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THE FRANKLIN TIMES ?? Tear $1 .50 Eight Months 1.00 Six Months .14 Fear Months M Forc'.rn Advert MM Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Entered at the Poet Office at Urals burg, N. C., as second class matter. Next Thursday Is Thanksgiving. Five more weeks to Christmas. Do your shopping earl;. President-elect Harding baa. been Invited to attend the lnangural cere mony to Obregon In Mexico. The friends of Marlon Butler are exertir^ every effort to have him made la member of Harding's Cabinet. J s: Unless Officer Meadows takes a va cation franklin County's ' supply -of "nog" for Christinas wtU be missing. Prohibition Oflicer B. H. Meadows ?oaitinues to worry the moonshiners. He has broken up many plants the ml week. 1 .Governor-elect Morrison has been In Raleigh recently familiarizing him self with the work" that will soon rest mpon his shoulders. According to an article In Wednes day's Washington Poet there are 500, 000 reds In the United States busily engaged in their effort to overthrow the government, and there is plenty of Lenlne money to pave the way for their work. Every one ought to be caught and court martial ed . The seports yesterday from the Methodist Conference In Rocky Mount says that Rev. L. S. Masse y is slat ed to head the Methodist College In L>ouisburg next year. His appoint ment would be gladly received by the people of Loulsburg, as he and his good wife made many friends while on this charge several years ago. HEN Tom left the term to go to the city to make his fortune be did It contrary to the ominous head shaking and phophedes of disaster of all the neighbors. Even his fa ther and mother, with past years of toll rapidly be ginning to tell upon them, were pes simistic of his chances of success, nor could they resist expressing their fore bodings. The old folks loved their boy too well to reproach him for his desertion now In the first flash of bis young manhood, but their hearts did ache at thought of the separation. "You'll soon get tired of all that Imriy-bnrly there In the city, Tom," Ua old father told htm. "And when, yon do, I want yon always to remem jfcer that we've still got a place for you pack here at the old homestead. It mayn't be as Sue and showy as lots jrou'U see there in the city, but it's Mere the sort that the good Lord In tended yon for. Ma and I are hoping the bent for yon, son, bat ? wlten yon away off there ? Just pocket your pride and come1 back here to os who lore atifc*-- " - ? "~v~ " go ytjpnf Tom left the fanajrltE In qnsst of fame and fortune. Bow be farad there and all the tor kin him ritor oncaTBTrtlng out that m had no onion cud. Huddled In hla shabby orrrcont oo a street corner In the squalid section ?TTSt ? U5? Icy wind wfclatHn* around him and biting through hla threadbare garments ? poor Tom stood on the evening before Christmas, won dering where he might find a shelter In which to aieep that night without freeslng. _ . ' Just how long he had stood there, shivering In the chill wind on the street comer ? bitterness against the great unfeeling city rankling in his heart ? Tom Oil oft knew. Be was startled from his moody reverie by hearing a hoarse, wheedling voice at his very elbow, saying what was In tended as a confidential tone: "Bow'd y*Uke a nice hot feed and soma coin to Jtngle In yer. pants, bo? Ain't hungry, are jal" - * v Whirling about, Tom saw that his accoster was an under-slsed, burly fal low with a touch, truculent visage and hands shored deep Into the side pock ets of his coat. Be wore a battered cap with the visor pulled low down over his eyes and spat malevolently upon the sidewalk each time before he SDoke. "How'd y'Uke the Idas, huh?" be r* Iterated In his raucous, grating volt*. Sidling closer as be spoke and casting a wary eye op and down the nearly deserted, gloomy, wind-swept street. Tom retarded him with distaste and undisguised mistrust. He looked Uke a typical thus. Bat misery cannot be too fastidious about the company It keepa. Finally Tom acowled blackly and answered: "What's* that te you. anyway I" "Wall, yos're ootta luck, alnt cka, pall Xer on ye/ uppers, atoay broke and maybe with an empty belly, too, hah. be} Wall, I guasaad