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^ The pageeand journal / Vol. 4 NO. 33 PAGELAND. S. C., WEPNB?AY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1914 $1.00 per year Facts About Mexico. About 16,000,000 people live in Mexico. Nineteen per cent of the population are pure white 43 per cent, mixed bloods and 38 per cent. Indians Very few foreigners, excepting those engaged in leading ' branch of trade are well educated. Illiteracy is very prevalent and little | has been done to educate the I Indians. The Catholic faith is the prevailing religion, but there is no connection between Church and State; and the constitution guar unices ine iree exercise ,ot all religions. Protestant missionaries from the United States entered the country in 1867. The number of Protestants is now more than 50,000. The largest city in the republic of Mexico is the capital, Mexico City. It contains nearly 500,000 people and its area is about 20 square miles. It is 263 miles by rail from the seaport town Vera Cruz and 809 miles from the nearest town on the U nited States frontier. Vere Cruz, located on the Gulf of Mexico is the most important port of Mexico. The situation of the city is very unhealthful and because of the prevalence of yellow fever it is called the v^uy 01 me ueaa.?fcx. B. Y. P. U. Program at Plains The following mission program was elaborately carried out by the young people of Plains last Sunday, April 26: 1. Song 2. Syipture reading by E. E. 3.7 Prayer by pastor. 4. Recitation, "The Lord's Work," by primary pupils. 5. Recitation, "Our State foi Christ," by Nell Holley. 6. Recitation by Bertha Hicks. 7. Song. * Symposium, Home missions, Frances Miller, Nell Holley. Missionnrv niiPSlinn an/1 an ??.. ??- j ^wvwuvu uuu ail' swers, Loretta Ogburn and Lola Johnson. 10. Recitation, "Missions" by Minnie Johnson and Ethel Hilton 11. "The Missionary Hen" by Park Ogburn. 12. Song, "Throw out the Life Line." "Our Mountain Schools," by Pearl Miller. 14. "Church Building and Loan Fund," Maud Hilton. 15. "A Cry From Africa," bv Minnie Johnson. ? 16. Song. 17 "Tho " E> ... iiv tiiiiiiigiaui| rvuu/.y Ogburn. 18. "Save Them for the Nation," Blake Holley. 19. "Light Dispelling Darkness," by 17 boys and girls. The last was carried out as follows: 8 girls facing 8 boys standing, the boys wearing banners representing the countries in which we are doing mission work, the girls with banners to match and lighted candles in their hands, the boys also had candles but not burning. The leader with banner "Dixie." Then the first country made his plea to the girl he was facing and in response she would give a sketch of what we were doing in his country and light his candle, the next would make his plea and so on down the line until the last country had the blessed gospel light. 20. Address by pastor. A fitting close was the song, "Blest be the tie that Binds." A visitor. | Analysis for Farmers Clemson College, Apiil 25.? Secretary H. M. Stackhouse, of the Board of Fertilizer control, is < reminding farmers of their privi- ; lege of drawing their own fertili- i zer samples. Mr. Stackhouse j says: < "The board of fertilizer control ; realizing the large expenditure of money for commercial fertili- i zer this season and the wide ] spread .'pprehension among farmers that a large amount of < worthless filler and inferior ma j terials are being used in their manufacture, wish to remind farmers that it is the nrivile^e of every purchaser for his own use < to draw and send a sample of his own fertilizer to Clemson i College, have it analyzed and its analysis reported directly to him without other cost. There is a law?made by the legislature, knot by the college,?govering this analj'sis, and to aid the farmers to comply the secretary has sent to every county demon stration agent in the State a package of directions for drawing samples, giving the section of the law, and a blank certificate to be filled as the law re quires. He has requested these agents to distribute and explain these directions to those farmers who may wish to use them. "Far mers getting materials for home mixing, either sacked or in bulk, can have these analyzed by drawing and sending samples in the same wav. They can in this way know just what they have and distribute the amount ui piuiii loouiney wisn, wiinout paying freight on or handling fillers or inferior materials. (Note?The blanks mentioned . above may be had at The Journal office for the asking.?The Journal.) The Youngest Volunteer. I Salisbury, April 26.?Declar. ing that he was going to the i Mexican war Wayne Duttera, a