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The Pageland Journal Published Wednesday Mornings C. M. Tucker, Proprietor Subscription Price - - $1.00 Entered as second class mail matter at the post otfice at Pageland, S. C., under Postal Act of March 3,1879. November 10. 1915 This week five hundred copies of The Journal are being printed for distribution at the Chesterfield County Fair. The paper will doubtless fall into the hands of many who have not read it before. -To all such we want to say that a cordial invilaa! ?_?_ * - uon is nereuy extended you to become si permanent subscriber to this piper. ?? Pageland is the remarkable town of Chesterfield county. The progress made in the section surrounding this thriving town during the past eight years has been wonderful. The sand hills, once considered worthless, have become about the most desirable lands in the whole section. Land that once was considered a liability rather than an asset has been transformed into productive soil of the most desirable tvDe. People who once-knew this section but have been away for ten or fifteen years can hardly believe their own eyes when they come back. On the spot known to them as the "Fox Place" they find a beautiful little town with broad streets, many substantial bick business houses and scores of pretty homes. Good farming districts surround Pageland on every side; honest, prosperous farmers till ^^these farms; kind neighborly ^H^|rolelive in die town; fairly ^^^^R^^dhcoUo^S5^eed mariteff to say nothing ot butter, eggs and chickens; there are four churches in the town and a num-' ber of others within a few miles; a magnificent school building adorns the eastern section of the town; seven faithful teachers instruct about two hundered children day after day for nine months in the year; three ministers of the gospel reside within the borders of the town; no lawyers can make their bread here; two doctors live here but the people are too healthy for them to get rich; an abundant supply oi clear, sparkling water is in easy reach of well diggers; drainage is natural and almost perfect, the town being built right on the highest ridge in the county, where five prominent streams rise; there are eighteen business houses where one may buy any article trom a bar of soap to a steam engine; two splendid hotels; one restaurant; three or four sales stables; two blacksmith shops; one shoe shop: two wood working plants; two corn mills; one garage; one ginning plant; the best bank in the county; two cotton warehouses; one bottling plant; one meat market; one barber shop; a postoffice and the best newspaper in the county. (We think) All good people dre welcomed; all sorry ones should leave. STUBBED. He-?That young widow has very taking ways. She?Yes, I heard she waa something of a kleptomaniac. O HE COULD. She?Don't you think there la a change in the weather? He?Yes; I can even feel the change in my pocket QUITE OBVIOU8. "Why, captain, are yon making your boat hug the shore?" "because I am embracing an op port unity." President Begins Defense Campaign New York, Nov. 4.?President Wilson opened the administra tion campaign for its national defense programme in a camprehensive and carefully prepared address delivered here tonight at the Manhattan club banquet. He declared solemnly that the United States had no aggressive purposes, but must be prepared to defend itself in order to assume I "full liberty and self development." Significantly, he said that ,4\vith ourselves in this great matter we associate all the peoples of our own hemisphere," adding that "we wish not only for the United States but for them the fullest freedom ot independent growth of action." The president was received with enthusiastic applause as he entered the banquet hall and during his address. The hall was decorated with American flags and filled even to the galleries with Democrats happy over their victory on Tuesday in New York city. When the president arose to speak, everj- one got up and applauded until he was forced to signal for quiet. "Within a year," said the president, "we have witnessed what we did not think possible, a great European conflict involving many of the greatest nations of the world. The influence of the great war are everywhere in the air. All Europe is in battle. Force everywhere speaks out and from one end of our oWn dear country to the other men are asking one another what our own force is, how far we are prepared to maintain ourselves | against any interference with our | national action or development." The president called upon "men of all shades of political opinion" "ti-v .