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the Page?!) journal Vol. 5 NO. 29 PAGELAND, S. C., WeI HORNING, MARCH 31, 1915 $1.09 per year Russians Gaining GrCUnd and Italy Ready to Help London, March 28.?Violent f battles for possession of the Carpathian passes continue, r The Russians who recently re- s gained possession of Dukla Pass, t are pushing their way toward ^ Bartfeld on one side and Svidnik v on the other where, if they c achieve their object, they will t *a\r n nAConcpiAn tuiw |/v/oav ojiv/it v/i inu ucaud UI the railroads running: southward 1 into Hungary. The Russians also are appear- t ing against Uzsok Pass to the 1 east; but at Lukholka Pass still r farther to the east they apparently are satisfied to withstand the c ? Austro-German attacks against strong positions at Koziouwka, v which the Germans have tried I p. so onen 10 capture. 3 Along the rest of the eastern 1 front, battles are of a desultory . character, due doubtless to the f fact that the snow is melting and f the rivers either are open or are c covered with sucli a thin coating f of ice that they will not bear any ' weight. In the West the commanders ^ are waiting for better conditions } before making an effort on a t large scale, although the French '< here and there are attempting to 1 capture positions, which will give them an advantage when t i the general offensive starts, f Ik Their more recent efforts have i ^Kbeen directed against the heights 1 ^Egf the Meuse, east and south of HHBcdun, in which both sides t have made gains. The s ?. leg^JBJPps^d'd^^^^ki the U[* arm;Sheppard West was shot in the thigh, and a ball ^passed through the flesh of Joll^ R. ^Robertson's arm. Drs. Duncan anil . Moore, 6( Pageland, Gantt rind Thomas, of * - Jefferson, Newsom, of Ruby, and ' Funderburk, of Dudley, were ' summoned. The wounds of the injured were dressed, and J. M. Arant and J. D. Wallace were taken to the Presbyterian hospital at Charlotte, where operations ;were perlormed. It was found that the wound of Wallace was not quite so serious as at first announced. The ball entered just above one hip bone and passed out just adove the other, making about nine perforations in the intesiines, but no important blood vessels were injured. The ball was found in his sock when he was being dressed at the hospital. Arant's wound was more serious than at first nhobght. The ball which entered near the right hip bone passed through the abdomen, making eleven perforations in the intesL tines and grazing the iliac vein. |L>< A great mass of clotted blood waa^removed during the operation, and it was realized that his ^ ^ chances for recovery were ^slight. Late Saturday nighl sign? of peritonitis began to ap peajt and none of his relatives were allowed to see him Sunday Policeman Funderburk and Rural Policeman Grant were ir the midst of the battle, but some 40 or 50 shots were fired hefon I they succeeded in getting ir I possession of all of the five pis L tols and one Tifle they snatchec from the tiands of the partici r pants. Most of the pistols taker wept good ones, and the rifh i was< a 32-caliber Remington Sheriff Douglass waff notified a onqp and he arrived shortl v be for^ sunset and -began and in vestigation, v - v. ? Coroner Atkinson was sum Why the Patent Medicine Business is Fraudulent 'regressive Farmer. Point out which of our patent nedicine ads. are fraudulent," , ays an agencv handling: advor-: ising for these nostrums. We i night reply by saving: that so 1 ong as this agency ^handles ad ; 'ertising of such obvious and uitrageous frauds as "consump-! i ion cures" and "cancer cures," j t convicts itself of stupidity or nsinceritv in making any such)1 equest. We may answer the < piestion, however, by saying hat the whole patent medicine j' msiness is inherently and in |, lately fraudulent. The sale of patent medicines 'an only be justified on the I ;roud that any man is capable ' /f diagnosing his own ailments,! vhich is absurd on the face of it.' t is a well known fact that the j? oung medical student is apt to ; magine himself affected with all j he diseases he hears about dur-; ng the first few weeks he is at; nedical college. The difficult >nrt of medical practice is the j liagnosis of the disease, not done to name the disease, but to enow the stage and development >f the disease?in short, know! he diseased conditions. The nost skilled and best educated physicians find their greatest iifficultios here, notwithstanding ill their experience and scientific tnowledge. ii is notorious that 'a man who acts as his own at orney lias a fool for a client," ? tnd the wisdom of the mar who icts as his own doctor is even ! ess to be commended. 