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.’IKV : -T-J- ;v^ ■“} - ■•r Y - '] 1 THPlRSDAY, JUNE' 4, 19S6 THE CUNtOW crttOWlCLB. CUKTON. S. C ~r" =t \ \ \ \ >«i REX BEAC-H 3: 5 7 forirot herself and her .(rsni coniienu sufficiently to say: / “Jerry, dear, we owe everything: to this child. She did as much for me as for you. And 7*^ she wants to run away! If you can forgive me for what I’ve done you ~^n surely lorfive her.” ■ . V . ‘^But he has h<nothin|^ to forgive,” ^libbed the girl. “That’s just It. You don’t' Understand. Nobody under stands. If I were guilty I’d deserve punishment but I’m not. They called me a scarlet woman; they preached Washington, June 1.—The majori ty leaders in congress are trying to serrnons about nie; they lied things up so as to adjourn by sla^ered-and they didnV give me^ju^g g ^he only ^o pieces of leg- a chance to defend myself. Even old i^i^tion which are labelled “must” Jacob believed—! tj,e new tax bill and the relief ap- FINAL INSTALLMENT ther face.in her trembling hands, for « Ethri^ Synopsis: Amos Ett^dge is found muj^red in a country lane with g crude cross oi twigs on hib^reast and a scented sheet of note pi^r in his pocket. He was the richest m: state, with power and influence to make himself a candidate for ernor. With his death came hints now she understood. To think that even he believed Her guilty! • The others were’ slower, but they, j too, finallygrasped what, it was the pgh, old doorman wasi*trying to tell them. They shot questions at him; they ribbled down his answers. Some one an unsavory, private life, of scandal, ... . th»t m>(bt «»» »o li«ht if Ui. «>e tetephon. »nd put m * der is investigated too closely. Mary 1 call fO|*- Vogel. Mary Holmes strained Holmes, a formed opera singer whose her lips^were moving, her eyes w*re Jerry’s voice rose above her heart- hr'bl^ryls^Jtrto^mor™^ of them, words quieted her, “I never believed fcareer was wrecked at the birth of hw son, called “the gooee woman” by newspaper reporters, lives nearest the aecne of the^erime'nn a iiva. »iya hi\mw lu^t «tv& yvc.a'w forward, clutchingxtt Jacob’s arm; ^lutchi riveted upon^is face> \- Strippgi convinw other people, but garbled Biblical it. Why, if I had doiibted you, for an instant, I don’t think I’d have had the courage to' endure what I went through.” ^ / “Honestly?” / 1 The young man nodd^. ' In ^a strange voice the girl criWi . ‘Then you’ve got to hear the real truth. Mr. Ethridge may have been a bad man, but he was good to me. Perhaps he had—ideas about me at first. I dare say he had, but he learn ed tp know he and” to respect me. He said he loved me; anyhow he ask ed me to marry hhn, and I can show Tl^ outlook now is that the measure as it finally gets on^ the statute books will amount to a net increase in corporation taxes of from 7 to 10 per-cent. Not many members of either house will understand clear ly judt what the effect of the new law will be, knd considerable doubt will be expressed as to whether it will raise the necessary additional revenue. However, it will be a stop gap which may reduce the amount which the government will have to farm where she ekes out a poor living and tries to find in drink the forget fulness of past glories when aha ikas Maria di Nardi, world-renowned op era singer. . . . Gerald Holmes, a tal ented young artist, is hated and toved rights of trackUnd industrial)associ ations to cooperate' voluntarily for the mutual tfgulation of ^uch qiiesf tions as hours and wages of. labor, apportionment of production, etc. ^ An. example has b^en provided In the recent action of the railroads in getting together and reaching an agreement with their employees, in anticipatibn of the consolidation of all the railroads of the» nation into a few great national systems', This con solidation has been the dream of far- .aeeing railroad men for years, and has been the particular hobby of Jo seph'C. Eastman, federal coordinator of railroads. I The Rail Problem . -Tlxe- jirincipal obstacW4n.