-nil*. .1... - ' iu i<111 y iu mc: suppuri oi me programme. Me said it represented "the best professional and expert opinion/of the country" and gave warnings that "if man differ with and in what way the^ are interested in making ,>Ke permanent interests of the country safe against disturbance." There is no need for the country to feel panic stricken, the president declared, because it stands in friendly relations with the world. He spoke of the United States as a "nation too big and generous to be exacting, but yet courageous enough to defend its rights," Hard,to Fill. "Mister Jedge," said the old colored citizen who came into the justice's court leading a small negro by the coat colar. "Mister Jedge, wish vou'd please, Sull (riv(> rlic Kntr 1A ...I , ^v^j ? jcaia \> 1UU de State'll furnish de vittles tor him.*' "What do you mean?" asked the astonished justice, according to The Pittsburg Chronicle. "What has he been doing?" "Eatin' me out er house en home, suh," was the reply, "wid dat appetite er his. Why, Jedge, de appetite er de whale dat swal lowed Jonah couldn't hoi' a candle to dat boy's eating arrangements. Fer de Lawd's sake, Jedge, let de State freed him awhile, so's de vuther chillun kin pick up en enjoy life." TEACH COLTS FAST WALKING Best Results Are 8ecured With Ank mals Full of Spirit That Want to Get Along Rapidly. A slow moving colt can be taught to walk fast by hitching it besldo a fast walker and urging it to keep up. although it requires good handling to Aki.l- A " uumiii iuu success with this method. The best results are secured with animals full of spirit that want to move rapidly. At the same time a young horse that is full of ipirlt, if it is allowed to work too har-1, will become too tired, lose its ambition and develop into a slow walker. The best training is to use the young stock at such light work that they can move along rapidly without feeling it, let ting them have only enough of it so that they will get into the habit of moving rapidly and keep up the trait after they are older. V , _r " ' ' ' ' . j* TALKS OF SUBMARINE AUTO < , Inventor Has Idea of 8ubmerslble Which He Believes Will Prove to Be Wonder. An improved submersible which he is confident will revolutionize even the comparatively new science of undersea fighting is being worked out by Simon Lake, inventor of the even keel submarine. Lake's new invention is nothing more nor less than a submarine auto, a submersible craft that will run for many miles on the sea's bottom. To prevent pounding by ground swells, the wheels are suspended on swinging arms with a cushioning cylinder. One hundred of these craft on the Atlantic coast, fifty on the Pacific and fifty to guard our colonies and to undertake aggressive warfare in the enemy's own country would be sufficient, believes the inventor, _ to render the United States impregnable from attack. It is Lake's idea that we must put our navy unr der water before an invader doesl it with shot and shell. M The submarine auto would equipped with a diving bell, free of water by compressed aip^V are caissons used in constructing tfl foundations of bridges and hifl buildings. From out of the be* divers would operate to lay mini directly under the vessels of a hostill fleet. 1 An auxiliary system of underset supply stations is also contemplated in Lake's new system of national do fense. WAR AS IT IS NOW CONDUCE Very Different From the When Men Met In Conflfl^^^ Hand to Hand. "Where, then, is the men who are fighting?" "Over there, underground trenches." M "Where are the reserves, the reenforcements ?" "Hidden and masked in the m lages behind the first line." "And the commissary?" J "Concealed in the woods waiting for nightfall to accomplish of-feeding the "And all these dviliana^ftiiT^B about, disputing, chattcri^J^|^H ^ T* o W ""OTPIIII bandboxes and umbrellas "They are photographers, derifn in underwear, peddlers of all sorts o! things, wives, sisters, mothers, women who are none of the three, all with the very best reasons for goinj; to the front and all careful}) equipped and prepared accordingly They are easy to recognize, these, because the weight and volume of th? luggage they carry is always less thai the weight and volume of the papers, credentials and identification cardf with which they are armed for th? task of penetrating into the zone oi military operations. "For, happily, between all of then and the front there are still the th> lice/'?Exchange. * HER OWN FAULT. "Justice/' remarked the boardei who was a victim of the pro vert habit, "is blind." "Serves her right," rejoined the man with the auburn nose at the foot of the table. "She ought to brace up and indulge in an occasional eye* opener." HI8 EXPERIENCE. Giles?Marriage is a failure. Miles?How do you know? You have never been up against the matrimonial game. Giles?That's how I know. You gee, the girl refused me. CONTRADICTORY EVIDENOE. "This clock will last you a lifetime." "How can it when I 6ee already that its hours are numbered." | HIS QUALITY. 'The Minnehaha had a commander of spirit in Captain Claret/' "Yet he didn't show any of the whine about him." THE FA8HI0N. "This sympathy for convicts seems to be all the rage just now." "Exactly. All the girls even are wearing stripes." THE REAL FACT. They say Jones failed for fifty thousand dollars." <rNo, he didn't; he failed for the WMt Of it." 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