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V. “ ' * * * \ THUliSl^T, MAT i 1935 i ■ 1 - '■ ■ ' ' ( ■ ■ ,:■■. ■■ .- •; -r CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. PAGE 8EVm CmtHJL TmTH INSTALLMENT |ftn»ny that ain't th4 imaginary i land stowed his tools. He thought it Synopsis: Young Ed Maitland and native DreVs patrolman’s been P^] strange that the dog should show so A iramKlor Slmxail Ma1rkn<> I '• ' ' . i ..... tthe hard€med gambler, Speed Malone, became partners on the trip north to the Yukon gold fields in '97, when word of the rich ores there first came * i /• i. v i i T. Ai xi.. n * m-:*! j | from the nre. He stole m to unhook slin* over. Did you see him?.” “Just a glimmer wh^'1 got down the Pacific coast. Maitland, son, . of a New England seafaring family,:* P*®^* o* deer meat from the tree.” was determined to win back Kis lost! Maitland had a vague sense that he family fortunes. Frenchy, the fisher-j withholding something. ‘^Xnd man who took him and Speed north; that's the prospector Pete was look- Lucky Rose, beautiful young woman;ing for?” much uneasiness about a still distant ; storm, and wondered if ^ere might “P be, sometfiing else in the seeming^ lifeless air. who had given Maitland a ring for a keepsake; Fallon, trail boss of the miners, who resented Rose’s atten tions to Maitland; Steiner, the money lemier; young P^ and his ^drunken partner. Bill Owens; Brent, old-time prospector; and GameV^a well-to-do modem one who hirecT Maitland and SpeM to haul his stuff from the beach over the piountains to t^ Yukon— these were among the , crowd that made up the gold seekers at Liars- ville, jt camp in the hills. Speed was mad4 trail boss in Fallon's place, be cause Speed insisted on closing the trail till it could be repaired—it was “If you cam figure it.” ' “Why does he wear native furs and moccasins?” “Because no One in the North, I reckon, pays much notice to a Siwash’s trail.” '' - “To cover a gold secret, you mean?” {.The idea Rose had suggested loomed in Maitland’s mind. _ * “I dunno,” Speed pondered. “They’s somethin’ more behind this prospector than it’s likely either of us can fig ure.” “His waiting for Owens here would fit with your conclusion about Pete’s Taking a len^h of rawhide, Mait-| land leashed Che dog in a squaw hitch, j and gave it its bead, curious .to learn { what was troubling it. The dog halt ed nt last on the crest of a long ravine. A lifting shiver ran through the mala- mute’s fur. He gave a trailing deso late howl. Out of the canyon rose a vilely prolonged moan like the tremor of a de^ organ stop; With that breath, in credibly cold, the air came to life. It* was like a gasping e^diilaration from the indraught that had made the void. And now the pall from the West came streaming, in needle points, a flick ahead of the blast. Instantly the moan in the canyon leaped to a snarl ing bellbw, and to a whin^ and-a whis- Qy^jtle and a scrqam from the bending {timber on the cliffs. ’Aroiiiid The Square’ This is the Bulletin of the Retail Merchants’ Association. -A Read it etery week. almost impassable. But the fickle^ crowd veered back to Fallon. Speed * f'ot having gone down the river, and Maitland took a stand 4boye the.how would Pete miss him?” pass to kMp ^ m^mers from break-1 The mysterious man with the mUk-j Maitland, already slanting with the hefn evidently gone in search of wind toward the canyon, was "almost aft^i sayiSg his partner had last they were'swept off his feet. The malamute * ' _ ‘j 1 1 I to hoar of him. Summer must be here . . «new ice cream parlor has opened . *. . on Pitts street. We can say,one thing . . . peo ple haven’t lost all love for trains . . . judging by the crowd braving the fain Sunday to see the new’ addition on -the S. A. L. Mule ^pulling Home Ice Co.’s wagon and driver . . . heading for the bam . . . with no respect for the