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A Comedy of Youth Found Great Play of the Sair From Phototfrai Copyritfht, 1913, by Do< r CHAPTER VI. ' * Li-? r?.j. n nvu?? wi ww? KINGSNORTH sank into a chair. The letter slipped from his fingers. All his dreams had vanished In a moment. His bouse > of carda had toppled dowu^ His ambitions were surely and positively destroyed at one stroke. He mechanically picked up the letter and reread it Had it been bis death sentence It could not have affected him more cruelly: Dear Nathaniel?1 scarcely know how to write to you about what has happened. I am afraid I am In some small measure to blame. Ten days ago your sister showtol me a letter from a man named O'Confiell Kingsnortb crushed the letter in his hand as he read the bated name?tbe name of the man who bad caused him bo much discomfort during that unfortunate visit to bis estate in Ireland. How be blamed himself now for having ever gone there! There was Indeed a curse on it for tbe Klngsnortbs. He straightened out tbe crumpled piece of paper and read od? ?a man named O'Connell?the man she nursed In your house tn Ireland after he had been shot by the soldiers. He was coming to England and wished to see her. She asked my permission. I reasoned with her. but she was decided. If i should not permit her to see him in my house she would meet him elsewhere. It Seemed better the meeting should be under my roof, so I consented. 1 bitterly reproach myself now for not acquainting "??" -?UL r/MI hova you Willi U1B pal lauiai g. ivu u..e..i ..... succeeded in stopping what has happened. Tour sister and O'Connell were married this morning by special license and left this afternoon Tor Liverpool en route to America. I cannot begin to tell you how much 1 deplore the unfortunate affair. It will always be a lasting sorrow to me. I cannot write any more now. My head is aching with the thought of what it will mean to you. Try not to think too hardly of me and believe me, always your affectionate cousin. MARY CAROLINE WREXFORD. Kingsnorth's bead sank on to bis breast Every bit of life left him, everything about his feet ashes, the laughingstock of his friends. Were Angela there nt that moment lie could have killed her. The humiliation of it! The degradation of it! Married to that lawless Irish agitator! The man now a memfoer of his family! A cry of misery broke from him as be realized that the best years of his life were to come and go fruitlessly. His career was ended. Despair lay heavy on his soul. Standing on the main deck of an Atlantic liner stood Angela and O'Connell. They were facing the future together. Their faces were turned to the west The sun was sinking In a blaze of Color. Their eyes lighted up with the joy Of hope. Love was in their hearts. w w w w W m w A year after the events In the preceding chapter took place O'Connell and ills youns wife were living in a small apartment in one of the poorer sections of New York city. The first few months in America had been glorious ones for them. Their characters and natures unfolded to each other as some wonderful paintings, each taking its own hues from the adoration of the other. In company with a noted Irish organizer O'Connell had spoken in many of the big cities of the United States and was everywhere hailed as a hero and a martyr to English tyranny. But he had one ever present handicap?a drawback he had never felt during the years of struggle preceding Ma marriage. His means were indeed HIT A TTTtTTIT T an IUAAWMjLS MARKET T. H. 31 AX WELL, Proprietor FOR ALL PORK SAUSAGE SMALL HAMS, ROAST PIG, FRESH FISH and OYSTERS Highest Cash Prices Paid tor Cattle, -Hogs and Sheep, Green Salted Hides. PHONE 298 Maxwell's Market Comparison is the highest form of flatter}*. All cigars sold in Abbeville are represented to be as good, or better, than Speed's Cinco's. TLore is nothing kke them. Stick to them. They keep a good taste in your mouth and a clear head. The California Car has a limited number of the Lucky Sea Beans which they five away to visitors as souvenirs. PEG 1 O'MY IE ART y J. Hartley Manners ed by Mr. Manners on His le Title?Illustrations >hs of the Play id. Mead fy Company sniaTl; "He"" tiled to e?e out a rrrcie rucome writing articles for the newspa \ i _? ' x i< ''_^L_ yf gl^flV HHBgj h H MMM %v*;% '.' I|?j . v..s .'