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?????????????????? ' ISSUED SKMI-WKKEL^ l. m orist's sons, PobUsh??, } & Jamiiij Ueuwpgnt: j;or the (promotion of the political, gonial, Agricultural and Commercial interests of the pt0p't- ( ""vimolk^u'l^tk c^re"" established 1855. YORK, 8. C? FltlDAY, (KfTORKK Si), 1915 NXX~87~. T ARZ THE By EDGAR RIC ^ ; Copyright, 1912, by tho Frank A. M CHAPTER IV. Tarzan, Mightiest of the Apes. The tribe of apes had grown larger since Tarzan had come among them. Under the leadership of Kerchak they had been able to frighten tne other tribes from their part of the jungle, so that they had plenty to eat and little or no loss fr<-m predatory incursions of neighbors. The younger males as they became adult found it more comfortable to take wives from their own tribe, or if they captured one of another tribe, to bring her back to Kerchak's band and live in amity rather than attempt to set up new establishments of their own or ?make war upon the redoubtable Kerchak. Occasionally one more ferocious than his fellows would attempt this latter alternative, but none had come yet who could wrest the palm of victory tr from the tierce and brutal ape. 0 Tarzan held a peculiar position in the tribe. They seemed to consider him one of them and yet in some way different. The older males either ignored him entirely or else hated him so vindictively that but for his wonderous agility and speed and the fierce protection of the huge Kala he would have been dispatched at an early age. Tublat was his most consistent enemy, but it was through Tublat that, when he was about thirteen, the persecution of his enemies suddenly ceased, and he was left severely alone, except on the occasions when one of them ran amuck in the throes of one of those strange fits of insane rage which attack the males of many of the fiercer animals of the jungle. Then none was safe. On the day that Tarzan established his right to respect the tribe was gathered about a small natural amphitheater which the Jungle had left free from its entangling vines and creepers. Here the tribe often gathered. In the center of the amphitheater was one of those strange earthen drums which the anthropoids build for the dumdum, the queer rites the sound of which men have heard in the fastnesses of the jungle, but which none has ever witnessed. On the day that Tarzan won his emancipation from the persecution that had followed him remorselessly for twelve of his thirteen years of life the tribe, now a full 100 strong, troop ed silently thro ugh the lower terrace of the Jungle trees and dropped noiselessly upon the floor of the amphitheater. The rites of the dumdum marked important events in the life of the tribe?a victory, the capture of a prisoner, the killing of some large, fierce denizen of the jungle, the death or accession of a king. Today it was the killing of a giant ape, a member of another tribe, and as the people of Kerchak entered the arena two mighty bulls might have been seen bearing the body of the ^ vanquished between them. They laid . their burden before the earthen drum and then squatted beside it as guards, while the other members of the community curled themselves in grassy nooks to sleep until the rising moon 4 should give the signal for the com& mencement of the orgy. As darkness settled upon the jungle, the apes commenced to bestir them With a Roar He Leaped Upon the Littie Lord Greystoke. selves, and soon they formed a great circle about the earthen drum. The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them * ranged the adult males. Before the drum sat three old females, each armed with a knotted branch fifteen or eighteen inches in length. Slowly and softly they began tapping upon the resounding surface of the drum as the first faint rays of the ascending moon silvered the treetops. A o tKfi Uo-Vit inr>ro!icnd tV?o fi.m-ilrtv: aujjmented the frequency and force of their blows until presently a rhythniical din pervaded the jungle for miles in every direction. Huge brutes stopped in their hunting, with uppricked ears and raised heads, to listen to the dull boom I up that betokened the dumdum of great apes. ? As the din of the drum rose to almost deafening volume Kerchak sprang into the open space between rthe squatting males and the drummers. Standing erect, he threw his head far back, and, looking full into the eye of the rising moon, he beat upon his breast with his great hairy paws and ^ emitted his fearful roaring shriek. Once?twice?thrice the terrifying cry rang out across the teeming soli AN OF APES | ;e burroughs i unsey Company. ' i i tnH^ nf that nnsrteakablv auiet. yet unthinkably dead, world. Then, crouching, Kerchak slunk noiselessly around the open circle, veering far away from the dead body lying before the altar drum, but as he passed keeping his little, fierce, wicked red eyes upon the corpse. Another male then sprang into the arena, and repeating the horrid cries of his king, followed stealthily in his wake. Another and another followed in quick succession until the jungle reverberated with the now almost ceaseless notes of their bloodthirsty screams. It was the challenge and the hunt. When all the adult males had joined in the thin line of circling dancers the attack commenced. Kerchak, seizing a huge club from the pile which lay at hand for the purpose, rushed furiously upon the dead ape, dealing the corpse a terrific blow, at the same time emitting the growls ana snarls of combai. The din of the drum was now increased, as