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the pagelHd journal Vol. 5 NO.ll FAGF.LAND. S. WEDNESQ^TORWING, NOVEMBER 25, 1914 $1.00 -W 1 ?U-? .U I B.U DAL . ... I w?M^*aaua(^ v?mvu?i M?V iJUUlll Carolina W. M. U. While it is fresh in my mind I want to tell the Baptist women of Chesterfield county something: about the State Union held at Newberry, S. C., last week. Mrs. R. M. Funderbuk and myself went to the great conven tion. I say great because it really is great. Until one has been in such a meeting one cannot even imagine its magnitude. Think of four hundred and thirty four women gathered into one vnst tiorlv W^mnn trnm ? , ?w* wm r ? t v/invii livsiiJ all over our state, from the mountains to the sea coast, women whom we know are some of the best and who come together as a vast body of sisters, all working for the same cause and in the same name. Indeed and in truth could they sing "Blest be the tie that binds." It was indeed an inspiring sight and one that would lead me to visions of high things. Well, the people at Newberry could not have done more for us if they had tried. They met every train with their automobiles and carried us to our destinations. They had pre arranged every thing so well that we had no care or responsibility at all while we were there. Dr. B. D. Gray of Atlanta, Ga., spoke to the convention on the first night. His address was certainly worth all our efforts to get there. Then we had with us Missionaries John Lake and wife in whose presence it is a benediction to be. They would have been back in China ere this but * the European war prevented .. their getting passage but they 'ftfpWTsxo*' As Mrs. Lake in Chinese costume stood before us and in her gentle inimitable way told us of some of the conditions that exist a i i - ? tu pwi uarKenea umna, How our hearts longed to help that deluded land. When she fold us that it is not an extraordinary thing to pass along the streets ol a Chinese ci?v any dark night and hear the wail of a poor little cast away Chinese girl baby as it lies out on the ground to die and how common a thing it is to see their little dead bodies floating down the rivers or washed out on its banks. How our hearts ached and we felt like crying out to Almighty God "How long, O, Lord how long." We could see them and we understand whv that large number of consecrated women could leave their homes atfd come together to find out better what God wants them to dp. But thanks be to our heavenly Path he has put it into the hearts of of us to help to send somebody to tell them the awfulness of doing such terrible things and so into their sin cursed lives there is beginning to dawn the faint light oF,a better day. "And the people that dwelt in darkness saw a great light." And while our Missionaries are not v.?t c.r ficient in numbers to tell them all, the great truth is being made known to a few, and may that number be increased as the days no by. One of the beautiful things of the convention was the exercise by the Newberry Sunbeam band which band has during the past vpnr motto ftio 1 ?? ./coi iworu in tiie state. Another thing that brought jov to my heart and made me feel proud (and I think I may be excused for the feeling) was that the name of the Chesterfield Y. W. A. was called out on the honor roll of the state. And when a handkerchief was waved at me then f didn't need uuiu ixuoot ry attempted at Wedesboro. VVadesboro Ansooian One of tin boldest robberies ever attempted here was pulled off at the Wadesboro Hardware Co.'s store between 8 and 9 o'clock last night when Will Maske, a driver for the company, entered the store and robbed the safe and a few show cases. He was caught in the building and is now in iail. Mr a' It Qntio deserves the credit tor detecting the crime in time to ^void its finish. Mr. Suits was passing the store about 8 o'clock and saw two colored men looking in the front door. They moved in opposite directions, but their actions aroused his suspicious. He went to the rear of the store and waited. In a few minutes Maske en tered a back window, which he had evidently "fixed" during the day. He closed the window he hind him. After awhile he came Ko/'l/ IM cnn? \ A ~ ^ - 1 1 '* uuiguw itii. onus, ne men attempted to get out through a back door, hut by this time Mr. Suits had given the alarm and a crowd was gathering. Mayor Dunlap had been sent for and also Mr. Joe Capel, who works in the store. The building was surrounded and Mr. Capel enter ed with several others. Maske was found crouching behind a stairway and when pulled out had no reasonable