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r, November 24, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICR, Wi \t. page number two ARfiBUCK MESSENGER -INMishetl Every Thursday , &Cablished June 5, 1902 ■OND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner at the Post Office at Mc- Ctaeaick, S. C., as mail matter of wttr second class. ‘'SI?S$t>KlPTION RATES: — strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Months .75 Months .50 ag-CEA TENNIAL CELEBRATION 33ZI5 THANKSGIVING DAY THE George Washington Bicen- texsaszi Celebration will be brought to a. dose on Thanksgiving Day, Xoeursbsr 24, in the same manner ufahli it began on February 22 —veBLl religious services in honor Gaarge Washington in all the aSsvzdssti of America. ■Sle United States George Wash- ftifftoa. Bicentennial Commission wtorates that more than 75,000 <finnettes will participate in separ ate thanksgiving Bicentennial # ex- In many cities and towns, Hoentennial Commission re- churchs of all denominations "wall laid joint corpmemorative jving Day exercises in hon- af 'Bse Father of his Country. Eie reports from the religious of America indicate that flsvxs^ rimrch of the land will par- in this closing tribute by holding separate Bicen- exercises or by joining with er churches of their com- a combined celebration. ■ Bicentennial Celebration has png on in all parts of the for the past nine months, fluux 700,000 separate corn- representing the schools , as jwrtl as civic, fra- dterntfl and, patriotic societies, have acfiveiy: engaged in honoring ary. of. George Washington ro. Hundredth Anniversary &£ fes Birth.. Every state, city i in the Us^tj^d States has ted: Besides, the Celebra- l Ja& been carried out in all our and dependencies as i jn- seventy-eight foreign : aacords of the United States Washington Bicentennial m. indicate that to date one millien separate Bi- mmOmaaal programs have been JbdUaa. all parts of the world. ‘Hub unprecedented Clebration— tribute ever paid to a hero—will come to an of- .with observances of sim- auadp respect. A united na- luriK-ihow its reverence and ad its founder. v iBEsited States George Wash- Blcentennial Commission that it has prepared booklets to assist organiza- 'SJoszs At. arranging their Thanks- gdraDg Day celebration programs. 2Sore lhan. 25,000 of these booklets laave already been distributed. In auftdttar the Commission had pre- fxared a book of sermons made up «£f -eHitributions from the leading «deic?3>erL df the various denom- ssxb&ibss. of America. These ser- znon barks have been distributed ywHEtirily^ churches in small cit- ies md towns where facilities for wummarrtr ore not abundant. Copies be procured by writing to tfielfeviect States George Washing- uteKJ Hicentsnnial Commission in Waofcfatgfan, O. C. X Music Club Meets jCbe B Natural Music Club held Tgggniax monthly meeting No- wemfeer n,. 1932, at the home of Bliss 55ma Caudle. Use JiUowing program was car- ■’Sed-ost: Airy Fairies — Spaulding—Selma Lar.e Dreams—Brown—Mary E. rOw. , suggestions to young piano pupils—Eugenia Langley. Haraireske—Dvorak — Elizabeth of Instruments—Louise Song — Lauge — Evelyn Wild Cats March—Sousa Lee Crawford and Nell She program games were Wfext meeting will be with He tee Crawford. refreshments were EUGENIA LANGLEY. TIMES JUST RIGHT s t f ?' To have your eyes examined and ne\v glasses fitted. Prices are better than ever before and qual ity greater than at any time. New styles for less money than ever and old style frames for less. Examination very accurate, lenses properly ground, centered and focused to your need. Prices $3.00 to $5.00 and up. Tell your friends to call at Stroms Drug Store. Wed^feday, November 30, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. f ( - i {"; ,. < . DR. M. R. CAMPBELL Optometrist ANDERSON, S. C. WOK y ^ 1 1 FELIX RIESENBER6 V w w w FINAL INSTALLMENT pciture the years; the years ahead. .. John had an uncanny imagina- John had refreshed himself in He kept saying to himself the dressing room. He looked in I ‘‘ Thl s is rot, this is bally rot.” He the mirror appraisingly: The deep ke Pt conjuring up pictures of John tan of the open was being leeched Breen, perhaps .. even John Van out by the city of shadows. He Horn, lolling about the world, th^ brushed