three-year-old son of Rev.' and Mrs. W. B. Duttera, of Salisbury i slipped off from his home and - was found by an officer as he was in the act of boarding a Southbound passenger train at depot yesterday. He asserted his determination to help fight for Uncle Sam, although he did not complain when taken in charge by Policeman Thompson as a prisoner of war. He was returned to his parents. Select Good Men. It is the duty of the people of South Carolina to put in office at the next election the very best men that can be found within her borders. There is no reason why there should be bickering, strife or an exhibition of partisan wrangles. There is good ma terial to select from, plenty of it, and why not have it? Call it by some other name than politics and pet together with a united front and purpose and determine that only clean, qualified men shall he permitted to serve as lawmakers. In choosing county and state officers, do some real thinking. Discard the boaster, the man who iants and blows and swears and who curses and picks to pieces his opponents. Inform yourself as to the real worth and ability of a candidate and choose i - . mm on his merits. Right now is the time to be casting about for material free from bumps and knots. lie < broad-mined, practical and get rid of prejudice, if you have any. Select the best men!?Ex. rom Watson on the TonLi C Tom Watson?there is jHflv C :>ne Tom Watson?is a laijRr d ind a might > good one. Elflfce t< is a people's lawyer andH^^Hfetoi ifraid to speak out a^^^HP v evils and failures in our jVHnl I ind legal system. n In the last issue of his pa?er, ii Ihe Jeffersonion, a reader asks h liim to explain the Torrens Sys- \ tern, and he does so in his usual p dear and forceful manner. Here c is his editorial, which wjpiK^e i will make more farmers In ^tjbter j States resolve that all the ^ptithf shall quickly follow North^Gar- t olina in providing this la^rjfor the benefit of its farmers and c other citizens. Tom Watson an- i swers his inquiry as follows: I "The Torrens System' in a 2 nutshell is this: f t "The State examines the title, s surveys the property, and refcis- t ters a clear title' accompanied 1 by the plat; a certificate is then < issued to the owner, and when i he sells and makes a deed tQ&he t buyer, he surrenders his cefnfi- ? cates to the registrar, who issues i a new one to the new owner. ? "You can see at once how this process simplifies the trans- 1 ler of property, cut out fees for i abstracts of title, and abolishes law suits over titles and boundary lines. ( "Any dispute about the title > or the lines is settled by the \ State before the property is rgg- ( istered. "This clearing of the title apd j the lines is dope by an official \ examiner, appointed for .that i purpose, and put under a bond. "If any dispute arises, all tart- j i/i?L oxt wq'.vtLedl \V?er cot laid before a court. (In New York the case goes at once to , the Supreme Court.) "When this court passes upon the questions raised, they are settled forever. "It is strange that I have urged this simple and most beneficial change so many years without having aroused anything more than a casual interest. "Year after year, neighbors fuss over land-lines, get into fights and then go into law suits. "Year after year, lawyers aje paid to look up chains of titles and make costly abstracts. i "Year after year, lawj-ers, jurors and judges are taken up ] with litigation over titles. * : "All of this expense, worry and bad feelings could be cut out by the adoption of the Tor rens System. "But the dear people fill the legislatures with lawyers, and the lawyers are naturally slow 1 to dry up so bountiful a stream < of revenue."?Progressive, Far- i uitn. 1 Stores to Close at 7 O'clock j We, the undersigned mer- 1 chants agree to close our respeC- { tive places of business at 7 of- < clock after this date: Pageland Mercantile Co., A. G. Caston & ' Co., II. Laney, J. F. Porter, Pageland Hardware Co., Sowell & Knight, D. E. Clark & CoL Cash Grocery Store, W. T. Kd^Hj worth, W. J. Blakeney, Pagd(RI Buggy & Wagon Co. We the undersigned will closet at 7.15: Man gum Drug CoJ i Pageland Drug Co. Max Miller arrived at Chicagp < on a very windy day, and, as he gazed down Jefferson boulevard lie remarked: "some doctor said that the present styles for wotmen are healthy. He means healthy for the woman. Nobody i ever said they weren't. It's us poor men who run the risk of I getting rheumatism standing on the streets watching thorn or? Kvl . . : url Goes Free, Man Convicted. | Spartanburg:, April 27.?"Clyde /lement guilly with recommen- ' ntion