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THE PAGEAND JOURNAL * Vol. 4 NO. 30 PAGELAND. S. C., WEDlSB? MORNING, APRIL 8, 1914 $1.00 per year When the Political Meetings Will be. April 25th the local clubs meet. May 4th the County convention will be held. May 20th the State convention will be held. August 25th the first primary will be held. September 8th the second primary will be held. The State Democratic convention will be called to meet in Columbia May 20th by the State cAtxuuve wuiuimw. The constitution of the Democratic party says, relative to the State convention: The State convention shall be called by the State executive committee to meet every presidential or State election year on the third Wednesday in May and the county conventions shall meet on the first Monday in May of such yearw This means that the conventions will meet May 4. The Democratic club will meet April 25?the fourth Saturday in April. Immediately following the meeting of the State convention, the executive committee will be called to meet by John Gary Evans, of Spartanburg, chairman, for the purpose of preparinc the itineraries for the <5tatP and senatorial campaigns. As has been the custom a meeting will be arranged for each county in the State. j The attempts to place the proper safeguards about the primary lsystem failed at the last session vof the general assembly^and it is kahi^that the movement will be jclub meetings and will be carried on through to the State con Vention. The question of reforming the rules and regulations governing primary elections in South Carolina was brought up at the 1912 convention, when a special committee of seven was provided for in a resolution to investigate the matter and report back to the next convention. Just what has been accomplished by this committee has not been announced, although it is said that the members have been at work and will submit a report at the 1914 convention. ? A Misplaced Deal. Bob Dwyer, fresh from college, opened a real estate office in an attractive suburban neighbor hood and hoped to make his fortune, says Harper's Weekly. For days he sat undisturbed in his little office, staring out at the dusty roads or twidllng his thumbs. On the afternoon of the f iMth day he saw a man crossing Ogden boulevard diagonally headed for his door. Surely this was a customer. He must be made to feel that business was flourishing. As the man stepped over the threshold Bob had the telephone receiver to his ear and was talking pnrnpsllv infA ? ?IUIU IIIC liailSllllllCli "That's correct," he said as the man stood before him. "Right. We will accept your fifteen thousand dollars cash tomorrow and let the .thirty thousand dollars remainder stand on a tenyear mortgage. What? Yes, I'll bring the deed around at eleven tomorrow morning. Goodbye." Bob hung up the receiver and turned an important visage to the visitor. "Now, sir," he said, "what can I do for you?" "Why, I just came over," said the man, grinning* "to connect your telephone instrument with the wires," / Drainage Congress Meets ir Savannah. The National Drainage Con gress, as its name implies, is ( national organization. It is en deavoring to have passed nation al legislation that will accomp lish the following results: Prevent an annual loss o hundreds of lives, untold grie and suffering, $100,000,000 wortl of property, and^the crippling o trade and industry, caused b: floods. Prevent the annual death of j thousand women, children nn< men, and an economic loss o $150,000,000 caused by malarii which is due-to the existence o swamps. Reclaim 75,000,000 acres o swamp and overflowed lands and convert them into healthful prosperous farms to provid< homes for more Americans thai will emigrate to Mexico an< Canada in fifty years. This great result will be achi eved, the officers of the Nationa Drainage Congress believe, b. the passage of the Clark-Will iams Flood Protection an Drainage Bill, H. R. 8189, pre nounced by experts to be th best bill of its kind ever presenl eb to Congress. The meeting at Savanna! April 22-25, 1914, promises to b most eventful and importan Among the notable events wil be the presence of Sir Willian Willcock of Cairo, Egypt, th famous English engineer ant the world's foremost authorit; on flood control and river regu lation, the designer and builde of the great Aswan, dam acros wb'dhub'** too-irpJ ders for ISgyptiaD development He has performed other works almost as notable, in irrigation drainage, and flood control, ii Other