well as the frequency of the blows, and the warriors, as each approached the victim of the hunt and delivered his bludgeon blow, joined in the mad whirl of the death dance. Tarzan was one of the wild, leaping horde. His brown, sweat streaked, muscular body glistened in the moonlight, shone supple and graceful among the uncouth, awkward, hairy brutes about him. For half an hour the weird dance went on, until, at a sign from Kerchak, the noise of the drums ceased, the female drummers scampering hurriedly through the line of dancers toward the outer rim of squatting spectators. Then, as one man, the males rushed headlong uuon the thing which their terrific blows had reduced to a mass hairy pulp. Flesh seldom came to their jaws in satisfying quantities, so a fit finale to their wild revel was a taste of fresh killed meat, and it was to the purpose of devouring their late enemy that they now turned their attention. Tarzan more than the apes craved and needed flesh. Descended from a race of meat eaters, never in his life, he thought had he once satisfied his appetite for animal food, and so now his agile little body wormed its way far into the mass of struggling apes iU an endeavor to obtain a ahar^ which his strength would have been unequal to the task of winning for him. At his side hung the hunting knife of his unknown father in a sheath self fashioned in copy of one he had seen among the pictures of his treasure books. At last he reached the fast disap pearing feast and with his sharp knife, slashed off more a generous portion than he had hoped for. Then he wriggled out from beneath j the struggling mass, clutching his prize close. Among those circling futilely the outskirts of the banquet was old Tublat. He had been among the first at the feast, but had retreated with a goodly share to eat in quiet and was now forcing his way back for more. So it was that he spied Tarzan emerging from the clawing throng. Tublat's bloodshot, pig eyes sent out wicked gleams of hate as they fell upon the object of his loathing. In them, too, was greed for the meat the boy carried. But Tarzan saw his arch enemy as quickly and, divining what the beast' would do. leaned nimhlv awav toward i the women and children, hoping to hide himself among them. Tublat, however, was close upon him, so that he had no opportunity to seek a place of concealment, but saw that he would be put to it to escape at all. . Swiftly he sped toward the trees and with a bound gained a lower limb with one hand, and then, transferring his burden to his teeth, he climbed rapidly upward, closely followed by Tublat. Up, up he went to the waving pinnacle of a lofty monarch of the forest where his heavy pursuer dared not follow him. Perched there, he hurled taunts and insults at the raging beast fifty feet below. And then Tublat went mad. With horrifying screams and roars he rushed to the ground and among the females and young, sinking his great fangs into them. But it was not until he attacked Kala that Tarzan dropped to offer battle to him. The infuriated bull found himself facing the man-child who stood between him and Kala. Nothing could have suited the fierce beast better, and with a roar of triumph he leaped upon the little Lord Oreystoke. But his fangs never closed in that nut brown flesh. A muscular hand shot out and grasped the hairy throat, and another plunged a keen hunting knife a dozen times into the broad breast. Like lightning the Mows fell and only ceased when Tarzan felt the limp form crumple beneath him. As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the apes placed his foot u|mmi nit" iirviv in iiia iiiriuu^ t*iit-ni^ and. raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce youns head and voiced the wild cry of his people. One by one the tribe swung down from their arborcd retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. When they had all come Tarzan turned toward them. "I am Tarzan!" ho cried. "I am a sreat killer! Let all respect Tarzan of the apes and Kala. his mother! There be none among you as mishty as Tarzan. Let his enemies beware!" Look ins full into the wicked red eyes of Kerchak, the youns Lord Oreystoke beat upon his mishty breast and screamed out once more his shrill cry of defiance. * * * * * Tarzan of the apes lived 011 in his wild, junsle existence with little chanse for several years, only that he srew sironser and wiser and learned from his books more and more of the strange worlds which lay somewhere outside his primeval forest. Many days during these years he spent in the cabin of his father, where still lay untouched the bones of his parents and the little skeleton of Kala's baby. At eighteen he read fluently and understood nearly all he read. Also could he write with printed letters rapidly and plainly, but script he had not mastered, for, though there were several copybooks among his treasure?, there was so little written English in the cabin that he saw no use of bothering with this other form of writing, though he could read it laboriously. Thus, at eighteen, we find him an English lordling who could speak no English, yet who could read and write his native language. Never had he seen a human being other than himself, for the little area traversed by his tribe was watered by no great river to bring down the savage natives of the interior. High hills shut It off on three sides, the ocean on the fourth. It was alive with lions and tigers and leopards and poisonous snakes. Its untouched mazes of matted Jungle had as yet