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Anything but That!
(An Editorial from the Rotarian
Magazine).
Cherished among the many leg
ends of the Spanish-American peo
ple of New Mexico is the story
of San Ysidro.
It seems that San Ysidro was
plowing his garden one Spring
da'-\ when an angel appeared and
said to him, “The Lord wants to
see you, Ysidro. Come with me.”
Ysidro plowed on. “I can’t go
now,” he answered. “You tell the
Lord that I’m late in getting my
corn planted and. that I’ll see Him
later when I’ve finished.”
The angel nodded and disappear
ed.
Soon another messenger hovered
about San Ysidro’s plow. “The
Lord wants to see you right now,”
he said. “And if you don’t come
at once, the Lord says He’ll send
hot winds and drought to wither
your corn.”
Ysidro paused only long enough
to wipe the sweat from his brow.
“I’ve had Tnot winds and droughts
before, and they don’t bother me,”
he said. “I can carry water from
the river. Tell the Lord I can’t
come now, but will see Him when
I have my corn planted.”
Baffled, that angel, too, vanished.
A Tew moments later a third
angel, larger and sterner than the
other two, tapped Ysidro on the
shoulder. “The Lord doesn’t like
your attitude,” the heavenly cour
ier said. “He says if you don’t
come with me right now He’ll
send a plague of locusts to devour
your corn from the top and a
plague of cutworms to eat its
roots.”
“That doesn’t frighten me,” an
swered Ysidro, turning his plow
and starting back.- “I’ve had
nlagues before, and with fires and
hoeing and hard work, I’ve saved
my corn. You tell the Lord I’ll
see Him tomorrow.”
And so the third angel flew
away.
San Ysidro had plowed several
furrows before the fourth mes-
senger glided to earth.
“The Lord isn’t going to argue
any more,” the angel announced,
flapping his wings hard to keen un
with the stubborn piovvmun. “He
simply said that if you didn t come
with me right away, He’ll send
you a bad neighbor.”
InstanLy San Y'sidro stopped
his mule and wrapped the reins
around the plow handle. For the
first time there was fear in his
eyes.
“A bad neighbor!” he shouted.
“No, no! I can stand hot windjfl*
and droughts, locusts and cuff
worms—l can stand anything but:
a bad neighbor. I’ll go with you
right now.”
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