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the pageland journal Vol. 4 NO. SO PAGELAND. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1914 - $1.00 per year ??? i ' III ?????? i i .i i i ?????? ??? Primary Election Returns May be Found on Third Page of This Issue - ? A . . . . . New* of I Q?uu m I ? ? The French and British troops opposing the invasion of the German army in Belgium have suffered a serious reverse, according to the official announcement issued by the French war office, in the battle line, which extends from Mons to the Luxemburg frontier. Several army corps, composed of both British and French, took the offensive on Sunday against the Garmans, but their plan of attack failed, owing to the "unforeseen diffirflltlOS^ do rlI vuauva UO UtOV.Hl/CU U_V IUC official statement and the troops retired on the covering positions. The losses on both sides are reported as extremely heavy and rSe French officials describe the Germans as being obliged to establish themselves in fresh positions in Lorraine. London, Aug. 21.?1:20 a.m .? The Germans have at last occupied Brussels but in Alsace they seem to be making no advance. The latest report is that the French have recaptured Muelhausen and it still seems true that after 18 days of fighting there are no German troops on French soil. On Germany's Eastern frontier there has been considerable outpost fighting which would indicate that the Russians are completing their work of concentration. There have been no serious collisions in this region as yet, however. Austria is too much engaged with Russia and with the need of helping Germany to make much progress in her campaign against Servia. mOTts^lther i^^th^^^rt^Sea or the Mediterranean, Washington, Aug. 22.?The time limit for the Japanese ultimatum to Germany, demanding the surrender of Kiao-Chow expired at 10 o'clock tonight, without any answer having been made by the German Government through the State Department here. Tokio, Aug. 23.?The Emperor of Japan today declared war on Germany. This action 'was taken at the expiration of the time limit of Japan's ultimatum to Germany demanding the surrender of Kiao-Chow. The Japan Government has ordered the beginning of operations on land and sea. The Imperial rescript declaring war on Germany was issued this evening. It officially inaugurates hostilities in the Far East as a result of Germany's failure to reply to the Japanese ultimatum. % London. Aug. 23.?1:46 a. m. After nearly three weeks of moThrift Mai and wealth make independence. If you save money when you are young you will have it to enjoy when you are old. Get a certain amount in bank, and you \ have an income for life 5 without touching the princ ipai. We are ready to receive your deposits and will j gurantee their absdlute safety. And you may be ' sure that your money is makii | The Bank PAGELAF vn? UUUUI VJ1TCU VICUI Majority Atlanta, Ga., Aug 19.?Complete and incomplete returns from a majority of the counties of Georgia at a late hour tonight indicated ihat United States Senator Hoke Smith has been nominated for re election to the Senate over his opponent, former Governor Joseph M. Brown, by an overwhelming majority in the Statewide Democratic pri mary I todav. Nomination is equivalent to election. Smith carried every county from which complete returns had been received up to 11 p. m. and it was claimed tonight that he would command the electorial vote of more than 100 counties of the 148 in the State at the convention. Cobb County, the home of former Govern Brown, gave Smith a Majority of 650. Fulton County, in which Atlanta is located, was carried by Smith by more than 6,000 majority. "George," said the teacher, "I am glad to see that you are polite enough to offer your sister the oranges first." "Yes'm," said George; "cause then she's got to be polite an' take the little one." bilizing the battle of giants has begun. Roughly speaking the Germans are trying to work arouad the allies' flank in Belgium, while the French are attempting to apply the same process to the Germans in Alsace. Almost all the encounters that 14 1, - -J mere reconnaissances. Th< defeat of a regiment here anc there has been proclaimed as ? great victory but in this grapph of hundreds of thousands mos of these affairs have had nc significance. Official announcements fronr both sides have been extremelj candid so far. From the stand point of the allies the importan feature in Saturday's develop mpnts iQ thp errant Knttl/i ..,1.1~I .u >UV ^IVUl UUltlC VY1I1CI began in the morning on th< Namur-Charleroi line./*This ii being fought on the positioi chosen by 4he allies. A German official statemen says that troops under commam of the Crown Prince of Bavaria fighting between Mets and Vos ges, took 10,000 prisoners an< 50 guns. It adds that the Frencl troops opposing the German! comprised eight army corps. An official British Statemen explains calmly that nothing re sembling a great battle has beei fought as yet and warns th< people against optimism. [ps Wraith ng more money. of Pageland WD, S. C. - t or Tei We now offer to send The subscribers until January 1, think of getting a bright, cl months for only 10 cents. You say vou don't see how can't. But we believe that or a few weeks you will become is our only reason for making We are mailing several h week, and if vou get one, it accept our trial offer of ten this year. Stamps or silver will be acc ten cents in stamps in an env< nal, Pageland, S. C., and > start the paper at once. Do r the earlier you send your na for the dime, and then you m A /"V . A. Tl 1 / - A I an uunng ac i ne <*u-AcreRock. * iA party of 39 of us from Dudley took a day's ouiing at the 40 acre rock last Thursday Aug. 20. We filled a wagon with small boys, put