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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
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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.
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London. Aug. 23.?1:46 a. m.
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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
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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.
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an uunng ac i ne <*u-AcreRock.
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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*?
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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
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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
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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.
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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.