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f iFRANj MUCCKBMUDOB ELLIS Qhutrationt by O. Irwrsa Myers Mrs. Oregon waa calm Mlf 1m Ormce, Fran told mo long ago that ahe It etghttiea year* old; ahe came at a lit* tie girl, because she thought we would take her la more readily, If we ba? ll seed her a mere child." "Dace Mr. Gregory kaow thatr "1 ha7?n't told him; I don't know whether Fran has or not" "Ton Daren't told him!** Oraco wag speechless. 'You knew It, and haven't laid him? Whet ought I to do?" "You ought to keep your promise," Abbott retorted hotly. -Bitting on that bridge at mldgnight alone, telling people's fortunes by cards. . . . Professor Aahtou - Mrs. Gregory!" Oraco exclaimed, with one of these Hashes of Inspiration pe? culiar to her sex, "that Fren is a show gtrir Mrs, Oregory rose, sod spoke through her mother's ear-trumpet; "Shall we go home, now?" "That Fran," repeated Grace, "la a show girl! She Is eighteen or nineteen) rears old, and she Is a show-girl!" "Wouldn't It be best for j ou to sah harr "Ask h*-? Her? No. I isk you!" Let me push the chair." said Ab? bott, stepping to Mrs. Gregory's side* He read la the troubled faco that she had known this secret, elso. Tu a sccretsry gaged st him with a far-away look, hardly conscious that ha was) beating retreat, so absorbed was she la this revelation. It would be as asssa 17 for some ons to go to Springfield to make inveittlgatlons. (trace had for erer alienated Abbott Ash ton, but there was always Robert Clinton He would obey her every wleh; Robert Clinton should go. And when Robert had returned with s full history of Hamilton Gregory's school? days at Bprlsgfield, sod those of Greg ery's Intimate friends, Fran, with the proofs of her conspiracy spread before her. should be driven forth, never again to darken the home of the pbifr nathropiat CHAPTER XIIL Alllaaoa With Abbott Fur the most part that was a silent walk to Hamilton Gregory's. Abbott Aahtoa pushed the wheel-chair, and It was only Mrs. Jefferson, Ignorant ol what had taken place, who commented oa the bright moon, and the relief of rose scanted brasses after the musty auditorium of Walnut Street church. "They were bent and determined on Fran going to choir practice." the old lady told Abbott, "so Lucy and I went along to encourage her, for they say aba has a fine toIcs, snd they wsnt si) ths good singing they csn have at Uacle Tobe Fuller's funeral. I despise big doings st funerals, but I expect to go, and as I can't bear the solos, nor ths preachsr working up feelings, all 111 have to do will be to sit and look at the coffin." "Mother." said Mrs. Oregory. "you are not cheerful tonight." "No," the other responded. "I think it 'a from sitting so long by the Whlted Bepolcher." Mrs. Oregory spoke into he trum? pet, with real distress? "Mother, mot Is? ar! Abbott won't understand you; he doesn't know you am using a figure of speech." "Tee." said the old lsdy, "number thirteen, if there's arything unlucky hi figures."* Abbott effected diversion. "Mrs. Gregory. I'm glsd Miss Nolr agreed to say nothing shoot her discoveries, for the only harm In them Is whst people might imagine. I was pretty uneasy, at first, of course I knew that if she tslt she ought to tell It. she would. I never knew anybody so conscientious." There was s pause, then Mrs. Greg? ory responded. "She will not tell." Abbott had sssn them safely Into ths house, snd hsd reached the gate on hie departure, when Fran came run? ning up In pleased surprise he opened the gate for her, but ehe ?topped in the outelde shadow, snd he paused within ths yard. "Fran!** he exclaimed with pleasure. "Is ths practice ended?" She made no response. "Fran, what's the matter?" ?llenoa. Abbott was both perplexed snd hurt Ttemssnbor what ws said on ths new bridge," he urged; "we're friends while we're together and after we pert!'" "Somebody ought to burn that nsw bridge." said Fran, in a muffled tone; "It's no good making wishes corns trua" "Why do you say thai? Aren't we the beat of friends?" Fran collected herself, and rroks nfth cool distinctness 1 have a pret? ty hard fight, Mr Aehton, and It's nio laaary to know who's on my side, and ?rho Isn't I may not come out ahead, bat I'm not going to loee out from tak? ing a fOe tor a friend." "Which you wUl kindly explain?" "You are Grace Noir'e friend that txplalna It" "1 ssn your friend, too, Fran." ~MJ Man*, twi ? %fec sehued hi* inrly. "Oh, tlunkg??bjo! Ahbott came through the gate, and tried to read her face, "Does the fact that I am her friend condemn me?" "No ? juit classifies you. Tou do aldn't bo her friend tf yon wore not i mirror In which the tees herself; Fran Set Her Back Against the Fenoe gnd Looked it Him Darkly. her conscience is ro sure, that she hasn't use for anything bot a faithful reflector of her opinions." (TO BE CONTINUED.) BOYS' PIG CLUBS. Being Organized by Department Ag? riculture t?f Encourago Raising of Hog*. Washington, Oct .27.?The Depart? ment uf Agriculture has its Boys' Corn Club and Its Girls' Canning Club and now comes the Boys' Pig Club, being organized In the South for the purpose of increasing the