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■ 'V , A N CRRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. '■ I 7ri^;rvrv',f»>wtFmfgfa '"I- ■'- ■. ■ }^ ‘-7, ■■ ' K ‘f sEvni South Cfu'olipiia Got !■ Four InsUllmeuts ' 14a«inted wi^ Rd^e jhe took such «n Synopsis: Jimmy Rowan was hope-1inter^t in Friday cteek that he spent lessly in love with Rose Morris, the jail of his time there. \ i>retti«Bt prl in Dovhr, Michigan. Of This Hayward was a fine-looking, coarse, that was years ago, in early upstanding youth and he undoubtedly school dayd . . . but it was hopeless i had a ,way with him. But his way wi^h for Jimmy becituse Iw was just ^‘that) women was more agreeable than his The men eyed each other. Very quietly Jim said: “So! You’re just spoiling for troiri)le, aren’t you?’’ . “With-you, yes.’’ ^‘J^m sorry, but I can’t oblige you tonighV’’ ' man who planned the federal city, con ceived it as the most behutiful city in the world. It seems more beautiful every time I visit it—and.I’v^knewn Washington since 1881.** In another fifty yearn there will be nothing to This Amount Received State compire wi,th it for^uty L jjg Thirty Mofttlte of The supreme court moved into theP j ■ cij * ; most beautiful of all Washin^onf* Aid. ' ^ ^ buildings recently.' It is built aU of white marble.. Outside, Vermont mar-1 Washington, Nov. 19. —^Thirty ble, corridors ^f Alabama marble; in-j months of direct federal relief-to terior courts <rf Georgia marble.Hoorsj South Carolina —one of the latest of Jt.Ii.1., Spanish and AfricanI ^y^ •'dole-’-coat . Everything about the building is fceshly new and gleaming, except the justices’ .chairs. They sit in the . old, the capita more than $20 for state’s 1,800,000 population. *> ! South Oaroliha was checked from Ha! Nor any other night. I’ve 7t propos^^'^bolFERA list because of the la^ Rowan kid,’’ desperately poor, while | way with naen; towards Jim Rowan, romething else about y^f Ayy _ chair for Justice Cardoro i ^ persons who are finding Rose’s family was rich. While Jimmy for instance, he displayed the same Ro’hran. You havent the guts of a|, . ’ ioba ia the iw>vemT«pnt’« new works was working his way through college, air of contemptuous superiority that Rose Morris moved away and the home, he reserved for his employees. sold for barely enough to pay the mortgage . . . Jimmy vowed to him self he’d get rich . . . uul find RoseT Easier vowed than done and years passed before, Jim Rowan finally landed in the Klondike . . . there.^^ gain wide reputation as a gambler, known as “The Michigan Kid.’* On his way out at Nome, Rowan came upon a meeting of Michigan folks scheduled so he attended. There he came upon Hiram Morris, old, worn and hungry. Morris, with his daughter Rose, is prospecting a claim. Rowan hires as helper and goes out to the claim, ordering supplies sent. From Rose he learns of the father’s strug gle. (NowjGo On With the Story). euine. pig.." H.yw.rd taul lowered'“>* '‘’“if hi., voice during thi. colloquy. Tho« people in the rear of thrroom hadi^" heard most of what he said, and theyj were looking on now in mingled curi-' TENANTS — Everywhere^ Miiy ■■i;S"tpp«hehsion.‘"Ti^'l™l^'! ‘he multitude of govern- j hall girl who had pointed out ment buildings, there i.n t room for all' whispered excitedly to her corppan- ions. . THIRD INSTALLMENT Row'an opened his lips to speak, then closed them. “You see?’’ The girl laid her hand upon his arm. “.Poor 'Don Quixote! * Won't you ^ink better of it and^ go out to God’s coijmtry? You’ve earned it, Jim, and you’ll find your opportu nity there. Father is enthusiastic, he really.^ believes in this claim Rose liked him, however — perha|>s that was the real roason why Jim' did not. In any event, fthe two men wei« so different in character that a clash was inevitable. Jim had made it a practice n^er to ^ ’irito fo^’ for fear of reco^mi- tidn, hence it 'was Hiram who made the weekly trips for mail an'd for the necessary purchases. One day while he was in town it began to snow and dur ing the afternoon this snow turned to rain and sleet. The old man returned about dark, quite w'et and chilly. He was a long while getting warmed through and later in the evening he complained of feeling badly and went to bed. j Jim was awakened during the night by a knock on his door. It .was Rose. In a lone that instantly brought him i^Th'c Tomcn rt^lirpilnr lie'da'.hod i "" ““1“' jobs iiv the government’s new works relief program. The total employed by emergency programs on Nov. 9, th^ latest day for which statistics are available here, was 30,084, including 14,880 on works progress payrolls. “Funny what a fool a man can make of himself,’’ Jim told the young fore man.