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'.-V JV/ / \l THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. ^ <1^ f'V .. PACE SEVEN JT.."ir... '■!■_■ !■ Mejiican beans and boiled 'sun-dried,difference between me^tinfr her note beef. On tKe morning of the .sixth 'and not meeting it. day I After the bulbs had been driven Ann was in the l^itchen when' Ruth-into the Smallest of the interconnect- ' . •' • ^ ▲. 1- ^ 1- . - % . « S ^ entered. “Why. hello .\nn! When did yOu get back?” ' “Last evenin’.” ing corrals on the home ranch, they were forced, one at a time, to enter a: - “I didn’t hear you come in.”» “No. Mrs. Warren.” “Where have you been, Ann?’ “I’ve been away,” answered huge woman quietly. Ruth said nothing more look at a bull and not remember him as one remembers the face of a man. Continiied Next Week NOTICE OK THD LOSS OF FIRE IXSL’RANCE POLICIES Take The cattle had come—a long, wind- "'^‘‘^dy pressing h:s of brown and white flowed ^hree men took hold iing river notice that certain Fire In narrow runway which opened out into/surance Policies executed in blank by the pasture. Just before a bull reached the .Automobile Insurance Company of ithe open end of this runway and Just Hartford. Connecticut, Nos. 290014 to as ho was congratulating him.self an ;29001H, inclusive, have oeen lost or this e>capo, a bar shot across in froni misplaced. The.«e policies are not ne- the no.se, another i^as placed imme- gotiable, and the Company is not ob- |diate!j behind him and he was a pris- ligated thereunder, and any person loncr. The walls of the runway- were who receive.s, pui chases, or holds any siiles, and now one of said policies does so at his own of a long lever risk, inasmuch as no one is author- TWELFTH INSTALLMENT | stock—ah—do you see what I mean?” Synopsis: Ruth Warren, who lived! “Well, no—I’m rather new to this in the East, is willed three-fourths |business-,” said Ruth. ..vi ^i.m. ut-i interest in the “Dead Lantern” ranchj “Don’t^ make any difference—he’s' ... .i ^ .f r i ii- hunting of cow for calf began.him. large animal can thus in Arizona by her only brother, who isjgoing to buy cheap Mexican cattle and ^ ^now j appeared to have lost her doctored or branded with least dan- reported to have met his death while | feed them to selL:The point is, he isn’t I ^ come by the deep tank grid each calf bawled as though concerned^ particularly to on business in Mexico. Arriving in, going to breed Herefords and he wop’tjin the south pastui'e on my way'home it had lost two mothers. The calves, i [ Arizona with her. hu.sband 'who has ^ pay me for the cattle ah'eady on the j this mornin’. Well, it washed out last temporarily orphaned, made little ef-i—■^>etc.Ig-.Lhe.. fihat of the bulls had, L_, ailing lungs and their small child, they! place—mean he don’t want them for i that’s what it did The water toward reunion; they stood released. Ruth Warren appeared 10-12-.Ttc, learn that the ranch is located K5|breeding—he’ll take all my steers and|._ / V n ■ certainly on dheir limber logs and^^'^^If the^surpri.sed cowboys at the Ruth back to earth with a jerlc. F'or a into the north pasture. There, the six ‘be result that one of the walls izeti tt i.ssue, negotiate, or deliver said moment she thought he was going to Triangle T cowboys allowed them to inwanl. holding the entire bull contracts of insurance for and on be- leave her without speaking, but her' ^f*’’*^*^'* «"’n choosing. A ^ great hand had closed half of the .Automobile Insurance 1 , . . (’onipanv. THP: AUTOMOBILE INSUR.ANCE CO-MPANY OF HARTFORD, CON- .NEtTICUT. By S. W. Saumerely-^Ayenti- night—that’s what it did. The water miles from the nearest railroad. Old! beef stuff, but you can see that good^ bawled to the world at large, while branding fire wirMa bucket of, white Charley Thane, rancher and rural mail' voung cows and registered bulls are shallow ones wont their mothers sniffing, lowing, trot-; ^be Had found in t*he barn. ‘ last two weeks: lor ' ' carrier agrees to take them to the “Dead I.,antern” gate, miles from the ranch house. .As they trudge wearily through a gulch approaching the ranch house, a voice whispers “Go back! . . . j Go back!” At the ranch house they are ' greetetl suspiciously by the gaunt i rancher