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i y THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1932 L THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. / w^s fomethini^ in the note he should | know, before leaving with Josephine. He tore open the envelope, under the street light. His eyes followed the brief lines, they blurred and clarified, and m^ignified. His coat seemed ver>’ warm. He hooked his stick over his arm and stepped .nearer the light. Aj huge black car had come to rest be-i hind him, silently, a great car with} i curtains drawn. It was behind him,i, j with’ dimmed headlights, like great A CAREBR ^PENS UP 1 eyes, as if a monster eavesdropper Is it not high tinid for a larger rev- ■ was trying to read the note also. I erence to be given to that: quiet un- I ' John glanced up at the lighted win-j Joseph, the father, of Je- EXECUTIVE Supplying < wevk-to-w«dc mspiration (or tlx heiry-buntexH who will iind every himua trul paralleled iirthe experiences o( "Tlx Man is'obodv Know<.* ' Thirty years went by. Jesus had dis charged his duty; the younger dfaildren were big enough for self-support. FINAL INSTALLMENT Synop.sis: Johnny Breen, 16 years old, who had spent all of his life .V T , u j tr u j j TV .iv ready, waiting for him. The footman thm^ but this. I love the room.” A f.™ phoned Harboard mod Pug • use, ^ tvas crackling in the onen hearth, a! Ill wire from Philadelphia. Were ^ wide deep chair, V’an Horn’s chair, aboard a tugboat, plying around Newjw'as near the glow of flames. John, York City, was made motherless standing tfll Josephine curled on the when an explosion sank the boat on which he, his mother and the man he called father, were living. He is the lounge, sat down. Tashi broqght a PhiladeLph they to be mairied “before,” or “af tei”? He wondered. Josephine had t very puzzling way aboi&t her. j dows. He seemed to hear the notes ef |' To Mary, hls^ \^_e+- _the-^hurcir unge ’Stirfihgs,.tfi*tliad gone on in- ’the ^pianq. _jQi£pixine^ w«« evidently^|"^^*^ a place of etemarglory;; him for yehrs were crystallised singing, playing. She was no doubt,thoughtful man can fail to bei^y reports of John’s success. The 'thankful for it. But with the glorifi-; ^'^our of the great decision arrived; he cation of Mary, there has been an al- hung up his tools and walked out of mo.H complet^n^^lect of Joseph. ThiV is partly because Mary t^N^ed to be He called her up at noon. “Come af-* | g^ph. town. What sort of looking man was he that day when he appeared on the bank of the Jordan and applied to John for baptism? Unfortunately, the' Gospel narratives supply no satisfy- parfum Josephine. The area door opened. Tashi and the footman; known and remembered by the dis- brought out and were strapping a pat-1 while nobody remembered Jo- . , T , . 1. . .L j- M . 1 . j 1 1- • I eiH leather trunk oh the rear carrier.! .ray and Joseph.w lit a cigarotto. ■ ter d.nner, ehe laughed deliciously., | Was he just aa untutored peasan*, - . Then she jumped up. John had a ci-l There s a moon tonight, for the plenty of room for anoth-1 *^^®rried to a superior woman, and baf-' ng answer to these questions; and only survivor, struggling through the gar and she lit a match, cupped the j elopement. Well pick up your things clanged be-1 fled by the genius of a son whom he 1 the only pas.sage in ancient literature darkness to shore .^t dawn, amid flame in her hands and held it for him, j as we go through Thirty-ninth street. ■ thought he saw Jo-it-ould never understand? Or was there, which purports to be a description of surroundings entirely unknown, his bending close to him. Tashi had gone, j Goodbye, dear, till eight, ^o’l'^’thmg , ^ library cur-1 underneath his self-effacement, a vig-Uim has been proved a forgery. Nev- life in New York begins. Unable toj Josephine drew her feet up on the I sounded like a k!.ss. or a smack, overj^.^.