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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C.
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P. C. Grid Captain
NINETEENTH INSTALLMENT j “Two; bolVu terrible. But say, you'knees with a saddle on his back—
Synopsis: Ruth Warren, born and can’t go in with Dad; he’s quit the thoujrht it would amuse the crowd.”
raised in an East<.rn city, is \villed delivery business.” j Ruth planced incredulously at her
‘Qh! Why?’
companion. “Good heavens, what a
three-fourth interest in the Dead lan
tern ranch in, Arizona. With her' ‘i^’o use in it. He started carryincr rare idea!” j
% youthful husliand. who is in poor niail by accident, anyway. \ou see, Will agreed. He did not tell the pirl
health, and their small son, David, after mother dieii, he and I went to his father bad appeared much in-
they tome to Arizona to take up Bve in town. We left Juan, and Juana terested in the remarks of the Me\i-
where Ruth’s brother, i*eported killed A'*' the ranch. I went to school andn.jjj^ blue .sash; nor that by this
in Mexico, had left off. "They reached'I^ad became sheriff. Well, when I j time, a certain bill, grizzled police-
Dead Lantern. 80 miles from the tT’^t old enough to go to the university, ^vas also much interested,
nearost lailroaa. with ttw hi?*p of Old;we went to California. But DaJ outskirts of the
Charley Thane, neighborinit rancher. couHn t stand it. then* too cold anil
- who also carries the rural mail. .\t the-loo far away from the ranrh So he
ranch they find the partner, Snavely, came home. He used to ko mto.town ^
and a huge woman, Indian .\nn. who every week to gad a lettm- from nw
As thdav and first thing he knew he was the 1 ,, ,
greet them suspiciously. As they and first thing he knew he was the^ jj
A . - .9 — A 9_ .. a I A .'-w ' ^MWW t 9* A 9%4% ^
trudge the five miles from the ranch;
gate to the house they pass a huge
rock in a gulch where a voice whis
pers. “Go back. Go back.” Ruth’s huR-|
band, caught in a rain shortly after!
theif arrival contracts pneumonia and;
passes away before medical aid can be'
brought. Ruth, penniless, and without
friends, attempts to carry on but i.s
balked at almost every turn by the
crafty and plotting Snavely. IVspite'
oi)Stacies of all kinds Ruth gives notes
or. hi r ranch interest to purchase cat
tle. .She is assi.sted by Old Gbarley.
Thane and his son, W’ill Thane.
Mexican family has been hired to as-.
sist with the work. A peculiar sick-
ne.s.s develops with the livestt>ck.
Snavely calls it “liver fevor," and .says
he has a powder for the water to cure,
the disease. Ruth’s whole future is at.
stake on the development of the heni
to meet her notes following the first j
round-up. I
^Now Go On With the Story 1
life.
t
For half an hour the two women sat
on the floor with the dog between
them. For a time he .seemed rather
Ht ao much attention and gave’
vm
I
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FPANK PARKER
STOCKBRIDOE
sv
ah
Ends Grid 'Career
j Will assured her that^the town hail j
: not' giT)^n“°Tft)ti’C6ab'lyi--iihe had -been .;
, living on the ranch where twelve peo-i
, pie gathered togethe ' made a multi- !
! lude.
She asked Will about banks, and he i Harry
I ;t commended all three of them. Then j Tuesday elected by his team-mates
.?he remarked in a matter-of-fact "^y us captain of Pre.sbyterian college
; -hat she wondered if he knew of a footbal .squad for IbJ l. Bolick
! good attorney. Mill pointed to an jiuunber of the jhliiTor class, and par-
>1 fiee bail ”
named
M'ALI,.'VCE—right man
I was .struck by Henry Wailace’s
talks on his recent trip into his nati'-e
Middle-West. Our Secretary of Agri—
cuhure is about the only member of
■ the .Administration who lia.s voiced the
elemental truth that any program of
•lecovery. must take the whole world
into ii.s scope. 1 do not say that no-
body else ih the .Administration reco-g- ■
I nl^os that our problems, especially as
tbey (leal with farm suiqiluses, are in-j
ternational an'd not national, but. Hen.'
ly V. ;illace is the only’ one I know of
who has said that in public.