-tho way of dhe acceptance/of Mr. Eastman^ plan of railroad consolidations has been the problem of how to. take care of the railroad employees who i^uld be dropped from the payrolls, or shifted to other parts of the country. The plan upo^ which ,the railroad compahies and the railway labor brotherhoods i-have agreed provides for pensioning, or else continuing for a long time on the payrolls of work ers whose services would not be need ed and for covering the hioving ex penses of those retained who would ,BOLAND PROMOTED PAGE sEvrar /- i Prtendff to the ctty^ and elte^P&srfr of'J. D. Boland Will be interested to know that he has been promoted ^ tlto Columbia, Newberry^k Lauran^ rellroad company from the positioii. of traveling^freight agent to that of comihercial agent. Mr. Boland ha* been connected ^^th this companjr for the past fifteetx years and is on# i efflcu of its popular and efflcient officials. INSURANCE We offer expert service aii4 proteettoii. Aceiti for some of the strongest Fire Insurance Companies In America. REAL ESTATE To^ and jcoontry prop* erty. Prices attractive. borrow to carry over the next fiscal I ^ shifted to points remote from their I present homes. No new legislation . Relief and How simple and easy td^fbllow, apd it be^ spoke a mind* deran^d but not wholly unhinged—^the mind of a reli gious fanatic. Not one oz4u8 hearers doubted the truth of his wor^ He loved Hazel and Ke hra mid- by his mother who is embittered be-1 trusted Ethridge; he had move cause his birth caused the loss pf her, to her house in order to watch o\ you know he wasn’t the sort of man to marry a girl he couldn’t respect. You know that don’t you?" “Yes. But even if it had been— otherwise, it wouldn’t have made any great difference so long as you had learned to truly care for me. You r was needed to arrive at this agree ment? ^0”^tbe=^wwy= now pretty well cleared toward a complete reorganization of the railways of the The relief appropriation has been complicated by the desire of many in fluential leaders in both houses prescribe how, future relief money] Pre-Convention Tqlk shall be spent and by whom. Secre- The political picture, which still tary Ickes would like to have the j focuses chiefly upon the Republican . j , , . taught me something about charity. voice and, wrecked her operatic ca- her. What he saw had awakened nothing mat te another of Amos Ethridge’s prote-1 it until gee. Hazel Woode, lovely and brilliant young actress. She has been helped to success'by Ethridge. She lives in a small cottage owned by Ethridge. Jacob Riggs, eccentric old-time actor, now a doorman at the theatre where Hazel Woods plays, has appointed hknself her guarrdian and lives in a room over :her garage. (Nbw Go On Wth the Story). V^pi ration came reading. He was Jacob, and Jacob, spending of it, and Mr. Ickes has worked himself into a, very power ful political position. Inside the administration, however, National convention which meets at Cleveland next week, appears to be getting clearer. All of the signs point now to the nomination of Governor mSTd’whmtT about really ahere is forming an anti-Ickes “bloc," j Alfred M. Undon by the Republicans Clinton Realty & Insurance Co. B. H. BOYj), Agent There wM a chorus of assdht'and Mrs. Holmes read is. the faces before her a unanimity of opinion that dis mayed her. \ _ “But I’ll swear to i^ she faltered. HYou’ve sworn to bneTSbfy— Dimly the woman realized that the promptings of that mother love which had finally assumed shape within her, instead of saving her son had merely served to completely discredit her, and if anything to lessen her chance of assisting him. Again she experienced that wretched feeling of impotence, of frustration. With this feeHng the anthwr to hirTsnmrto life, blazed into fury. * “You—you fools! You idiots!” she stammered shrilly. “You’re doing your best to make a Murdereu of me. And sq is Vogel. But you shan’t.! e’s my boy! I’m a bad woman. I've be^n a bad mother to him, but he’s fine and clean and—you shan’t hurt him. He’s a genius; he has my talents and his father’s. It’s not his fault, that Tro a val^ selfish old— He didn’t send me to the dogs! Publish my story, every i^rd of it! H’you hear? so he read, slew the son of Hamor for the same sin” that Ethridge had done. As a mark of approval, God had re vealed himself to the slayer and had made him great. Once the doorman had realized that this was a divine command, peace came to his soul and he calmly prepared to obey. He bought a revolver—Jacob told where and when—and on the Thursday night Etliridge had called on Hazel he took the trolley, rode to the end of the line, and laid in wait at a spot where noth ing ^ould intervene to prevent him from doing the will of God. But he wore no robe and no disguise. -When ha had killed Ethridge-he laid o^ crossi upon the body and prayed over it, then he trudged all the way back to Mrs.XHohne^ nodded vigorously, j ently, a situation may develop in mates of his strength made by sev- “<jO0d bW Jer^! .I’m glad you’re a which neither Mr. Ickes nor his chief jeral different experienced political man! She*s^a dear, foolish girl. She rival, Harry Hopkins, federal relief «(trategists are in substantial agree* thinks she dughn’t to marry you—i afraid she can^ive this down. But, pshaw! Young ^ople like you can live anything down>. The world for gets. It forgot Maril^di Nardhand it will forget the girl in\he EthHdge Maybe it will even forget the case. administrator, will have the final syr.