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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-01-08
CHAPTER Xxx.
The BEGINNING.

me Beginning.
BY the light of single candle Pedro
was packing a little knapsack with
the meager belongings that his so
journ in the old studio had brought
together. He went about the task
with reluctance, but with the weary
resignation of those who receive an
unalterable decree from fate, and
recognize it as such.
One by one his little personal things
were tucked away in the ancient trav-
eler's kit-a book or two, some linen,
brushes, a gay necktie, and a minia-
ture plaster cast of Leigh's sleeping
! bear"
When these had been put in, and
still a little room remained, he hest
tated a moment, and then, going to
the heap of sketches and small can
vases with which the rack was filled,
deliberated among them for while;
taking up first this one and then that,
with loving hands, and throwing each
in turn back upon the shelf from
whence 1t came. Finally sorrowful
shake Of the head dismissed them all.
"Of what use to take any?" said
Pedro aloud. But nevertheless, he
stood brooding over them for quite a
time.
BY the fire lay Mr.. Jones, blinking
alphabetically. With a sigh Pedro
turned at last from these children Of
his mind. and set about arranging the
two rooms-the studio and bedroom
-exacts; as he had found them.
In the first place there were the pic
tures-his pictures! From the big
easel the Madonna Lady" smiled
wanly upon her young creator
beautiful, crude, unfinished thing, its
possibilities beckoning enticingly
from behind the haze of its incom-
pleteness. Then there were the 9th
ers. Significantly Pedro glanced from
them in the direction of the fireplace,
and heaved another sigh. No! that
was impossible; infanticide! 1t could
not be done! Yet, who would care for
| them. Leigh? Perhaps. Pill
ing them high, and topping them with
the ever-smiling portrait Of Iris, he
stacked them neatly, near the door,
and writing For A. l.. Leigh" on a
folded bit of paper, left this message
atop the heap.
Next, he restored the furniture to its
original arrangement as nearly as he
could remember 1t, and bringing forth
Hills canvases from the cubby In
which most of them had been Nrepos-
ing, set them around, even as he had
found them, down to putting the I'M
finished portrait of the banker upon
the throne from which the Madonna
had just been taken. When this was
done, the studio took on such an un-
familiar atmosphere that lump arose
in Pedro's throat. II seemed such n
concrete representation Of how COM
pletely his claim here had ended!
With apparent irreverence he sud
denly went over and rnelt beside the
bear, taking the creatures head be-
tween his hands. while tears started
to his eyes.
Poor fellow! Poor Mr.. Jones!"
said Pedro huskily, and then. having
patted Mr.. Jones upon the nose sew
eral times, arose slightly comforted.
The bedroom came next In order.
and from press and bureau Hills cloth
ing, which had been laid away with
so much care, was hauled out and
hung In its ascustome< place. each
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AVision Of the
GloriGed
b. REV. l. w. COSNElL
Assssss 70 ths Dean. Moody Bill I,ss,u,e
Ckiraee

TExT-His servants shall serve him:
and they shall see his face: and his name
shall be In their foreheads.-Rsv2 2:3. 4.
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The Bible tells little of tho inter-
mediate state. The early Christians
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-21
In This Country, in Obedience to the Pope's Order,
MAKE AMERICA CATHOLICw

medical doctors to Persia, recently: the
Presbyterian church did it.
1t is not the Pope's bunch of secret societies
that squanders twenty million dollars a year
on the princely foreign missionary.
No, indeed The Popes sly politicians
and secret societies spend their millions in
America; perfecting their secret organza-
tons; laying in guns and ammunition buy
ing control of papers and magazines; bribing
librarians to destroy anti-Romanist books in
public libraries; financing candidates for Of
fee; coIonizing groups Of foreign Catholics;
raking money out of public treasures to sup
port orphanages, and then placing all the or
phana in Catholic homes.
The Pope isn't belly-aching over Korea.
The priests are not demanding Catholic
money for the sending Of physicians, sur
geons, dentists, trained nurses and so forth,
to China.
The Pope and his oath bound American
subjects are working day and night, spending
money like water, to "Nahe America Catho-
ic."
They don't care two straws about Korea
They know very we'll that Christianity
never has made an appreciable impression on
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bankers, the bankers will abuse their powers
over the farmers. That's human nature
The Democratic Party went into full con-
troll of every branch of the government, on
the express promise to provide for the
farmers an independent supply of loanable
money.
That promise must be kept. Those lead
ers Of the farmers who consent to accept
anything ezSe-on the deceptive plea that
half loaf is better than no broadway be
honest, but they are placing themselves and
their people in the hands of the enemy.
No warehouse plan will be equal to even
half loaf.
And if the farmers are msled into ac-
cepting warehouse plan, with system of
state loans they will soon discover that they
have merely exchanged one form of finan-
cial vassallage for another.
Serfs of the national banks, they will fas-
ten their own letters, for generations to
come
The Regional Bank system is nothing
more than legalized Money Trust.
The only way to keep it within bounds, is
to give it competition.
The only way to give it competition, is to
establish another system of governmental
loans.
This ought to be plain enough to a 10 year
old boy.
AS long as the National banks enjoy
monopoly of governmental loans, there can
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-21
A Last Effort TO Keep the Farmer Out OF Trap

