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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,1927
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
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PAGE SEVEN
SWAMP
MlcKael J. PhilUp*
Illixctralrlont by Hstuy |^y L««
Copyright MlcKaoI V. PKillip*
Ralaaaed thcu PuAlistvar* AutocMt*r S#r«no*
LEADING CHARACTERS:
Edison Forbes, a young resident of
Scot dale, goes on a little joy ride with
another young fellow. Some liquor is
consumed. They are stopped suddenly
by the sigh of a booze truck driven by
Scoots Libbey, a worthless character,
who has smashed his_ machine into
another car, killing its'lone occupant,
a woman.
Forbes’ companion and Libbey quit
the scene hurriedly, leaving the former
alone to face a constable who reasons
that Eddie, with the scent of whiskey
about him, must be connected in some
way with the accident. Accordingly
Forbes is arrested.
Forbes is brought to trial and con
victed on circumstantial evidence. He
sentenced to a term in the state
is
penitentiary. Upon arrival there the
warden informs him that the gover
nor wishes to see him.
The governor proved to be a friend
cf Forbes’ father, who viewed the evi
dence of the trial from a distance,
without local sentiment, and comes to
the conclusion that there is truth in
Forbes’ story of innocence, and accord
ingly pardons him.
Patsy Jane,^Eddie’s pretty wife,
gone-
tie drink won’t do us any harm,” he
said aloud with a reckless laugh.
“And I guess it’s time to hit home
ward then. It f s a long, long ways to
little old Tipperary down there by the
creek.”
“It’s a long, long way to Tipper
ary,” he sang, unsteadiness creeping
into his footsteps.
Darkness had fallen when he slump
ed against the door of the cabin. The
raincoat had impeded him. Some
where back along the trail he had
thrown it away. So that it was a
drenched figure that toppled to (he
door when Patsy Jane lifed the latch.
She got him undressed and to bed,
somehow, lips compressed, eyes glow
ing with resentful inner fires. He was
inert as a log. He slept the night
through without moving. Really it was
more of a stupor than of sleep, for
the liquor had the effect on his senses
of a shrewdly-swung mallet.
He was sick next day with a sense
of failure and remorse and worthless
ness, but physically ill as well. The
exposure in the cold rain itself was a
venomous drug. The adulterants
which had been added to gjve bite and
surprisingly generous. It meant that
Sealman considered the place worth
practically twice what the average
person would ‘pay. Well, if it was
worth more than eighteen hundred
dollars to Sealman, it must be worth
that to them.
• “I don’t believe I care to sell,” he
said, and Patsy Jane’s eyes telegraph
ed approval. 1
CHAPTER X
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volume by the various handlers bor
agrees that puWSc sentiment rons toojdered on deadly poisons and they claw
high against him. Accordingly instead I ed and tore at his stomach and intes
of staying in Scottdale, they migrate tinal linings. . ....
up north to some land that has been in It was not until the second morning j That s , positively
the family for years. Settled in their after he had eaten breakfast in a Forbes,
log cabin, Issaiah Sealman, a neigh-; dressing gown, that Patsy steeled^her-
bor pays the Forbes a visit and inti-^etf against the pity which kept well-
mates that there are some back taxes, ing up at the sight of his pale face,
for the young couple to pay. Sealman; She had tended him uncomplainingly,
offers to give Eddie a job after he 1 ignoring his fretful repinings and self-
goes down to Long Portage, a nearby ■ 8C ? < , jr gmgs - . „ , t, •, ,
town, and learns about the taxes. “Now Eddie ’ she Wd gravely,
The next day while walking about, across the breakfast-table, Ve’ll have
their property they discover a mys- a little talk. I’m not going to say
much. Nagging won’t do any good.
But we must hav-f an understanding.”
She hesitated before going on; “I
ANOTHER TRUCK
Sealman showed his disappointment.
“That’s a good price, Mr. Forbes, a
big price. You won’t get another such
offer.”
“Maybe not.”
“You’ve admitted that there’s a
chance you can’t raise the taxes. You
may lose everything.” , i.
“That’s a chance I mean to take,” re
turned Eddie, smiling. He felt better
that the refusal was behind him.
“H’m.” Sealman digested this for
a time. “I’m not justified, Mr. Forbes,
not justified at all. In fact, I’m prob
ably foolish for doing it. But I might
raise it to twelve hundred.”
“No, thank you.”
* Sealman rose. Displeasure was
strǤHjding to show through the sleek
ness oihis manner. “Fiftten hundred!
the last word,
terious mound that contains outcrops
similar to salt. At the tax office
Forbes learns that the back Dates
amount to over eight hundred dollars, don t need to tell you what hquor does
and that the certificates are held by a for you You know where it brought
Chicago capiUlist who is eager to ob- 1 you-where you d be if it weren t for
tain the property. Eddie has five j the governor Eddie, I won t stand it
months to pay. A few days later he »ny more. I cant stand any
helps a booze truck out of the mud
more. I can’t stand any more.
