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FRAN 5& IHN BftECKXNWDGE KLUS O. h wli Myers Swift as a ehadow, Fran darted on tiptoe to the typewriter, and began pounding upon It vigorously. Mrs. Gregory passed on her way, and when she reached the farther em of the hall, an old hymn which she had been humming, broke Into audible words. Fran snatched the sheet from the typewriter, snd bent her head to lleten. The words were soft, full of a thrilling faith, a dauntless courage? "Stin all ray song shall be Nearer my Qod to Thee, PeufusM A door closed. She was gone. Greg? orv dropped his head with a groan. it seemed to Fran tost the voice of his wlfs who was not a wife, lingered la the room. The hymn, no longer audible, hsd left behind it a fragrance, an sometimes lingers the sweet savor of a prsyer, sfter Its "amen" hae, ss It were, dropped back Into the heart whence It Issued. Fran instinctively held out both arms toward the direc? tion of the door Juat cloeed, as If she eould see Mrs. Gregory kneeling bo hind It. "A mom." ahe said. In a solemn un? dertone, "thou persuadest me to be a Christian " Had anyone but Mrt. Gregory been singing thst hymn, hid snyone but Fran been the one to intrude upon the library scene, Grsce must have been overwhelmed. As it wss, ahe stood quite untouched, resolvtng to atay in order to prove herself, and to show Gregory thst they muit sacrifice their love for conscience sake. Gregory, however, was deeply touched by Fran'a yearning arms. Ha me* siid stood before her. "Fran, child, we promise that what you saw shall Mftr happen again. But you mustn't tell about It I know you won't tell. I can't send Grace away, because J need her. She will not go becsute aha knowe herself to be strong. We are going to hide our souls. And you oant teil what you've eeen. on ac? count of her? * He pointed in the di? rection of his wlfs. Frs t knew very well what he meant. If she told the secret. It would dle mj Mrs. Gregory. The revelation it drive Grace away, though Fran did not think so, but certainly whether Urses want, or atayed. it would break the heart of the one she loved best In that boms. Gregory was right; Frsn osuld never betray him. She turned blindly upon Grace: "Then have you no conscience??you are altrays talking about one. Does no sense >f danger warn you away? Can't you fasl any shame?" Oraxe did not smile contemptuously. She wolghed these words st their real value, and soberly interrogated hnr ssif. 'No." she declared with delib? eration, "I feel no sense of danger be? cause I mesn to guard myself after this. And my conscience bids me stay, to show thst 1 have not really done anything?" But she could not deny t.e feeling of shame, for the burning of her cheeki proved the; recollection of hot xlsseu. "But suppose I tell what I have seen " "Well.- said Grace, flashing oat de? fiantly "and suppose you do!" Gregory muttered: "Who would be? lieve you?" Frsn looked at him. "Then," ahe eald. "the coward spoke " She added: "I guess the only way la for you to make her leave. There'a nothing In her for me to appeal to." "I will never tell her to go," he as? sured her defiantly. "While, on the contrary,** said Grace, "1 fancy you will be put to flight la tgreo or four days." Frsn threw back her head and laughed silently while they stared at her In blank perpleilty. Fran regained composure to ssy coolly, ' I wss Just laughing " Then shs stepped to her fsther'a chair and handed him the sheet she had drawn from the typewriter. Tho upper pert was sn unfinished letter to the Chtea go mission, Just ss Grsce had left It In her haste to get rid of Fran. At odd variance with Its philanthropic message were the words Frsn hsd pounded out for the deception of Mrs. Gregory. Hamilton Gregory glared at them at first uiicomprehendlngly, then in growing amasem*nt. They read? "Ask her why ehe cent B<d Clinton to Springfield " He etarted up. "Wust Is this?" he esclstmed wildly, extending the psper towsrd Grsce She rssd It snd smiled coldly. "Yes." she said, "the little ?py has even fer? reted that out. has she! Vsry well, she won t be so cool when Mr. Clinton returns from Springfield." ' From Springfield!' echoed Gregory sghsst. "From Springfield. Mr. Gregory, I have made the discovery that this Frau, whom you Imagine! only about sliteeu years old, and the daughter of sn old frirnd. Is really of sge. She's nothing but a circus girl. You thought her Joking when she called herself