that mach. I alnt blind yet. I alnt I ' Welt 1 need a pal tor a little Job tonight and we both .can make a lotta Jack out of it. see?" "Ton ? you mean ? burglary T" Tom mattered hesitantly, with an Involun tary contraction of hta heart. "Humph! Not anything l%* safe cracking or breaking Into a bouse. I dont. Too many people staying op with the kids over Christmas trees to night. I ain't keen on takta' fool chances like that, I'm tellln' yal Naw, this I wantcha for la something soft ; safe and easy as fall^g off a log. Ton know the big prices people are willing to pay for real boose since the coun try went dry. don't chat Well, right near here I know a certain warehouse that's got 20 cases of whisky stored In the- t?t--ment. Deal bonded staf(JL The watchman la an old fifxia and la willing >r~W? awl?a II U "C'U- split' on the coin we get after * wards. Tw nt' another gay with a fliwer that's ready to meet as about 2 o'clock this morning to hanl away tbs . stuff aa fast a* we paaa It apUo him through the alley windows. We've1 got It all framed for a fake capture and tying op of our other pal, the night watchman, ao that the bulls can't get wise to him. We're willing to imllt four ways on the cwag If y* wants go in on. It with us. Whatcha say now. bo, huh? Safe and easy as falling off ,a-l?*r -?..?? --Thy sinister appearanco of the ruX flan repelled Tom, and the very thought of the crime they contemplat ed struck him with fright. It meant Jail, disgrace, if they were caught. "But I ? I never have done any thing like that In my life," be stam mered weakly, teeth chattering In the biting wind. "It would be criminal, The whisky doesn't belong to as. It f would be Illegal for as even to try to sell It afterwards." " . "Pah!" spat the ngly-visaged man, sneerlngly. "You look pretty, a bird like youse, talking that way about what's lawful and all that ! Lots that these rick guys have cared how you got along since" you Came to town, from the fooks of you! They've got fine, warm homes and coin and every thing. Wotta they care whether poor bams like as have to go hungry or freese In the gutter on Christmas eveT Why should yon care about them when they dont give a rap about yon? You've got to go on living, ain't cha, huh?" Tom hunched his shnddering shoul ders against the wind, trembling aa much because of bis own moral Irreso lution as from the terrible cold. "Well, bo, how about It? Are y* on or are y* still so almighty particular ??r to in -Oodi" rasped hoarsely.*" "We'll meet cha at the comer by the lumber yard at 1 :30. Don't you fall to be Oien now I" "I won't 1 I'll be there all Tight I" Tam muttered brokenly, JWiailj' In ? his cringing ami he felt llk? the thief he had pledged Mmaetf te-becunis. Oh heaxen. If only ? | down Into hi* pocket* and fRmfcSed aimlessly on. He bad no particular objective In mind save only the need to keen moving lest he freeat or go ?ad irltli Ui 11 attain ol shrank from letting himaelf' think of the deed to which be was about to be party. Involuntarily his dragging footsteps ly lighted retail shopping district, where the crowds already had thinned, hurrying home to. their families and happy, expectant kiddles with the boll day celebration In mind. The hours dragged slowly by,. It came near the hour for the stores to doee. Bat still there was *?n?)tlf poor Tom had only bad monej, to have rushed In, bought the present! he wanted for the old folks and chil dren, and caught the midnight train back to the country. He easily could reach there by morning and appftr as a Joyous surprise to tbem ? ' Bnt ah I Why drive himself to *Hs tractlon by thinking of that when there was no chance that ? And right then, suddenly, be eaptad It lying there, almost at his very feet? a big; fat wallet, with not a person nearer than a hundred yards of^'tdai. Plainly someone bad lost It In AM* mad haute to get home. Tom stopped and scooped it np like a flash. Around tbe corner he surrep titiously examined It. Bills both green and yellow, of large denoetfna tlona ? they fairly stuffed It I There were seven hundred dollars or tadtel ? a small fortune to tbe mlserablf poj who had not even eaten for fourteen hoora. Money I Money! Money! 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