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THE SHANTUNG QUESTION 1 ivolves the Territorial Integrity of China. HOW JAPAN GOT HER FINGER IN By Rights Territory Taken By Germany Should Have Gone $ack to i China; But by Secret Treaty the Al- [ lies Had Given it to Japan. "What is the 'Shantung Question' after all, and what part do Kiaochow :uid Tsyigtao piny in it ?" This question is answered in a bulletin issued from the Washington. D. 'C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society as follows: "The 'Shantung Question* had its genesis when Germany, eager to compete with other European nations which were becoming more and more important in the Far Enst, determined to have a port and naval base of her own on the shores of northeast China. It took definite shaj>e when in 1897 two German missionaries were kiHed in teeming Shantung, most densely populated and economically and sentimentally one of the most important of China's provinces. By way of indemnifying herself for the loss of her nationals, Germany forced China to grant her a 99 year lease on an area roughly ten or twelve miles in diameter on the eoast of Shantung at the entrance to Kiaoehow Bay, and to neutralize a zone 33 miles wide skirting the entire l?ay and including the leased region. On the leased plot the Germans built a typical German town Tsingtao. First Only a "Kiao-Chow" Problem. "The leased and neutral zones together comprise a relatively small part 1 of the fiC.000 square miles of Shantung. ' So far as area iH concerned, it is very 1 roughly as though Virginia, Maryland and Delaware were substituted for,,,1 Shantung, the District of Columbia 1 for Tsingtao. and for the neutral Kiaoehow territory, a fan-shai?ed area of 1 Maryland counties with a radius * ooualing the distance between Washington and Baltimore. - 1 "When this most stubborn of Far J Eastern questions first. emerged with tier many and China as the chief par- ' . ties concerned, It seemed to be only a ' "Kiaoehow Question.' But the Kiaoehow 'inch* rapidly developed into the 1 indefinite but looming Shantung 'ell* ' when Germany's economic designs 1 were understood; an^l the later 1 amendment of the plant made the ' problem still broajler. For "the agree- 1 inent included concessions to build } 1 railways outside the leased and neu- ' tral areas, in Shantur- proper; and coupled with the railroad concessions ' was the right to exploit mines in zones f twenty miles wide traversed by the 1 railroads. ' The Question Springs up Again. ' ' "The 255 mile railway line from Tsingtao to Tsinan; the capital of : Shantung, was opened in 1904. When ' in 1914 Japan announced that she : would support Great Britain's interests 1 by^taking the town of Tsingtao, the 1 Chinese wished to send troops to make ( the attack a concerted uffair, but were ' dissuaded. When Japan had stormed ( the town and taken it from the Gor- 1 mans, the Chinese considered the mat- 1 ter merely a 'Tsingtoa Question.' but ' ' it rapidly grew into a 'Shantung.Ques- j tion' again when secret treaties were ' 1 disclosed whereby Japan had obtained J ' more than a year before the Fence | ' Conference the engagements of Great : ^ Britain, France, Kussia and Italy to ^ support Japanese claims to all priv- * ileges which Germany had acquired ( in Shantung. Although the Chinese ( delegates protested that when their ' country entered the war against Ger- 1 many and abrogated all treaties with ' the latter, her territories and conces- i ' sions automatically reverted to China, ' the Faris council followed the secret ' treaties and provided in the Treaty ' of Versailles for the transfer of "all J ' rights formerly belonging to Germany'11 in Shantung, to Japan. Thft Chinese , ' refused to sign the treaty: and there 1 ' the matter may be suid to rest, though ! 