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IHUrIsDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1933' ■Ti^E CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, S. C. PAGE and when we do, it’ll likely.be a good Will says. one, same as “iTheilast pond went dry a week a^,** '^Id Ruth dully. "f” ~ Old Oharley tried not tell you about it?” ‘‘No—” Ruth’s heart was beating wildly, ‘‘f never heard about any other water.”:—^ - to show' his: ‘‘Harry bought the pipe,” said Will surprise. "So? Well, they’ll get a ‘‘Remember, Dad? We little thjin waterin’ at the/well, byt it of it on won’t hurt them. V j “The ‘‘OhI Ruth suddenly turnec^ away, the barn, .\fter a moment she said slowly. ‘‘I Is there water we can u.se my hote to Parker for the cattle pasture?”- • It was not long before Will guidad her into a small arroyo, one of th« hundred? which led . down from Jhe mountains. Continued next week. mner, i^au 1 the wa^t >re’.s a b^ passed^a loadi to to^fnH^st fall.” i pile of line behind FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 17th day of said Ruth. ‘‘Tell me quick! irender a final gave m the north doings as .mfnistrator of the estate of Mack FOURTEENTH INST.ALL.MENT lupon a ridge top. Whenever she saw take them to green iiei*is anti ran’.iing Synopsis: Ruth Wai-ren. who lived him'these dayjr Ruth had an odd, un- water. Feeling as she did. the blow in the East, is w’illed three-fourths comfortable feeling that Snavely was which fell on the following mail day intere.st in the ‘.‘•Dead Lantern” ranch waiting for something. was robbed a little of its power to in Arizona by* her only brother, who is One day she met Old Charley and 1**; repoited to have met his death wHiije , AVill as she .w'as riding the southern j She had written 1 HI 4 “ iboundary of the ranch. The two men i t?xplaiding the situation —my interest in the ranch will be. gone by November—there’s no wat er—the cattle will be dying in another week.” • ‘‘Another w’eeki” Both men stared at the girl. “You must be wrong,” sail! Old Charley. “No, the well’s going dry—it gives out sooner each clay,” r- “But. Mrs. Warren”—Will looked “It’B have to be developed,” said, Old ( ii irley slowly. j ‘ Shoi^dn’t. take more than a <lay nr two,” resi)(ynded Will. He thought a* momentV’then pulled an envelo{)e from his pocket and wrote on it with a pen cil. “Here. Dad, you run on into town and send this telegram—I’ll be stay ing over a few days.” He turned to Ruth. “SIupposo 1 ride back with you .ek Partlow, decea.sed, in the office of tpe .Judge of Probate of Laurens county, at 1 o’clock a. m., and on the same lay will apply for a final discharge from my trust as .Admini.strator. Any person indebted to said e.state on business in Mexico. .Arriving in Arizona with her husVtand who has ailing lungs and their small child, they • learn that the ranch is located 85 j mile.s from the nearest railroad. Old | Charley Thane, rancher and rural mail carrier agrees to take them to the ‘‘Dead I.antern” gate, 5 miles from the ranch house. .As they trudge wearily ; through a gulch approaching the ranch house, a voice whispers “€o back! . . ., Go back!” Ai the ranch hduse they are greeted suspiciously by the gaunt, rancher partner, Snavely, and Indian j Ann, a herculean w’oihan of mixed Ne-! gro and Indian blood. Snavely is dif ficult to umlerstand but regardless,* Ruth takes up the ta.sk of trying to, —•djuat their three- lives to-the ^och f and its development. Kenneth, Rtith’s ; husband, caught in a'chilling rain, con tracts pneumonia and passes away be fore a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She is not encouraged by Snavely in plans to try and stock the ranch or improve 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 yisit his father . . . and Ruth meets him. A rancher nearby decides to retire and offer.s to sell Ruth and Snavely his! livestock on credit. Snavely tries to balk the deal but Rluth buys to the limit of her three-quarter interest in Dead Lantern ranch. came her. up to the fence and talked with!him for his previous offer to extend That evening she told Snavely! payment. And although Old Charley would be bringing the mail and would not be going into town again until next week, the girl rode to the box. Buc the mail had already arrived when she reached the do x."