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\Va\ier Uodgers mat 18 THt PAGEILAND JOURNAL ? -V ' Vol. 8 NO. 6 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1917 $1.00 per year I 1 ' 1 What The Kaiser Is Guilty Of. From a lengthy article in the Charlotte News about the sins of the Kaiser the following is clipped: He is charged with the crime of Bulgarious Vandalism. Innocent an unoffending Belgium whom he had bound himself to respect and honor by solemn pledge and sacred treaty, he has wrecked and laid waste. Productive France his Satanic imps have overrun and made into a barren place. Their scenes of desolation is the open sore of the world, the great negation in Germany's claim upon civilization. The lands of these peace i loving and defenseless people l ho hoc ritinorl thoir fruit trooc ?iv &JUU 1 uiuvvai iiivu null 11 WO and vineyards his axe and saw have felled; their factories have been dismantled; their banks have been rifled; their posses sions have been stolen; their cities have been shredded by shrapnel; their homes have been burned; their cathedrals have been splintered; their sacred temples have been blighted by his Gehenna's blast. Stripping them of every earthly pride which was theirs he has poison ed their wells and killed their cattle, compelling them then to march in chains behind the German lines there to toil in misery and in pain under the whip of his imperious master; old men and aged women he has forced to grind in the fields without pay and without provisions that his armies might enjov the luxuries produced by their emaciated hands. The awful crime of burglary and vandalism and slavery is laid against this mighty monarch of Europe. m.iv to ciiui^cu wiiii nit: wiliiif of Moral Degenracy. Omitted from the bill of particulars in this count must be an enumeration of the lilthy crimes which he has not only countenanced but commanded. Common de cency forbids the listing of the atrocities committed against the people of France and Belgium, beastality that would not have been counted iespectable by the savage masters of old, the un nameable atrocities against wo men and children, hideous out rages against those who were not even given the selection of death in preference: the maim ing of maidens that their slashes and mutilations might he as a sign to the soldiers that followed in their turn that they were made loathsome and unapproachable; to nailing of little babes to the walls of their homes while the lecherous legions laughed and taunted the plaints of their parents; unlisted and nameless other perversities practiced upon those who fell defenseless before the prey of German armies?crimes against womanhood and childhood at which we blush even to think. He must answer to the charge of moral decenprarv vit*? nn.i so revolting that ages can fur nish for him no ablution. He is charged?and this, per haps worse than all of these bar barities against humanity?with the high crime of Religious Prostition. His malevolenle is not satisfied with having spent itselt with the commission of everv crime that mn Kn !" petrated by flesh upon flesh and by blood upon blood. In his insanity, he has the daring to find justification for all of this namelessness in the "good old German god" which is stamped on his coins and which is deified as standing with a weapon in his hand, ready to strike without mercy, to cut asunder every cause of humanity, to shatter every reliRipys that to Buford Lady Carriad Corn on ) Head and Child on Arm. Monroe Enquirer Mr. nnd Mrs. Moses Walters, F of Buford township, have been f married sixty six vears. Mr. Walters is ninety-one years old J and Mrs. Walters is eightv-two. 1 For them the sands of life have * nearlv run out. Mr. Walters * had a stroke of paralysis a few t davs ago and about ten days J ago Mrs. Walters fell and broke 5 a hip. The indications are that * these two old people will come ^ to their journey's end about the same time and at a day not far y distant. These two old people 1 are parents of seventeen daugh- * ters and one son. The son is 1 Mr. IV". J. Walters, of Monroe. 