^ The talk is that Jesse Jones, cfiair-^ man of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, has been picked by the president to be the boss of both Mr. Ickes and Mr. Hopkins^in all future public works, relief and other emer- •goose woman,' if she behavos^^self/i^ency spendings. She’s going to behave herselfTHhe’s ■ 'rmuititutiM an old derelict and—But, for th^ matter, we’re all three derelicts! IshT H better for us to drift together than to drift apart? Certainly! Afraid !»he’ll ruin your career! Humph! Why," she’ll make it—" 1116 mother c^sed^ speaking for she realized that neither Jerry nor Hazal Were listening to her. They were town the electric cara l>*d 9****^lstanding^ close together and looking running by that jime. At the first bridge on the. way back he had drop ped his revolver into the stream. Ja- c<^ described the exact spot and said the weapon could easily W recovered. That was about all. He voiced no regrets;\o« tlM coatrsirf, he was genuinely exalted an^ it was plain that ^he anticipated no punishment whatever for having dojae God’s bid ding. into each other’s eyes; they quite oblivious to her presence. 'THE END were Constitutional Amendment The cancellation by the supreme agree* ment. He will have 348 instructed del egates who will,* of course, vote for him on the first ballot. There will be about 150 votes for “favorite sons" on this first ballot, most of whom, a.s well as a large percentage of the Knox and Borah delegates, are ex pected to swing to Landon on the sec ond or third ballot. On tfie Democratic side the motti D. E. Tribble Co. funeral directors And. EMRALHERS Licensed Embalmers, Complete Modern Equipment Day Phone 94 Night Phonea 24, 25S or 255 Clinton, s,c, a llv W it VX. AtOS W* WI t VdSW t <;ourt of the Guffey bituminous coal 1‘niportapt event affecting the party’s Abt has naturally reeved' discussion ** declaration of Gov. of^e questiorf of a constitutional^'^man of New York that he will not ent lO give the. federal gov-i^ * candidate for reelection. Mr. amei ornmeA^XPoweK which 4V ^iow” doesjKooa^v^ conceivably Jie re^t- not have'^^ regulate business and in- without New York, but his friends of kate lines. While «»■« concerned over his prospects in Goodvear Takes ^ Its Field ‘‘Goodyear’s record- of ‘firsU’ in the Vog«l »rrived inXdue time. li,- tirei^.elopment field, no re tened attentively to\w’hat was told him, then he questioned the old man searchingly. After a ■ wbile he and Jerry’s lawyer-left, taking Jacob with them. The newspaper men had gone some time before. Hazel would haves,follow'ed them, for she reasoned that Jerry would It’s the truth aWl’M Tou^js fight Vogel. You^shan’t hurt him. I c®me directly here. But Mrs Holmes You shan’t! He’s m'toe—mine.” Her voice, which had risen steadily, chick ed, becamfe an incoherent^^y of ang uish. With her clenched^^ists she pounded weakly at the armS^ of her chair and her face was horribljK. dis torted. ^ ^ Efforts to calm her hysteria werq^ "futile. Somebody hurried for a glass of water. One of the attorneys drew Hazel aside and tried to tell her flomething, but she understood noth ing of what be said, for her owiL-agi- tation equaled that of Gerald’s moth er. She clung to the old doorman at her side, sobbing: “Jacob?' Jacob! It’s too late.^ No- b^y’s going to beliave her.” The co^uSLQfi. abated somewhat. A man was mephomng for the nouse doctor and the reporters were pre- i^Hng to Teave; When Jacob Rigga was wretchedly unstrung and implor ed her to remain, for a while at least. It was impossible to desert a woman so genuinely in need of assistance until she had time to puH herself to gether, so the girl stayed. A really noticeable change had come over Gerald’s mother. The pro cess of voluntarily stripping bare her ^ul and exposing it to the light had served the puroose of cleansing it and purifyi^ it to some extent. She showed it in her words, her actions, in the apprehension she displayed at the prospect oK meeting her^son. She wondered if be^^ would be harsh with her.