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Reduced Rates Cotton ' ;//? V ?'? V"-'. ' '? ? ' ? ? * ? % ' We have recently installed a sprinkler system in all our warehouses and can now offer reduced rates, begin ning September 1st, as fol lows: ' "V;"" " '? ?' '? : "?**? ~ ~ ? , ^ . ? - . ^ ... " 100 Bales and over, 30 cents per month. Less quantity, 40 cents per month. * Mutual Warehouse Co, . * ' ? ... 1 --riv/v* ;r r.-' y.v? : ? .. ? 'rr ; ? iv*' ' ... : : .. av.\: : .v .<V:" -v -V 'V " ' ' ?' .. ? - /? JOHN S. LINDSAY, President. ? % SHELBY IS BROKE. Town's Hanks, Stores and Amuse ment Places Closed. Shelby, Mont., Sept. 4 ? Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" has nothing on Shelby as it is today, twos, months after the staging here on July 4th of the Jack Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons world championship bout. Shelby is simply back where it was six months ago, when some town "wags" propos ed putting Shelby on the map by holding a title bout in the town. Since July 4th the town's two banks have closed their doors, 10 ihercantile houses have failed, most of the sa loons and gambling houses are closed, and the orchestras in the dozen dance halls are silent. "The Green Life," . "The Paris," "The Days of '49," "Black Cat" and other amusement places, including half a dozen roadhouses, are deserted; heavy boards are nailed over the win dows. and "closed" signs hang ovexv the doors. ? . Shelby still has an excess popula tion, however. Scores of men and wo men, who invaded the town to make themselves rich with concessions at the big Hght, are here because they haven't enough money t9 get out of town. The much-heralded title bouL proved a "bloomer" so .far as attracts ing a crowd, and concessionaires found themselves with thousands of dollars' worth of fight souvenirs on their hands July 5th. They are rer maining here , hoping to obtain enough money from outside friends for rail way fare to the east and to the Pacific coast, whufe they formerly resided. Residents of Shelby are not one whit discouraged .by present condi tions they say, To the north the oil fields were unaffected by the Inde pendence day fiasco, and during July and August a largo number of new wells has been brought into pro duction in ^arious sections of the oil country. "Old-timers" in the town are con tent, they asert, to wait for Shelby's natural development through the oil business. At present, on account of the gasoline price war and the sub sequent reduction in the price of crude oil, development work in the fields here is being., held up, but with a change in conditions much improve ment in business is expected. - No promise is held out as to whfen, if ever, the two Shelby banks will open their doors. The town is now without a bank, and there is not a bank in the entire county. A petition has been circulat ed here asking the state superintend ent of banks Xo issue permit to trans fer the nearby Dunkirk State bank in an adjoining county, to Shelby. No action beer/ tfeken on the re quest by the bank superintendent. An actress who went to Paris seek ing new plays for the Theater Guild of New York returned recently with out any. She staled the plays were "so dirty" she would be unwilling to reproduce them in America. *?? CAMDEN ICE COMPANY Thanks the people of Camden for their splendid cooperation, and we have two favors to ask of our patrons; one of which is, if you have a car, please drive down to to our plant on Sundays, and get your requirements, as it is not our desire to deliver any Ice except in cases of emergencies, and this will be gladly done night or day. The other is, please arrange to have the proper change with which to pay the driver each day, as they are checked up each night, and we run no charge account with anyone. Some of our drivers are losing their jobs .because of their inability to check in properly. Now we have asked you to do these two things, and if there is anything that we are failing to do that we should do, won't you let us know> for it is our * desire to give you a perfect service and a square deal in every respect. , CAMDEN ICE COMPANY TELEPHONE 18 - ~JT Money Saved rs Money Ea rived so/jfumjtsco I dw2~h5cj/ilm-is4 Swty -tyss ] Shoe All Color* 0?i*K N. Y. Yu s w Pyramid Tempi# Sf Chlchen Itza. (Prepared by the National Geographic So- I clety, Washington, 1). O.) Archeology, modern transportation and radical government experiments^ have been made bedfellows by the opening of a new automobile road tf>y the socialist government of the state of Yucatan, Mexico, leading from Merlda, the capital, to the wonderful ruins of Chlchen Itza, which, might be termed America's Thebes. One of the world's most interesting remains of our ancient civilization is thus made accessible to students and tourists as a by-product to a radical government's plan to make work for laborers during an economic depression by pushing road construction. In the hot, rather dry Yucatan penin sula, which today is little visited by outsiders, civilization reached Its high est point on the North American <*>n tinent in the years before the coming of Europeans. After the finding of savages by Columbus and his Immedi ate followers, both on the West Indian islands and on parts of the mainland, the discovery a little later in Yucatan of structures built of stone, and built well, and of artistic .carvings, came as a great surprise to the Spaniards. While some of the structures were in use at the time of the Spanish con .