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> < s> TALK1NK IT OVER. ?? -3 <?> J. .E. W.- in Anderson Daily Mail. 1 < Merchants?not necessarily An derson merchants, but merchant throughout the entire cotton growinj o^,,+k v> q^'a Know Aiilfo qc hnrrl hi uvutu na ? v iyv. wii vjuicv mo v. ... by the slump in the price of the sta pie as the farmers themselves. Ii many cases they find themselve loaded up with big stocks of good bought at high prices, and here an< there, just like the farmer who is sell ing cotton at prevailing prices, the; ( arc making genuine reductions ii prices?taking the loss now rathe than wait later, when in all probabil will bs greater. This being true, -there has neve: been a time when truthfulness in ad vertising, the bare, bold face facts would bring greater and more satis factory results than right now. No has there ever been a time whei merchants, farmers, laborers, all o: t?s, could accomplish more by ever: one play: j the game open and fair Iinpressidns made now, while we ar< goihfc through this period of genera readjustments, will be of long dura tion. Confidence in the integrity o the -honesty of the man from whon one buys produce, eggs, butter, milk potatoes, things peddled on the stree bete every day by those who produc< them; in the man who supplies th< groceries that go on'one's table; ii the mail who sells shoes, clothing o: ftiriiiture, or what not. is not to b< trifled with. And this also being true, it is dis tressing to listen to a lot of talk tha is being indulged in these days abou . prices. * f*oi\ example: A man told me thi: mbrfting that he had been trading a a certain store?I will not tell yoi h&w many years he said he had beei buying goods at that store?and tha ftfi' tfent', in there. Saturday to buy i certain article which was priced t< him a-t $50K)O. "I asked the mer chant if that was thf original price the first t>jf the &ason price, and i: ^ he couldn't make a reduction, sayinj something about the low price of cot tbft. And he-got red headed, said al kinds of things. I could, and would have paid the $50.00 if I had.receiv gd 85 or 40 eents a pound for the cot ton 1 had'sold that day, but as I di( riot ha^e such good luck it was im possible for me to do business on thi basis he named. Needing that par titular article, however, I tried an f ether store?in which I had nevsi ij>ent a' dollar?and what do yoi recleon t They showed me practical ly the same article and said, 'Her* i - " ? tltli J.1 ]_ ^ J. you are. n nen unese giwus umc n we marked them $50.00 but now that cotton has taken such a tumble otir business, in consequence has suf ffcftd, and we have decided to closi these goods out at $37.50 each.' bought without further explanatior and believe me, it will be a long, Ion* tinte before I go into the other stor< for anything." And what do you know abou that? "When goods were scarce and hart <to get, and when money was plenti fill and easy to get it was no troubl* t& do business if vou had the goods . - w -V but?as sure as you are reading thii and wondering whether TalMfe I Over really heard this storj^Br i; "just making it.up," the <time^Pcom ihg?if it is not already here?whei we all will have to go after busi ness. * Customed instead of begginj for goods, will?as of old?let th< . merchants sell them goods, and tha brings in, as time has ever had i habit of bringing in?what? Th survival of the fittest. That's all. ????*?? MARION HAQOOD IS BACK AT HIS HOM1 r Wa* Carried Away by Thieves am * Tells of a Thrilling Ride. ^ The Record, 23rd. Marinn Hao-nnH nrnminent Blvthe wood farmer, who disappeared lat Saturday night, his bloody car an slashed overcoat being found nea Colonial Heights, leaving the impres sion of murder, returned to Colun bia Monday afternoon, in accordanc with his wire from Jacksonville, i which he stated that he would be a ' home late in the day. Mr. Hagood told a story full of e> rifcmprtt. Hp said he was held up b a carload of men on the Koon roa as he was on his way home. The me were in an automobile on the side c the road and one of them was wall ing up and down by the car. H slowed down when he approached th car and one of the men boarded th running board, pointing a pistol i Mr. Hagood. Mr Hacnod showed fierht and th f O - ? ? w men from the other car came to th rescue. He was handcuffed and th car started towards Columbia, afte one of the ljieu had spent a few mil ut'es over Mr. ,Tagood*s car. An ji s. St-11 GAVE AC :! ninrif DEI f! yuiu\ ULil i! DOCTOF t! ! ij One-Half Bottle of The Reese Fors mula R-ll Accomplishes in