1 You who think that the war 1 now on has brought hardship to 1 you read this statement of facts 5 about Mrs. Walters: Her hus- ' band joined the Confederate J army in 1862 and left his wife < I with no means of support. I iUa! i i ucif vvcic iii niiii nine uiree children to feed and care for. * Mrs. Walters went to work. * Other women called on the ' Government for aid She did 1 not. She hired a mule, rented ' some land, plowed, planted and cultivated it and gathered the i crops. Every year during the 1 war she made a good crop and when her husband returned in the spring of 1865 he found more at home to live upon than i was there when he left. There was plenty of corn in the crib, meat in the smokehouse, a number of fat chickens in the yard, and a crop had been started by the hands of the faithful wife. Mrs. Walters carried corn to mill three miles from her home. - She ptit the cofn nr a bag, put it on her head, took her baby on one arm and with her free hand led the child next to the baby, while the oldest trudged at her heels. It was a hard life, but Mrs. Walters lived it cheerfully and bravely and it is her proud boast that not once did she go to a Government commissary and ask for aid. Russians Will Move to Moscow. Petrograd, Oct. 19.?The government has definitely determined to move to Moscow in the very near future. The newspapers publish an J official announcement that the evacuation of the fortified port J of Keval on the Baltic at the en- , trance to the Gulf of Finland. ' has begun. The schools at Reval have(t been closed. The inhabitants of the city are being sent to the ( interioi of Russia. Announcement that the gov- ' ernment will move to Moscow i was made today by M. Kishkin, j minister of public welfare. , "Though a definite date has , not been set, it will be in the ' very near future," said M. Kish i kin in announcing the govern- ? merit's intention to move, in an j interview in the Bourse Gazette, j "No one is now permitted to # go to Moscow e<cept on govern j, ment business," he continued. The government is to occupy one of the buildings in the t Kremlin, the ancient capital. The preliminary parliament v will convene in Petrograd on * Saturday and move to Moscow _ later. s e the impudence to thrust its way s in front of the German concep tion of genius. In blasphemy which can not be uttered he .v has called to his partnership l] that Supreme Power who has n written. His image and super 0 scription upon the face of every unoffending man, every undefil ed woman and every innocent a babe whom he has murdered and outraged beyond picturing tl fou Are The Man, Not Your E Neighbor. "Waste nothing! Save, scrimp, >incb, for the common good!" leaning me? Why me? o You rich man, who earns a si ot of money, (fairly or not>- it n s hard lines that vou may not d lo with it as you please now; ii sn't it? You don't like to be p old how little you ought to eat, i ind how much you ought to i ;ave, when you can "aiford" to s lave what you want when you ri want it. Do you? F But don't you see, Sir, this e war's an upsetting thing. Every- 1 hing's changed. Tiiis isn't the & >a?ne world we were living in t hree years ago. We have s walked into a new problem. Money has lost its comparative c value for a bit. On crude neces 1 sities hang the hopes ot nations; t aeef, flour, gasolene stuff of Life 11 md Victory are growing ;-carc f 2r all the time. You may be 'rich" but you've no more right s In Kii onrolAcn ^ f 1 J* LV uv taikicaa Ul I11C WU1IU S J food than has your poorest t slerk. You and he are equally 5 dependent on the issues if this war. You aie in the sane life- j boat, and rations are scarce. r You must save the puil to- 1 gether. The "bit" you are call s ed to do for your country .nay > be a bit of self-denial. Well, the i brave boys are fighting for \ ou and yours at the front. You've t got to hoard up the supplies at i home to keep them strong and s winning. We've got to send 3 life to our suffering Allies, i'hc i world is starving, do you see? i No matter how swell a chef < vou have, he must not load your table with goodies. It isn't j decent. Save, scrimp, pinch for the common larder- Use y*^*^ surplus to buy Li jerty Bonds. "No more joy riding! Save the gasolene!" Meaning mo? 1 Why me? 1 You Poor Man, who saved 1 and scrimped and pinched to 1 buy a motor-car for self and family. It's hard lines that you 5 can't do as you please with it now; isn't it? What's been the use of respectable thrift anyhow, if you can't have the fun of it now? Fun! Don't you see, Man? We're up against