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BWWtniiWVtVmMWMWWW ! "Mv B( I By KATHI |w\wu<?nww>?wwi%w FOURTH INSTALMEfJT Maggie Johnson, whose father i 71 letter carrier, ia the domesli drudp.e of the humbie home wher her mother doe* little except b< moan f.'ie fact that she has "see better days" and her sister Li*, wh works its a beauty shop, lies abe lair. Maggie ha* to get the funi ily breakfast before she starts ou to her job in the Five-and-Ter Cent Store. Three's a new boy at the jtorf .'or Grant. He tells MnPfir tha H-_' has been assigned to work a her helper in the stock room. H seems ratber dumb, hut Maggi helps him through his first day a the store and shares her lunch wit) Sim in a cubby hole of a place tha belongs to a mattress factory ncx door tc the Five-anrl-Tcn. They are looking over joim cheap picture cards. One of then lias a motto that strike's Maggie*: fancy. "The way to begin the idea life is to begin " She and Jo? tall about that and Joe is surprised thai the girl has higher standards than fir had suspected. When .he gors home that night he 5* thinking about Maggie. And his homo is the home of the owner of the Mock Five1-anti-Ten-Cent Stores, though Ma ggit: does not suspect t?Sat he is the boss' son. i NOW CO ON WITH THE STORY \Y]\al -With Uivck* Teni" rWjth Uncle Nobocis! ItV a invest iuhuit.. go* it on my ?>pB* hook." y.WeJ); hot that's nonfeerise;'* 0 votnan said aftm- a pause. smngwh; at a loss. "Y^| father won't nevm you for <me in.-iir.m tegi'.v up oh icge and wojk' Hl*--" Y -Wly fa the? told oh bo w.*.."t'ej in-., to ?y.k n:r ?'in.km iaily any more, Joe inf rrupted hot'.v. Meanwhile, am d-m? with eolleyo and I'm voffl iittr, hptl bo can make v. bat he Hk< of kr "Well. ho* 11 not ohtbu:' it one i staiu," ^h{? won.au said. "Meaiwvh 1 aren't you going- ?> the Russell**? It Miljieoni's coining-out party- she ^ oxpo-.t you!" '}J03:rihU\ki: fell -i'jLt--Jk??nsjgtxl;~ hsi self to Meow tonight." the boy s-i lazily."My job has sapped my e ergo.? what with eologiup and jihl ca||< and i\nso! and vegetab "What are you talking about!" "Nothing:. Nothing. But I'm wqrkinv. man now. pe time for fri olitios. Leave >iu- he, Mother. I' rnuvc was a sueniiv; I :u' wor sAt pux/led and disauprtwing. thin -*tvistV!l. J<>U, tii/ like Mil '?|rtf'itonS .Vut'h ra ..tie litCie thing." his mother present stntiiiH??talli^:nh?lshe iik ^'fciive lu r mU'll lk*r^ to get together enough mo ^|S ey for our little asst." said -ioe. "I see her at the clnh iomiu*i*<>w, an t'^Avay?sue always plius .golf Sund SBSfljfeffi'. mornings.^ vvX^lon-\: understand you, Joe."' 1 another "op jSBp:&& :?yu oi* the house yesterday no r ning wild he cause' your father h said he'd take you out of v-oil ego Ru^ra.' this spending of money went on. Mi you say you've got a job and tloi "I'm retovnied!" -loo said jocose "The old man called me names tl morning." It's just possible?-it's ji possible that some day I'll have t laugh on the old man!" "I wish you'd stop talking nc sense, and follow me over to the It\ sells'," his mother said impatient "I don't know what they'll think you don't come." f' Teil them I've had a change heart?I've got religion." Joe sj indifferently. "Tell then the way begin living the ideal life is to V "To begin what?" sharply ask T.ifluK* AT..,.,~n - . 1 owner of the Mack Merrill ChJ Stores. "Just that, darling. The way begin living the ideal life is?to 1 I gin," said Joseph Grant Mat-ken: Merrill mildly, i pflgg; Mrs. Johnson, horn Petheridj cherished in herself, and planted her daughters, an unbounded serj PINKY DINKY - : 7 , Ia w r, i ? A.PPU s. ^ ' ' est Girl" gig .EEN MORRIS j \-f righteous priue. The Johnsons ha i* no pride Se<1 iiO particular cause fc c pride, she said. * ' But the Petbevidges, and their ct> ?* SI era! lines of Lnrkins and Lawi n er.ees! Ma fold them thrilling tale 0 oi Gvan'ma I.arkin's ^ampler, hun d j above the Pethvuidge's fireplace i 0.\. rnagrJfirc-m Petheridgo fconi t '4(!o'.