4 Ii the leading nations of the world-ours
excepted-glve especial encouragement to
agriculture.
Ours is the only country where the farmer
is overburdened with taxes, and made the
victim of class-legislation.
In every European land, the farmer has a
system of credits, created by the government,
rendering the farmer independent of the
banker and the private usurer.
According to the present Comptroller of
the United States Treasury, the national
banks have been charging the farmers as
high as 100 per cent. interest.
Comptroller Williams says that this is
shame, but he offers no remedy.
Treasurer McAdoo says much the same
thing, and tells us that the national bankers
should let the farmers have loans at 6 per
cent.
AS the government supplies these pet
banks with money free Of interest, they
would be making immense fortunes out of
governmental privilege if they aoou1d
make loans at per cent.
But they won't do it-achy? Because they
have it in their power to charge more.
What is the real and only remedy for this
ruinous injustice to the farming class?
The real and only remedy is-ae indepemd
emit supply Of money, furnished by the gov
ernment~on the same terms that the govern
ment lends to the banks
AS long as farmers are dependent ON
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-21

be no effective check on their rapacitv.
An absolutely effective automatic check on
their rapacity, would be the Rural Credit
System promised in the Baltimore platform.
Most unfortunately the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce seems to have control of agri-
cultural legislation.
That clique of bankers has already in
creased the taxes of every landowner in
Georgia by the new tax law, which creates
900 appointive officers and costs the people
$4,000 year for the privilege of making
the same land pay greater taxes than ever
before.
To the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce we
are indebted for that great boon.
But they want to bless us with another new
system of appolntive officers, with big sal
arles-a system meant to perpetuate the rule
of the National banks.
The ringleaders who worked that buy-a-
bale swindle, last year, are the patriots who
are behind this warehouse scheme
Those swindlers pocketed all of the buy
abale money, which Northern people bought
at 10 cents, and have recently sold for u.
Why couldn't the farmers have held their
6 cents cotton, and sold it for -?
Because the government ac0uzd lend the
gamblers the money to buy with, but would
not lend the producers the money to hold
with.
CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-21