This is the last time. If you get drunk
and is presented with a bottle of whis- PH " . . f
which he hides before walking! He searched the sad, piquant little
key
over to interview Sealman.
CHAPTER IX
AN OFFER
SeaJrnan was not at home, a woman
of middle age who answered his
knock told Eddie. He was downtown.
She looked at him with the curiosity
of people, one who sees few strangers.
He could feel her eyes boring into his,
back from the small-paned windows
after he had turned away and was re
tracing his steps. ^ I
Now what to do? he thought dis-
satisfiedly. There was plenty of wood
cut. He didn’t want to coop up and
read. There was nothing else, except
an expiatory tramp. That was it. He
would follow the road north, to find
out where the booze truck came from.
face. The grey eyes were steady, the
tender mouth firm. The finality of
her words struck a chill in his heart.
“But, Patsy! What would I do if you
left me?” he burst forth involuntarily,
and then flushed at the childish sel
fishness of the remark.
“I don’t know, Eddie. It might cure
you. I can’t seem to cure you by stay
ing.” There was no bitterness in her
words; only sadness.
He leaned forward to take her
hands. “You won’t have to go, Pat,”
he 'assured her,, his voice trembling
with eagerness. “I’m 'through with
booze! Oh, I know I’ve said it before,
but this time I mean it. You’ll see.
Never another drop as long as I live.”
“No, Mr. Sealman. I think I can
make it worth that by keeping it.”
The rovipl: blue eyes encountered
Eddie’s frir an instant. “Anyone else
been igaking you an offer?”
“No, \ haven’t talked wiht another
soul about it. By the way, how about
that job? Does it look as though you
could take me on as a farm-hand?”
Sealman paused at the door and
turned, his hand on the latch. “I’ve
changed my plans somewhat, Forbes.
I don’t see how I can use you. Good-
day.”
“Why, the old hoptoad!” ejaculated
Eddie. “What’s gotten into him? Is
he sore because we wouldn’t sell, or
what?”
“I .don’t know, but I’m sli|td we did
n't,” returned Patsy Jane stoutly. '
don’t like him any better than you do,
Eddie. I’m glad you’re not to work for
him. What did he mean when he ask
ed if anyone else tried to buy the
place?”
“He meant that he’s mighty anx
ious to get it. We haven’t heard the
last of him, Pet. Well, we’ll have to
jump in and pull it out of the fire. If
he wants it and Brower vratft§^it,
there must be more to - it than we real
ized. I can get a job, easy, I know.”
His optimism was not justified.
Most of the settlers in the vicinity
had little good land, and that was illy-
cultivated. They preferred hunting
and fishing and getting out posts to
farming, for which they had neither
in the west. Some of the settlers here
were failures who had come to the
jack-pine country to forget the past.
They did not ask too-personal ques
tions. Because they would resent such
questions from others.
« Just after boon, while* he was at
the creek for sodden earth, there was
a hail from the north road. He recog
nized the guard of the liquor truck
whom he had assisted when it was
mired. “Got a big wrench?” asked
the man. “The nut’s worked loose on
this axle and one of our hind wheels
was about ready to drop off when we
noticed. Don’t know what he’s think
ing of, but Jake hasn’t a wrench in big
tool kit.”
“Just a minute,” replied Eddie. He
brought the wrench from the cabin
and, with a tumultous admixture of
feeling accompanied the man up the
road to the truck. It was but the work
of a few moments to twist the nut
home on the jacked-upwheel. When
it was done the guard, with a know
ing smile, reached for the box under
the seat, but Eddie stopped him.
“Not for mine,” he said. “The last
bottle nearly put me away. I think
it had arsenic in it!”
“But this is good stuff,” assured
Jake, eagerly. “This is a little private
stock we keep for ourselves and our
friends. We were all out last week.”
“All rights kid, it’s up to you,* said
the guard,/when Eddie refused again.
“She’s clearin’ off. Come on and take
a little ride.”
Eddie responded to the inritation.
He did want to do something besides
fight his own thoughts. He would ride
a few miles toward town, drop off and
walk back through the barrens, which
were beginning to exercise a fascina
tion for him. Of course, he wouldn’t
drink any of their beastly liquor.
While the truck went on, to wait
for him below the ridge west of the
house, he ran in to tell Patsy Jane.
“Go ahead; it’ll do you good,” she
urged. And then she added: “Who
are your friends?”
“Oh, a couple of fellows I met
awhile ago,” he said evasively, as he
kissed her.
The booze-runners proved to be en
tertaining companions. They took it
for granted that he was a kindred
spirit, and they spoke freely and with
humor of their calling—its dangers,
its adventures, its sordid tangle of plot
and crossplot.