^^ be’quick, or and faith that molded the hov’s i erthedess, it requires only a little read- ,read, knowing nothing of life, he is I lounge, and propped by cushions, blew f.'ikefi'TfT'by a Jewish fai)(iliy, lWinp{ I smoke \vr^Ths towarJ thc TTreTTa^T and doing a sdeond-bwnd clothing bus-h etui ned with a tray. Both took the phone. —HniTiT'? ?v?Tiir drmrr^! Cu- ^ He sat and :.niokcd. What a washout .Agaia.,he re:ul the note, it wiis.^vex: foncise: it was insistent. iness on the Bowery. From the raco.” com-1 iftg-between the lines -to be sure that- Did helalmo.st all the painttrs. have misled yuungest, laughing and , us. They have show hour he set foot in the city he had to fight his way through against bullies; adventures ia South Anieriica. and toughs . . . and soon became so proficient that he attracted the atten tion of a would-be manager of fight ers who enter> him in many boxing tournanu-nt§. ... It was here that Pug Malone came into young Breen’s life —an old fighter who honest. . . . He took wing—sent him to n u:^ a frail man, a face covered by a beard— 'fKcnlH tnwn \va>' What a nbu-e Still i The whole overwhelming iirobleni, , ,ii ; the ol(l town wa... ^ n.it a plan. . till, , losunh're and Iou his shoulders from the under-muscied, w.th ii soft face “John, you must tell me about your he would never be lonely ag.ain. Hei"''um hetoie hi^ t>cs. .Joseph.ra. dmll^ , ^ . j , ^ , ^ ^ ^ trvinir to i)i^turo the veurs* the toie.^n lutuis, ptiluie hotel. , lon^ \ > • • ■ i i i • u t. j i i ktpw U) })*.iuie tnc i hodmonn e iresse^ , K:ves no answer. Afiu since this is so I :itm1 a honign but b.^ffled Iook, as Tor a long while they talked, aim- yeans ahead. . . 11.; , ...uk-u • h»>r i kh hair i bave a right to form our ovsnitholigh the problems of living were so lessly, the noises of the city were dim. John had an uncanny of the character of this i .grievou.s that death wraid be a'wel- Ho ki-nt sjivinv to himself “This is tumDling o\ei while pillows in a cata- ^ i U h^dv rot “’He’keiit con ‘'nict of gold. Soft, whspering allure-,«TniilK-ant and wholly unknown | come rclea.^e. i'urinl un nicturcs or^ per-1 uients. Stupid dinners, tiresome peo-; and to be guided by the one mo-j Ihis is not the Jesus at whose word juring up picturcv a. Ji h i ] uninteresting; ‘u^’uUhis fact which we do know. ; the d.scip.es left, their bu.^ines.i to en- Memories grew about the flames. John glanced up at the painting of Gilbert V’an Horn, lifelike under the light. Then they sat in silence. Suddenly' heps even John * ’.Tst in an unknown eaiTse. And for proof ul that assertion con- I eventually took him to „ - , . . t' , t he had acquired. . . . The scene shifts Itha outpouring of his fresh enthusi- years to come he would drop out of i and the family of Van Horns of Fifth avenue is introduced. Gilbert V’an Horn, last of the <dd family, is a man aboul-towri, who meets Malone and Breen at one of the boxing shows. Van \ Horn has a hidden chapUh’ in his life,] which had to do with his mother’s! maid, years ago, who left the family j when about to become a mother. It j w'as reported that she married an old | captain of a river craft. . . . Van Horn J has a ward, .Jo.'cphine, about Breen’s, age. . . . Van Horn, now interested in John, prevails upon him to let him fi nance a cour.se in civil engineering at Columbia university John and Jo sephine meet—.liecome attached to each other, love grows and they he- •errgagwi—shoTtiy—aftn—Brwtr graduates ffoni college. . . . Josephine ha.s another suitor, a man of the world nami d Rantoul Josephine become.^ restless as John gives full attention to his job and sails for Paris to select her trousseau. , . . .