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wantedTI ?S: ' A Suffragist Wife f *> $?. by tlw? McClur* Newspaper Syndicate.) Something unusuul had huppened at suffrage headquarters that morning. A man?a big, thoroughly masculine one, too, who looked as If with the proper make-up he might have been a moving picture impersonation of the good-looking western ranchman' Qr cowboy?had actually walked up to Miss Hester Judd's desk?Hester was the paid -.secretary of the organlzatiorf-i *had asked to enroll as a member. #-To be sure, there were many *1- men on "the list of membership, but those men members were usually '. brothers or fathers, whose task of becoming suffragists had been smooth- ! ed by some daughter, wife, or sister, eager to add #ew names to the ' roll and more membership fees to the treasury. It was really rather unus.%?! n won nf lil? AU'tl ffOP will uoi ivt <4 man vi vi> . to walk right up to the secretary and say, as did this newest member: "If you please. Miss, I'd like to belong to your organization, and if there Is my thing f can do besides paying a ;heck for a hundred dollars to show ; C. I am a member, be so good as to tell lie what that is. I'd like to come to i ?* the meetings and do nnytlilng else' I , :an to help." ^ The newcomer hesitated when It tome to signing the enrollment Mank, ? ind then he said to Hester: "I may is well tell you that I am acting for? tor Mr. Warwick Stevens?and hot for nyself. I am his private secretary, /oil see. Perhaps I had better sign * * ay own nnrae.* When Hester took the blank she saw that the secretary's iame was Robert Walker. Hester, In virtue of the generous ?nrollwent fee and perhaps even more jecause the newcomer was of the out' 4U-4 ? loors type 01 man inui eapevran,t appealed to her, felt Inspired to detain aim as long as possible. She- rose from .ier chair at her desk and conducted lim through the four or five rooms that made up the suffrage headquarters?the reading room with its array >t suffrage pamphlets and magazines, the tea room with its cheerless, cheap wicker chairs and tables, a private _ office far the officers, a -cubbyhole of ! |. fepjitpyi and the outer office where *k she herself hud her desk. Mr. Walker spoke with something (tf a drawl und this, as well as a cerf", tain Hesitancy* and friendliness of his i iraanner, betokened to Hester that he was not a man of the city. She was not especially surprised when he asked her to let him talk to her u minute. He motioned to two wicker chairs in the tea room placed conveniently for a tete a tete and so began ti.eir confidence. Mr. Stevens, whom he represented, was, he told Hester, a grandson of Mrs. Warwick Stevens, senior, i and of course Hester had heard of her I as one of the most prominent of the <-v very wealthy suffragists. "Perhaps I should not have told you I was Mr. Stevens' secretary," said j Mr. Walker, "so I'll depend on you not to say anything about that. For a reason i cannot mention now air. i Stevens ts very anxious to get no- | quainted with some of the prominent ! suffragists here. That is why I dropped In," Having' filled his overcoat pockets with pamphlets on the various phases of suffrage the new member left the' fieadquarters for that day promising to return the next day when Miss Hazel Stoppleton?usually mentioned In newspaper accounts as the "suf- ; frage beauty"?was to give a talk on the cause. Hester thought it was perhaps because they were both secretaries, though of rather different sorts, that they were attracted to each other from the first and she was not entirely surprised when after a few Interviews In the headquarters, Mr. Walker took j her completely Into his confidence re- ' gardlng Mr. Stevens' attitude towaru suffrage. "I'll tell you how It Is," he began. "Young Stevens is very anxious to | know some of the young women inter ested in the cause. His grandmother, * who is completely absorbed with the j question, has made a queer sort of j -disposition of her property. War- ; wick Is her only grandson and Leir, j