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THE PAGELAND JOURNAL Vol.6 NO. 42 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1916 $1 0o per year _ r ~T~ ~ ' Drive Mighty Wedge Into Ger- 1 mans* Lines London, July 1.?The grand f offensive on the Western front, I begun by the British and French r on both sides of the River Somme, 60 miles north of Paris, ear- < ly this morning has already re- ? suited in a great wedge being t driven into the German lines > along a 16 mile front, with its s sharp point penetrating nearly f five miles. ? At 6 o'clock the British had j pushed from a short distance t east of Albert as far as Montau i ban, more than five miles away, 1 and had repulsed a German f counterattack on that village. Both to the north and the i south a number of other villages, t including Hebutern, Serre, La c Boisselle and Mametz, had been swept out of German hands, s some of them only after deter- c mined resistance by their de- < . fenders. .< Friercourt, three miles east of i Albert, still was in German pos- < session in the early evening, but I with the capture of Montauban s and Mametz to the east and t southest of it and La Boisselle to i the northeast, the place was 1 nearly surrounded and its speedy 1 surrender seemed inevitable. s Farther south the French are < co-operating with the British and ( have taken the village of Corlu j ? i - ? ana scorea omer notaoie ad- s vances. . 1 The entente allied drive was i begun against German trenches leveled after a seven day bom s bardment, in which more than ( 1,000*000 shots daily had been 1 fired. 1 The tremendous offensive i which has been launched by the 1 British army on the German I front is the culmination of a five 1 day bombardment which in the i amount of ammunition expended j and in the territory involved ex- ( ceeds anything of the kind that 1 has been previously known in s the world war. s For weeks reports have been i current in England and France i mai me Dig pusn" 01 tne British was about to commence. It was stated that England had 2,000,000 men, fully equipped and trained, in preparation for the supreme effort to break the German lines More than 1,000,000 shells are declared to have been fired daily in the preliminary bombardment, which extended over a front 90 miles in length. The menace of the British attack was fully appreciated in Germany, according to newspaper comments from Berlin, and the utmost confidence was expressed in the ability of the Germans to meet and crush it. - - ' a uc auico uic uuw uii me or i fensive in practically every tieia > of the war. The British assault s comes on the heels of the great f successes won by the Russians t in Galicia and Bukowina, which i have resulted in completely driv- t ing the Austrians from Bukowina. In the Italian front the central powers have also met 11 with severe reverses and for sev- a eral days the Italians have been steadily driving the Austrians r from positions in the Trentino. The defense of Verdun hv tho r French appears to have stiffened, f and the balance of battle in that tl bitterly contested sector appears fa recently to have swayed in favor v of the defenders. The great ?offensive under J taken by the British officers, ac n cording to reports from the front and the comments of the military critics, is an absolutely new ^ department in the tactics hither- . to pursued by the belligerents. Contrary to the favorite tactics of the Germans, the British did li not attempt a partial advance by t massing their artillery at a given c point on the line and following an intense bombardment by an infantry attack in serried col t pmns. |t lural Schools Must Be Improved From the Progressive Farmer ive splendid suggestions for the jetterment of rural schools are eprinted below: 1. Fit the schools to the needs >f the people. In the main we ire farming folks, and the great najority of us will remain so. Why, then, should not our rural ichool system aim first of all to it us for the lives we are to lead ind the work we are to do? By ill means make the training of he farm bov and girl as liberal is possible, but at the same time et's always put fundamentals irst. Latin roots may be well enough in their place, but any ural school system that gives hem preference over corn and cotton roots is bad. 2. Aim at the three teacher chool. The little one-room, >ne teacher school must go, because it cannot possibly be efficient. To get large schools, vith better buildings, better equipped and with more and )etter teachers, consolidation ieems the remedy. There arc housands of Southern commuaities that mav wonderfully im arove their educational facilities ay combining two, three or foui small, weak schools into one consolidated school with an ad equate teaching force. Putting aside all preconceived notions, ask yoursely sincerely whethei his is not true of vour owe aeighbortiood. 