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walk UP the street with him as he
bangles the silly thing in his teeth or
do you want to smell the nasty
smoke?" they argued. The answer
they say, is usually mo" and new
signer of the. pledge is obtained. IT,
1t was then that tho boys decided
something must be done. They missed
seeing their swecthearts and a number
of the male students at the local high
school formed a club, ::thc members
signing pledges as follows: .,.ii!:!.
81 do solcmnly affirm that 1 will moi
court girl who persists. in: :.
srWcaring knee slcngtl', skirts.
wearing low cut wdfsts below the
point where mother wore them wher
she was a girl y s - ;sH';}
Wearing silk stockings,
Using paint or rouge. i
Attending dances. iminus5 her corset
Pulling out her. eyebrows for wearing
her hair in such style so as to hidt
her ears.
Mr.. Mckee looks upon the boys or.
ganization as '::lnerely bluff club t
frighten the girls out Of their stant
against tobacco"
at would be a good thing, though
he added, "if something like that could
be done. We need more girls today lik'
our mothers"
In. the meantime, both sides are hold
ing firm, according to members, ant
much good is being done,% according
to Mr.. Mckee.
"This is not a temporary movemen
on the part of the girls said Mr.. Nc
Kee. "They are in earnest"
|: $50 are we" retaliated the boys.
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HEsTER's COTTON FIGURES
Movement for January this Year Loss
Than Last.

Movement tor January this Year Loss
Than Last. ~
The monthly movement of cotton
to the close Of January, compared
with last year, shows a decrease for
the month .of ,4s5,OOo bales, a decrease
compared with the year before last Of
274,OOO, >and with 1915, decrease Of
$4,000 bales, according to areport for
the Last six months announced by
Henry G. Hester, secretary of the New
Orleans Cotton exchange, Friday
night The total for January was L.:
14S,412, against 1,5S3,473 last year.
The amount Of the crop brought, into
sight for. the six months from August
to January inclusive is 1,964,00O COM
pared with $4,000 under last year.
The movement since August shows
receipts at all United States ports of
4,0S3,4S2 against 4,S96.61S last year;
overland across the Mississippi Ohio
and Potomac rivers to Northern mills
last year, and Southern mill taings,
exclusive of consumption at Southern
outports. 1,7s9.oO0' against 2,74o,974
Interior STOCKS in excess of those
held at the Close of the commercial
year were 733,t93 against 324,6S4 last
year. Thess:mnke. the. total movement
of the cotton crop, brought into sight
for the SIX months ending close Of
January 7,0l9, ,024, compared with o.
043.120 last year.
Northern =. ,>.spinners made average
weekly taking for. ther,season 31,09S,
against 70l999 last year.
Foreign exports for the six months
Of the season have been 2,9S1.2St n
decrease .undeIlrsast. year Of S53,1S3,
while stocks 1t. the seahoard and tho
20 leading Southern interior centers
at the close OF January were 2,SG3,-
377 compared with 2,447,273 last year.
Including stocks left over at ports
and intcrioritowns from the last crop
and the nutnbcr Of bales Of the cur
rent crop brought into sight during
the six months the supply has been
S,540.431 against 0.0f2,079 hast year.
In addition 10 the monthly figures.
Secretary Hester issued a statement
for the weekly movement for the sew
en- days ending February 3, inclusive,
showing total brought into sight this
year Of 249,711 against 310,10G for the
seven days. ending this date last year.
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KILLED BY A TRUCK.
Continued From Page One.)

