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Copyright. 1921. Western Newspaper Union
NoKMAN I1A111>Y was born
on New Year's day. and
deemed the fact a decided
misfortune. There was one
feature in which his father
specialized ? system ? and
^ r this involved discipline. "A
.mf. strict disciplinarian," lie
would boast to his neighbors.
"That's me," and he looked it
21 nd acted it out until Norman fancied
he had been placed in the world simply
tp become the butt and victim of rigid
4 rules.
When Norman's tenth birthday was
only eight hours distant, his father
{rave the order. sternly spoken: "Vou
will be in the house for the night at
seven o'clock," and Norman moped
in a niArtyrlike way, envying his boy
trlends who had mapped out a joyous
New Year's eve program of skating,
bill sliding, and like boyish pranks.
He wondered what was coming, but
his father simply viewed him speculatlvely
and sent him to bed at the
usual time. He was awakened to find,
his father roughly pulling at his arin.
"(let up. Norman, and come down
to the kitchen," said Joel Hardy;
"you needn't dress."
Norman arose, rubbed his eyes, and
followed his father downstairs. There
was a light on the
r^?l
fa|solemn except its
ll monotonous tick.
an(' outs',^> atl
jM*. vUMuimi mni ..1
L. 1 shooting, a?nouncing
impn\
t font celebrants
/ tS all.udy 1 ', ,
/ ISij to hern id In the
new year.
"My hoy," spoke his father after
a moment of ominous deliberation,
"when I was a lad of ten. my father
taught me a lesson that has left its
impress on my whole life in a salutary
way. Upon the tiek of midnight
just preceding my birthday lie always
called nie down to the kitchen and
gave trie a good sound strapping. It
hurt him more than it did me. lie used
?o say, hut the reminder would he
ever present with me. Until 1 was
twenty-one, regularly, upon each birthday
th*e strap played its part and
I think it did a good deal towards
teeehing me that I had a master and
in making me a better man. I ha-e
concluded to adopt that feature with
my system. You're a pretty good boy,
but for fear you might kick over the
truces I'm going to bulk the system
ut
ugh j
1 grim, and grag, j
:, like one in dreams; ^jf-J ;
is n?kite locks strag; J'^fy ;
lass Jail dag bg dag; Y^j
jr his scgthe-blade gleams, !
-iqU '
: his head h
ps dare
jws rio care, ^
I
!
ne mas never goung.
arth can not grow old;
st to that hand he clunq^'
der song he sung,
Due^tale he had told,
^cu^hadstnmg^^^m
3j jog, oj
one is Jair, "^X^V^C
?ut blossoms blow,
) gaunt weeds growJ^^T
mated pair,
? Bcilnc* DcTTArcit Uoifd in Induiupolii Im.
until you are of age. Now, then,
take your punishment like a man."
Joel Hardy produced a short, thick
piece of tanned cowhide and Norman
winced, hut did not cry out during
; the unique castigation. It was five
vears later, and with the usual routine
i late in the afternoon Joel Hardy remiti'leil
Norman of the pending midi
iirlit event. His eyes bulged and his
face betrayed overwhelming amazement
av Norman stood tip before him,
a tall, well-knit stripling, airnosi menicing
in tiis hearing as he said:
"Father, there will he no strapping
tills time. I'm through with it. Half 1
the town has heard of it, and the
boys taunt me and the girls twit trie.
Not that I care for any of them except
Milly Daniels, and she's true
blue ami stands by me. and I won't
have her liumblcd and shamed. I'tu '
going to spend this New Year's eve
with the crowd, and I'll be home to
breakfast."
"if you don't report here by ten
( 'clock I'll send the town marshal
after you," pronounced his father, with
tire in 'tis eye.
Norman marched out of the house,
hung around downtown until eight
o'clock, and then repaired to the
agl'eeU-Oll rendezvous 01 u:e uunu, uu
old buggy shed attached to a great
burn owned by Fanner Logan. He
Celt uneasy, stubborn and nettled. Herein
lv he had been dared by his companions
to sinotte a cigarette. He
had met the dar# and now. with two
of them in his pocket, he lit one. und,
in sneer rebellion against his father's
system, was about to puff out ids resentment
when the signal cry of his
r. m rades echoed forth. Carelessly
, tin-owing the lighted cigarette Into a
I corner of t lie shed, he hounded out
and for over an hour forgot all save
the excitement of the moment. The
| unruly coterie rolled a giant snowball
and let it slide down the hill leading
to the town common; they got up into
the town hall tower and rang Its bell.
In the midst of setting loose a drove
of cattle from a live stock enclosure
they were attracted by the dash and
rush of the village lire cart, matting
for a vivid, spreading glare.
"Why. it's Farmer Logan's place!"