a lies iMUi?r. taat s the way she m<*tuu I I for us to take it~b*t ahe can't de ; ceive mo. She's nothing but a show? girl pretending to coma from Spring? field. But I know better So I've tent Mr. Clinton there to find out all about tho family of your friend, and In particular about the girl that this Fran la Impersonating." "You sent Bob Clinton to Spring? field!" gasped Gregory, at if hla mind i could get no further than that Then he turned savagely upon Fran?"And did you tell her about Springfield?" Fran smiled her crooked smile. Grace Interposed: "You may be eure she didn't! Do you think she wanted her history cleared up? Mr. Gregory, you are to blinded by what the ettys that you won't Investigate her claims. I decided to do this for your take. When Mr. Clinton comes back, It's good-by to this circus-girl!" Fran looked at her father Inscru? tably. "I believe, after this," ahe said, "it will be safe to leave you two to? gether." (TO BE CONTINUED.) T1IE MAGDALEN ISLANDS. They Are Rarely Vbslted, Says Ca? nadian Writer. Out In the centre of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the ocean waves dash over them for live months of the year so fiercely as to close all com? munication with the mainland except by cable, lie the Magdalen Islands. Nine out of every ten Canadians have never ?cen heard of them, and the other one remembers dimly that he encountered the name at school in the list of Canadian islands. Nine out of ten ot the islanders themselves have never been farther from their birth? place than thr trips to the fishing grounds, and the tenth has gone no farther than Pictou, or on a long-to be-remcmbered trip as far as Hali? fax or Quebec. Seventy miles to the southwest lies Prince Edward Island; Cape Breton is the same distance south-east. New? foundland's rough coast faces them one hundred miles east. From away to the north the wild waves crash down unopposed from the forbidding shores of Labrador, three hundred miles distant. During but five months of the year, and then only twice a week, Is there any opportunity for the islanders to see the outside world. For the re? mainder the sea runs with a consistent wlldness known only to this reglor, and the hundred miles or more of coast-line shows the wrecks that have marked with failure the puny attempts of man to combat the elements. In the midst of all this fierceness of Nuture lives seven thousand French Acadlans and one thousand English In a qualtness and quietness of life that Is truly remarkable. And year by year the population Increases until even now the laud IS overcrowded with a people reluctant to obey the demunds of Nature and get out Into the wider world. There are thirteen islands In all, nine of which are connected at low tide by a treacherous beach, which It is posslMe to drive over with the guid? ance of one who knows the quick? sands and tides. Fifty-three miles from north to south makes an island of respectable size. Then, farther north, lies Byron Island, a summer fishing station leased and peopled by a merchant on the main islands, but almost deserted In winter. Ten miles still farther is the famous Bird Rock, well known by reputation to natur* alistH, watched over only by millions of birds and the lighthouse-keeper and his wife, with two assistants. On this six acres of rock, perched one hundred and twenty-tive feet above the water, approached only In the calmest weather and mounted by a bucket worked with a windlass above ?on this isolated island these four people live from beginning to end ot the year, seeing no other human be? ings save the crfcw of the supply boat OS) its two visits a year. I air sco its WOUNDED. Shot While Flying Over Moroccan Position. Tetuau. Morocco, Nov. 10.?Re? turning from an ueroplane scouting j expedition today. Lieut. Gil Rios and' C ipt. Harri? ro wen- lifted out of their machine badly wounded. < The officers were shot while Hying over the enemy's position, and had barely strcnK'h to reach tho Spanish I ? amp Mr M. It Phillips, a prosperous farmer ll\ing on rurul route No. 7 out of this city, was In Oreenvdlc toda> and bmught the editor of this paper some home-mad" molasses Mr. Phil bps says that he has PJtlde for hlmssll and for his neighbors 1,141 gallons of] inolaaseH this fall. He report crops as having been prety good In his see? tion this year?Qreenvlllc Piedmont, Don't wait until the day before Christmas to buv ssjsjf holiday gltts. On through