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FIFTH !M? I'A'-MENT
"A !i> >," Li's Mi K- -ait' ear'.'\
-::!y. Hut he liked her blind admiration.
naverthelmsa. iiSffl ill.-,
.war mother v..H:V": -ht
rra hm> or-,? tlay.
"fflrBSfli" r He sturei'. e-jfetfierol
No; it; lie- .-aid. "She ?p!U a
Beard the ether day," he sai.-i ;tfi> .'
* Thought.
5J?.-ai; wlhiiui unni?t>sral yd
-ht a -lardy. Iiaiee.er.dvi
"id w.iir.r.i, helping with the
?c. >ii!v supply "i! itindlbig.
' Wh:t does your father do. .Joe-?*'
Tho onTy veai \Tifjik Dad docs now
* - r a ?o!f f.zxirtsQ at a country club,"
answered .scrupulously:
"A gavd 7" she asfce< . wi<Jon*n?
;Igr y; . *'A earc-.oker *"
It was a shame tVi.- (rase her. hut
then sin- was such a simple little
Ciiinibbetl. Joe reflected. Grimy hii
it- face, jrriir.y little hands. nuki-colr
- i d ati "on. md boois a size too bis:.
'l"-. ?k was talking:.
. but she was jHiiU; a .- well.
%ji5fl0He didn't have much maney. mind
;,M. but he did. Mackenzie was' in the
. -;rithen. a.*i* they say he named
; son V-.r hihy."
There was a familiar npjr about
jjfetjlese facts; could she possibly be
.-pcakim? of ;ht employer and p? His
father?
\Vhat 611 earth are you talking
:r <n?t7" he asked blankly.
'Alerruj^' she answered readily.
"Maekenvie was the brains, thev
w. - h( was the 'Alack* ? but he's
dead. lint Merrill is the soul ?>f honor
he no! only has. the faculty of
.i.iwin' .yobd met: about him. but he
has made a small fortune out of tilt
Miick. took care of most of her fanily.
ar.' lias ken' several of her relatives
- i- -{' jail for what they done
in wartime* as wcjJH"
.{no was staring at he r oddly, a
-l..\s -mile -in eadintr on his iiaee.
"\Vht> lanyht you that piece
"KvVvoiio kr- ,vs ?hat."
? "Is?that He uninnetl. Kolayes
of hi? t he. kept out of jail,
eh? Tha' was probably I'ncle l?;v-;
ipu: and younc Irv.
lie leoked at her. nupsjntc in his |
turn. |
-.Id like to walk Mayen- In on tfroJ
old man spine day? of bettor vet, j
walk him into the .store and intro
hire Moggie as tin fine, iudepeud-;
nt irir! he's always taikiny about.'*!
dor reflected "I'd say. 'You keep,
sup-yestinfi- that 1 *rot out. somewhere
iuuh meet a rta! girt?weU. she is;
'eat, :M aggie. Ai? slopbright
off the floor of the Much intothe
position of your opl'? daughter-i
I R-hiw!'
"! might hi off it. anyv;ay." fcw-j
tho tights ran on. 'Maggie's such a:
7 little ifltfiJ. she'd enjoy playing.. tbeJ
part. She's made up for it ami tarty
it off like a coinediefme! '
itut he couldn't play any ' game's;
with Maggie. The poor kid was fall-j
in:,' in iovc with hitu fa-d enough as J
it was.
'*ti's probably her fii ci e.sh." Joe!
: thought. watching her hot without a|
sort of generous pity. "She'll have it
had. But it won't hurt her, it hover
hurts attyone.
i>he was far evvougn irero any a\:-'f
precaution now., aiy.ll events, as she!
chattered 011 of everything she found;
interesting, sometimes making him-uugh.
1 y -v- giving;
him a prick behind the eyes that - j
owed itself to a very ;diffe?:epi sen4|J
- -nation. SSB'iggie ha<*. iH'Vf. 'bought of
loBfy forV herself.