supply of pork and encouraging good breed? ing of hogs. Already clubs have been organised In Alabama and Louisiana, and a club organization has been started in Georgia, It is the purpose of the officials of the department to organize clubs In every Southern State. The idea of the organization start? ed with the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration branch of the de? partment and has been carried on with the cc-operation of the Animal Husbandry Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry. The organization is an off-shoot of the Boys' Corn Club which haa an organization In every Southern State and which has be*n the means of producing record breaking yields of corn. The Pig Club, when thoroughly organized, will, it is expected, work hand in hand with the corn club. The boys of the latter will produce the corn and the boys of the newly organized association will s?e to it that the pigs are produced to eat the corn. In connection with the organization of the Pig Club the department makes the following staterrent: "In organizing th.> Hoys' Pig Club it Is the purpose of the department to establish clubs in every southern State. The Animal Husbandly Divis? ion Is co-operating with the Farmers' (To-operative Demonstration office in the Hureau of Plant Industry and has already established clubs in Ala? bama and Louisiana, and the move? ment'is under way in Georgia. The organization is being; done by the of? ficials of the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration force, and the Animal Husbandry agents aie instructing ami demonstrating how to handle the stock and to breed t. superior type of pigs. "It is the purpose of the depart? ment to have every member of the club encourage not only an increased production of the swine family but a better breed of Pigl than is being raised at present. It is a scrims pur? pose the officials of the department are engaged in?one that is aimed at the high cost of living. "The production of pork is not keeping pace with the increased pop? ulation and something must be done to harmonize these two elements. If each member of the club?and they Will be growing it is expected all the time?will see to i:- that ono more pig and a better pig Is produced each year then a long step will have been taken in meeting; the ever growing chasm between pork production and increased population." REFUSES NEW TRIAL. .fudge SeaMO Overrules Motion In Court at Mam dug. Manning. Oct. If,?Judge Thomas S. Sease haa Just filed an order over? ruling the motion for a new trial in fhe case of A J Briggs et a!., vs. J. hi c.ildwell et al.. wh eg was tried at the last term of the COUrl Of OOnV mon picas in Clarendon eognty, The Jury found in favor of Caldwell find the attorneys for Itriggs made a ino lion for a new trla.. whl< h is now de? nied. The effect of the verdict in this eggs w.?m to set aside I he slleged wili of the lata \hs R m itiiggH of Sum morion, ELECTION HELD IN MEXICO. LITTLE INTEREST MANIFESTED AND COMPARITIVELY FEW BALLOTS ARE CAST. Probably no Legal Choice 1? Made as Less Than 10,000 of the 80,000 Per sons Eligible to Vote Are Believed to Have Participated in the Election ?Catholic Party Claims Lead. Mexico City, Oct. 26.?At the close of the elections today the indications were that not sufficient votes had been cast in Mexico to constitute a le? gal choice for the presidency to suc? ceed. Gen. Huerta. No official an? nouncement was made tonight, but it was unofficially estimated that less than 10,000 of the $0,000 eligible vot? ers in the republic went to the polls, it will be no surprise to congress, the members of which also were voted for today, declares the elections void when that body Is organ!- and rr vises the returns. The leaders of the Catholic party claimed a long lead, although they wero unable to etsimate the number of votes polled for their candidates, Fcderlco Gamboa and Gen. Hascoh. j if this claim is correct, it is gen? erally thought that Gen. Felix Diaz and Senor Requena ran second. The Liberal candidates, Manuel Calero| and Flores Magon, had no printed j tickets ut the polling places, the con? stituents being obliged to write their names on blank ballots. President Huerta did not vote. He sp^nt the day at his suburban home. A decree will be issued by Gen. Huerta increasing the Army from 85,000 men, its alleged present num? ber, to 160,000. Since the deputies and senators are not subject to the election provisions governing the pres? idential elections, it tonight is aald that the choice of congress is assured. It ia assumed that the Catholic party will have a majority In both cham? bers. There was no semblance of disorder in any quarter of the city. A few patrols were on tho streets, but neither police nor troops had any but their usual duties to perform. The polling places opened at 9 o'elock in the morning and remained open until noon, when the atendants closed tho booth until 3 o'clock In the afternoon for the midday meal. They were reopened at 3 and closed again at C o'clock. From 3 to & o'clock, officials, one of whom waa designated "president" were in attendance at each