\t the la.t moment Rantoul sails on the same boat. At sea the great ocean liner crashes into an iceberg and sinks -all passengers taking to the lifeboats. Van Horn peri.shes hut Rantoul saves himself— with Josephine. Breen learns that Gil bert Van Horn was his father. Jose phine breaks the engagement and marries Rantoul. For years John bur ies himself in w’ork. The U. S. enters the World war. Josephine sees Breen in France, but he remains cool, unim pressed. The armistice is signed. Ran toul loses his great fortune, and sues ” JoB€phin#~£ur—a-xliviyce and. obtains it. Breen, seven years in South Amer ica, completes his work and returns to New York. He meets Josephine again, and discovers that love is being rekindled. Josephine, older and wiser. Ueads John on again. She invites him to dinner at her apartment. Now Go On With the Story. Perhaps she had seen him. The eur- ' tain.-, weie drajvn to. Kveii tlu n she ■ might he coming do wn, running eager-; 1 ly toward him. The great ear fright-' -sider only-four- a^qH"-‘t-s--of-his ex-peri- rnee: the he.aRh that flowed out of ught to give niankimi a new eon- him ti) crea.^' health in other.s; the ception of the character of God, he atipeal of his {H'r.^cnality to w’omen - could find no more exalted'term for j weakness does not appeal to them; his meaning than the one word his lifetime of outdoor living; and the stei'l-iike hardness of his nerves. I ened him. It would carry them far,-! fut away f,mu thi city, lorivir. ! SMITH AND FLETCHER HOLD I i,/hi: :'a";:iu i seniority among democrats pei'si Iheiji. I IKai John: ( an you join me at nine o’clock tonight, at my Wall street office? .Am arranging luindred million <lo;lai foundation. \Ve mast stop planning.and begin to rebuild the tenements. ^0(ter ji’ou full charge of construetion, as direidoi..^amT Washington, Xov. 12. .Senator Wit-1 su-h familiar charaoters as Senator Mam Fdgar Borah, owMig to the de-' i;'''’'I*- H-imp hire,- f ^ ,, t, 1 »v.epubnean; Senator Jim V/al-or, In- teat of the veteran .Senator Reed i ir . i o * i '(liana, Republican, atm Senator Jones. chief engineer. Thy city needs VoU. Smoot ()f L'lah, now be‘onies the dtaui Seiui'tors with such services behind cf the Uniited States senate. The Ida- tlicm as the.-e men as a rule die in i-htK scrjMor \ enl( red the senate on i tf ce. But it is iputc obvious that the .Martm 1, )SK)7, four years after i nation is looking for a “new deal” and Almon Strauss. The liou e door opened; it was onl.v Tashi, but John Bieim without look ing, turned hastily and walke<l east :as sworn in over opposition the vo,ter.- are lietermined that there o him taking the oal'h becau. e of hi?! ’ he'^i?TT^ie blood injected into con- •Moimoil religion. giessioifal veins. toward .Madi.son avenue, across Park ‘He kiHRed her brut ally , carrleHaly. He held her close and looked into her eyes. ‘Why can’t we gel married, now, tonight?’ ” resident and within was a scene that paused his steps. A mother, seated wit'll child on her lap, both looking up asm, the ones in which he told her of i the famous company of the unknown the aqueduct, and of his plans. She had j lew. Engineers would no longer refer kept them through It all. She stood, to him, seriously, among themselves, before him, again.it the firelight, a pre.ence outlined, her shimmering dress aflame. An uneasy fear held his ibteath. “John-,” and then she was on her knees, her head buried in his lap, sobbing. Her soft breasts pressed John had refreshed himself in the dressing room. He looked in the mir- ,«phine. with min,I plcture.H of .^oftikn”* againct his knees, her hair glowed un-' nghts, velvet nights of love, and longW»P few words, der him in the light, “I have always delicious mornings, in bed. “Rats,” he "Fir.st love wins, .said John Breen, loved you—-always!” She looked up, kept repeating. The inactivity of the a Jfieat light of happiness coming to tear.s glistened like stars; oh, she was afternoon was wearying, beautiful! , He dared not look out on tWe streets. His cigar had fallen, he lifted her. j He had dinner in the club. Her face so clo.se to his. The years, arranged to give up his room. I On the Democratic side, .Scnat(»r' Defeat of Senator Sniook removes Fir..