and she has stipulated that she *111 f give hiin a couple of millions more or less on the spot if he will marry a suf- , frairist, and if he does not marry a suffragist she will cut him off entifely ; In her will. She has gone so far as j to say that the girl must have been j 1 actively associated with suffrage be- i s fore she made that stipulation, because j \ it would be an easy nintter for any \ girl whom Mr. Steyens fancied to assume an interest in suffrage as a pre- j 2?i 11?m.. i '* lexr. Iiuncvci, Ml. t>iciuns uw.ni i ( cure for any girl In particular, so lie i is, to put It bluntly, In tlie matrimonial market for an attractive young suff." I "Can you Imagine anything so calculating?" wus Hester's reply. "He j must be rather mercenary to be will- j ? Jng to marry for money rather than love." *r *Oh, I .couldn't be so hard on him % as tint. Ho figures that the money j would be a rather pleasant Utile bit ;? to have and since he has never fallen 1 In love with any one yet he might as I well fall In love with a suffragist as anybody else," ?A ? ? | " v??*i -?r tjf-' ^ - - ' EX-CROWN PRINC The son of the former Kaisei the housewives in Wieringen, whe in a bench in the back yard. Hister' laughed. "So he has commissioned you to meet some attractive suffragists and Introduce him to them so he can And a wife to fill the bill?" "Yes, that Is substantially 'why I came to the headquarters the other day. And I must say I have had to report to Mr. Stevens that there are some very attractive looking girls Interested In the cause. The idea used to be that good looking women didn't go in for that sort of thing, but Judging from what I've seen over here I should say that the bad looking women must all be antls." "Wouldn't It be wonderful If he should meet and marry Hazel Stopni/.jnnV cnmrncfoH Hoatnr hpirlnnlns? |;tUkVil i A*vw%v.t ? o o to approve of the scheme. "He couldn't help but love her?she Is & regular goddess." "I don't quite believe Mr. Stevens goes In for the goddess type and If you mean that tall, copper haired, cold-blooded lady who talked with broad 'a's' here the other afternoon, why I can just say that Mr. Stevens wouldn't fall for her one little bit." "What type iloes he lB>e?" asked Hester, quite willing to help In the search for a wife since It was all for the cause. "I've heard him say he was partial to smallish, brown-eyed girls. I know for a fact he's very fond of dimples." Both secretaries reddened a little with confusion?Mr. Walker, because he felt he had said something rather foolish and Hester, because she was little, and had brown eyes and very nice dimples. There was an awkward pause, and then Mr. Walker went straight to the point. "I have an Idea that Mr. Stevens Would like a wife very much like yourself. Excuse me for being per sonal but ninety-ninte men would lose their hearts to you?that Is, a girl like you-r-to the one that would fall In love with Miss Stoppleton." There was another awkward pause and then: "Pardon me for asking, but if I should arrange to have Mr. Stevens meet you and he should fall very much in l<rve with you, as I am practlcaUy curtain he would?Judging from what I've heard bira say about his taste?is there any reason you know of why?well, what I want to know is this?are you engaged to any other man or pledged In any way that would make it quite out of the question for you to think of marrying Mr. Stevens?" Hester struggled to hide her embarrassment. She thought of half a dozeft possible things to say to relieve the tension, hut the silence grew longer till Mr. Walker explained: "You see Sometimes a man like Mr. Stevens falls very, very much In love with a girl like you in a very short time?and I'd hate to have him lose his heart only to find out that?that you were engaged to somebody else." "But, I'm afraid you didn't know that I'm only a paid secretary. To be sure, I'm a suffragist but a man in Mr. Stevens' position would want to marry a society suffragist." iiri? ? .