partner, Snavely, and Indian j Ann, a herculean w'oman of mixed Ne gro and Indian blood. Snavely is (iif-| ficult to understand but regardless, j Ruth takes up the task of trying to | adjust their three lives'lo the ranch and its development. Kenneth, Ruth’s' husband, caught in a chilling rain, con tracts pneumonia and passes-Awaj be fore a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She is pot encouraged liy Snavely in plans to try and stock the ranch or impi’ove it. She writes to her father in the East asking a loan with which to buy cattle. She receives no reply. Will Thane comes home to visit iii.s father . . . and Ituth meets him. (.Now Go On With the .Story) . .After the noon meal Ruth had re- tuiTied to the remains of the old adobe and was mourning over a mess of mud wirhlf ones bis nervously here and there, sorted® “Wait, befmv yma let him loose.” I glinting eyes played over her .sardoni. I ^^em out. .As soon as a family was ^bu called to the man l y the nose bar. call>. V\ ith a short laugh, he walked j were mutual sniffings “M bat’-s the paattor?” asked to has hm-se aaul naountmg, rode away lickings; the bawling ceased and ‘Snavely. n the d.ay aftoi the cattle deal the cow led her off.spring quietly aw’uy' “\Nell,” said Ruth, “you see—how- had taken pluee, .Ann was not in the kitchen when Ruth aro.se. Neither was she in her the cow led her off.spring quietly aw-ay to graze; aa-e we going to ‘you see keep ta-Pek ()f . j When it seemed certain that evci-y | bulls . I laiean. suppose we db ride in I ^'‘'‘hlng an the found her calf, Snavelv .with tbe pasture and count Ihetaa, they’ll be ikatehen appeaa-ed to have bcH‘n touched Mexican cowbovs. aounded up the'^o .‘=cattea'd that -by the-time j since the evening before, nor was the [fire lightetl. She built the fia-e. Soon j Snavely came to the door. f-yWhot .A4m ? ’’ ^ we ye be sui-e. I’m sui-e 1 don’t know; I thought iperhafis slie had ta) do sainiething out side befaue l»i-eakl'ast anil TTaaln’t come in yet.” j “Did yam loaik in lu-r iHunn?”.^ ' “1 diain’t K)ok — 1 opened the (h»or and ’ealleal.’’ “llnli!” Snava-ly went to .-XnnSa room and retnrneal shortly. “Her heal aia/t baa-n slept in she’s gone ag’in.’’ “Why, what da) yon ma'an?" “ 'Baaut every two months or sa) .Ann goes away fa)i- a spell dam’t knaaw whana*. Wadi, yam Ciin get me some- lexican caawhoys, l ounaled up the' new bulls anal ali-ove them towarals the' twenty-two we can’t home i-nnch corrals. Ruth and David but what we’ve counteai the fl’-olloweal behinal. The girl was aleathly twice, anal that maybe one is gone.” ■ ThaSse^"tive7Tt^^ I a*a)w seemeal more of a pleasant, *‘*''*aial whether creatui-e at least, it loved its calf, j ^^‘fore or not?” anti la>oked over the meadows* with a’ “1' ya‘ jkly,. 1 l ather satisfieal, fi iendl.V’ expression, I’.ut thaise ga-eat lumbering hulls — a i-olling avalanche of unfriendly fiower, as they plaxhieal foa-wai-al, singing theii' inalividual battle challenges deep in their throats. But the girl took a I trcniendims ji-iale in them; it alialn’t ya)U ve counteai him NOTH E OF OPENING OF ROOKS OF RFGISrR.VTION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION FOR AI DER.MAN State of Samth Carolina, County of Ijiurens, Town of Clinton. Notice is hereby given that the biaoks of i-egistration for the regi.stra- tion of voters from Ward One in the Town of Clinton, S. ('.. for the pur pose f»f n*gastering voters from said >varal for the spa.*cial election to be samt ona. Town of Clinton, on Tue.s- day, Octa>ber 1st. llKld. will be open the seem po.ssihle that such a weaak. in- signifia-ant thing as heiself coulal own those huga* animals. Of course. can’t. They all look (■> me.” “Wli; t alo you aim to alo with that paint ?” -r:' ha.w yam!” Befo-e .Snavady coulal pi-aitest Ruth ran fanwe.nl anal alrew a nvnneral ame aan the animal’s siaie. two feet high. “See." she ealleal triumphantly. “iia>w all we have ta) do is to check their nnmhaM-s a»n a piece of papa-r — in ant* a»n North Bra>adway in the said Town of (’linton on the llih alay of October, and rTgittam" oneh Ifa An and incluaimg the 20t^h alay aaf Octobtn-, " • . , W. D. COPELAND, l‘.*-.