driver’s plea to “whoa” pr. hi^‘ day’s work only a fourth finished. Hknd that reminds us . . . only one thing wrong 'bout donkey baseball . . . hard to tell the players from the donkeys. Large crowd expected in Clin ton Saturday for the State Track meet ^ . . let’s give them a coaxial and courteous greet ing. ^ ' I Local Lions'Hear District Governor mjm- The Clinton Lions clul^ at their-i regular meeting last Friday evening at Hotel Clinton heard a short address by Charles H. Garrison, of Greenville, district governor. Reports of several | committees were made and arrange ments b®?un for the staging of the annual “ladies night” the middle of {May. ' , , ■ Garrison, who is.a former P*^- byterian college student, referr^ to his college days spent here and said he was always glad to return to Clin ton. Mr. Moffatt, secretary of the Greenville Lions club, accompanied Mr. .Garrison, and responded very happily to his introduction.* Mr. Garrison reviewed the activities and growth of. Lionism, saying that the Lions now hold first rank in berj^hip among all serviea clubs in thqr Unit|ed States. He called .upon tM mend)ers.,of the local poup to maia- tain thei}iigh ideals of the organii** tiion and reminded them that the oidy excuse for ~the existence of such • club was the rendering of ,k worth- w'hile service to humanity. ' SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONlClM ' ‘‘The Paper Everybody Reads** THILCO R^idios & Tubes Smith’s Pharmacy'{ HOMES AND HOME SITES FOR SALE drowned after a drunken brawl, rode — off, but he took a position where hej could fire on the miners when they' {kited before at the end of the leash. But the next day brought an odd In a seething draw at the foot of The lamed and starving th® slope, he caught a momentary tried to rush the pass, and so helped, ^^®y had seen in the timber jk^limpse of the tracks of some,animal Speed. Later Brent, with an'old deer trailed the .scent of the caribou in the I—erased before his eyes by powdered gun, added his help. Just when Speed ; sled. Its following them instead of .'drift. Shortly afterwards, as he came “* • •• •• seemed to be gaining the upper hand, - Fallon called his men with'an exultant, shout. A cavalcade was coming down the traiL (Now Go On With the Story). ■J “Throw up your hands, Bud, quick”, waa Speed’s startling order. Maitland obeyed and both stood with hands in the air. The woods gave back no comment. “Are you bein’ hostile or just cau tious?” Speed asked. “If I was a little more cautious,” a gruff voice spoke with freezing in- Cisiveness out of the dark, “you would n’t be talkin’. Stand over on ^he far side of the fire ai^ keep your eyes this way. Both of ye. * Were those your shots a while back?” With his arms still raised. Speed nodded toward the caribou hide that hung in the fire smoke. “I reckon your dog was trackin’ the same deer?” “Hell,” the man growled, in a weird tone that seemed to expeej^o answer. ^Is that dog still alive^^See any oth er travelers along this route?” “Not around^here . Could tell you better knowed who you was ^atchin’ / Nance Opposes Processing Says'Cotton Control is “Driving J* This Country To Ruin.” Sen ate Kills His Motion, 30 to 4. Columbia, April 2r».—The state sen ate yestenlay morning brought to a close long <k*bate by adopting a reso lution by Senator George K. Laney of C^hqsterfield indor.sing the process ing (tax ami agricultural adju.stment admini.stration, and a _ resolution by Senator' J. W. Hamer of Dillon and Senator Laney urging congress to continue the cotton control program and Bankhead act. The senators adopted the two reso- the man it knew gave a grim color to j^ut of the wallow he saw below him, Speed’s idea about its owner, and the ifiimly. through the blinds air, the effi- cruel necessity to wttich he had beenW » riderless white horse, standing driven. jwith its tail to the wind