Hev own affairs. indeed. were en,
tit-ely, secondary. ? JM . 1 . ' f I
ahjrost word and glnnuR.-JS
MM! ggi you what. Joe. I hke you
- hettei* shaft anyorio eiso .except ^ ; I
own|;rn !y ,
V ; ' Don t hke too ?&;\veU ds your-.s:s-'
r- :'r-5-' huh?
"Well i iik-.! some things about!
g? you _as about
Liz," she might finally decide. SJ
The little figure drooped against,
a length of drabpaintud brick wall,;,
the Ismail, hard-worn hands. were
cinr-ned in one of her rare moments^
of idleness, and hev absently staring;
eves wove an unusual expression
sorrow ami doubt. ToeMf kcavt prkk-'
<<i hin.
*1 hupc \c.u'iu pot l.vKimiintr-l
. sumethintr that j-ou eati't " finish,,!.i;u;i.'i(
!" he h|?u to himself move i
thou gU.
One day he brought hei a long
envelope, which. upon opening it, in
v . an expectant flutter. Maggie found
f?ill of printed v'G's," large ami small!
vtWfvoiri magaxines. am1 uewsnapovs. i>
W, Joe, ci's*wfu! cute the way,1!
you learn rnr!" die said. he. hi tray- '
ing eye.- luminous her whole Suing
rousting toward hiin visibly, n;t -i.-t
ihly. And she-presently reported thai
; her mother and sister had made dry. ,
yg&r/ half-contemptuous reference to the! }
j^j?L$-Lfaet "that, she did not drop the ubiq-i t
iiitous final consonant any more. i t
She told hir.i that he had brought; i
all hev luck.; i'<
14It was the day you first'*?she j't
paused?"first came,*' she resumed \
III PINKY DINKY : r :
POP, WHO . -ZtVJf
THE. ?1-lSE.^T
^ ever Livep ?.
;st Girl" j
EN NORRIS |
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I briskly. decidintr upon her very, "'that
I trot oil ihv Heel idea. And i!iei>
'member thai you ?ave me one that
dgfcfj y-rina h<>:ru''V Well, I put It up
\v the clock; and ue?-we just about
live by that care. It's mack- a diffev.ice
in Pa. an "it's 'dado a difiercnce
?:i me. an' in ever^tliin;'.- '
"1 <'t- h difference in you." he
i^aid Isenou^y.
"Oh, Joe. honest-?a" you?"
; Honest 1 db. *
"Wei J. in i" erythinp. The way vou
talk, the way you look, the way you
; act.'' he said.
"Oh. 1 wlshf?" she said elatedly
-*T \yisht yen could sec* the d'i'fer
er.ee in ouy k iefcen! Pop an' I ask
each I'vther, every n??ht 'is it ideal?"
i Aral we won't >ro to bed unless it
, is!"
; ft HQililmd him t mvo m< ?
' openly. << adoring.
J?he thought hiu) brilliant, sb*ihou'^Kt
him well educated. ih".
i thought him wise and witty and lovi
hole. when his own .failed him.
And her laughter! The divine, the
bailable gift of mirth had been givcit
Hei?ioe first thougHl Maggie j
pretty when find he sa?v her laugh, j
{ She lived in a delicious gii!e of it.
Th;r. little soft touch <>n hi- coat.;
that liitU soft giri-persdh jumbled;
1 iuauisi his shoulder for a minufx*. in!
; the crowded aisle, those black fringed;
ye.- brimming with mjrth and afi'ec:
rjoa -those were all darned agiee;
able things, his thoughts woniil agree.
A hundred times, a thousand times
lie Heard her call herself lucky.
W ith hoi usual eager rush she retailed
a hundred reasons. Her health,!
her wonderful family, her mother- ?
described >a " genteel. ' licr 'dashing!
aster, who had such a good j.ob, and
hei; father? wiihoiu whose assistance;
! .Maggie's yearnings toward the yuival;
life" vvoYdd have bee n o ushod in the :
j hiui. and whose companionship meant j
eryihiae tv> the washer of the
| Johnson dishes and the keeper of the
Johnson kitchen.