Invited no hardy pioneer from among the humans beyond its frontier. But as Tarzan of the apes sat one day in the cabin of his father, delving into the mysteries of a new book, the ancient security of his jungle was broken forever. At the fair eastern confine a strange cavalcade strung in single file over the brow of a low hill. * In advance were fifty black warriors armed with slender wooden spears, with ends hard baked over slow fires, and long bows and poisoned arrows. On their backs were oval shields. In their noses hung rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. Following them were several hundred women and children, the former bearing upon their heads great burdens of cooking pots, household utensils and ivory. In the rear were a hundred warriors, similar in all respects to the advance guard. That they more greatly feared an attack from the rear than whatever unknown enemies might lurk ahead was evidenced by the formation of the column, and such was the fact, for they were fleeing from the white man's soldiers who had harassed them for rubber and ivory. For three days the little cavalcade marched slowly through the heart of this unknown and untracked forest, until finally, early in the fourth day, they came upon a little spot near the banks of a small river which seemed less thickly overgrown than any ground they had encountered before. Here they set to work to build a new village, and in a month a great clearing had been made, huts and palisades erected, plantains, yams and maze planted. airtT ttlPjF lihd taken up their old life in their new home. Here there were no white men, no soldiers nor any rubber or ivory to be gathered for thankless taskmasters. Several moons passed ere the blacks ventured far into the territory surrounding their new village. Several had already fallen prey to old Sabnr, the tiger, and because the jungle was so infested with these fierce and bloodthirsty cats and with lions and leopards the ebony warriors hesitated to trust themselves far from the safety of their palisades. But one day Kulonga. a son of the old king. Mbonga, wandered far into the dense mazes to the west. Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long oval shiell grasped in his left hand close to his body?at his back his bow. and in the quiver upon his shield many slim, straight arrows, well smeared with the thick, dark tarry substance that rendered deadly their tiniest needle prick. Night found Kulonga far from the palisades of his father's village, but still headed westward, and. climbing into the fork of a great tree, he fashioned a rude platform and curled himself for sleep. (To be Continued.) GENERAL NEWS NOTES Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. Wm. J. Bryan is helping the statewide prohibition campaign in Ohio this week. A box factory fire at Pittsburgh, Pa., took the lives of twelve girl employes, Monday. Miss Lyda B. Conley of Kansas City, Mr. lu tho flrot Tttrllon ,1a? !?**?., io ilia uiai nuiiiau ui i iiiiidii urn" cent to be admitted to practice before the Federal supreme court at Washington. Dr. Victor C. Vaughn of the Medical College of the University of Michigan, says that during the past twentyfive years, the average length of man's life has been increased by ten years. The suffragists of New York city held a continuous 12-hour meeting on 40th street and Fifth avenue, Tuesday, in behalf of the suffrage amendment to the state constitution, which will be voted on next Tuesday. The Pressed Steel Car company of Pittsburgh, Pa., having just completed an order for 7,500 steel freight cars, for the Russian government, on Tuesday closed a contract for 8,500 additional cars. Governor Ferguson of Texas, has assured the people of the lower Rio Grande section of the state, that vigorous action will be taken against the Mexican bandits and raiders who are infesting that section. Eighteen negro prisoners made their escape from the Knox county jail at Knoxville, Tenn., Monday night. The delivery was lead by Dedrick Seguines, who Is charged with the murder ot Chief of Police Campbell of Johnson City. Several of the escapes have been recaptured. Five members of the board of mis siona of the Episcopal church, tendered their resignations in New York on Tuesday, when the quarterly meeting of the hoard refused by a vote of 20 to 13 to rescind the resolution, adopted last May to participate in the Panama interdenominational missionary conference in February. The Roman Catholic church, through its missions, several months ago, declined the invitation to participate in the Panama conference because it is believed the plans of the conference were hostile to the Roman Catholic church. "footsteps of the fathehs As Traced In Early Flies of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone I Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. 