Pope are eXulting over the fact that our
Bishops and our Boards have gone loony on
Korea, China and Japan, neglecting Anae,ica,
the most important factor in the future civil
cation of the world.
The Herald and Presbyter fears for the
freedom Of the press. So do [
The Romanists have two bills in Congress
now, which boldly aim at the Constitutional
guarantee Of press freedom.
The Constitution declares that Congress
shall have no power to abridgc the liberty of
the press; but the Fitzgerald and Gallivan
bills demand that Congress shall abridge it,
so that no one will be thenceforth free to at
tack the deadliest foe to true religion and to
civil liberty.
Hereafter, our people should not agree to
qote for a1ay candidate for Congress, or for
PRESIDENT, unless such candidate pu6Aczy
pIedGeS himself to fight the R0mneists on this
point.
USING PUBLIC MONEY TO MAKE MORE
CATHOLICS.
In a recent issue of the New York World.
the following item appeared:
Girl babies are in great demand and boy babies
CONTINUED ON PAGE sIx.)
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paper puDl1SneQ IN GIN IN \ 0ES
cinnati, under the name of the
Herald and Presbyter. 81
The editor grumbles because
the daily papers won't notice
Protestant doings but give the amplest space
to all Catholic affairs.
For some months the notices had been publish
ed various and patriotic papers, of the national
meeting of the Federated Patriotic Societies to
be held last week in Daton, Ohio. The convention
was held, according to the report in another col
umn of this paper, with delegates from fifteen
States and with many prominent persons in at
tendance, including Lieutenant-General Miles and
many distinguished ministers and laymen. So far
we have seen, not word as to its proceedings,
to the fact Of the meeting, was printed i'll
any of the daily papers of Dayton or Cincinnati
This could not have been an accident There is
too much ignoring Of Protestant and patriotic
matters at the dictatOn of ROish ecclesiastics to
the managers and city editors of many city dailies
A Catholic church affair Dayton is reported
to have had large attention from the daily papers
at the same time that the patriotic convention
was in session. Let Protestant and patriotic peo
pie demand different treatment from the daily
papers. They will possibly be needed if they
make their demands. They are the important
members of the communities, after all. The
Roman Catholic influence which seeks to throttle
the public press might well be rebuked one
time another. If they choose to bring on the
conflict let it be known that it is of their own
bringing We believe in liberty of the press.
It was not the Pope's church that sent the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-21
Where Are the Roman Catholics Putting All Their Missionary Strength?

the myraids in the Orient, and
that those Eastern lands from
which our faith came, are hope
lessly lost to Mohammedanism.
Therefore, the shrewd long
headed men who steer for the
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
Other Nations May Enter War.

London, Jan. 9.-Should
Roumania, now that the Rus
slams are on the border if not
actually in Transylvania, decide
to join the allies. her army will
provide the missing link in the
chain of troops 1900 miles long,
winding from the Baltic to the
Adriatic.
This battle line would be con-
posed of Russians, Roumanians,
Servians and Montenegrins on
the one side and Germans and
Austro- Hungarians on the
other.
The allies believe Roumania
soon will take the plunge. Other
developments are expected.
Relations between Greece and
Turkey have reached the break
ing point over the alleged i'll
treatment of Greeks in Asia
Minor. Italy is growing restless
over Turkeys delay in giving
satisfaction for the violation OF
the Italian consulate at Hodeida,
from which the British consul,
who sought refuge, was forcibly
removed.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
Bryan Nearly Jailed.

Dispatch TO New York Sun
Secretary Bryan discovered
that he was lucky to have miss
ed spending Christmas day in a
Virginia Jail for violation of
the game laws.
Having a day off from the
grind at the state department,
Mr.. Bryan put up his plough
shares and took down his gun.
The colonel is a great huntsman.
He hunts rabbits.
Down in Virginia Mr.. Bryan
has a cousin, and early Christ
mas morning, with the snow
glistening on the ground, Mr..
Bryan drove to this cousins
house and the two went rabbit
hunting. 1t happens that Vir-
ginia has game law which for
bids rabbit hunting when suow
is on the ground, bul ignorant of
this law the hunters plodded up
hill and down dale all day.
Fortunately for Mr.. Bryan not
rabbit could be found which
would stand still long enough
for him to hit it. 1t was only
this fact that kept Mr.. Bryan
from breaking the game laws to
smithereens. Secretary Bryan,
however, found comfort in the
thought today that he went on
this illegal hunt in ignorance of
the law and that there was no
morc'. wrong involved.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
Burnings in Union
Monroe Enquirer

Monroe Enquirer
"A dwelling house in Marsh
vile, the property of MIR. A. C.
Penegar, of Monroe was destroy
ed by fire about two O'Clock yes
terday morning. The house had
not been occupied for about two
weeks. 1t was an eight room
building and was a good one.
Mr.. Penegar carried about $4,000
insurance on the building. The
origin of the fire is not known.
The Piedmont Buggy Comp.
any's warehouse and its contents
were destroyed by fire between
ten and eleven o'clock last Fri
day morning. The warehouse
was in the rear of the factory
building and ii was packed with
material, mostly wood material
for carriages and buggies. There
were hundreds of wheels, rims,
spokes. shafts, tongues, axles
and other wooden parts of run
ming gear in the warehouse.
about fifteen thousand dollars
worth. Since financial depres-
sion has been on and work has
been slack the material had
been kept in the warehouse in
stead of in the factory. The loss
is covered by insurance. The
orlgion of the fire is not known,
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
Notice to Patrons