\" South," and about the John l- !iy Yanks mashing up all Gran'zu LaikinV cut glass, and about th | slave*?ill'r;deeds of them, thousand 1 of them, all singing and dancing an j happy, and imi any mote wanting: t ?t fiee<l than so w^nv irrt sp -;t ' sparrows: Pop. meanwhile, miserably re pi e ; denied not only t?i?- ibw-bmTi John ions, but the entire ranks of & Johnny Yanks as we)], lie wouii i-ringp while Ma enlarging upoi pic, and nervously cleal hi throat- And whenever he spoke o Vermont families, Ma said with ho: : ieh, unctions laugh, "Mykut" v. ,.?-vl n nutmegs, 1 suppose?'' ,:''g^rls had to laliKh. no. Xoc that Maggie was not lo.vai t her fathers she had no heart in the laughter Mr. .- > often directed against him. But it was simpler all round tlaugh. \*o .se going against that particu iar ?urt'ent, there were too many thers to struggle with, if one were to struggh at all! Often, when Maggie and her fa fher were alone, he would give her ;i it fairer idea of the ease. I "You see. dearie/' ten would ex. inin in his niihl. uneomplaininp ice. - M;h just quotip* things she it: hoard v hen she was a little girl. Slit I great grandmother's house wi:h ih'.^,' samplers and things. Yoai mother can't remember nothing a bom slaves and all that. 1 don't Know as her folks ever had slaves, ' .- nvlVViV. Thov liv-4..t I'i.rhi ',?> r k. Louis. and they had a drufi store?! L.. don't know j vi v t what they wouK have done with slaves!" ,,J Sometimes Pa would ramble on t< L. ihe other side of the ancestral hie *h t ill e. t?; liis 0>vn hoybood op a Vor -j], uioM faun. "I surc?.VJ would like you to son tin r^<_uiaea. some-..day... Mageie. There. was i ight of us hoys, and toy sister Mar n_' eavet you're named for her, and fo t nu moil or. There's sumo of then m\. i daresay?1 haven' I heard for twenty years. Vrniyi}- Hkj your grandmother's kitchen? white ;l or sumiiiei. that was the place u boys liked to he! I remember whei mS a hie; storm would be i or.iiiP.' yptrees bendiu' over, and planks vat ,, tiiix* in the yard, ami the old well k sweep creaking?how we loved th? kitchen then' There was a big* opei ?i_ i replace $bnc shh?. hut she had ibeplnco one- side, but she had he %?N radge hinti right across it, and thcr ,,s wesn'i never a drop of any thin spilled thai range she kep' i m like black glass." I tl "Oh, Pop! But why did you eye no??e a way?" "I d'no, Maggie. .lest got rostlesj ' 1 guess." "Look here, P?>p. If my gram motheY Johnson ' had nine childre xUand no .servants, how could she niai )V iq-keep the place,- 'so clean, an a j the stove shining so, ami everything 4jj" Ma says that rip lady ought ever I vxv do her oavii work;. and she says can't he doner' "Well, maybe your graridmothc ,Y Johnson wasn't a lady, Maggie." lis "^"P- do you think there's an lst hone I'm not a lady? Not like ivi he jr. a no mo {her Pecheridge? Not lik my G?andm.othoi Petheridgo, >n_! mean? Because." Magpie would rus is-1' on oa^e,'b". 'I'd love to have to lv ! kitchen always clean and orderly, an J; pies cooling on the amdovvsill, an (jam all put npy ar?d me in a nic ( j- clean gingham dress?and a big : ij iid! xv^'te fitting dO\vnV on ijh to side porch, io<;kinj?. like you sai e-! Johnson always did. And j would like to believe iff ad thos efj} newspaper bhdpets, and sysWin, an ir-.g a regular hour for ever; iu, thing/* \! iggje would conclude, e: pectant eyes or. his fare, to t4W^eli, I don't know, dearie. Yoi >c_ mother hasn't veal good health, yc zic ^now. -^h.d your sister has to kei her hands nice. And then, of course, we've po< y folks, Maggie. When vou have to c 'in '!t thin- " ,, "Pow. we're not Iioor! Why. yt ? & -* - J 1 AM/~ ' ?? U A? / Oo T? -"7" VVMAT'*v ( 7Hir .-AACpE-f^ , fi.SKS ^ - ia Ui ? and I?n\ake more than two hnrdrc i a nior?