1 it has since been the subject of almost . ceaseless diplomatic discussion. Is China's Holy Land. ) "Most of the coast of Shantung is ! < rough, but within this minor barrier 11 tin. nrovince is itlains country . with unending tields of beantf and ; j kaoliang, a kind of grain sorghum. <| The level sections of the province are I traversed hy the groat Yellow River, which periodically inundates the conn- !' try; and the (ri'and Canal, a walerwax ' second in importance as a commerce ? carrier only to the Yang-tszo-kiang. ] "Near the central part of Shan- < tung rises Tai-Shan, the highest and !, most famous of the five sacred moun- I .tains <d' China. A short distance to , 1 lie south of the mountain is a little}' town which probably ranks as the . most venerated spot in all China, the ' birthplace and burial place of Con- |< fueius, one of the world's greatest re- | ligious teachers. To both Tai-Shan and 1 lie grave of Confucius at Cbov.*- | in. thousands of pilgrims journey an nualiy. The presence of these saeiedj, spots raises Shantung sentimentally } above the. other provinces. They transmute it into the Chinese Holy I .a mi." , g , Don't Be Like the Duck.?Unco upon : time there was a duck thai kept i........ a<ui<viii.|v colored KiyiiiK one, ... , < ggs :t 11 summer. At tlio end ol the summer .she complained that her < (l'< i ts were n??t appreciated. "Look at that hen over there." she said petulantly, "she hasn't laid near j ; .? inaity eggs as I, nor such large ones, ! Put she has hooks written about her | .and poems composed in her honor. ! 'Tain't fair?that's what It ain't. Xol.ody says it word about me." "Madam." -said the rooster, to whom 'she addressed her remarks, "the trouble vith you It that you don't tell the 1 public* what you have done. You lay unt-gg and then waddle off tc the pond and never say a word about it. While that wife of mine never lays one without letting the whole neighborhood know it. If you want to get your name and virtues into the barnynvo ycu must learn to advertise every time and all the time." All of which recalls to mind a poem once used by the cyclone Eva Tonquay in vaudeville. In this poem she described the dilatory tactics of a peddler of clams in Baltimore, who carried a fish-born with which to annnnnro his oomintr with seafood. The ixddler, becoming discouraged over business in one block, did not continue U blast his trumpet, and, consequently, made no further sales. The finishing line to the poem we recall as: "Toot your horn, mister, if you don't sell a clam?or others will outsell you." In early days the methods of advertising often were accomplished by the use of a bell in the hands of an energetic Town Crier. Today the American public has the advertising?reading habit to guide itself when seeking knowledge of thirtgs generally.?Easley Progress. WAR ON RATS Government Points Out Great Menace of Rodents. Intensive warfare on the rat has been declared by the Kiological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, and the call has gone out for volunteers to help eliminate the pest. In urging swift death to the rodents the department presents the following bill of particulars: No other animal is so persistent or dangerous an enetny of mankind; no other succeeds in inflicting so great md continual damage. A rat in the field, the house, the barn, or the store costs, on an average (2 a year to maintain. There ore as many rata it) inr country as then- an- men, women and children. Two hundred million dollrrs* worth af foodstuffs is devoured at ~>ually in America by the nit; an cqu.valent of 200,000 men devoting all their working time to producing the things the rat destroys or defiles. Aside from the economic loss of injury, the rat is a most efficient germ larrier. It frequents all the places lhat arc vile and loathsome. The germs of the dreaded