<-..* ?*: . K ffl *P^^BHI >. * ^Mkif? ^si&2 388 BBBft meB B||&k . Hp All His Dreams Had Vanished In a new world and returning home some day to Ireland with the means of relieving some of her misery and with his wife guarded, as she should be. from the possibility of want. And here was be going back to Ireland as poor as he left it, though richer immeasurably in the love of Angela. She was sitting perfectly still, her eyes on the floor, when he entered the room. He caine in so softly that she did not hoar him. He lifted her hend and looked into her eyes. lie noticed with certainty what had been so far only a vague, ill defined dread. Her face was very, very pale and transparent Her eyes were sunken and had a strange brilliancy. She was much slighter and far more ethereal than on that day when they stood on the deck of the ship and turned their faces so hopefully to the new world. He felt a knifelike stab startle through his hlnnrl tn his heart. His breath caught. Angela looked up at him radiantly, lie kissed her and with mock cheerfulness he said laughingly: "Such news, me darlin'! Such wondberful news!" "Good news, dear?" "The best in the wurrld," and he choked a sob. "I knew it would come! I knew it would. Tell me, dear." "We're to go back?back to Ireland. See, here are the orders," and he showed her the official letter.* Moment. pers and magazines. But the recompense was pitiful. He could not bear without a pang to see Angela in the dingy surroundings that he could barely afford to provide for her. On her part Angela took nothing with her but a few jewels her mother had left her, some clothes and very little money. The moDey soon disappeared, and then one by one the keep sakes of her mother were parted with. But they never lost heart. Through it all they were happy. All the poetry of O'Connell's nature came uppermost leavened, as it was, by the deep faith and veneration of his wife. This strangely assorted fervent man and gentle woman seemed to have solved the great mystery of happiness between two people. But the poverty chafed O'Connell? 'not for himself, but for the frail, lov ing, uncomplaining woman who had given her life into his care. His active brain was continually trying to devise new ways of adding tc his meager income.- He multiplied his duties. He worked far into the nighl when he could find a demand for his articles. But little by little his sources of revenue failed him. Some frpsh and horrible agrarian crimes In Ireland, for which tbe homr rule party was blamed, for awhilt turned the tide of sympathy against his party. Tbe order was sent out tc discontinue meetings for the purpose of collecting funds In America?funds the Irish Americans bad been so cheerfully and plentifully bestowing on the "cause."' O'Connell was recalled to Ireland. His work was highly commended. Some day they would send him to the United States again as a special pleader. At present be would be ol greater value at home. He was instructed to apply to the treasurer of the fund and arrangements would be made for his passage back to Ireland. He brought the news to Angela with a strange feeling of fear and disappointment. He had built so much on mnlrinrt O m/vn/lfirfnl ^flPftor In thft frPOJlt fa'Eie took it woutteringi.v una reau n Her hand dropped to her Hide. Hei bead drooped Into t he same position bt had found her in. In n moment he wa> kneeling at her side. "What Is It, dear?" "We can't go. Km nit." "We can't go? What are ye sayln' dear?" "We can't go." she repeated, her bodj crumpled up limply In the chair. "And why not. Angela? 