3. We must have longei school terms. That therf? is a iirect and striking relation be ween the length of the school erm and the progress and achievement of any state is well cnown. Here in the South, the fitter truth is that we must coninue to lag just so long as we ire content to see our children setting an average of only 50 tc >5 days of schooling a year. Al east six months or 120 days ihould be the very minimum, and every community should nake 100 or 180 days its ideal tc aim at. 4. Better teachers, better paid Mo school can be better than its eachers. If these are poorly i rl tVio Kottor ? -1' tuv ut,nbi icai^ucia Will very naturally drift to the com nunities that are willing to pa\ for good work. Good teachers :ost money, but money spent foi hem is the wisest investmeni hat can be made. 5. Keep good teachers perma lently. Finally, when we gel jood teachers, every effort should ^e made to keep them. The Irifting teacher, wandering from ?chool to school year after year, lever becomes identified with :ommunity life, and has little eal interest in community de /elopement. Provide a home ind farm tor the principal, pay air wages to all teachers, and heir interests will become identfied with those of the communiv. Yes, these changes will cost noney; ihev will also cost time nd effort. Rllt ran vruir mnn. ;y, time and effort be better extended than in a cause that will nean happier, better, fuller lives or your own boys and girls, for he boys and girls of your neigh orhood?and is there any surer vay of making your community ?ermanently better for your laving lived in it? "This chicken soup seems to te rather weak," said the new oarder. "I don't see whv," replied the andlady. "I told the cook how o maKe it. but perhaps she didn't :atch the idea." "Or perhaps she didn't catch he chicken," suggested the new joarder.?Exchange. UNION COUNTY NEWS Monroe Enquirer. Mr. A. C. Penegar, carrier on route number one from Monroe, j says that crops on his route are s the best they have been in three years. It has been decided to begin 5 the union tent mesting July 16th. I It will continue two weeks. Dr. , W. N. Ainsvvorth, of Macon, Ga., ] will do the preaching and Mr. TW. Jelks will lead the singing. Two services will be held daily, 1 Postmaster E. C. Winchester ( has a paper that he prizes very < i highly and has recently had it ? put under glass to preserve it. j The old paper is the commission j i from the postal departmen of the Confederate States of America ' to Mr. Thomas D. Winchester, 1 father of Postmaster E. C. Win- 1 , Chester, appointing him postmas- ter at Monroe. The Commission , was issued from Richmond, Va., , and bears the date of fulv 6, 1 1861. Mr. Thomas D. Winches- ! [ ter was the first postmaster at 1 i Monroe and served as United < i States postmaster until the Con \ federate States of America form. ed a government. j ? Mr. B. A. Williams and Miss i " Etta Griffin were married yester- ] ; day afternoon at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and ' : Mrs. Ellis Griffin, two and a half i , miles east of Monroe. Rev. E. i * C. Snyder performed the marrii age service. The groom is a 1 son of Mr. W. E. L. Williams, of < east Monroe township, and his i home is in Sanford. He is a < voun? man of snlfnrtirt i ter, is energetic and has the faculty of making and keeping 1 friends. The bride is the only ; daughter of her parents. She) has by her splendid character 1 s and fine disposition made many i friends. < ' We know a man who carries t in his pocket a well-worn card 1 on which is printed in bold type, ? "So live that you can look every ( I man straight in the face and tell 1 > him to go to hell." Notelegint, did you say? Maybe not. If 1 you are going to preach about it, 1 ? why, go ahead; we are perfectly willing tor you to do so. But aft 1 er all the preaching you can do 1 has been done, the fact remains f that many a fellow who is corn5 ered, who has been found out in his crookedness and his crime ' 1 and his accuser stands before him, wishes from the bottom of his soul that he could lilt his 1 chin, look his accuser straight in I the eyes and say in accents clear 5 and with conscience clean some 1 1 of the words printed on that ? card. Never a man went to 1 hell who could with clear con- ; I cpionpo on*r t<r* " wvxviiw o?j IV II1V 111 il 11 W1IU UL cused him of wrong doing some 1 ol the words on the littie card 1 the man referred to carries in around with him. It may not ' be a high standard?living up to ' the one set on the card?but, say, 1 this would be a different kind of 1 a world and that for the better :t i: 1 ? - ii cvci vuuuy iivuu up IO inai standard?and that's a fact. 1 Mysterious Boat In American ' Bay | New York, June 30.?The J Trans Atlantic Trust company of this city, which has been rec- , ognized here as an