I That merely confirms my previous
, opinion that he is the right man in the
I right place. Few men in public life
have as broad a grasp of ecimomic
I questions, and I know of nobody who ,■
j really understands the agr'iculturar
I situation as well as ho does.
CAPrSoa S/AfAfa-TOK/r^cecaS^Kr
( apt. Bob Sims, tackle for the Blue
Hose for the past sea.son, who played^
his last game against Catawba.
Jii
mor Football
Team Wins Two
Clinton junior football team, com-
BOUCK -B/iC4(—
Bolick, of Charleston, was
I ViONEA'—finding a level
What is happening in the mattqr of
! American money is just this, as I .see, se\ ent>h, eighth, and ninth
■nt. There are only three or four na-' a simikrr team
I turns, of which France is the mo.st im-i here Tuesday afternoon
: portant, who.se domestic monev, i.s .still margin of 7-0. Each team
a. tied to gold. Three-quarters of the threatened to sco’-e several times but
‘ jAvould’s iieo^le live in nations where' ^he Hu.d punch in the scoring
il.lint HCVOS., Ih.. slrvet. “.I r.,„, «tn.ngth l«ck <,rth:. nmney i« ^
led Martin has an office f^^.i 1 , | rational credit. Gold is no longer used pki. id bnlliantly on di .er.se,
I man
[..here; you can’t go wrong on him.
Would you like me to introduce you?”!
I Ruth hesitated. “No, doiii’t bother—,
I just want to ask him a trivial ques-
I lion or two.
-tiXJhcm for money except in inteuna-
Snavely stepped
porch and askt'd:
aT!a»?”
out f rom
‘You-all goin’
! Ruth left Will and David as soon as
Will had parked the car. She would 1
j attend to her husinessi’and meet them
1 an hour later.
, I
At the nearest bank she oiiened a
cheeking, account with the cattle buy-
1 er’s check as a deposit, and * drew
Snavely’.s. share in cash. Then .she
j found the ground floor office of Mr.
i M'itherspoon. From the signs on the
the! window, Mr. Witherspoon was a no-
for I tary, a broker, and an insurance
Redmond, Wilson,
Sims, Robinson '
Sing Swan Song
Three Years of Varsity Competi
tion ^Brouii:ht To» Close By
Players In North ('arolina Sat-
-urday. Absence Will Be Felt
Bv Team Next Season.
while Furr - mnidiired the wimniig
[tional trade, ('heapening their money touchdown. It w:i ; tlip def at in
tin terms of gold, as England, Japan, ‘■''b’hl sta-t,-- for- T. .1. MbdnrkViJnion
, the United State.s, have done, does time their goal h:.d
ftTfect its internal value, but only its been crosseii. ^
foreign trade value. The cheaper , wetoyv 0
the money compared with gold, the team. Mon'^^ -a^te •-
I greater the advantage a nation has Gailoway s
'over others in foreign trade. We have tJokhille squad into camp by un ^
Uaken that advantage away from i clo^e score. This contest was
cheap currencies in world trade by 'jrreat delen.-«i\e .Nlrugg.e
and was
J
a short sharp bark of inquiry. Then,
as nothing much hapi>ened, he
yawned, .scratched-at-the floor, and nian. But now, that I ve come: porated.
after turning around lay down with a, food. Dad’s quit. The new “Mr. Witherspoon7
^ft sigh and presently began made his first trip last week. All! ^he man who sat before a flat-topped
jof which family history is only to sayjdesk in the single room to which the'
said Ann want to go to town you’d street opened. ‘
p-reat delensive
cheaiH'ninit our... idwiiUil with unly f-,rty
But su lontf as onu important nation Smith hlorkfj a Pun. Ho.''...tl
remains on the «ol,l .standard theiE'"*' I'ne, perm.ttinK Trammel to
others cannot eet bark to it except on I ’‘"7'
the basks of that nation's currency, 1 tosU-r and..jlin|f a.ded ma-
With the lUaying of t'atawha on|v,.hich would still leave inequalities.'