<:h. Pa. And there's budgets s ' low as one hundred!" | "Two hundred a month for foi folks ain't much these days. Maggi ; when everything's gone up so high! ; It wai the automatic protest. ; j 'Bui. Pop?those budgets, and U I lists the government sends out, ar the newspapers and the magazine 3 know how things have gone up. don they?" "Dearie, your Pop ain't much o ? mathematics." hen Would say, uassin . | a weary hand over his troubled for. |~| head, shaking his meek, gray littl head. ,IS; Ma. approached or. the subject ?J household reform, had much to sa n and very, very little to do. ,;j "*?Vher. I and you/ pop was ma i" I ?ied. beef was fifteen cents a pour.c , I reineinher that, because I said t tho butcher, "Ain't that a lot?' r i wasn't nothin' but an innocent chii 1 ! never done any work with m own hands before. 'Keep the in litt! bar.ds like flowers!' put old doctor Dr Lovejoy. use" :< say. Ho was " j Southerner, u.--v?" Maggie only o.stcncti t espeetfu'lly L* feeling that if beef v.nuid sro wow. 1 fifteen cent* a pound again, ?\ 1 crything might in- well. Mefcii\vhii< = i;! futeWit grew shabb: * and sbai ' . hU and water and jure ase a fid as he darkened the !?ir: floor and th " r'datjp* were p'teil in the sink, and th ! fauee'ts din on luem unavai'liig ! lyShe had found room for the idea i 'leaflet that doe had given her o1 * j the crowded shelf above the sink. an< ' sometimes she looked Up from th dishpan at it. with wondei injr eyes ",44The way to begin living the id^a life ?s?to begin." ' I lev mother said that it didn? | seem to her to make sense. 'Lizahet! read it once, suspiciously and thei 1 forgot all about u. But Len nn< Maggie discussed it more than once in sonic hewililenner.t. l.en say frapkli that he didn't "get it." * | There was no hot water, and no body in the world coUld wash 'h ! ph? tes after a lamb stew din her ii cold. She piled them and scraped the! : while she waited for some water t tjlmil. "Maggie!" This was her mothei j from bed. "Liz go out?" '- Ten minutes ago. Ma." "Well, here's ail there is to it, j said Mr. .Johnson. "I'm at the en ' of my green, and I can't do no mor j leaves until. I get some. I guess yo are tired, ain't you?" -Xoi so very." "You'll have to get the money fjxrt s Voire father. .Mare-io'V "Pop, have you thirty vents?" l"! "I uut'ss so " He counted it o??it, dimes, pennies. II \ . It |S^h| '' nilV!C nrnaan rim 0 mTfiiii SHOP ;ij I now .nave my place of busino > j ipeii, near Sprinkle's Filling Stailoi ^ ! Am prepared to render first cla: 'j BATTERY, GENERATOR, START h ER, HORN ana MECHAN1CA 'Xi j SERVICE. Call and see me; faire S prices in Boone. All work guarai e'le<:d:r * I also carry Pure Distille 1 Batterv Water a i Ray Brendeli Boone, N. C. >v; I ??? 1 M lO j VBMBHBHBMBH MOM^ 5AV? I Nei/tT? j ?E Kieur (HIMIJ - i wnf=~N ^ V:@',.;flK ^>rt i ^K' *' '' h^SP? EVERY THURSDAY?EOONJB, N. C. \d Philanthropist Passes ' ^ * Nathan Straus. <lit* -t New York's grcaK 't nipfehants. who dey voted Iiis lite ftttd his fortune to e aiding mankind, died at 8J. a "Will two be enough, Ma?" "How much did your father give \ you? Thirty cents?ye?, that will bt :i enough, but I would like to know - what Len Johnson does with his mon ?, ey! Shut that door!" Dishes waiting, kettle so slow t<j sjheat. crumbs on the i'loor. battel e; spiile<i and dried on the sfove, the ejivd tubleclolu rumpled, the sugar -jbowi upset, dish towels -tiff with j grease and water?no matter, the ,1' inspiration of it went before her like ti a banner, as she rati down tdark I street. e "The way to begin tiring the idea! life is tc begin." I "Joe." Maggie asked, a day or lw < later, "how could you live the idea! t ; life ir nothin' in your life was ideal?" u'"Ah, theres the catch!" Joe answernjed airily. [ 1 "The meaning of that ideal life is "i II ' n i ?j >\ I fx I OIBKK ? W- M' r * -' Igmii ': U Hil p&iHi- ' lip l-J.u. Tft r Hum, si ; nil I r/irt quality product I i v luiill, liiiisiM'ii ail arc t iilin-l) iu'm *5 Cho.vrolH's riilu loHCi>t iti Chevr ["- the very Um^Mt i L Gome in. See lit n~ C.hfrk the price it ii called the d J ' " KB *LSO DEALERS IN 'i Ll?:=_ :: s:::::: WEU., PINKS . MAVPE IT'SECAoMv YOIJ HAVE-.H' ^ ^ power ~ ?