th?? stores us SOOI1 as t'hristmns goods jire displayed ( lake i in.' ii, male careful selections and ?et Just what you want. Toil Will !??? pleased and the merchants and theli leales people win be pleased, if you do this.. ?Hoch 11id Herald, I i llOUHKKKEPlNU OUR WICKLU EST WASTE. And Here Is Tlio Way Co Stop Tho Leak. (Quoted from Pictorial Review?No? vember, 1913.) Charlotte Perkins Gllman, the fa? mous feminist, discusses in Pictorial Review for November the waste in our economic process of housekeep? ing. She say8: "This period of high prices and wages is forcing us to study economy in every direction. The efficiency experts are preaching economy in time and labor; the financial expert* talk most learnedly of economy In money. And woman, the world's ev?| erlastlng scapegoat, Is blamed for her extravagance, her laziness, her ignor-' ance and indifference and careless-1 ness, and is exhorted to economize in her household administration. She can and does retaliate by pointing outi the colossal waBte of our mishandled public funds in city, State and nation; the waste through men's vices; the waste of city sewage and garbage, of the forests, of water, of the good brown soil we are robbed of by every rainfall on our dismantled hills?j but all this does but divert attention from the accusation resting upon her. Whatever men waste in public or private, we may see and blame; but the waste we have not seen nor blamed Is what goes on even In the well-managed home, In every home, the wide world, over?a wi.ste greater and more Incessant than any other known. In preface to opening so vi? tal a subject, one which "strikes home" in the most literal sense to all of us,; certain reassurances should be given. | Be It known then, to all women?and' men too?by these presents, that he charges here made against our so called "domestic economy" do not in the" least degree attack marriage, motherhood, or the sanctity of the home. Monogamous marriage Is as? sured to us by forces stronger than civic law or religious ceremony; its roots are in biological law, and its fruits are human happiness. We shall not lose It Motherhood also Is un? touched by this presentation. Mother? hood Is not housekeeping, nor house? keeping motherhood. The private home, as the only fit setting for mon? ogamous marriage and the family, we shall also keep, enjoy and love. The subject here discussed is that purely economic process we call "housekeeping" or "domestic econ? omy," and it is discussed in its econ? omic aspects only. Wc are to con? sider not incompetent and extravagant housekeeping, but the waste involv? ed in this process Itself?tha waste of time, tho waste of power, the waste of money. We waste in our "domestic econocy" two-fifths, almost half, of the world's labor?not only In mere hand power, but in the brcin. power, skill, ingenuity, Inventive genius, the uplifting force which builds civlllza ton. And wc waste in this name "do? mestic economy" one-half cf what is practically the world's main expense, the expense of living. Let us tr.ke the question of labor rtrat, in this alleged waste of two fifths of the world's power, as dis? tinct from the other Items. Our workers are of two sorts, men and women. Men us a class are engaged In what the census calls "gainful oc? cupations;" women as a class are en? gaged in what the census marks "n. g" This does not mean, as you would, ut first suppose "no good," but merely "non-gainful." .For instance, in running a hotel, the owner must provide manager, housekeeper and buyer with the cleri ? cal department, the cooks and their assistants, the cleaners, sweepers and chambermaids, and the force of wait? ers, porters and bell boyn to "serve'1 the guests, in running a private house, the owner, if a poor man, simply provides a wife. Che manages, buys and keeps accounts. She cooks, cleans, sweeps und does the chamber work; sho does what "waiting" and door service there Is done. If tho husband Is a rich man, he hires oth? er persons to do the work, and she re mains only manager, buyer and clerk. If he is extremely rich, he may hire that done also, and her economic ac-j tlVity then becomes scarcely percep? tible. In our country, however, only ono fuinily in sixteen keeps even one ser? vant, and tho remaining majority, fifteen-sixteenths of all the house? keepers, "do their own work" us it Is '?ailed. It is this domestic labor which constitutes the first waste we have to consider, this