-limited a chorus of excited voices, and
Norman Iiardy's heart stood still. He
recalled 'he cigarette and the littered
woodshed.- He stood dumb and
seared. The flames completely enu
I fed the great frame barn. Normun
slunk off alone by himself, oppressed
v illi mi appalling sense of guilt. His
lions were doubly intensified when
ne heard some one say:
"Logan thinks it was set ablaze. <
Ar<on. I pitj the firebug If he'H
aught. It's straight 14 years in the
penitentiary."
"it v ill ruin Logan, they say," spoke
another. "The barn was stored with
. rain and machinery and the insurance
ran out last week."
Norman was crushed with a sense
of l.is < dpahilit.v. He felt like flying
from I.fine, town and all the people
he I, id ever known. He skulked
behind a hed:;e as a group of girls
came along. They were discussing
the tire so excitedly that they paid no
attention to a lone member of their
group t:..:iing on behind the>n. Norman
un ited her, however. She was
Milly I'.iniels. He startled her by
stepping directly In her path.
"Jn-i linger for a inouivut, will you,
?
N (
Mllly?" Tie spoke under high agllation,
"or I'll walk with you a bit I'm
In terrible trouble, and I'm going to
leave town for good," and Norman recited
the entire story of the evening.
"There's only one way out, don't you
see It, Mllly?' he said. "I don't dare
to face Fanner Logan; I'm going away
to make something of myself, and the
day I have got the money t6 make It
square with Mr. Logan I'm coming
back. And Mllly, dear, you have been
my truest friend and have always
stood by me. Will you try to think
of me while I'm gone, will you?will
you wait for me? For I shall never
love anybody but you."
Five years went by. Not a word
had been heard from the truant son.
Joel Hardy had forbidden even the
mention of his name In the home.
Mrs. Hardy, half heartbroken, repined
in silence. Mllly Daniels became an
orphan, and when Mrs. Hardy needed
a nurse and then
companion, it
came about that
she found a per
manent home with I
the mother of the
man sne loved. w.
She and Mrs. k dMJH
Ha My, wun me
tyrant father, all w^^T\
unaware of It, y^B
cherished a mut- HV ij J j
ual memory of I i. 1
the absent youth fl J\& J^l
and took comfort <f /*A
In watching and p^l t
hoping for his re- OM 1
turn.
It wa& a few minutes after midnight,
Ave years to a day since Norman
Hardy had gone forth Into the world
to Reek his fortune. Mllly had pleaded
to sit up and watch the old year out
and the new year In. All three of
the family, though In different ways,
were thinking of the boy who had run
away from home. The bells had Just
finished a resonant chime when the
knob of the outslae door turned.
There stepped Into the room a bronzed,
stalwart young man, at a sight of
whom Joel Hardy gasped Incredulously,
his wife uttered a Joyous
scream, and Mllly stood breathless and
fluttering.
M1 waited till I was sure the final
hour of discipline and the strap was
past and gone." spoke Norman Hardy.
"Mother," a warm embrace. "Father,"
and a sturdy hand reached nut
"Mllly," and the young girl swayed
to and fro and would have fallen
had not Norman caught her.
"1 said 1 wouldn't come back till i
could pay for the damage 1 did to
good old Farmer Logan," continued
Norman. "I've kept my word. 1 hear
you are struggling with a two-thousand-dollar
mortgage, father; I can
pay It off and loan you as much more
If you need It. Mllly. dear, am I welcome?
I have come to keep my
promise true."
Joel Hardy left the room. He returned
with the strap that had been
so familiar to his son. Taking out his
pocketknlfe, the old man proceeded to
cut the strap to pieces and flung tbem
into the blazing grate.
"You've cheated me out of several
years, my son," he observed, "but I
forgive you. It's enough to know that
you are hack home safe and sound
this Moused New Year's dayP
r )
The New Year j
^=5^1 T H t h whirling and
drfting af snows
: Y/Xf C o m a a breathless the
wild New Year;
[fc~<^cjgQl White bitter north wind
blows,
O'er the fields that lie stark and
drear.
Yet hope is alight in her eyes
At she looks from the heart of the
storm,
"Earth sleeps in her shroud," she
cries,
"But the life in her heart is warm.
"Death is but a dream of the night
And the hymn of joy is begun,
For slowly seeking the light
The great globe turns to the san.
"Behold, I will bring delight
In place of darkness and cold;
Safe under the meadows se white
Is hiding the buttercup geld.
"And summer's splendor shall reign
? .1 ?i .??. j _?v
IB place or tae wmwr nnu,
Her color and music afain
Shall gladdea the patieat earth."
Hark to the New Year's Voice
Through the murk of winter drear I
Oh, children of men, rejoice!
At the tidings of hope and cheer.
?Cella Thaxter..