l,.\NI) SABE
imranf heari.sn'm.de loans, condncte.l S“>'"'da.v, four memhers of the l>res-|Wh,t is RoioK on .seems to me to be a; '
-tnti- -|-rnti--m 'nnl va-, inrer 'Iwlei'lail fuQlhall siiii.d of 10:1:1 .Inxedi dellhei-BW attempt to force b ranee ; The .c
' I . iand with it Belgium, Switzerland and.
State' of South (’arolina
C ounty of Lau’cns.
*Sugacfoot, honey,’
lietter let me take‘you.” Will
up.
'*^03KZ" —
“Sure—unJe.'<s
you’d I’ather
---f
wait.
last, “why ain’t you dead?”
After the cattle .sale Ruth knew that
Snavely had misinformed her abbuL
the yearly earning power of the ranch.
Aa near as she could estimate, the _
income-oven without the Barker c«l- •
Ue—*as more than three times the be clad to uke you in
nmoun? he had mentioned. She be-1 ‘he morninc, but you might
lieved that his lie was an attempt u>^''« ‘/ooMe in getting out again,
discourage her, not a plan to make I You d better come now—we 11 see two
money for himself. - i movies!
(their carebr.s. These men are Uaptain, , ,, ,
..oi-cxi «..♦!. .r .1- 1. • 1 „ , ■ a few minor nations, off the gold stan-j In ("ourt of Common I’leT-i
asked Ruth of Sini.s, Redmond, Robimson and Wikson., ... L. v.
jdard. iThe (pMmercial Bank, Plaintiff,
Sims IS one of the most veisatilel witli all the nations off gold, their' - ’ '“' vs.
players ever to graduate from P. C. respective currencies will speedily find i a. Fk Spencer, et al. Defendants,
stoodi “Yep.” Mr. Witherspoon swung 1 ^^>1^41 this year, he played in the back- »>»lural relative values, one to; pursuant to a Decree of the Co.i t
around. He was fat and had been a, fUdd at the fullback position. Last possible to|in the above stated case, I will sell at
blond in younger days. | year, on offense, he was always a
T am Huth 'Wai reff.' Yoir-have' TtTstire tirt ’ior^ Hre Ime
up a new, universal gold stan- public outcry to the highe ;t bidder, r t
ix_. I . I : » / 'note which I gave Mr. Parker of the
Dad and I are leaving to-morrow for . • t- o u i. # n i k-
Triangle T Ranch. It fa s due No-
first.”
9»»
vember
“ Yes-
“ I want to pay it off now.”
“Oh, certainly, Mrs. Warren.”
Mr.
had to he cracked open. He did moat
of the kicking and mixed in a little
passing on the side. His blocking
ranked among the best in the state
and he was prominently mentioned
last year for the Jacobs trophy. This
dard to which all can conform.
Tn^the" mi*alil1lfiie, a doltar TK
dollar in America, as a Yen is still a
Yen in Japan and a pound still
pound in England.
chair near the desk. Stepping to the
But the cattle buyer had come and’, ."y"' [open safe he dre
, eh«k W.X n.« in Ruth'x hnndx; »<■ dumpnd it
Witherspoon aro.se and .seated her in a I year he was shifted to the line be
cau.se of a weakness at tackle position
Well, I hmdni planned ‘R^^l'iopen safe he drew out a large record
hia
thia check gave her, after Snavely’s
ithia morning—’
On defense, he came into the back-
on his desk and field po.sition and backed up the line
.sought for a certain page. “Here we as defen.sive fullback. ,
alure deducted, nearly a thousand A few minutes later when Ruth and!are—let’s see—nothing paid down—j R(obinson, who has played at tackle
dollars over-the amount of her note. .David, coming out of the house, | no extensions—everything clean and I all thi.s year, wa.s handicapped last
Ruth wglked on air—small a onder, started toward the waiting machine, I neat. I guess all I need is your check, .season by a broken collar hone. But
that she was not anxious to have any [Snavely stepped out from the porch j Mrs. Warren. Make it out to me— this year he has been in every game
more words with Snavely. After all, and asked, “You-all goin’for a ride?” J. H- Witherspoon, Incorporated. I’ll and his play in the line has been
what if he had underrated the in-j “Why, yes. Mr. Thane is taking give you a receipt.” outstanding.