«on D. Sm'ith, of South Carolina, from congress the famous Smoot- anil Stmator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Hawley team, authors of the tariff Florida, hold jointly the title of dean..J>ill. Representative,'”'»Hawley, after avenue, toward Third. Halfway down j t^milh ami Senator h let.‘her serving since 11)07 in the house of rep- the block his attention was attracted , senate on Man’h I, ItHh), resentativ’es, was defeated by a close I to a lighted window of a l»ascment jjpd rank next to Senator Borah from margin in the Oregon primary last a point of seniority. Senator Wesleyummer. There can be no doubt but .I(,nes, Washington, Republican, was the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, referred also sworn in as a member of the up-^to at timies as the Grundy bill, has in smiling assurance into the lace ofip^^ branch of congress on March 4, been repudiated by the American peo- the father bending over them. JohnjjijQij He, too, was defeated in the i pie. , Bretm ‘tood transfixed. Slowly he j j^Q^j^^yelt landslide!, and Borah, Smith It was Senator Hiram Bingham, turned; slowly he started to j and Fletcher become the high moguls Connecticut Republican, who carried his steps. I of the .senate from a standpoint of into the secret sessions of the senate Suddenly the full import of the tie- geiiiority. Those who have doubts as linunce committee, while it was writ- to the value of seniority are not fa-jing the lt>2y tariff bill, a paid lobby- miliar with senate tradition and cus-D.st of New England manufacturers, tom. Seniority is king on ('apitol hill. | Bingham, too, has been given the boot - “iMany—faces whichJaaye long been by the people of Connecticut. It is seen ini the halls of congress will be such instances as the Bingham lobby mi.ssing after March 4. The ele<‘tion of I episode which brought about the.revo- Newer and greater works would rise,jci3ion he had yet failed to make came men would forget him, long before l upon him. As his fine mind grasped his death. j the faet.s, his steps quickened. My Such dreams caniF^ to him. He tried work . . or my Josephine . >-which . _ to enhuse himself with visions of Jo- i^** niuttered aloud as i .see mg o his face. He pres.sed the bell. Josephne, her self, stood in the door before hini.Hn her eyes was that look which only! I one man ever §ees . . . deep into soul. IbJO removed from office Senator Furnifold M. Simmons, who at the time of his defeat was the dean of the senate. He entered that body on March 4, 15)01. Now the election of 15)82 removes Smoot and with him go change. lution at the polls on election day. The American voters have been watching the brazen acis^of public officials in high places at Washington and at the first opportunity they ordered a ror appraij-ingly. he ° while Joi-'ephine poured out her heart. sped away. Over the mantlepiece, Gil-1 ..pjj ^^unk to-! ^ , ,„y first, my only love, bert Van Horn looked down on them' ... .... ■. .. i ^ night. A motor trip. Hold my mail.” jo.sephine as John Breen took % open was being leeched out by the city of shadows. He brushed back his stiff hair. He smiled so like Gilbert Van Horn. He hardly cared. What did "Josephine want? A^ter dinner they sat in the famil iar library. “I leased the house, you know, after '• Gilbert’s death. They changed almost everything, every- , . u u- u 1 nervous, a;s the time; his arms. John, caressing her, his hungry soul his departure. He kept won- crying for love, held her cl(rse. Life, what he would do. .Josephine what is it? What are the things that^ superb woman. The count? Why are w’e here? In the ^h<» night before kept; conscious half-light of the mind, un- ^ him. He hardly knew wheth- der the patter of love, he seemed to know.j Josephine, in feverish impulse, poured forth her strong affection. She er he had captured her, or whether i she had captured him. Several mesc- sages came for him at the lust mo -IdKl--ijit^d_ hinij, Bnd ._noWi_aj just, ^e —“Tell—everybody J’m—gotn;.,jfqlI .. FINAL SETTLEMENT relented. \ days.” Take notice that on the .28th day of! "I ani tired of this place. We willl Mr. Wild of the old aqueduct fight Nov. 1932, I will render a final ac-1 leave it, John, leave it all. W'e will! came in as John was leaving. He had count o^ m’y acts and doings and Exe-; travel, we will live in sunshine. The | not reen Wild for years. It was with! (titor of the estate of John Rolin Wil-, world has much to offer us.” Jose- a genuine pang of regret that hej son. deceased, in the office of the [ phine and John sat on the wide lounge. Judge of Probate of Laurens County., he held her, her heM on his shoulder, at 10 o’clcK-k a. m., and on the same' her hands clasping his. It had been a day will apply for a final discharge! long, long road, but at last, at ja.st Dr. D. P. McGeachy To Speak Today Mrs. M. C. Langston Passes At Laurens ' Peace Advocate To Address Stu dent IJody. R. B. Herbert’s ComitiK Announced. -Mrs As was announced last week. Dr. D. P. .Mcfieachy, pa.vlor of the Fiisi Laurens, Nov. 10. .Mr.s. Elizabeth F laing ton, HO, widow of .M. ('allie l.ang.ston, died W'edrv.sday at her home at B.iiksdale aft**r a brief ill- ne.= s, aUhough .she h * 1 been in de'clin- Jj^^-health for -se-ver.al years.^ hurried out, and walked up Fifth ave- FROM THE MELTING POT Thei(' are some points—I might call PresbyUTian church erf Decktur, Ga.,. funeral services were he'^ t‘ the will .-jM*ak at a spi^cial chapel .sei vice j morning at 11 o'clo K, with this morning in the college chape!, [her pa.‘’tor, the Rev. O. A. .leffcoa^ ot The u.*semhly will be held at H:4r,. i in charge. The ntc.s were Dr from my trust as Executor - .Any persons indebted to said estate You know I’ve .sold the house, they | friendship transcending even are going to build an annex to the I love which demands so much because is notified and required to make pay-' hotel next door. Everything is chang-j of its giving. ” ment on or before that date; and all 1 ing, the ueopie are changing. The best' A.s he walked noTth, he gradually jier.sons having claims against said es-!Niw Yorkers now live abroad most of increased his pace. He would get to tale will pre.»ent them on or before} the time. Oh, John, how glad I am Josephine at eight o’clock. It was a splendid idea of hers to start the jour pre.«en'i mem oir or ucioir, said date duly proven or be forever that you found me.” barred. HOLLIS CAUSE, Executor. ll-17-4tc. Oct. 21, 1932 ' NOTICE! We handle a South Carolina Flour, made by Allen Bros. Bfill' Co., of Columbia. It is. the best flour you can buy for a dtoall amount of money: Adluh John was on fire, he kissed her brutally, carelessly. He held her close and looked into her eyes. “W'hy can’t we get married, now, tonight?” > “No, John, dear. No! We will leave tomprrow — night. I have so many things to settle. The movers and stor age people will be in early tomorrow. I want to get some of my things in order. Go back to the club, like a good boy, tonight. Get your thingrs packed. I will put my things in the small car trunk. We will take the coach, motor , _ . , I concluded c* the graveside in the Phi! nue in the cool dusk. So he .severed, them lules—that I fet*l pretty safe in , I'P? ui.M.ig guund, n ar Renn>, one of tho»e loyalties ,m.n fe..| for I al.ldinK liy, to very m.Kl«rat. . each other, those strong bonds of'amending for spe.ial car-es. I will uro in peace circles, will bring to the Before hei rnurnage to .Mr. Latig- • ' 1.1 V 1 'ton, she wa.s .Mis.s rdiabelh Jacks, ar; 1 mention a te\^. > ‘ .-tude.i- oody a message on peace,. ... . 1 • .t. I have learned that the adult man' .. ^ ^ ! was extensively connected m th , . . a .• I .. i Without the sties.s of national defense, She was an active and us *^1: cooked in the manner he likes it l?est.' J* McSwain, representative in | member (rf Trinity Methodist churen. The woiking man need.s more meat from the Fourth South Caro- a kindly neighbor and loyal fi:«n(l. than the housed man. 1 do not permit; 1‘aa district, spoke to the .student.s Mr.. Lang..ton is survived hy sev- • heavy meats for the evening meal. j .