TO the patrons of rural routes
from this office: Now in very
few days [ expect to have each
carrier from this office to depos.
1t in each box a sufficient num-
Der Of name slips to properly list
the names Of each person receiv.
ins MOL a1f0ctes.-ff1S f1S
owners of boxes will please see
that correct list is made of not
only his family but others who
may receive their mail from
your box. This will be done in
order to get a correct list of pat
rons so that all mail may be de-
llvered intelligently. Ii is your
duty to see that the list is pro-
perly made. Do not hold the
blanks as this is very important.
j. w. Quick, Postmaster.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
More than 1000 Pardons
The State, Sunday

The State, Sunday
A proclamation signed yester-
day by the governor grants a
full and free pardon to more
than 1000 former prisoners. who
have been paroled during the
past four years during good
behavior" The blanket pardon
Will restore citizenship. Since
assuming office in 1911 the gov
ernor has extended ciemency in
1871 cases.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
Luke McLuke Saws

The lad who couldn't tell you
the name of the Vice President
is the same fellow who can tell
you how to run the Govern
ment.
The old-fashioned 17-year-old
girl who used to read books on
What Young Girl Ought to
Know" has 17-year old daugh-
vn0p ner nl.s.-irfss. .
The Willowy Girl cops out
the covers OF the magazines.
But the girl with the dimples in
her anatomy attracts all the at
tention Oh the street.
What has become of the old
fashioned man who used to
wear a paper collar every Sun
day?
Before you get her she can say
things with her eyes that make
you feel funny all over. And
after you get her she can say
things with her mouth that
make you feel funny all over.
Since the vacuum cleaner dis
placed the broom man can't
find a blame thing but his wife's
hair pins to clean his pipe with.
One half the world may not
know how the other half lives.
But 1t isn't the female half.
If you imagine that women
haven't a Sense of Humor lust
take look at the hats they are
wearing.
Any woman who has 4O-inch
waist can tell you that the waist
of a Perfectly Formed Woman
should measure forty inches.
A lake of fire and birthstone
isn't the only He'll ever invented.
There's the case of the man who
has $50 wife and a SIS salary.
When a woman's hips are So
big around that she has to 20
through a door sideways she
gets a LOT of comfort out of the
fact that she is broad minded.
You may have noticed that
somehow or other a cross-eyed
girl with a mustache never gets
mixed up in any Platonic Love
Affairs and that she is never the
goat in an Affinity case.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
Charles J. Williamson.

McBee, Jan. 8.-Charles j.
Williamson, for the past three
years agent for the Seaboard Air
Line and Carolina, Atlantic &
Wester railways, died January 9
an infirmary at Florence, from
congestion of the brain. He was
35 years of age.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13

Two men who last week sold
Christmas toys in New Street
stood at the rear of the stock
exchange. One of them was
devoting painful attention to the
financial page of a morning
newspaper.
what are you looking for,
Yustin?" asked his campanion.
For a stock what sells for 5Ov'
Yustin replied.
"Why do YOU want that"
II sold a loafer of a broker
one of my mechanical dogs on
Thursday, an he gave me a
plugged half-doljar. know the
feller. Now | Will smartly buy
a stock for 80 from him, an give
him back his bad money"
but suppose, Yustin, he gives
you a bum stock? You know
them brokers'"
"rhen we will be quits.
Cause | sold him bum dog
Elk.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
Don't Sell the Horses and Mules.