- “Some, day you’ll realize how badly up agalpst it a fellow- can get without knowing it.” “Bah! You rat! There’s only one treat Hayward raised hia open hand to slap this object of con tempt, but the blow did not descend; he did not finish his sentence, for sud- the new federal offices. Uaele Sam is the biggest tenant in Washington. Af ter taking all the available office space in town, public offices are spreading out into hotels, apartments and private houses. Some of the "temporary” buildings put up during the World war are still in use by federal offices. Ujcle Sam is •WashThi^on’s largS’st taxpayer. He pays half the cost of running the Dis trict of Columbia. In ivturn for the federal government’s assumption of Hatton Joins Clinton Motor ■ J- (r Santa’s-Toyland—«1 ways ii place of interest to the little folks "as theig mihds turn toward Christmas and th* hanging up o'f stockings—^will open tonight at-eight o’clock at B^’s De* partmtfftt btoro'and the J. C. Penney company. An announcement -froak these concerns appearing in today's paper invites the ciiildren and their parents to be present this ev«nin^ for the opening events. denly his .face w-as deluged by the... ^ i *1. blindinir, scalding cmiU-nts of Jim'a'*'’' coffee cup. With an exclamation he reeled backward, almost intp the arms 'trict, 60 years ago, gave up their right to vote on U>cal affairs. If they J. K. Hatton, well-known local au tomobile salesman, is now connected with the Clinton Motor company m their sales department. Mr, Hatton! bears the dtstthctldh in point of ser vice of being the oldest automobile “man” in the county and in his new connection w-ill be glad to greet and serve lys friends. Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ••• and ••• EMBALMEI^ Ambulance Service '^Phones 41 and S99-J L. RUSSELL JGRAY 4uid V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgra. IN REMEMBRANCE^ In sad but loving remembrance of my dear mother, Mrs. Martha Sue Hamm, who left me one year ago, the; 2.7th of this month. A hajipy home I once enjoyed, How sweet that meniory still. know it's no good, and, besides, unlucky. Everything has gone badly i nanza camp,” he told the girl, “be- since we lost our money back there in cause I won’t be able to get back be- Dover. He’s a feeble old mam and dis appointment has made him almost childish. All he has left is that con viction that some day he’ll ‘land in the pay.’ There are hundreds like him.” ^ “And what would you do?” Rowai^ inquired. Wearily Rose shrugged. “Wbat I have always done—remain at his side. to his feet she told him that her fath-; the liquid from his face; with his'i'""'’’ er was ill and that she was frightened, i ^ve he wiped his eyes, clea^edl‘'"’^’""■^"• Throwing on his clothes, he hurried to I them; he gathered himself to fush, ' A the larger caibin. Hiram was burning j the figuro still .sitting motion- , ^ HOUMNC. - 1 roblem - up with fever; he ewghed almost con-j ,^^,3 the high stool. But oaie of' J the housing tinuously; he was in pain. Jinv an-1 the girls flung herself upon . him 't know of any. ^ut your death has left a vacant place That none in this world can fill. No one knows my longing, And ft w have seen ihe wt*ep— I shed my tears with aching heart While others are asles‘p. -■ ■ V Rest on, dear Mother, " V Thy w'illing hands will toilAno more, A faithful' mother both true and kind, A better mother you cauld never find. —LI DIE-HITT. ai«tic, he nounced »t once that he would Ro for him, and in a im, but Va d^tor. , , ■ , „ 1 voice hiRh-pitehetl, vibrant with warn- ides, were! “I’ll send somebody up from the Bo- rried- employees have lu'en-trying to fore morning.” Rose turned eyes dark with appre hension upon him. “He’s very ill, isn’t he? He woke me up muttering. Hear him-- It’s all about ‘landing in the pay.’ ” “I’m afraid he-’s a pretty skk man. There’s a medicine case fJomewhere among my things. Look until you find ing, she cried: “Don’t touch him, Hayw-ard! He’ll kill you! God, man, that’s ‘The Michi gan Kid.’ ” Hayward’s struggle died suddenly. It became still-born. Into his purple face crept a look of astonishment, then incredulity. (Concluded Next Week). I love him. He gave -me everything j it. And don’t allow yourself to beepme i w'hen he had it to give. I’m the staff | panicky. Be a brave girl, Rose.” He^ ,he leans upon and without me he’d,laid a hand upon Rose’s shoulder—it| *fall. We can get along, Jim.” ‘ *' “How?” was the first time he had ever touched I her except by inadvertenceT—and there T was ufferod a job waiting on I was such sympathy, such comfort in] TOIMY crowd into the city in the past two years. There'just isn^room for them. I heaixi of one landlord who had 146 applications on file- for his next vacancy. Another built a 59-family apartment house and rented every apartment from the plans before the foundations were in! Rents are down almost everywhere else,* but hot in Washington,- ; | One result has been the spilling of populationaw-ay out into the Maryland * suburbs and across the Potomac into the beautiful Virginia hills. I met one 'federal official who “commutes” to Washington every day from his home 'in Baltimore, forty miles distant. 1. THE^vA^"’” HAPPY MEDIUM Many persons are either— Over-insured or Under-insured Our experience can aid you in finding: the happy medium' wher'e your insur ance is just right. - Consult us today. No obli gation, of course. H. D. Henry & Company INSURANCE CLINTON, - - S. C. fkANK Parker SUXKli»(ID<3t WASHINGTON --^Distance Many years ago someone his gesture that tears wet her lashes. “Oh, Jim!” she cried. “You^fe a dear. I don’t know w'hat I’^do with out you.” Young Hayward waa in Nome, but Jim got one of the Bonanza men to go, to Rose's assi.st^nce and also he l^r-i rowed a hors^Tor himself. It was notj Many years ago someone dalled many miles" to town, but it was a I Washington “the city of magniment wretched night and he was glad when | distances,” and the appelation has the ariimal wallo'wi^”out of the icy'stuck. I was again reminded of it’last mud and he ^elt the plank pavementr^eek, when on a trip to the uat ion’s i everybody is forced to .^lute the Nazi under itsTTeet. The first doctor- hiS^capital I had to call at a dozen or more]emblem, but you can’t make me believe they all mean it. If I could teaijh every child what our flag really means, the first thing I would try to make them understand is that it (ioea-Aot stand and nejvcr has stood for compulsion,-even compul.sion to j^alute it. If Old Glory means any thing, it means—to me at least—the table at the Bonanza The man uttered an exclamation. Roughly he said, “I’d sooner see you in a dance hall.” “I could even get married—” Rose smiled faintly. Jim’s hands twitched, but his facel was impassive as he said: “No. I’m goings t<mt»ck. I made“a few dollars in i>awafliL and I left there looking- for one more chance—one big chance to win_ or^ lose, make or break. 1 play hunches, and when your father offered to go fifty-fifty with me I had a found was ill; another had been called'federal offices. hunch [that my number Was due. Have to Fort Davis; the third was engaged' Washington is more like the gr<»ai you ever heard of‘Michigan’s luck?’ ” on a confinement case, but promised.European qities than any other AmeV' “Yes, of course. Aladdip’s lamp, too, 1 to accompany Jim in perhaps two I ican municipality. Its growth has been but I never expect to have either.” hours. There was nothing to do but horizontal instead, of vertical. About “Who knows? I have a feeling that wait. |the tallest building in the city is t'jc your troubles ar^ over and that your Jim was wet and cold. He stabled j National Press club, and that is only FI.AG — The Salute I read in the papers the other day that a Boston schoolboy had been dis ciplined for failing to salute the flag. Somehow, I don’t feel that compulsion is the best way to jnstil patriotism. Saluting the flag is no evidence of how anybody really feel.s, It is a mean ingless gesture unle.s.s it comes from the heart. In Germany under Hitler his horse, returned to the main street, and entered the first satobh he came to. Jt was late; there was nobody at 13 stories. Most of the government father is really^ going to Jand^ in the pay. Let’s hbpe so, anyhow. I beFieve in hoping for things until you^ get tbem,-’^ X was in thia manner that Jim Rowan became a miner, a pick-an^ .shovel man. He put up a «sbm fori himself and he did his own cooking