-quest, a number of once great cities had been abandoned and swallowed up by the jungle. Some mysterious fate had' overtaken this people, the Mayas, and only a somewhat degenerate rem nant was clinging to the works of their more illustrious ancestors. The wholly new regime resulted In the final extin guishment of their culture. Temples and palaces,' prisons, ' con vents," arenas for games, astronomical observatories and monuments all ac curately built of masonry and decorat ed with artistic carvings and hiero glyphics, are some .of the sign posts pointing to the achievements of the Mayas and their development of cul ture. Archeologlsts state that at the 1 time of their mysterious decline they were at the' threshold of a true civili zation. Indeed, to some ways they had surpassed in intellectual achievements the civilization of the Egyptians and the .ipubylonians. , , Their Writing and Architecture. In their system of writing, the Mayas had reached a most Interesting point, fo#nd among no other existing people in the world, the transition pottit be tween picture writing, which the Chi nese have never passed beyond, and phonetic writing by means of an alpha bet such as that we use. The architectural types of the Mayas and their decorative designs have fea tures so similar to some of those of the old world that the earlier students of the American ruined cities believed that their builders had been influenced by Egyptians, Babylonians or Hindus. The typos of arches and certain sculp tured designs were compared especial ly to those found In the great ITIhdu ft?mple of Boro-Budur in Java. It is the more general ^pinion now, how ever, that the works of the Mayas were the result of a culture born on this continent and acquired by this ? people in their toilsome way upward from savagery and through barbarism. ,The story of Yucatan In recent I times is the story of henequen fiber, i OfThand, that doesn't seem to affect ! the average American to any great ex : tent. But It does affect him every time be buys a loaf of bread. The story might be framed like that of the house that Jack built. Henequln means rea sonably cheap - and plentiful Mnder twin*; binder twin* maken poKsIblo the ' use of' harvesting machines; harvesters cheapen grHln production ; cheap grain means cheap bread ; and so henequln, and arid Yucatan, play important parts in feeding America and the world. | The other side of the story the j rapid development of the henequen In dustry and the pouring of wealth into Yucatan ? chiefly from the grain belt of North America. ???inrtottht?rilifplajred ita part in swinging the p??fttlcal pen dulunt from extreme feudalism to mo cfallsm. Henequen, wMth is a sort of cactus not unlike U* century plant of the -pnlqnc c?ct?r to ?WW?, h??l kMa craws to twin tfM* torlc times and Its fiber was used in local plantation and village Industrie*, But there was no outside market o considerable magnitude for the liber until the Increasing use of harvesting machinery in the United States created a demand for large quantities of bind er twine. ? Once ? Feudal State. Before what may be called "the henequen era" in Yucatan trove er in the country might have Imagined with a few concessions to race and climate ? that he was In the heart of Europe's old feudalism. Some^of the principal land owners had truly baro nial estates, through which one could travel for days. On the roost extensive estates were scattered half a doren or more great stone castle-like h^ienda. in the care of major domos. In these sumptuous dwellings members of the owner's family might not 8P^d* night a year, for they lived for ^the most part in state in the cap tal Me 1 da, or spent thetritirae traveling in Eu rope or the United States. In those days cattle raising was the chief In dustry in Yucatan and prosperity never reached below the few members of the propertied class. Climate and physical conditions gave Yucatan its feudalism, ^be 8^faC??