back his stiff hair. He luck y husband of a very attractive smiled so like Gilbert Van Horn, woman, a wealthy woman He hardly cared. What did Jose phine want? After dinner they sat in the familiar library. T leased the house, you know, after Gilbert’s death. They changed almost ev erything, everything but this. I Ipve the room.” A fire was crack ling in the open hearth, a wide deep chair. Van Horn’s chair, was near the glow of flames. stantly followed by admiring glances, and sly comment, in th * years to come he would drop out of the famous company of the un known few. Engineers would no longer refer to him, seriously, among themselves. Newer a:>d greater works would rise would forget him, long before hi death. Such dreams came to him. Hj John, _ standing till Josephine curled on tried to enthuse himself with vis the lounge, sat down. Tashi ions of Josephine, with mind pic- brought a tray and Josephine lit a tures of joy. ‘ Rats,” he kept re- cigarette. Then she jumped up. psating. The inactivity of tne af- John had a cigar and she lit a match, cupped the flame in her ternoon was wearying. He dared not look out on t.h hands and held it for him, bending streets. He had dinner m :he close to him. Tash had erone. Club. uJrites of “THFTMASTER EXECUTIVE” -1 Supplying a wefk-to-we^k inspiration for the heavy- burdened who will hnd every human trial paralleled i n't he experiences of "The \fan Nobody Knows.* STRENGTH, ASSURANCE, CALM arranging hundred office? Am arranging nui million dollar foundation. We must stop planning-and begin to rebuild the tenements. Offer you full charge of construction, as Director and Chief Engineer. The city needs you. • Almon Strauss. The house door opened: it' was only Tashi, but John Brefen With out looking, turned h^Uy and waikeu taso toward MaefiSoa'Ave nue, across Park Avenue, toward Third. Hallway down the block his attention was attracted • to a lighted window of a bassment resi dent and within was a scene tfiSV paused his steps. A mother, sfeatecT with child on her lap, both locking up in smiling assurance into th> facs of the father bending over them. John Breen stood trans fixed. Slowly he turned; slowly he started to retrace his steps. Suddenly the full import of the- decision he had yet failed to make came upon him. As his fine mind grasped the facts his step quicken ed. “My work ... or my Josephine . . . which?” he muttered aloud as if seeking to know that all the years were summed up in those few words. * “First love wins,” said .Jnhn. Breen, a great light of happiness - Tash had gone Josephine drew her fee: up on He arranged to give up his room, the lounge, and propped by cush- “I’ll be back for my small trunk fo- lons. blew smoke wreaths toward night. A motor trip. Hoid mv the fire. Tashi returned with a 'nail.” tray. ' Both cook Curaco. > John grew nervous, as the time “John, you must tell me about came for his departure. He kept your adventures, in South Ameri- wondering what he would do. Jo- ca. v 1 ocphine certainly was a superb wo- coming to his face For a long while they talked, man. The experiences of cne night He pressed the bell. Josephine, aimlessly. The noises ot the city before kept gripping him. He hard- herself, stood in the door oefor^ were dim. Memories grew about ly knew whether he had captured him. In her eves was that lock the flames. John glanced uo air £cr, or whether -^e had captured which only one man ever see$ . . . I the painting of Gilbert Van Horn, him. Several messages came for deen into the soul lifelike under the light. him at the last ipoment. “Tell ev- ; “My love my first my^ only More than once in his journeys Jesus had passed the victims of Then they sat in snence. Sudden- eryoody I’m gone, for a few days.” love” said Josephine 'as -John the justice of that day, writing,' tortured beings nailed to crosses and ly Josephine reached in a,fold of Mr. Wild of the old toqueduct Breen took her in his anttsl r waiting piteously for release. Sometimes they wilted for days before her boaice and drew forth a pack- fight came in ajS. John was leaving. THE END ‘>>>•1 the end. The memory of such sights must have been constantly with age, handing it to John.