"Rut yh>u"v?* had hard hick, doe.' !
she agreed pityingly.
This vi!>;ed him. too. Or perhaps;
the prickling, uncomfortable emotion;
it aroused, was riot vexation, but)
something deeper?something nearer!
compunction. Of course he had had'
a rotten deal. Hut for Maggie to bc*j
j the one gr? see it!
i "How do y<ai mean I've had hard
: 1.. ?- >??
i .hick :
; "Oh. wcij. every \vay! You weren't
kyaiseri for. I his ddr.d of work---and]
| vou hale it, sjfad you keen thinkin
that you'd rather ho .^nniowhores i
] bike. 'loirs' somethin/r .else, an* you|
: like these givls here in thej
Mack?"
'IgiSSgg muthe. cfefo vveil? I
:he asked.
1 "Xi'Uv Ddh't know a darn thing!
e.houi choking.'" Joe cbnlx'sspdi
* '.Don't vein father help Her none
any"'' Magpie a^ked
'Novel*. The olfi man is no more
use around the house than a paper
monkey!"
-''Joe, I do think that's pretty hard
on you! Who makes your hod?"
'Oh, anybody, kast night 1 had
dinner with some friends of ours
named Russell/* Joe volunteered.
"And did she give you a good dinner?"
"Oh. yes?she cooks all rigid/* Ah
odd look came into Joe's eyes. "Herj
.d lighter fvvas there//.. , jj
"Dauyhter? An* her husband?"
"No. Mill-?Milly's no* married." J
'The daughter ain't?"
llllislfisjl Jffi
"Nope. Milly's about?nineteen/-'
- ! ?"?.', ?"? ? ^?W-She^
bea'uTifiil.y
But be told himself that he must;
sto.p this teasing whije he saw her
uotienly daunted face, the gallant
efforts she made-to appear quite her-!
self. :;r:,V/:i,V|
But life saw tha?j#her color had!
Vibbed; and that: the little hand thai
steadied the boxes was itself m>- j
sr? :u'y.
He felt oddly shaken. He v-drmed
la his own business filled with a
wretched sensation that he :uu?d
somebody make' this up re Mngglc*. j
Vkit-rrhahc, -the very making up'
would carry the- mattei furihVjr, :aSfS
?v gad iTi ne fra enough.
Ik- shook himself physically. He.
rould not shake $ie .thought away,*'
fie unlocky ?w;rh the roadster pnrfcVppfl
? few blocks iway, arid the. com- .
fart ofdour of"r-tJift Stal&'s most beau- '
cifui homes o.hcK y? the; i outfett/i. He ;4
iiijhick.v-^-r-a Merrill playing awork,
ie'*e in oho of th?- stores he would;
hsgeiy own some day!
More bewildering still, he was beginning
to like this play work.
v vin;ir |
-ere moments \vii^nt. the Mack filled}.'
lis soul with a deep content. .Joe rev- "
pea in the rush aha hurry, the ah- 1
airditv and yet seriousness of evevy-fl
hine that went oa in the Mack. Ev-j
n Smith and Flenminjt" sometimes 11
ook Joe into their cowhsels, as they I *
vandored importantly to and fro. ' *
Wi?Q TO BE. ) I! f ME"
ON) WHO^^/ j HE
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THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV
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! Joe's championship ^of Maggie?
helped her from the very beginning:
j?an obvious fact that made her still
.more his abject slave. On a dismal.
aarly January da> Maggie first up
I pea red ia whut might have been call-;
j od her normal form, he heard the*
i congratulations that the busy girlsj
j uung to her from all sides! and ion-.
| gratuJatvd himself that he was part-'
| iy responsible at least.
