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h * / 4 ?'. 5v£" ' N ';: .r —^ . ■ ' Ti f;. ( r-v ‘S—l i;, a PAGE SIX THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1927 WANTS FOR SALE—One house and lot on West Main st. Irby Hipp. 3-17-4tc WANT TO SELL YOUR HOME SEE GEO. H. ELLIS REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE STOMPS SPRINGS WATER deliver ed twice a week, Tuesday and Fri day, 20c per gallon, 10(c at spring. Apply to P. B. Ferguson, Clinton, S. C. 3-10-4tc FOR SALE—Pure browti leghorn eggs, 75 cents per setting of 15, de livered in Clinton. S. A. Pitts. l£c FOR RENT—One five-room house, all conveniences, on Calhoun avenue, next to Mrs. R. H. Young’s. $15 per month. Apply to Mrs. R. H. Young. Ip | plain to us who knew, ly plain! _ FOR SALE—Pecan trees; prices re duced. Write today. Southern Nut Tree Nurseries, Thomasville, Ga. 2-24-6tp FOR RENT OR SALE—8 room bun galow. Corner lot, paved street and sidewalk, double garage. All conven- See A. J. Milling. tf lences. SWEET MILK—delivered for break fast. See me for prices. C. A. Ow ens, one-half mile from corporate lim its. Itp WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE: It is 1868 and the Pacific railroad has reached its newest “farthest west” — Ben.on, Wyoming, a town described as •‘'oaring,” as each new terminus, temporarily, was.—^ Frank Beeson, a young men from Albany, New York, comes here in his search for health, and Benton is con sidered “high and dry.” Edna Montoyo, a fellow passenger on the train from Omaha, impresses Beeson with the beauty of her blue eyes and the style of her apparel. Equally she astonished Him by taking a “smile” of brandy before breakfast. A brakeman tells Beeson she has “fol lowed her man” to Benton. Jim, a typical western ruffian whom FOR RENT—Splendid 206 acre farm, she knows apparently well insults her partly in Mountville. Als* store, and is floored by Frank whose prow- corner Pitts and Sloan streets, Clinton. ^ ss impresses the passengers. O’Daniel & Reid. tf' Col. Lunders6n and “Bill” Brady volunteer to entertain young Beeson “O' course you have. Don’t I know that, too? Didn’t she tell me to keep my eyes skinned for you, and to cot ton on to you when yen come in? We’ll ^nd her, after we likker up.” “She did?” “Why not? Ain’t I a friend of hem? You bet! Finest little woman in Ben ton. Trail to the trough along with me, pardner, and name your favor ite.” “I’d rather not drink,” I essayed. “O’ course you’ll drink!” he said. “Any gent I ax to drink has got to drink! 'Name FOR RENT—Residence on East Car olina avenue, adjoining Dr. John W. Young’s place, suitable far boarding house or aparmtent house. Apply to Dr. Jack H. Young. tf Frank avoids being caught by any of the numerous gambling games, but is robbed of all his money. CHAPTER FIVE FOR SALE—Residence on East Car olina avenue. Seven-room house, all conveniences, good location, one acre lot, in desirable section of city. Apply to Mrs. Geo. M. Davis, Clinton, S. C. * 3-10-3tc PROFITS FOR THE FARMER—Get more for your crop by growing cot ton of full inch fibre or longer. The mills want it. Coker’s strains of Cleveland meet the requirement. They won five out of six prizes in the State wide Contest. Write for free copy of 1927 catalog describing our seeds and greeding methods. It offers practi cal suggestions that will help you. make money this year. Coker’s Pedi-! ab £y e th ? open-a.r gambling games, greed Seed Co., David R. Coker, Pres ident. Hartsville, S. C. your piten—make it champagne, if that’s your brand. But the drinks are on me.” So willy-nilly I was brought to the bar. “Straight goods and the best you’ve got,” my pilot blared. “Noht 0* your agency^^whiskey either. What’s I bravely yourn?” he^asked of me. “The same as yours, sir, replied. We drank. The stuff may have been pure; at least it was stout and cut fiery way dow’n my unwonted ihroat; the one draught infused me with a swagger and a sudden rosy view of life through temporary mist of watering eyes. We wended a leisurely way among games of infinite variety and had by the tour when IN THE BIG TENT There was no trace of the round faced man and a short converastion with the clerk convinced me of the