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» ' 7^:. ''v, : r Si f~ ’ H ‘ - 1 THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1927 IHH9 CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. . —t. ' r * ‘ ^ PAGE SEVEN ■BE* SWAMP M.icHaei J. Phillip* i Illvbstratlen* by H«my J^y L«« C^pyri^Kt, MicK»»l V. PKilliy* It«Uajcd thru Pofaliahar* Auttoo%st«r 5«rvto* LEADING CHARACTERS: | up, in the end of the car. Edison Forbes, a youngf resident of J He found it, but it, too, was locked. Scotdale, goes on a little joy ride with He could not budge it. He inched back- 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 is sentenced to a term in the state penitentiary. Upon arrival there the warden informs him that the gover nor-wishes to see him. ward to the center of the car, crossed the open space, and mounted the other partition to the piles of timber in the rear half. These tiers were not piled so high. He was soon examining the rear end door. It was fastened, but seemed weak. He found a slender bolt which could be handled as a battering ram. , r" * ' . Half-sitting, half-crouching, he drove it against the little door which had been cracked across in the past by shifting cargoes. Soon he had broken away two of the boards composing it, so that he could reach out, twist off the seal and remove the hasp. The door slid back easily. He was free. But another problem presented itself. The train puffed steadily onward. The wheels made evil noises on the many curves, and The governor proved to be a friend. cf Forbes’ father, who viewed the evi- the cars leaned sharply to the new di dence of the trial from a distance, rection. How couldghe, in his weaken- 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, agrees that public sentiment runs too waist of the long tramp. He saw no one; there was no friendly motorcar to offer a lift. He scanned the horizon ahefd with increasing eagerness, rind signs told him he was approaching the end of his j’oumev. There, at last, was the ridge marking the western boun dary of their land, from which he could see the cabin. He hurried until he was almost run ning. A sigh of thankfulness welled up; Patsy Jane had not carried out her threat. Smoke was rising from the chimney of the cabin. All was right with the world. With Pat beside him he could make good and show the world that its persecution was as un fair as it was cruel. He would get a job, redeem this home in the wilder ness they had both come to love. And he would never drink again! CHAPTER XII . \ * %. ■ w - - A FIGHT He began to note ominous signs, ed condition, crawl out the narrow!The place had a run-down-at-the-heel doorway, find the grab-irons and de-! and neglected air. There was an un- scend them to safety. He was sure to j sightly litter by the woadshed. Papers fall between the cars and be ground. were strewn about the sandy. yard: to pieces. • Something was wrong. He veered cau- room as he spoke, and Eddie took the slender chance oxfered. He flung him self across the room and hard against the man’s stomach. He later, an in stant too late, saw his danger and tried to swing the gun. But Eddie was inside, his arm^ around the other’s body. He forced the tramp aginst the wall. His adversary shifted his tactics. His arms, holding the gun, were free. Eddie was under them. A hand near either end, he raised the weapon to crash it down cross-wise on his assail- an’t head. Eddie sensed the move, though he could not see it. He clinch ed still more tightly, his head bur rowing downward and inward. The, weapon struck him a glancing blow on the back of the head, the main force expending itself harmlessly on his back. The trigger-guard tore his scalp, however, and he could feel the warm blood trickle down. Now tys right hand went up to the other’s throat, jamming his head back against the logs. The tramp was, of necessity, compelled to drop his rifle to avoid strangulation. He tripped Eddie and they fell. But Eddie, more active, was only briefly underneath. He turned the tramp over with a thump, and juggled to mount astride. A heave oi the other’s body broke his hold and sent him flying. Eddie had no clear picture of what happened—was happening. He was in a white rage that prevented clear thought. He was lumping against this hard-faoed man everything that had happened in recent days, and fighting for revenge for those happenings. (Continued Next Week.) “IT CAN BE DONE” SLOGAN PUT FARM BOY WITH THE MIGHTY Fortune inclined to him in friendly high against him. Accordingly instead fashion. There was a long whistle— of staying in Scottdale, they migrate the train slowed, stopped. He could tiously to bring the garage between the open back door and himself. He did this after a cry of greeting had look like Patsy Jane. It was as squal id as a city slum. His teeth set themselves when he noted the composition of the heaps up north to some land that has been in hear the blast from the locomotive, ] died unuttered on his lips. This didn’t the family for years. Settled in their and the men, calling to one another. ^ ,5 *"‘ Tf log cabin, Issaiah Sealman, a neigh-j The train was standing by a long bor pays the Forbes a visit and inti- freight-shed, whose platform was il- ' mates that there are some back taxes lumined by many arc-lights. Seals for the young couple to pay. Sealman were being broken; there was a ratt- about the woodshed. It was his own offers to give Eddie a job after he ling of