has slcft Rock Hill for another part of
the world to start life anew. Mr.. Maj
or had many friends and his strange
and mysterious disappearance is a
subject for daily comment here.
Of Personal interest.
Mr.. NJ. T. Ford Of Glover was among
the visitors in Rock Hill last satur-
day.
Mr.. Raymond Carroll and little son
OF: Yorss!!Is. r. D. 3 wcrefamong the
visitors here last Saturday:
Fl. r. Bookout of the Bethesda sec
tion was 4 visitor. in, Rock Hill last
Saturday. :: ::
Former Supervisor ,Thos. w. Boyd
Leslie wassin Rock Hill Saturday.
fMessrs. w. S. and Gricr Lesslic Of
Leslie were Rock Hill visitors last
Saturday. =
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Of France, who are meeting in Paris
in national convention declared to-
day that the government action was in
effect an embargo on American coal,
because no American Company could
afford to .scllat the new price. which
after the payment Of freight would
net more than $4 4 ton,
The French dealers, it was stated,
approved the fixing of the new price
as 4 Temporary measure. The chief
purpose of the present meeting Of the
dealers, however is to protest against
the arbitrary action of the government
in Z; fixing ::t1Ic purchasf aid sale prices
for the couf In France The dealers
arpcar unanimous in demanding COM
rlcte, freedom ;of: action in the coal
/ business. g. Il,
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= Columbia. February 5:&sThc atti-
,tude of the legislature towards the at
tendance or 'truant" officer for 'en-
rorcement of the compulsory school
attendance law, has attracted consid-
cradle interest. 1t seems that the tru-
ant officer is doomed in many coun:
ties if not all. t The senate has pass
ed q bill to abolish the truant
Officer position and devolve his duties
en- the boards of school trustees. The
house passed to second reading a SINH
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FOR DISABLED VETERANS

Robinson's Bill Would Give Aid t.
Those in Noed.
Senator Robinson. Arkansas, has OF.
fered an amendment TO the sundry civl
appropriation bill 10 provide approx
mately $50, 100000 for hospitals for sick
and disabled soldiers.
The amendment provided that s15,'
100000 become available Immediately
the rest to be available for the fisca
year beginning July l, 1921.
Both sums arc to remain available
until expended.
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GIRLS BAN BOY SMOKERS
Boys Come Back by Trying to Reform
-. I. - 49,. ~, Girls -

Dan Cupid is finding his bows and
arrows, arc thus far quite useless
against the hearts Of the girls of the
West Side Christian Church Of this
city who have formed a club not to
keep company with boys who smoke
cigarettes or use tobacco in any form,
relates a Mattoon Ill.,, dispatch.
The club is continuing to grow ac-
cording to it's sponsor, Edward Mckee,
superintendent of the Sunday School OF
that Church, and though, marked de-
crease in the number of matches" is
noted, according to Mr.. Mckee, quite a
few local boys have given up bad
habits, ~
Dan Cupid's second and hardest blow
the blow that sent him reeling diz-
zily-cdme when a number of boy stu
dents at the Mattoon high school re-
taliated by forming an opposing or
ganization to try to make out Of the
girls of today "the kind Of girls our
mothers were"
1t was at meeting of the Christian
Endeavor Society week ago that Mr..
Mckee urged the girls to sign. pledges
not to keep company with boys who
used the weed" Twenty-Five pledges
were signed Immediately and during
the past week the club grew in leaps
and bounds. The Christian Endeavol
Society girls now hope to induce every
girl in town to join their ranks.
"Do.you want to stand around while
some boy is smoking a cigarette: OF
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FRENCH COAL PRICES