1 know J can't take ye baclc as 1 brought ye here, dear, if that's what ye mime The luck's been against me. It's been cruel hard against me. An' that thought is tearin' at me heart this minniL" "It isn't that, Frank," she said faintly. "Then what la it?" "Oh." she cried, "I hoped It -would be so different?so very different" "What did ye think would be so different, dear? Our going back? Is that what's throublin' ye?" "No, Frank, not that 1 don't care how we go back so long as you are with me." He pressed her hand. In a moment she went on: "But we can't go. we can't go. Oh, ray dear, my dear, can't you guess? Can't you think?" She looked imploringly into his eyes. A new wonder came into bis. Could it be true? Could it? He took both her hands and held them tichtlv and 6tood np, towering over ber and trembling violently. "Is it?is it"? be cried and stopped as if afraid to complete tbe question. She smiled a 'var smile up at bim and nodded ber bead as sbe answered: "Tbe union of our lives Is to be complete. Our love fis to be rewarded." "A cbild is coming' to us7" be whispered. "It is," and her voice was bushed too. "Praise be to God! Praise be to his holy name!" And O'Conuell clasped bis hands in prayer. In a little while sbe went on: "It was the telling you 1 wanted to be so different. I wanted you when you heard it to be free of care?happy. And I've waited from day to day, hoping for the best?that some good fortune would tome to you." He forced one of his old time, hearty laughs, but there was a hollow ring In it: "What is tbat yer sayln' at all? Wait for pood fortune? Is there nuy pood fortune like what ye've Just told [ foe? Sure I'm ten times the happiest man since I came into this room." He put bis ana around ber and, sitting beside her, drew ber closely to bim. "Listen, dear," he said, "listen. We'll I go back to the old country. Our child shall be born where We first met There'll be no danger. No one shall harm U9 with that little life trembling in tha balance?the little precious life. ' If it's a girl child she'll be the mother of her people, and if it be a man child he shall grow up to carry on his father's work. So there?there, me darlin\ we'll go back?we'll go back." She shook her bead feebly. "1 can't," she said. ( "Why not, dear?" k "f didn't want to tell you, but now yon make me. Frank, dear. I ?m 111." EUs heart almost stopped. "111? Oh, ' my darlin', what Is It? Is it serious? Tell me it Isn't serious!" And his voice rang with a note of agony. "Oh, no. I don't think so, 1 saw the ' doctor today. He said i must be careJ ful^very carel'ul, until?until our baby ' is born." 1 "An* ye kept it all to yerself. me 1 brave one. me dear one. All rlght We won't go back. We'll stay liere 1 I'll make them tind me work. I'm strong. I'm clever, too. and crafty. ' Angela. I'll wring It from this hus ' tling city. I'll tight it and bent it Me ' darlin* shall hare everything she ! wants. My little mother?my p.eciuiis ' little mother!" (To be continued.) Music V/ithout Charm. A X. ~ Dv/\nrn ViQ/^ CnnfT ) 1/ <X IUIOO .U1UUU nr*u "It's a Long Way to Tipperary," and for days after she was singing or humming it to herself. "It seems to haunt me," she said * to a friend who had also been at the party. "No wonder," said the friend. "Look at the way you murdered it!" Bad Habits. "No," exclaimed Richly, "cur son will never amount to anything until he marries." "Why?" asks his wife anxiously. "He's got to get over the habit of , hanging around the house."?Ex. t Making Shoes of Cotton. Shoes made almost entirely of . cotton, are the latest product of an Atlanta shoe factory. The first pair was finished last week. The only thing about the shoes that is not cot ton is the heel, which is made of rubber, and a thin leather welt to ' which the cotton belting sole is attached. The newest thing about ! the shoe is the cotton belting sole. On records which have been kept of this material it is declared that it will last as a shoe sole longer than leather. The rest of the shoe is made of gray Palm Beach cloth. ?News and Press. \ More than ninety per cent of the alcohol and alcoholic drinks that are made in the Philappines are derived from the sap of palm trees. >iroctiont for Cultivating and Can- _ ning Pimento*. 