band trucks. The top was a furniture and bedding, bundled out, un- goes down to Long Portage, a nearby permanent one. . j sheltered. He applied his eye to a town, and learns about the taxes. I He crawled out of the little end door , crack in the rear of the garage. A The next day while walking about ’ dizzily, found the grab irons, and de- small car, much more battered and their property they discover a mys- scended in the darkness on the side I rusty than his own, with soiled gunny terious mound that contains outcrops opposite the platform. He was in a | sack bundles on the sagging running similar to salt. At the tax office narrow aisle between two lines of cars., boards was within. Forbes learns that the back taxes He turned in the direction from' He guessed correctly that the occu- amount to over eight hundred dollars whence he had come. | pant of the cabin was cooking a late and that the certificates are held by a ! The terminal was Chicago. This he breakfast in the kitchen. The door of Chicago capitalist who is eager to ob- learned from electric signs when the! the kitchen opened to the south and! tain the property. Eddie has five yards broadened out beyond the end of j there was no window on the west* months to pav A few days later he tbe train. He was several hundred; side, from which he approached. He helps a booze truck out of the mud, miles from Long Portage. The first J and is presented with a bottle of whis- problem was food; the second, to get key which he hides before walking back to Patsy Jane as soon as possible. over to interview Sealman. , Remorse scourged him as he thought . _ Not finding him in, Eddie imbibes of ber alone in the cabin in the wilder- faced, narrow-eyed man with a stubble too freely of his liquor and as a re-, ness, worrying over him, torn with of beard on his lined cheeks. He was suit Patsy warns him that the next suspense at his absence, occurrence of a similar nature will re- ( He thrust his hands into his pockets, suit in her departure. Sealman hears Suspicion became a certainty. The of the trip to the tax office and makes rum-runners had drugged and shang- a generous offer for their place, but baled him To make results more ef- Eddie scenting something in the air, fective, they had robbed him of the his lip. He was in the act of turning declines Sealman refuses him work few dollars he had had. Their motive a strip of bacon in the frying pan. and several weeks pass. Then ope day,. was a mystery which could be left to { The man was startled, but his quick Eddie’s resolves weaken and he ac- th e future for solution. Meantime, recovery showed he was not unpre cepts a ride aboard another liquor there was satisfaction in the thought. pared for a visitor. 'Hie fork on which truck. He drinks heavily. gained the door without detection. As his shadow fell across it, the MAN KILLED BY- MOVING TRAIN Unknown Hobo Meets Instant Death By Jumping Under Freight Train To Evade Officers. An unknown man, thought to be a negro, met instant death early Mon day morning in attempting to run un der a moving Seaboard freight train just opposite the hotel. His head was practically- severed from his body and other cuts were sustained on the bottom of his feet. Death was instan taneous, his body having been picked up about 140 yards down the track from where he made an effort to make his escape when surrounded by offi cers. Policeman Kern and relief officer J. M. Adair on night duty, met the three o'clock train as it slowed up to go into the side track. They saw a hobo on a flat car and when Officer Kern started climbing up on the car the man jumped and ran to the end of the car and jumped off on the op posite side where Officer Adair was standing. Finding himself surrounded by officers on both sides, he made a dive in an effort to get under the and allied groups. It was said that on&jsf the Carnegie stipulations was that Mr. Schwab have the presidency of the new corporation. This choice was agreeable to Mr. Mor gan because of the impressive person alty and high ability of Mr. Schwab. For all that, he imposed a check upon the power of the president by provid ing that presidential action must have the approval of the chairman of the executive and of the finance commit tees, and to those places, respectively, Mr. Gary and Robert Bacon, of the Morgan firm, were assigned. By this means the dominant Carne gie policy—“Get yjur competitor be fore he gets you”—clashed at once with the cooperative and conciliatory methods of Gary. Within two years Schwab resigned the presidency. He had enjoyed the support of the Stan dard Oil interests, headed by John D, ; Rockefeller, which lost its influence | about the same time and was finally eliminated from the directorate. Our “Slightly-Used” Belting Department will supply you with most any size from 1 inch in singles, doubles, and three-plies. Big Saving. Look Ahead. Greenville Belting Co. TELEPHONE 2218 GREENVILLE, S. C. sole occupant of the small room looked train, when his body was caught by up from his task. He was a mean- in the garb of a motor-tramp, soiled cotton shirt, the sleeves rolled up; khaki breeches, stained with grease; worn canvas leggings, and stubby browp shoes. A cigarette hung from that he had opened an account in the! the bacon was impaled clattered into CHAPTER XI j Long Portage State bank, a few days previously, and deposited nearly all SHANGHAIED Eddie lay for many hours in a stu por so profound it