and its head On the trail the dog kept a cau-jlo^* <; “ tious distance, but it drew closer un- j The malamute’s pull on the line der cover of the darkness when they,carried him on till he staggered[jy^^ons aftVr refusing by a vote of 30 camped. Maitland cut off a strip of against the flank of the white horse to 4 to table the one by Senator I^aney frozen meat and threw it out in thejitself. When he groped to its head {indorsing the processing tax, around snow, at the rim of the firelight. The he had a vague glimpse of Rusty, a strip vanished in a flash of wet fangs.' yt^rd away, standing over a mound in So did several more, without visible the dancing snow, effect of its aloftness, except thst iti ^ foreboding of the truth al ready chilled his heart. He stooped called it longer sfmrled. when it evaded which much of the debate of the two tlays centered. i Senator Caroll D. Nanci of Laurens, one of the largest cotton planters' in SHINGLED BUNGALOW —Wood- row stri^, 6 rooms plus butler's pan try, hall and bath. Heating system. Garage, garden, lawn, shrubbery, trees. Lot 80x160. Now rented sub ject to sale 60 days notice. Price $4,600. SHINGLRD-QUARTZ ROCK BUN GALOW Woodrow street, 8 rooms plds hall, butler's pantry and bath." Heating system, garage, garden, lawn, shrubl>ery, trees. Lot 66x160. Now rented subject to sale 60 days’ notice. Price $4,700. ^ GRANITE RESIDENCE; — Cxrrner WcKhlrow St. and Calvert Ave., 8 rooms plus butler’s palfvtry, Ijalls^ two baths, two stories. Heating system. Lot ap proximately 114x200. Garage, lawn, shrubbery, trees. Best built home in Clinton, Now rented subject to sale 60 days’ notice. Price $9,600. BRICK VENEER COLONIAL HOME — Corner Cedar and Walnut Streets, College View, 6 rooms' plus hall'and bath. HEATING SYSTEM JUST INSTALLED. Lawn, shrubbery. Lot 76x160. Now vacant. Sale price $4,000. TWO-STORY frame DWELLING —Corner Olay and Enterprise streets, near center of city. 9 rooms. Lot ap- no _ Maitland 8 afiproa^. He caueu brushing the snow from the “Rusty”, because of its "liscolored ^ rider with one hand, while he dropped Rusty’s tether from' After a day s log cutting at the other to try and unblind his eyes place they had chosen for a winter stiffened fingers. A murmur of. „ camp. Speed left Maitland to trim of ^ been used “for political p^I•poaes in tho senate, asserted the cotton pro-|^ximateIy 87x108. Now rented sub- cessing tax which the chamber later indorsed was, “driving this country to ruin.” The relief program was attacked by Senator H. K. Cooke of Horry, who charged that federal relief funds had timber, for the ebin, while he tooki„ ^ the team up to Tagish and hauled down the more necessary part of their outfit. It was Pete! He raised the boy’s slight form. Clumsily he lifted the light burden to South Carolina and thei;fe’8 Men graft in it.” V Arguing against a resolution by Senator L^ney of Chesterfield indors They set up the cabin walla, and *"‘*^*** for Rusty’a line, ing the cotton processing ^ax, Sena- whipsawed the softer sprucednto him-! 8one. Tim malamute, her for tho floor .nd flttinK., l.yme '-' ‘''“"e'"' "‘f ..... . . . . .. savage law, and was finding its own aside the best wood to season for the , , ’ * shelter. boat. —From one ravine to another he bat- In the midst of this work they were ^ ^ ^ • , roTrpriio vUit from tor Nance stirred a furore with the blazing Charge that “the senate • of .South Carolina is blindly following J Washingtfffr-rogardless of where in their hearts and minds they think it is leading to.”