unofficial fi nancial agent of the Austrian and Clormtin i/ftvornmonlc an nounced today in a half page advertisement in the Hungarian daily, Amerikai Maigiar Neps zava, that the German submarine j so ftequently reported as being on the way here from Hamburg j readied Baltimore Thursday morning and is now concealed somewhere nearby, presumably 1 under the waters of Chesapeake 5 bay, ji rhe Old Dofc and the New G Trick "This here scientific stuff aia' farm management talk may l?e yi ill right ter brook farmers," sai.d of Farmer Slow coach, "but th'jv m shore won't work when it conies of to makin' cot/on an' corn." dt " Tried 'em?" inquired Farmer er 11 u stlc m. in "No," was the reply, "I ain't re tried 'em, an' what's more, I at don't expect to. What's the use S< y me throwin' away my time th ;in' hard work a-tryin' out some ce fool notions them young: sap- cc neacis ciown at me expeeryment ye station has got? Do you raly 00 think they know anything about ed farmin'? Bet they don't know 90 why some cotton blossoms is red at in* some white, an* still they've ?ot the nerve to try Jo advise us fu shore 'nough farmers. It makes me mad plum' through." Slow- to C coach fairly snorted his indignation and infinite scorn. "How'd your oats turn out?" fy asked Hustlem, apparently wishing to switch the discussion to a fG pleasanter topic. gI "Sorriest kind," grumbled the d old man. "Mostly straw, an' not ar much o' that. Rust hit 'em, the th smut hit 'em, dry weather hit 'em, an' I got what wuz left, an' m that wu/.n't enough to bed my $2 ol' cow through ne;xt winter. 26 I'm through plantin* oats; this C climate's got so you jest can't ^ mcilfo V?n-i " "What kind of seed did you g( use asked Hustlem. "Seed wuz good enough, I fcliess," replied Slow-coach. "I planted some feed oats I'd bought from Bill Barrett, an' they look- ^ ed all right to me.' ( ,t "Treated 'em for smut, I suppose," said Hustlem. "Treated 'em for smut?how m do you mean?" asked Slow- ^ coach, in actual wonderment. "Never mind; I thought you tn didn't," went on Hustlem. "Planted in February, too, didn't you?" f'1 "Yes, I did; but what's that got 111 to do with it?" asked Slow- or coach, resentfully. w "Oh, nothin., I guess, nothin'. I just happened to remember that last year I got hold o' one e of them experiment station bulletins you been cussin', an' it ?c said that fall plantin', usin' rust ^ proof seed an' treatin* them for smut all together could be depended on to double our oat crop, an' I didn't have any bet- cr ter sense than to try 'em. m' "How wuz, your crop?" asked Slow coach. ac "1 averaged just a little over forty five bushels to the acre on ^ twenty acres," replied Hustlem. "Say," he asked, slyly, moving ^ off down the road, "'did you ever hear about the folly o' try- as in' to teach an old dov a npw in trick?"?Progressive Farmer. ac gh A large negress was a witness ou for the defense in an assault case, eit The lawyer for the prosecu- or lion tried to get the witness It tangled up in her testimony, and be it happened that she soon gave he tlim an opportunity. T1 "You say your name is Kliza wc [ones?" asked the attorney. Tt "Yas, suh," replied the witness, eit "And vour ace is fiftv-piaht?** aff ? - ? J lie pursued. on "No, suh," indignantly replied loi Vliss Jones, ' mah age is " mc "Hold on a moment," said the vi( lawyer, "didn.t you tell the court lot i few minutes ago you were eq fifty-eight years old?" po " 'Deed ah didn't." retorted the sir aegress. "If ah said fifty-eij?V|t fre an mus' o' been thinking pb sui mail bust measure." en overnment Closes Year With Surplus of $78,737,810 Washington closed its fiscal ?ar yesterday with total receipts $838,403,969 and total disburseents of $759,666,159, and excess $78,737,810 compared with a ;ficit of $59,437,560 for the yeai iding lune 30, last. Both the rnmp tov Onrl infnmnl ? uuu iniviuai icvciiuu ceipts in 1916 showed up fai >ove the estimates made by icretary McAdoo and swelled e balance. Income tax reiipts amounted to $124,867,430, impared with $79,828,675 lasl ;ar, an increase of about $15, 0,000 over the amount expectl by officials. Of the total $56, >9,941 came from corporations id $67,957,488 from individuals. The balance in the general nd at the close of the year was 136,879,590, including amounts the credit of disbursing offi:rs. The actual balance in the meral fund since 1908. In a statement analyzing the ;ures, Secretary McAdoo said rger internal revenue receints r the year have been due in a eat measure "to the unprece mted prosperity of the country id the vigorous enforcement of e internal revenue laws." Customs receipts for the year r. McAdoo said, amounted to 11,866,222.34 as against $209,8,107.43 the previous year, ex seding the estimate by more an $16,000,000. Ombardment Most Terrible Fireworks Display in His tory British Headquarters