polling place. These officials represented the various parties and assisted In the preparation of the ballot when r eces sgry, but offered no coercion or sug? gestion as to how the applicant ahould vote. The election officials appeared to be a representative class of cltisens? clerks, small business men, railroad employee and shop keepers. So far as could be ascertained no govern? ment employes served. Each polling place had a table on which were spread tickets of the various candi? dates. From these tho voters made his select on, signed, folded and de? livered it in the presence of the voter in the ballot box. Ballot boxes con? sisted of all sorts of receptacles from a paste board shoo box to a plush cov? ered jewel casket, or a glass Jar bor? rowed from a neighboring drug Jtore. There wus no secrecy about the vot? ing. As the vote was deposited the lame was checket on the registration list previously prepared through personal visits of a designated official to the houses in his Jurisdiction. It was not left to the volition of the eligible citi? zen to register his name on the list If he were entitled by residence, age and other requirements to cast a vote. * Manual Calero, Liberal candidate who was once ambassador at Wash? ington, did not vote, Instead, he took his family early in the day Into the country. Federico Gamboa, candidate of tho Catholic party, on the other hand, cast a ballot for Senor Calero. Neith? er of thei'e candidates cared to ex? press an opinion as to whether a suf? ficient number of ballots had been deposited to make the elections ef? fective. Few of ihose who went to the poles took the trouble to vote either for senators or deputies. Examples of lack of activity in vot? ing made at random after the clos | ing of the polls at three places in thickly populated districts are: Eleven votes cast out of an eligible 80; 12 cast out of an eligible 7b, and 11 cast out of an eligible 8SO. One suburban polling place reported 22 voters out of 80 eligible, exercising t Ho franchise. These figures are re? garded as fairly representative of the | voting in the capital. The nearest approach of any dis? trict in bringing out its full voting strength occurred in one block where ; H men were eligible. Thirteen of l these men cast their ballots, The i fourteenth man was In tail. EPISCOPAL 6QNYENTI0N ENDS. TWO HOUSES UNABLE TO AGREE ON MATTERS OF IMPORT? ANCE. Differences Between Two Meun That Racial Missionary Plan Goes Over for Three Years. New York, Oct. 24.?The general convention of 191U of the Protestant Episcopal church passed into history this afternon in a hopeless deadlock on two important resolutions, with the most farreaching topic of legis? lation before it unconsldered by one house because of an error in the other and with a positive refusal to consid? er a request of the Women's Chris? tian Temperance union that unfer mented grape juice be substituted for wine in the communion service. On the proposul to establish *a sep rate bishopric for negroes in the South and on the proposed elimina? tion of the words "Jews, Turks, infi? dels and heretics," from the Good Fri? day collect, the house of bishops and the house of deputies were deadlock? ed. On the proposal to require a two thirds vote to change the name of the church to the American Catholic chuch the bishops refused to act be? cause the resolution was sent to them only yesterday, as a result t.2 tne 'or getfulness of an assistant secretary of the deputies, while it was adopted! by the lower house more than two weeks ago. All hope of breaking the deadlock on the racial district plan was aban? doned for the conference committee's report refused by the overwhelming vote of 91 to 13 to concur with the house of bishops. The bishops were equally determined not to recede from their stand. Upon turning of the dep? uties action the conference commit? tee ceased its efforts to bring about an adjustment. Immediately after the deputies' re? fusal to concur with the bishops, the bishops refused to concur with the deputies in two important resolutions adopted by the deputies early in the convention. The first of these was to the effect that a two-thirds vote be necessary to change the name of the church; the second proposed to eliminate from the .Good Friday collect the clause asking divine grace for "Jews, Turks, infidels and heretics " The bishops, by ad? verse vote, killed both proposals. After disposing of the negro ques? tion the deputies marked time, wait? ing for word from the bishops that they were ready for the joint devo? tional service which would terminate the Convention?. DARK CORNER NEWS NOTES, v ??? Bad Weather and Scarcity of Hands Delays Cotton Picking? Personal. Dark Corner. Oct. 27.?There is not much doing in this corner. The weather has been bad with much rain and wind of late. There is lots of cotton to pick, but hands are scarce and as the weath? er keeps so bad, it is doubtful if it all will ever be gathered. It also looks at present as if peas will rot in the fields before they can be gathered. Very little corn has been housed so far, as farmers have been busy get? ting