enormous forty per cent waste of the world's powers, j The position is this: Women con j stitut? fifty per cent of the population. Practically all of them are engaged in housekeeping?half the world wuiting on the other half; fifty people out of a hundred doing hoUSSWOr? for the other fifty. The economic waste lies In this. Ten w mien In i specialised! organised, skilled, nth (?lent labor could do tho work now done by fifty, do It In less time and do It better. The remaining forty could then do other work, adding forty per cent lO the world's wealth. Which moons, of course, to the faint* I lies 'wealth. t For fifty people to upend all their time In doing: what ten people could do is a waste, a wicked waste of in? dustrial power. Then there is furth? er waste in the necessary inefficiency of the work done by the fifty. The/ are unspeialized, inexperienced; they are merely tho average?Just every woman. Good workmanship requires specialisation, the swift efficiency of long training", the delicate skill of one following a chosen trade, for life. In? efficient, low grade work is in itself wasteful. Consider the waste in terms of money. Men or women are economi? cally "worth" the sum of their use? fulness. If there are fifty women worth In mere cash value of the in? dustrial output say $500.00 a year in round numbers (that is only at char? woman's wages of $1.50 a day? $469.50) the fifty together would represent an annual sum of $25,000. Ten of them would represent $5,000. Now if you spend $25,000 worth of work on what could be done by $5, 000 you waste $20,000 a year. To ap? ply that ratio to our great popula? tion, the waste is. women's labor, in housework, even at this bottom aver ago of wages would be approximately six billion dollars a year!" How the Wild Boar Came to New Zealand. As everyone knows, tho pig can claim no place in the indigenous fauna of New Zeland. It was the famous Captain Cook who first introduced the animal to tho southern seas. In the latter part of the eighteenth century he made a present to his Maori friends of the first two pairs of breeding pork? ers from England, with instructions to turn them loose in the empty land to increase and multiply. The injunction was obeyed to the letter by all parties. - They were a prolific family, that early quartet with a fecundity second only to that of the rabbits that came later, they soon got beyond tho control of the few coast-dwelling Maories, who were too busy kiling each other with the recently imported muskets to look af ? ter the pig*. Breaking away, the pigs migrated inland to found colonies on their own account, and it was not long, with an abundant food supply, before they filled the wide spaces of the empty land with vast droves and herds that may almost be said to have disputed possession with the first white set* tiers. It was, perhaps, In irony that the disgusted early immigrants nicknam? ed the wild pigs "Captain Cooks" in honor of the great circum-navigator. The name stuck, till, at the present day, the generic term is used to in crude all of the wild pig tribe in both islands, from North Cape to the Bluff. The numbers of the droves were swelled later, by recruits from other sources. Captain Cook was follow? ed by moie enthusiasts. A sort of mania for pig-acclimatization seems to have possessed the souls of early voyagers. Shipment after shipment of breeding porkers was let loose on the landscape in the early years of last century by whaling skippers from England and America. There was sport galore and un? limited pork for the hunting in those times. But, on turning to the stern? er duties of life, the early immigrants soon found the pigs a force to be reckoned with. Crops and flocks alike suffered. With the coming of the sheep the pigs quickly developed a taste for fresh mutton, and helped themselves freely to the squatter's lambs. Exasperated settlers organised for del*, nee against he common enemy. Ho serious was the menace to the colonists* prosperity that associations were formed to exterminate the pest. All available men were engaged in the warfare, payment being made by roy* alty at the rate of twelve cents pet tail per pig destroyed. To readers unacquainted with con? ditions of life as found at the outset in the great lone lands all this may savor of a "traveller's tale." But to realize how important a factor In life's af? fairs was "the menace of the pig." one has only to study the archieves of