*~ J ' Aimtiier pause followed before the BMaker said, with an effect of c^hal- JMft, “An oldish, square-built, whisky faced man.” “With a boy?” “Yea . . . with a boy. The man’s name is Owens.” “He’s drowned,” Speed said, with a sidelong flicker at his partner. That left the voice mute for a full minute. “How drowned?” .THe ques-j plained politely, tion had a ^old directness. | “You men have just made a* haul “All we heard was, he lost his put- for Inspector Drew that took you by ] ' ■ ■ - - what seemed a mile. Swaying in the storm, with its ghastly chaos scream ing in his ears, he stopped to mar shall his senses. He was lost. inteiTupted by a mounted patrolman. “My name’s Cathcart,” said the cor- 'po'ral, stiffly. This was their first glimpse of Drew's “new man.” He was a Ull, raw-boned, fresh-colored direction on a mere gam- rookie with frosty eyes, rather^ nar rowly set. “This is an place for a camp.” “We choseJt so we could launch a boat below the rapids,” Maitland ex- ‘ The processing tax, he asserted, is “driving this country to ruin.” '“No farmci" who amounts to any- I thing in South Carolina has made a He dime out of the AAA.” A large planter, Nance Added: “The Fortunately he was prevented people of this state are ” ^ l A • t ^ I * t • A A * ble. out-of-way i He had hardly started when some- tired of being dictated, to through a little hoard of nobodies—I had to stand in line behind a free Nigger to get my ginning tags. Senator Williams of Xikeri termed ^ fit in a game in Skagway. “Who was he gamblin’ with?” Speed described Fallop. “What happened to the kid?” “He trailed over the pass ahead of us. We don’t know where he went.” “There wouldn’t be a woman with Owens ?”- “Not with him. There was a pret ty, dark-haired girl in Skagway who looked sort of interested.” . This was ignored. “I mean an_oI- der woman.” —' “No.” ' During a suspended interval Sp^ stood motionless as stonb. vThe voice epoke at last with a queer note of deliberation. “I needed that deer meat bad. ... It may be lucky you seen me, and itjnay be along ways'from it, for you and me both—:;How good is your memory?” “Feeble,”^ said Speed. . —^ I "How do I know it?” “All I can say ist we can imagine a maa’s maybe havin’ a good reason . for leavin’ a sketchy trail. If I didn’t figure yon for. a friend of Pete’s I'd take a chance of reachin’ for a gun even now. But if you, are, yon can bank we’ve never seen or heard you.” “Sta'nd where you are,” tiie voice said roughly, “for five minutes. I don’t need to tell ye what’ll happen if yon make a move to trace me.” The quiet seemed to be absolute. Not a twig snapped; Maitland coaM not even detect the stirring of a spruce .^^leedle. But Speed’s eyes almost im- pe;rcep<^bly traced a course through thb shadows to the tree where they had cached the meat. He allowed a tactful space to elapse before he lowered bis arms. Then he went over to the tree where he'had bung the meat Their ominous visitor had,, gone, taking with him an even half of the deer. “I’m i way of Lake Lcbarge,” said Cathcart. I Did you see anything between here ^®®^ pushed through the welter with- -■* »-2- 1 1 a.L. 4 and Thirty Mile of a lo^ Siwash on eye. nerrowed . little in'"'*'" ■'» Ple.t- ered and pa^ed by‘the driving scud. Unable to trust his fingers, he thing dark wisped by him, like a frag- i ment of tumbling storm wrack; the sight of it stung his blood into sharp- Nance’s attitude “a hangover from the er life and halted him. It appeared .depression” and likened the economic again, and his heai^ leaped with a i urgency for “following Roosevelt” to ^eat thankfulness as Rusty’s wolfish!the religious need for “following Christ.” , Senator Harry.R. Hughs of Oconee in reach of his hand. The malamute declared that he “sincerely” hoped ject to sale 30 days’ notice. Price $3,^0. FRAME COTTAGE —Corner Clay and Enterprise streets, near center of city. 4 rooms. Ixxt 65x118. Now rented subject to sale 30 days’ notice. Price $1,800. FRAME DWELUNG — Corner E. Carolina Ave. and Clay St., near cen ter of city. One story. 6 rooms. Gar den. Lot approximately 100x125. Ex cellent business lo;t. Now rented sub ject to sale 30 days’ notice. Price $4,100. FRAME BUNGAIX)W—Florida St. 6 rooms. Garden, lawn. Ix>t 66x157 Now rented subject to sale 60 days’ notice. Price43,r)00. FRAME BUNGALOW—Corner Cal vert ‘Ave. and Jones St., near College. 