She had done no mare than elee-j
tidy everyone by discarding magnif-i
Kfcently. and withbut permission, the}
.iisfigUMng ticking apron. That was
Jail. But the effect was astonishing, j
Everybody looked at her, every-'
; body piaised her. ami * he packing-'
room i>oys went mtwc like a row off
I ten-pins.
i It was >n this day that sheC
said to Joe. with a carefully cat eless'
, air:
"I'd bet. -if; voii ieii in leve. Joe. it}
> would be with a reguia? lady, would-j
r-:'t it?"
'Mow do yov mean. regtOar young
lady?" >< ? asked.
4"We?l. ! moar -y? a know, a?aj
: nice so. * of nr.i:ing Maggie '
} floundered?"I mean?" she began i
'again drepei ately?"mean, for in-j
; stance, that there (are loi. of girls i
this store that you couldn't; call!
voffog ladies!" she said, turning scar-,
I let.
"No. you might call thein nice
! girls.'' Joe conceded. "and vou might
| call them smart girls. 15ut no, youcT
: hardly call them voting ladies.'*
"Like : che.,,1 -..w! JjHUJtfl
inns.' 'said Maggie.
"Yep. I guess school tcac^ei-s d
1 librarians would be young ladk-s ail
r:ght." Jfle laughed, "f.cavc it to you
t'> thirl: a thing 1 ik that!" he said.!
"My auht was a school teacher,
joe," she said, 'Mac. how would a!
person who wasn't u lady get to 1>?
one? Somebody must d eoniinoncdd.
once, yoii know."
"Well, reading the hacks of new papers
and magazines about mar.
ncrs, !*??' one thing."
"Thai helps a lot, and tr be, al ;
ways looking for the right way t, |
do things. lo be quici and .fflfttb
and listen to the way nice personsneak.
And thyn, of bourse, Uteres
always the rule that a lady puts the,
feelings of others before her own
thinks of others first."
"Nice things all join together,
don't they, Jce"" be said, is: deep,
thought
"I don't get you; Miss -Johnson."
"Here's what I v.as tiiinkiu'. Imst '
Sunday tn church they said sotoi
thing about helievlh' that you have
a good thing, an' you have it. Not
v-ili have it, hut have it. An' that's
like the, idee I lift?i wrote that un
on the same card. It was in my prayer
book, an' 1 got it straight. Now,];
those two things go together, don't
they. Joe?"
"They do." he said, struck- "Bui I
think that you were smart to fj*ee
that. Maggie."
I rcXHNUKl) NEXT WivKK
Kake -l.ucinda paints and now- :
deriy o good deal, doesn't she?
Bosfch?Vos. when you kiss her it's \
just like eating a marsh mallow. 1
DR LAMBERT NOW
ENDORSES SARGON
"I was Spending the winter in San
Antonio, Texas, when ! first hear.l
of Snrj'on. The treatment appealed to
DP.. GILBERT S. LAMBERT =
1110 because of its thorough scientific 3
background. I decided to try. it for 3
a very bad form of chronic const-i- E
pation. which J was entirely unable 3
to correct with ordinary laxative? 3
and nui-ratives used in general pvac- E
Cite. .. =
"J was aL>o subjectyto^syvore bib 3
iou.s attacks. My complexion had be- 3
Tome yellow as though I had jfioiu- E
lice My appetite was below normal. ~
VJv food did not digest or assimilate. 5
ausing gas and indigestion. I was =
[cfs'hg weight and strength rapidly. i 3|
"Three bottles of Hargon and one i s
ic.vtlc of the Pills relieved me. en-j-s
Lively of these'^iroubles and I no!3
onger have any liver or biliary symp-IE
:oms. 17; fact, 1 am in better phvsi-lE
?al tone than in years. ! j3
"Sargon undoubtedly represents [s:
i real advance in the field of medi-jH
ine."'?Dr. Gilbert S. Lambert, SanjS
Krancisco. ?Advertisement. **
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rHUSAi rw \
WAS 900 YEARS J
> PINKV/
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ERY THURSDAY -BOONE. X. C.
Make Farm Repairs
With Cheap Materia!