in France ily 1.?Via London.?The close the first day's offensive over e longest front the Entente Hies have attempted and the ost extensive action of the ar for the British, finds both e British and French consolidaig their gains. Word came back that the deruction by artillery of the first le trench was so complete that le British battalion occupied it !aL il ? * mi me toss 01 a single man. The Germans in their defence tactics in many instances ft the first line trench lightly ild and then shelled it when :cupied by the British but the itish carried on the fight to e second line. The Germans in large force ught fiercely north of the Ane. At Gommecourt and Beauont-Hamel there was a terrie, complication intensity of tion, with every method of struction?like Verdun, with e Germans as defenders. Vhat to Do for Prickiv Heat Mearly everv infant, as well adult, suffers from prickly heat summer. Prickly heat is an ute engorgement of sweat ands with obstruction at their tlet. This is caused by heat, her from too much clothing by the hot weather of summer, is a sure sign that the child has en kept too warm. Avoid avy clothing and flannels, te clothing should be light in sight and of loose texture, le application of cool water, her hv fnh Kilth r?r tnr?nnri nnr ?? ? ords relief. A sponge bath of e tablespoon of soda to a gali of water is helpfal. Ointrnts and salves are of little ser:e. Powders are preferred to ions. A powder made of ual parts of boracic acid and wdered oxide of zinc, if so deed, is splendid when dusted ely over the itcning, burning rface several times a day, ev/ hour if necessary.?Kxchaege Allies Take 10,000 Prisoners London, July 3.?All through the night the great British and French offensive which began Saturday morning in the Somme and Ancre sectors continued with intensity and there was no 1 diminution in the battle on Sunday. Both British and French j War Offices report a steady ad, vance at certain points, but . speak also of the formidable German resistance. Fricourt, an important town, ' three miles east of Albert, has fallen to the British arms, while , the French have taken Curlu, t which lies to the southeast. The fighting at the .Southern end of the British line, where it is in contact with the French, is of * the fiercest nature tremendous ; artillery actions preceding all the t - - - ? , lnianiry attacks. The French have taken 6,000 , prisoners, according to the latest j estimates, while the British, though reporting the capture of 3,500 later declared that the estimates were too low. Owing to the nature of the battle, it is not doubted that the casualties are very high. Notwithstanding the terriffic offensive against them in the Somme River region, the Germans have not ceased in their efforts around Verdun. They have bombarded several of the Verdun sectors and have launched infantry attacks against the French trenches. While Berlin declares that the French attacks against the famous Thiaumont work were repulsed by curtains , of fire the French War Office announces that this strategic position has been re captured by the French forces and is held by them. Get Off the Scrap Heap If you are forty and thinking of crawling on the scrap heap, i~?*: ? vi i> juu .iic icuuig me oia idea possess you, causing you to feel that the best of your life is spent, you are doing yourself the injustice of a lifetime. Unless you have been a "pig-like human," over fed and under-worked, and in other words, if you are not 'forty, stout,"?the best of life is ) et before you. Even the fat man at forty is not irreparable if he is still free from the onset of degenerative diseases, such as hardening of the arteries, heart diseases, Bright's disease, etc. He may never be able to lick Jess Willard or win an athletic championship for the simple reason that he has lived short on exercise and long on appetite, but by adopting a rational plan of living?proper. diet, exercise, rest, and freedom from alcoholics and other harmful indulgences?he may live yet twenty years, thirty or even to be twice his present age and keep in useful service To the man that is lorty who has made moderation in all things his rule, life has only well begun and fame is still pos sible. Someone gives the fol lowing example as proof that the best things in a man's life usually comes to him after the age of forty: "E. H. Ilarriman was hardly heard of before he was forty, and he began his great work, the reorganization of the Union Pacif ic, at fifty two. Cromwell never saw an arinv until lie was fortv three. Grant was a clerk in a store at thirty nine. Woodrow Wilson became president of Princeton at forty-six. Sir William Osier himself would never have been heard of if he had died at forty, while Gladstone did not introduce the first Home Rule bill until he had reached something like maturity at seventy seven."