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. - : " - - 1 - the pageland journal? Vol. 5 NO. 2 PAGELAND. S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1914 $1.00 per year ______ . _ . r ' ' ? DAILY WAR REPORTS Synopsis of War News as Reported Daily from the Scene Battle. THURSDAY The German and Allied armies again are facing each other on a long, slightly curved line stretching from Noyon, in the West, to the Argonne forest on the East, and then across the Meuse to the Southwest in the direction of the German fortress of Metz, a distance of nearly 200 IIIIICO* Rear guard actions have been fought during the past two days, with the Germans disputing every inch of territory until their v armies again should get into alignment to oppose the Allies. All reports indicate that these actions have been severe, - but they are considered of minor importance in comparison with the great battle 1 of the Marne and the new battle which threatens;^ FRIDAY London,i Sept. 18.?For five days the British and French armies have been trying to dislodge the Germans from the strong line of defenses which _ they have constructed on the battle front stretching from the Oise to the Meuse Rivers. There have been attacks and counterattacks but in the words of the official communication "there has been no change in the situation." The Allies clt-im to have made slight progress at some points against the German right wing nave cecVHHI^BN|PPI^^3erii>?DS are acting purely on the defensive, having dug themselves into entrenchments. The German official reports are almost identical with those of the Allies. They say no decision has been reached but that the Allies* power of resistance is weakening; that a French at tempt to break their right has failed; that in the center the Germans are gaining ground slowly and that sallies from Verdun VlQvo Koon ronnlso/1 mm v V WVU ivpuiovui On the battle front, Sept. 18.? By way of Paris, 5:30 p. m.? The gigantic battle or, inore properly battles, continue day and night along the entire front from Noyon to the frontier. The fighting does not consist of sustained and combined movement but in reality of several combats pro ceeding incessantly at the strongest points of the Germans defending line along the River Aisne. Each encounter, however, influences the execution of the general idea of the commanderin-chief of the Allied armies. Attacks ar?d counter-attacks follow one another in rapid succession every hour of the twentyfour. SATURDAY London, Sept. 20.?One of the fiercest battles of all times, which has been raging across northern France for a week past with first a slight advantage on one side and then on the other, remains undecided. The two great armies which have been fighting for a month, with few, if any intermissions, have dug A1 I * - - - ------ - inemseives into enirencnmenis on rivers and mountain ranges on a front reaching from the Oise to the Meuse and thence southeastward along the FrancoGerman frontier. / Cheer Up Say, cheer up! Times will be better. This European jwar is not going to ruin us. We stood a four-years war in this country 1 and here in this part of it were left in defeat and in poverty? but we stood it all and came out all right. In this scrap none of us are going to get killed, nor will any bloody band of soldiers come and take our substance. The war may lower the price of cotton for awhile, but nobody is going to take cotton away from ,us. Did you ever know the time in this part of the country when business, except on the farm, was not a little bit dull in September? No, ihb dog of war are not going to bite us. Quitcherkickin.?Monroe Enquire. Card of Thanks I desire to thank the good people who -were so kind and thoughtful during the illness and death of my wife. Words can not avnrnco or\f\mr?In*Ir\n uv/% v Apt VvJJ 111 J (ippiCVlUUUlli J. L. Griggs. Artillery duels such as never before have been seen are being* carried on with the hope of compelling the evacuation of the strongly held positions, with occasional sdfccesses to the opposing sides, while the infantry; in the face of a galling fire, have charged right up to the gun, only to make their opponents give way slightlv or to be repulsed with great losses. SUNDAY London, Sept. 19.?Although no decisive results has been achieved by either of the great ^rmiesfacing^each other in B^^H^Hne French official re today that the allied HnrfPS Qrp hoori nninnr tr? mnlru --- i"""V their continued pressure felt. The Freeh army, operating on the right bank of the river Oise in the region of Noyon, accofding to this report, has made some progress, while the AngloFrench force, which a week ago crossed the