Because of his lack of weight. Red
Ivaurens (’. H., S. C., on .Snlesday ;*i
December next; betnsr Momlay^ the V
day of the month, during the leg'l
a hours for such .sales, the following de-
jicribed property, lo wit:
All tjdat tract, pjece or parcel of
WFLATHER—23 year cycle jland, lying, being and situate near the
R„*member what the weather was gity limits of <he town of Clinton, con-
like 23 years ago? Whatever it wa.s in
lull in your part of the world, it
probably will be much the same in
1U34, .says Professor ('harles G. Ah-
taining sevent^n and eijthT-tenths
(17.81 acres, more or less, bounded on
the north by a street running from
Broad irtreet to the Calhoun highway,
hot, .secretary of the Smith.sonian In- on the east by an extension of Broad
come
? She could meet her note, and | David and me into town. I shall de-i Ruth filled out the second check in
stitution of Washington.
Every 11 1-2 years the sun breaks
out in large spots. That these had
some influence on our weather has
long been believed, but nobody could
figure out the cycle. Professor Ab-
she had not been forced to .^11 any oflpoait the check and pay off my note.” j her new book for a considerable partjmond did not see much service uptil thought perhaps it was a double
the fiPacker ^ cattle except the| “W'ell, now I don't know a.s Pd .>e,of the money she had put in the bank
this year. In the Erskine game he was
Cnlves. She had improved the ranch [ in any hurry, Mrs. Warren—year note [thirty minutes before. It .seemed too outstanding, makingjioi^ of pret-
wonderfully and next year this im-; ain’t due for a we4k, is it? An’ iCa-iiad.-‘‘Is that all that’s necessary?” Uiest runs of the game,
provement would manifest itself in poor business handin’ people :Tioney—| “That’s all,” .smiled Mr. Wither-] VV'ilson had not seen much service
real nm'?y- And with the money, you (iqu’t_ know what__i_hat broKer . spoon. “Very easy to get _ rid _j>t_axiitil this season, but he has been in
from next fall’s sale she would buy nugh* do—be might claim you never money.” ; there all year, smashing ’em up at
more cattle, pure breds, the beat in jt»vc th’ money. Wb ' don’t you Ruth ro.se_to her feet, hade good j the tackle position.
the world. She had set herself five^ jest put your money in th’ hank an’1 morning
broker and went
cycle, and by comparing the weather
records over 23-year periods discover
ed that “conditions are repeated every
23 years. If it was a dry year in 1910,
street, on the southeast by lands of
A. E. Spencer and John H. Young, and
on the southwest by lands of John H.