The first time they produced a bot
tle and drank from it, he refused their
invitation to join; and the second; but
the third time he succumbed to their
urging to “take just a sip.” Which
was only the start.
(Continued next week.)
Thinfi Yon Should Know
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faf John Joseph Gaines, M. D.
going to bed at one A. M., and sleep- •
ing till nine or ten A. M., then two
meals are about all you can get in with r
comfort, if you are doing anything ti>
make this old wqrid better. But you
have no physical right to abuse mid
night’s holy hour, and insult the morn
ing sunrise in such a manner—this is,
something you know, without me tell
ing you.
Breakfast—the most important meal
of the day, so octogenarians tell me—
is, at ten A. M., a clammy, belated
indifferent meal. You don’t relish it,
and only indulge it because you feel
compelled to do so. Then you exercise”
for the day—till 5 P. M., and proceed
to engorge your stomach; the only
time at which you have a real appe-
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TWO MEALS A DAY
A fad of medium dimension, but tite, you eat more than your sodden,
nevertheless a fad. The human body, j weak stomach can reasonably take
approximating a perfect
sm, is^ care of; and, you console yourself with
a poor place for the faddist expert-,the idea that two meals are enough
benter, as victims invariably find hut for any human daily ration!
In time you are sure to grow irri-
in time
Some people are so crazy in their
desire to do things some other way;
they want. to be “new thoughters”
whether or not. They like to attract
attention by originality—by invention.
The law of right living is as old as
creation.
If you are wedded to the habit of
table—you wonder if it isn’t pyor
rhea. Perhaps it’s autointoxication^—
O, dear! Such lassitude—such lack of
‘pep”! You must “diet” all the hard
er, or switch to some other fad. It is
such conduct that makes medicine a
highly profitable business—especially
for the quack faddist.
RUPTURE
Expert Here
He meant it. He was sure of himself, j capital nor equipments
The chains were broken. The convic
tion that he was his own man shone
his eyes. She thrilled with faith
She squeezed his
m
knock at the
He stopped at the house to tell Pat,
and then thrned into the sinuous dou-;£ nd convictoin.
ble track, along which the broad tires ha " ds J<>yf ull y-
had left their impress. When he was There was a
opposite the point where the li qU or, Sealman the sleek, stood m a baek-
was hidden, he turned to the jutting ^ound of brilliant sunshine when Pat-
rock and thrust his arm into the hole.jjy **** opened it. \V hats the mat-
He withdrew the flask and thrust it! ^ Mr Forbes-sick ? he asked his
into his pocket without looking at it.. k een blue eyes roving as he took a
He swung northward for a mile with- ch ^ ,r -
out pausing. Then he stopped abrupt-! ^frthejveather, re
ly, snatching out the bottle, removed ; t^d Eddie, shortly. I was over to
the cork with feverish haste and took. see you the other day, but you were
a long drink.
The liquor was potent. He coughed
and shuddered, but the effect of the
stimulant was immediate. A genial
glow coursed through his veins. He
became optimistic. He whjptled light-
heartedly as he fell into a distance
eating stride that took him due north.
Mile after mile was reeled off. Tor
he was determined to find the end of
out.”
“Yes. You have looked up the taxes,
I suppose. What did you find?”
“Well, I have better than eight hun
dred dollars to raise in five months.
That job you talked about begins to
look pretty good, Mr. Sealman.”
Sealman considered his hands fold
ed over his rounded stomach, his lips
pursed beneath his glossy beard.
“Rather a lot of money,” he said, med-
When he crossed the creek, howev
er, there was a ray of hope. The Dav-
enant- ranch, plaything of a wealthy
Detroiter, had a resident foreman. He
told Eddie that the owner had nnibi-
door. tious plans for the year in che way of
heavy planting and much clearing.
He might need several men. When
Mr. Davenant came up in a week or
so, and made .final decision, he had
better be on hand.
Eddie felt that he could not affo~d
to wait even a week. He went^uxtown.
But Long Portage was overflowing
with labor. The married men who had
been in the woods all winter were
trooping back. Their summer jobs
were kept for them. There was no
chance for an outsider against their
long-established claims.
the road. The apil was so poor that
there were no settlers, no human hab-; itaflvely. Have you ever considered
itetion—nothing but the track, dipping 8e ‘|'?£ • , A „
into the hollow and surmounting the ™ ™ u T lk ® d £ some ? r «'
long sandy knolls with sparce jack- j P hed Edd >e- But I don J suppose it
pine covering. would bring much more than the tax-
He stopped occasionally to drink 69 wktde thing,
again. The exercise kept the effects) “It isn’t worth any more,” agreed
of the whiskey down. At last, long Sealman. “That is, it isn’t worth any
F. H. Seeley, of Chicago and Phila-!
delphia, the noted expert, will person
ally be at the Oregon hotel, and will
remain in Greenwood Thursday only,
August 18, from 9 a. m., till 5 p. m.