164TH INSTALLMENT. (Thursday Morning, Sept. 5, 1867.) Negro Education. The indifference of the white people of the sorth to the sentiments of the negroes is really surprising. Little if any desire is shown to acquire an influence over the minds or to teach them that the interests of both races are not conflicting. When it is remembered that the political power of this state is to be wielded by an effective majority of black voters this indifference becomes unwise, not to say criminal. It is indeed strange that men of intelligence are willing to sit calmly down and witness the clothing of an ignorant race without an effort to instruct, them as to their duties or to secure the power for their benefit of right principles and proper objects. As things are now, the negroes without the slightest conception of the purpose for which the ballot system is intended, see in it only a means by which they imagine they can get property. Nor are they much to be blamed for holding such opinions, for they know nothing at all about the nature of government and the idea of voting themselves rich has been held out to them as a bait by parties hostile to the southern white race. This idea having been seized by their minds, how can they expect to believe it false unless those who know better undeceive them? If southern men scornfully hold themselves aloof, refuse to explain kindly and patiently such errors and stupidity let "things rip" while northem Radicals send out energetic emissaries who use every effort to win the confidence of the negroes, the result can be easily foretold. There is yet time for the restoration of the old confidence between the races, if it is only attempted. But so long as one party cajoles while the other studiously neglects the negro vote, it is not in human nature for them to form and take sides with the latter. Whatever may be said to the contrary, negroes are human beings and subject to the same influence as the whites. They are easily won by kindness and sympathy or repelled by contempt or indifference. The only means by which the Radical party has gained converts among them are to boast (falsely) of what they have done for them and to show an interest (sometimes pre-' tended and sometimes sincere) in their welfare. And wherever southern men have used the same means their influence is fully equal to that of the Radical missionaries and generally greater, for it is strengthened by the additional power of old association. Wherever a southerner has undertaken the task of teaching a negro school he has been rewarded by their unlimi!ed confidence and affection, seldom equaled by white scholars and this is so because they appreciate the advantages of an education more highly than those who have always enjoyed these advantages. It ought to be a matter of regret that the instances by which the last assertion is to be proved are so few. Rut we are convinced from one case which came under our immediate observation that any one who engages faithfully in the honorable work of preparing this hitherto untaught race fur usefulness as citizens will have no cause to regret his labors. And is it not more properly the work of our own people than of strangers? We are certainly more vitally interested in their becoming intelligent, industrious and upright members of society than all the world beside. They have been thrown upon our hands in the new capacity of political equals, their votes count for as much as ours and they are as eligible for office and having the advantage of numbers, they are likely to be the makers and unmakers of law. Under the circumstances, prudence dictates that we should use every effort to fit them for their responsibilities. We are not responsible for the crime of giving the ballot to them while unfit for it but we are compelled to bear the consequences. Our only chance for good government is to confer intelligence upon them. And for this reason if for no other, negro schools ought to be encouraged and sustained. The occupation of a negro teacher may be looked upon as "low" by some i>erson.s but there is none which is more honorable or useful. The southern man who undertakes the charge of a negro school now is doing a favor and service to his country, he is in a position of great influence and if he uses that influence right he is entitled to the gratitude of both whites and blacks. The King's Mountain Railroad. We omitted to chronicle in our last issue the completion of the track of the Kind's Mountain railroad. The rails were laid to the depot on Tuesday of last week, and trains run daily to Chester, straight from this place. One of the locomotives?the King's Mountain?has been completely overhauled and re-fitted in Columbia, and is now performing admirably on this road. A meeting of the stockholders was held here last Monday at which it was determined to postpone the regular meeting until Wednesday, 11th inst. As matters of importance will be considered at this meeting, we would suggest a general attendance of stockholders. * Married?at the residence of Mr. Wm. Plackweli, on the 11th inst., by John P. Hood, Esq., Mr. Eeander Pet ty and Mrs. Delilah Blackwell, all of Union district. On the 29th ult., by Wm. McGill, Esq., Mr. Enoch F. B. Wear and Miss Mary S. Davis, both of Gaston county, N. C. At the residence of the bride's ULiucr vn me Liai uiu* uy i\ev. mr. Bailey, Mr. D. W. Fowler and Miss Jane M. Nelson, all of this district. (To be Continued.) PALMETTO GLEANINGS Current Happening* and Event* Throughout South Carolina. Rev. E. V. Babb of Easley, has accepted a call to the First Baptist church of Newberry. Harrison A. Foster has been appointed magistrate of Bushy Creek township in Anderson county, to succeed J. D. Sitton, deceased. About 226 members of the Boys' Corn clubs of South Carolina, had exhibits at the state fair in Columbia this week. Governor and Mrs. Manning received hundreds of South Carolinians, visitore to the state fair, at the executive mansion in Columbia on Tuesday nighL In the second primary, held Tuesday, in connection with the municipal election held in Charleston Tuesday, two weeks ago, J. J. Miller defeated M. F. Stopplebeln for alderman in ward 11, by