explanation to make of his movements. He had on his person a cheap pistol, the only one left in the show case, and a box of cartridges. He had loaded the pistol. He a'i Act Vrtra "sv>uK <tniiljcv? C.Ty and $11.77, which he had taken fronvibe safe. It seems that Mr. i t* ' * uiiu icii me sare unlocked, expecting to do some book work. Maske had a small key, which unlocked the cash drawer in the safe. It is a mystery where he got this key. He had tru.d to open other drawers in the safe with a screw driver, but failed. He had torn the cash drawer i open, but got only a few cents. There is no doubt but that others > are connected with the attempted robbery. Maske gave the name of one colored man, but he had no trouble in proving an alibi. Citv Guy?What kind of a dog do you call that? Farmer?That's a huntin' setter. City Guy?Whatddeya mean, huntin* setter? Farmer?He hunts hones, and then sets and eats'em. a photographer to tell me to look pleasant. And now though that isn't half, perhaps I have said enough for one time. Our trip home was pleasant indeeu. It is good to go upon the mountain tops once in a while and see the great things hut it is sweet also to come hack down into the calm restful valley and take up our dear old every day life.? Fdna V. Funderburk. P. S. Let me relate an inci dent that happened on our way home. Husband and I came by a house the lady of which had kindly kept the baby for us. After getting the baby and rousing the boy who rubbing his sloonv r?v??c ? , , vuiiituiii we started home tliron^li a dark piece of woods when crash went the surry against a tree, so there we were with a sleeping bahy, a woman's grip a bucket of supper and-4wo horses to lead. But we got here all right if we did lhave to walk. 'Simmons Are Ripe Monroe Enquirer It is persimmon time. A well ripened persimmon -after the 1 frost has touched and sweetened j it?don't say it's "nice" that's not , the word?it's "good," that what , it is. I Over go out by the edge of the old field on a warm sunshiny afternoon 'long about this * time of the .ear and pick up t persimmons from the clean \ broom sedge under the trees? 1 If you have not you are city , bred and don't know what good living Js anyhow. Never turn 1 up your nose at the lowly \sim- < mon, for after all it is an aristo i crat in the fruit family. It is ^ akin to the date that you go to ^ the store and pay a good big . price for?fact. The persimmoir * has more seed in it than has the * dale that you buy at'the confec- i tionerv store, but the persim- 1 mon is of the same familv tho j imported date?and if you had to net your persimmons at the h store and pay a quarter for a handful you would be a plum fool about 'em. Get Ready for It ! J Progressive Farmer What about your plans for , next year, Mr. Progressive Farm- " or? Are they made? Have you |} a definite, clear-cut system al-j^ ready outlined and to which you j mean to adhere? Above all,^ have you agreed with yourself., that next year your cotton acreage will be reduced and that you-.i will give yourself, your family, your stock, and your land" a | chance by planting liberally oiP food, feed and soil building^ crops? v rlf1 We want to make this an ual' W v.*, individual I for we believe that it is onlylV the individual grower realized that all cotton another yean^ means ruin Ihot wu ^.Ii . . ?_ cl u IV* achieve any real results in acre- 1 age reduction. Let's see what ! the facts in the case are and theiy4 look them squarely in the face: ) 1. Cotton is now selling all seven cents, or from three to three and one-half cents a pound J below the cost of production. It 1 is, of course, always unsafe td attempt to prophesy, but we are ; only stating a truth when we say that to base our 1915 operations on any higher price is to court ' financial disaster. ' 2. Undoubtfully the coming season will see the almost entire withdrawal of the credit usually 1 extended to the cotton grower. This is merely good business on the part of the merchant and banker, for they will see that advancing money on a crop for which there may be no market is too dangerous a risk to take. 3. Corn, oats, hay, meat, butter and eggs?in fact, food and feedstuffs of every kind, because of the vast destruction wrought in Kurope, will be in enormous demand and at higher average prices than for years. With these facts before us, it is nothing more than sound business sense to plat l iv ss cotton another year. And let us t.ot 1 forget we are not cutting the cotton acreage to git a higher price for cotton, but simply i>o- 1 cause we can't afford