was deathlike. For other hours he was in a delirium shot the pan and the man dodgarf- into the living-room through the door behind him. It was his intention to close it, his money. He carried a dollar bill for emer- but he was not quick enough. Eddie’s gencies in a small pocket of his trous-; body crashed against it; his foot ers, and this had been overlooked. ! thrust itself into the narrowing crack. When, on the windows of a dingy | Seeing that he had failed, the motor- . . ... store on the street beside the railroad ! tramp withdrew his weight suddenly, through with t e misery ° re ^ 1 'j grade he was invited to “Eat Here,”! so that Eddies was overbalanced and ness. His head ac e . is es pro ^ d escen( ied. He spent.seventy cents 1 fell into the living-room on his hands tested as though it were being torn for filUng food | and kneeg The stranffer retreating to from his bones. e o nes emse e , ^ revived him wonderfully. When, a bunk in the farthest corner, had seemed packe wi pain. e ^ as l he took to the grade again his aches j snatched up a rifle. Now he covered mured in a violently-moving hell which . , , 6 . ..j F the wheels and badly mangled. The dead man’s body was immedi ately moved to Tribble’s undertaking establishment and an effort made to identify him. It was generally believ ed that he was a mulatto, while some held that he was a white mtin. There was nothing on his person to identify him or where he came from. However, I from his actions and determined ef fort to get away from the officers when approached, it is believed that he was an escaped criminal attempting to evade other officers. His body was buried Monday afternoon at the coun ty home grounds, the expenses of in terment being cared for by the Sea board road. An inquest held over his body Mon day morning, with Magistrate Pitts in charge, came to a jurors’ verdi<6 that the unknown party came to his death from injuries received when he ran under a moving freight train. Business Notice! On and after September 1, 1927, all banks of the city will require a $50.00 balance to be maintained on active accounts, and in the event of customers checking below that amount a service charge will be made. Also, deferred credit on all out-of-town checks, or in the event immediate credit is desired, cost of collecting such items will be charged. Also, business customers and others will be expected to pay for printing and binding of check books. i . * For further explanation call at the office of the banks whose names appear below’. M. S. BAILEY & SON, BANKERS, W. J. Bailey, President. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, B. H. Boyd, President. THE COMMERCIAL BANK, H. D. Henry, President. [and pains had grown more subdued Eddie, the weapon against his hip Eddie came slowly to his feet. He was careful to take no forward step. screeched and clattered beneath .him ^ wag ^ he wag no , _ and tossed him unfeelingly about I er so terrifyingly dizzy> For t U nately Ij; was early mg o e sec n y ^ n jght was warm for April. After For the man’s eyes were deadly. Here before consciousness re uj™® • ®! two hours of walking a lumberyard i was a killer,''who would shoot without was very weak, and his head throbbed ; him He througl> j conscience and without mercy if it violently. e was a e a er ma ^ itrahds of barbed wire and laid down i seemed expedient to shoot, attempts to sit up, bracing himself u _ „i_rt j o , “-uru.., „ against a wall or partition while he groped in the maze that netted him. First, he was in darkness, clang orous and complete. Second, he was in a railway freight car in full motion. on some sheltered planks, odorous with the scent of the north. He slept soundly. Winning his way home was not easy. He was inexperienced in steal- How he got there”he couid not recall, jing rides. He walked many miles. Eat- Think as he would, his head between was a problem, though not a sen- his hands, he could remember nothing ous one. When he asked for food at after the first drink on the rum-cruis- .back doors, he offered so earnestly to er | work for it that he was rarely refused. It was a long time before he could eagerly performed, the grateful house- stand up. His trembling fingers re- When the work was efficiently and not call me a liar, sport. G vealed that he was a prisoner in a nar- wife usually gave him a package of row space running between the two,food for the coming meal, doors in the center of the car. There! He passed through Scottdale at were cross-wise partitions holding in on the bumpers of a fast freight, place a cargo that pounded and rosped R was early, but the little town slum- with the motion of the train. Further bered peacefully, its arcs illuminating explorations told him the cargo was ® m Pty streets. Nostalgia and self-pity hardened bolts about four feet in possessed him as he clung to a brake- length (beam and rumbled through the plaoe He tried the two doors. He was where he was born. He yearned to- able to slide each of them a little way. He could not open them, because they were sealed. It' was apparent that they were now in the outakirts of a ward it, even though it regarded him as a criminal, an outcast and a fail ure. He dropped* from an empty car at most ideal railroad center. Pencil twi- daybreak, the sixth day of his ab- light from successive streetlamps sence, in the Long Portage yards. He pierced the darkness of the prison was tired and hungry and dirty; but he fleetingly. The