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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EYE SPECIALIST
Office Hours 9 to 2
Office at Residence
CHER AW, S. C.
DR. 0. H. PURVIS
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Office Residence
Public Square Huger St.
Phone 243 Phone 247
CHERAW, S. C.
DENTAL NOTICE
I will practice at
Miesterfield Mondays and on Wednesday
Evenings.
'ageland on Tuesdays.
Mt. Croghan on Wednesday morning
of each week.
Society Hill on Thursdays,
iheraw on Fridays and Saturdays.
R. L. McMANUS, Dentist
Cheraw, S. C
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I IMMIIinilllllllHIHHI
New Year's
Ghost Party
y^-jHERE is a pleasant old sujl~S
^jj perstltlon that Jollity in a
jsi house during the first week
Wr t*ie *sew Year brings
J pleasure aud happiness to
that household during the
entire year. There are many interesting
ways of entertaining a New Year's
parly, but the favorite of all is the
masked dance or party, and the most
Interesting way of having this sort of
lenlertalnment is to give a ghost party
The invltutions read in this manner:
Our good old Father Time
Has promised to convene
; The shades of many notables
J To meet you New Year's e'en.
> We'll look for you, you know,
' To help to make things go.
It And Incidentally to meet
Some ghosts you're sure to know.
There should be 20 or more guests,
iand after the Invitations have gone
"out, the hostess has a little private
chat with her guests over the telephone.
She requests them to come
; dressed to represent some famous person
now dead, pantomime, words, gestures
and costume being used to carry
.out the impersonation.
' Dressed In a misty black robe covered
with stars cut from gold paper,
the hostess will receive her guests In
a room draped all In white. Sheets or
cheesecloth can be used for this. No
word Is 6poken until a little red imp
distributes cards and pencils to the
assembled guests. Then each In turn
speaks some word or does some stunt
to suit his or her character. The
.person guessing the greatest number
correctly receives a pretty copy of the
hook. "Ghosts I Have Met."
i Games, contests and dancing will
; follow, and the supper or refreshiment
table will be filled with things
.'tempting enough to attract even the
I most ghostly appetite.. The table decorations
should correspond with the
'festivities of the season. A New
(Year's pie made of crepe paper over a
Ideep pan is filled with dainty little
fravors for the guests or cards upon
which some funny rhyme Is written
for each Individual guest. Part of the
entertainment for the evening may
be the telUng of fortunes, Informing
each guest of their fate for the coming
year.
Whatever you do. don't let anyone
hatter your faith in New Year's resolutions.
They are the best things ever
f you know how to handle them, and
he most discouraging things If you
don't.
BUSINESS LOCALS
WANTED?A housekeeper, white or
colored, to look after house and
care for little eight year old girl.
Apply at Cnronicle office.
For Pot Plants and small igardens
get STIMUPLANT. Ask THE PURE
SEED CO. about it.
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FOR SALE?5000 stalks fine Seed
Sugar Cane.
W. L. GILLESPIE.
Now is the time to plant Garden
Peas. We have the kind that w
stand cold weather?THE PURE
SEED CO.
WANTED to Exchange?A 10-20 Titan
International tractor for sl 20
or 25 H. P. Portable steam engine
and Iciler.
H. C. CURRY,
tf Rt. 1 Patrick, S. C.
FOR ?ALE?1 four burner Oil Stove
and ?vea used short while, alr.o a
two well Ireless cooker almost new
ok?ap. Apply Mrs. R. S. Huey, Kershaw
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NOTICE
All lands owned or operated by us
especially those known as the Tar.
kiln place are hereby posted against
hunting. All violators will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.
H. L. Powe,
3-tf B. Calder
n
Ruh.My-TIsm, antiseptic and pain
killer, for Infected soores, tetter,
sprains, neuralgia, rheumatism.
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I COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAW.
Unfer Aet of Legislature, 1921, at
page 714, No. 420, all parents or
guardians or other persons having
charg# of children between the ages
of aight and fourteen years inclusive
ara required to send su:h cj^ild or
ehlldrea to school for four consecutive
months In each scholastic year,
subject to other provisions of said
act, and the Board of Trustees of
eaeh school district shall determine
Hat time the period of compulsory
attendance shall start in each school
!et?let. Now the trustees of special
school district of Cheraw hereby
designate the llrd of January, 1922.
* V*r 1Kb, 1922, inclusive, as
the term of such compulsory atfnr
mich nohrvnl Hififniot
Ineluslre, as the term of such compulsory
attaadanaa for such school di
trial
Thli Dteember 15th, 1921.
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W. F. Ray, of Easley, S. C. 2 ^
"The doctortreated me for about ^ *
two months, still 1 didn't get %
any better. I had a large fam- ^
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something to enable me to take 4 _
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State of South Carolina, a
County of Chesterfield. t(
Court of Common Pleas.