0 The following instructions con- ? :erning the Pimento are given by Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, Assistant State Agent Home Demonstration , Work. Mrs. Walker has made a special study of this vegetable, having grown it successfully on her, farm at Appleton, S. C., for many , years. She has furnished seed , and instructions to people all over the South, and has charge of several pimento farms this year. , Mrs. Walker read a paper on pimentos 'at the recent meeting of , Home Demonstration Agents at Winthrop College and at that time and since many requests have come for an article on that subject. , Plant seed in hot bed in rows two inches apart, placing seed one inch , apart in rows. When pilants are six inches high , transplant to plat. Plat should be in a thoroughly pulverized condition, having been broad , cast with lime before being subsoiled. , Lay off rows 2 1-2 feet wide, use , 8-4-4 fertilizer at the rate of 1,000 pounds per acre. Check with rows 2 1-2 feet apart and plant must be set in the check. Pnl+ivofo When nlants are 12 inches high apply Nitrate of Soda at the rate of one teaspoonful to the plant. They respond readily to this treatment. Keep free of weeds and grass. In July your efforts are awarded with an abundance of lucious pimentos. Sell as many as possible in the market. Then comes the canning season. Gather the peppers early in the morning while crisp with dew. Rub all dust off with a towel, being careful not to bruise them. Cut around stem with a sharp paring: Knue, wunaraw seea ourr with stem, and cut away the walls or partitions on the inside. You now have the beautiful red hollow pods which you place side by side (never overlap) in a biscuit.pan Introduce this into a very hot stove oven. In ten minutes these pods will blister. Remove from stove and peel immediately. Pack these leathery pulps into No. 1 cans, four pimentos to each can being the commercial pack. Cap?exhaust 3 minutes. Tip?boil 20 minutes. Boiling extracts their natural juices. Never use olive oil with them because with age it becomes rancid. The natural oily juice extracted by boiling in the cans is far better -?- xi-. i- 1?-1:?~ ~:i tiian trie innuuucuun ui uiivc vu 111to the can. Likewise they may be canned in half pint glass jars. Birds Shun War Countries. The bulletin of the St. Hubert club of France, reports that the war has brought confusion even among the feathered tribes. Migratory birds have left sooner than usual. Thrushes that come from Germany, and even Sweden and Denmark have not arrived this year, but have gone direct to Italy. Larks, usually so common in France, have disappeared before the cannon's roar, their passage in October not having taken place. The wrens have imitated them. Sedentary birds that remain in the country live in perpetual terror in the fighting districts, flying about msdlv dnv nnd nifrht. From Burgundy, bands of wild bears are reported that have evidently come from the Ardennes and Vosges. They are in great numbers and so 'hungry that they have devoured even the bark of trees. Driv en from their haunts by the firing, they have fled by the only accessible route, behind the armies into the forests of the Cote d'Or. Sure Thing! "Farm products cost more than they used to." "Yes" replied the far mer. "When a farmer is supposed to know the botanical name of what he's raisin' an' the entomological name of the insect that eats it. an' < the pharmaceutical name of the ' chemical that will kill it, some- < body's got to pay."?Anderson (N. ' C.) Intelligencer. The Andrew Hamilton chapter of tl e ! D. A. R. will meet this (Wednesday) alternoon at 4 o'clock with Mrs. W. S Cothran. Mrs. J. M. Lawsor, Sec. 'f5J5JBJSM5IBJBJEI5JSJ3J5/5JBJBJ5J5JBISJ5J9Jc" I ^ | PICTDEE SHOW PROGR&l | ' P 3JSJSMSJSJSI5ISISJSISJSI5JSJSJSJSJSJ3JSISJSJSMSJ For ThU Week. | ******** ?WEDNESDAY? 'The Truth of Fiction,"?2 Reel American, Featuring Winifred *| Greenwood and a cast of popular Stars. -| 'Love in Armour,"?Keystone Com. "The Idler,"?Reliance. Four Reels ?THURSDAY? 