early colonial days. liaises 50-Pound Squash. Springfield, Mass., Nov. 19.?Ruby Tilton. li, daughter of Policeman B. P. Tilton, planted a few squash seeds In her father's garden. One of the stpiashes which is on exhibition in a Washington street store, weighs over fifty pounds and measures ilfty-two and one-half by fifty inches. Favor New Government. If the promptness and tenor of re? plies thus far received to the referen? dum sent by the officials of tho Cham? ber of Commerce to the members of that organisation with regard to the appointment of a special committee to formulate a detailed plan for the city go\ ernment of Greenville be any indi? cation of the attitude of the member? ship and of the cltlSSIIS generally, the lime Ih ripe for such a step?Groen #11 le Piedmont. WHAT THE PUBLIC FEWMTTS. Progresw in Forestry Depends on Public, Not on Foresters and Lum? bermen. Washington, Nov. 17.?-"Progress1 in forestry depends more <jpon what the public permits than upon what foresters and lumbermen perform." This is u conclusion of the forestry committee, as expressed a; the con? servation congress today. "As a eohsequence," the committee goes on to say, "public education Is of prime importance, *nd the best methods of educating the public de? mand special study. Since no one else has the Interest or the requisite for? estry knowledge, foresters and lum? bermen must learn this trade or pro? fession in addition to their own. "It is not forests, but the use of forests, which we seek to perpetuate and therefore to be sound and con? vincing education must include a knowledge of the lumber business." In presenting some of the educa? tional devices the committee com? mended particularly the booklets got? ten out by various forest fire protec? tive associations. Another device Is a paper drinking cup to be folded by children, each fold telling a picture story of the growth of a forest fire, and of the evils of its effects. Still another Is a match box legend which points out that while a match has a head it cannot ivhlnk for itself, but is dependent on the though of the user to keep it from doing harm in the woods. Ultra-Modesty. (By Virginia Terhune Van De Wa? tter.) "To the ultra-pure all things a/e Impure." Such is tho corruption of an ancldent proverb, a corruption which, we are sometimes forced to admit, bears a firmer stamp of truth .han does the original maxim. It is a sad commentary upon hu? man nature that the person possessing a consciousness of self-righteousness is pretty sure to be conscious also of the other fellow's faults. If he didn't appreciate them he would lose half the pleasure of his own virtues! Some people, compelled by what they consider a sense of propriety, are particular to the point of prurience in peaking of doubtful subjects. Their hypertrophied modesty ma ices them ridiculous, and the subject of which they are forced to speak asiumes an Indecency that would not belong to it if it were treated honestly. "I am suffering with rheumatism in my limb," complained an ultra-fas? tidious spinster to her physician, "You have four limbs, madam," the blunt practitioner reminded her. "From your vague reference to the affected member I suppose it is one of those limbs termed by sensible people LEGS!" "You need not ask a chaperon to accompany us," a girl said to a young man who had asked to be allowed to take her for an automobile ride. "I trust you implicitly." The lad was scarcely to be blam? ed when he answered, somewhat gruff? ly, "If I hadn't believed that already I would not have asked you to go with or without a chaperon." But reluctant and hesitating speech on certain subjects is only one phase of the exaggerated modesty that bor? ders on indecency. Some persons see insinuations In plays?und these not plays that are among the many to which one might justly take exception?where less suspicious people discern only inno? cent fun. Such persons watch for the double entendre In the speech of others and find impropriety where another would not This Is not an argument in favor of coarse speech, nor would I udvo cate conversation upon topics which are unpleasant and, to say the least, distasteful, tf not evil. But I do claim that if circumstances make it necessary for one to speak of such matters; If, for the good of mankind or for the suppression of some wrong, a man or woman must deal with any disagreeable problem, there is a con? sciousness of tho pureness of one's