*’The re were I two letters addressed to her. The one i with the earliest postmark was from Parker who explained that for busi ness reasons he had been obliged to take a loan on the note. It was now •in the hands of J. H. Witherspoon, Inc., a broker. The second letter was jfrom the broker. .After reading it the ;from Ruth to his father-^“I don’t im- and show you that place. Seems to me a letti.\^o Parkhr derstand. There was surface water, you ought to develop plenty of water n ami thanking Why, there must be two or three thou-, a day’s work or so.” is notified and rpquire<i to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims again.st .said e.s tate will present them on or before said date, duly proven or be forever barred. C. A. POWER. Administrator. acres which drain into that sand well!” “It’s going dry.” said Ruth. “New wells sometimes gives out .quick,” rephVn Old Charley slowly, “but it sure .seems funny. Yoir see, Will, here, helped your brother locate that well. You ought to he able to Snavely slowly arose as the riders came straight up to him. Ruth spoke: “Mr. lhane has told me of a place in the north pasture w here there is indi cation of water—he and my brother found it last summer.” She “Whv didn’t Vou tell me about it*’” Oct. IT), ]!)33,-^li-9-4tc. NOTH E OF OPENING OF BOOKS OF BFfHSTRATIO.N FOR SPECIAL ELECTION FOR AI.DERMAN .State of .South Carolina, Laurens, _ Town of Clinton. “I had I'oasons, said Snavely, his Notice ii? hereby g’.ven that the take care of a good half of your hevd|oyes on Will. ”1 didn’t wapt to registration for the registra- —let part of ’em water at the cor- ^^m^,’ you,- hopes up there ain’t no f rals.” 'use diggin’ in that gully Kottona jest “.At—the—corrals? But I ilon’t un- because of a little rain .seepage.” derstand do jou mean what do you; “But, Mr. Snavely, saiil Ruth,,.sjiecial election to he “now that we have need^of the watei ,b(>l{| in the Town of C'linton, on Tues- 1‘harley looked at his son and don’t you think it would he wise to try tion of voters from Ward One in the Town of Clinton, 'S. C.. for the pur pose of registering voters from said mean Old girl stared at the cloudless skyline, then at Ruth “Why, just what I said; to get it?” that’s the one that's then rode bome.^ Her lips wore set and Ker face shone yellow’ under the lah . . . “Conse<iuently, the cattle situ ation being what it is owing to the ing,” cried Ruth; present drouth, we feel it necessary to going dry!” icall payment on the note when dius “What!” ejaculated Will, namely, November first, .next.” you using the upper well at ' “Well.” said Will, “there’s one thing “Upper well—what upper certain—when the rains hold off as asked Ruth in a dazed voice. use the welt, at the corrals, the oncj “if you can—you won’t fipd nothin’ wTtb OrC"wMn(fmTtl—1^ “But that’s what we have been ’though; Mffybe a Itttte rain water under the uind. “There had been no rains for several months when we located the jvrospect “Aren’t last summer,” said Will; “the sand all?” was wet and we dug far enough to see well?” that water was running into it from that big dike. That dike is a natural day, October 1st, will be open in ‘the store of .1. 1. Copeland & Bro., on North Broadw’ay in the said Town or ClintonYm tbe Tlih day of October, 1933, and will remain open up to aad including the 2<)th day of October, 1933. W'. I). COPELAND, 19-3tc Supervisor of Registration. ' as this they make up for it when I they 0 1 Lc^in.” If no rain came within a week the cattle would begin dying by the dozens. Again, Ruth shook her head. Old Charley studied for a moment, then slowly climbed out of the car. Will followed. “I’ve seen some pretty bad times mended,” remarked the old went on with it.” said “Well. I’ll be at his son. “He neve'* Will, soft!'. Old Chr ley nodded and turned to Ruth. “The pr.