Three sj Days What Two Blueficld Physij i cians Could Not Do in Four Weeks ! Patient Now Feeling as Young at ^7 . Seventy is She Did at Twenty. i ?:? r After being strikeen with influenjza and pneumonia, closely followed I t>y rneumatism. wnicn connneo ner iu bed for more than four weeks, Mrs. r Hanna Chandler, 225 Tank street, . Bluefield, W. Va., feels better today than she did at twenty years afo age, ' despite for seventy,odd years. Mrs. * j Chandler says, coiT^ernins her condition an dthe merits of The Reese i J Formula R-l 1: f "Last winter I was taken down with the 'flu.' I was considerably y run down at the time and this with . mv orl-irori/iorl voare mfl^P rr?P ATI pasv ~ j Illjr au utivvu j vmaw ...v ^ j, victim of the malady. Pneumonia 11 dtveloped, and for almost a week my _ J condition was critical. However, my "(constitution stood by me and after a r | while I was able to sit up. But no i, sooner had I begun to recover from :f; the 'flu' and pneumonia than I was ^ j almost completely paralysed with a J rheumatism. Two doctors came to sisee me daily for more than four s, weeks, but X got no better. I did 1 ' aMMKMHMHBHaHMMMa r j made in Mr. HagoOd's back, he says, ;, and he soon fell into a swoon. The men drove by Augusta, and stopped 1 at a small town near the Georgia city t#and blew a safe, according to Mr. tjHagood. He was in a dazed condiJ tion and says he only remembers a 5 -fatxr fV?i?er? fViaf hnrmpnpd Hp was """ft" ri - ? ^ taken to Florida and was left by the 1 men in the woods near Jacksonville. 1 i Mr. Hagood wandered jjito Jacksonville and found some Woodmen of 1 the World, who befriended him, giv3 ing him breakfast and advancing money. A. policeman gave him his . ? uicaio. Mr. Hagood was met at Cayce Monday afternoon and brought to , the home of J. W. Condor, where he was given medical attention", and where he related his story to friends. I Mr. Hagood says one man ill the party insisted on. kindness to him, and but for st he would probably have teen handled more roughly than he wa3. He showed slight signs Monday afternoon of having been uftder the * I effects of "dope." r i immi 1; BRIBERY IS CHARGED "{ IN SHIPPING PROBE i ' ~~ ( Continued From Page 1.) ?| ? he should make a statement in rc gard thereto." - The chairman said that after he [ j took office and Mr. Boiling was ap11 pointed treasurer, Mr. Boiling told *,him "the whole story of the alleged ;i charges'' made bj- Tucker K. Sands. Investigation Requested, t j His explanation was perfectly satj isfoctory to the chairman of the 1 j shipping board," Admiral Benson -jsaid. "In addition, after the same ?; subject had been brought to my at, j tention by Mr. McCann, the matter s was discussed with Col. Goff, our I tj general counsel, and together we di31 rected that a thorough and complete - j investigation of the various allegai tions and charges against Mr. Boiling - be made." ? j Attached to the chairman's statee f ment was a copy of the report of t! the investigation made by the divisa i ion of investigation, dated Septem e S ber 23, 1920. It was signed by Frank Burke, chief of division, who said the inquiry had been as to "charges made that Mr. R. W. Bolll ing, now employed by the shipping j board, had participated in commissi ' s ons, said to have been paid by the . Downey Shipbuilding company to Tucker Sands. "I saw Mr. Houston Thompson, t-! vice president of the federal trade e commission, and who was for some d time up to the latter part of 1919 r United States assistant attorney gen5 eral,*' the report said. "Who told i- me that Mr. Soiling came to hin: e j about two years ago and reporter n j that an unsigned communication hac ttheached Mr. Tumulty, secretary tc j president, in which the writer charg :-j ed that he had accepted part of $40, y 000 which was paid by Downey of the d Downey Shipbuilding company t( n j Tucker Sands. >f j "Mr. Boiling: requested Mr c- Thompson to make a very thorougt e investigation becausc of the fact tha ie he was charged with a serious crim< ie and if he was builty he should b< it punished; if innocent, his innocens< should be established. The letter, ii te seems, was either misplaced or de ie stroyed so that nothing was done ai ie; the time." -I ?t? I I TTaiilCU VB9V l- After ;receja? of a .second unsignec l- letter which *they believed emanatec is from the Sands' family, Mr. Thomp ;ed woman jef after [s had failedj ; not eat anything uuring must* cnunc ; four weeks, except a crust of corn : bread or a piece of toast occasionally. I One day my daughter read of The .Reese Formula