motive, of the dignity of the end to? ward which one strives that makes one FORGET questions of modesty and immodesty, propriety and Im? propriety in the one overwhelming desire to do that which is right? Tho County Commissioners are ad? vertising the Jail lot tor sale an<l sealed bids will be received until De? cember 2nd. At the time that the Chamber of Commerce uccepted the proposition of the Bonsai syndicate to build the Sumter branch of the South Carolina Western Railroad it was stated,, on v bat WSS considered the best author? ity, that the Alcolu Uallroad would be extended Into this city to obtain * connection with seaboard and Beuth? era system. Has the project been abandoned by both Mr. Alderman and the railroad committee of the Cham bur ?>1 Commerce. Pickcd up. for Dead, hu Still Enthu? siastic "When Col. Goethals flrf.t went 10 Panama the work was organized on what may be called the horizontal system?that is, the canal was con? sidered as a whole, and one commis? sioner had charge of all the lock work, another of the excavation, and so on; but after a short trial of this , method Goethals reorganized t he en . tire work on what may be called a I perpendicular basis. He divided the I canal into three divisions?Atlantic, j Central, and Pacific?and placed each j of them under a superintendent. Two j of these superintendents, Colonels Sibert and Oaillard were army engt | neers and members of the Canal Com? mission, and the third. Mr. William? son, was a civil engineer. "Rivalry was instantly awakened between these divisions. " 'They are putting in concrete at Qatun at so many yards a day/ he would tell the foreman, say at Pedro Miguel. You aren't going to let Gat un beat you, are you?* "A fierce rivalry grew up over amounts of excavation done, cement ' used, iron work put in, and the results were published from week to week in the 'Canal Record.' The struggle has come to infect all classes of workmen. A story is told ;and they swear it la true!) of a man on the Atlantic divis? ion employed at the upper end of a huge drainage pipe used to carry water out of the hydraulic fill at Gatun dam. It was a long tu nr. el with a curve in the middle, and this man's job con* sisted in keeping the entrance free from obstruction. One day he incon? siderately fell ir.to the pipe and was caught up and swept through with the torrent. They picked him up for dead, ^ut presently, opening his eyes, tie said. 'They couldn't do that on the Pacific division!' " The December Woman's Home Com* panion. The December Woman's Home Companion is k highly IntererAlLtf Christmas number?and particularly beautiful because of its unusual art features. It also includes a number of contributions which give invaluable information as to how to make vari* ous kinds of Christina* presents and how to give various kinds of Christ* mas entertainments. Among the important articles in the number are: "The Joy of Looking Ahead," by Chi. I I tor of the. Bro ? ? v - TabernacI in New York C?ty; Its Hospital" b "Money Making Steese Richardson; "The World's Greatest Paintings" by Laura Spencer Porter; "The Hostess and Her Guests" by Christine Tertone ttentck and a "Cake Party lor Christmas Week" by Fannie Merritt farmer. The Companions fight for "Better Babtee" is carried on by Dr. Hoger H. Dennett, who. in the "Better Babies" depa tment writes an article entitled "How to Make 15abies Better." Dr. Dennett is a New York expert on chil? dren's diseases and what he has to say is both interesting and exceedingly helpful. Fiction is contributed by Margaret Deland. Owen Oliver, Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, Fannie Heasilp Lea and Florence Morse Klngsley. Art tea* tures, music and verses are contribut? ed cv Jessie Willcox Smith, Laura Spencer Porter. William H. Gardner. Reginald DeKoven and Walter JaciC Duncan. The regular Young People's Cook? ing, Fashion and Household depart? ments are filled with suggestions particularly adapted to Chr*atmas. Many cf the stores in the city are getting ready to decorate their stores the early part of next week for the coming of the Shriners. It has been suggested that guaya* can, a very hard wood of Central America, may furnish shuttle blocks to supplement dogwood and persim? mon, now most used, and in danger of becoming exhausted. f BRIDGE TEETH I 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. Sumte. Dental Parlors, Dr. C. H. Courtney. Prop Over Shaw & WcCo ium. V_