a vote of 499 to 233. The steamer Colorado, carrying 6,000 bales of cotton, caught Are off Charleston this week, and most of her cargo was burned. The origin of the fire is unknown. The steamer is now in Charleston harbor. The United States transport Prairie, arrived at Port Royal near Beaufort, this week, with 500 enlisted men from the recruiting depot at Norfolk, Va. The men will be stationed at Port Royal for some time. Edward R. McDonald and H. J. Brown, charged with assault and battery with Intent to kill, during the recent trouble in Charleston, which was the culmination of the municipal election there, have been released on bonds of $1,200 each. A. M. Law of Spartanburg, has heen appointed receiver for the Southern Marble and Granite company of Spartanburg, which has recently gone Into bankruptcy. The marble works which is the largest of its kind in the state, is capitalized at about $80,000. James Robertson, a Scotchman, committed suicide in Camden, Tuesday, by shooting the top of his head off with a shot gun. Robertson had been engaged in pheasant raising at Sparrow Bush, N. Y., and is said to have lost heavily this year. Vestal Hancock, a well known farmer of Chesterfield county, who was shot by Charley Chapman, colored, Saturday night, died of his wounds in a Hamlet, N. C., hospital Tuesday. Chapman and his brother have been arrested, charged with the shooting. Between 800 and 900 students of Winthrop college, are in Columbia today, attending the state fair. The Winthrop students were admitted to the fair grounds free of charge. A special rate of $1.20 for the round trip to Columbia from Rock Hill, was granted the Winthrop girls by the Southern railway. An association of the mayors of South Carolina, was organized in Columbia Monday, with the election of the following officers: President, L. A. Griffith of Columbia: first vice presi dent, Z. F. Wright of Newberry; second vice president, E. R. Cox of Darlington; third vice president, J. C. Hardin of Rock Hill; secretary, J. H. Godfrey of Anderson; treasurer, J. W. Vincent of Anderson. Labor troubles have caused the owners of the Judson mills in Greenville, to suspend operations. Some 650 operatives are out of employment as the result of the closing down of the mill. It is probable that thirteen other mills in Greenville will also close down since they will very likely refuse to comply with the demands made by the employes' unions, for more pay and shorter hours. Judge Bowman in the circuit court in Columbia Tuesday afternoon, declared the "gallon -a-month" law constitutional, when he sustained the demurrer of the state against the com i mi mi oi in unlets dicuucu ^uium bia, who brought the suit against the Southern Express company for the delivery of whisky in an amount larger than the specified one gallon. The state was represented by the attorney general and his assistant, Fred H. Dominick, and the plaintiff by C. T. Graydon. An appeal will be taken to the supreme court. The ruling is the opposite to that of Judge Frank B. Gary, who decided recently that the act was unconstitutional. In the court of general sessions for Charleston county this week, Judge Mendel L. Smith, presiding, blind tigers of Charleston convicted of selling whisky, paid fines as follows: M. Myers, $100; R. G. Rackley, $125; F. L. Hackermun, $100; M. C. Rudolph, $100; L. Riddinger, $76; P. J. Conway, $160; Vincent Chicco, Jr., $125; W. H. Behrens, $100; Jos. Bollo, $50; VV. C. Stauss, $150; C. H. Scrughan, $150; A. R. Beck, $75; H. H. Rabens, $150; R. Richter, $125; J. Holsberg, $75; H. L. Koester, $50; C. B. Walker, $125; Jas. A. Hennessy, $75; Chas. C. Guerette, $75; H. O. Hasselmeyer, $150; A. F. Seebeck, $126; Carl Dannhau-er, $100; J. P. B. O'Neill, $125; E. H. Rickels, $150; Xich Peters, $125; Chris Tsiropoulo, $125; G. M. Murphy, $125, and J. B. Smith, $125, making a total of $2,350 so far paid in fines which will aggregate nearly $5,000. Hydraulic cartridges, used to break down coal in English mines, not only avoid all danger of explosion, but produce a greater proportion of large sized coal than blasting powder. Efforts are underway at Memphis, Tenn., for the recall of the mayor, police commissioner and chief of police of that city. Charges of grafting and general inefficiency are made. An Amsterdam dispatch says that according to the Tyd, 34 additional death sentences have been pronounced against persons charged with espionage and treason by a courtmartlal at Liege. "SINS OF THE WOMEN." Special Sermon By Rev. John W. Ham. TELLS OF TRAPS AND PITFALLS Dangers of Ignorance and Curse of Mock Modesty?Mothers Need to Advise Their Daughters of Things They Should Know?Bad Reading, Extravagance and Other IDs That Lead From the Narrow Path. Following is a full synopsis of the sermon that Evangelist John W. Ham preached to a large congregation 01 women in his gospel tent last Monday night: Text: Song of Solomon, iv, 7?"Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee." Introduction. To many the Song of Solomon is too mystical to have any practical interest or application. It is a song in parable of spiritual friendship. The language is metaphorical. The two personalities are the bridegroom and the bride. Intensity of language is employed. It is symbolical of the church and Christ. Paul uses the figure in Ephesians. The figure of the woman has ever been used to convey purity and spirituality. Woman is the bulwark of the nations. The history of nations is the history of woman. Our text presents us with a woman having no spot in her. The word "spot" is synonymous with the word "sin." Sin causes spots and blotches. I want to deal plainly with some of the sins of woman-kind. I. The Sin of Ignorance. Ignorance is one of the chief allies of the deviL Millions of crimes have been committed because of ignorance. Many a girl today Is in a brothel because of ignorance. She was not vicious in the beginning, but only possessed a venturesome disposition. The forbidden fruit was held up before her eyes in such an alluring way as to > lead her to explore the forbidden land. She wakes up to find that she has />rrwaa<v1 thp line from nuritv to imDUli ty, and then she becomes reckless; finally landing in the prison house of sin. The averagfe life of such a girl after reaching this place is seven years. II. The Sin of Mock Modesty. It is alarming the amount of mock modesty that mothers manifest toward their daughters. Thousands of girls are on the road to hell tonight because their mothers were too "squeamish" to teach, advise and make a confident of her daughter at an early age. The duty of every mother is to teach her daughter the great simple facts of life; the purpose of her being and as to how she came into' this world. Mothers have no right to shirk the duty and leave the matter for the public school teacher to look after. One yellow-minded school girl can Inoculate nearly every girl in school with vicious Ideals. The average girl of 12 years old today knows as much vice as her grandmammy did at 80. The place to begin to fight the brothel is in the nursery. III. The Sin of the Double Standard. For thousands of years womanhood has endorsed the double standard of morals; that is one standard for man and another standard for woman. Women are responsible for this double standard. To irive vou an illustration; A society brute may step out here and be the ruin of some pure girl and you mothers and daughters will give her overboard; you will not recognize her on the streets. She can no longer move in the same social circles; but the' scoundrel that brought about her downfall, you will admit to your home, and on a social level with your daughter. Not only that, you will contribute every bit of influence that you can to bring about a match between your daughter and this brute. No girl ever went wrong that some scoundrel did not take the initiative. Y. M. C. A.'s and Y. W. C. A.'s throughout this land have begun an educational propaganda along this line, agitating the single standard of morals. What is demanded of the woman should be demanded of the man also. IV. The So-called Sin of Being an Old Maid: Girls grow up today having it taught and engraved into them from the nursery that the chief aim of the world today is to get married and get married they do without regard to their own well being. There are some women that are miserable through the fear that "Miss" will be written on their tombstone. There is no such thing as an "Old Maid." They are only "Ladies in waiting," or "unappropriated blessings." Every time you meet a lady so-called. It does not mean that she has not had a chance, but. to the contrary, it may mean that she has refused to marry the men that proposed because they were her inferior. Some girls get married for popularity: other girls are too lazy to work, and when an opportunity com^s to get married with somebody to work for them, they accept it; others marry to reform some of the moral perverts of the town. No man ever marries a girl to reform her. V. The Sin of Unlawful Privileges: Thousands of girls are in utter darkness and despair today because they were too trustful. They thought the man in question was the very soul of honor and, hence, held no reserve whatsoever. They were as helpless in his hands as a bird is before a snake. Not one man in a thousand has the honor to back up his promise of this character. A girl is a fool to place her futun happiness over such a seething volcano. VI. The Sin of Bad Association: We are all affected by our associations. Shun the girl who is low in her ideals, suggestive in her language, and in whom the animal predominates. Likewise steer clear of the young man who has no ideals and purity of thought. Many men and women are walking cesspools of iniquity in their practice and thoughts. There are girls in this town who can date their downfall from bad association. VII. The Sin of Bad Reading: Ninety-five per cent of the novels read in this country are read by women. The best sellers today are those plots and schemes woven around the neolilomu orwl tho otomal trinnplp of one man and two women. Likewise with the theatre: the only show that is declaring dividends is that one that suggests the same line. The taste in ' America for reading and seeing the shows is vicious, vlciative and very degrading. A high class drama or books i that are good and clean go begging. ' VIII. The Sin of Extravagance: It is a daily experience to pick up the papers and read of the suicide of i some man. In most instances they give as a reason, failing health. This is a charitable view. Upon closer ex- ' amination we find invariably that it was failing business and a fast family. The man reaches such a point that he cannot stand the strain any longer. 