' - - r'
??ith outierijti^ vf. all kind.- m\v a
price aitvi labor cheaper than in man\
yeas-si many North Carolina farmer:
may find it convenient to make per
vianent re pa ins about their place?
before'" the rush of spring \v?)rk be;j
Ins. New buildings needed mav be
. instructed now at a cost much
er than the last few yeras.
* -Many of our fa< ra buildings have
tuf'ferc-d severe deterioration in the
?'-ast few yea?*;i because of the low
farm income as con;oared with the
high cost of materials and labor."
says A. T. Hoinian, ?gi k-tihurai ? ?
gineer at Stale Ctdlojrc. vFaune.desiring
to make pernior. -nr repairs
i* to bund, tier buildings so ladty
needed have been disconrayed from
<ioia.it so be car 4t>. of tbc expense.
9owew ; . prites are lowei :??\v a?:d
lit may lie the best pnss-lde time to
make these, necessary additions ami
I repair.v."
Mr. lloiman says tbc-jv a>< nfflr.y
.nxceilevt plans available free throuyhl
hi* rolinjl- f;i vvvt -iWnl; ...
~r>er:i v ushinti" to construct new b?ild ngs.
These plans have bco;> design '
; !h< doomJ"ient of agricultural
cng'neeriiifr at state Colilge ami :??>
:'-o planned ih'af tic* res tilt* ny buildi.i.s
will I??- efCfcient and economical.
Good buildings ire essentia? on ??vtv\y
fai 3'Ir. llolnian. It
takiv iess feed tV> maintain livestockj
in a comfortable, -anita-y barn. Corn
toiS& arc less vvhtn the grain is.
stored in a rat-proof 'crl(j as cont-j
liarcil. to leaving it in thy field or j
undci some makeshift shelter. Many!
tons of good hay tin* damaged each
ivinter anil spring because i is at-J
low: i" stand exposed in stacks;]
Cotton is iovv in t'lice. hut v.*i 11 he
worth less if it it; exposed to the effects
of rain am! weather, he saVs.
"I'vr found packing!
-pai'e." -m'
"Yeah T
"it has ?nly one drawback."
"W,Hat's rh.it V "
"Therer- :? ear in itV' t
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| IN HISTO
= All types and size
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i Church Announcements |
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ADVENT CHRISTIAN
KEY. S. E. GRAGG, Pasiut
Sunduy School each Sunday at
>- i*:45i Morning service a*. 11.o'clock.
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1 FIRST BAPTIST W'.
REV. P. A. HICKS. Pa*to?
. , School Itt.. 1- '
. ?Vi!fr:?t. superintendent- Preach iiic j ?
jat II a. m. ami 7 r- ?n- E. V. U.Txfaf <
j tl ?>. nr. Brotherhood BrO'J p. m- Mid- ,
I treeK orayer service on Wednesdays:
at 7 ''iff a?.
Choir i-actio.* on Friday. 7 rn
METHODIST CHURCH
UK. <>. ) rH.\\DI.!ii:. Pastor J !
Jjiiinftiy Scbobly *15' c. m., J. D. >
Rankin, Superintendent.
iVeucUfiul at H a. n?. :md\7 !>. !??. ~i
| 'by Dr. Of mdirij
Kpwor'.h Leagues 1 " p. in. j '
j ?rap aKCtir.p: on xVcdn?-7:~diiy aljrj
7 p. rr. I
I'hoir practice on Friday, 7 n. m. i -j
LUTHERAN CHURCHES
St. Marks. Bailey's Camp j T
Pr? ael . - service the fir-t Siimlay
of r. month at 11 a in* Sunday IT
Viiscil BSdnv. -utmc su'pcrioten- i
Ideal. j'f
Grace East Boone
5?vic(' o\erv second and fourth f)
Sundaj a( II a. ml; rind every first
land third Suudav at 8 pi in. Sunday
School dyery Sunday at 3:45 ;s. in.; 1
1 'rofes.-or C L. Sawyer, su peri liter-;
dent* Luther Leajrue. meet.-; over;. f
School every Sunday at h:J5 a. m.;
Sunday at 7 p. in. Vesper service at M
7 o.;cl 'ck p. in.