'The Lucky Transfer"? Reliance, t A good detective story. a "A Newspaper Nemesu,"?Thanhouser. Starring Peggy Burke, ( the new Thanhouser leading wo- \ man. ? "A Temperance Lesson"? Majestic, ? a clever domestic comedy. ? ^ "The Sacrifice"? Drama. ?4 reels. I ?riuuAi? ' "The Girl Who Might Have Been"? 2-Reel Kay Lies, featuring L? una Heatton an Frank Uorzsijrc. "Beating Hearts and Carpet* *? Keystone Comedy and a good one "Adrift in a Great City" ?Than. "The Son of Thomas Gray." 5 Reels.?5 ?SATURDAY? "Her Buried Past"?Majestic, 2Reels. The Stiry of a woman's mercy and a woman's mistake, featuring Irene Hunt. "In Wrong."? Royai. A sidesplitting farce. "The Girl and the Greaser."?Western. 4 Reels in all. I Buys a Car. Miss Eliza Gary has bought a car and is learning to drive it. She is giving her friends much pleasure in the way of rides. The Man to Avoid. "What sort of a billiard game do you play?" "Well," he replied suspiciously, "I can usually hold my own with any ordinary player, except the man who hasn't had a cue in his hands for three years." The Cow Appreciated.? A simple hearted man who has tasted but few of the drinks of the world, took dinner with a high-toned family, where a glass of milk punch was quietly set down by each plate, says the Kansas City Star. Tn q?/1 Viar\rn?acc oniocf and Buckwheat to make ; ] the cakes. A. M. HILL & SONS i i. . , Ulna Taken Him Own ncilicine ( Is an Optimist { H* has absolute faith in hismedi- } cine?he knows when he takes it for , c-rtain ailments he gets relief. People who take Dr. King's New Discov- 1 ery for an irritaliug Cold are optimists 1 ?they know this cough remedy will < penetrate the linings of the throar, 3 kill the germs, and open the way for < Nature to act. You can't destroy a Uold by superficial treatment?you , must go to the cause of the trouble. J Be an optimist. Get a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery today. 1 1 All OUVUWV t??lVt C - quaffed his goblet, and then added: J "Madam, you should daily give , thanks for such a good cow." . . - , Wholo Faintly Dfprndent Mr. E. William-, Hamilton, Ohio, writes: "Our whole family depend on Pine-Tar-Honey." Maybe f-omeone in your family ha* a severe Cold?perhap-" it ?? thebibv. The original Dr. 1 Bell's Piue-Tnr-Honey is an ever ' ready bon-ehf M remedy? it gives immediate relief, pine Tar-Honey pet- i etraten the 1 nmts of the Throat and Lungs, destroy s the Germs, ami allows j Nature to act. At your Druggist, 23c What to Eat?! FOB BREAKFAST , fri^Tr a Poun<^ ?f our 1 -LI J BREAKFAST | BACON, sliced thin by i oi*r new slicer, QCa a po^nd - - - J JU o , We carry the very best ' grade of HUDNUT'S. ! H 0 M I N Y, machine j cleahed, absolutely without specks, iflfin a peck - - 4UC 0 1 We handle the highest , grades of COFFEE, good || Maple Syrups for Cakes, |j i SUNDAY" SCHOOL .esson II.?Second Quarter, For H April 11, 1915. Bj rHE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.. H "ext of the Lesson, I Sam. xvi, 4-13. Memory Verses, 12, 13?Golden TexV |^H I Sam. xvi, 7?Commentary Prepared |^H by Rev. D. M. Stearns. It is certainly restful to be In the HH lands of Him wbo worketb all thing* ifter the counsel of His owu will (Eyb. BH , 11) and who says, "I will work, and H vho sball let It" (binder, or turn backi BJ Isa. xliii, 13), provided we buve aiKi EH 7111 of our own in tne matter, uvea. Samuel seems not to buve been fully MB me with the Lord concerning Saul, for HI le continued to mourn for bim after be Lord bad rejected blm. so that the^ord bad to say td blm. "How long vilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing 1 9 iave rejected blm from reigning over H srael?" When we can say, "Even no, rather," "Just and true are ti?y ways," W tecause we are certain that "As for w iod, His way is perfect"^Matt xi. 20; 1 lev. xv, 3: Ps. viii, 30), we have en- | ered upon a restful life Then it* J ontinuance depends upon our living: J n the perfect will of God. moment by m noment Note the messages to Sam- r lei in verses 1-3: "I will send thee to> Iesse. 