a thing any man abhors. Although he There was a stk^ at the end of the and Hiram began to prospect the plkce where, in the earlier.hours ofj It occurred to me that one of the-^ claim, it was Jim who did most of the the night, a vaudeville show wa.s giv-j reasons why government business Wtudl work.'His flabby muscles re- cn, and at the piano were gathered; takes so long to transact may be the belled, at first; blisters grew upon his! several weary women of the dance-j time' and energy wasted in getting white palms; they burst, then turned j hall type. One of them .saw Jim and|from one office to another. Washing- into callouses. Slowly, painfully he j spoke tocher companions, whereupon | ton is not geared up to speed and hardened himself. It was an ordeal, they turned and sUred curiously at j efficiency. but as his body grew strong so did his! his back. ^ building^ are under six stories high, 'complete.st liberty of every individual It is not at all uncommon to have under it to believe and behave as he the bar, but some of the games were I to travel three or four miles, or farth^-pkases, .so long as he doesn’t try to still running and there were a fewler, to get from one government build- interfere with other people’s beliefs fjgures at Uie lunch counter in thejing to and in the course of a [and tiehavior. rear. Thither Jini ma3e his way in day around federal offices the visitor ' search of a cup qf'^offee. has to walk along literally miles pf corridors. determination to win the love of Rose Morris. Every day he had to fight the de sire to voice his love, but the better he came to know Rose, the more fear ful he beeame that somehow the grave of the Michigan Kid would be disturb- ~ed and that she would behold the skel- ton it concealed—^grass was slow in growing over it—hence he showed his devotion only in the things he did. Auutmn came and Jim put into ef fect a plan he had worked out. He “salted” the pannings frota Jtheir ground just enongh to make a show ing, this being necessary to.^ his echeme; then he interested a purchas er into buying the claim. He instruct ed the man to offer twMty thousand dollars for it, supposing, of course, that Mr. Morris would leap at the chance to sell. flut this was the ftrst gold ths oW man had ever, found and those yellow flakes strengthened his senile convic tion that the property was rich. He refused the offer. He refused again Young Hayward rose from the faro table and approached the lunch coun ter. He had been drinking some and losing considerably. There was an un-i pleasant curl to his lips. | JLim-Jiad hitched himself upon one^ of ..the high stools; ^ had raised his mug to drink when ^ayward pushed it away from his lips and called to the white-aproned waiter, saying: “Here! Give this fellow a square meaH^^t the same time he crashed a twenty-dollar gold piece upon the counter. “Thanks,” said Jlml “I’m not hun gry.” - “Ham and eggs for a friend of mine,” Hayward cried. “And give him the change.” Jim eyed the speaker coldly, as if from behind a mask, but he appeared to take no notice <xf the tone ELayward had used. Still in an even voice he said: “Nice of you. I’ve seen t3ie time I’d take it.” He lifted hie cup for a' sec ond tMM; again Hayward took* his BEAUTY — In Marble Major L’Enfant, the brilliant French- I : t:xtn a a ^ . •».p OIL A. Tbs AnMitpffc Scalp Medlclse* frM'«reiA«ry H«lr T*«kt — «0e i II. Kil IT WORKI At AM OrugfllOi WrtI* «ir RRIf SmCM "TIm Tr*tti Abrtft TiM Nalr." NaltMsI R«««4y C«.. Nm Y*rk again, even whwi Jim’s man rais- wrist. ed tltt bid to forty thoqpand d<^lars. .Be‘^ more than refuse; he boasted about the offer in town and said ‘he had struck regular “ ‘Michigan’s taKk.” Tl^ caueed quite a flurry of esuateiMnt amf reluctantly Jim was ioreed.to call off hU bidder,._ Jim’s effort had im effect other Hmn he had expected; a forty-thoiu- aad-dollar offer for a wild-cat claim <m Friday creek centered interest there, and promptly the Bonanza eeowd sent an ootHt over and began work on some property they owned below (dd Hiram’s. ' This outfit was in charge of a jmmg felkiw hr tbs Mpw Hay ward, and once be hadi become ac- ♦ Look here. Rowan. I’ve been want ing to ask you something. It’s about that offer for old man Blorris’ claim. Do you know what I think?” “I don’t believe you’re capaUe of thinking, right now. 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