1. In the first place, therefore, he use of patent medicines asumes the ability of rf nan to mmmm by the magistrate; a bullet passed through the glass front of each of the three stores across the street from the scene, and a bell went 2 inches deep into a telephone pole in the middle of the street. The innocent butxurions by-standers who gathered to witness the fisticuff stampeded and raced for cover. They were not scared, of ccuise, but their legs wouldn't stay. Two Deaths. Chesterfield Advertiser. Mrr lohn Rogers, a Confedor ale veterate 78 years of age, died last Sunday and was buried Monday at Hopewell chureli where he was a member, Rev B. S. Funderburg conducting tlu funeral services. Mr. Rogers has been in poor health for years ant he and his aged wile have beei entirely dependent on the chariij of j>ood neighbors. Mr A. H j Merriman, who furnished then la home, desires In evnress hi< appreciation of the attentioi shown them by his neighbors. Monday, March 1, Mrs. Ellei Sowell, the wife of Willie Sowel 1 of the Zoar section mistook i ' poison tablet for another table t wliich Had been prescribed fo her and swallowed it. In a litll< > while the mistake was discovei ed. Everything possible wa I tried to overcome the power o i the deadly drug. Nothing colli i be done. After lingering lei s week, life slowly ebbing awaj t Mrs. Sowell died early last Mor day morning. She was burie 1 at Friendship Methodist churcl - Her pastor, Rev. T. B. Owei 1 conducted the rvicis - Mr. and Mrs. So well wei j. married less than a year ag? t Before her marriage to M Sowell Mrs. Sowell was Mi: - McLean of Patrick. Mr. So we is a member of the well know family of that name of th cpuntv, \ > Compulsory Education? In one of the cities o? yWK Carolina the school trustee^MKl in sympathy with the CoHSh sory education law. TlietfHnl in their city school districFj^Hfl drcds of children botwe<S^HM aires of 8 and 14 who nreqMSH irirr sent to school. Their not seeing the necessity foflHKl act. The trustees.say thtti^Kp^ would immediately set^i$5jp have complusorv reqttitenJaKiof tho law made effect] vefr<M|jjL have not sufficient room^^SE buildings to accomodate ait tml children should they atten^^sji that instance the trustees JW*? provide more buildings beWFt ron rnniiiro oftonrtA'tiwfc This they have undcrtakeitojdB' have planned to take cnre^jFptjtf the children This is a and patriotic act of trnstees. In T'agcland wo have buildings, we have a large fltterii dance hut if one little child -I&, out that should be in school mav he the child that woupVj make the most valuable and Useful citizen if some authority would bring it into school. 9 A nice church or churches arV a credit to a town or community* only when the moral conditiom evidence their worth. A rdrm school building and a competent faculty and efficient trustees would loose their good rating if the course of a few years if it literacy continued among ev$ii a small per cent, of the people! Have we not among us somm children who ought to he ill school? Do we think that ij their parents don' * lie can be failure just nsjbM 9 j dog or same to remain about bis premi ses for ten days previous to the assessment of the said tax oi previous lo any iujury, worryia| or killing any stock shall lx deemed the owner of such dog The ?!'>pr tax is to go to th< school or road fund. ' _ Pulled Wrong Box The State Saturday The contention that a mai never mails a letter had a nev version placed upon it yesterday ' shortly before *noon when i I specimen of the genus homo, th same being a male in additior ;; attempted to post an epistle ii J the fire alarm box at Main an* I Taylor streets. With tilmo< 1' care the man pulled the leve ' \ aside so that the letter coul | drop within and become th II temporary property of Unci b Sam. 1 "Hey!" said a sophisticate citizen who stood nearby, "d i you know what you hav 1 done?" i, The (piestion begged a negi t tive answer. r "You hear that bell?" contini e : ed the same citizen, as the fit hell signalled box 33. T1 s stranger stood amazed at h f prowness and the unaccustomc d celebration that accompaim a bis mailing a letter. 1', "IIlev will arrest you i< I ? # ?