6 rooms plus bath and hall, cement bakement. Barn, lawn, trees. I/ot ap proximately 98x105. Now rented sub ject to sale 60 days’ notice. Price 13,300. FRAME BUNGALOW —Jones St., near College. 6 rooms and Lath, heat ing system. Lawn, shrubbery and ti^^. Lot 60x130. Now Tente<l subject to sale GO days’ notice. Price $.T,600. BUSINESS LOT—Pickens and En terprise Sts., one block from center of city. Wall privilege on one side. Size approximately 130x24. Price $800. BUSINESS OR RESIDENTIAL LOTS—Bounded Jsy Clay, Enterprise, their turn. “No,” he sai^. The patrolman Icmked quickly around their camp. “Let me see your guns.” ^ ^ He examined Speed’s and handed them back; then picked up the car bine was peering up at him through rimed { . , ... , ,,, .. . , . , . 1 that the senator from Laurens stands alone in his vehement charges against national politics.”"^ He d€clare<l, how- wound the line round his arm. The rest lay with the dog; and Rusty’s first move turned him from the course he had almost taken. Within a few minutes thgy were in the river can- After “This gun’s been used recently,” he y®”' Alter a timeless struggle up that roaring gut, they brought up •aid. " • “ (1 “We shot a caribou down on Lake Lebarge,” 8ai<L Speed.l “Maybe you saw the blood dust.” The patrolman seemed^iscounte- nanced for a moment. *‘All right,” he said abruptly, and took his d^'par- ture. ^against the cabin roof. Wooilro’w and Florida Streets, Partial ly excavate^), size 214 acres. One block from business section. Price .$4,900. ' ; ever, that wisdom of further levying^ BUSINESS OR RESIDENTIAL the processing tax waa a “controver- HOME SITE-^alvert Ave., facing South, one block from College. Trees. Size 97x167. Price $500. HOME SITE — Fifth Ave. Across street from College Campus, facing North. > Trees. Size 70x188.9. Price $500. HOME SITE — Walnut St. College ' View. 76 feet West of Hickory, facing North. Planted with hedge. Size 7.6x150. Price $600. HOME'^SITE—Chestnut St., College View, 150 feet North of Walnut. Fac ing West. Size 75x160. Price $460. HOME SITES—Corner Maple and- Cedar Sts., College View—3 lots. 7.6x1,')lL™35xl50, an<f 7.5x150. Facing North and West. Prices $500, $660, and $600, respectively. HOME SITES—'he Woods, College View, facing North, East and S6uth, on Young Drive, Maple, Cedar and Hickory Streets. Fartially wooded, eizes varying. Price ranges $250 to $800. FRAME COTTAGE —125 W. Main St. 5 rooms and / bath. Lot 78x198, Now rented subject to sale 30 days* notice. Price $2,250, TWO-STORY FRAME DWELLING —^Arrangeii for two families. 77-Miib- grove St. 9 rooms. Lot approximately 64x150. Now rented subject to sale 30 days’ notice. Price $3,800. ' FRAME HOUSE—Oak^t^eet near Ice Plant, for colored pepole, 4 rooma, divided for two families. Lot 70x100. Now rented subject to sale. Price $1200. , I ■ FRAME HOUSE—Oak Strkt near Ice Plant, for colored people. 4 rooms, divided for'two families. Lot 70x60. Now rent^Si subject to sale. Price $1100. • BRICK STORE BUILDING — Oak Street,near Ice Plant, 16.6x.36.6, with frame story; contains three liv- ing rooma. Shed addition 11x36.6, _iQt_ 7T)xl5ir. TTbw rented subject to sale. $1,000. FRAME DWELLING-3F>r colored people. Livingston Sitreet. 6 rooms. Lot approximately 62x211. Now rent ed subject to sale. Price $1,100. LOT—Near Ice Plant. Size 70x100. Price $200, Al.so lots on Oak Street, neat Ice Plant. Any size to suit purchaser. Prices upon application, from $200 up. HOME SITE —Corner Walnut and Cedar Sts. College View. Facing South, Size 75x200. Price $600. BUSINESS l/yr — Enterprise St. Mtween Pickens and Clay, facing' North. Size approximately 50x110.