‘“These He had not seen Af(r|lci for years. It him; at every sunset he was conscious that he had walked just one day belong-, to you, John—I’ve kepi was with a genuirie'pang of regret nearer to his own ordeal. ' • *1 them, you see.” The letters were that he hiirried out, and walked up Yet Jesus never faltered. Calmly, cheerfully he went forward, in his hand, the outpourings- of nij Fifth Avenue in the cool dusk. So cheering the spirits of his disciples, and striking those fiery blows fresh enthusiasm,: the ones in he severed one qf those loyalties against hypocrisy and oppression which were to be echoed by the ham- which he told h^r of the aqueduct, men feel for,. 'other,, thos*3 hier blows upon his cross. ’ And when the soldiers came-to arrest him, and of his plans. She had kept Strong bonds of .xirfendship trans- they found him ready and still calm. . .. (them t^ugto it^.^She^stood^j ..which* de -txx- ‘I- The United States Civil gervice— Commission has _ announced «pc8i ^The'week'of his trisd and crucifixion takes up a large portion of the ! fore him, against the firelight, a mands so miich' laeclatlsif of ifs glv- l competitive examinations- as fol- For that week.aione we can follow him almost hour by hour; presence outlined, her shimmering :ng. wefUnow where "Sft ifS and fllfept; what he said and to whom;., we can dtess aflame. An uneasy fear held As he walked north, he gradually trace the gathering storm bf/fury which finally bore him down. And his breath. “John, and then she increasecL h^ pace. He would get this is the magnificent thing to remember—that thrdhgh all that long was on her khees, her head buried jJ>. Josephirife at eight o’clock. . it torture of imprisonment, court trials midnight hearings, scourgings, loss in his lap, sobbing. Her of food and loss of sleep, Jesus never once ceiased to be the master. j chest pressed against his knees, His accusers were determined. They thronged the court yard be- her hair glowed in the light, fore the palace,-clamoring forhis blood, yet even they felt a momentary “I have always loved you— awe when he appeared before thpm’on the balcony Even dilate felt it. The two ; men offered a strange contrast stand ing there : —the Roman governor whpse lips were so soon to speak the sentence of death, and the sUent, self-possessed ex-carpenter- and doomed—yet beating himself with-so much majesty, as though he were somehow beyond f the reach’’ of man-made law, and safe from the hurt of its penalties. > • ■■.■n ; j >... * k ■ In the fate of the Roman were deep unpleasant lines; his cheeks ,|always!” She looked up, tears glist ened like stars; oh, she was .beau tiful.!:. '.■,... -... .. ...:: • Hiis cigar had fallem he liftid' her. Her face so close,to his,., ( Thai years sped away. Over the inahlj- elpiece, Gilbert Van Horn looked was a splendid idfeT of hers to start the journey by nighf,:'ih that hug? luxurious chariot, rolling like a separate little universe across the smooth roads of New Jersey, under a clear moon. The curtains would be drawn. The driver and foot* man, automatons, efficient nonent ities, looking aheadf might think cheir heads off, for fetll sheT dt he cared. It was this flair f6? Unus ual adventure which made hdr so htrancing. John wondered" what lows: o •- : Senior Clinical photographer,. $2,- 000 a year, less a furlough deduc tion ’ of 8 1-3 per cent" sLhd retire ment deduction of 3 1-2 per «eat; Veterans’ Administration, Hines, Hi- < Engineering' aide: (gyro compass), $1,808 a year,; less a furtdugfif: < ducUoh of . « ;l.* perOTifr-&r re tirement deduction of. 3 fia- per cent; Navy Yard, New York^>T. All States except Delaware/^^owa, Vermont, Virginia, , down on them while,. Josephine were fatty with self-indulgence; he had the colorless look of indoor poured out her heart. , John, car^ , .. living. The straight young man stood inches above him, bronzed and essing her, his hungry soul crying 1 sn ® w oul « w Wear t t q # ^ . ,. : . hard and clean as the air of his loved mountain and lake. for love, held her close^ Life, wha- he turned east, past the'hotel, j the District of Columbia ,ha,yp P re- Pilate raised his hand; the shouting and the tumult died; a deathly I is it? What are the things that ne st . 