Mr. Seeley says:
“The Spermatic Shield will not only
retain any case of rupture perfectly,
but contracts the opening in 10 days
on the average case. Being a vast ad
vancement over all former methods—
exemplifying instantaneous effects im
mediately appreciable and withstand
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the/size or location. Large or difficult
cases, or incisional ruptures (follow
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This instrument received the only
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CAUTION—All cases should be cau
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same rest where the lump is and not
where the opening is, producing com
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the United States government, Wash
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be glad to demonstrate without charge
or fit them if desired. Business de
mands prevents stopping at any other
place in this section.
N. B.—Every statement in this no
tice has been verified before the Fed
eral and State Courts.—F. H. SEE
LEY, Home office, 117 N. Dearborn
St., Chicago.
past mid-afternoon, Lake Huron, cold
and gray, under the assault of the
rain, broke on his vision.' The lake
filled thb entire horizon ahead. The
road ended at a dock which thrust it-
Aelf into the shallows. Fretful wave
lets broke upon white sand. Pines of
more to anyone qxcept possibly my
self. I wouldn’t mind owning this
quarter-section. It would round out
my property nicely. I could run stock
on it after it was fenced. You con
sider an offer?”
Eddie looked at his wife. Her face
good size fringed the shores of the | did not reveal her thoughts, but he
knew that beneath the surface, she
cove.
“They
lighter it irom out there
aways,” was Eddie’s thought. “The
steamers shoot right across the lake
from the Georgian Bay country. They
disapproved. The idea of selling was
repugnant. “I’ll ’. sten,” he said, non
committally.
“Well, the actual value is perhaps a
run the booze trucks day and night up thousand dollars. It might bring that
here. But as they get down where! jf y 0 u had time to search for a buyer
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there are more towns, they must lay ■ and interest the right party. Not
up days.” \ (cent more. And it might take a year
He took out the bottle again. His to find your (nan. Suppose I advance
potations had reduced thd contents the money to satisfy the taxes, and
considerably. The stuff was begin- give you a thousand dollars besides?”
ning to take effect. “Well, another lit-] A thousand dhttarts! The offer was
The week passed dully. He dug and
chopped out pine stumps, for their
roots and pitchy knots made excellent
firewood. The hard labor of sawing
and chopping smothered his homesick
ness and drowned in fatigue the crav
ing for liquor which was ever near
the surface.
He filled the woodshed to the eaves
and even piled a tier around the in
side of the garage, a slab shed with
slopping roof. He made three trips to
the Davenant ranch. But the owner
had not yet arrived.
Another rainy day found him chink
ing the logs of the cabin with mud
from the banks of the creek. It really
did not need it. But restlessness was
devouring him, and the demand for li
quor was rising like a prairie fire. The
intensity of the passion frightened
him. Back home, in normal surround
ings and with a regular occupation, he
had been able to keep it somewhat
within bounds. Especially as the lit
tle town and its uncompromising opin
ions imposed restraints upon him.
But here, the frontier still, where
life was much more open and simple,
tfce restraints were fewer. The wilder
ness, grim and unfriendly in storm,
gay and sparkling in sunshine, invited
one to live his own life, uncaring.
There Were few to see and to comment.
It was, he fancied, like the early days
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For This and That
QUESTION—“I do not understand how
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ANSWER—Publicity and the fact of
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“SEVEN POINTS”
* presentation oi me new pi
Growers’ Cooperative Association, the explanation of the activities of
the Association has beer divided into seven points as follows:
1. Good Cotton Accurately Classed.
2. Adequate Market Information.
3. Efficient Office and Sales Machine.
4. Obtain Middleman's Profits.
5. Spinner Cooperation.
, 6. Increasing Consumer Demand.
7. Profits for Members Only.
world. The Internationa
headquarters at Manchester, England, and thKAmerican Cotton Grow
ers Exchange together are appointing a joint committee to work out
methods of eliminating waste and excessive distribution cost in the
cotton industry. In a like manner, the Cotton Textile Institute and
the American Cotton Growers Exchange are planning the appoint
ment of a joint committee for the same purpose. Executive Commit
tees of the last two named organizations held a joint meeting on May
14th, 1927, for the punjose of jointly working out problems of elim
inating alt waste, stabilization of the cotton industry and the increas
ing of consumer demand.
Profits for Members Only—Will You Participate?
South Carolina, Cotton Growers’
Cooperative Association
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In the presentation of the new plan of the South Carolina Cotton
Under each one of these seven points there is need for explana
tions which will be given later. ^ .
5. Spinner Cooperation:
In addition to the set-up already described, arrangements have
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been made for close cooperation with the spinner organization of the
al Federation of Master Cotton Spinners with
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