- ] that, asserted the Columbian. dt Speaking colloquially, tl 1. j sti anger hit the ball down Ta 1, lor street, churning the concre I into dust and the board wal 'e| into sawdust. His hegira -w :>. i watched by squinting eyes, b r. bis trail was so hard to anticipti ss that no effort was made to car 111 out the statement of the Colui n man, who involuntarily bccar is the centre of an anecdotal au< ence, / JL. gjapk's Acts Endanger Life in Hi' Brownsville Texas Hwashington, March 27.?Gen. Htla today launched his attack Kj>[Ma tumorous opposite Browndjflle, Texas, possession of which ?ou1d give him practically unjjnsputcd control of the northern glfextcati States. With Piedras Jfegnis lost, tlie only ports of the Texas border retraining in the hands of Carran were Nuevo Laredo and .Matamoros. Only a small gar^TSDlj'is at Nuevo Laredo, but at ^fatartioros several thousand ^arrar/.a troops are concentrat Villa's plan 01 campaign been directed against those digrder towns because his troops ac&rt'ild make no substantial gains Sffihile his communications to the %$?hh were threatened. . v Brownsville, Texas, March 2S. j?Failing in their attempt yesterday to dislodge the CJarranz/a garrison by rifle and machine vguu tire, Villa forces besieging Matanioros .virtually ceased their attacks today, awaiting, it was announced, the arrival of artillery. In the event of an artillery duel, Brownsville, directly across the Rio Grande from Matnmoros, wouTd be endangered and Irtnialil nno tliu irr<nmfi v-f liv VI liiv ^1((V V/Ol of border crises was feared. The likelihood of shells falling in Brownsville was demonstrated by the rifle bullets which dropped here yesterday, during: the first Villa assault on Matamoros trenches, a costly failure of Villa iorces in which their losses were officially given as 100 killed and ^0-wounded. This attack wa> a (12JhQ0_jTio? in t "?"? ^jj ^^Knihia Record. i ^rhat Cnlebra cut is just like a Wrle. At the time when cveryi th.Bg $ecms most lovely?look r outfor'the kick. The engineers m.ve Q, iC,O V ^ 1 C CI \\ lldi is illc iiitii' 3 te^'and are working patiently to . repedy it. A slide is no! a slide, 3 in Culebra. It is a bulge. The soil is of the kind known ity-Jhis country as "buckshot*1 *tla pushes up from the bottom Canal on account, of the v wt?iffht on each side. It\wou^ v accomplish nothing to make the bdtfom several feet thick in court crjite, for the bulge would come e j"t?t the same. The engineers ,f have at last gone to work to re n move ille weight from the sides j and thiis to reduce the pressure .? so that the canal will not lie con >1 # wr ,r tiououslv in clanger. In tin j meantime, such embarrassment e and annoyances slionUl nraki c this country appreciate all th< more the value of the canal am force inir senators to go back t< 0 vv^refrungton pledged to pass ,q bill which will further carry on tp6.purposes of theca,n'al tobuil a. bP thy commerce of this country That can be done only by th LI. 'use of a merchant marine flyin re the'stj is unci stripes. j<j f Taken At His Word -d JkJPiesident about whom man Jdj stories were told was Grove | Cleveland. One of which li or 1 enjoyed very much himself \\>\ that one time when he wr,s 01 te nunfing he was overtaken h v- darkness, and coroj;i<f to a fisl ite ennan'shut kn^jked at thedoo ks The familvy^^^tired, fcftf efU as reheated a man pi tit a window an l,e asRI: rv "Who's there?" ITl" "I am Grover Cleveland." ne "Well, what do you want?" di" "1 want to stay here all night rAli right, stay there." '** j k The United States of Texas. Charlotte Observer. How long will Texas remain < one? The question has been revived by agitations growing out of the conflicting interests of (he different sections of the vast empire in which he entire population of Germany could be located without crowding. Even The 1 Iouston Post is inclined to give serious consideration to the plan of making three or four States out of the one. "The Piohibition Panhandle with its economic problems, affecting vitally the welfare of a people largely drawn from other States, is beginning to despair of land and railroad legislation upon which its prosperity and development depend," says The Post. "South Texas with its heavy anti prohibition preponderance, ,1. ...... .. ? r??