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Tran walked up to Grace Nolr and ?hook back bar hair In tbe way that Oraee particularly disliked. Sbe laid: ?Nothing like an understanding at the beginning; yea, tbe old lady's right. Oood thing to know what tbe trouble la. to we'll know how It'll hit us. I guess I'm tbe trouble for this bouse, but I'm going to hit It as, the daugh? ter of an old friend, and not aa a serv? ant. I'm just about as independent as Patrick Henry. Miss Nolr. I'm not re? sponsible for bolng born, but It's my outlook to bold oa to my equality." "Fran!" exclaimed Mra. Gregory, la mild reproof. Grace looked at Mrs. Gregory and nothing could have exceeded the sslnt Homi of ber expression Insulted, sbe was enjoying to tbe full ber pious sat? isfaction of martyrdom. "Dear lira. Gregory.** said Fran 'I'm sorry to have to do tola. Fran Suggested Honor. hot It isn't as if you were adopting a penal lees orphan. I'm adopting a bomb. I want to belong to somebody, sod 1 want people to feel that tbey have something when tbey have .ne." i they'll know they've got so*hethlng" remarked Simon Jeffer shootlag a dlasatlsfled glance at kt*u tioiii under bushy browa. Kran laughed outrfcht "I'm golug to like you. all right." she declared. "You are so human." It Is exceedingly difficult to main? tain satisfaction In silent martyrdom. Grace waa obliged to speak, loot any one think that sbe acquiesced In erll is It customary for little girls to roam the streets at night, wandering about the world alone, adopting homes ac? cording to their whims?" 1 really doo't think it Is custom? ary," Fran replied politely, "but I'm not a customary girl." At tfeat mo? ment she caught the old lady's eye. It waa sparkling with eloquent latitfae tiesj; Mrs. Jefferson suppose* terms of service wire under discusslcn. Fran laughed, grabbed the ear-trumpet and called, "Hello. How are you!" When an unknown voice entered the large end of tbe tobe, half Hit mean? ing waa usually strained away before the reet reached the yearning ear. Mrs. Jefferson responded eagerly "And will you wheel me around the garden at least twice a day?" Fran patted the thin old arm with bar thin young hand, as she shouted, "I'll wheel you twenty times a day, if yoa aay so!" "But I do not see-saw," retorted the old lady with spirit Gregory, finding Grace's eyes fixed oa him s?arcblngly, felt himself pushed to the wall. "Of course," he said coldly, it is understood that the daughter of er?my friend, comes here aa a?aa an equal." As he found himself forced Into definite op? position to his secretary, his manner grew more assured. Suddenly It oc? curred to him that he waa, la a way, atoning for the past. "Aa an equal, yes!" exclaimed his wife, again embracing Fran. "How else could It be?' Tele is golug to bo a good thing "Would Yeu Like to Know More About Mer for you, If you only knew It," Fran said, looking Into her face with loving eyes. Hamilton Gregory was almost able to persuade himself that he had re? ceived the orphan of his own free choice, thus to make reparation. "It Is my duty," he said; "and I always try to do my duty, as I see it" "Would you llko to know more about me?" Fran asked confidentially of Mrs. Gregory. Gregory turned pale. "I don't think 11 is ncces?" "Do tell me!" exclaimed his wife. "Father and mother married secret ly," Fran said, solely addressing Mrs. Gregory, but occasionally sending a furtive glance at her husband. "He was a college-student, boarding with his cousin, who was one of the profes? sors. Mother was an orphan and lived with her half-uncle?a mighty crusty old man. Uncle Ephraim was, who didn't have one bit of use for people's getting married in secret. Father and mother agreed not to mention their marriage till after his graduation; then he'd go to his father and make everything easy, and come for mother. Sd he went and told him?father's fa? ther was a mi?'onalre on Wall street Mother's uncle was pretty well fixed, too, but ho didn't enjoy anything ex? cept religion. When he wasn't at church?he went 'most all the time? he was reading about it Mother said he was most religious in Hebrew, but ho enjoyed his Greek verbs awfully." Grace Nolr asked remotely, "Did you say that your parents eloped?" "They didn't run far," Fran ex? plained; "they were married in the county, not far from Springfield?" "1 thought you said," Grace inter? rupted, "that they were In New York." "Did you?" said Fran politely. "So father graduated, and went away to tell his father all about being mar? ried to Josephine Derry. I don't know