to grow it at present prices?prices that in all likelihood will pievail next year. Let's not expect the other fel- j low to do it, for experience has shown that he can't be depended| V i t?n. iv.uner we, you and 1, my friend, must do this thing, and prepare for it now. Otherwise the hard times we are now experiencing will be doubly, trebly severe a year from now. l or the all cotton farmer the hand* writing is on the wall. . * *'r. ^AlkKSricans Have Left Vera Cruz. Washington, Nov. 22.?Gen. Boston's infantry and marines, lumbering about 6,000 men, tomorrow will haul dawn the Stars and Stripes which have 5een flying over Vera Cruz iince last April, and evacuate he Mexican port in accordance .vith instructions from President sVilson. The five battleships at Pern Cruz and Tampico and :iie string of vessels on the west x>ast will remain in Mexican waters to afford protection to Americans and be in readiness b meet emergencies. It was ,1 . . ust seven months ago when the bluejackets and marines under itear Admiral Fletcher seized Vera Cruz as an act of reprisal for affronts to the American rlag at Tampico, where a boatload of American bluejackets were arrested Gen. Huerta, who controlled the forces at Tampico, had refused to comply with the demand of Admiral Mayo for a salute of 21 guns. Advices from Mexico today still were confusing, but the \merican government's determination is to withdraw its iroops and to remove from Mexican territory a possible :ause of international friction as well as a potential lactor that might become a domestic issue between factions in Mexico. Three Big Battles Raging London, Nov. 20.?Two big i i - .1 ' ? jutues, oom or wnicn may nave decisive results, are raging in Roland, and iLJta^^^^most RftJal importanc^^proCTWlftg^ in East Prussia. ?f the three battles that now at its height between the Vistula find Warta, in which the Russians claim partial success is exciting the most interest. The Germans, it is believed, have brought by their line of strategic railways in Posen and Silesia at least half a million men in an effort to break the Russian lines. Weather conditions, the frozen ground and the situation of the battlefield favor a battle decisive to a degree not yet attained on any other field. Each side It In ?? '* e L/uuiuo 11 is |)hmuiliii^ sausiac torily. In East Prussia the Russian advance is moving slowly through the country surrounding Mazurian lakes. In Grtlicia fighting is centinuing and the attack on Pr/.emyd is said to he developing in a manner to indicate the end is near. There is an absence of infantry fighting in the western arena and the artillery fighting is much less violent. All that region about Dixmude through which the Yser flows is inundated and fighting appears to he taking place south of Ypres, where cannonading is in progress. There has been no important action on the French centre, but in the Argonne region the Ger mans have made vigorous attacks which the French say were repulse. Many at War London, Nov. 21.?With the addition of Turkey and Portugal to the ranks of the belligerents, the area of hostilities has been extended to approximately 58 per cent, of the land surface of the globe, and about 56 per cent, of the total population of the earth must be classed as technically belligerent, says the London Daily Chronicle. A New Automobile Fuel It is reported that a Portuguese in Pennsylvania has discovered a method of breaking down * water into its constituent parts ^ without heat and with the ad- ( dition of a few simple chemicals, > making an automobile tuel which is more effective and effi- 1 cient than gasoline. It is also 4 reported that this mixture can be made at the cost of one and 4 one-half cents a gallon. Then J goodbye Standard Oil company. 4 Since the invention of efficient 1 automobiles, the question of fuel has beeq one of the biggest to be considered. As the number of ^ automobiles have increased, the 1 price of gasoline has increased, until now fuel bills vie with repair bills to pester the poor auto ist who has a slender pocketbook. Gasoline is just as neces sary as the car is, and the gaso- 1 line bill is one that cannot be dodged. If the new fuel can be made for one and a half cents and sold for three cents a gallon the whole fuel question will be settled. There will be no futher consideration of the matter, and autoists will have to take iin the cost of other parts of pleasure for discussion and remedy. Of higher consideration than the autoist, however, is the farmer, who does the greater part of his work with gasoline engines. His