1 bavc provided me a king. I vill sbow thee what thou sbalt do. inoint unto Me blm whom I name mio inee. mis leu uuiumg tor ouuilel but simple obedience to Him wbo ivas managing. But Samuel bad an objection. "If ' Saul hear it be will kill me." Tlie Lord quieted blm. and matters proreeded, and Samuel did that wbich the Lord spake and came to Bethlehem to xieet Jesse and his sons (versea 4, 5?. rhe elders of the town seemed to regard Samuel almost as God Himself )r they must have had very guilty con- 4 jciences, for they trembled at bis eomng until assured that he Game peacelbly. Those who are walking wltli nna/i hora nA fnnp nf a rkit" frnnt JUU Utcu UUfV UV l(.ui VI. ? w *w?w i man of God nor of the coming of theLord Himself, for it is possible so toibide that we shall not be ashamed ^ , before Ilim at His coming (I John 11. f 28). Having called Jesse and bis sons. Samuel tbougbt that be saw in Eliaba at successor to Saul, but the Lord told tiim not to look on his outward appearmce (verses 6, 7).- When we consider v Eliab's contemptuous and uncalled for treatment of David a little later (xvil, , 28) we do not wonder that the Lord refused him. for He knew what waa In man (John 11. 25). Seven of Jesse's sons passed before Samuel, all who bad come to meet him, but the Lord's choice was not among them, so that Samuel bad to ask, "Are here all thy children?" Then be learned that the youngest had been left at home to keep the sheep, and Samuel said, "Send and fetch him. for we wiil not sit downtill be come hither"' (verses 8-11). I am interested to know how David, felt that day when left at home and all the other brothers went to meet Samuel, for. knowing what we do of David, we can easily imagine that hewould be more desirous to meet Samuel than any of his brothers would, even though there might be nothing especially for him in it. Some day in: the kingdom we may talk with him about that particular day. I neverread or write this story or think about It that I do not rejoice to see ther n-<ir in ^ Thf? vonnc man left IU ^ ' *-* J ? ? , at home because he was seemingly of qo account on this great occasion, and then all the older brothers set aside and compelled to wait till he came. and then to see Samuel take the horn af oil and anoint him in the midst, of bis brethren. I think I can hear Eliab say to some:>f his brothers as they went home>- ? ward. "The old prophet must be in his dotage." ' There is nothing to it, for they did not hear the Lord say to Samuel. "Arise, anoint him, for this Is he" [verses 12. 13). The comfort I get from It is that the Lord looketh on the heart, not on the outward appearance, and when he wants you for any work Fie will find you and get you there in spite of all obstacles. It is ours to keep quietly ou minding our sheep. like David or Moses; thrashing our wheat like Gideon: plowing, like Elisha: doing housework, like Mary of Nazareth: mending nets, like Peter and John, or 4 ' vonmioi* wuarever eist; uui iu0um? tion. The Spirit of the Lord came upon ^ David, but departed from Saul because of Saul's failure to obey (13, 14). God ullows us to choose, and if we choose the evil and not the good we have no one to blame but ourselves. By the advice of Saul's servants he sought some one to quiet him when the evil spirit was upon him. and they recommended David, the son of Jesse, is a cunning player on the harp, a raliant man of war. a prudent man, a ?omeIy man. and they also said that [he Lord was with him (verses 13-23). t Being sent for, Saul loved him greatly -1 >?' ? I"'" A??v*A? KAO rAr T-TATXT ma iiiaae uim ui& aiuivt uvuiu. .. strange it all seems! God moves in a nysferious way. What a wonderful ?hapter! How can we refrain from saying, "Lord, take control of me and ill my affairs and work out in and :hrough me all thy good pleasure." It ;vould seem that Jesse was an old man it this time, and his family consisted )f eight sons and two daughters (xvii. [2: I Cbron. ii. 16). but David's moth- ^ >r's name is not given. ^ The whole story is an Illustration of ' :he truth of Eph. ii. 10. that God has :he life and service of His redeemed ill planned beforehand and will work v t out If we will let Him. See Jer. 1,4-D.