^spect Harry and Will found last summer w’as in the up|H'r Old Charley looked underground dam—” j 1 “All right, all right—go ahead and dig all you’re a mind to if you’ve got; such an all-fired interest in the Dead Lantern, Mr. Thane.” Will made no reply and Ruth thanked him w'ith her eyes. To .Snave- ' Men’s and Boys’ Rain Coats S1.50 to $7.50 L. B. DILLARD he wagonload to go to cotton.seed toy^ meal for a man. “Things most aBvays seem'end of the north pa.sture—I guess ly she said, as she started her horse, worse than what they are. But pshaw" Harry didn’t get around to developing |“Please_have the two men follow us. —we’i’e bound to get rain before longrtl; before—-he left. But didn’t ar’yhody jwith •|>ieks and shovels.” - —L WHAT DO P. S. Jeanes 4. DO? Old Charley him.self had remarked to Ruth that the rains began about the end of June; Snavely- had admUted that it might rain around the twenty- fourth of June—before the real drouth set in; but Ann, Don Francisco, .Al fredo, and Magda had stated calmly that the rain would come in abund ance beginning with the Day of San Juan. •< It wa.*- now the twentieth of July dT“ Tnbre of cotton.seed meal whicn' 'could be given to such cows as needed 4t badly. She also suggested that he get a certain brand of dried milk—i much advertised in the. cattle raisers’* magazine—which, mixed with wate.r. could be given to the underfed calves and the orphans. 1 Snavely thought fOr a long time, then said he would go. It <eomed to Ruth that there was an undercurrent • of eagerness in his voice in spite of his objections to the trip. He started , the next morning with team and wagon, returning a week Inter, with the load. He appeared oddLy-satisfied. if and jjince the single sfbrm than two month.s before, there had not been a cloud in the sky the size of a pigeon. The grass which had sprung Now, whenever the riuer.s found a iqv st)-4»i'ave and green after the ^ sTarvTtig ratf of some was now’ w’ilted and the color of without a mother, these animah The lacy leaves of the NO JOKING calf without a mother, broom-straw. The lacy leaves of the brought to the home ranch,t mes«iuite curled on drooping branches, into the small horse pastu^, i dust laden; the broad, flat leaves of Some sixty cows w’ere re- the pr:ckly pear were shrunl^en and ^.gjyinjf their daily ration of meal, and yellowish; small bushes were as ^***-■'about-the ranch house and corrals, tie as glass, and the twigs and ^ stems underfoot rustled like dry P*-^ phoned calves w’hom Ruth was bring-1 per. I'he birds, rabbits, coyote j and bottle lions had left the country—all was desolation. Rattle.snakes abounded. Each morning the sun ro.se naked MONEY GROWS ■ n-- A . , ;* all the ponds were now deep—... ahove the eastern mountains and a.s rose a wave of st.flinK heat Jry. Half of the herd waten desert as though a mighty ^ ^over the ciesert as tnougn a oven door had slowly swun^ open. Ruth had rather expected rain on the Day of San Juan and. when that day or mg up on , 'The gulch had been fenced by the Mexicans under Ruth’.s direction; also! and all I wa.s j dry. Half of the herd watered at (this pond, the other half at the corral j troughs on the home ranch. The corral j troughs could only water this number.! Very little wind came to turn the windmill which fed the tank by the ON shoe TREES! passed cloudless, felt that in a ^ vvinvn - go she would see the clouds Jj'^owing, ^fredo had' con- the mountains and smell the m-i over dc.scrihrble perfume of desert fain. hand pump, it hours, of back- structed a primitive . J J . . , usually meant three As day succeeded day, eac o *,5|-paking labor to raise the required dryer, more hoi>eless than the (amount of watfer. day. her anxiety increa.sed-shc, ^nd no sigtis^ of rain. —_— - I as she return^ from the .south pasture, sometimes driving a Jng weak cow, or even carrying a day-old calf across her saddle, the swelling, fear in her breast increased. A hun-1 Idred times a day she looked for clouds; if her riding tO'>k her near a hill she went to the top. eagerly scan ning the new-made horizon. :. knew.' t hat the Jlfcxican^_\^?rg^ praying for rain—she had given them- all tho ^candles in the hou.se for the sacred picture they had hung m the ".