* j Price $700. ^ Above properties on easy terms if desired. For details or inspection see or phone— WM. P. JACOBS Phones 49 or 222 sal issue” and that he . believed the matter should be left with those in Washington who have all information available, and let them Work out the matter as they consider beat, 'The roJI calLpn rejecting a motion by Senator Natwe to strike out thef, resolving words of the cotton pro Careful still of his burden, he slid {cessing tax resolution follows; down~tHfough the drift that smoked arouhd the door, and stumbled inside. He slid tfy the floor besid^the low bunk and placed Pete into it. He slipped a tarpaulin under the lifeless,! Siwasb,” Speed muttered The two partners stared after him, j "Sure and scooped a bucketful of and then exchanged a long unsmiling Is®®^ from the drift. Without know- look. ‘ ji®*’ whether raw whiskey was the “Where’s the dog;^” asked * Speed., medicine, he forced a spoonful But Rusty seemed to have' vanished between the white teeth, praying that at the first sccht of the patrolman. , jit was. To remove the riding boots, . jhe slit the leather dowh the seams. A deathly stillness of cold amber He cut through every tight garment crystalled the. White Horse river,*® order to save time, canyon. “ , ' | sight of the form he revealed. It was early in April. With thej® murmur of complete astonishment first lengthening of daylight a fe^j fell from him. The adolescence of the weeks before, Maitland had started »!im, virginal figure had concealed the building the-boat, w^ich was now al- strange fact that Pete was a girl! most finished. Speed had bben called Amazed as he was, his hands did to Tagish by .some m'essage from oo$ pmise. Covering her with snow, Dnw. ■ i*® robbed the snow crystals against Today a pale and furtive sun. had her flesh, with a cold fear in his heart riseti high enough'to send some ob- hat he was too late, lique rays into the canyon. But^ thej * Continued next week delicate harbinger had perished at I* birth. In the western sky, a strangely ~ hued pall of vapor wa» stifling* thi son 'gleams. ' .From a bank above him, the mute, Busty, gave a low' whine and nosed the wind with a faint bristling of his guard for. Warned by its nervousness, Mait- -Ayea (to strike out) (4): Senators Dorn, Lightsey, Nance and 'Purdy. Nays (30): Senators Brasington, Brown, Chapman, Dennis, Epp.s, Fai- rey. Folk, (^iffith, Hamer, Hines, Hughs, Jefferies, Lancaster, Laney, Lide, Lyles, Mars, McCall, McEachin, Nicholson, Parler, Parris, Pruitt, Shu ler, Sim.^, Stukes, Thurmond, Ward, John F. Williams and Wise.**^ W)T — Clay Street, one b4ock from business section, facing East. Size ap proximately 75x125. Price $700. HOME SITE—Florida Street, fac- mK.N®rtht. Esst-of So. Owens.Street. Trees. Size 60xl57Mi. Price $600. or JOHN P. NORRIS Phone 238, office of Jacobs & Co. CLINTON, S. C. Watch This Space'For Further Announcements. Repairs and Parts Radios* • Ranges Irons* F^dio l^change nioae U YOUNG MINISTER ORDAINED William M. Blakely, .son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F, Blakely of this city, an Erskine .seminary rtudent, was or dained and license<l as a minister dur ing the past week" by the Second Pres bytery which met in Greenwood. Mr. Blakely has been offered the pastor ate of the Associate Reformed Pres byterian church art; Bessemer City, N. C. - Calhoun Ser. Station W. J. Benjamin STANDARD PRODUCTS Corner Broad and Centennial Streets Everything In - p.OW'ERS Clint^ Flowm’Shop Member 1.P, T. D. \ -n- ' ‘ I ■ - . s. ■ W •l- V .... Phone 33 Notice To Public! We are pleased to announce we now have William J. (Bill) Henry to represent us in Clinton as salesman for the new V-8 Ford and all makes of used cars. W'e are now working out from Purol Pep Station and will in the near future have our show room erected there. He and we will appreciate your calling around to see him. 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