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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

missioner Wafs0n stated yester-'
day that during the past month.
INSPECTORS from the department
have been most carefully check
ing up the sizes of packages of
meal and grits that the various
.millers have been shipping into
the markets of this State and the
investigation has revealed a sit
uation that has long been sus-
pected, but was not positively
know to exist.
The inspectors have weighed
up stock on hand in many por-
tons of the State. Shipments of
25-pound sacks have been found
to run short weight in almost
every sack, some of them show.
ing a shortage of from 1 IA
pounds to, in some instances.
three pounds. The differences
on the larger sizes have cores
ponded. In every instance the
goods have been tied up under
orders from the commissioner of
agriculture and the manufac
lures and shippers have been re.
quired to bear the expense of
having the packages resacked to
full weight before the goods
have been allowed to 90 to the
consumers and to refund to all
dealers the value of the goods
not delivered.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

Local News

DR.. ]. E. Thomas, of Clover,
5. c., will in few days locate
at Jefferson for the practice OF
Medicine.
Rev. B. F. McLendon, of Ben.
nettsville, will begin revival in
the Methodist church at Jeffer-
son next Sunday.
If you get a sample copy this
week, 1t is just an invitation to
become subscriber. You can
mail your remittance and we
will mail at our expense a nice
premium.
Maynard & Raley company of
Cheraw has been chartered, with
a capital of $4,000. Officers are
]. .. Raley, president, and ]. w.
Maynard secretary and treasurer.
DIR. R. L. McManus and Mr..
I. w. Gregory have bought
Mangum's drug store, and will
continue the business. A licens-
ed pharmacist will he employed.
Mr.. c. M. Gregory has been
appointed policeman and IS now
wearing the badge. He comes
here from Lancaster, where he
has had experience as a police
man.
Movements are on foot at
Marshville to build an oil mill
and enstali electric lights. Good
,for Marshville. We hope she
will get both, for we don't know
'ot town any where that needs
them more.
Mr.. ]. H. Whitmore will open
va picture gallery in Mrs. Red
fearn's wood building on Nc
Gregor street in a few days. Hell
'ls an experienced photographer.
See his advertisement in another
column.
! Mr.. Leroy McColl has signed
aptrsit VITA theh hGbar1Gttel
2> 6nsu =
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

For Sale-or Rent. A good 5 room
dwelling in western part of town, two
lots, good barn and good we'll of water.
See R. F. Smith.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03
Personals

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Anderson,
OF Cheraw. spent Saturday and
Sunday with the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Rutledge.
Mrs. Sarah B. Rivers, of near
Chesterfield, is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. ]. M. Sullivan.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Laney visit
ed in Cheraw and Chesterfield
last week.
Mr.. H.V. Mungo, is in the
northern markets buying goods
for Mungo Bros.
Mr.. ]. w. Carpenter and fam
lily and Mrs. G. A. Manguua26
Charlotte, are spending
week with relatives here.
Mrs. H. v. Mungo and child
rem are spending a few days
with relatives in Monroe.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

For Rent, 3-horse farm miles north of
Pageland. Will furnish pair of good
mules or will sell and rent for sure rent.
w. B. Mangm. 24-2pd
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

Sash&doors; We have added to our
line sash and doors, will be glad to serve
you. Pageland Hardware Co.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

"anted-Customers for genuine Maine
grown "Red Bliss" seed Irish potatoes.
D. E. Clark & Co The quality cash
store.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

= Wood-When you want wood of anv
klnd see or call. r. F. Smith.
Pure-Hog Lard at, D. f. Clark&Co
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

'Barrel and keg molasses, the very
best. S II Laney.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

"anted--.Fresh milk COW, will, Sc g
ohd or third calf. r. H. Garland.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

For Sale-Cotton seed hulls delivered
In quantities from 100 to 1000 pounds
af 60c per hundred. Phone Cash Gro.
.eery Store. Watt Gregory.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

? is Strictly honest and is very
energetic. He will be a valua-
bic addition to the sales force of
this popular firm.
Mr.. Braughton Sellers was
shot in the abdomen and breast
last "Wednesday while out hunt
ing about mile from his home
near Mt. Croghan. He was
standing upon a stack of lumber
with his gun standing by him
when the gun slipped through
a crack, the hammer striking
the lumber with enough force to
discharge the gun. The load OF
shot took effect in the abdomen
and glanced upward just over
the heart. making long flesh
wound, very painful put not Sc.
rious' He is getting along nice
ly.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

Eight-cents pound for hens, at
D. f. Clark&Co.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

Cash is what we pay ior eggs at the
rate of 1Sc per dozen. D.E. Clark & Co
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03

AWiil soon be in position to do all
classes and grades of picture work. Will
lDe located over Pastime theatre. Will
solicit your patronage, also will handle
all grades of frames. j.. H. Whtmore
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-03-03
BUSINESS LOCALS

wanted-to buy 1Oe acres of good lev
-ei sandy land with improvements. Sale
pest cash price. B. G. Ogburn, Page
land, S. L.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
THE Externally FROZEN TOONDRAS
"A HOMOGENEOUS PURGATORY.