what happened then, as he didn't come hack to tell. My mother waited and waited?and I was born?and then Uncle Ephraim drove mother out of his house with her tiny baby?that's mo?and 1 grow to be?as old as you see me now. Wo worn always hunt? ing father. We wont all over the United States, first and last?it looked llko the son of a mill! onaire ought to i he easy to find. But ho kept himself close, and there was never a clew. Then mother died. Sometimes she used to tell mo that she believed him deed, that If he'd been alive he'd have come for her, because she loved him with all her soul, and wrecked her whole life because of him. She was happiest when sho thought he was dead, so I wouldn't say anything, but I was sire he was alive, all right, as big e ad strong as you please. Oh, I know his kind. I've had lots of expe? rience." "8o I'd suppose," nald Grace Nolr quietly. "May I as'*?if you don't, mind?if this traveling about the Unit? ed States didn't take a great deal of money T'* "Oh, we had all the money we want? ed," Fran returned easily. "Indeed? And did you become rec? onciled to your mother's uncle?" "Yes?after he wss dead. He didn't leave a will, and there wasn't anybody else, and as mother had just been taken from me, the money just natu? rally came In my hands. But I didn't need it, particularly." "But before that," Grace persisted; "before, when your mother was first disinherited, how could sho make her Mvingr "Mother was like me. She didn't stand around folding her hands and crossing her fo*?t?she used 'em. Bless you. I could get along wherever you'd drop me. Success isn't in the world, it's In me, and that's a good thing to know?it saves hunting." "Do you consider yourself a 'suc? cess'?" inquired the secretary with g chilly smile. "I had everything I wanted except a home." Fran responded with charm? ing good-humor, "end now I've got that. In a New York paper, I found a picture of Hamilton Gregory, and it told about all his charities, it said he had millions, and was giving away everything. I ssld to myself, 'I'll go there and have h m give me a home'? you see, I'd often heard mother speak of him?and I said other things to myself?and then, as I generally do what I tell myself to do?it keeps up confidence in the general manager?I came." "Dear child." said Mrs. Gregory, stroking her hair, "your mother dead, your father?that kind of a man?you shall indeed find a home with us, for life. And so your father was Mr. Gregory's friend. It seems?strange." "My father," said Fran, looking at Mr. Gregory Inscrutably, "was the best friend you ever had, wasn't be? You loved him better than anybody else lu the world, didn't you?" "I?I?yes," the other stammered, looking at her wildly, and passing his agitated hand across his eyes, ss It to shut out some terrlblo vision, "yes, I?I was?er?fond of?him." "I guess you were," Fran cried em? phatically. "You'd have done any? thing for him." "I have this to say," remarked Si? mon Jefferson, "that I may not come up to the mark in all particulars, and I reckon I have my weaknesses; but I wouldn't own a friend that proved himself the miserable scoundrel, the weak cur, that this child's father proved himself!" "And I agree with you," declared Graco, who seldom agreed with him In anything. How Mr. Gregory, the best man she had ever known, could be fond of Fran's father, was incom? prehensible. Ever since Fran had come , knocking at the door, Grace's exalted fsith in Mr. Gregory had been per? plexed by the foreboding that he was not altogether what she had Imagined Ilamtltou Gregory felt the change iu her attitude. "That friend* he said quickly, "was not altogether to be cen? sured. At least, he meant to do right. He wanted to do right. With all the strength of his nature, he strovs to do right." "Then why dldnt he do right?" snapped Simon Jefferson. "Why dldnt he go back after that young woman, and take care of hart Huh? What waa holding him?" "He did go back," exclaimed Greg? ory. "Well?not at first, hut sfter ward. He went to tell hlB fsther, and his father showed him that it would never do, that the girl?Ms wife? wasn't of their sphere, their life, that he couldn't have made her happy? that It wouldn't?that It Just wouldn't do. For three years be stayed lo the mountains of Germany, the most mis? erable man in the world. But his conscience wouldn't let htm rest. It told him he should acknowledge his wife. So he went back?but she'd dis? appeared?be couldn't find her?and he'd never heard?he'd never dreamed of the birth of a?of the?of this girl. He never knew that