Mr. Howard Funderburk to care for them and sent them on 1 ahead. The rest of us were in 1 buggies and other kinds of vehicles. To describe the sights , and pleasures of the day would be impossible. The "40 acre rock" is situated about ten miles from Dudley in Lancaster County It is one of the greatest ? curiosities of the state (or any state as for that.) There is about 20 acres of solid granite ? without a break in it. We pro, cured the services of Mr. Simeon Baker, who lives near the place, as our guide. The sights . he carried us to are impossibl^ _ I tn/A rtnan rlnrlr /wimo ^ J ?1IU uvvj/, u u I iv waves lite 91UC of the rock over the front of ? which there is a continual dripJ ping of clear, clean water. There is a place which has some of the largest and most 1 strangely shaped rocks we have 7 ever seen. There is one as large as a t small house that is exactly in the shape of a baker's loaf of bread j cut in two right in the middle. There is another immense one " which seems to be standing on s one corner and looks as if a liftle i wind might blow it over. There are two extremely large ones t leaning together, forming a pas j sage way between them in which it is a delight to walk. ' They are there in all shapes r and sizes and with their tops i and sides partly covered with i gray and green mosses as thick 5 as the thickest carpet, and streaming across them all are t little green ferns and soft feath! ery vines that make a picture i for any artist's eye. e Sitting there high on the top of an immense boulder looking . out over this wonderful revela! tion of a divine hand we realized j as perhaps never before the I pre.it sublime power of the i Creator and the limited power of man. It really looks as if the Creator made there large rocks and threw them out of his hand and let them lodge where they might j and in any angle they might, some of them breaking entirely in two as they fell. Wonderful, wonderful indeed is this great mystery the "40 acre rock." Who can imagine the secrets it holds? Well, the dinner we partook of was just the thing for people who had been mountain climbino- Thorn ...us*? ML ? ? V i V VVCIC ? 11 1 IC cloths spread out on a rock and we just will not try to tell all that was on those cloths b"t i tell you it made us feel like starting out again for an afternoon tramp over this wonderful . I i Cents. Pageland Journal to all new 1915 for only 10 cents. Just ean home paper four long we can afford it? Well, we ice you try The Journal for a regular subscriber. That X this ridiculously low rate, undred sample copies this is just a polite invitation to cents for remaining part of epted. Just place a dime or slope and mail to The Jourve will enter your name and lot wait until tomorrow for me the more papers you get igni torget it. place. I tell you the one of the party who had the hardest time was Mr. Howard Funderburk in his attempt to look after those boys from six to twelve years old. They were like so many rabbits. Some times ybu might look far out across the rock and see a long row of white waists, and straw hats running one right behind the other as fast as their feet could carry them and in a few minutes you could see the same thing in an entirely opposite direction. What there is in those parts to be seen was certainly discovered by their keen bright eyes. (I sometimes think I have missed a big thing in this world by never having been a small boy.) Well, that -long beautiful day HrPW tr? a flnca -I"--" ? ? ?vr m VIVOVf ad UUJ'd 1IUVU II way of doing, and we turned our Jaces homeward, hoping at some IMi unit itf leiitwuliM aquaiii-l tance with the "40 acre rock". Edna V. Funderburk. Some Causes of Great Wars. The war of the Spanish succession, in ich the great Duke of Marlborough played a brilliant part, was said to be the outcome of a glass of water at a ball at the the Tuileries in Paris. One of the court ladies had expressed a wish for a drink of water in the hearing of the British and Spanish ambassadors, who hastened io gei 11 ior ner. Returning i each with a tumbler they found the fair bird had flown and was dancing with a French statesman. The English diplomat accidentally, it is presumed, brushed against the Spaniard and upset the glass he was carrying. This ridiculous incident inflamed the jealousies of the nations and turned the balance in favor of war. The Seven Years war was largely due, according to his own confession, to the vanity of Frederick the Great in wanting tr\ oon nnrv*/* 1-- - ? iv ovv, iii.i name ll^UlU litl Jit'iy 111 the gazettes. The Turko-Russian war was said to have been started by the hammer with which a Herzegovian blacksmith killed a tax collector who had insulted his daughter. The stealing of a Castile lady's lace petticoat by a Moor led to many years of fierce warfare between the Spaniards and the Moors. The emptying of a bucket of a Florentine citizen on the head of a Milanese gave rise to an interprovincial war in Italy. n ? i nurrowmg a xonacco pipe and failing to return it kindled a civil war which lasted for years among the rival races in Pamirs and Afghanistan. A dispute as to ihe relative attractions of snails and vipers as food started 50 years of fighting between Milan and Pisa. Waterworks In The Home. ft Progressive Farmer A First-Class ftraeral costs from $100 on up, although one n Can be had for $50. But?when a doctor's fees and medicine are w added, and the time lost from tt profitable labor by members of r< the family, a death usually costs tl as much as $150. Sometime it \> isn't death but an operation, and p the hospital expenses will cer- n tainly be that much. And some- r< times it isn't either death or an c operation, but just a life dragged b out by a woman in bad health, h who