Young, and on the northwe.st by the
('iulhoun highway, together with all
improvements situate on saiib tract of
land. Said tract is composed of two
parcels:
One _of fourteen and eight-tenth.s
(14.8) acres, conveyed to A. E. Spen
cer by George W. Young on the 14th
years to bring the earning of the then when the time conie.^lto pay him'search of the attorney Will had recom- team next year will be felt,
rmneh to a certain comfortable mail him a check. I—come to think of
amount. Then she and David would; it. I’ll be goin’ in town pretty soon-
move into town near the yhool.s. . -jl’d b<' glad to-
She knew that Snavely would have toj “No, thank you,” smiled Ruth,
be considered in these plans, but the :“rm sure it will be safe for me to
future looked so bright, it was a pay the money to .Mr. M'itherspoon. I
it -»IHt^"Yhm£inir~ of staj^l-give-hinP not easln and
* him. In her heart she rather believed he will have to give me a receipt also,
that Snavely would ev'entually sell out M'hen I have opened the account,'I
to her. write you a check for your
Since the cattle sale something share. Or, if you’d rather give me a
seemed to have happened to Snavely; letter to the bank, I can put the cat-'
he no longer gave the impression that tie buyer’s check in the ranch ac
he wa-s waiting for something. In- count.” j
stead, he had a puxz|ed, uncertain air., Snavely hesitated uncerjLainly. I
He avoided Ruth eon^istently, but “Well, now—” He pamsed. '
where before he had let it be seen that “W’hich shall I do?” asked Ruth,
he avoided her because he could not ( “Shall I put the check in the ranch!
stand the sight of her, he now made account or do you want me to open ]
half-smiling excuses. 7 — x my own account with it and pay off,
The gii;! had been so happy wilW the my note and give you a check for your,
results of the round-up and the gayety share of the sale?” >
of the fiesta that she paid little atten- “Well, why don’t you wait until I
Uon to him. She had won. Neverthe- j^o in—”
less, whenever he was behind her Ruth I “Because I want to pay off that
had to control a wild impulse to run.; note myself.”
On the day after she received tAej Snavely did not reply for nearly a
cattle buyer’s check. Will Thane minute. “All right,” he said sud-
drove up to the ranch. He brought a deniy, “you can do like you want,
marriage license for Alfreda 'and’But don’t put the money in the part-
Magda. He had already secured the | nership account. Put it in your name
priest’s signature, and now asked the!and give me my share. You tan bring|mended. Sh^ thrilled expectantly; a^
newly married couple to sign, telling jit out with you when you come back.jlnst she was going to see just where
them the paper was an agreement j Bring it in cash—I don’t want no:ghe stood with Snavely. She had a
with the great Americaa government j check.” He turned and left her.
to live happily together and never] On the way in, the thrcle in
look for a dry season next.year, and [of April, UJll, by his deed recorded
in jth? office of the Clerk of Court for
I-aiHens County, in Deed Book 32, at
page 340. The other parcel contains
vice-versa.
Sunspots,
of course, won’t tell
The absence of these men from the whether it will rain on the Fourth of
Tornado la Moat Frequent
Diaaater; Cauaea Heavy
Loaa of Livea
What type of disaster occurs most
frequently in the United States?
This question is aiiewered (rom
the relief annals of the American
Hod Cross which show over a period
of years that the tornado, or cyclone
as it is called in eoine sections, Is the
most frequent and claims a heavy
toll of life. It swoops almost with
out warning, and in the terrific
whirlpool of its fierce winds it de
stroys all in its path.
The Red Cross gave relief In 44
tornadoes in eighteen states last
year. The tornadoes killed 32C per
sona, injured 2,755 and the Red
Crosfi gave aid to 21,73& who were
homeless. Injured or otherwise vic
tims of the storms.
July, but I’rofeii.sor Abbot think.s they [thief (3), acres, more or Ids.s, lying
will tell whether it i.s going to be a I between the first parcel and the CaU
good season in the cotton belt or aihoun highway, conveyed to A. Fx.
poor season in the wheat belt^ Spencer Hy George W. Young.
I The two tracts shall be sold sepa-
j ISLANDS—that float irately and then a.s a whole and the
Fldward Armstrong astonished the; highest bid shall_he^ccepted.