0 PPca for a. moment His hand ceived less than their-share stillness descended upon the crowd- He turned and faced the figure count? Why are we here? In the P oin tments in the apportioned- de^- at his side, and from his coarse lips there burst a sentence which is a subconscious half-light , of the sent Hower* brought -or ^ truer portrait than any painter has ever given us. The involuntary mind, under the patter of love, hejkatodone a half-dozen tKihgsthai ^ ca serv ic- at .^raihngton. —•_* ii-- — —i of perfect seemed to know. Josephine, in fev-: a p3' competent lover would have D. C. • . ■ erish impulse, poured forth her; attende d to - H is hand fished up; Full information may^be obtain- strong affection. She had jilted ! an . envelope - He remembered the d f the Secretary of the Unit ’ him, and now, at last, she had re- note amid the crowd of things that lented! “I am tired of this place. We will leave, John, leave it all. We will travel, we will live in sunshine. The world has much to offer us.” Josephine and John sat on the j» - testimony *of the flabby cynical Roman in the presence strength, perfect assurance, perfect calm: “Behold,’* he cried, “the man!” Next Week: The Sociable Man Copyright, Bobbs-MerriH Company \ V THE FAMIIY DOCTOR JOHN JOSEPH GAINES. M.D, FROM THE MELTING POT came to him on leaving the club.; ed States Civil Service Board iOf Ex- Wi:h the sight and handshake of aminers at the post office iix any old Wild, in the flurry, he had for gotten it. He stood in front of the Van Horn house. He - was about to go wide lounge, he held her, her head a P the steps. Then he thought, on his shoulder, her hands clasp- Perhaps there was something m ins his. It had be?n a long, long the note he should know, before road, but at last, at last— . leaving with Josephine? He tore ‘ YOU knew I’ve sold the house, ® the Hi s Tves Pe fXwed the brief they are going to build an annex to }|f“’ ,, s ^furred and clarified the hotel next door. Everything c d, „ very warm. He hooked his stick over his arm and stepped nearer the light. A huge black car had come to rest behind him, silently, a great car with curtains drawn. It was behind him with dimmed city which has a post off ice tof the first or the second class, or ^rom the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D .C. / X n is changing, the people are mg. The best New Yorkers now live abroad most of the time. Oh John, how glad I am that you found me.” ALFALFA GOOD FOR HOGS . IN THE GRAZING ClfCLE CLEMSON COLLEGE, Nov. 12.— With barley and rye as our : best winter forage for hogs, and soy beans as our best summer forage John was on fire, he kissed her was behind "him with dimmed f ° r green grazing, there are two There are some points—I might call them rules—that I feel pretty brutally, carelessly. He held her headlights like great eyes, as if a gaps m our year-round grazing safe in abiding by, subject to very moderate amending for special cases, close and looked into her eyes. > monster eavesdropper was trying to program, says Prof. L. V. Starkey I will mention a few ^ * i “ wh y can>t vve S et married, now, read the note also. chief animal husbandman suggest- I have learned that the man needs at least one meat ration a day. tonight?” of fv, 0 iiaHtpri ina aifaifn f„ ’ cooked in the manner he likes it best. The working man needs morel « No j 0 hn dear No' no' We window/ to hear^the f/ f J to fl11 in the ^aps for hOUSed man ‘ 1 d ° n0t permit heavy meats for th& !will leave tomorrow-night. I have notes of the piano Josephine was ^ gr ° W SUC ~ The adult human body needs one or two eggs dailv. rooked as the 1 sa , ma .^ y evid ently singing, playing. She was individual prefers. I prefer cooked fruits to raw fruits' as a rule: ^ d ^r an b ° dy need5 ° ne ° r tW0 eggs daUy ’ c00ked as ths “nd y Startle 1 people 'JmbTm noloubt “ready®' wSiint foThta! The first gap, Mr. Starkey ex- early tomorrow. I want to get The footman passed him. John plans, is in the spring from about ducer to the consumer these days, may pass the viand through a d6zen back to the clut/like Tgood boy° wito^^^enTpossiblyparfum J?se” the first of A P ril to the second pairs of more or less dirty hands. It takes more than a casual rins- tonight. Get your things packed, phine The area door opened. week in Ju «e; the second in the £! mv 'absolut^favorites°for g wfntor ^eatim/^ SteWed dried frUitS 1 wi ' 1 pat m V l l i i n ? S J n l he Sma , 11 Tashi and the