R-ll. and I decided ; to try a bottle. I took just half a ; bottle when I was able to sit up, and j after I had finished a second bottle j of this wonderful remedy I felt just ! as well, if not better, than before i! ; was stricken. I am seventy year old, | but feel younger than I did at twen-j j ty, ihanks to The Reese Formula j | R-ll, which I have continued to take. | jl have gained 15 pounds and now i eat anything?in fact, my only trou! ble today is getting enough to eat." Mrs. Chandler has so much confii (lonm in TVip Rppsp Formula R-ll asi ia body builder that she now is giving:! jit to her two grandchildren?six andj I eight 'years old. | Thousands of similar testimonials I !are constantly pouring into Thej l-Reese Formula Company's offices i j from persons suffering from the af-, i ter-effects of influenza and pneumon-j I ia, indigestion, nervousness, sleep-j I nesses, lumbago, backache, female ! weakness, urinary, bladder, stomach, j j liver and kidney troubles. This rem| edy can be obtained at all leading) j drug stores, including P. E. Way and i Gilder & Weeks Co. son said Mr. Boiling had told him that Tucker Sands had made "a very urgent demand that he, Boiling, see the president and use his influence with the president to have the activities of the department of justice i stopped and have the prosecution J against Sands dropped." j "Sands at this time," the state\ ment continued, "was under indict ! mei>t by a federal grand jury, chargi ed with violation of the banking act. ; Mr. Boiling wrote a letter to Sands j telling him that while re regretted ; exceedingly that he had become in! volved with the government, he could | not and would not approach the j president on any such proposition." | Investigation by the department of i justice of the charges * against Mr. I Boiling was then ordered at Boiling's 'repeated rrequest, Mr. Thompson ;said. , j "^**"7""" nnvp t/tf t r\ , 1 WU LUI3 MLLLU; ANOTHER MISSING j Rcy Henderson, 16 Years of Ag?> Said to Be Murderer of Two i Smail Boys. I {News and Courier. j Gaffney, Nov. 20.?A horrible ' crime is said to have been commiti . ! ted this afternoon on Blue Ranch, ' six miles from Gaffney, when, it is alleged, Rcy Henderson, 16 years of age, killed two small boys, Frank and Floyd Kirby. aged six and eight I years, respectively. # I Henderson, according to the re j port, induced the boys to pro hunting j with him and when arriving near a j creek he .is said to have shot the smaller boy, blowing off his right hand and the top of his head. He then caught the larger boy, whom, it I is claimed, he beat over the head , with his gun, after which, it is stated, j he threw the bodies of both lads into ! a de$p hole of water. i The father of the dead boys, ar| riving from work and hearing that i the children had gone off with young j Henderson, became uneasy and in I searching for them, found the bodies S in the creek. I Henderson, according to reports, | went to his home immediately after i the killing, it is said, changed his i .1 1 l.JM. J + 0 . ciounes anu it'i, auu up <,v a ; hour tonight had not been apprehended. I Coroner Vinessee went to the 1 neighborhood and empanelled a jury 11 which inspected the scene of the crime and adjourned until tomorrow, 1 when testimony will be taken. No 1 motive for the crime has been. de!! veloped. (I _ > ^ r Hew We All May Help | Some people think that only those ^ poisons who belong to a Humane soI cietv are expected to report cases of ; cruelty to animals which they see or : know about. This is a mistake. " i Those who ^re not members, as well i as those who are, should notify the ' i nearest humane agent or police officer .when they know of the abuse or suf' - ? - - 1 T ..I. 1 ferine ot any animaj. muh uu mc " i telephone number of the Humane 11 ' \ society or S. P. C. A. All communi^ i cations are confidential. ? I Something Was Filled. Bowser?Did Miss Lowder's voice " j fill the hall? "| Blinks?Well, it filled the lobby, ' Pretty nearly everybody went out {there when she started to sing. 1 j- Prisons were first looked upon as 1 j possible means of reformation in -j 1704. , STYLES ARE QUICKLY COPIED , , Ultra Fashionable \ttire Ha9 but a Short Life in These Days of I Clever Imitations. i "When jrmif. dressmakers fell their | fine customers that a particular style I of dress is now "out of fashion" they j i do not mean that it is now rarely soon. | I but ihat it is seen everywhere ana } ! ha* in "become common." says | the Spectator. London. They moan I that a crowd of women who cannot ! afford to pay for novelty, but can afi ford nil the pretty things a week af| ter tin"? fai.r. when tliey are no longer I start 1 iiiir. are dressing up in them "to ! admiration." are rivaling, are soinei times bettering those who first had 1 hem. and making it necessary that ! these latter should fling litem siside ! and prepare to our a new figure. The ' same thing is true about men to a | less extent, the exact degree of studied negligence or precision in the ail ire of the well dressed varying in proportion ?