wdrld^^ icirgTtTeerfhg^ a few years ago - Ternw-^f—iSaFe* ( auccess-
iwhen he came out with a proposal to ^ul bidder at the sale, upon the lands
(anchor floating islands at intervals being knocked down to him shall de-
I across the Atlantic, to provide landing po^^it five per centum on the amount
platforms, and refueling stations for'”f h*-*’ as evidence of his good
airplanes crossing from continent to faith in the bidding, the same to
continent. applied do the purchase price upon his
, i was pleased to read the other day complying with the terms of the .sale,
that the Government is going to help “fherwise to Iw ^mid to the plaintu
finance the building of an experiment- credit on it.s indebtedness. In t e
al island on the Armstrong plan. If event the succe.ssful bidder should fai
'that stands up and stays in place to mike such deposit, or .should fail
through the Atlantic storms more will t<» comply with the teims ®
be built and it will soon be po.ssible lo the .said lands shall be re-so d on the
carry pasengers, mail and freight in '“^nie or .some subsequent salesday on
.safety across the Western Ocean. the .same terms at the nsk of the de-
' There is sometning to fire the imag faulting purchase., provided, how-
'inarion in dreams like thi.s; .something eyer that no deposit shall
tto stir patriotic pride in their realiV 11 ’ p I .
succe.ssful bidder. Purchaser to pay
I . jfor papers, recording and stamps.
DREAMxS—do come true
Mrs. Warren. Make it out to me.’
“1 gueaa all i need is your ^check, dear young lady. You have acted most
unwisely and with no discernible judg- j many druams come true that I am no
ment. To begin with, you have not,longer astonished at anything, much,
one iota of right to be on the prop-j When I was a boy I was fascinated by
the romance of Jules Verne, who
wrote about such “im|>ossi1jle” things
THOS. W. BENNETT,
In one m.n'x lifeline I have .«,en P- >"<<
ll-3U-3tcB
feeling that she would leam much to
the I her advantage.
erty.”
“I haven’t?”
“You have not.
You have three-
as submarine ships, balloon voyages, |
quarters’ interest in the prdperty if iflying machines and the like. Dread
quarrel about anything. Alfreda and | roadster chatted ceaselessly. Once| Mr. Martip, the lawyer, wad in old-] the will is to be found regular. The'Edward Bellamy’s “Looking Back-
signed it joyfully. ,Ruth asked, “Tell me—what was thejish man, quite scholarly in appear. , entire ranch Is in .sole legal posses-1 ward” in which he imagined the possi-
As it was still raid-morning Will j trouble that day at the barbecue?”
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ance, with gray eyes and a very|sion of the man who was you broth-jhility of listening to music and voices
did not hurry away. He and Ruth satj •'Oh, the fellow in the blue sash? stfafght mouth. Ruth prefaced her reier’s partner. You have no right there! from....A distance, without wires; a ' j
on the running board of the'roadster I He was just drunk. I didn’t inquire marks by stating that she did not care at all. The surviving partner of a i clear vision of the radio. I had a toy i named Charlie Duryea, who had the
talked. * ■ Imuch about the argument. Alfredo^ to tell who she was—^that she simply partnership has entire control of the called a “zootrope” in which a pic-'crazy idea that he could build an #n*
“David and I are going to flag yourjaaid that he was saying unpleasant j wanted some legal advice. Briefly, she partnership property. If you »have turc of a hq^se seemed to gallop when gine to run by gasoline, which would
dad this afternoon and go into town things about the ranch—claimed he told how she had come to be on the made any money during your occupa-|a wheel was turned, and so the movies ^ prqpel a buggy!
with him. I’ve some business to at-1 wanted to see Snavely.” ! ranch. Just what were her rights andjtion of the property. I am not sure | didn’t surprise me. I read about a man
teed to and David wants soine ice
cream. We’re going on a regular
moVie i
spree—they
After seeing ill many impossible
But why?” , I 'iations with her bijother's formeribut you are liable to pro.secution.” jwho thought he could build a machine things acomplished 1 am pi'epared to
“A crazy drunken notion. He told partner? , \' j “But do you mean I’m not a part-(that would talk, long before the believe almost anything. 1 long ago re-
town, Alfredo that he could make Snavely; After looking at her incredulously I j ^ phonograph wa.s invented. And one of fused to lirten to people who said of
walk on hja Mnd* iuid|for-a isr..Afcirtia sighed. “My-
t
* i