he had a daugh? ter. Never!" "Well," said Simon Jefferson, 'he's dead now, and that's one comfort. Good thing he's not alive; I'd always be afraid I might come up with him and then, afterward, that I might not get my sentence commuted to lit ?im? prisonment" "Who is exciting my son?" demand? ed the old lady from her wheel?e lair. Simon Jefferson's red face and staring eyes told plamly that his spirit wan up. "After all," aaid Fran cheerfully, "we are here, and needn't bother about what'a past. My mother wien't given her chance, but she's dead now, blessed soul?and my father had his chance, but It wasn't tn him to 1 to a man. Let's forgot him as muco aa wo can, and let's have nothing but sweet and peaceful thoughts about mother. That's all over, and I'm here to take my chance with the res : of you. We're the world, while our day lasts," (TO BE CONTINUED.) Heard From the l'enlnsula. Rembert, Sept 11.?"The world do move." The Peninsula moves and the rest of you have to move wlti it, whether you will or no. Is it not a tine thing to have a progressive com? munity about you? A progressive man as a neighbor? When James H. Aycock wem to Wedgefield the land aruund H ere was so poor it would hardly sprout peus. Sunn- folks around tnere thought they had caught a su :ker when he bought a great body of It. Old they not grin though? He told the writer some years after tha; he received more for rent then than the I entire place cost when purchased. Recollect he was planting a large body of it himself. He added that this was also the ease with his n< igh bors. Since we last wrote Rev. D. M. Mc Lend and his two children, William ami Emma, came up, caught ant ate 0 lot of lish, and carried a tine mess j back to the family. We tried to give the chaps a good time and think we succeeded. Mr. McL#eod has some very warm friends here who are al? ways glad to see him. At the same time Prof. Charles Kir ard, principal of the Tt turn schools, was with Jesse B. Jaot son, principal of Logan school, Columbia. 1 met a young man just returned Irom Washington who aillrmed he saw and talked with George Washington, j That reminded me of the lady who In presenting a young lady to me said; "I introduce to you an ancestor of Stonewall Jackwson, just think of it, yes, indeed." Miss Emma Allen has returned to the city, as has also Miss Jeneva| Spencer, but the latter ran up r. ome; the other day, and soon after tome one else. The writer was there too, I but "it wasn't me." Mr. R. E. Atkinson has returned, from Glenn Springs. His sister, Miss Courtenay, leaves in a few days for Winnsboro, S. C, where she will Sgain teach. How we hate to give her up. And Miss Viola Spencer, what must she do but leave In a few days for Winthrop. Surely "the melancholy days" are near. This should have come earlUr, I will not say where: "The lirst glance of a maiden's soul, which does not yet know itself, Is like the dawn in the sky. It ll the awakening of something radiant and unknown." Nothing can express the dangtroUS chasm of this unlooked for gleam, which suddenly suffuses, adorable, mysterious, and which is maul* up of all the innocence of the present and all the passion of the future, a kind t?f Irresolute lovlngness, re? vealed by chance, which is waitli g. A snare which Innocence unconsc ous ly spreads, In which she catches hearts without Intending or knowing it." Kiuis. Messrs Sb iw and Strother arc In our community?on business. Miss "Margo" Lenoir, after spend? ing sonic days with her aunt, Miss Bethea, has gone back to Camden. People are busy p; king cotton, which is late and slow in opening. Tbl- "tater" crop promises to i>?' good Ods year, also forage. "Hagooil." Mr Editor, tb?- young man who suid he saw and talked with George! Washington dOM not live on the Peninsula, no sir, not a bit of it. "Hagood." Death at Reinheit. Rembert, .Sept. 10.?Tuesday morn? ing at 8.40 o'clock Mrs. Emma Jack? son, mother of J. L., C. J. and Charles Jackson and Mrs. T. R. Moody of our community and A. E. Jackson of' Florence, after a protracted illness,; fell asleep. She was bu^'ed Monday at Bethesda ' Methodist church of which she was for many years a mem-' ber, Rev. G. K. Way officiating. All who knew her will acknowledge that, she was a most motherly woman, whom they pleased to remember. Most heartily do we extend to the bereaved family our sympathy. Play to be- Repeated. "The Miner's DaUghter'* will be I repeated at Dalzell on Monday night, September 15, at 8.30. Everyone should attend. LAWS NOT VIOLATED. Xo Evidence Found Against Japa neso Association. Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 10.?The State adjutant general's office, which for several months has been investi? gating the reported existence rf num? erous armed Japanese military or? ganizations in California, announced today it had found no evidence that State or federal laws had been vio? lated. War maps of the California coast were found but the officials did not give out information as to their ownership. 51st YEAR St. Joseph's A Hoarding ami Day School for young ludies ami little girls. WILD OPEN SEIT 15. COURSES: Commercial, Academic, Prepara? tory, Primary. Lessons in Mu? sic und embroidering, Art and elocution taught. For particulars, address The Sister DireGtress. Geo.H. Hurst, UNDERTAKER AND v.mATjM^i Prompt attention to day or night calls. AT ODD J. D. CRAIG STAND, SM N. Main Street. Da; Phone SSt. Night Phono 10 YOUR FACE YOUR FORTUNE. Your teeth an asset. Wo study all faces and ono bad or neglected tooth tells of carelessness and lack of c*nirage, the two most need? ed characteristics in sucess* ful men. DR. COURTNEY Is ready to help you. Don't lot the fear of pain or small money cost deter you. Sumter Dental Parlors, Dr. C. H. Courtney, Prop Over Shaw & McCollum. -N Greelyville BUSINESS SCHOOL Individual Training for Boys and Girls, Till* course of all English branches, shorthand, typwiiilag and hook beepitig otters unsurpassed opportu? nities to i h\- youths of your county ai a very reason ahh price, Hoard ctin beobf allied in town. For parti? cular* address. J. M. JERVEY, GREELYVILLE, . S. C. L? Counterfeit Dollars Buy Trouble Counterfeit Bank Accounts?where one's surplus money Is de? posited in an old clock, old shoes, coffee pot, tin can or other 4 "handy places" where it is "easy to get at"?also are a bid for A trouble through possible loss by tiiett or other means. i i Whether your surplus earnings are large or small, Uielr safety \y Is a matter of considerable moment to you. Why not use the one sure plan?give your money Bank Protection? Fir^t National Bank I Honesty and Growth HE WHO IS CHEATED LOSES SUBSTANCE. THE MAN WHO CHEATS LOOSES CHARACTER. A safe, conservative bank furnishes absolute protec? tion. The past speaks for itself?to the future we are looking. Our resources: Aug. 19(15 $125,000.00; Aug. 1913 750,000 00. Now is the time. The Farmers* Bank and Trust Company. i SHINGLES, LATHS. WOOD end COAL We ha re the Goods at Right Prices. No O rder too Large or too Small. SUMTER RETAIL LUMBER CO., Phone 5f 4. A. Htwotl. Mgr. Excursion to VIA The Atlantic Coa^l Line i On Tuesday. September 2?rd, the Atlantic Coast Line will sell round trip tickets f rom Sumter to Jacksonville, lla., at $6.50 and to Tampa at $8.50, limited returning to reach original starting point not later than midnight of Tuesday, September 30th, 1013. Proportionate rates wiU be made from other points in Virginia, North and South Carolina. Ample Pullman and couch accommodations will be provided for all passengers, and everything will be done by the manage? ment ot* the Atlantic Coast Line to make this a hist class ex? cursion. For tickets, Pullman accommodations and schedules see the nearest agents, or address, W. J. CRAIG, T. C. WHITE, Pass. Traffic Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent. Wilmington, N. C. Sumter Railway & Mill Supply Co., SUMTER, S. C. The season is here when you are obliged to have repairs, generally, as quickly as they can be gotten. We are in your midst, can give you quicker service than our competitors, and we bespeak a part of your business, guaranteeing satisfaction. Our Stock is Complete In the Following Lines: Dnnfirtfr' Galvlulled, <'or nOQIing. rucated and v. I'rlmpud: Rieotrold rubl>er root?ng. i. - and > ply. Raltlna* Babber, tiandy Delling. an? Leather. Injectors: AUkl?ds Difdrinrr' l'lston. Sheet As rdlMufc. baatoa. Hose* St,'a,n wat*>r AX6S* pwf^ct. Blocks: SIS' ,{u,,e Chain:S,,;H I Hi. proof teated. Diillouo' SI eel. Ir?>u and fUliep. \Vood spilt will tit say pun shaft. Lace Leather: SJ" Babbitt Metal: ^"f" Shafting:AI|M'" Hangers: Shaft Couplings.' plan- and ribbed. 'i^luae Jenklna and *i t .j.1 rdliCo. u,,j j-ttii. i* j?. u :a?k-k. Iron Pipe Flltlagi. all styles. Bir IrOB Koail<1 ?od flat. PiflS Cat *nrt Threaded ? l|?*? from l-l*iD. to ?lu. iu cluslve. to sketch. Wire Rope. SiWS Crcaaeat and rircu C?r.i Hooks, rumps. Blacksmith Toils. In fact everything carried in s?n up-to-date supply house. When needing anything write, phone, wire, or tall. Your wants will have immediate attention. Respectfully, Sumter Railway & Mill Supply Co.