**1,1.,., nkn.,f tlmf In " Autre was uvwiug uuuui mui the graniliuotlier's stipulation," argued Mr. Walker. "All that was necessary was a suffragist who had worked for the cause and you work harder than all the rest put together." It was late in the afternoon and fortunately the headquarters was empty save for Hester and tlie big man sitting beside her desk, so there were no eyes to be opened' in dismay when he leaned forward and took Header's two hands in his and kissed them. Then he slipped on his knees before her in the attitude of supplication thut Hester thought had passed out of mode amohg suitors.' "I'm mad about you, Hester. You must listen to me. I've known you only a few days, hut with a girl like you falling in love doofyi't lake long. That very lirst time I felt there was something that drew us together and I was fool enough to think that you felt that way, too. Tell me you love me?" "I believe?in fact, I know that I do love you. There is no use saying I don't. Pdrhaon after, all. Mr. Stevens E IS DEMOCRATIC. vf|-'^ j ?V I *' .,.' r is shown hobnobbing with one of re he now resides. They are seated would like Hnzei Stoppieton. l can't he n bigamist'even if I am a suffragist r And it was not till a half-hoar later, after Hester had been escorted to her boarding house door, that she realized i that she was really promised to marry the heir of the celebrated Mrs. Stevens and that Robert Walker, private stfcretary, was merely a convenient alias of that notable woman's grandson. . ' .1 w. . GANG OF THIEVES. Ooeration of So-called Exchanaes Fui ly Exposed. Officials of the American Cotton Exchange claim , that the investigation of that institution in progress has been brought about by its enemies, fnchiding the New York Cotton Exchange and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. However this may be, the inquiry before Chief Magistrate William McAdoo in New York has resulted already in i some exceedingly interesting disclosures. The conclusion is inescapable?if the witnesses are to be believed at all? that the transactions in cotton which took place among the members of the American Cotton Exchange reeked with fraud and that customers were fleeced in the most wholesale manner. Magistrate McAdoo asked one witnesses whether ' the customer at a distance ever won. "He might with an honest broker," was the answer, "but he always lost twice as much. The broker always figures his fcustomer as wrong." It was testified that when cotton was 22 cents last September one concern received such a flood.of buying orders that they did not have time to go through the formality of putting their trades across the ring, but a member of the firm simply sorted out the orders, filled in prices and sent confirmation to the customers. Ninety per cent ot the business, witnesses said, was done by brokers with their fingers crossed. The New York Herald thus summarizes what is meant by this finger-crossing system: "An order comes in from the South to an American exchange broker for the purchase of cotton. The broker goes into the ring and looks at the New York Cotton Exchange quotations and offers to buy at the lust posted figure. Getting no offer to sell he raises his bid successively until he feels he has gone as high as he dare on his customer's money?four or five points above the New York quotations?and on his next bid holds aloft his crossed fore and middle finders. Another broker with whom he has a specific or standing prearrangement catches that signal and in response holds up his crossed fingers and cries 'Sold!' "At the end of the day's business the 'crossed' orders are made out ,in 'bought' and 'sold' slips, one transaction going into the broker's books as the execution of his customer's order and the offsetting transaction being recorded in a durymy account. These ) registrations muke everything look all right in the records of the American Cotton and Grain Clearing House, so that the customer hasn't a chance to discover the bucketing of the order. "No cotton is actually bought, and, according to testimony, none can be bought Except