it hard. It's ^ life itself we have to worrv about; not mere comforts or luxuries. Can't vou do without a few iov-rirles wh^?n , , '"V. lias lost all joy? The supply ol I gasolene is millions of galions I short lor the demands of aero- c planes, ambulances, trucks, \ tanks and countless machines 1 that are fighting your cause in \1 this war. There is no gasolene I it all, they say, to be had for f lew cars in ,England. Old cars j ire limited to about seven gal- 1 ons a month. What would F lappen to self and familv if our P irmy should run seriously short >f petrol? This may be if \] \mericans keep on with extrav- 11 igant joy-riding. Death riding, 11 t will be every gallon of gaso 11 ene counts. Save it, for Vic c ory! Put the cash you are 15 ;oing to spend into Liberty * kinds. You'll be glad later on. ..o?a *--- - - " ii v uwu iu iiiinK inai ^ here was plenty enough of i: iverything in the good old vorld, if you had the price. >Jow we know better. Price is ! ? lot everything when there isn't tuff to buy. We've got to save l' iverything and finance the j ^ tate. n If you are not careful with 1 ? vhat von have, America may j tl ie lost. You can t he ;elfish tl iow. Meaning vou, every one \\ ?f us!?A. F. Brown. I "Some ol these cabaret dances! re very graceful." "Others are disgraceful, and here you are," o! Eig Fire at Chesterfield Destroys Three Stores and One Dwelling The largest fire in the history f Chesterfield destroyed three tores and one dwelling on lain street about midnight Sunav night. The fire originated i the Chesterfield Drug Com-i any, and spread to the adioin-1 n g buildings. Teal-Jones Co, B. C? Moore's furniture tore and Miss Sallie Chapman's esidence were destroyed. Nothing was saved from the trug store, and very little from Teal Jones Company and B. C. doore's store. Most ot the conents of the dwelling were aved. The two brick store rooms >ccupied by the drug store and Teal Jones Company belonged 0 Messrs. J. T. Fundeiburk and . P. Mangum, and were insured or $1000 each. Teal Jones Company carried 1 large stock, estimated, the ournal is told, ten to twelve housand dollars. There was >7,87") insurance. The Chesterfield Drug Com)an\ carried $6,500 insurance, rhe Journal has been unable to earn the estimated value of the itock. Dr. Perry's instruments -vere in this store, and he carled some insurance. B. C. Moore's stock of furni ure was a complete loss as here was no insurance on ?tock nor building. Mr. C. M. Funderburk carried about $300 worth of groceries in this buildng, and there was no iniuranc. Miss Sallie Chapman carried $1250 insurance on her dwelling. Wind Your Busiitot r "Aw, I've got my own busiicss to do," was the reply given ne the other day in a smallish ip-state town by the local bill poster. "Are you an American citizen?" I asked him. "Yes," said he. "Pro German?" "No." "Believe in our Government?" "Best in the worid." "Want 10 see our soldier boys vin?" "Sure." "Want to help them win?" "You bet." "Then put up these posters," fired at him, "and put them up ?. d. q., for the money which :omes from the sale of these >onds is used to equip for fightng the bo\syou and all your own folk want to see win. Such is the spirit one meets >ften in the country 'round? ndifference, strange ignorance n a land of schools and newscapers, until the native sense of practicality is touched. Must our iathers and sons and trothers come back to us bleed ng or dead before we can be lore generally awakened to an inderstanding that this war of ivilization against the barba>m of the Germans is our war? liat it is lor our safety, our reedom that our boys have one to fight a safety we have njoyed these last three years in , I *1-- * " it auciici ui nit* ureal r>nglisti eet and the valor and strength f the French and British armies. That is why you must support le Government and buv these onds; that is w hy the Govern lent's business, is the business, | f every man and woman wor iv to enjoy the blessings of lis great Republic.?Casper /tiilney of the Vigilantes. Wife?You know, Henry, I >eak as I think. Husband?Yes, my love; only ftener, American Transport Sunk With Seventy Lives Lost. Washington, Oct. 19.?The American army transport Antilles, homeward bound under convoy, was torpedoed and sunk by a Cerman submarine in the war zone on Wednesday. About 