saving will mean profit or loss, and the cheaper fuel will be a real Godsend to him. If it is true that the inventor has invented the new fuel he will have done the world a great good, and should have a higher place in the hall of fame than the men who lead armies. Time Will Wadesboro Ansonian When a boy cuts loose from his selfrespect and chooses as his companions men who are as debased morally as a human be injj can be, there is little hope for him. "Be sure your sins will find you out" were words of a wise teacher many centuries ago and they are so true today. Business men know the habits of the boys of this and all other towns. They know the boy who has moral charactef and they also know the moral degenerates. Money counts with the business man, but character goes farther when he is looking for an employe. Society, of a certain class, may hold on to a morally debased character for avvhile but sooner or later such a degenerate must go down in failure, never to hope for any peace or pleasure in this world. It is an unchangeable law of nature that a man reaps what he i sows, even in this world, and 1 though ho mnv havo nr? mcnoot n? .. V .....J .<?? ? v/ V>U|/Wl for the opinions of those around him nor fear the penalties of a i sinful life, he cannot for his own : chance of success in this world ; afford to throw his life away. j A tourist in the mountains of 1 Tennessee had dinner with a i querulous old mountaineer who > yawned about hard times 15 < minutes at a stretch. "Why, man," said the tourist, , "you ought to be able to make lots of money, shipping green 1 corn to the Northern markets." Yes, I orter," was the sullen ' replv. i "You have the land, I supose, , and can get the seed." "Yes, 1 guess so." "Then why don't you go into the speculation?" "No use, stranger," sadly replied the cracker, "the old woman is too lazy to do the plowin' and plantinV?Ex. New Nut Raised In Georgia Bainbridge (Ga.) Dispatch Ilickftn is the name of a new nit which is grown by E. D. jainey in Decatur county, .vhich is a cross between a hick>ry nut that grows wild in this ricinity and a paper shell pecan. It is round like a hickory nut, las a shell colored like a pecan, ind the shell is but slightly hicker than the paper shell pe:an. The meat is colored and ihaped like a peach, but the conformation is entirely similar to the hickory. The tree on which it is grown s a pecan seedling and looks like any other pecan tree, but it is surrounded by hickory trees. Chief of police W. D. Pegues is able to be out although forced to use crutches. The negro that shot him has not been caught yet but sheriff Douglass is still looking out for him and as sheriff'Douglass hardly ever fails to land his man, we will not be surprised at any time, to leain that this negro has been picked up.?Cheraw Chronicle. Little Jim, though he attended Sunday school every week, did not know quite so much about Scriptural history as he ought to have known, but when his sister asked: "Where was Solomon's temple?" he was rather angry that she should think him unable to answer a simple question like that. "Don't you think I know anything?" he asked. "Well, where is it then?" his sister repeated; and then he informed her: "On the side of his forehead, of course?the ^ same loftts. 'Do ^yoti think I'm a dunce?" Mistress (indignantly)?Jane, what ever did you mean by wearing my low-necked even ing dress at the busdrivers' hall last night? Really, you ought to have been ashamed of yourself! Jane (meekly)?I was, mum. You never 'card such remarks as thev made!?London Sketch. Traveler (in Southern hotel) ?Can I get anything to eat here? Sambo?Yes, sail. Traveler?Such as what? Sambo?Such as it is, sail.? Ex. Magistrate's Summons And Complaint by Publication State ot South Carolina, county of Chesterfield. By G. M. Rodgers, Magistrate i ? .u~ ?:J in ami n.?i me s.iiu con my ami the said Stale: To C. F. Whitley. Complaint having been made unto me by Thomas Jowers that you are indebted to him in the >um of three dollars and seventy two cents for labor performed, that the said sum is due and tnveing and has not been paid, and also that you are a nonresident of this state. These are, therefore, to require vou, the said defendant, to ap pear before me in my office, in Pageland, S. C., on the 22nd day after service hereof A. I). 1914, at 10 o clock a. mM to answer the said complaint, or judgment will be given against you by default. Given under my Hand and Seal, at Pageland, S. C. the 21th day of Nov. A. D. 1914. G. M. Hodgers, | L. S.| Magistrate. ( Advertisement 1 I