Government Fixes New Maximum of
- So Ton.
THE French government. has fixed
a new maximum price of 50 per ton
for all American coal, free on board
at French Atlantic ports, says Paris
dispatch of Friday This is the lowest
level American coal has reached since
it began declining last October, when
the figure was S32 per ton.
Representatives of the coal dealers
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u, = =. -i... -, .'>.. 2,,! t,'fs'.' ~
= canadaais buying. airplanes from
England for: fire patrol and survey
work. An attempt VIII also be made ma
to use them i'm the.seal industry. Z.
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Carroll's lunch stand at the Southern
depot was robbed last night, the thief
or thieves securing q small amount
of cakes and other edibies. Several
hoboes were arrested this morning to
connect them with the robbery.
A great shock to the entire commun-
ity was the death of Mrs. c. NJ Pryor,
widow of the late DR.. S. w. Pryor,
which occurred at her residence on
Saluda street Tuesday evening at
about eleven O'clock. Until stricken
with apoplexy at nine O'clock Mrs.
Pryor had apparently been as well as
usual; and when stricken was engaged
in reading Mrs. Pryor was a daughter
Of the late Capt and Mrs. R. W. Tins
ley,' of Union, and was: Atty three
years of 'age...-,... Chester feels proud Of
the selection of Hon. ]. Buford Atkin-
son, of spartanburg to be speaker Of
the South Carolina house Of, repre-
sentatives, as Mr.. Atkinson is a
Chester boy, and lived here until a
year or two after. he was admitted to
the bar. Old friends and neighbors
are acquainted with his genuine
worth, and know that he will wear
worthily the great honor that has been
conferred upon him..........Chester suf-
fered genuine loss yesterday after
noon when Luther Bell. the well
known colored mason and plasterer,
died In addition to being an expert
workman, the deceased was a slen-
did citizen. absolutely upright In all ol
his transactions, and one whose in
fluence was exerted at all times for
the right. Funeral services are to be
conducted this afternoon at three
o'clock at metropolitan A. NJ. Z. Zion
church. of which the deceased was an
active member. er....:........Invitations have
been received here to the wedding OF
Miss Lois Sample, formerly Of Ches-
ter, and James M. Barksdale, OF
Laurens, February IT, in Pompano
Florida.
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Cleveland Star (Shelby) Feb q: Mr..
William McCurry and Miss Olney
Champion were happily married Sun
day, January 80. at the Baptist parson-
age by Rev. J. NJ. Kester. Both are
prominent young people of South
Shelby, the bride being the attractive
daughter of Mr.. j. D. Champion in
South Shelby. They have the best
wishes Of host of Two
caravans of wagons hauled out the
steel for the Lutz bridge across the
river four miles north of Shelby. The
bridge will be 256 feet long. weigh S5,-
900 pounds and will be four feet above
the high water mark. Three bridges
have been washed away at this site
since the July flood, five years ago.
..........R Representative Peyton McSwain
introduced yesterday in the house oil
representative the following bill which
has for it's purpose the repeal Of the
25 cents a bale tax on cotton which
has been collected for two or three
years under the state cotton ware
house system and provides for the re-
turn OF this money to the, counties in
which it was collected for the purpose
Of erecting a county cotton ware
house or in the furtherance and assis-
tancc of the marketing of cotton.........
At the regular monthly meeting of
the aldermen Tuesday night, DR.. r..
c.. Ellis resigned as city physician,
having been elected county physician
at a salary of $50 per month. DR.. f..
w. Gibbs was elected city physician
in his place, the position carrying no
ca In ry with IL
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The incident affords some aid and
comfort to the opponents of feminism
and may we'll provide food for thought
to its friends. But we do not for a
moment consider it in the light of a
fair arrangement of the cause. 1t is
but one of the incidental evils attached
to new power. The women have a big
stick in their hands with whose use
they are not as yet familiar. No Won
der they hit their friends sometimes
instead of their foes. We are inclined
to the belief that their aim will i'm
prove. Surely the crowding of their
minds with the single idea of their
newly acquired voice in all councils
will give way to the welcoming OF
some other ideas therein to offset and
by friction to clarity this n idea.
1t is always we'll to have more thar
one idea in the mind at a time. 1t
helps to balance ones views and make
ones actions sane.
Something will happen, soon or late,
to the members of this Auxiliary, to
wake them up on this issue. Their
bows will be found playing craps and,
what is more, unconcerned at their
apprehension, since lneS can io.UiS w
the ~reproaches of their mother, say,
amt you tarred with the same stick
What's sauce for the goose, is u
for the goslin." Or their husbands,
whom they have by their action in re-
gard to the Carnival in question, IN
fuenced to think lightly of the evil
of gambling, will be caught in a
gambling raid in Philadelphia, or suffer-
the loss of their property by virtue OF
their habituaT indulgence IN games OF
chance.
70 have gone in on the side of the pro-
test, even though the Fire Company
had realized less money at its Carni-
val. You and the Fire Company
would be stronger for the things
which really count in Wenonah.,and
in the regions round about, all OF
which have heard of you. Eagle Eye
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COUNTY