slimness of the chance to recover my no means completed property. So I borrowed $20 from him 1 we met My Lady. She detached her^ with my trunk as security until I could self, as if cognizant of our approach, hear from home. 1 from a little group of four or five. When I stepped outside twilight had and turned for me with hand out- deepened into dusk, the air was al-; stretched; a gratifying flush upon her most frosty, and this main street had been made garish by the nightly il- pocket. “Allow me. I will furnish the funds if you will do the playing.” “Well,” she consented, “if you say so. Partners it is.” ■— We won a dollar and moved off. I was conscious that the youth’s brown eyes briefly flicked after us with’a peculiar glint. We found Jim, a winner at another monte game. “The queen is your card,” cried the spieler. “My hand against your eyes. You are set? There you arev Don’t be pikers. Let us have a little sport. It was absurd- Jim, a teamster standing by and I I urged by the Lady, down $2 each. “Give me a chance, gentlemen,” said _the spieler. “I shall not proceed with for that picayune sum be- You wouldn’t bet unless you feh cock-sure of winning. I’ll give you one minute, gentlemen, before calling all bets off unless you make the pot worth while.” Tike ^threat had effect. Nobody wished to let the marked card get away. That was not human nature. Bets rained upon the table—bank notes, silver half dollars, the farer dollar coins, and the common green backs. “This is the last round, gentlemen,” the spieler reminded. “Are gou all in? You^ he said, direct to me. “Are you in such short circumstances that you have no spunk? Why, the stakes you play would not buy refreshments for the lady.” That was too much! I extracted my twenty-dollar note, and deaf to a quickly breathed “Wait” from My La dy I planked it down before him. She should know me for a man of decision! “There, sir,” said I, “I am betting twenty-two dollars in all, which is my limit tonight.” “You sir,” and he addressed Jim. “They are backing you. Which do Card of Thanks lar down your throat—you’d lay t dol lar on a cockroach race.” With a muttered “I’ll go you an other turn. Mister,” Jim pranked down a dollar and faced up the queen of hearts. ^ It is almost impossible to find words to express our heartfelt thanks^to our friends and neighbors for the acts and deeds of love and kindiyess shown ua and our loved one in his long illness and death. Also for the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. Corrie Adair and Children. I HAVE A REAL BARGAIN IN A BEATRICE HOME. GEO. H. ELLIS REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE SOME ATTRACTIVE OFFERS American Boy $2.00, two years $3.00. American Boy and McCall’s Maga zine $2.50. American Boy and Pictorial Review $2.60 (good only to Dec. 31, 1926.) Send for catalogue of'bargains or call 243 at 12:30 p. m. JAS. W. CALDWELL A ay th tag In Magazines Stake a dollar. ^Why,^eu’d toss a doL you say is the queen? Lay your fin- Winter Sports call for this refreshment ger on her.’ Jim did so. “You sir, then.” And he addressed me. “You are the heaviest better. Suppose you turn the card for your- |self and those other gentlemen.” I “The money’s yours. You never j My hand trembled. There were earned a ‘dollar quicker. I’ll wager, sj^ty or seventy dollars upon the ta- friend,” the dealer acknowledged, im-jble. and my own contribution was my perturbable. -‘last cent! From behind the dealer a man ^ ^ turned the card the card with touched him upon the shoulder. He ,l ‘ b f bent corner, of which I was cer- tumed ear; while he inclined farther,|°' vn narne » I fenced it they whispered together, and I wit- 1 confidently, my capital already nessed an arm steal sjviftly forward at lumination. All up and down the street coal-oil my side, and a thumb and finger slightly bend up the extreme corner of the queen. The hand and arm vanished, when the dealer fronted us again the queen wte apparently just as before. Only we who had seen would have marked the bent corner. The act had been so clever and so spirited face. | audacious that I fairly held my breath. “You are here, then?” shi greeted, i Put the eambler resumed his flow of I made a