river Aisne in the face of a withering fire from the German guns, now holds the heights to the north of that point. In the centre the Germans have not moved from trenches they dug when compelled to fall back, while the crown prince's army, which holds the German left, again has retired. MONDAY London,Se(>t. 21.?9:55 p. m.? The unparalleled struggle on the River Aisne, which commenced about a week ago Saturday, has developed into siege operations. The two armies, strongly en trenched, are earring on an artillery duel, while the infantry makes attacks and counter-attacks which are in the nature of sorties from a besieged fortress. Occasionally one or the other gains a little ground but it is so little that the opposing forces remain in their trenches or take up positions in new entrenchments immediately behind those from which they are driven. It is now becoming the con viction of military men that nothing but outflanking movements can have any serious effect on either army. The Germans according to their own officiat report have been strongly reinforced both on their right, where General Von Kluck is making such a stubborn stand in almost impregnable positions on the hills north of the Aisne, and in the center, where the Germans are making almost superhuman efforts to recapture Rheims, % Uncle John on the War Situa- 1 4ion Progressive Farmer Been to town, Uncle John? ? asked the agricultural man, as g Uncle John, astride his gray f, mule, drew up by the side of a a field the deemonstrator, as Uncle j. John called tlim, was inoculating d preparatory to planting crimson t< clover. r "Yes," said the old man, "I t hearn that they wan't no market t fer cotton, so 1 'lowed I'd go to p Laurel and see the Hicks Mercantile about.it, an', by gum, I \ found they didn't wani no cotton p shore 'nuff! I went all over town p an' ast every teller I seen an' the \ best any of 'em would do was to f offer to loan me twenty-five dol- t lars a bale on it. Said they didn't t want td buv it at all; that Yirrup f and Stii-up wuz in a big rucus, > an' all the ships wuz sunk an' the 5 mills ^liot "down, an' that them j fool furriners was so buzy a c shootin' each other that they ( wuz a pay in' mighty little atten- ] to whether theyffoad any clothes 1 or not, any way. * ( "Yes," Uncle John went on, ? taking a chew of Navy, "it < seems that a feller over there s they call the Kavs^r got to each- < in' fur a fight, an' pulled off his t coat an' axed the Czar of sum 1 thin'-or-other what he wuz goin' ] to do about it. Then the Czar i didn't say nothing', but started to shuckin' his coat, too. From i this the thing started, an' now 1 they say that Ireland an' Jay-pan \ an' Novy Scoshy air into it, with i Turkey an' Pee-ru a-gettin' ] ready, an' that what they all < want ain't cotton, but sumpthin' i to eat. ] "What gits me", grumbled the old.man. pickinv his "? ?Jr aNsphnter from ott the rail fence^1 "is that I acted the fool again this year an' didn't plant much corn, thinkin' I'd strike it rich with a big crop o' cotton. I made the cotton, all right, but now I can't sell the stuff. Didn't plant much corn, an' the early drouth got it, an' now it's up to a dollar an' a quarter a bushel an' likely to go higher. "Say", he concluded, pulling his mule away, from the rank grass in the fence corner, prepar atory to riding on, "what wuz that I hearn you a-saying' tother day about treatin' oats fer smut? I bought ten bushels today an' wish you'd come over an' help me put em in right. 1 c'n put in my clover the same day an' you c'n help me out on the monopolation. I got stung pretty bad all i -I. _ ? - -? * aroun inis year, wnai wiin tnis , war an* me being an old fool be- , sides, but next year one thing's | certain: I may ratS(\some cotton but you c'n bet pour bottom dollar I'll raise sumpthin' for me an rfny folks and crittefs fust." Death Of Mr. Ranee Gardner. I Jeffersonian ! Mr. Ranee Gardner, passed | away quietly Thursday after- ] noon at (> o'clock at the home of , his son, Mr. W. L. Gardner, of Jefferson, he is survived by four children, Mrs. Robert Mangum, Mrs. Julus Mungo, Mrs. Steve Denby and Mr. W. L. Gardner, and two brothers and one sister. Mr. Frank Gardner of Kershaw and Mr. Lewis Gardner of Camden, and Mrs. Martha Hail of Camilla Ga. Mr. Gardner was horn Aiitf. 11, 1838 which made him at his death 79 years old. He has been in bad health since the death of his wife, Feb. 23, of lliic vro'ir 1 Attention W. O. W. I vyill not pay your assesnient this month. You will he suspended if you do not pay. J. W. Quick, clerk. 