to mercy; Fleda PendleDn not guilty" was the verdict a the case against Clyde Cald- 1 yell Clement and Laura Fleda 'endleton, charged with the I aurder of the two-months-old ' afant, Virginia Virl, alleged to Lave been their daughter, who vas drowned in White's mill >ond at Lawson's Fork here >n the night of January 30. The ndictment was handed to the ury at 5:26 o'clock this afterioon and at 7:10 o'clock tonight he verdict was returned. When the verdict was announ:ed, there was a demonstration n the crowded court room, dany of those present cheered ind clapped their hands When he jury filed in young Clement straightened up his muscles ightened and his face whitened. Vhen he heard his fate, he fell >ver on the breast of his aged nother weeping. The Pendleon girl retained her composure, ind when the verdict was anlounced, she sank into her chair is if relieved of a great strain, rhe lace of her mother, Mrs. J. [1. Pendleton of Durham lighted jp with jov. As a country physician was iriving through a village he saw i man amusing a crowd with the antics of his trick dog. The doctor pulled up and said: 44 4My dear man, how do you manage to train your dog like that. I can't teach mine a single trick." The man looked up with a simple rustic look and replied " "A/velT, you see it's this way: you have to know morn'n the dog, or you can't learn him nothin.' " f A Poor Crop. "How's your garden coming on this year?" "My cutworms and caterpillars are doing fairly well, but my potato bugs are not flourishing." Why Southern Farmers Are Poor The following has been printed from time to time, but there is a POO(l lesson in it unrt e \ publish it for those who have not read it and those who have forgotten: "A western farmer, wondering why Southern farmers were so poor, paused by the roadside one dav and reasoned it out. The reason why is always a vital question, so he stopped by the road and let the old mare browse while he figured it out, and this is the result: Southern farmers get up early at the alarm of a Connecticut clock, button their Chicago suspenders to Detroit overalls, put on a pair of boots made in Ohio, wash in a Pittsburg basin, use Cincinnati soap, wipe on a cotton towel made in New Hampshire, sit down to a Grand Rapids table, eat hot bisE'*s made vvilii Minneapolis r, Kansas City bacon, and i anapolis grits fried in Omaha lard, cooke\l on a St. Louis stove. Buy Irish potatoes grown in California and seasoned with Rhode Island spices. The meal over thev clap 011 an old hat made in Philadelphia, harness a Missouri mule, fed on Iowa corn New York harness, and plow mortgage covered farms with an Indiana plow. At night they crawl under New Jersey blankets and are kept awake by Southern dogs?the only home product on the place. No wonder they keep poor." MEXICAN SITUATION BRICHTIR Lengthy War With Mexico Does Not Seem Probable Since our last issue there has been much talk of war with Mexico, and there has been much excitement over the situation but last reports indicate that the trouble will soon be over. The three South American countries, Argentine, Chile and Brazil, are doing all in their power to settle the trouble without further bloodshed. The business of the country has been little affected by the trouble, and at this time there seems little likelihood that armed intervention will continue very much longer. The week's developments are told very briefly in the dispatches below: Washington, April 22.?News that Gen. Venustiano Carranza Constitutionalist chief, might regard the seizure of Vera Cruz by the American naval forces as an act of hostility to the Mexican Nation, fell like a bombshell in official circles tonight. President Wilson had esnori ally disclaimed any act of hostility to the Mexican people, particularizing General Huerta as the object of the American operations to secure reprisal for offenses at Tampico and elsewhere against the American flag. Consequently, the Washington Government had hoped the Constitutionalists would not interject themselves into the imbroglio. The Carranza letter, however, confirmed the fears of many officals that the Cons titu tionalists might side with Huerta. This was the one possibility discussed in Administration circles all day as the most serious phase in the situation. Washington, April 23.?Unit ed States troops moved tonight to reinforce the American navy at Vera Cruz; the embargo on arms into Mexico was formally restored, and troops were order ed to the Mexican border, pri marily to relieve uneasiness among border residents, but also as a precaution against hostile military operations