1 His family has had his nose on the grindstone, and they have been whio ping him up at a mad pace until something has got to snap. The result is a pistol shot?a- case of suicide?in order that they may get the insurance and continue on their hell-bound course. IX. The Sin of a Sour Disposition: So many people have soured on the world. They are filled with cynicism and pessimism?growing old graceful- 1 ly; the older they get the more crabbed they become. After a while they lose 1 their friends entirely. People had rather associate with yellow dogrs and cats than to have some sour woman with this disposition about X. The Sin of an Uncontrollable Tomper: I know of a home in which there is a girl who has a stormy temper. She is a veritable Vesulvius when her temper becomes stirred. In two minutes she can change the peaceful quiet 1 of the home into a veritable hell. 1 Many wives possess this kind of tern- ' per, and that is the reason that men perfcr to go to the lodge at night rather than sitting at home with the women folks. XI. The Sin of Immodest Dress: It is alarming, what extremes that , women will go in the matter of dress, for when the fashion books will outline to them these extremes, the elicte , will wear the skirts nine inches from , the ground. The time is coming when , the legislatures of the land will have , to prescribe certain limits beyond , which women cannot go in the matter < of dress. They appeal to the physical rather than the spiritual. The hobble skirts and transparent skirts, and now ( the abbreviated skirts all have an appeal to the animal forces. These styles are designed by the lowest down wo- t men of Paris; such women as would , not be tolerated in good decent society in this country, and yet they are ; making fools of the women in this ; country. So little is left to the iinagi- < nation. The men are going to the devil i because the women are suggesting evil i to them. i XII. The Sin of Joy-riding: The devil is never so much of a ; devil as when he is a gentleman. With- 1 in' the last ten years a new phase of his deviltry has come into existence, and that is the night joy rides that young people are taking. I would as "SooTr gUTT my snfter'TT direct pass-port direct to hell as to allow her to get in an automobile around here at nigjit : with some of these "buck warts" and "pimps" that own and operate cars in < this town. XIII. The Sin of Illicit Love: 1 The meanest woman in this audi- j ence is a married woman who will violate her marriage love. A good wo- ; man is the best thing this side of heaven, and a bad woman who will ' violate her marriage vows is the meanest thing this side of hell. XIV. The Sin of Hugging set to Music: ' Twenty-flve years ago, we had in this country what was known as danc- ( ing. Since that time, it has become 1 plain hugging set to music. The dances ' of to-day, the Cubalo Glide, the Mobile Duck, the Turkey Trot, and the 1 Fox Trot are the grandparents of the Tango. The child of the Tango is the 1 dirtiest, filthiest, lowest down thing 1 that ever wriggled out of hell, which is called the Hesitation Waltz. The ( dance of to-day is nothing but a secon- 1 dary sectional love feast. XV. The Sin of Flirting: 1 If every girl could see herself as a ' flirt as others see her, she would re/wnnrt If WKnn a wnman makes eyes at a man, he la going: to make eyes back; and then after she passes, he will tell the rest of the rascals standing around on the corner that she is an easy mark, coming along fine. Men estimate woman at the estimate she puts on herself. XVI. The Sin of Divorce: There is only one nation In the world that surpasses us In the matter of divorces, and that is Japan. One woman in every six has been divorced. In the year 1913 in the city of Chicago, for every six licences issued for marriage, there were five divorces in the civil branch of the court. It has become an appalling scene of to-day. One judge recently in California asked to be retired from the branch of the court that handled divorce cases. He stated that ten thousand divorces had been presented to him, and that now he had grown sick of the Job. XVII. The Sin Against Motherhood: It is no longer popular among some classes of women to bring children into the world. A doctor told me recently of eight women, occupying social positions, who came to him with the request, and a handsome check, asking to be relieved of the duty of motherhood. This doctor felt like spitting into their faces, and turned them down. He told me that some doctor had accommodated them, because no children had been born. Society has , put maternity out of fashion and sub- j stltuted automobiles and bull pups. ( Some men ard" getting divorces solely ^ because they refuse to play second . fiddle to fancy dogs. ODDS AND ENDS ( ( Some Things You Know and Some ' You Don't Know. r Chile Is erecting from sixty to seven- 1 ty new school buildings each year. r Dipping in a new solution of alum * will give new life to old hair brushes. . c A Paris scientist is trying to col- r iect phonograph records of all forms ^ of speech. c Peru was the first nation to add in- j struction in aviation to its public c school curriculum. C The government of New Zealand is 1 replacing its wooden telegraph poles ( and letter box posts with re-inforced s concrete ones. ' Having a span of 328 feet, the new j bridge across the Tiber at Rome is the f longest re-inforced concrete arch in the world. TOLD Br LOCAL EXCHANGES Heirs Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Rock Hill Herald, Oct 26: E. N. Anthony, of State street Is some collard grower. Yesterday he brought up street a plant weighing nine pounds. And this was after the rabbits and chickens had eaten off the leaves as high as they could reach. The stalk was about two inches