We believe the farmers of
Georgia are making a mistake in
selling their mules and horses to
agents who are buying for the
warning nations in Europe. Ev-
eryone knows that for several
years after a great war mules
and horses always are higher in
price than ever. For the past Is
years now mules and horss
have been steadily advancing in
price, and the reason fer this de-
mand is the excessive demand
for livestock. The farmers are
not only selling mules and hors-
es that they are going to need,
but they are selling them for a
little more than half what they
will have to pay for them when
they go to buy them back"
The above, from the Telfair,
Ga. Enterprise, is sound advice.
The South has too few horses
and mules in proportion to men
already for economically pro-
ducing our crops and to sell
those needed is poor economy.
1t is well know fact that the
earnings of the farmers of any
section are usually in proportion
to the number of ho1ses and
mules they use. 1t is not econo-
my to keep more horses and
mules than are used to good ad-
vantages, for they are expensive
animals to keep in idleness; but
it is quite certain that the num-
Der of farm workers in the South
might greatly increase their net
profits by the proper use of
more horses and mules.
Therefore, we regret to see
these animals going out of the
country. 1t is almost certain
that they will be bought back
again at higher prices, just as
soon as the present money strin-
rs~AAs1t....-a-A cot.
ton goes back to a fair price.
This has always been our mis-
take as to livestock. We have
bought on a high market and
sold on a low, which is always
disastrous.
Of course, it is largely the
need for money and the pros
pect for low prices of cotton
and curtailed acreage, chiefly
the former, that are causing
these horses and mules to be
sold, but our people need to use
all of them and to use them to
the best advantages in the pro-
duction of other crops.-Pro-
gressive Farmer.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
A. G. Funderburk Denied Bail.
Monroe Enquirer

Monroe Enquirer
A. G.. Funderburk, who shot
and killed Luther Traywick on
December 18th on Funderburk's
farm in east Monroe township,
had a preliminary hearing yes
terday before Sub-Recorder w.
0. Lemmond.
Mrs. Dora Traywick, widow
of the deceased, testified that her
husband was hauling corn from
the field, that Funderburk went
to the field and demanded the
load of corn on the wagon,
claiming that her husband owed
him, and that Traywick had sold
cotton on which Funderburk
had landlords lien. The two
men engaged in a hot dispute
and she went out to where they
were and told them that she was
going to Vann Cuthbertson's and
phone for the sheriff. Her hus-
band, who was sitting on the
corn in the wagon, said, "I'll sit
right here until you get back"
Funderburk said, "He has got
a certain length of time to sit
there" Mrs. Traywick further
testified that she went to Mr..
Cuthbertson's and just as she
got to the house she heard three
pistol shots down in the field
where the men were. She re.
turned to the field and found her
husband dead.
Vann Cuthbertson testified
that he went to the field where
the homicide took place immed-
lately after the shots were fired
and found the deceased lying on
the ground, that he did not see a
knife in the dead mans hand,
that he went off to get help and
.Mhen he1oR - 1Rill
Mcdonald, c0iored. leaning
over the body. Mcdonald left
and when he and Mrs. Tray
wick, who had just come up,
got to the body there was knife
in the right hand of the dead
man.
DR.. S. A. Stevens and DR.. H. D.
Stewart testified that they ex
amined the body of Luther Tray.
wick some days after the homi.
eide and they found that a bullet
had entered the left ear and had
ranged upward at an angle of 81
or 40 degrees and forward. ~
bullet had entered the back,
three or four inches to the left OF
the back bone and ranged down.
ward and slightly to the right
passing through the lung tissues
and lodging in the heart.
Preston Griffin testified tha,
he saw the body at the same
time Bill Mcdonald was by i
and that he left Mcdonald ant
ran to w. E. Funderburk's, faith
er of A. G. Funderburk, anc
'phoned for the sheriff, and tina
when he first saw the body there
was a knife tightly clinched ir
the right hand.
The defendant did not testify.
After hearing the evidence
and argument of counsel Sub
Recorder Lemmond refused tt
allow bail and the defendan
was sent back to jail to awai
trial in Superior court which
conyenes on January 25th.
Chesterfield County School
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13
Chesterfield County School
Children Number 1852

Chesterfield County has 1852
children between the age of 6
and 20 years and 4728 or 49
per cent of them attend school,
according to a recent census
bulletin. The data contained in
the report relates to the year
1910 and has only recently been
made public. The distribution,
by age groups, and the number
attending school is as follows:
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-01-13

Ephum Johnson was up before
the Judge on cruelty TO animal
charge, says The Philadelphia
Record.
"Deed All wasn't abusin' dat
mule, jedge," the old man de-
INJURED.
Did you strike it repeatedly
with a club?"
"YeSSeh."
"And do you know that you
can accomplish more with ami
mails by speaking to them?"
"Yesseh; but dis Critter am
diff'nt. He am SO deet he CANT
heah me when All speaks to him
in de usual way, so Ah has 10
communicate wild him in sign
Language"