footman brought out fall from about November first to are my absolute iavorites tor winter eating. car trunk. Well take the coach, and were strapping a patent leath- the second week in ncoomhAr ai The fruit portion of a meal, roughly speaking, may furnish from motor to Philadelphia, get married, er trunk on the rear carrier It was f f f • - . m December - A 1 ’ one-third to.one-half the volume of the ration. _ We, as a nation, eat j 0 hn, at last. And then, after a all real enough John looked. There faIfa J ts * nto both of these gaps too httle of well-selected fruits. while, we can come back and set- was plenty of room for another perfectly, he states, and completes We do not give enough attention to the volume of water taken. A tie things here, and go. go away for trunk. The area door clanged be- th? yearly grazing cycle patient weighing 150 pounds should drink a total of a half-gallon of a f e w years. Oh I am so tired of hind the men He thought he “Alfalfa fit* w y ,• water daily. Don’t await thirst, if you are sedentary. Get the habit New York." sIw JosephTne part toe h“avy lib- *11' hv .f. toak of drinking methodically. rirlnl . min,,.. . i Late, very late. John Breen kissed rary curtains and look out. He ^ ^ . a so because it will I am asked often, Shall I drink milk. This by people who are j OS enhine and left. must be quick. Again he read the produce a large amount of choice merely run-down from over-strain of affairs. I ask, “do you like it?” J p . .. , „ nnf . p „7“ Gnf,r.iQo- if wa s in- hav whirh i<! j “Yes.” “Then drink it.” But if the answer is, “No, I can’t say I John’s last day in the realms of ^te. it was veiy concise, it was m hay which is m demand on every like it, but have been told it’s good for me.” Then I say, “take a glass uncertainty passed swiftly. He got • . lvestock faim - Fortunately we now and then, but abandon it if it causes distress.” “Trial and Error U P early, tubbed and took a brisk The whole overwhelming problem can three crops of hay in addi- —” vou know • • walk . Then he sent off a cable to swam before his eyes. Josephine, ^ ^ a “ ! London. “Cannot accept China and foreign lands, palace hotels, ^ T¥T ^ P ri ng and fall graz- ' post.” That, for that! Repacked caresses, kisses, endearments. Soft mg. when handled in this way a small trunk, whistling the while, j whispering allurements. Stupid 1 alfalfa will last about five years. Several times he almost phoned j dinners, tiresome people, alien depending on how quickly it is tak- Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral dttrector, and should be borne in mind when you;have occasion to choose one DISTANCE NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is ne additional charge for service out of town j. s. Main Street T McCormick, S. C. Harboard and Pug. “No use. I’ll towns, queer uninteresting time - - wire from Philadelphia.” Were destroying play: spats, boredom, en oy grass, tor grass rather than they to be married before, or af- There was the beginning of the hog grazing is the limiting time « ter 0 He wondered. Josephine road; she was ready to take him factor. had a very puzzling way about her. from his city, to carry him away, ., pork can be alfalfa after ® toe'Sseen him. The for about on£h, rd less than- ously. “There’s a moon, tonight, for curtains were drawn to. ^ven in dry lot. Fortunate indeed is the the elopement. Wefll pick up then she miglit be coming down farmer who has soils well adapted ^ tv^nfnth 1 StreeL 6 ^Good-bye, liu-ar. S^ar^ffghfened^ta n would *<> «>* Rowing 0 f alfalfa, for this * s t— x. 9* o—carrv thpm far far nwav from the assures him of a continuous szraz- till eight.” Something sounded carr y therh faL far away from like a kiss, or a smack, over the Cll y’ forever. phone ) ,, He had several hours on his hand* He sat and smoked- What a washout the old town was! What a place. Still, he would never be a continuous graz ing program and gives him an edge The lines of the short letter burn- on the corn belt farmpr ed in his hands. He had ho need ~ 1 to again persue them. »» . c . , ... Pftir Jqtyi, % Send J^|e SS enjger Your _ Can you join me at nine ..... * , * j 7 i you. join me At i i ^ * f lonely again. He kept trying to | o’clock tonight, at my Whirstreet | Order Ko^ Job Priplirig s , *