black death have (tilled more human beings than all he wars of the world's history, and these germs are introduced into the human system by the bite of a rat flea. In India, no longer ago than lS9fi. :he bubonic plague killed 9,000,000 |>ertons. In Europe, during the foureenth century, it is believed to have wrought death to 25,000,000 human bongs. Other diseases, almost as dreadful, ire traced to the common rat. Thus, rom the standpoint of public health, is well as from the necessity of conrolling the drain upon the public iurse. it is essential that the rat be octerminated. Once the extermination s complete, or as nearly so as mod'rn methods will permit, every pre:aution must be taken to prevent the at lvom multiplying and regaining A ,1 I'M I u ll 1111, "Trapping should be done continlously and systematically at all ratnfested places." says the department. 'Rat poisons, especially baits treated vith barium carbonate as recently developed by the Biological Survey, should l?e employed. In furthering the lestruction of the rat, community or tivic organization is of the greatest mportance. It does no good to drive he rats from the cellar into the next f they are allowed to breed uninoested in their new quarters. When he campaign is made general the pest is allowed no rest and no opporunity to intrench in a new position, f one pair ol' rats is left they can reproduce the original number in a lit le while, as rats breed live or six imes a year with an average of ten o the litter. Real Obedience.?Four-year-old to per favorite doll, the loss of whose arm exposes the sawdust: '(Hi. you dear, rood, obedient dolly! i know 1 told Vou to shew your food line, but I had 10 idea you would chew it as fine as :hat."?London Boat. 7 0< I i: WAKE UP! WHY BE ILuu.fH hv f lif> ()1 lioi | FIGHT THE BOLL W X We have 1 lio following ? that will pay you to hive ? TURN" PLOWS, ] AND REPAIRS? ? And last, hut not least? | BARB WIRE AT ;1; String the weevil on th ? sheep and stock; sow wli You Prosper and We Pre :!; Prosperity. S RED V i W YOI | Store WAR) NEW ANIMALS FOR ZOO ' Giant Cobra and Other Reptiles Come From Wifds of Borneo. Sixteen animals for he Xcw York i Zoological Park in 'he Bronx arrived by express yesterday fiorn San Kran| cisco, says the Xcw York World. The ' lot included the l.*ircp>?t king cobra over captured?eleven and a half feet | long, and next to the largest ever seen ! ?and a pair of black panthers, very 'ferocious and considerably peeved at the long railroad trip. There were also four Indian hooded eobvas, two giant i lizards, seven loot long; rare specij rntns of porer,pines from the Malay Peninsula, nr orang-ortnng from Bor! neo. and some leopard cubs. ; They were aeioraiKtnien by Frank H. Buck of Bar. Francisco, zoological collector, wh. arrived in California j <Oct. 10 from t collecting and trapping j trip to tho Malay Peninsula, where he j *v*k accompanied by his w'fc, who c.oe? into the jungle with him on all his trips after animals. Mr. Buck hi ought East olso a cargo of : nimals I for,the Philadelphia Zoo, including a! J large tapir. t "The king cobra was captured l?y ; i Malay natives, who slipped a. sack | over its head," said Mr. Buck. "This sr.ake and t ic pladung, a wild buffalo, ' arc the only two croatu .;? that at- i ! tack man without provocation. The | 'If 1 Rub It In for ;l i # Colds in the Chest:, 1 Sore Throat, Grippe aztl Inflammation of Adj Kittl The pure oils in Mexican Mustang Liniment soothe instantly, penetrate quickly and reduce swelling of glands. Mustang is particularly effective in treating Croup, Diphtheria, Rheumatism, Lumbago. Froatbites, Cuts, burns. Piles? ill ailments that can possibly be reached by an external remedy. Contains no alcohol?DOES NOT SMART OK STING. 