The toondra is eternally frozen. For three
months in the summer the surface snow melts,
two or three feet of the outer skin thaws, and
the featureless sea of snow is transformed
into dull olive expanse OF lichen and moss
Hecked here and there with stunted plant
rnonotony OF monotonies to behold and purga-
tory of purgatories to traverse, for the bog Is
all but impossible and mosquitoes hover IN
dense swarms around every stirring creature
Even the reindeer fee it till the August frosts
usher in the winter.
This toondra is one vast sepulchre OF the
mammoth.
Swollen by the food water Of mild sum-.
mers, the creeks and rivers of the northward
fitting top of Asia spill their swirling torrents
seaward, scooping out acre upon acre OF bog
bank at every bend in their course And out
with the glacial mud and freshly thawed pre-
historic silt com. the entombed mammoths,
from their age-old cold storage. Actual water
contact does not account though for all the
exposures. Cliffs, river bluffs facing south,
thaw and crumble few inches every sum-
mer. Nearer and nearer the surface comes
the imprisoned monster.
FROM 1870 TO 1e36-THE BIRTH OF
FROZEN MAMMOTH.
One warm day in August, 1870, down top
pies thawed clod or two. Just the tip OF
tusk appears Eighteen hundred and seventy
one and 1872 have cold, sleety summers. Even
the mild run OF summers from 1873 till 1879
= not bring down more than a mere trickle
of SOIL In 1880 quite little landslide denudes
the bluff Now eight inches OF tusk appear
In 1887 the tip of the second tusk peeps out
Ey 1902 out just couple OF feet OF tusk BY
1880, perhaps, the brute appears as basso-
relieve. Next year a wolf-pack chances that
way. rips of and tramples into the mud some
bushels of the long. shaggy hair on his legs
and nibbles them. In 1885 polar bear sam
pies him, and in rending his plant limbs
loosens the soil so much that in 1896 ne has
become an alto-relievo on the face OF his ciih.
Three or four years later he topples right
out. with a great thud and rattle OF casead-
ing pebbles-and, very properly. nearly seares
the life out OF the little hat-faced yellow man
who wanders that way few days later.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13

title. some one toio me the poor
things were let off having to work down in
those horrid damp mines some years ago
but knew there was a catch in it some
where"
So it may be well to state at the outset that
the feckess convicts are not impressed into
this oneTous pastime. Moreover, hunting the
mammoth in Siberia is no longer as dangerous
an occupation as it once was, the last specimen
Of Elephas primigenius having died some
arrss-if not hundreds-of centuries ago. But
II still presents good many more hazards, IN
ccnveniences and perils than, well, golf or
auek-shooting, for instance and the fact that
after many thousands Of miles journey
through the steppes and forests and swamps
Of Siberia you may eventually find your quarry
W the Arctic toondra of the eternally ice
bound North, standing on his feet-no shriv-
tiled, rnisshapen carcass. but a huge, hairy
elephant, IN precisely as good condition as on
the day of his sudden refrigeration in pre-
historic times, is enough to lend a certain
amount OF vivid interest to the foray.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
PREHISTORIC UPHEAvALS WROUGH'
EXTINCTION OF MAMMOTH.

The consensus OF scientific opinion to-day
holds that an immense Asiatic Mediterranean
Seattle Hyrcanean Ocean of pre-Roman
tradition-once extended from the Black Sea
up through Turkestan and Siberia to the Gulf
OF Obi. on the Arctic Ocean. and that ter
rible cataolysm OF nature elevated its bed,
tore asunder surrounding hills and mountain
chains, and, in the course Of few centuries
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13

These Samoyedes, cousins OF our Esqulmau'
don't trust the mammoth Sophisticated
enough by the promise of gold to summon up
courage sometimes to approach and saw OH
his tusks, they live in fear and trembling OF
a day of reckoning. A substantial percentage
of their gains from the sale of the tusks goes
to the Shaman the witch doctor, for high
grade incantations, petitions and sacrifices TO
the Burkans who live on high.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
THE LITTLE SAMOYEDE KNOWS 1T is
A GIANT BURROWING RAT.