train rattled intermin- j could not wait. He hurried up the ce- ably over switchpoints. The droning ment sidewalk which flanked the broad sound of their progress proved that main street. His footsteps clicked Hol- long lines of cars paralleled them on lowly in the hush that settles on the sidings. ! world just before sunrise. He was Resolution overcame weakness. .He well beyond the town when the sun had to get out! He crawled up the par- 1 appeared on the winding sandy track tition on his left. There was space for ahead of him, sentineled in i^s aris- his body between the topmost layer of ing by two stubs of what had once “bolts and the car roof. He wriggled been giant pines, iorward, toward the little door, high' Fatigue sloped his footsteps in the What are you doing in my house?” growled Eddie. “Your house? Say, you got a nerve!” was the insolent response. “This old shack is empty, goin’ to be sold for taxes, and you talk about ‘your’ house! It ain’t yours as much as it is mine.” “You lie!” snapped Eddie. “It’s mine. Get out of here, quick.” The deadly eyes narrowed. “Better Go on, your- you.” Eddie moderated his tone and his language. The stranger had the upper hand. “See here, my friend, you're in wrong,” he said. “I own this place. My name is Forbes. They’ll tell you in Long Portage it’s my property. I’ve been away; that’s all.” Since Eddie kept his distance and seemed disposed to argue, the tres passer accommodated himself to the situation. He shifted the rifle from his hip across his body, holding it slightly higher than before. It was still reasonably ready for service. „ “I’d say you been away,” was his jeering comment. “No one’s lived here for years. I was here last four, five weeks. I brought that stove. This place is as much mine as it is yours.” “You know I’d beon here,” replied Eddie.. “You saw my stuff, and threw it out.” “No one was here when I come,” re plied the man, doggedly. “I like it here. I’m goin’ to stay. Yoq better move.” - , Hu eyes had wavered about the / Stockholders Meeting The stockholders of the Citizens Building & Loan Association will meet in the office of the First National Bank of Clinton, S. C., the first Thurs day in September, which is September 1, 1927, at 4 o’clock P. M., for the purpose of electing directors and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. B. H. BOYD, August 1, 1927. Sec’y & Treas. Chiropractic— ~ For Your Child QUESTION—“My little girl is under nourished, has poor appetite, is fretful, nervous, sleeps poorly. How can you ap- , ply Chiropractic to this case? Please explain.” ANSWER—Parents are often surpris ed and alarmed when their child suffers from MALNUTRITION. Not merely children from poor homes, where food is scarce or of poor quality, but children from wealthy homes where the best of everything is lavished upon them. Bear this in mind, when malnu trition persists in spite of due attention to correct eating, it is be cause there is something wrong with the nervous system causing lack of assimilation. The final step in the digestive process, in which food materials are converted into living bodily tissues does not take place. Bring your child to our office for a complete Spinal Analysis and let us show you the true cause of the trouble. Do not continue to neg lect your child’s health. Due attention now will obviate much suffer ing in later years. You owe it to your little girl to— Have Her Spine Examined JACK D. CLARK NEW TELEPHONE BUILDING Phone 65 - Clinton, S. C. The Citizens Building & Loan Asso ciation will open a new series on Oct. 15, 1927. Stock will be issued on in stallment plan as heretofore, and also on a new plan of paid-up stock. Par ticulars may be had by calling on B. H. Boyd, Sec’y.-Treas., at the First National Bank. 9-l-4tc Your tongue tells when you need Coated tongue, dry mouth, bad breath, muddy akin, groggy nervea and aour atovnach suggest its use. “SEVEN POINTS” In the presentation of the new plan of the South Carolina Cotton Growers’ Cooperative Association, the explanation of the activities of the Association has been divided into seven points as follows: 1. Good Cotton Accurately Classed. 2. Adequate Market Information. 3. Efficient Office and Sales Machine. 4. Obtain Middleman^ Profits. 5. Spinner Cooperation. 6. Increasing Consumer Demand. 7. Profits for Members Only. Under each one of these seven points there is need for explana tions which will be given later. 6. Increasing Consumer Demand: The ultimate prosperity of the cotton industry is dependent upon an increase in the consumer demand for articles made oi cotton. The Cotton Textile Institute is at work upon, this problem and the Ameri can Cotton Growers Exchange is cooperating. Contracts are being made with the style centers of the world; with the great costumers; dressmakers; fashion designers and cotton goods merchandizers, with the idea in mind that people can be made to want things made of cot ton if these creations are presented to them in an attractive manner. Already the fashion designers of Paris and New York and the largest department stores of the United States are featuring style creations made of cotton goods under new and attractive style names. This is a much better way to make people buy cotton goods than the old way of asking people to buy cotton goods to save the poor cotton farmer. Profits for Members Only—Will You Participate? ' South Carolina Cotton Growers’ Cooperative /Wialion / r