<ain. And once she had enie»e<l the gulch after a calf, which had g *ne through the fehce, and upon the totk had found a grotesque little mud ini- ege holding a tiny pot of cornmeal. Ann did not reply when Ruth a kec’ ,:hei about it; but ttie girl had come • to know t’ne footprints of the gi int- ess. There came a day when the 'I'c-Tv,’ in the sou'.h pasture had shrunk t » a thin sheet of wet mud. Then Ruto kne\t that the end hdJf come; with tlv full herd trying to water at the home lanch where thire wa.s barely eno*’r’c .As day succ^ded day, each hot ter, more hopeless than the preceding dstj, her anxiety inertased. for ha’f, there could he only o?.e within a we«'k seemed trapi>ed in aster criqA relentlessly irtcreasing a’.vaiewss of •sibility drove her ^ftgassume more and more thr control of the ranch. Before •-he w^ell realixoddtrsti^^was giving the eyes orders for the day’s riding. .Snavely uj.on everything to* her. He rode out ,ult. If no r^ip the eallk wo-uid o. g.n tiyuig by tb.e duztr..^. " '• For the la.st few day..- as sh.‘ w|^ rn- nearer. The (.d the water so relentles’-iy disappear, her respon- Ruth thought le.*s abo’.!*; mee-.vrg But a new pair of shoes on trees and plant them away in their box on a dark closet shelf. Ferret all about them ’til next .sprinR. (That’s hard to do,.we know, becau.se sleek new shoes in re- sei^ arr Ttnfy easT^ every time you dress up). But we su};K^st this as a real econo my. Because when you brintj those shoes out to wear, three or six months from now, the’II probably be .sellinc: for half ajirain as much at the very store .where you jjot them you'd bouj^ht three ene! ' are about fa''hion merchandise that we know of. A !i:eod oxford is correct with almosi any day mode, any time, and a classic pump is perfect for dres.s, in season and cut. Mhen you happen to find your ideal” in slvle and la.st, buN two leathers. silently or three pairs, in different (Children, of course, will (JROW. So step up the sizes when buy- inji?: futures in shoes'for Bobby and Sister). And that’s just what people are do- inir now . . Iviyinr up shoes. Getting them at price.*, that will probably never be .so low again! I),) vTu know that some leathers went . . and you’ll w ish piiirs instead of the best-keeping up as much as ISI'. this oast summer? Add to this the-increast'd labor cost of mali'n'i shoes (up since Febru- arv ) . . . and vou can see, without touch ing pencil and paper, that shoes are bound to go up. had any true value left. Hut under the NR.A codes that value is being restored. Workers will get a living wage. Mate rials will be worth something again. So you can look for higher prices as ircertamiy. Buv^nbw today .. . there is still an eleventh hour opoortunity for intelligent shoppers. h!\plain to your husband why you want to stock up on shoes . and hear him say' ‘‘you’re Now is the time to buv. smart I “sole's .\nd it’s a good thing f';r e>erylmdy even f r you! .Matters had come to si; a a pa.ss in the shoe industry (and eve/> w here else) that neither a man's labor nor the materials he wo-rl-.ed with Upturn Item No. 6 R(fi mploynient in September haw I 1 an estimated increiLse since h ( f J oOO.OOO workers in all ra.'^ci.es of trade and industry. .v.tli a corner while djs- 7 ae left or/e ami more about the cv?/e selves. The tears ofteri j«-art J in he^ these day-s'. When t'ne g..l cam a gr.unt covv ly ng in I”.- de at the bottom of s ..a- — IN THK ADVERTISINt; ( OLF.M.NS OF THIS NFWSFAI'FR VOl W ILL FIND MANY G(){ j) SHOE BARGAINS FROM WEEK TO WEEK STILL TO BE HA I) AT AMA/IN(;L\_L0W FRU’ES.^Sd t'DV THE.M CAREFULLY .... THEN Sr!»i*LY YOI R PRESENT AND FFTCRE NEEDS! iaVh morning but he rode alone and he with a shriveled, panting cmi a; M ' ide, .she wanted de^l*eiatc.J to e\- 'he ’‘occaslionaliv as"she rod, about the plain to tlivae poor ciea^cure, mat ra^h RuthTame bcrosa him. Some- could not help that aho ua- not to times he was riding casually some , blame. , , ' , canyon es though he cared not where When the last of the - * * had no com- go.ie m the south pasture, Ruth_Xe-» < he went, as long as he had no com- go.ie - nany' again, she had seen him sitting that she would gladly give every am- iu thtC shade of a sciubby live oak High mal on the p.ace to any one who coaid 5