It is no use assuring Samoyede that the
mammoth is very dead. Any Samoyede in
his right senses knows that the mammoth is
giant burrowing rat, who may pop up some
o..rht right under your tent and devour the
family as preliminary hors d'ruvres to
real meal, but, whenever a mammoth comes
tunnelling to the surface by day and sees the
sun. he promptly dies. Have not Samoyedes
bv the score seen mammoths stricken dead IN
the very act of emerging from the earth!
What further proof is needed, they ask.
In Northeast Siberia, where earthquakes
occur. they are attributed by the natives to
the not unnatural tremors that would be
caused by herd of these gigantic rats tun-
Melting at high speed near the surface OF the
earth.
Many and ingenious are the theories for
the mammoth's disappearance from Siberia;
each authority is quite convincing, too, until
YOU come within earshot of the still small
voice Of yet another scrap OF data which
promptly demolishes his dicturn.
1t seems pretty certain, however, that ST.
IBERIA was warmer il the mammoth's early
DAYS than either toward the end of his era or
to-day The plant and tree remains in the
Verkhoyanks Mountains, and other high
ground in the toondra belt almost devoid OF
vegetable life to-day, indicate that.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13

portions of bones and, very occasionally,
tusk or two.
The Siberian mammoth ranged pretty freely
over the Northern Hemisphere in the Pleisto-
Gene Age; that is to say, the era Just before
the Glacial Period, during the Glacial Period
and shortly after it. He died out quite re-
Gently, from 10000 to 10000 years ago. In
America he wandered between Washington
D. c.. and Alaska-and Alaska in those days
was joined to Siberia by bridge OF solid land
where the Boring Strait gashes apart the
Old and New worlds to-day. AL Europe was
his stamping ground In those days ne could
walk over there from New York, via Green-
land, Iceland and Great Britain, all OF which
were an unbroken stretch Of land, as were the
North Sea and the Strait OF Dover. Inc
fishermen trawlIg the bottom OF the Nortn
Sea bring up his teeth by the thousand
FELLOW CREATURES THAT ENLIV-
ENED ANCIENT DAYS.
Apart from the wooly rhinoceros and GER
tain huskier ancestors OF modern beasts-tne
cave bear cave lion, cave hyena, large De-
fanged sloth and a few others-the ieho"
creatures OF the mammoth were all beasts
and birds familiar to the modern naturalist
Along with one OF his skulls found IN the
sandy shore of Silver Lake. IN the oregon
Desert, by Sternburg were bones OF nerohs
and coots swan and geese and duck, grouse
and eagle and great horned owl, oiackoHu
and raven, famingo. llama, horse and dog
otter and beaver, and mice
Ubiquitous as was prirnigenius in northern
attitudes. his headquarters, his great stamp
ing ground. was the north OF Siberia, and II is
in Siberia that he has been sought by IVORY
hunters for centuries beyond number
Siberia is, nowadays, and has been ior some
tens Of thousands of years, region OF three
distinct kinds of land, stretching IN three
parallel broad belts from Russia to the Pa
ci6c. In the south is a belt OF rich black
earth steppe. the finest agricultural prairie
land two or three hundred miles broad.
North lies a belt OF impossible swamp and
forest four or FIVE hundred miles broad Then
the arctic cold tightens its grip and trees OWN
die into starveling saplings, and starveiing
eaplines dwarf down to scaroer and scarcer
matches of knee high willow and stunted
larch. Soon there is nothing but naked,
moss-elsd bog fading in horizoniess sweeps to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
ON THE TRAIL OF THE SIBERIAN
MAMMOTH, LAST OF HIS RACE.

However, we are not going to consider here
all the tribe of mongrel and disputed mann
mothdom.
Let il be understood that our term man,
moth applies 10 the Siberian or Hairy Nam
moth, Elephls primigenius. probably last of
his race and the only mammoth found nova
days in the flesh. All that remains OF the
other mammoths is rare finds OF bones and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
TERRIFIC FANCIES THAT ASSAIL
LOTS OF FOLKS.

The haziest Of ideas are in circulation re-
garding the mammoth, his era, size. habits,
food and general behavior Lots of folks think
he was as big as a church, small church.
perhaps but a church for all that. Lots OF
folks think that he lived contemporaneousiy
with the enormously long-necked beasts with
Latin and Greek names 10 match; the giant
sloth, which ate some forest trees and drank
pond when he needed tween meal snack;
the terribly-teethed flying lizards with
thirty-foot wing spread, and similar night
mares Of pre-Adamite days. Lots Of folks
only decade ago were fooled by realistic
fiction story in a New York magazine into
deluging the wise men Of the Smithsonian with
requests 10 furnish them with assurances that
the wild and woolly mammoths of Alaska
would not one OF these days, decide to stroll
south and make nuisance Of themselves.
LOIS of folks imagine the mammoth passed
the bulk of his time charging, with lowered
head and levelleG tusks, at prehistoric men
and beasts, with z view to Staying and eat
ing them. Lots Of follss-but why prolong
the category? With the final denial that the
moth was the same as the ulastodon or
zoe nas,odon as the mammoth, let US see this
rear as he really was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13