DartS of Efrvnt. in Tnrti< and in Mesopotamia. Sir Will iam is the only honorary vice president at large of the Drain age.Congress. He will delive an illustrated address at Savan nah on "River Regulation an< Flood Control in Antiquity." The organization also num bers among its active officers th? formost sanitary engineer in th< world, General C. Gorgas, U. S A., whose work.in fighting dis ease made possible the buildinj of the Panama Canal. South Carolina is vitally in terested in the National Drain age Congress, which would re suit in the early drainage ant roplnrnntinn nf 1 AAA x/viumuiivii Ui 1UU1C U1U11 000 of rich farm lands that vvouh add at least $50,0<>0,000 a year t< the value of the agricultural pro duels of the state. These acre can be drained and reclaimer quickly and at comparatively low expense, and this worl would greatly improve the pub lie health by largely eradicating malaria. Two Young Women Lose Live in Water. Lexington, April 4.?Misse Jessie Crout and Flossie Croul aged 20 and 26 years, lost thei lives in Taylor's pond, about 1 miles south of Lexington, at o'clock this afternoon when thi mule they were driving to i ouggy made a wild dash acros the mill pond, while they wer crossing the dam Elzie Crout a brother of the young ladies aged about 12 or 13 years, wh< was in the buggy at the time o the accident, barely escapes with his life, he having managec to get to the bank. The accident happened almos within sight of the young girls home, and they were returning from Swansea, where they wen yesterday to visit relatives. Items From Route ' Mr. and Mrs. Clestus PjWB have a sick child. aK1 Mr. W. F. Phillips wBKo Darlington this week otMHKness. The wife of Mr. J. D. Etftfjth, / is on the sick list. ? 1 % .altsp. f Measles is still ragingjKj?sk r Mr. P. H. Mills and others^^^p f Farmers are not plantinflHp^ thing much yet out this way. a Mr. Joe Mills is smiling some j It's a girl. f Miss Annie Lee Lowery :mnl a to Monroe Saturday, to attdnd f commencement excercises.&f Miss Eula Brewer, of Cherfuv ' spent several days recently^ ic !' this section visiting friends fcnd ' relatives. Rev. A. J. Crane, spent Fri$a> j uigiii ai ivir. jonn rucnarasonrs. Mr. and Mrs. John Thr^hti [ have a very sick child. {[ Sunday school to be reorffan y ixad at Mt. Moriah Sunday at U [. o'clock, d A Trifle Unruly. e "Is that bull over in Mr. Lath * rop's pasture good natured?" in quired the new school mistress ' with some apprehension in.hei t voice. "I ask because I wahtet II to cross the pasture last night n and I was afraid he mightl^x ^ Mr. Plaslee surveyed the yoflf lad3* with kindly eyes. Jr ' "M-well" he concecj^ft.a s length, "it might be a - <\vilh.thqtjgodv t. and alfto undertake to croS^T^a pasture when he's right haiidv He might take a notion to cl^asc ^ vou, and then again he mightn't "I ain't one to slander any oi - my neighbors' prop'ty," he vvem - on, apologetically, but I d'kqow r as Lathrop can blame me jjf ] don't more'n recite facts to you. 4 I ain't givin' any opinion, y' understand. I'm jest tellin' :^0t] - what's happened, and lettin'vQu 2 make up your own mind to fcUjt 2 yourself. ? "When Lathrop fust got thai - animal, he had a Swfced wort^n' ? for him, and he had the care C1 the bull 'bout all the time wl^ - he stavprl Vioro C...1 ? UV1VI M lltti O VV ViUt was a kind ol stupid critter, imd I guess he got careless. 'T vin> i rate, one day we heard a belter in' goin' on up there in the hasI ture, and the Sweed hollerin" al ^ the top of his voice, so we j all * grabbed pitchforks and put rut s there as hard as we could pjelt 1 and we didn't any more'n jgel V there in time, as 'twas. * "After we men?there \yas - five of us, with pitchforks?liad i bradded the bull away from the man, we got him?the marlt ] mean?over the fence, and kip * der went over him for injuries He had one broken arm, hnd s two broken legs, and besfae* t that he was torn up consld'a^ie And while we was sortin' liirr l over, it took three men to k eei ^ the bull from gettin' over the 9 i > - lence ana navin' another gd ai e him." a "And ever since that tinie<* s concluded Mr. Peaslee, judics Hy e "I've sort of had my do^btt , about that animal. In facl # ] >, can't help thinkin' that he's j > kind of unruly beast." i i Mule in the barny.'rd, 1 Lazy and slick; Hoy with a pin on the end 0 t a stick ' Creeps up behind him quie t a? * a mouse? t Crepe on the door of the li ttlc boy's house.?Exchange. f > Underwood Victorious. B Birmingham, April 