Holy Communion Congregation 11
Clark's Creek
i'r*. aching service tfte third Sundayj
! a month at 1 I a. m. Sunday
Sch:n : every Sunday at 5) :-i5 a. m.;; f,
: nsend, Superintendent.
Banner Elk Station
Sei < c e very fourth; Sunday at, 15 ,l
pMcvh- p. m. gV I t;'
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CfM? ft ad St> it' S
Kat'^sitn Tiitic for 1
Prices are scraping bottom.. Now i
worth for punctures and delays to
of, old tires. Slippery fall and win
traction. New Goodyear treads w?
ever in winter-~about TWICE as
They will still he like new next sprii
huv!
_
lifetime Guaranteed- Fi
Superior to many/ of the first grfcfli
higher. Values only Goodyear can ?:
Year round service.
Standard llallottns i St,
ed Goodyeai" I SERVH
ither 1 read
;t prices radiator,
p y 1) this ir part
* | prcciate yo
;s in stock. g
I Tire Coi
MBUTORS fOR WATAUGA COUNTY
V. R. Winkler, Manager
me and Blowing Rock, N. C
LOCAL DEALERS:
i, MaWl. N. C. A.
T. A. McGUlRE. Todd, N C.
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fM/\T A GREAT
PlRT?P/W PRESENT*
'ST ?AV? <3CTTT N
WHAT CAKE '
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JANUARY 2ih 10:U
To a?I trese services the public
?> most eordiallv inv>t-?di?^M?
J. A. YOUNT. Pa56;?r|C
WATAUGA CHARGE
I'.KV. H. M. WEI.MAN, l iistur
Hehsoh's Chapel?Second and
Fourth Sundays, *1 a. m. Sunday
School at I*:45. J. B. Morton, superintendent.
Epworth League. f> p, m.
Valle Cruris -Preaching; every
First ami Third Sunday at II a. m.
Sunday School 10 a- to., J. M. Shu) I,
iupcrintendent. Epworth League ev
Wednesday high
Mabel?Preaching every Second
?nd Fourth Sunday at p. tn: Sunfay
Sehool 10 mi5. Robert Castle,
upcrin ten tie lit.
Salem?Preaching every fiist Sun
t;?i* at ' p. w.
THE FARMER FEEDS EM ALL
he politician talks and talks.
The uttoi play* his part;
he soldo r glitters bti parade.
The goldsmith his art
'he scientist pursues his germ
O'er the terrestrial ball.
'be sailor navigates his ship,
l?tt tlie farmer feeds them all.
'he preached rounds the pulp t des
The broker reads the tape:
the tailor cuts and sews his doth
To fit the human shap
file dame of fashion, dressed in siik.
Opes i'orth to dine or call,
r drive, or dance, or nrorroxrndo
But the farmer feeds them all.
In- workman wields his shiny tools,
The n ire chant shows his wares";
h? aeronaut above the clouds
A dsz?.y journey dares,
at art ami science soon would lade,
And commerce dead would fall
the farmer ceased to reap and sow,
For th< farmer feeds them all.
?Anonymous.
Mis- Peaehblow: 1 hope you won't
. el hiri because i refused you.
Mr. I'.veaker: Not at all' Not "t
U! 1 assure you. 1 feel honored. pos
ivelv honored. I'd rather be rejectd
by Cam than anyone ! know.
rire Buyers!
( costs more than it's rss
got the last miles out ?
iter roads require full ?
?ar down slower than
slowly as in summer.
ttg?this is the time to
^Mfind&s: |
ill Oversize =Ej
e tires selling dollars
>ffer! Free mounting'. ja
iiadard Cerds
CE Is Our Motto
:k your battery, test youv
cJjust and mount chains; =
of our service and we apur
business. STANDARD
otor oils and greases use
;sy card with us.
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npany |
A. GREENE, Deep Gap, N. C- ^
: By Terry Gilkison
NKY D/wi/v i
M N Gits'
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