V HEALTH mm CHESTER C011NTT INITIAL ENTERPRISE, WORTHY OF EMULATION BY OTHER COUNTIES IN STATE. CORRECTIVE CHILDREN'S W6RK Labor* of Nurse Will Be Preventive Rather Than Curative; She Will Do No Bedside Nursing. Chester.?Chester County is to hare a model county health uuit, the intlal one of its kind in South Carolina, and the State board of health will endeavor to its utmost to develop it into a model to be looked to by the entire commonwealth. Arrangements bar# been completed in Chester at a conference between Mrs. Ruth A. Dodd, the South Carolina supervisor of public health nursing and director of the bureau of chUd hygiene of the State board of health, and A. M. Aiken, president of the Chester Chamber of CommnvoA wK/iVoKir Vi o #/> A?*AI?I i<n(4 wTTI "icitc, nucicu; uic LUIC5UII15 uuiv win be established here. Mrs. Dodd says the plan proposed calls for the establishment of a health center with clinical equipment for the treatment of children needing corrective work. There will be furnished a nurse, who is well qualified and especially trained in this work. Already this nurse is now completing a coarse of special training and instruction for this work, and will be ready for Held work June 1. From June until January, 1920. she will be enabled to make a comprehensive survey of Chester County. She will have an automobile for transportation from one section of the county to the other. The nurses work will be preventive rather than curative. She will do no bedside nursing, but will assist by1 givmg Instructions for proper care of the patient. The plan Is to keep 25 persons well rather than to cure one sick person. Commends Carolina Officers. Fort Mill.?An olTiclal copy of general orders So. 2. issupd February 28, by Brigadier Ceneral Tyson, commanding the Fifty-nineth Brigade, Thirtieth Division, and containing the names of 14 South Carolina officers cited and commended for performance of duty, has been received hv a Fort Mill ofTicer and will he of Interest generally throughout the State. The order follows: "1. The following named officers of this brigade who were with it in the United States are cited and especially _ commended for having performed their duties in a highly efficient and able manner during the whole of the time that they were with this brigade in the United States and since Its arrival in France on the 24th day of May, 1918. and the brigade commander desires thus publicly to express his appreciation of the highly meritorious services they have rendered. Tho names of the officers with the One Hundred end Eighteenth Infantry commended by General Tyson are: Lteut. Col: Thomas B, Spratt, MaJ. Gabr'el H. Mahon, MaJ. Lindsay C. McFadden. MaJ. W'lliam L. Gillespie, MaJ. William D. Workman. MaJ. James H. Howell. MaJ. James E. Poore and MaJ. Edward B. Cantev. Those with other organizations are: Col. Cary F. Bpencc. Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Wyrick. MaJ. Charles W. Dyer, MaJ. Caleb R. Hathaway. Maj. Nathaniel E. Calleg and MaJ. Ernest W. Andes. Another Automobile Accident. Sumter.?L. E. Wood, an attorney of this city, sustained painful Injuries when he was knocked down and run over by an automobile driven by J. R. Kolbe. The car passed over Mr. Wood's legs. He was taken to the Tuomey Hospital where after an examination it was found that although he was painfully bruised and mashed he should be able to be out again in t short tine. While Mr. Wood is absent from Ms work Miss Edith DeLorme is acting as court stenographer. Child Injured by Elevator. Anderson ?The freight 'elevator of Manos Wholesale and Retail Frnit Store fell and the young boy, Leonard McCurrv. who was running it was seriously injured. The bone in one of his legs protruded until it almost came through the flesh. He was taken at onco to the hospital. The boy is abont 12 years of age. and is the son of a w'dowed mother, ^he boy is hnrt i-ory b'<d!y. reports the physician, and it will he weeks before he will he oat even if his injuries are not internal. Tug Sinks at Anchor. Chrrleston.?Efforts are being made to raise the tug Cynthia, which arriv?d here from Savaunah and which ?ank at the coal clock of William Johnion & Company. The sinking is stated to have been caused while the tug was loading coal, a heavy load on one jide causing the vessel to list too much, and water poured in. the tug soon settling at the bottom. The ??.. _ ?n/1ar Mmmnwi of CaDtaln _-yiiuna, unuci ? _ Harris, came here to tow the Norwegian bark Marpesia to Jacksonville. Oil Mill Shuts Down. St. Matthews.?Much to the disajv pointment of the planters in this section, the oil mill here has discontinued grinding seed for the season snd no more milling will be done until the fall. This action, however, was not arbitrary on the part of local authorities. Manager Cooper states that the mill has been working at capacity, but that it could not longer afford to grind as there is no market for the oil and the company cannot afford tn keep the mill in operation merely foi the meal trade.