1t is recorded of Lord Beasonsfield,
the famous Hebrew Premier of Great
Britain, that he said, 81 am on the
side of the Angels" 1t is II of
the tenets of the Hebrew faith that
there are such beings. 1t is also I'M
deniably the characteristic of that
great ace that its members are in
clined to stand in with the powers.
But that "the side of the Angels" is
the side on which the Women's AuXil-
larry of the Wenonah Fire Company
has ranged itself in the conflict in that
Borough yer the matter of gambling
at the Company's carnival may be
doubted.
Emerson left some verses in which
he describes the wife that was to be
an angel, but that when he took her
home he found her IAN angel, but a
woman, too" Just what he meant he
has not remained above ground for US
to question him. But we wonder if
his words does not contain a hint OF
explanation of the course pursued by
the Wenonah Fire Company Auxiliary.
For it seems that the Company was
disposed to forego the profitable m
ployment of gaming devices at its
Carnival, but the women revolted at
the idea-and the gambling schemes
were out in execution. The ~undoubted
angelic character of those ladies ap-
pear to have been offset by that dis
position of woman to go straight TO
the point to secure the end she seeks,
without as much foresight or refiec-
ton as her slower thinking partner
often exhibits. The reasoning of the
feminine mind seems to have
been a little like the Yankee mother
of the ancient tale.
1t would appear that her son was
On the verge of leaving home to seek
his fortune and the following thrifty
advice was given him by his mother:
"My son, get money; get it honestly
if YOU can, but get money The Aux
iliarv in its enthusiasm to make the
Carnival a success and the treasury
of the Company full urged the use OF
the wheels. etc, and that move the
men from their decision to pursue the
slower but safer way of selling, not
chances, the articles themselves.
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"VAMPS" WHO
MADE
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
FROM INN SERVANT TO EMPRESS.
By JAMES c. YOUNG.

Nanny in the Eighteenth century
e the Russians captured M%arienburg,
East Prussia. A squad of drunken
)bIdiers rifled one of the principal inns.
Ia theN search for %valuables they
opened the oven door of the inns huge
|tove, made of porcelain, and brought
|orth two frightened girls. One Of
hem was Catherine, a servant, and the
|ther Marie, who was staying with
Ter.
Both girls we're bewitchingly pretty.
The soldiers fell to fighting over their
Iossession, when the commander of
he @ipNa5ing forces passed the Inn.
lie K&ard the row, stopped, and com
handed order. Catherine saw her
nance. She leaned out of the window
Ind gave the general n of her sweet
Isl smiles. He and another officer
hrried%th two girls away.
soon afterward Prince MenShikov,
,vorite of the car, and one of the
Lost powerful men in Russia, came
D inspect the army. He saw Gather
,n and took her away from the gen.
al.
Catherine soon had MenshikOv un-
pr her full control. Then came the
Eor himself, Peter the Great, abso-
9 master of the empire. He also
y Catherine and claimed her. She
IS a vampire who always succeeded.
But Catherine was something more
ian merely a beautiful woman. Her
ilgment and instinct soon made her
eter's most trusted adviser. He USED
meet his ministers at a little house
Moscow where she was placed. ana
eigh decisions with GATHERINGS help.
last her domination over Peter be-
me SO complete that he married the
bruefN inn servant and had her
.,wned Czarina. GATHERINGS eleva-
~, by no means checked her vampire
stincts. She was famous for her
idelities. William Mons, her court
CHAMBERLAIN. was tried or a trumped
chargaand hung, really for a much
ore serious ~offense. Peter forced
uterine to walk past the place of
.ac,,Ya,n. and crowded her so close
tf5TT eallows that she brushed her
,rmer lover, hanging there. But she
,ver finched. Afterward Peter had
- mans head sent to her room In
bottle of alcohol.
vbot incident was typical of the
,If-mod yeter, who also was some
inc %, a genius, and of the period
whiA Catherine reigned. After
otor,s death she ruled alone, the mis-
ass ~ q court where revels lasted a
aat ats time, and a mans drinking
In.city sometimes won a ministry
b him. -
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''VEN9PS" WHO
MADE HISTORY
p JAMES c. YOUNG.
A VAMPIRE OF OUR OWN TIME.
oooonooooo
} " Mcclure Newspaper s~yndicate.)