73 years' success. No home should be without it. Doctors Prescribe It ? Read This Dr. J. C. Compton, Ratlift, Miss., writes: "I have prescribed your Mexican Mustang j Liniment for Sore Throat, Chilblains, etc., and the results were entiiely satisfactory. I think very highly of it." FREE with 25c trial bottle . j A^UabtM.;'rrtt..ndT.krT()DOrS TOP. !Uv?fun~b?t popular ! Send 2S ceuf in atairtp* or coin for Trial Hi.ttlr* II ??arb'>M Site#' NotUng Lin I25c-50c-$1.00 Sold by Drug and General Store* " The Good Old Standby Since 1848 " atcvic A \T 1 ?* * * * * * * * * * * ?* * * ?* * % * /l *? * *? dock ? ! CAUGHT NAPPING? r Fellow's Mistakes. $ EEVIlRIGHT NOW! | floods in slock at prices sti^ate I WAG 11 Al?KM)\VS ? y 1 $2.00 PER ROLL | o wire ? raise cows, Jiogs, .{. eat, oats, rye, ele. * >sper - Let Us Have More * ? > t >!/- ?i 4 nnk IK HAnii- % E COMP \NY I ? # ** \ p g ~ ? "* ! big cobra glides 'through tl<; jtingle i with his head raised. three or four feet above the ground when nu*n are near and dashes to attack without ' warning. "The young orang-outang was,captured by Borneo natives in an interest!.g way. The orung-out: * g grows I as large as a man ar.d is a f> rocious | tighter as long as he is in the tree' tops. An old paid build a house?a [legular platform with ;i roof?in a j lire. The natives locate such a nest i and cut down all the surrouiKliryj trees and build (Ires, then they make a tremendous noise with drums, frightening the old couple and their | children nearly to death. They cut down the tree and in the excitement throw nets over the family, putting mem 11110 cages. "The orang-outang will kill a man in thp tree tops and dan go a hundred miles through the branches, but on the ground he is practically helpless. The old ones are killed generally in the fight and the babies are taken to native villages ar.d nursed by the women. On tny collecting trips I have seen native women nursing a human baby and orang-outang at the same time. I have seen a native woman jp = Cotton G If nr H iVMVMVHVI V(Xm*"! ?"XMXM?M*M'* * * ! TO OUR I I CUSTOMER {. Wc beg to advise You that on > i and i\ After November 15th | .* Our terms will be > , 1 STRICTLY CASH || V V A Wo h.ivo ndnntort a Cash policy > , > in (laying for our supplies and I *1* will therefore have to sell our *j* * PRODUCTS FOR CASH. |j ? After November 15th Z X t *:* We will have no new accounts, *J*! ' so please do not i i | Ask Us to Charge. * :l CLOVER COTTON | :j: OIL & GINNING ?! ? COMPANY, X X ? Clover, S. C. | , Wc BLANKETS, COM Some of the things that all along through th: Our Prices as Usual GINGHAMS, CHj APRON CJINGHAMS?AU you wai I SOLID COLORED CIIAMBRAYSSHIRT1NGS AXD I'LAIDS?Good 36 inch I'KRCALS?Grays and LU 36 inch PA J AM A CHECKS?Yard 27 inch DRESS GINGHAMS?All < J HICKORY STRIPE SHIRTING? r 29 Inch HEAVY DRILL?Yard ! 36 Inch 3-Yard SHEETINO?Yard 36 Inch BLUE CHAMBRAY?Yip't LAD-LASSIE CLOTH?Yard 32 Inch GINGHAM?in better grnd 25 C" | 36*Inch MADRAS SHIKTIXGS?F OUTINGS?Solid and fancy colors WOOL DRI SERGES. STORM AXD FRENCH your are looking for?Xavy, P ALL WOOL SERGES?Priced at 45 Inch TRlCOTLNES?Navy, I3Iac BLANKETS! One Lot of ARMY BLANKETS?F PINK AXD BLUE PLAID BLAN1 \V<)OL-XAP BLANKETS?Good. ALL WOOL BLANKETS?Beau til and Blue Borders?Priced HOSIERY! INFANTS', CHILDR i INFANTS' HOSE , INFANTS' MERCERIZED HOSECHILDREN'S HOSE?All sizes?I 15 c LADIES' MERCERIZED COTTO Priced .... 25 CTS., 3 LADIES' PLAIN SILK HOSE?B 50 CI LADIES' FANCY SILK HOSE?B . WOOL SPORT HOSE?Ladies' an BOX PAPER, CORRE GIVE US A LOOK ON THIS. V Papers and Correspondence C BOX PAPERS?Priced at CORRESPONDENCE CARDS- Pi K1RKPATRI TRADE AT HOME AND \ ai I Three Billi I Experts estimate thy States upwards of Three cold cash that is not beinj githnate uses. This 111011 is scattered around in bu knot Jioles, under hear banks (stockings) and n of circulation and thus st way). If this vast sum < ' in the banks of the count rious streams of trade ai to work who are now idle ital, and these thousands ey to spend and this in mand for various kinds 01 ufactured products and t nicnt to other thousands hoarding of money has a person who "hides" 11101 1 14 1 i.1 ! 