* (the country consists of only the thin nest of soil, and underneath is porous limestone. The climate is dry and hot. half the vear, but there Is a reasonable amount of rainfall during the *" months. Yucatan is one of the few areas in which there is an appreciable rainfall, but no streams or even stream beds. As fast as the rain falls during the rainy season it seeps through the thin soil and soaks into the llmesto"?; The lack of surface water, and the fact that hardly any food crops can bs grown on much of Yucatan's: ^/thi made it practically Impossl Me for the peons to exist except under the wings of the great landholders. The latter constructed capacloui reiervoirs at their haciendas, In which enough water was stored during t rainy season to supply all their ret*J* ers through the six nlonths' dry period The situation was helped out, too, by the cenotes, the unique water holes ot Yucatan, apparently formed by a fall lng in if the roofs of subterranean lakes. Iti most cases these queer natural reservoirs were owned by the landed proprietors. Laborers Now in Control. Toward the close of the Nineteenth century henequen / production shou ? dered out cattle production from i the place of first importance, and defers many years the fiber dominated the life of the country. The old feudal system remained largery unchanged, and the landowners became extremely wealthy. But some of the prosperity inevitably filtered down to a middle class, and even to the planta tion laborers, and soon Yucatan gave indications of a political turbulence unknown in the plder feudal days. When the World war came prosper ity reached its peak in Yucatan, with henequen fiber selling for as much as 19 cents a pound. The few landowners were no longer able to dominate the state government and the laborers ani their friends, who gained control, re shaped the entire scheme of things. Wages of workers were fixed by legis lation at $5.25 to $24 (In United Slates money) for each eight hours. After the armistice the pHce of henequen fell sharply, and by mi it had fallen to 4 cents, and in 1922 It reachtyl its lowest point, 3H cents. Thejpge laws re jnalned unchanged an(T many of the plantations, carefully tenrfed for J^ars, were abandoned to wild growth. The country then experienced what was probably its greatest economic crisis. Henequen production was greatly re duced and conditions have Improved somewhat with the fiber now at 4* <*nts a pound. , Yucatan la the thumb, which, *;lt& the finger of Florida, almost encloses the Gulf of Mexico. It la for the most part a flat plain. Its highest hills being measured in only hundreds of feet. It H <me of the first U?4a to which the world- faring 1*1 f Str*a? warnUfc Killed by a Trap (iun. Herman Kalis, of King'* Mountain, died in the hospital. of that town- Wed nesday morning as the result of in juries sustained by a trap gun while robbing: the store of S. K, Riser,. in the Sunnyside section of CheiVyville, in the early morning. According to the linstonia (iazet'to, of Wednesday afternoon. Falls was accompanied in the robbing expedition by Will Mo Donald and Kaymond lienfteld, who remained outside in a Ford ear while he went in after tjie goods. After Falls had passed fifteen pairs of shoes through an open window, he ran against a string that was tied to the trigger of a gun that had been set in side the store for such visitors and he was shot in the side. McDonald and* Hcntield run away at the report of the gun; but Afterward came back and picked Falls at a point to which he had crawled some distance from the store, Raymond Hentield whose home is at Bessemer City was arrested at King's .VJTountain and com mitted to the tiuston county Jliil; but up to Wednesday afternoon McDonald was still at large. York Knquirer. Dr, Alette 11. Jacobs is the Nether land's most ardent sutVragist and wo men's medical pioneer. WRIGLETS Tako it home to the kids. Have a packct in your pocke^ for an ever-ready treat. A delicious confec tion and an aid to , tho tooth, appetite, digestion. ^Sealed in Us Purity Packago In Knirland the franchise does not extern! to women uhdfi thirty yoni's of age, which meant* that the. vast majority of the working women <.!<> not vote. A YOUN(* man without a small . Bank Account seldom becomes % an old man with a big Bank Ac count. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings Deposits 1 _ 1 ACQUIRE THE HABIT OF SAVING Habit grow* ? for good or evil. It get3 a grip oh you to your sorrow, or to your joy and happiness. The habit of SAVING MONEY is a good habit It is bound to be helpful and pro ductive. It creates self-reliance and self respect. It means future competency and independence. On the contrary, the habit of WASTING MONEY is a drag-net to poverty, obscurity and pauperism. Form the Habit of Saving. Open an ac count at the First National Bank ? save regularly ? And thus solve the problem of self-acquired prosperity. NOTICE! i I have on hand an ample stock of Nitrate of Soda at an attractive pricer ? ? F. M. WOOTEN nil