their cotton out of the fields. The stork left a little girl at Mr. A. S. Weeks' last Monday night. Mother and babe are geting along nicely. Mrs. J. B. Osteen, the blind lady of Central Privateer, spent several days at the Sycamores the later part of last week and this week. There was a musical entertain? ment at the Sycamores last Sunday night. Those present were Mrs. J. B. OBteen, Mrs. L. E. Avin and family, Mr. J. E. Johnson and family and Mrs. Larry Hitchcock. A pleasant time was enjoyed by all present. "H. T." TOLLMAN IS ALONE Senator Is South Carolina's Only Representative in Washington. Washington, Oct. 26.?Senator Tlll man is today the only member of the South Carolina delegation in congress in Washington. Senator Smith, who was at home for about two weeks and who re? turned to Washington a few days ago, has again gone to South Caro? lina; Congressman Aiken is out of the city and will go home Tuesday or I Wednesday, and all of the other house j members are also absent. Senator Tillroan'S duties here have i been such that it has been Impos I Bible f*>?' him to leave. Geo.H. Hurst, UNDERTAKER AND EMRALMKR Prompt attention to day or night AT OLD J. D. CRAIO STAND, SOS N. Main Street. Day Phone ?St. Night Phone St REPORT OF TUE CONDITION OF The First National Hank of Sum tor, at Sumter, in the State of South Carolina, at the Close of Business, October 21, 191.1. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts.. . . $449,S10.3K Overdrafts, secured and unsecured. 4,859.20 U. S. Bonds to secure cir? culation. 50,000.00 U. S. Bonds to secure U. S. deposits. 7,000.00 Other bonds to secure Pos? tal savings. 4,000.00 Premium on U. S. bonds . . 200.00 Bonds, securities, etc .... 14,000.00 Banking house, furniture and fixtures. 2,000.00 New banking house site.. 20,000.00 Other real estate owned. . 1,162.60 Due from National banks (not reserve agents) .. 12,560.32 J Due from approved Re? serve agents. 37,537.40 Checks and other cash items. 3.932.16 Notes of other National banks. 15 165.00 Fractional paper currency, nickles, and cents.. .. 625.25 Lawful money reserve in bank, viz: Specie. 18,309.85 Legal-tender notes. 500.00 18J809.85 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (3 per cent of circulation)..... 2,500.00 Total.$644,752.22 LIABILITIES: Capital stock paid in.. ..$100.000.00 Surplus fund.100,000.00 Undivided profits, less ex? penses and taxes paid.. 16,787.54 National bank notes out? standing. 60,000.00 Due to other National banks. 6,378.30 Individual deposits sub? ject to check.367.983.92 Cashier's checks out? standing . 1125.83 United States deposits.. .. 7,000.00 Postal savings deposits. .. 476.63 Notes and bills redis counted. 6,000.00 Total.$644,752.22 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Sumter. I, J. L. McCallum, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. L. McCALLUM, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day of October, 1913. Qeo. L. Bicker, Notary Public. Correct?Attest: NEILL O'DONNELL, H. D. BARNETT, W. B. UPSHUR, Directors. COOLER AND RA I VW Washington, Oct. 26.?Tempera? tures below normal with rain dis? tributed throughout the country fea? tured the weather bureau's forecast for the week, made public today. "A disturbance over the Mississippi valley today will advance eastward, with rains in the Eastern and South? eastern States Monday night or Tues? day, and will be followed by decidedly colder weather, overspreading the great central valleys and the gulf States Monday and the Eastern States except the Florida peninsula. "A general reaction to higher tem? peratures will set in over the Plains States Monday. A disturbance in the Far West Tuesday will move east? ward, preceded by rising temperature and attended by general precipita? tion. This will cross the great Cen? tral valleys about Thursday and the Kastem States Friday or Saturday. Considerably colder weather will over? spread the Northwest Wednesday or Thursday." I BRIDGE TEETH ! By this work the den? tist is able to fix per? manently between the teeth left to you artific? ial ones that are perfect in appearance and use? fulness. See Dr. Court* ney. He makes this work his specialty. Have an inspection. Get his opinion. Sumter Dental Parlors, Dr. C. H. Courtney. Prop Over Shaw & McCollum. Greelyville BUSINESS SCHOOL Individual Training tor 1st ill WML THE course of all English branches, shorthand, typwritlng an? keeping offers unsurpassed o. nlties to the youths of your counts/ at a very reasonable price. Board can be obtained in town. For parti? culars address, J. M. JERVEY, GREELYVILLE. . S. C. O'Donnell 6 Co. Don't Charge It to Me. A great deal is being said about the High Cost of Living, but I am not responsible. For more than J25 years I have been adding to your comforts, and while that out of which I am made is more expensive, and those who manufacture me get better paid for their services, still I am to be found today at the same old stand, and at the same old price you paid for me a Quarter of a Century Ago. You can have me in the plain or fancy plaids, all sizes. Your Friend in Need, TAR HEEL BLANKET. O'Donnell & Co.