leg, with my best bow, not talk, while he fingered the cards as if omitting to remove hat and cigar. torches or flambeaus, ruddily emboss-J while agreeably conscious of her ap ing the heads of the p’ayers and on lookers, flared like votive braziers The noise of the day had redoubled. proving gaze. “I am here, madam, in the Big Tent.” Her small warm hand acted as if totally unaware that they had been tampered with. His audience hesitated, as if fearful of a trick, for the bent corner of the queen, raising this end a little, was doubled; and amidst a burst of aston ished cries I stared dumbfounded. It was the eight of clubs! Continued Next Week. Every bottle sterilized bottled in oar spotless plan;. Keep a few bottles in yoor ice chest at home. 7 million a day GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.* Greenwood. S. C. IT HAD TO GET TO BE GOOD WHERE -IT IS CORN MILL We have just installed an electric corn mill at;Refrigerators and ice our plant and are pre- boxes at better prices pared to grind your corn , than we have had them any day in the week. Let fn several years. Trade us serve you. D. E. TRIBBLE CO. Clinton, S. C. in your old one. FULLER-SIMPSON FURNITURE CO. 3-17-5tc T 0 tbe exclamations, the riotous unreservedly mine, for the moment. How Doctors Treat Colds and the Flu shouts and whoops, the harangues of J About her there was a tingling ele- the barkers, and now and then a re-; ment of the friendly, even of the in- volver shot, there had been added the, timate. inciting music of stringed instruments, cymbals, and such—some in dance measures, some solo, while immediate ly at hand sounded the shuffling stamp of waltz, hoe-down and cotil- ; lion. Night at Benton plainly had begun with a gusto. It stirred one’s blood. It called— Ta break up a cold overnight or to cut short an attack of grippe, in fluenza, sore throat or tonsillitis, phy sicians and druggists are now recom mending Calotabs, the purified and refined calomel compound tablet that .. . . , , . . gives you the effects of calomel and lt summoned hi th such a promise of salts* combined, without the unpleas- ^ anet y* ad\enture,j>f flotsam and ant effects of either. jetsam and shuttlecock of chances, One or two Calotabs at bed-time that I, a youth with twenty-one dol- with a swallow of water.—that’s all. lars and a half at disposal, all his No salts, no nausea nor the slightest clothes on his back, man’s weapon at interference with your eating, work his M t, and an appointment with a or pleasure. Next morning your cold , » • . . has vanished, your system ie thor- , a * future, forgetful of h:s oughly purified and you are feeling Past and courageous in present, strode malam, certainly fine with a hearty appetite for break- '-j—*»-- - fast. Eat what you please,—no dan ger. Get a family package, containing full directions, only 35 cents. drug store. At any (adv) Hastings’Seeds Catalog Free V Free Flower Seeds for Too confidently, even recklessly down, as eager as one to the manners of the country bom. There was no need for me to in quire my way to the trysting place. I saw a large canvas sign—“The Big Tent”—suspended in the full shine of a locomotive reflector. Beneath it the people were streaming into the wide entrance to a great canvas hall. Once across the threshold, I halted, taken all aback by the hub-bub and ,the kaleidoscopic spectacle that beat upon my ears and eyes. The floor, of planed boards, teem ing wnth men, women and children. Along one side there was an ornate bar glittering with cut glass and sil ver and backed by a large plate mir “You got your outfit* I see,” she smiled. “Yes. Am I correct?” “You have saved yourself annoy ance. You’ll do,” she nodded. “Have you played yet? Win, or lose?” “I did not come to play, madam,’ said I. “Not at table, that is.” Where upon I must have returned her gaze so glowingly as to embarrass her. Yet she was not displeased; and in that costume and with that liquor still coursing through my veins 1 felt equal to any retort. “But you should play. You are hesled?” “I am prepared for all emergencies. I averred with proper dignity. Not for the world would I have confessed otherwise. Sooth to say, I had the sensation of boundless wealth! “That is good. Shall we walk a liftle? And when you play—come here.” We stepped apart from the listeners. “When you play, follow the lead of Jim. He’ll not lose, and I intend that you shan’t either. But you must play, for the sport of it. Everybody games, in Benton.” “So I judge, madam,” I assented. “Under your chaperonage I am ready to take any risk, the gaming table being among the least.” “Prettily said, sir,” she'compliment ed. . 