cannot do in three days tl what a strong woman can do in c one, and who is so sadly nervous and irritable that she spoils the ri homelife of a whole family. An ii unhealthy woman is a very ex- si pensive thing in a family. And u that statement is true, not be- y cause of what she spends but d because of what she can't earn d in money and happiness. h Time is money and so is hap r piness. Even a horse that is n happy and comforatable can do ii twice as much work and wiil li last twice as long as one who is uncomfortable and worried all / the time, and human beings are e piuch more sensitive than horses, ii Now the matter stands thus: 1 A death cost $150, or more; an \ operation cost $150; or more; d and bad health cost so mnch in r so many ways that we cannot I calculate it. a Waterworks in the home can t be extremely satisfactory and cost as little as $100. Now, why t are these statements linked to- a gether? Because a convenient, ^ pure and plentiful water supply c that it can have or lack. And because the woman on the farms A are the ones who do most of the 1 drawing of water from wells or i carrying it from springs?and < women from the large majority ( of hospital patients, invalids in j the home, and inmates of our insane asylums. Look around 1 you with a "seeing eye." ? The former State Superinten- 1 dent of Education of Virginia, < Mr. J. D. Eggleston, once went to the home of a candidate for county superintendent. It was t in the edge of the mountains. me nouse was a nice new l house, and the man was well-to- j do, but Mr. Eggleston saw the woman walking up a hill behind i the house to a spring and carry- \ ing two buckets of water i through the snow. Mr. Eggle- \ ston told the man that he wasn't . fit to be superintendent of anything, but that if he laid a pipe from that spring down to the \ house, and put a sink in the j kitchen inside of 10 days, and I nromispft tn r?llt in a KafhrnAm ^ ? ?vr put All U t/??UI\A/Ul 1 inside of two months he would be given the position he desired. That woman had been walking that hill for 25 years, 1 when the water would gladly J have flowed down to her. I know a man who paid $8 for ( a hydraulic ram 20 years ago. 1 He was a mere boy then and * the money was some of the first ' he ever earned, and he spent it ^ for his mother. He had never ' seemn ram, but he followed the directions and set it up oelow the s spring. He bought 200 feet of 5 iron pipe at four cents a foot, and 1 a tank for $10. He lived in the 1 South, so he didn't dig a ditch for his pipe, but hitched two \ mules to a big double plow and 1 ran a furrow. The sink cost 1 him an additionol $4. The out- \ fit cost him $30 to install, and nothing to run it, and the ram 1 has stopped only three times in 1 20 years, when pieces of small trash got in the valves. * But everybody is not so situat- < listoric Cases of Insignificant Incidents Resulting in Conflicts. ew York Sun Opinions may differ as to rhetherthe dispute which led to le present conflagration in Eu>pe were sufficient to justify le loss of blood and treasure rhich, it is feared, will be exended, but it is certain that lany great wars in history have esulted from more trivial auses. The dogs of war have een let loose and continents dejged with blood frequently as le result of amazingly insignifiant incidents. A man may start an incipient iot in his own home by appearig unannounced with a clean have after having worn a luxriant hirsute adornment for ears, but ordinarily the trouble oes not go beyond his own oor. Louis VII of France was ass fortunate. A visit to the oyal barber plunged two ations?France and England? ato intermittent warfare which asted 300 years. According to the story, the Archbishop of Rouen persuaded the king to remove his beard, n common with his subjectsThe act led to so much friction vith the queen that at last Louis iivorced her, to become a few nonths later the wife of Henry I of England. From this marriige centuries of bloodshed may >e said to have followed. In an iron case in the tower of he cathedral in Modena, Italy, i bucket which 900 venrs ago vas the cause of a terrible war nay be seen today. Soldiers of o micp>rr>ur>'K itole the bucket from a public veil in Bologna and refused to eturn it. The States were ivals and were jealous of each )therand fights between soldiers )f the two followed. This spark cindled a fire of war which de/astated a large part of Europe ind led to the imprisonment for ife of the King of Sardinia, son >f the German emperor. Mrs. Lobb?What on earth is hat? Mr. Lobb?This, my dear, is a jarometer?a present from our ?on at college. Mrs. Lobb?Oh, I've heard of U I T ueiu; isn i me aear ooy tnougtitul? Which way do we screw it when we want the weather to be ine??Tit-Bits. ?d. Not everyone has a spring ibout his house, nor one below t that will run a ram, but everybody can have a well, and a gasoline engine can be purchased usi us easily as a col tin, or a doctor bill can be paid. There are several reliable makes of gasoline engines that Dan be purchased for less than 540. Such an engine will pump from 600 to 700 gallons of water per day, at a cost of about three Dents per day for gasoline. This amount would be ample for a bathroom, sink, and 10 or 12 bead of cattle. With pump and connections, sink, tank, and faucet at the stable, this sliniilrt not rn?t mnr?> than $125. It takes about two minutes to fill a bucket at a faucet; from 10 to 15 minutes to fill it at a well or pump, counting the labor), and anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes to go to a spring (not counting labor). The waterworks outfit is economical in both the "long and short runs," and it tends to health and happiness. Better a live engine than *?. dead or worn-out woman.