in small quantities on rare occasions." The New York Globe declares that j undoubtedly the criminal aspects of the I situation which has been disclosed will be adequately dealt with by the district attorney and in the courts. However, while the law is inadequate to punish such abuses as have been shown to exist this is not the only phase which is of importance. "The economic menace of the recent growth of houses specialJ izing in petty cotton speculation is ! very great," says the Globe, "even when I the law is being technically observed, j An inquiry conducted by the Globe has. j shown that the South is honeycombed ; ; with agencies of firms which appeal toi | the gambling instinct of persons of small means. Speculation of that nai ture is doomed from the start." Denunciation of the cotton exchanges | has been a favorite pastime in the t South for a great many years. Yet now | j we are told that it is the South which has supported the crooked brokers, j "The sequel of the finger crossing deals | of the American Exchange brokers lies south of the Mason and Dixon line," jsays the Herald. "Various brokers, formerly of the American Exchange, COST OF THE BONUS Majority Report Contemplates Some War Time Fiflures. There were juat two important developments last week in the soldiers' bonus muddle. One was the tiling by Chairman Fordncy of the ways and means committee, of the majority re port on the compromise bil^,.,^hlch was estimated to cost.the government a total of $4,098,719,850. The other was the circulation df a petition by Representative Xinebcrgcr, of California, a former service man, for a conference of House Republican^ fyr this (Tuesday) evening to dtscuse/ the bonus legislation. Chairman Fordney declared emphatically that it still was lji? dAermination to bring the bill up Monday under a suspension of the ryl&Sj if that could be done, and.If not, to call it up Tuesday under a special rutp if such a rule could be obtained. The chairman went on to say ijv#. it w_as not his desire to limit debate: that If the measure were taken up Under a suspension of the rules ho would ask unanimous consent( for two days of discussion, which would throw the | told of how the American Exchange ' annnUKifAo In D/\t?4W/\nn f.linn f nln Art/i III ^Ullivril Cll^ll kUlV, VM4V. broker said of his hundreds of customers he had just two north of the Potomac rivet?' How different In this respect Is the New York Cotton Ex-j change? It would be very Interesting! Indeed to know. It is to b<? hbped ,that the light will be thoroughly turned on the operations of the New York Cotton Exchange also. What has beon brought out should help to cure' a good muny South, .ers of the fever /or gambling in cotton. If the whole business could be thoroughly shown up in Us truej light the cotton industry might be freed of a lot of parasites which doubtless have cost it far more than, the boll weevil ever did.?News and CbOrier. 4 1 m ACUE 11 ^ Fertilize I It . ... ->.T VfHP V HIGH < PERTH p : 1 - v r ^ :: ^.tUP : . ^ . .* - U. 8. Pat Ft)R Si /I ^ A. H. E ^ ROCK H . . .W V r.*-v+-it r Aj I Getting Reac New Spring Goods are . ready arrived?otheys ar are ready to show y6u? Men's Felt Hats and Oxfords for Ladies a Gent's Furnishing ii Staple Cotton Goods Trunks, Suit Cases, ] If you have a want in ou we can do for you?1 and right prices her< J. M. S" IY0RKV1LLE COTTO Millers, Ginners, Manufo Meal and Hulls, and De BARGAIN Until March Gtli we wil of 7 per cent Meal for I FIGURES Egg Jellico.? Block Jellico Blue Gem Jellico ! Prompt attention given t Y0RKV1LLE COTTO -- ..Jfcr final vote- over until late. The estimate in the majority report that the total cost of the bonus would be $4,09S,710,350 was base:! upon the assumption that 70 per cent, of the 4.45S.19D veterans v.ho would accept adjusted service certificates; ! 