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Hastings' ne*- 1927 Cata-j et ^ busy bartenders. | My Lady made no mention of nay log has 112 pages in all. full of pic- , To the bidding of orchestra music‘husband, which might have been odd tures from photographs, handsome^women and men (with hats upon their j n the East, but did not impress me as covers in full colors, truthful, accurate heads and. cigars in their mouths),! especially add here in the democratic and men together, whirled in couples, 1 Far West. The women appeared to so that the floor trembled to the boot have an independence of action. bee ^ s - ) “Shall we risk a play or two?” she Scattered thickly over the interven- protested. “Are you acquainted with descriptions gnd valuable culture di rections. We want you to have this catalog in your home. It tells all about Hastings’ garden, flower and field seeds, plants and bulbs—the finest in America i ln ®’ spaee * bere were ^ames of chance, three-card monte?” Write for it today A post-card re quest brings it to you by return mail H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, - ATLANTA, GA. x ft SEABOARD ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS CLINTON, S. C. To and from SOUTH and WEST Arrive: Depart: 2:51a.m. Atlanta-B’ham 1:48 a.m. 5:50 p. m. B’ham-Memphis 11:30 a. m. To and from NORTH and EAST i 1 Arrive; Depart: 1:48 a. m. New York-Wash. 2:51 a m. 1:48 a. ra. Rich.-Norfolk 2:51 a m. 11:30 a. m. New York-Wash. 5:50 p.m. 11:30 a. m. Rich.-Norfolk .5:60 p. m. 2:00 p. m. Monroe-Hamlet 2:00 p. m. C. G. LaHatte, T. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. W. H. Shands, Agent, Clinton, S. C. every description, surrounded by j “Indifferently, mad»m ” said I. “But gioups looking on or playing. jj am green at all gambling devices.” Through the atmosphere blue with j “You shall learn,” she encouraged smoke, women, many of them lavishly lightly. “In Benton as in Rome, you costumed as if for a ball, strolled, risk- know!” Are you disposed to win a mg or responding to gallantries. little game and flout the danger of Then, as I advanced resolutely losing?” among the gaming tables, I felt a cuff i “I am in Benton to win,” I valiant ly asserted. She conducted me to the nearest monte game, where" the “spieler”— a smooth-faced lad of notTuqre. than nineteen—sat behind his three-legged little table. A handsome bov he was. “How goes it tonight. Bob?” “Slow. There’s no nerve or money in this camp any more.” “I’ll not have Benton slandered,”! My Lady gaily retorted. “Well buck j your game, Bob. But you must be upon my shoulders and heard a bluff voice in my ear. “Hello, old boss! How are tricks by this time?” Facing about quickly I saw Jim of the railway fracas. He was grinning affably, apparent- 2:00 p. m. Athens-Atlanta 2:15 p. m.!^- for . woar save a 5:60 p. m. Athens-Atlanta 11:30 a. n..l’’"!** " ol ^" low " j Shake, he proffered, extending his hand. “No hard feelin’s here. I’m no Injun. You knocked the red- me. eye out o I knowed Jou in that new rig,” he went on. “Now you’re talkin'. That’s sense. Trail along with me. Let’s likker!” “Another time, sir," I begged off. I have an engagement this even- Substitutes are gener ally more expensive in tiie end than genuine articles. Housewives have learned—they KNOW this is true where bakings are con cerned. Self rising flours are classed as substitutes for plain flour and good baking powder. The use of these special mixtures is very liable to result in false econ omy, failures and waste on hake day. . 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Any thing to start action.” ^ She fumbled at her reticule, but I was before-hand. mg—' ‘No, po.J’ And I fished into my / I j • ■ A' . . 7 . MMfll : Cli : . ihirr ImZ/. • • j