< tiw? "peru-h-me-downs" become facsimiles. Kverv year the crowds of those who j copy become larger. They follow hard upon the heels of their models, who double and twist as they realize that their pursuers are gaining upon them, making now and then a feint of imitating their imitators in order to gain time. It used to be easy to guess a woman's place In the world by her clothes. Mayfair and Hampstead did j not look alike. The working girl and I ihe girl at leisure could be instantly j vocnirni'/mi n<t snph. At nresent it is | a nice question to decide who is who by appearances and clothes offer an uncertain indication, not only of for- j ! tune and station, hut even of a^e and j honesty. HIS BLINDNESS NO HANDICAP I English Botanist Rose to Heights of i Fame, Though Sight Failed Him j In Early Life. Mr. J. G. Wilkinson, the famoua blind botanist, lost his sight in his ""' i'' nfo 'rinfin<r nil mv naintinfif." I ...*. ...I ? ^ , hp said, "I had always been much attracted h.v trees and plants, so I got Percy Grlmshaw to take me to the Temple Newsnm woods, outside Leeds, to a favorite beech tree there, and I asked him to pluck for"ine a leaf of it. He did so, .and with my tongue I began to touch every part of | this leaf, and so got its'various details j and characteristic^ thoroughly Into my head, till I was sure I could recognize a beech leaf anywhere. From that ; I bewail .studying leaves nom orr.er J trees io a similar manner, until I could pick out any of tltem at once j from the mixed lot you gave me. * * * j Now (I hope I may say it with all modesty), thote is not a leaf, stem, fruit or flower of any plant or tree in the British Islands which I do not know, and should flot he able to recognize immediately I had touched It with my tongue, even if not with my hands." I True Chivalry. One evening, coming home from the theater on a car with a lady friend, i Jones stepped from the car and no- | n mntnrpflr cominar no behind the ! car. So Jones kept his eye on the car and took the elbow of the next person alighting after him, expecting It to he his friend. Still watching tiie mritor, he led the elhow safely to the walk and then turned to her. But to his embarrassment who should he find himself escorting hut a sreat tall man, who said, in the Sweetest voice: "Thank you, I was never escorted hy a young man across the street before; you are the kindest fellow I ever met!" The lady was following them, and she giggled over the joke all the rest of the way home. Nothing worm mentioning. There was a wild clanging of a hell, and the roar of an automobile engine in the alley that ran past the roar of a Southern home. Mandy. the .cook, dropped her culinary implements and left the kitchen in great haste to find out what it was all about. Her mistress also heard it awl reached the kitchen in time to meet Mandy, returning with a look of disappointment on her face. "What was all the noise. Mandy?" asked the mis- j tress. "T'want nothin'. ma'am, hut the po- i lice control wagon come to get dat triflin' Brown nigger for vagroin," was her disgusted answer. Why Wear Shoes? Eve was reputedly barefoot, and I Xnnsicaa nlaved hall all the better he cause she was unshod. Helen of Troy J at the most wore sandals, and the sandal is the compromise between the shoeless and the shod. It is easier to tnako sandals than to make boots. In Ireland and Scotland the children have run barefoot for many a day, and the w It of one and the enterprise of r the other show that there is nothing I really demoralizing in going without i shoes and stockings, remarks the Loni don Chronicle. Job Might Be Done Better. Little Marion was suffering from J swollen tonsils, and tlie attending phvi sioian advised an immediate operation to remove them. On being told of the coming ordeal, she leaned up against her mother and said: "I just wish that when thr* Loid made me he liad taken | time to stir the luiaps out.-?nmmuI anoJis News. f x If? The Best Adverl in Newborn % r ^ , / V L 4 Ike Herald . * M ' ' Tunnn 4 Waal/ t? 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