2 1-2 per cent vocational training aid; I 10 per cent, farm and home aid, and ! | 7 1-2 per cent, land settlement aiti. The ; ' ltmaining 10 per cent, would l"e paid I j in cash after passage of the bill under ' a provision requiring veterans whose ! adjusted compensation would not exceed $60 to accept cash. Total costs under the various options of the bill were estimated as follows: cash payments $16,000,000; certificate on account of deaths $577.571,000, and on account of maturity $3,154,823,350; vocational training- $52,825,000; farm and home aid $186,000,OOti and tand settlement $112,000,000. The greatest cost in any single year', was estimated at $3,154,828,350 in the j fiscal year 1943, when the certificates then outstanding would mature. The costs under all othe.r options except the certificate, would cease, the report j said, in 1927. The last payments under vocational training would be in 1925; under farm and home old in 1926, and under land settlement in '1927. After that time the only cost I each year until the year of maturity ! of the certificates would be payments [ on account of dates of holders of certificates. The cost in the fiscal year 1923, the first year after the bill came into operation, would be $74,279,000, the report said. oa 1/1 nn npnt/lttinn llfl/1 been made for raising revenue to meet the first year cost, because, a majority of the committee was satisfied that "no new taxation nor special provisions arc needed until after the expln Hon of that fiscal year." It add.ed that any estimate of government expenditures for 1924 and the amount of revenue POO 1 r Works - j v, i ; . 3RADE .IZERS f. |;V.> . -i ' i 0 a standard Not Down jjlj ?ea. to a price | ^LE BY , : 1 ;ynum i ILL, S. C. j -,?u.J tc t' /i'/.Vi ?J . .V;.*' ?, '' ly lor You-1 arriving?many liav6 al- I' e coming right along?we I Caps in many styles. 1 nd Men, Boys and Girls. 1 wide variety. ^ i _ l ?uingnams, irercaies. Handbags. v line come and see what iTou will get quality, style TROUP ] - 1 1 : 1 : - ? N OIL COMPANY | icturers of Cotton Seed jj alers In Coal, Ice, Etc. IN MEAL I give you 2,200 pounds J j ' One Ton of Sound Seed. | [ IN COAL $7.50 Per Ton. $8.50 Per Ton $y.ou .rer ron j o all orders. N OIL COMPANY jjj .. . sIA ? -y needed on account of the bonus "would necessarily be very inaccurate at this time." Thrifty Terry.?Xot nil Irishmen arc spendthrifts. Terry of Klldaro took out a license to marry the girl he had been keeping steady company with, but. for some reason she balked at the Inst moment and it was declared off. A couple of weeks later he reappeared at the license bureau armed with his paper. "Sir," he said to the clerk, "in February last I got a license from you to marry one Mary Manning. Tis oft that woman I am for life and now, yer honor, will yc pleas0 change the name to Honora Moriarty." "I'm afraid that can't be done. You'll have to get arother license," explained the clerk. "An' pay fer it?" "Of course." 'Wurrn. wurrn! 'Tls roone-d I am entirely, fr I just coortcd Honora to be after savin' tho two dollars." ? Every Chinaman bosses his wife, and yet wo talk about carrying the blessings of civilization to those pooniiiiiimitiiiiiiiiiinmiiiuuiiuiiuiuiiitii | CATHOLIC BOOKS | 8* < E | SENT FREE ON APPLICATION. ? j| GET YOUR INFORMATION 5 FIRST HAND. rr 1 i 3 QUESTIONS ANSWERED MY E 3 MAILu 5 g ? WRITE TO 1 REV. W. A. TOBIN g Saint Anna's Church ROCK HILL, 3. C. x 9 TTiHiiiiiUiiiifiiiitflituntiiiuiiiuiiitiitiiiir REAL ESTATE $$$$$ If Ton UC Want Them, See ATU< SOME OF MY OFFER!NQSr Five Room Residenoe?On Charlotte street. In the town of York, on larce lot I wIU sell ' ou this property for less tban you can build the house Better act at ones. ?. McLain Property?On Charlotte, St.. I-T. *1. t%. trrnm nf Ynrlr Tlili Tirnnortv )Im between Neely Cannon and Loclimor* mills, and is a valuable piece of property. Will sell It either aa a whole or In. lots. Here Is an opportunity te make some money. 90 Acres at Brattonsvllls?Property of Estate of Mrs- Agnes Harris. Will give a real, bargain here. Loans arranged on fanning lands. GEO. W. WILLIAMS REAL ESTATE FOR FINE FURNITURE Come to the .V OLD RELIABLE FURNITURE STORE. M. L. FORD & SONS UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS CLOVER. 