1 1. I plus Minus in (ins naniv vouv idle* nionov work foi DO THIS NOW'-HELP BI BANK OF M. L. SMITH, President. FRANK McELWEE, SALLI Safety Satisfi i I > "I 1 who had lost hot' own lml>y cry pite- | j ously when her husband sold the baby i orang-outang she had nursed. "Black panthers, tigers, lions, and j j other big cats are caught by being enticed into pits, entangled in bamboo j i nets and finally put into cages' like ( | tapirs and carried to the coast for i j shipment. On one of my trips a'26foot python, which had juut eaten a j big tapir and was expected to be I sleepy but wasn't, was entangled in a, net by a crowd of native? in India j : and the python got a couple of loops j of its body around a native at the j same time. I shouted to the head man j ! to cut the snake in two, but he replied: j 'No, no. We've got hitn now, I have j ! plenty of men here.' We sq.ved the , man through." , Truthful Johnnie.?The pastor was , Interrogating the pride of the family, j "And do you always say your prayers before you go to bed?" "Yes, sir," re- j j plied Johnnie. "And what are the I ! things that you pray for?" pursued the | , good man. "Well," responded Johnnie : j thoughtfully, "mostly that papa won't j find out what I've been doing during , j the day." 1 oods, >ol Goods # FORTS, HOSIERY you are having to have is season of the year and Are Right. . ! \MBRAYS, ETC. at?Yard 10 CTS. -Yard 10 CTS. I colors?Yard 12 1-2 CTS. rht Colors?Yard 14 CTS. 14 CTS. rotors and patterns?Yd. 14 CTS. Yard 14 CTS. 15 CTS. I 15 CTS. I 14 CTS. 22 CTS. les, solids and all colors?Yard TS., 29 CTS., 35 CTS., and 48 CTS. "ast colors?Yard ... 25 CTS., 35 CTS. and 39 CTS. i?flood heavy weight 15 CTS. and 19 CTS. Yd. ISS GOODS ; TRICOTIXES In the shades Hack and Brown 75 CTS. to $2.50 Yard. k and Brown?Yard $2.75 BLANKETS! riced at $1.19 \ETS?Priced $1.98 full sire?Priced $3.50 to $6.50 ful plaids and plain tvith Pink $8.50 to $13.50 HUSIUKY! ill EN'S AND LADIES' 10 CTS. and Up. ||| 25 CTS. Ill irown, Black and White TS., 25 CTS., 35 CTS.. and 50 CTS. ||[ X HOSE?Full Fashioned? 5 CTS., 50 CTS., 75 CTS., 98 CTS. || lack, White, Brown?Priced? TS., 98 CTS., and Up to $3.50 Pair lack; White and Brown $3.25 ||| d Misses'?Prjced 98 CTS. to $2.50 ||| ISPONDENCE CARDS I <"f have a nice assortment of Box m 19 CTS. to $2.50 IN iced at 50 CTS. and 98 CTS. ||| CK-BELKCO. N E BOTH SAVE MONEY. J on Dollars it there arc in the United. |j billions of Dollars in real |? --L ^ ?v?/l 1?_ $ pill 10 IIS tinu. IV- , cy, so the experts figure, rcau drawers, old trunks, 11 tlis, in "first national" !| ion's jeans?entirely out !| > much dead timber (in a | of money were deposited \ ;! ry it would enter the va- < [ id put thousands of men j I 1 because of lacking capi- ]! in turn would have mon- ; !| turn would create a de- I I' farnn products and man- ! bus in turn give employ- j>, now non-producing. The jo back-lash that hits every jl icy away. Put your sur- j! and other banks and let ]> i' vou?draw interest. ! > JSINESS AND YOURSELF j |i CLOVER I JAS. A. PAGE, Cashier i [ IE SIFFORD, Asst. Cashiers action Service j | ? Travel teaches shrewdness, no | doubt, but a fnan who can make enough money to travel is shrewd enough. fllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!! SCHOOL DECEMBE The Patrons. Taxcavers a ty Generally?Men dially Invited to Visit Time During THE WEEK BEGINNI YOU ARK SPENDING A GOO tional purposes and Jt is not on'y y< hew it is being used. With very t find your school in better conditior Rut there is? always 1'oom for imp thing lacking tell