‘itc .'suiK‘rMsa)i- a)f Registration. DE.MOl'RATIU I'Ll B MEETS TUESDAY her! It didn’t Veem pos.sihle that such and rdiltims, when .she wa.s startlanl byya weak, insignificant thing as herself the sourai a)f an autamiohile. She camlal could own tho.se hu;^‘ animals. hardly believe her eya's ^hen she saw i - a fine-looking machine climb nut ofjwnrth more than sar mtieh a-jiniTTrat “ the giilch. Visitors wea;a<' not coipmpn th(*y’a*e produca‘rs. Now, tha* man I’m on tha* I)i‘ad Lantern. jsadling to,* Ja-sus Ti-avini, alam’t caia* - Tha-re were two men in , the car ahoiTt tirat sort TTf^stoclT. TAvay tcdlm which a|)pra)ached the ranch hou.-^e. ('haadey Thane ahaiut it and he wants Befora* it stopped anal just as Ruth haal ten of m.v bulls and ha> said you ik’o- stArteai to walk in that dOectiam,; plo—” Parkau-glanea'd from the gii l to Snavady rode out of the brush alaing | Snavely and then hack at the gii l.' the southern bank of the gulch, his.“He thought you pa'aqile might he in-! horse ott a deatl run. Raith fmused iMMl|tt'rt‘sleal an aloiavg sauna'thing. .Saa as I watched him bring his moaint to a was taking .Mr. Haivey, her -, liaa-k ta) sliding stop by the machine. Itowtf, 1 just thought I’d alrop in and “What d’ya)u want?” hi.s voice see you.” ! .^hrilh al at the mam in the cai . -1 “But,” said Ruth, “just now vv-e —Dnt- r-f mvfl reipliedr t-ftlking mUidi ai-ash: hare-to ii.sk ' soma* 'iine, hut his voice wa.s low and Ruth could not understanal. no I thin’ ta) a'at, I j eekon." I Fan- five days Ruth wji.- eook aan tha* 1 evtha*less. loey wa'ie Deaai l.antern, and of the fifta-en hulls. .And they were very valuable— meals, twelve a>f them consisteil a)fjto lose one or two might mean tha' 1 .'snavely a)\vned a aiuarter a)f them, le-; "’e can’t go wrong.” ' ... . : Snavely looka‘al pityingly at Ruth. Thf’e will ho a special meeting-of tha* Clintam municipal Democratic club am Dctavha*r 17, at 7:”0 p. m., at away; the old cowman the high .scha»a)l huilaling, by order of ; was t<*o alisgusted ta) spa’ak. It sa't*ma*d t(u* t'xea'utivt* ca)nimittt*t*. ■“ then t.irna*al U'l^r’D'tblie tti M any ona* could -1 tudU^y- - .1 onesr "Ha*l!, no! Vya* don’t w-ant nothin’| I for time in w hich, to pay w'a*’al have U) pay out of the earning.s the cattle bring us.” i to do with that -’’Snavely .swung his I nod.hd, “That often hap-: kl’ii I’”'*’ *' “ ^ ’ pen.s in tha* cattle business,” he smileal.-*- “There .s th wav out of this place,.' , i u* * ' * ‘ • I But if I can make eight per cent 1 shan’t he of this place,, I 1..1#..* .♦ 1 — pj.p .. , . 1 1 .u ,oiy money, 1 shan’t tie in too great a HoW do you alo?’ smileal Ruth, as i if i-i ^ . ,1 1 f tv. ihun-y to get the principal. If you like,, she came up to the aither siala* of the i ^ . ’i car. Tha* two men turned their heaal.s in ajuick surprise, then smiled with pleasure. “Are you .Mis, Wairen?” older man, lifting his hat. w-e can draw the note to canne due next Naivember—after the fall selling. 'But if you’re all pressed I’ll extend . ked the spring selling. Even if I had I ta) wait until a y(*ar from this next Naiveinber, it would he l)etler fan- me than to sell the stock for what I can do n't sit on that get now. The ranch here my .security, of course.” I “I’m opposed to tha*!” would be Snavely “Ya>s,’von’t you gentlemen come up to the house?” “Why—er—thank' you” he half turned hi.s head in Snavely’s direc tion—my name’s Parker of the Tri- angle T. and this is Mr. Harvey, our l^«ned forward. I .la)n t go putting up, attorney. Your neighbor. Mr. Thane,! my interest on no .such proposition as | though ;;c*rhaps you peojile might be i ^bat. j intere»-aJ in a caTUe djFopaisitiaih—” “ I^T jonTF- tiTTir- iw ™tm«-— “Oh. I’m sure we should!” !"W'ell,” said Ruth at last, “I have no i ) The thriH* w ent to the ranch house i objection to risking my three-quarU?r . poich wh^re Sr.a-.’ely joined them ; interest in the ranch for as many cow.s j 'and bulls as you’ll give me for it.” Mr. Harvey, the lawyer, lifted his 1 brows at this statement—as a general ! thing partners agreed. ' j Parker turned to the attorney. “Itj Iw^ld-he-di^gal Mrs,— offer her interest even though Mr. after tying his horse to The girl introduced him. a me.squite. He grunted. .Snavely doe,s not wish to offer his, j wouldn’t it?” ' “Why, yes, it would he legfil; it can j be done. However”—he studied I Snavely—“it will h? a rather unique [ state of aff^iirsXShould the cattle come the ranch they will increase the 1 on value of the ranch and likewise the value of the partnership Interest.s In.