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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-07-04
Program of the Chesterfield
Baptist Sunday School Con-
vention

The convention meets with
the Chesterfield Baptist church
Friday and Saturday the 10th
and 21st of July. General sub
ject. ''The Efficient Sunday
School,"
Friday the 10th 10 a. m. The
Convention assemblies. Organi-
zatlon, Enrolment and Reports
of Delegates.
The Standard Sunday School,
Rev. Thomas ]. Watts.
Relation of the Sunday School
to the Church, Rev. B. D.
Thames.
Dinner 1880 TO . P. NJ.
Afternoon Session, The Eff
cient Teacher, Supt. ]. Arthur
Knight.
The Laws of Teaching, Rev.
Thomas ]. Watts.
$50 p. m. An address On
Sunday school work by Rev
Chas. A. Jones.
Saturday 10 a. m. How tc
Hold Boys in the Sunday school
L. E. Cogburn.
Good Records. Rev. ]. K. Hair
How TO Get Good Teachers
in Sunday School, Rev. Thomas
]. Watts.
Delivery of Diplomas to the
graduates of Normal Class.
Dinner 1920 to 2P. NJ.
The Value of the Organized
Class in the Sunday School
Rev. B. S. Funderburg.
The Graded Sunday School ir
Principle and Practice, Rev
Thomas ]. Watts.
B. S. Funderburg,
J. K Hair,
w. P. Coker.
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Trantham, John I.

Trantham, John I.
War;, Andrew Wilson; Warren,
Thos. Rivers; Warren, Larence O.;
Warren, Maxcey; Waters, Charley;
Waters, Willie; Waters, Benjamin F.
Waters, Mack; Williams, w. Edgar
Young, Joe.
Aldrich, James; Aldrich, Jack; Aid
rich, Nat.
Baldwin, Dave; Benjamin., Mack
Bird, Mack; Blackwell, Luke, Black
well, Robert; Blackwell, Cohen H.
Blair. Will; Bradshaw, Ed.
Coseman, Paul H.; Cuffey, Cornell
Dixon, Daniel; Dixon, John; Dixon
Harrison; Duckit, CLANCY.
Ganey, Sidney; Gathings, John.
Hall, Tom; Hall, Walter H.; Hall
Walter Wellington; Hammonds, Dos.
lie; Harris, Will; Harris, Dock; Horton
Thomas; Hough, John; Hough, John
Hough, William; Hudley, William.
Jackson, Nun; Kelly, Nathan; King
George; King, Milton; King, Lawton
King, John Bass.
Luckie, Thomas; Lupie, James Lee
McCaskill, Alvin; McCaskill, AL.
fred; Mcdonald, Son; Mcdonald
Estridge; Mcfarland, Clarence
Mackawain, Lee; Mills, Charley
Mitchell, Willie.
Olridge, Richard; Pate, Davie
Pate, John; Pate, Lewis; Paterson
Oscar; Phillips, Brag; Peoples, Henry
Peoples, Randolph.
Robertson, Luther Lewis; Robin
son, Jim; Rouse, Ernest; Rud, George
Seegars, Jessie; Sowell, Green
Sowell, Lewis.
Taylor, Frank; Tillman, Sidney
Toney, Calvin; Toney, Junious.
Wearing, Sam; Williams, Ed.
Wommack, Verus.
Continued next week.
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For SaIe-1914 model Ford
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tires nearly new. Guy Watts at
the Redfearn Auto Co.
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Stuff you needn't read unless you
care TO. It's mostly nonsense.

Saturday morning when a fel.
low asked George Gardner if he
was the man who had beec op.
Grating a still over there in the
woods, he replied, mo. 1t was
Henry Graves. Ranford Smith
and Green Stegall."
Mr.. ]. r. Cato has a hen that
is no Stacker. She is not only
doing her part in the food pro
duction campaign, but she ap.
pears to realize that food is not
all that is required in the fight
against German world domina-
ton, for the other dav the egg
she laid was shaped as much
like a torpedo as she could make
IT. 1t is about the length of an
ordinary egg and is about as
heavy, but it is only about seven,
eigths of an inch in diameter
near one end, tapering slightly
to the other. On the small end
is a small circular protrusion
which might serve for the cap
to fire thetorpedo. 1t is not known
whether or not MIR. Cato has
been discussing the submarine
menace at home, and therefore
we are not prepared to say how
the hen gained her knowledge
of current events.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-02-08
We Democrats and
"He Kept Us Out of War;"
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.)