~ wi.ixtii iiiij4ci\ uuui riUiupc, is weary of the constantly tightening coil that the prohibitionists are drawing about it. West Texas, like the Panhandle, has its peculiar problems, which fail to exact the interest or the sympathy of the other sections of the State." When Tcaas, the independent republic, joined the Union, it reserved to itself the right to divide itself into any number of States not exceeding five without consulting Congress or any authority. If therefore, Texas should decide that its motto shall he "We are five," and thereby secures for itself ten United States Senators in stead of two, nobody- could object, however displeasing the prospect would be to the Republicans and Progressives in Congress. One somehow harbors the idea ^BneSit a te ^e petition and now the>3|H| ! the law effective. < Interested citizen, j Lovely Day For a Aunt Mary is the bgsfold soul you'll meet in mjHJyn day. ,Sh?^s 'tended tc^hrtjr knitting ii^ the good pla-iashioned way. She never gabs nor gossips, she has , no time to gab and she seldom ' reads the papers, 'cause, she says, i they make her sad. She drove to town /this afternoon to shop bit and Wilbur Jones tl^^|K:er3' man invijM^^u^^ sit. Says he "Aint this \ml Aunt Vtorv v j Aint heard a wor<jHG^^^9 even heard > Jones says "Suro^^^H^HHH and France and^^^^HHBB fighting with thanflHH|^^^Hfl s swe<BHflH|^B^H| e on way, jflHHuBHN e nice wcathe;^pWMjWMBBBHPH i<>v^i\JBQHnQW| Do yoti^^^^^^^the fellov shingle hi house not ? on was raininj and ij^^^^^^^Ker the hous< did ^^^^H^Hmingling? W are n by the mei V ch^^M^osays he cannot affor r tojl^crtise when times are har find he does not need to advertis is when business is brisk, it John Wannamaker made a foi >y tune of millions by mixin h- brains with printer's ink?bi ?r. then he had the brains. He a< jr v6i;tised all the time, but rnos it heavily when times were dulles id 1 lis theory was that when dolla in circulation were scarce, tl lion's share of them went to t! merchant who hustled for them and he considered live advert: I," in*; the most profitable kind I hustling?Greenville rieuraoi A Man Who "Died" Once upon a time there lived a man who wondered what his neighbors thought about him. In order to find out, he framed up a deal with his wife and pretended to die, so the story goes. The undertaker was taken into the secret and he laid the body out in a coffin and opened the lid in order that neighbors might take a farewell look at the late lamented. Scores came to sit in the parlor and talk in low tones about the deceased. Some talked in low tones about politics and the crop prospect. Meanwhile the "dead" man 1 1 . .1 lisieueu wim doui ears. A thin, hatchet-faced old maid who loved gossip as a hog loves the other kind of slop, and who had for years peddled slander about the man who lay in trie coffin, wiped away an imaginary tear and simpered to the wife: "I can sympathize with you in this sad hour, dear sister. The dear departed was such a sweet man and so kind and so good. I know your burden is heavy." And a hard-looking customer with bristling, close cropped grev hair?a man who had fought and -cussed and hated the chap in the coffin for almost halt a century, cleared his throat and rumbled: "Yes, indeed. We shall all miss him. He was very dear to me, and I appreciate your feelings." Then the preacher placed his finger tips together and looked . . at the ceiling. The preacher , had often referred to the coffin's occupant as a "poor lost soul" and a "black sheep." He believ- . Me with live mutes; mules not being'very valuable, he unhitched one of his owjf, putting it with the other seventeen making eighteen, when he proceeded to divide as follows: One-half, or nine, to the eldest, one third, or six to the next and one-nineth or two to the youngest. Adding up nine, six, two he found that it I ^^de seventeen, so he hitched up Bj fculc and went hdme rejoicHHHkv Traveling Men. ^^^^^^^^^^^lesmun tells HjHBSHHgKflfl^^nave vow HBwWBWP^e"! fhe salesman BPffstaggered, but he recovered his breath and replied: "No, madame, but we have / some in enraged rat color." r Another woman, in search of s a certain kind of basket, made i the salesman reacn%uo\vn every gr article of that nature on the ^ e shelves except two. Then she ^ e said, as she turned away: 1 r- "I only came to look for one d of my friends." a d "Madam," said the weary sales-JB e man, "if you have the sli?htcs|H9 idea that vour friend is in eitheflH r- of the other two baskets, I sh-al^H g be pleased to take them down.'SB it ?New York Times. ^H| j- v >t "Nobody ought to talk about it' anything be doesn't thoroughly re unJprstand " le "Oh, I don't know," replied ie the cheery citizen. "Nobody un ? derstands exactly what the is- weather is or how it is produced, of And yet we all enjoy talking it. about it," I !