us about it or tak change. PERHAPS SOME TREES AR1 shade trees or glass in the windows, coat of paint. POSSIBLY YOUR TEACHERS ing during the week?have some ex music and a taik or two on some j meeting is called visit the school al your time. The teachers will extei you g'ad you went. THE COUNTY SUPERINTENI of "pop calls" and if the County range a trip for the purpose they w hand information on both roads and i TEACHERS ARK REQUESTS and report to this office. Such a r hood interest in school affairs. A GENERAL CITIZEN8' MEETI COURTHOUSE ON SATURl RANGE TO HAVE A GOOO C WOIID CCMMIINITV II VWn Winm vi?i . > . Details of the Big Meeting will JOHN E. CARR03 imifiiimiimimifiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiimi I The E a Perfa ?and all ready for ano plow, harrow, drill; to corn sheller, the hay be Fordscn Tractors are r most economical and mo general field work for h but they are saving t money in taking care cf It combines all of the q vantages?you have wi: It is light; it is power! economical in both fuel I keep; it is durable; it is I not extravagant in cost. It's hard to tell you a! Fordson here. We preJ sonally and to show yoi I We'll gladly bring all t I will phone or drop us S. L. CO I YORK, CAMPBELL CLOVE WOT? t Mill mi m || II ? II?III HWIMIimiT liiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmitiiimii I CAMPBELL-HICKLIN BREEDERS OF HI E SHELDON, BEAU 1 HAMPSHIRES IT IS TIME THE FARMERS MAKING PLANS TO BEAT Tl 2| Why rrnt turn at l"ast a part of yoi 5; Utile trouble. E WE SELL NOTHING BUT E REGISTERED. WE FURNfl = LITTLE PIG TO A CAR LOA E Write Our Mr. WADE H. HICKLIN tell Him what you want. Campbell-Hicklin Liv E WADE H. HICK Sheldon, Beaufo] m n 111111111111111 ii 11111 ii 11 M 111111! 111111 / ? We. can't tell wliiclr 4^?QjfJc<l the greater factor in shilling time* like those, Karl .Marx or easy mark*. ':f.nm= IIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIilllllMMUIIHIMIIIIIIIIIUi' WEEK !R 5-10th * / <V .' ! nd Citizens of the Counand Women?Are Cor; Their Local School Any . .?C; y ?flVy' ? NG DECEMBER 5TH i D DEAL Of MONEY for educa)Ur privilege but your duty,to set* ' tew exceptions you will probably " i than ever before in its history.* rovement and if you find some- ' ;; c sop--> steps to make the desired , 3 NEEDED on the grounds, new. , a better healing plant or a (resh WILL ARRANGE for a gather- v ercises by the children, or a little ' jertinent topi\ But if no public hy way. It will not take much of . N id you every courtesy and make DENT WILL MAKE A NUMBER Legislative Delegation could ar ould get some mighty good llrstschools. i ?t D to note the numbed of visitor^. )? eport will indicate the neighbor-" vcv/' rlJ Mi * ">f IMG WILL BE HELD IN THE . DAY, DECEMBER 10TH. ARIELEGATION PRESENT FROM be announced later. LL. County Supt. / iiimiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiniimiiiiiiiifiiii . SOTK /' ^ M*Z.'P r&L'i nd of f ztDatf i ther, whether it be to J i run tlie thresher, the ' It , tier or what-not. For |j , ic4- only doing in the ? H > st efficient manner, all Lrmers the world over, || hem time, labor and "(I : every power job. ualities?all o? the adshed for in a tractor, til; it is efficient; it is lift- 1 v.uiiamiijiuuu emu- ujr: dependable; and it is ! (1 the facts about the tcr to talk to you per- ' I I i its many advantages, he facts to you if you a card. URTNEY, & QUINN, I ! !R, S. C. ----- - IlllllfllltllllfiltllllllllllllllltllllttlllllUltll LIVE STOCK CORP. I gh class hogs fort co., s. c. DUROCS i s of york county were he boll weevil. s ir energies to hogs? Big Profits. ?g BREEDING STOCK?ALL SH ANYTHING FROM A D* , a former York County Man and 3 e Stock Corporation LLIN, Manager <S rt County, S. C. iiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimmiitiiiili , t . ? . r f. !r? i 1