8. C. DURING 1922? HERE'S HOPING that everybody in York county will have a year of great prosperity and be enabled to largely overcome the shortcomings of the year Just gone. It could have been worse? this year can be much better?Let's Go. Whatever your needs may be in first class Livestock?>Iules, Mares or good Horses we believe we will be able to supply that need. JAMES BROTHERS BUILDER'S SUPPLIES THAT IS OUR SOLE BUSINESS ?supplying the needs and demands of Contractors and Private Individuals with the Lumber, Mill Products, Brick, Cement, Paints, Oils, etc., that are used In constructing buildings or repairing buildings and other work that requires these materials. We arc on the Job every working day. We have the plant necessary to handle all these needed and supply them on short notice. We solicit orders for all kinds of Mill Work?Doors, Sash, Bunds, l<rames, Dressed Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, etc. We also invite you to see us about Paints, Oils, Putty, etc. Wc assure you of prompt service and good materials at fair prices. LOGAN LUMBER YARD1 I DP YOTJB EYES I X NEED ATTENTION? Do You Have Eye-Strain Head-K aches? "WhlHa/ms' Scientific I ! I System of Fitting Glass ss Means all that is Best in_ Eyefl Examination with Quality in 1 material and 8klil in work-, manship. Broken Lenses Duplicated. Examinations Mad* By Appointment. , I I Hampton Street ROCK KHUL, - - 0. C. iinsiiai?isim wmiiiiMMini?i jTwilborn^ MONEY TO LOAN 82 1-6 Acre(H-In town of Tirzah. A > beautiful 2-story 8-room bouse; two barns. One big new barn. Very productive land; good, orchard. An Ideal home. | # < 40 Acres?Ten acres In timber; joinin? lands of John Lindsay; 11-2 miles of Delphoe. The property of Mrs. Minnie Moore. Price, $1,000.00. Two 4-ropm Residences?And one vacant lot, opposite the Hawthorn Mill In Clover, property of Mr. E. B. Price. The lotd are 66x330 feet. This is a fine . property and is placed on the market for quick-sale. Will sell separately or all together? 155 Acres?At New Zion Church and school. Nice five-room cottage; 30 acres in cultivation; good orchard; 85 acres In tidiber. Much of this acreage Is In fine* saw timber?pine. Three miles of railroad station. Price, $2&00 per Acre. > For Qutak Sale?House and lot on Lincoln Street, York; two ctoriea, 8rooms. Known as the Bell House. t )! Price, $44OQi0?). - r|J J-C-WPORN^ | See, Phone or Write to THOS. C. O'FARRELL for High Grade Monuments In.Marble and Granite Plant on &atf Liberty 8treaL Adjoin* ing Rosa Hill Cemetery. ??* . I R. C. Brocltfnaton f. L. Hiaoaat W. M. Brown Palmetto Monument Co. york, - - c. Why Pay an Agent Profit? We know that the Agent baa to live, but let the oth3r fellow keep.him up. Deal Direct with th$ PALMETTO MONUMENT CO., York, S. C.; Phone No. 121. If you wish us to call we will be glad to have one of pur Arm call on You. We do not travel asrents. We can and will do your work at aa | Low a Price and aa Good in Quality aa ! any one in tho business. Try Us, la all that we ask. You be the Judge. PALMETTO MONUMENT CO. . "Honor Them With a Monument.* Phone 121 YORK, 3. C. i Typewriter Ribbona and Papers at The Enquirer Office. * * PROFESSIONAL CARDS. XS BRICB Attorney At Law. Prompt Attention to all Legal Rnolness of What?ver Nature. Office on Main Street in the Moore Building, FVst Floor, formerly occupied by 8. E. Spencer. J. A. Marion W. G. Finley ivr aptaxt a xrr\ tptkrtinv lUAXVJLVil All JLJ At AA1 * ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office opposite the Courthouse. Phone 126. . YORK.S. C. Dr. 0. L. W00TEN I ?DENTIST? OFFICE OVER THE POSTOFFICE T?l?nhon?*! Office. 128: Residence. 53. CLOVER, - - S. C. .71 t f. 6m YORK FURNITURE CO. Undertakers ? Embalmers YORK, - - 8. c. In All Its Branches?Motor Equipment. Prompt Service Day or Night In Town or Country. JOHN R. HART / ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Prompt and Careful Attention to All Butineee Undertaken. - Jephone No. 69. YORK. 8. C. 76 Lt It - - . , . ' J .. -.1 : ',k