“omc weeks ago on the need of a sane e’al son.s, John C. Larig.ston, Thomas The adult human body needs one or • policy of national defense. Dr. .Me- !• Langston, near l.auren.s; Janies F. two eggs daily, cooked as the indi-: Geachy is to present the other side of L^*iK -on Ld Langston, B. .M. I^ng:>- universe across the smooth road.s piefers. . I the question. ^ang^.i, New Jersey, under a clear moon. The! j prcfei cooked fruits.to raw fruits,! ■ Hon. R. Beverly (leorge A. Langston Ua^- curtains would be drawn. The driver a puiy. From the producer to l-kt* ^ jj,Columbia, is to speak be- ' vfrs ^Fva and footman, automatons, efficient ■ eonsunier these days, may pass the, u ens RlX'rd nonentities, looking ahead m.gh viand through a dozen pairs of more 1 ^ i/c t Wal X a^d M s J E Bu?: think their heads-off, for all she or <>1 ess dirty hands. It takes more than / o *1. r o „ ■ ^ , 7* he cared. It this fl.ir for unu,ual;. ,a,ual rinsing to remove germs;Barksdale, adventure which made her so entrant*-i does the work. Stewed dried years ®Ko, an is ney by night, in that huge luxurious chariot, roiling like u separate littFe ing. John, wondered what she would)fruits are my absolute favorites for wear. I winter eating. of the county. legislature now a member from Richland I RED CROSS NOTICE As he turned east, past tbe hotel,- The fruit portion of a meal, rough-, , ' . . s, 1 * ii:„ „ .r..^_r..u fairs, I ask, ,Do you like it. Ye.*. ■ Cross chapter announces that The general chairman of the local i • (self-lisinff); Columbia Best 1 last. And then, after a while, we can come back and settle thingsJWe, go away for a few years. Oh; I to Philadelphia, get married, John, at he stopped for a moment. His hand j ly gpeaking, may furnish from one-1 jf.- (^in); Say-So (self-rising:); THple-A (plain). See us for tbe best Flour and best prices. We ■hM* carry a higb-grade 0>m Meal, made by the same company. Farmers Exchange -U igj BfJIBf,,. and am so tired of New York.” Late, very late, John Breen kissed Josephine and left. , • • John's last day in the realms of un certainty passed swiftly. He got up early, tubbed and took a brisk walk. Then he sent off a cable to London. “Cannot accept China post.” That, for that! He packed a small trunk, whist- T**" ^v**ralJ4xnfis be almQst was in his pocket. He should have wnt third to one-half the volume of the_..j^^^ ^ j flowers, bought a ring, or have done j ration. We, as a nation, eat too little a half dozen things that any compe-jof well-sel^ted fruits, tent lover would have attended to. We do not give enough attention to His hand fished up an envelope. He j the volume of water taken. A patient remembered the note amid the crowds weighing 150 pounds should drink a of thing! that eame to him on leaving the club. With the sight and hand shake of old Wild, in the flurry, he total of a hall-gallon of water daily. Don’t await thirst, if you are aeden- had forgotten it. He stood in front of the Van Horn house. He was about to go up the j^c£5, T\cyii.tho^jg?2: Pe^hap^,^ tary. Get the habit of drinking me thodically. I am asked often, “Shall I drink milk?” This, by people who are mere- been told it’s good for me.” Then I say, “Take a glass now and then, but abandon it if it causes distress.” “Trial and Error—” you know. ONE CENT PER MILE Tbanksgiving Rates For information apply to Ticket Agent ABP-.AIR.MHfc.gV!at answer Inhere will be no more cloth or cloth ing for dfstribution until further no tice. She also wishes to state that Mrs. B. 0. Whitten has been made chair man of the distribution committee ia place of Mrs. C. E. Galloway, reaign- edr Mrs. Whitten will select a new committee, and any distributiona in the future will be made tbfoufb Mrs. Whitten and her committeai \