'wo-Thirds of World's People "Y Under Peace Treaties. Mo Treaties between the United itates and Great Britian, France, Vs pain and China were signed a so: ew days ago by Secretary Bry- pa n and the British, French, Span- ac sh and the Chinese Ambassa- an lors These pacts the Washing- las on government believes "will so nake armed conflict" between ws he United States and these Na- he ions almost, if not entirely im- T1 ossible." a > TKey provide that all disputes sti vhich cannot be settled by di- hi >lomacv shall be submitted to a an lermanent commission for in- dr aestivation for one year. The our are similar in principle to w: he 22 treaties signed with Cen- th ral and South American and a th ew European countries, 19 of dr vhich have been ratified by the ya Senate. Secretary Bryan dis- ht >atched telegrams to the Ameri er :an Embasssies and Legations in st< jermany, Russia, Austria, and Gi Belgium notifying them of what ti< lad occurred and expressing the 01 iesire of the United States to ac ?ign similar treaties with those w ;ountriesv Japan alone has not pi iccepted the principle or enter- M id into negotiations because of gi :he desire of the Ministry there ar aot to confuse the Japanese pub- hi lie while the alien land contro- bi yersy is being adjusted. es One of the practical effects of the treaties signed recently is to make more remote than ever the possibility of the United States a t>eing drawn into the present w European war over any delicate ol questions of neutrality which ri] might arise with Great' Britian or OJ France. Members of the cabinet and Ar<mmi(trotirvn f^ffininU Jwitr'Y'L - sd the signing ceremony ~ln the w pffice of the Secretary of State, p, Afterwards Mr. Bryan issued ^ [he following statement: th "The signing of the four treat- p] ies today with Great Britian, jn France, Spain and China bring under treaty obligations more b? than 900,000,000 people. These, when added to the population of the United States and the popu- fu lation of the 22 countries with a which similar treaties have here- ]15 tofore been signed, bring under zc the influence of these treaties b, considerably more than two- p< thirds of the inhabitants of the n, ?lobe. As these treaties provide w for investigation of all matters q in dispute before any declanition of war or commencement of ai hostilities. It is believed they m will make armed conflict be- n, tween the contracting: Nations je almost, if not entirely impossi- lj] ble." bl tc A Contented Man. rc The editor of The Louisiana fl< Twice-A-Week Times' recently o! received a letter from a content- u cd man: "I have no domestic p< troubles and no financial trou- la bles to speak of. I am not in ol love with anybody else's wife bi and nobody else's wife is in love ti with me. No one has swindled al me and my neighbors don't keep n chickens or goats. I have no P' fault to find with you. I rr thought it might be a pleasant ir surprise to you to get a letter of V the other sort as a change from o the eternal whine." h o They Didn't Meet n i\ IIIIIIIMt'l III U Mir.lll WtSlCl II town surprised his audience one a Sunday by reading the following /{ notice from the pulpit: n The regular session of the fi Donkey Club will be held as j, usual after the service. Mem- ^ bers will line up just outside the door, make remarks and stare at ? the ladies who pass, as is their n custom. v The club didn't meet that Sun- ii day.?Exchange. p oung Men Hurt in Runaway. nroe Enquirer Messrs. Vann Cuthbertson and inder Griffin, the 18-year-old n of Mr. H. C. Griffin, were infully injured in a runaway cident near Lee's mill, two d a half miles east of Monroe, it Saturday. Messrs. Cuthbertn and Griffin were on their ay from Monroe to their >mes in east Monroe township, ley were driving two mules to vagon and the mules ran away arting at the top of the long 11 west of Richardson creek id running about three huned yards and against the rear id of Mr. A. C. Funderburk's agon- Mr. Cuthbertson was rown from the wagon when e mules started to run and was agged twenty-five or thirty irds by the lines to which he sld until he could hold no long, making a desperate effort to 3p tne mules and save Mr. riffin from his perilous posi>n. Mr. Grifii.i was thrown it of the bed of the wagon and :ross the double-tree, the agon bed slipping forward and nning him to the double tree, r. Griffin's legs dragged on the ound for three hundred yards, id one of the mule's legs struck s body at every jump, badly uising him. It was a narrow cape. Our Country. The Lord be praised for such government as that under hich we live. Here, with all jr faults and failings the golden lie is more nearly observed in jr national life than in any her country on which the sun lines. We all remember that orlh