------- ?? you in?you re all in your own mind. ( do you see? What you have doesn't y | rout tor. What you think and "what p you am is everything? and what it hunk it all i;!" ho added -sneenngly \ to himself. "Do you gyt hie?" he J Jj asked aloud. - ' j y She <i'*d not get him at all, but'she; idcd. i? "You must make everything beautiful in your life," doe said, encouraged by her attention. "An old plate, ^ i for instance, an old stain on the wall. Why. Maggie, the museums of En- a full <-f them -old plates and ragged clothes and worn-out rugs * and water stains, unci everyone thinks tl they're beautiful! The ceiling of the ; Sistme Chapel, for instance. Did you ! over hear of that ?" j v' 'Michelangelo <ii ? it,M Maggie said | : r.ou<Uttg. "Aijd how did you know that. j M "()! . 'a ' had it ilk school, an' then 1 "~ J we have 'era here, among the fifteen-! ' cent classic colored reproductions, j Maggie replied. Well. All these old pictures | tl ; dirty and worn, mouldering away? | j. rill the did palaces are, lots of tin: , q hooks, all the furniture?and yet n persons swarm over there every yea?* r 'land admire them," said .joe. "Now, j_ the point is, suppose you hat! to 'ive ^ | with a lot of rotting t"ui*niU:re, aatl j| : chipped plates! and you just said id c 'j yourself: 'Those are beautiful and ^ | valuable relics--* 11 "You mean thai cups and chairs ^ and bein* poor an* tired really nave ^ no thin* to do with the way you live?" ^ she askeu. coming nearer to it than tj he had. as he recognized somewhat j to his surprise. tj "You've got it," he said. ^ There was vision in her uplifted j# j. eyes. . . > the walls oi" the mattress factory, where they were sitting had " faded away, and new dreams of rave : beauty and fitness and purity had risen before. inner sight. lor IHllj li^vrolet vial * "I |h Sinnrfunl Ion ....... I "" ?\ni|>r . > v . . UtT.,, ... ' ' ? " ^ itltlnw t K:!a;!^i;r .5, 2|| ^ iriMiilifmnif . . I ?"*? ttiift vsJr* *?5U ^iprriul i'H'iijMiirfii rtJrii. ill i?. I?. flint. . your n\onvy in a ne? an to[mp' fuul si worth wltil;* first to r new aiixU'ls i-. a Jin*- car?a hrou{.*hi>ul. Eaeh is ?hr-si???eil> itl e?n?ip|?e<I to mitnilards that .>* " / in the loAv-oriec iirhl. Yet r SI cct! ;>mf8 arc not only ..the ..?-?' olet out are umnng " ^ in to<Iuy,>* motor car market. e new Chevrolet Six. I>rtveit. s?and you will rcalir.e why E See yonr dealer beU lOQNE CHEVROLET CO! Ire llP . *' . ' CHEVROLET SIX-CYLINDFR TRUCKS." *??? ? : : : : s : : : : : - Y^A.H 7! got T power tKouGrtl 'W / But t +iAV^N'"T J ^ ^oT WONT * POVJER. . i i {% " r* j *** '}^5iji AMl 'Vot\ nothing coUl<lY-,sjtop thai if on once got it!" she said m a ivhis,1. And then, half to Ijcrseif, ant* wait hp girt home and begin!" m<t after a while- she said wistfulc: "doe, 1 viiiitt I hiiuw" yj ?)>-cfc u5 ou l;now.v' . COXTINTKI) NMXT WKKK NOTICE" OF ADM IN I ST RATIO N Having qualified as administrator f the estate of Wyatt Hayes, this > to notify ait persons having claims gainst estate of said deceased to ifiibit them to the undersigned within ivelvo months from date, otherwise lis notice will be pleaded in bar of leir recovery. All persons indebted :? the estate will please come foraid and make settlement This January 15. 1931. H. <\ HAYES, -J J-i>t Administrator FOR SALE Wc have almost seven acre* of exraoi ciinarily good, ground, suitable ur raising tobacco, that lies barely utsidc of Johnson City, that has a ew nine-room house on it, bascicnt, plenty of concrete sidewalks, irge barn, chicken house, smoke ou&c and spring house. The spring as been concreted and has a cot*rete trough for milk in the spring oust*. Will sell this property, taking a mail cash payment, notes, automoile, truck, team of horses cr mules i a dowp payment and will arrange We remainder on easy terms. !f the prices of tobacco stay up lie right party can almost raise nough tobacco next year to i?ay for ame. CARR BROTHERS Phone 5104 JOHNSON CITY, TENN. * 3taBi<!iii?? lies . >1*35 . ar? Si . 1 it-*- ' , t'.xS. Hi?5 : By Terry Gilkison \... /iv._ i i Wf^y T^? Tftyi.H 7>-i>.T t ^.PEAH. ? >* yjil.ne IA?*.t**3?JA PJJ LIKE, OwMOV J \ LIKE tee CACfM/
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