70 then are missing and probably lost. The army and navy officers aboard and the ship's master were among the 167 survivors. The missing are members of the crew, three civilian engi neers, some enlisted men ot the navy and 16 of 33 soldiers returning home for various rea sons. Neither the submarine nor the torpedo was seen and the transport, hit squarely amid ships, sank in five minutesThis tragedy of the sea, the first in which an American ship engaged in war duty has been lr^Ct tC tVio fire* rvf VHI) J IUV uioi U1 IIS lllil^UllUUU to bling home to the people of the United States the rigors of the war in which they have engaged against Germany. It carries the largest casualty list of the war so far of American lives and marks the first success of German submarine attacks on American transports. That the loss of life was not greater is due to the safeguards with which the navy has sur rounded the transport service and the quick rescue work of the convoying warships. Work of Exemption Board The county exemption board of Chesterfield county met in the court house last Wednesday with the following result: Exempted Martin lackson, Henry McManus, Thos.'R. Johnson, David Brown, Samuel M. Webb, Ezekiel Scott, Leonard E. Hurst, Will Chapman, Thos. Horn, R Boyd Eubanks, O. Graham Pressley, Livon Pegues, Lawrence Lewis, J. Oscar Hurst. Ben C. Jackson. W. Augustus Jordan, to Dec. 1st. Not Exempted Gillium M. Tiller, Howard Blakeney, Jessie J. Sutton, Lem uel Hillian, Walker Davis, James Patterson. Correction: Lewis Hurst, last week in exemption list, should have been Lewis Hunt. The following (colored) vvill be sent to Camp lackson about Oci. 27: James I. Lane, Julius Johnson, Robt. Mosely, Whiteford Threatt Isom Rogers, Abraham Powe, John Wilson, Son Flowers, Wil liam Ingram, David J. Johnson, John Hough, Eddie Crawford, Boston A. Williams, Lemboston Seegirs, John Jefferson, Tom Grooms. gnnrnimiHiiiiiiini I Stables 0] u 1 have opened up n E3 have a few fresh mules. IS see me. 1 am omno on H and expect to select soi H mares. W See me before you buy I R. F.? H ^inmiiiinniwwu1 i ** To Camp Wearing a Dress. Henry lack son Morgan, the l5niou county citizen who has gained considerable notoriety by wearing a dress instead of "britches" was called to go to Camp Jackson today but he is physically unable to go and has been confined to his bed and under treatment of. a physician for several davs says the Monroe Enquirer. He reported i 1 i??i .?i? ?i iiic i?j^ai uuaiu >esieiuay auu fell in line at roll call. Burglar?Let's go to tie seashore an' rob tie guests at a summer hotel. His Pal?Aw, what's tie use? Let's wait till September an' rob de proprietor. Doctor's Wife?I want to get a typewriter as a surprise for my husnantl. Salesman?Any particular make? Doctor's Wife?Well, I overheard Dr. Bachelor tell my husband that his typewriter was a "Little Peach." Have you that make? niimniiiiiixniiiing )cn Again | \y stables again, and now H If vou want a good mule, H the market in a few days H ne good mules and brood W or exchange. EJ h Smith I mmmmmmimS The Chesterfield County Ft r Noyember 7, 8, 9, 10, 1917 Rules?Exhibits will be admitted to the Fair without charge for entry but thev mu t be entered with the superintendents of the respective departments before 5:00 P. M. November 6th, as exhibits will not be received after the Fair is opened. All exhibitors must be risidents of Chesterfield County. The Community Fair exhibits and all general display exhibits must each be a separate entry, and articles comprising these ex hibits cannot be entered for other prizes. Buggies will not be allowed inside the Fair Frounds except while the driving contests are on. Owing to the lack of parking space automobiles will not be permitted inside the Fair Orniinit<? All premiums will be paid in cash by the treasurer within thirty days after the close of the Fair. Blue Ribbon winners are the only ones who will receive cash premiums except where cash premiums are specified for second, third or fourth prizes. Blue Ribbon indicates first prize: Red Ribbon indirales second prize; Yellow Ribbon indicates third prize; White Ribbon fourth prize. The one judge system will be followed and from their award there is no appeal. As far as is possible separate judges will be secured from Clemson and Winthrop Colleges.