Vann H. Gregory, et al., t P1
Plaintiffs, u
vs. 01
Mrs. Bessie Gregory, et al.,
Defendants. "
NOTICE OF SALE.
Pursuant to the order of Hon. Jas. 0
E. Peurifoy, Presiding Judge, dated
at Chester field, S. C., December 7th, tc
I*i21, made in the above entitled ^
cause, I will sell before the doors of
the Court House at Chesterfield, S. ,
C., between the legal hours of sale,
on the first Monday in January, 1922, 0
upon the terms herein mentioned,
the following described premises. ^
"All that certain lot of land, with
dwelling thereon, situate on the West Q,
side of Christian Street, in the towof
Cheraw, Chesterfield county, South Q.
Carolina, known and numbered on
the map of said Town made by Gil- 0>
lespie & Watson, engineers, 1914, as
Lot No. five (5) in Block 31, the same
lying between the premises of the 0?
Estate of Mrs. Josephine Powe and
the premises of E. J. Waddill and
measuring one hundred '(100) feet _
on Christian Street and extending
back therefrom, a distance of two
hundred and eighty (280) /feet, more
or less."
Premises will be sold for one-third
(1-3) cash and the balance of the
purcnase price payauie in iwu aunnal
payments, purchaser to execute
notes and mortgage on premises to *
secure deferred payments, such pay.
ments to bear interest at the rate of
eight per cent per annum from date
of sale.
W. J. DOUGLASS, L
Clerk Court Chesterfield
County, South Carolina.
December 10th, 1921,
B. F. PEGUES, Plaintiff's Atty.
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State of South Carolina,
County of Chesterfield.' T
Court of Common Pleas.
J. W. Rainwater,
Plaintiff,
vs.
Dock Brown, et al.,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Pursuant to the order of Hon. Jas.
E. Peurifoy, Presiding Judge, dated
at Chesterfield, S. C., December 7th.
1921, made in the above entitled
cause, I will sell before the doors of
the Court House at Chesterfield, S.
C., betweet the legal hours of sale,
on the first Monday in January, 1922,
upon the terms herein mentioned,
the following rescirbed premises.
"All that piece, parcel or lot of
'.and lying and being within corpo
rate limits of the town of Cheraw,
County and State aforesaid, being a
part of lot number thirty (30) asshown
on old map of the Town
of Cheraw being a portion of the
back part of said lot having a front
or width of 90 feet by a depth of 96
feet and bounded on the North and
East by the balance of said lot num.
ber 30, on an agreed line, on the
South by lot No. 29 and on the West .
by lot No. 15, all of the said numbers
being those as shown on old map of
town of Cheraw and being more fully
described as follows: Beginning at ^
a point at the southwest corner of 4
said lot No. 30, and the southeast
corner of lot No. l.">. thence East along *?
the southern bonndary of lot No. 30
a distance of 9G feet to a corner; A
thence North parallel with Front ^
street a distance of 90 feet to a cor- t
<0
ner; thence a straight line at right
angels to Front street, a distance of V
96 feet to lot No. 15, thence South y
along the line of lot No. 15 a distance M
of 90 feet to the starting point." A
Purchaser to pay for all necessary ^
papers. ^
W. J. DOUGLASS, t
Clerk Court Chesterfield J
County, South Carolina. V
December 10th, 1921, *~4
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ar the assessment of all classes
roperty, both real and personal, p<
oad and dog tax, from January
) February 20th, 1922. >
All ablebodied men between t
ges of 21 and 60 are required to
jrn poll tax and those between t
ges of 21 and 55 years are requir
) return road tax.
The law requires a penalty of
er cent on all property not return
>r taxation on or before the 20th d
t Februray, 1922.
I will be at the following places
le dates named:
Patrick, January 3rd, from 10 to
clock.
Cedar Creek, January 4th, from
i 3 o'clock.
John H. Wallace's, January 5
ora 11 to 3 o'clock.
Cash,i January 6th from 10 to
clock.
Cross Roads, January 9th, frt
to 12 o'clock. I
Mt. Croghan, January loth, frc
I to 3 o'clock.
Guess, January 11th from 11 to
clock.
Ruby, January 12th, from 11 to
clock.
Angelus, Jan. 16th from 11 to
clock.
McBee, Jan. 17th and 18th.
Middendorf, Jan. 19th from 10 to
clock.
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ay and Personal Property, Moneys, Credits,
over and above my Indebtedness,
on Investments In Bonds, Stocks, Joint
Stock Companies, or otherwise, belong2
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2 property which I am required by law
i to list; and further, that I am.
2 liable to the Poll Tax, and that I am
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j this day of 1922
2' Auditor.
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