in diameter. Mr. Anthony states that he has plenty more Dlants about the same size. The remarkable part is that he worked the plants but once. However, the ground was In good shape when planting was done President Weeks has received from the treasurer a complete statement of receipts and disbursements of the 1915 fair, which though it does not show as large a profit as was expected, was a financial success. A small audience of ministers, Sunday school superintendents, teachers and others Interested, gathered at the First Baptist church Monday evening to hear addresses by Prof. R. D. Webb, general secretary of the South Carolina Sunday School Association, and Leon C. Palmer, general secretary of the Alabama Sunday Sschool Association of Montgomery. This meeting followed one held at St. John's church in the afternoon, which was addressed by Prof. Webb and Mr. Palmer. Chester Reporter, Oct. 24: There i? much interest in the scarlet fever situation and no little apprehension on the part of many; and for the benefit of those who feel that there is reason for apprehension we will state that there ore only seven cases of the disease In the community, all under careful quarantine, and that every case of the disease has this far been of mild type.... The city Board of Health, Mr. William McKinnell, chairman, finding that the work conflicted too much with their other business have resigned, and Mayor Z. V. Davidson has appointed the following gentlemen as their successors: Dr. 8. W. Pryor, chairman, James Hamilton, secretary, Dr. H. E. McConnell, Dr. A. M. Wylie, and Dr. H. B. Malone Mrs. W. J. Hyndman, of Charlotte, a sister of Mesdames J. L. Wood and Julia Parker, of this city, her husband, son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hood, and the latter couple's two children, John, aged two years and Martha Grace, aged Ave months were in an automobile wreck in the Paw Creek section yesterday afternoon, and all six were imprisoned beneath the big touring car which Mr. Hyndman was driving, when in endeavoring to negotiate a curve the machine turnedTffTTle, the accident being due, either to excessive speed in making the turn or to a defective wheel, probably the latter. Several of the party were rendered unconscious from their injuries, but it is not believed that the hurts of any of the party will prove serious Marlon Wylie, the nine months' old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McCallum, of Baton Rouge, died last night, death being due to membranous croup. Qaffnav Ladaar. Get. 26: Some mis :reant, armed either with a glass cutter or a diamond, cut every glass front )n Limestone street between the Carpenter Jewelry company and the Marin Brothers, sometime Saturday night While no glasses were broken, the scratches are deep enough to weaken them, making them liable to breakage it any time The work on Llmeitreet preparatory to the paving, has >een progressing rapidly the past few lays, which have been particularly favorable. The greater part of the storm sewers has already been placed ind this part of the work will be completed within a short time More than 4,000 people attended the first Cherokee county fair held at the ball ground here Friday, despite the threatsnlng weather, which probably prevented many more from being pres;nt The event was a wonderful success in the opinion of hundreds of vis tors who were heard to comment rav>rably upon the various features of the lay. With all school children and :ollege students admitted free and )nly an admission fee of 10 cents each :harged the general public, the gross eceipts for the day were over 9260. There were no entrance fees charged lor any of the exhibits. While bills lor all of the expenses incurred have lot yet been rendered, it is estimated hat the total expenditure will amount o about 9200, leaving a surplus of ibout 950. There were at least 1,000 lifferent exhibits on display at the fair rrounds Friday, which together with he riding exhibitions, football game ind other events formed one of the ilggest 10 cent shows the people of Cherokee ever had the opportunity of vitnesslng. The fair visitors formed he largest crowd of people that has ;ver assembled in GaiTney upon any >ccasion. Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 26: Capt. A. Ik Bulwinkle and Sergeants Hord and "Mover returned Saturday from Jacklonvllle, Fla., where they spent nearly wo weeks in attendance at the Nationil Guards shooting contest. The North Carolina team was composed of three earn officers, 12 shooting1 members ana hree alternates. Capt. O. F. Snyder, J. S. A., assisted in coaching and Capt. Dulwinkle, of Gastonia, was one of the >fflcers At an important meeting >f Gastonia Council No. 68 Junior Orler United American Mechaincs held n the hall of that organization last light it was unanimously decided that he Juniors would lend not only their noral support but their active organizk! and individual help to further the Moonlight School movement which is lue to get under way all over the state lext month. As a culmination of the liscusslon of this live topic the Council Commander was authorized to ap>oint a committee of nine members to to-operate in every way possible with bounty Superintendent of Education Jail in launching the movement in Jaston county and pursuing it to a uccessful culmination. The committee ias not as yet been named but will be vithin the next few days Mr. Ed *arker, son of Mr. R. H. Parker, of lastonla, returned home Sunday night (Continued on Page Four.) /