7.?IndicaHons early today were that Os jfjofrr \V. Underwood had triumphWtl over Richmond P. Uohson in :phe contest before State wide j Democratic primaries for the j domination to the United States ! senate. Owing to the complexi% ty and length of the ballots comi plete returns probably will not be received until tonight. The protracted struggle for the nomination between the two dis' tinguished candidates terminated with a record-breaking vote by t Alabama Democrats. Interest in the contest for the short term in the United States senate, the nomination of the congressmen, ( a governor and other State and I county officers also brought thousands to the polls. Both-Mr. Underwood and Representative Hobson were in the city tonight watching returns 1 from the entire State. Shortly after midnight Mr. Underwood made the following statement: * "I am thoroughly satisfied with the primary election held yesterday. The splendid majority that the returns indicate will - be given me in the State I attribute* tr? tbe* moirnifinonf ???v. ?v/ me iiui^iiuivviii vv v/i r\, that my friends have done foi ' me in my absence. The result I r feel is a personal vindication and * a distinct approval of my remain, ing in Washington and attend i ing to my official duties. Bui after all is said the final conclu r sion must be that it is more a victory for fundamental Demo cratic principals than for myself.'1 1 Representative Hobson did nol f Volunteer any sta^m^^j^^ t nation of ^Representative Under-wood, he said: "I most positively do not." Railroads Consolidate. ^ Under the provisions of an act ' passed at the session of the gen' eral assembly of 1914, articles of agreement of a "merger or con. solidation between North & t South Carolina Railway compi any, Charleston Northern railt way, South Carolina Western Extension railway, forming the [ Carolina, Atlanta & Western ' railway*," were filed with the f secretary of state Monday. The t merger was dated April 3. The . rtrtriifril rvf J "^ ? ba^iiiai vi lilC MMiauilUillCU CUI11L pany-is $2,525,000 consisting of r 25,250 shares of common ^tock at the par value of $100 each. The company is given the right t to increase the capital. I The stockholders of the old railways, under the articles, con, vert their stock into stock of the t new road. The officers are: W. R. Boni sal, Hamlet, N. C., president and I treasure; D. T. McKeitham, i Darlington, vice president; S. O. [ Bauersfield, Hamlet, N. C., sec1 retary. The principrd offices of . the new company will be at I Hamlet. s Under the articles the annual . meeting of the stockholders is to i be held on the first Thursday in > December at Hamlet. i The directors are: S. O. Bauers t t'eld, Hamlet, N. G\; W. R. Bon sal, Hamlet; B. H. Inness Brown New York; Geo. E. Dargan, Dar , lington; w. Kedmond Cross, i New York; J. A. Lawton, Harts [ ville: J. W. McCown' Florence: i D. T. McKeithan, Darlington S. Davis Warfiekl, Baltimore; R, L. Warner, Boston; Bright Williamson, Darlington. f Little Willie?"What is a law yer, pa?" i Pa?"A lawyer, my son, is i man who induces two other mcr 5 to strip for a fight, and then run! off with their dothes."?Crescent Robber littered Express Car but Got no Money. Atlanta, April 3.?While Express Messenger R. C. Fletcher and a masked train robber fought a duel with revolvers in the express car of Seaboard train No. 11, at 5 o'clock Thursday morning, the passengers slept and the conductor listened intently to what he thought were exploding torpedoes and the engineer brought the train to a gradual stop. Just before it stopped, the robber escaped through the door of the express car and disappeared in the woods beside the track. As Conductor W. E. Cason, of Monroe, N. C., ran toward the engine along the track, Messenger Fletcher iumneil tn the? ground beside the express car. The messenger's shirt was afire from the robber's parting shot, fired so close that it ignited the cloth on Fletcher's body. Fletcher was wounded through the fleshy part of his right arm bv that shot. Two special agents of the Seaboard who happened to be among the passengers in the train started immediately on the trail of the robber, and the train left them, bringing its travelers into Atlanta at 6:40 o'clock, 1 twenty minutes behind schedule. W. G. Slaughter, special agent took up the pursuit of the crimit nal from the point where he left the train. Special Agent J. W. i Neufer, dressing hurriedly as soon as he learned what had ' happened went back from Talt bot, the next stop made by the ^ his attempt. The express safe was defended so successfully by the messenger that its contents were not exposed at any time. The value of those contents has 4. 