f/mt^Teturaed^to China a irt of the indemnity in the Boxuprising because it was ought to be excessive. We layed the big brother to Cuba, tervened that she might have stice, set her on her feet and ideher go in peace. In Mex:o our government withstood le jibes of other nations and reised to fight in order to defend few bloated speculators who lppened to be American citi;ns in that unhappy country it who had ample time and op srtunity to wind up their busiess and come home. In short, e are not out for conauest. he spirit of our country is not le spirit of greed. We repudie the savage doctrine that light makes right. Here, as owhere else the doctrine of jsus has been incorporated in le national life. We are strong Lit we do not use that strength > browbeat others. And in the :d tide of carnage that is now owing over every great nation t Europe, all eyes are turned to s as the arbiter and judge and eacemaker. We must play a rge part in the struggle of the Id world hut it will not hc? with ayonet and sword. The attilde the United States has I ways assumed toward its sister ations makes it the towering cak above them all, and the lost commanding in its moral lfluence. What has done it? Ve realize the immanence f Jehovah, and enthrone im as the rightful ruler f mankind. We depend not on lilitarism but on the Lord of losts. And while individuals mong us have been Germanied, the nation as a whole has ot forgotten God, nor turned rom Him from whom all bles.3nnrc flmu 1 ot iic tdlrp rnnraorn Ve are just coming: into our wn, and the simple faith of the ation has exalted it to the most wonderful place of power and [lfluence ever exerted by any ieople in all the tide of time. Jewish Year 5675 At sundown of the evening preceding last Monday, September 21, the New Year of the Jews was ushered in. On the Jewish calendar it is designated as the year 5675, and marks the lapse of time since sunnosod Hnto of the creation of the world. New Year's day is known by several names, but Rosh Hashannah is the broad and general term. Beginning on the eve of September 20. the Rosh Hashanah period concludes with Shemini Atzereth, the Feast of Conclusion, which is held on October 12. There are differences in the observances of New Year's among the Orthodox and Reformed Jews, one being that with the former, the services marking the Rosh Hashanah proper conclude at sunset on September 23 while the exercises of the latter close on the day preceding. Ten days after the New Year comes the Day of Atonement, which this year is September 30. After New Year's Day and tlie Day of Atonement, the more important dates of the Jewish religious calendar are: the Feast of Tabernacles, October 5; Feast of Conclusion, October 12; Thanksgiving Day, November 26; Chanukkaah, December 13; Purim, February 28; Passover, March 30 to April 5; Feast of Weeks, May 19. An Unpaid Debt to Germany. Wall Street Journal A story of the war told with great glee in the streets of Lonj don is being repeated by returnI A " ing American tourists. Germany found a livelymaijte^oi^^ part of this year among: the militant Irish outside of Ulster who were moved to arm themselves as a result of the threats of armed opposition to Home Rule in the North. The German hope was that not only would England have dire trouble with their Irish citizens in any event but that in a general Euronpnn war the pugnacious Irishman would keep ' England's forces fully occupied at home. Therefore what greater service to the Fatherland than to arm these Irish with German guns? Ac cordingly 250,000 German rifles were shipped into Southern Ireland with large stores of ammunition. To the consternation of the Germans the Irish forgot their home troubles to bear their part against Britain's common enemy. And the Irish volunteers of North and South who have sworn to guard their shores against German aggression have ample supplies of German guns and cartridges to repel any possible invader. And the irony of it all is that the bill of the Ger e \ man manuiaciures nas never been paid and probably never will. "Darn Near Nobody." Yorkvillc Enquirer And still little stories concerning; some of the would-be oft ice holders defeated in the recent primary come to light. Here is one of the latest: One of the defeated candidates who, by the wav is a good man, but not a good politician, and who staved up nearly all night awaiting returns le^t for his home when he saw how completely he had krv/m on?Mtr<< / I im/lnr \\ 'hmi tin uctu anwwtn iiiiuvi. ?? iiv.il nv, reached home he knocked loudly on the door and a voice from the inside called, "Who is that?" He shook the door very hard as he replied, "Darn near nobody."