* She made^mtlful, fluttering at* tempts to better^r appearance, but her recent ordeal ha^l left her almost helpless and Haiti W do the work of her han«, * Jerry ttrived b^ore could Holmes. “Don’t take on so, Miz’ Holmes. Jerry's innocent and I ain’t going .to let anything happen to him. I know how you feel. It’s the sjwie with me and Haael. She win given to mo aj daughter, and according to Ruth *a daughter is better than seven sons' Miss Woods turned her tear-sUined face, towards the speaker; men_jwho were leaving paused to listen. *The Lord struck down Amos Eth ridge, for he was an evil-doer and he delighted in his^ wickedness. But Jerry wasn’t His instrument. He used Ja cob, the son of Isaac. Ethridae was a prince of the country like 5 shechem, the son of Hamor. He saw Jacob’s daughter and he took her and hk soul clave unto her. The Bible tells ypd what Jacob done. Jacob slew him and the Lord waa pleased an4 He told Jacob to arise a^ go op to-^to some where and bnild an ^Itah If Vogel able of cutting red tape wheuNte felt like it He entered tl^ room, bmth- lees, radiant. Without a word, ex cept the one cry, “Mother!” he ran Mary Hobnos’ chfir and knelt beside iL Hungrily she put^JiezL armtJl^attt him, pressed him to her breast Her face was glortfied with an expres^n it had nevei* worn before. Its gtosa- ness was burned away and ip its place shone a suggestoin at lekst of the beauty that had been*Maria di Nar- di’s. She crooned^oVer her boy, she patted and she petted him, stroked his hair and kissed it Hazel looked on through a mist of tears, ^he resisted blindly when, af ter a while, Jerry rose and took her )»aDds in tos. “They toW yo« stood by us,” she ijefrd him saying. “How you hired those* lawyers for me and ev erything.” He ran on with something more, something about demented old counting here," Hubert Owens, man age of McDaniel Vulcanizing Works of thk city, well known tire dealers, declared.^ “Motorists in our city are acquainted^ with the company’s pio neer work in continually improving automobile, truck and farm tires,'Wt are hot sb familiar v^th its work in other fields. “Th addition to the new tractor tire\the new double eagle airwheel and th^ new implement tire, Goodyear has thih, spring announced the first successful pneumatic brake for air planes ever developed in the United States," he continued. “With con struction underway on planes twice to three times as large, as the 18,000 pound passenger airliners mow ih.ser- vice, need for positive brakes was imperative. The new "brake is an adaptation of the air-brak^ principle in use on buses, street cars and rail way trains, refined for airplane use. “’The huge new planes also necessi tated construction by Goodyear of the largest aiirlane tires, tubes and wheels ever built in** the Unit^ States. Both the brakes and the tires have 4>een* thoroughly -tested laboratories and actual flight and tx- ceeded apecifications wide mar- Iheif peifbiii|aliite'’'tei' Owens concluded. " dustry ins con.stitutionalvi^evisioh sentiment is running high, puWic expiressioh in fa vor of it is beihig.^8oftpl54aled. The president and hi.s si^orters in and out of congress don’t wpnt to compli cate the presidential vkpipaigp by bringing the constitution Iforei''—* ■ . I ' Labor Relations Act The .strongest demand iTor gt^ng the -federaf government more po now seems to be centered in the ranks' of organized labor. Labor leaders feel'X that the labor relations act will be declared unconstitutional when it reaches the .supreme court,, and fhe Same apprehension seems likely to result in the abandonment, by con gress of the ^0-hour week bill, the EI- lenbogen bill for regulatiori of wages and hours in the textile industir and the Walsh-Healy bill which would give Washington complete control of hours and wages of all concerns hav ing government contracts. That a constitutional amendment may not be necessary to extend fed eral powers in case Mr. Roosevelt wa* re-elected is being pointed ou^ by some observers. An alternative that is now being seriously discussed is the suggestion that congress could readily enact laws extending the his home state with anyone else than Mr. Lehman ^ running for governor. Lehman has been the greatest vote- getter the Democrats have ever had in New York. With most voters voU ing the straight ticket. Gov. 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