1 - - * hoi oeen siaiea. Whether three men were concerned in the attempted robbery is open to conjecture, on the teport of the flagman, J. D. Bundy. Bundy jumped off the rear platform as soon as the train stopped, and without waiting to inquire what had happened he ran back a quarter of a mile to place torpedoes and flag any train that might be following. He reported later, when the locomotive signaled him to return, that three rough looking white men had passed him on his station. They wtre walking rapidly away from the train, he said. One was on one side the tradk, and two were on the other side, he said. The train southbound from New York, passed Comer and stopped two miles beyond at the Comer water tank. When it got under way again, said Fletcher, he heard some one hammering on the steel door of the express car. A man's voice demanded that it opened. He refused, and almost immediateiy a little barred glass window beside the door 1 was shattered. A hand reached > through, unlocked the door and i slid it back. Through the opening jumped a man with a red handkerchief tied across the lower part of his face. A revol, ver was in his hand. Fletcher was entrenched be, hind the safe. He was the tar get immediately for a shot. The ; robber advanced on him, firing ; a second time. Fletcher pulled a revolver, which in the excitement he had forgotten until the moment, from his trousers pocket and fired. The men were together, and the robber pushed 1 his pistol against the messenger's i breast and pulled the trigger. 5 Fletcher says that he shoved his ? finger between the hammer and -? A i "? The Dread Threat. Maclyn Arbuckle, the actor,' was guiding a decrepit and tirepunctured car along a country road in the central part of New Hampshire when from behind a roadside bush stepped an angular native, wearing an air of freshly acquired official dignity , and a brand-new constable's ! ? i _ _ ' Daage. wnn a majestic gesture ' he threw up his right arm and spoke as follows: "Cease!" When going at a rate of not exceeding six miles an hour it is comparatively easy to cease; so Arbuckle applied the brakes. "What's the trouble?" he inquired. "Yew're tuck up fur exceedin' the speed limit!" stated the constable. "Ef yew settle right now on the spot the fine'll be five dullars," "Speed limit nothing!" snorted Arbuckle. "I was barely crawling." "Never mind?I seen yew," said the official; "and I don't want none of your back lip neither. Lemme see your thermometer." He looked gravely at the speedometer a minute. "Looks like yew've been doin' consider'ble much speedin', jedkin' by these figgerrs," he announced judicially. "Yew orter pay a fine on general principles." By the bribe of a cigar and a line of impressive talk Arbuckle secured his freedom; but as he started off the new constable hailed him. * , "Let this be a warnin* to yew" i he said; "becuj^k I ketch yew A speedin' agin mave to house ^A Duck.. | (Composition by a 12-year-old boy., The duck is a low, heavy-s bird, composed mostly of mea bill and feathers. His head set on one end and he stands on th other. There ain't no between to hit toes and he carries a toy balloon in his stomach to keep from sinking. The duck has only two legs and they are set so far back on his running gear that they come very near missing his body. Some ducks when they get big are called drakes. Drakes don't have to set or hatch?just loaf, crn swimminflf onri r?at n- - ^ai. If I was to be a duck I'd rather be a drake every time. Ducks do not give milk but eggs; but as for me give me liberty or give me death. the plunger, preventing a shot, which would have ended his life. Fletcher fired again, but evidentlv the barrel of his ro vol ver had been shoved beyond the body of the man with whom he was grappling. The robber jerked his gun aloose and fired another time, and this bullet plunged through the fleshy part of Fletcher's right arm. Then the robber shoved his revolver up against the breast of the messenger and pulled the trigger again. The cartridge failed to explode, and his life was saved a second time, Fletcher says. Engineer A. L. Garrison said he heard the shots and thought they sounded like torpedoes, though he couldn't locate them under the wheels. Conductor Cason, in the first passenger coach, also heard them and thought they were torpedoes. V.