drained it all dry. The consequent effect on
the temperature would have changed the CHI
mate of Asia and lowered its temperature con-
siderably.
This terrible period of earthquake and vol
canic eruption of sea bed turning to hill and
hill to lake, would almost certainly have wiped
ont countless herds of mammoth And the
RAPIDLY intensifying cold would have COM
pleted the work. This seems to me TO be the
most likely way the mammoth became ex-
tinct. in Siberia, at all events.
1t is held in some quarters that man hunt
ed him 10 extinction. But the fact that scarce
" human bone and never refrigerated
human corpse is found near the myriads OF
mammoth bones and quantities OF retriger-
sted mammoth corpses does not point TO men
having been plentiful enough 10 do him much
harm, though in at least one spot in Russia
(near Mini Novgorod), and on the bank OF
the OBJ. near Tomsk, human and mammoth
bones have certainly been found together.
Many finds of contiguous human and man.
moth bones have been made in Belgium,
France and England, but there is not single
instance in North America to indicate even
that man and mammoth lived spontaneously.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
OF ALTOGETHER THE MOST EN-
GAGING PICTURE

The Siberian mammoth was one OF the
attest Of many forms Of prehistoric elephant.
He stood about twelve or thirteen feet high
at the shoulder, full grown, but his thick coat
Of long. coarse brown hair gave him some
more inches and a considerably stouter
and more formidable appearance. NAKED
elose-shsyen bear would not look much more
renaeing, remember, than farmyard hog;
realizing this, you can see how Elephas Primi-
genius's long. shaggy coat launched him fairly
well on the road 10 being mighty unpleas-
sat-looking beast TO encounter.
His ears were much smaller than those OF
a modern elephant. His hind feet were four,
not i've, toed. His tail was short. His eye
was small. Next his skin, beneath the hair,
was coat OF soft reddish brown wool. In
general build he sloped rather more rapidly
@atern than does the modern elephant.
The most prominent and awe-inspiring part
OF his makeup. however. was the pair OF huge
'usks that jut'ed from his jaws. They were
spiral, curling up and pointing back after de-
scnotng almost complete circle. In many
instances they did actually make a circle in
some instances they made circle and came
curling back in the FIRST segment of a second
afcis. In few adult cases, and in many
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13

the distant shores of the Arctic Ocean-the
Siberian toondra.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
b. BASSETT DIGBY.

BY BASSElI DlGbl.
SUPPOSE they make the convicts do
80 itw exclaimed a charming young
lady who caught a glimpse OF this
h
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13
PROCRASTINATION WAS FATAL IN
THOSE DAYS, TOO.

Professor Geikie's theory was that man.
moths persisted one by one, by sinking into
shrunken mudholes in the toondrs, pitfalls
that were concealed by a tangle OF snow-cov-
cred Hchen and moss. This undoubtedly was
the death Of many individuals, but II was
hardly enough Of menace to wipe out the
species. Another apparently serious) au-
thority assumes that the mammoth went
through thin spots in the early fall ice, herd
at time, till at last there were no more.
Professor Bell ingeniously suggests that the
mammoth's incapacity 10 overcome the iner-
tia of a long established habit led TO his
downfall In other words, having got, by
centuries of inherited instinct, quite satisfied
with staying till late fall, on the far northern
toondra, prirnigenius warn't goin' to hurry
hisself for no glacial period or draining OF the
Hyrocanean Ocean or nuthin', goshdurn him il
he would! On and on crept the cold, more
and more intense. Year after year more and
more herds stayed north later in the season
than was wise and, having their food cut of
by premature frosts and heavy snowfalls per-
ished of starvation before they could get
down south to the forest zone, till at last all
were dead.
q And that theory can be demolished by any
one of four replies.
No. The only way to account for the man.
moths disappearance from Siberia is to as
sumo that the joint agency of the series OF
earthquakes, volcanic eruptons and disturb
ances OF the earths crust, and the ensuing
intensihcation OF cold did it. Almost stimuli
taneously--at the close of the Paleolithie Age
there were extraordinary geological eonvui-
sions in British India. in the Mississippi Val
ley, in Montana, Idaho and Colorado, in the
American and Canadian Rockies and in
Alaska These latter births. deaths and Jug
glings of mountains may have been one Of the
most significant agencies in wiping out the
Siberian mammoth in North America.
(The next article deals wAh the experiences OF men
who have seen the Siberian mammoth IN the cssA1
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-06-17
glntOmo6iInnfoIf

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befonnten Sportsmam. auf scr
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-06-17
5leiie in ser g96ldlefiise.

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5n Scr gSdi6cfiite cincs 9rIl.
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et fein @eIo bcioB, 70 qob er einem
gorter feline Eoi@enubr. oomit oieier
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-06-17
Stuats6aut in @larine, Sng seidluI-
len.

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