^ other words, .Mrs. Warren would be increasing' .Mr. Snavely’s property for Hardly a home without one . . . the dhaw^-with. the shaky 4e>f t!i*K A’^ieie Henry broke when he sat on it, back in 1929. (He was heavier then). The whole family knows about it, but for four years it has kept its place in the living room ... a dubious decoration, a constant menace to the unsuspecting guest. ' ;him, while .Mr. Snavely, in refusing to{ The brought jerk. look Ruth on back offer hi.s-share as security, would he ; 'contributing nothing to the welfare of the partnership. However,” he turned to Parker, as though he had seen enough of Snavely, think Mrs. Warren’a note will be sufficient.” j An hour later the machine was dis- { appearing into the gulch and Ruth Warren had mortgaged her entire in-| terests in th Deead Lantern ranch. ’ Snavely came up behind her. i “What you jest done was ag’in my: SnavHy'a face I advice, Mrs. Warren. Don’t expect me j to earth with a i to do nothin’ if things don’t turn out j hike yo figger.” j — Ruth smiled. “Certainly. I under- Andlio throughout America . . . here, in the dining roiom . . there, in the bedroom or kitchen . . an infirm com pany of tottery tables, spavined side boards, and shabby chiffoniers. For the plain truth is that most of us, under pressure of circumstance, have just let our furniture go. And in those^fuur years it has gone a long way. port unity. For furniture prices today are tower tftinT ttrey are ever nk“ely~ to he again! Consider these facts. Since 1929 the furniture manufacturers have had so little demand for their products that furniture has almost ccjLsed to have any basic value at all. Yet furniture .should, like everything el.se, have a true basic value — a value sufficient to yield to its maker and his felk>w work men a fair jan.ount to live upon. It is one of the chief aims of the .\R.A to restore value to the common things c f life ... a man's labor ... a manufac turer’s product . . , a citizen’s property. The (iovernment is trying to make ev erything worth something again. ing up. Lumber Fay TT^ rolls . r 57^ have advanced "ery f^ bav^ Therefore furniture Furniture is on the advanced 4H*2*. must go up, to<i way to regaining its rightful value as a commodity. ^This process is not yet complete. Re tail prices on present stocks of furni ture are,still extremely low. Now u-* the time to bu\. Sooner or later something will have to be done about those worn-out house hold goods. And now is the great op- _ Furniture is one of those things. Un der the NRA furniture code, all labor values, all raw material values, are go- UPTURN ITKM NO. 1 Stati'-Ucs of the .National .A.ssoci- atif'n of Furniture .Manufacturers that production rose* from of normal capacity for the ended August 5 to 114'i during the week ended September 2. .August retail sales were uni formly more successful than for several late summer seasons. show /• / nil w et'k did not offer to ' shake hands anct.'stand. But you were there when Mr. seated himself at one side. , Parker and I went over the situation “You see, Mrs. Warren,” began j—I know and you know the water is as Parker “the Triangle T is changing ; little .scanty, but if things don’t go too , hands-^o you know of the ranch?” badly 4 may even be able to pay off • “I’m afraid not,” smiled the girl. ithe note next November. I hope I “Don’t mak_e any difference,” oh-1shall, but if not, he agreed to give, •erved Parker^ “We’re on the Mexi- me a year.” j can line about twenty-five miles eafd? ^^ems Tike yolTre-'taUqn’ a lot ^ Well, as I said, the ranch is changing about yourself,” he repliedF^ensely. hands. The man who bought ij. is'“You talk like this was your iWh.” j going to do differently than I’ve al- “I didn’t mean it that way,’^<»an-j He intends to make ajswered Ruth lightly. | THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS NEWSPAPER BRING YOU NEWS OF MANY FURNlTirRE BARGAINS STILL TO BE HAD. READ THEM CAREFULLY EACH WEEK. THEN SUPPLY YOUR PRESENT AND FUTURE NEEDS ■x VTnys ! ^' ' '6? 1.; —. . A: • r; r f]. '