along the international line. Laredo Texas, April 24?Nue vo Laredo, the Mexican bordei town opposite here was in ruim tonignt, devastated by dynamite and fire set by Mexican Federal soldiers, who late foday began an orgy of destruction which die not end until they were forcec to flee Southward before the guns of the American bordei patrol. Two Mexicans are known tc have been killed by the Unitec States troops and several were seen to fall. Several brisk skir mishes between the Americans and Mexicans were fought ii quick succession as the Mexi cans their trex>p trains ready t< pull out of the burning city, be gan an indiscriminate fire across the international boundary, bu tonight there was no evidenc< that their shooting had beei effective. Washington, April 24.?Whili the attention of the United State Government for the most pari iuua^ was uuut't'lliruiUU Oil rt: storing order at Vera Cruz anc expediting the departure o Americans from Mexico, i watchful eye was trained on tbc transcontinental boundary be tween Mexico and the Unite< Stales for any signs of hostility from Mexican Constitutionalists President Wilson and his Cabi net had a long meeting aftei which optimism was conspicu ously apparent, both in their de meanor and informal discussior of the situation. There was nc particular development to whicl / the feeling of hopefulness that real war would be averted could be traced, but General Villa's friendly pronouncement, it was admitted, had impressed many official here with the possibility that the Constitutionalists would be neutral while the American Government sought reparation from General Huerta. Washington, April 26,?Spanish Ambassador Riano announced late tonight that he had received private advices from Mexico City stating that Gen. Huerta had accepted the offer of Argentina, Brazil and Chile to use their good offices to bring _ 1 A aDoui an amicaoie settlement of the difficulty between the United States and Mexico. This information, though unoffical, was accepted as authentic by the ambassador, who expects to be prepared to place Gen. Huerta's formal acceptance before the representatives of the three South American countries tomorrow. Announcement of plans necessarily is dependent on Gen. Huerta's first replj*. Well posted members of the diplomatic corps were of the opinion tonight that Huerta would accept the proposal of good offices, and that the .acceptance, in principle at least, would not be long deferred. Secretary Bryan was visited at his home during the day by the peace envoys. Mr. Bryan afterwards communicated the visit's nature to the White House. The interests of the Huerta government in the United States were taken over by the Spanish _ pmhfiysy when - Charge Alpxira ? > left Washington. Ambassador Riano received the offer of good offices from the three peace envoyce last night, after the offer r had been accepted by President { Wilson. It was cabled immediately to the Spanish minister at . Mexico City and by him present. ed to President Huerta. , When the formal acceptance , from Mexico City is in hand, the South American diplomats will > be ready to proceed with their plan, no intimation of the nature ' of which as 3'et been given. It [ generally has been understood here, however, that the peace ' ' envovs exnect to <1on1 Hiiwtlv * with the situation created by the Tampico incident and other offenses against the honor and . dignity of the United States, hoping to bring about a peaceful ' settlement. r Washington, April 27.?The ) tenseness of the Mexican situa1 tion was distinctly relieved today , when the representatives of Ar. gentine. Brazil and Chile, sup* 5 porieti oy pressure tromall Latin ! America and from foremost . powers of Europe, concentrated 5 their efforts toward a pacific ad. justment of the crisis. 5 The success of the first steps t toward meditation?the prompt y acceptance by the Uhited States ^ and the announcement of the Spanish Ambassador that Hucrta had accepted the tender of good 3 offices?produced a feeling of s distinct hope which was reflect* ' ed not only in Administration quarters, but in Congress where "war talk" oravr? vvciv tr? a cnirif j ?T4V 1W M _ of conciliation. (I ? Vera Cruz, April 27.?With all - ceremony the firing of a salute i and dress parade, the American / flag was raised today over the . division headquarters of Rear - Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, r Over the custcm house the flag - has been flying since the land ing of the American forces, but i until now there had been no ) ceremony indicating the formal i occupation of Vera Cru/..