THAT the vampire lourishes today
4 no less than in the famous times
OF the past, is proved by the career
OF Maivina Vivian. She was born a
Spanish fisher girl, who o devel-
oped into the beauty Of her village.
A ric4 German, WonIer, saw her, and
acckrfag to the story, paid the girls
father 100000 pesos for possession
of Maivina. The German took her
10 Paris and had her educated there,
particularly in dancing and singing.
And a short time afterward he in
stalled her in a Berlin palace.
Malvina became the most celebrated
artist Of the German stage. Her dane
ing was something never to be forgot
ten. She also was famous for her
costumes, the richest which Paris
could produce. Her patron spent mil
lions Of marks upon her and she made
large sums upon the stage.
Then came the war. Malvina's
weal{Ay friend lost much of his for
tune, the theaters closed, or cut ex-
penses. Malvina found herself on the
edge Of what would have been misery
to her. But she did not descend into
the ~ for it was observed that she
seemed to have as much money as ey-
er, and wore Paris gowns of the latest
cut when German women were turning
last years clothes. Wonler became
suspicious. 1t was whispered that NAL
vina had turned spy for the allies, and
her position became dangerous. AL
though She was watched by the sharp
est eyes in the German secret service
no proof could he found.
SO Malvina went her luxurious way
thraygh a suffering world until the
END ~ the war, when she again re
appeared in the theaters. But 1t
seemed that money ran low with her
once more, and the gossips said that
the price of spies had fallen. Then
NIalZ1xa hit upon desperate measures.
She PINNED with a notorious thief to
rob men and homes where she could
lorate treasures. The thief was
caught, confessed, and involved Nal
vina. She found herself in the hands
pf the law for the first time, but the
Fingers Of the hand opened in a mys-
terious way and Malgina went free.
Her next appearance was in the Ital-
an Tyrol at the casino of Meran. She
Seemed to have abundant funds. In
bne night she lost 100000 marks. 1t
WAS her last throw. She called for a
glass of champagne, climbed upon a
thsXs and cried a toast to every n
n the casino. Then, as the surprised
erowd watched. and the distant violins
Kept company to her humor, h
lrainaN the glass and fell dead. She
lad put prussic acid into the wine.
30 died Malvina Vivian, vampire, 1920.
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''If You Fail

1t was an overseas friend who said
it, an ardent worker for prohibition
in mis- W land. eff you, in the
United State, fail to enforce your
prohibitoIy law, it will tie our hands;
our task will he in vain; we cannot
hope to win in the face of your fail
ure." Of course the speaker went on
to declare eagerly that not for n
second did he anticipate the failure of
prohibition in America, but the posi-
BILE eff" was p%ortentous in its sug-
gested disastrous results.
"The prohibition experiment in the
United States a failure? Then what is
the use of our trying? ?" That is what
the nations will say if we fall short
of full enforcement of the dry law.
We cannot afford to fail, and what is
more, we have no intention of failing,
four years ago we eliminated from the
w. C. T. L. vocabulary the word
"fail."
We need to get out our old infal-
lible recipe for success that has stood
the test of many a Statewide prohibit
ton campaign. We need it in the
local union work as well. Its essen
tial ingredients, you will remember,
were tireless energy, eternal vigilance,
everlasting activity, exuberant enthu-
siasm, and constant prayer to and re-
lance upon our Divine Leader. 1t
never failed in the good old days; it
was abundantly efficacious for city
wide and Statewide and nationwide
campaigns; it will be equally effective
for law enforcement campaigns.
1t is just this recipe We need in our
local union work. We have strayed
too far from the immediate leadership
of Our Father. Is it not true? Let
us come back trustingly and obedi-
emily to Him. Forgetting self and
selfish interests. Ruth.
Woodstown, 9 mo, 81, 1921.
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LIES Measure

1t is not growing like a tree
In bulk doth make Mar better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hun
bred years, ia
To fall a big log at last, gray, bald
and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May.
Although it fall and die that night.
It was the plant and flower of Light
In small proportions we just beauties
And in short measure life may perfect
he Ben Johnson.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-09-30

All reason is retrospect; it consists
in the application of facts and prlnI
ciples previously known. This Will
show the very great Importance o
knowledge, especially that kind which
is called experience.-Foster.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-09-30

When Ruskin said, "We a live
without pictures, but not as Well,
was he thinking of a room dignlt1ed
bv one inspired and inspiring master
niece or ornamented with a motley
collection of mediocre prints?