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
fed by the diamonds which the Kaiser had
personally given to his wife, was practically
a German sycophant and tool.
1t never occurred to Professor Wilson, that
the Kaiser aoas 6ri6ing the american an6as-
sodor, through the sno66ish ambassadors
acife!
So, it came to pass, that nothing the Kaiser
could do to us hurt our feelings, or inter
rupted our daily game of golf.
We went before the country claiming an
other four years of power under the slogan,
"He kept us out of war"
The country saw too little in Hughes, and
too much in Roosevelt, and not enough in
Benson, and nothing to drink in the Prohi-
6lhomst candidate, and consequently the
in.
And now, before we have had time to re-
inaugurate the lanly Professor, we Democrats
find ourselves in a most nell of hess.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-02-08
Does Anybody Know
Where This Book Is?
The Name of the Work, in Two Volumes, is,
1.-THE END OF THE CONTROVERSY,

Examined by
BISHOP JOHN HOPKINS, OF VERMONT
Bishop Hopkins book was an elaborate
answer to Milmans work, whose title was,
"Thc End of the Controversy"
loaned these out-of-print volumes, about
two years ago, to a gentleman who was
intending to make a thorough study of the
Roman question.
The name of the borrower has been for
gotten, because | SO often lend books and
never keep a memorandum. IF he sees this
notice, beg that he will return the work.
In the meanwhile, offer $500 for a copy,
and it may be sent by express, c. 0. ID.
THOS. E. WATSON
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THIS
BY e. j. Forester, Treasurer M. r. Tn

Hy H. d. FORESTER, treasurer M E. Fund
AT the convention reported that we had
reduced our debt at the bank on account of
Ministerial Education by $4,000. We also re-
ported that we had outstanding checks on the
current expenses of that fund amounting to
$1G922 above balance in bank Since that
time We have issued checks to forty ministerial
students amounting to $1,702.75, and have re-
celVed from the churches only $4,000. You will
ste, at once, that since Convention we have
checked out $1,172.75 than we have re-
celVed. This added to $16922, net overdraft at
the time Of the Convention, puts us, at this writ
ing, in possession, not of a balance, but of an
OVerdraft Of $1,341.97 This overdraft is carried
by the Treasurer of Mercer University. The
checks were issued to the young to he used
in the College Office in payment of tuition, board,
and book bills The arrangement relieved them
of their dues to the University but the University
was not expected by us to carry this Overdraft for
any long time.
What will the churches do about it Will they
not give literally to this cause? Or will they say,
Let quit?
DR.. Forester is always candid, straight
forward and honest he does not beat about
the bush, and never says what he doesn't
mean.
1t is a positive treat to deal with such
man.
If you will carefully consider what he
writes, you will realize that it's up to you to
say achether the College Of glorious old Jesse
Mercer shall Ire
Inc FERRY Ralney mad to be sold, and am
sure that its loss must have caused the heart
of Hiram Rainey to bleed
The Bessie Tiff is practically bankrupt,
existing on the suferance of the holders of
the mortgage.
Mercer-dear old Mercer-is hard beset,
struggling for breath: what shall we do?
For years and years, and through all sorts
Of misunderstanding and Misrepresentation,
l have pleaded for the home folks, the home
schools, the home colleges IN preference to
the folks, and the schools, and the colleges
IN china
[ have never said that you should carry the
Gospel to the Oriental nations
Send it, and keep on sending it, until the
winds that moan over all the desert wastes
of humanity shall carry it.
But what I hare said is this
You don't owe hospitals, and doctors, and
trained nurses to China
You don't owe kindcrgarens, schools and
colleges to China;
You don't owe poor-reIief, and sicl-relef,
and widow-relief, and orphan-relief to China.
No! You don't, but my God you owe it to
your own flesh and blood.
Why are you Baptists letting the Bessie
Tiff starve, while you feast the College at
Shanghai?
WHY are you Methodists beseiging the State
legislatures to violate the Supreme Law, and
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THE eJEFFERS OMAN

donate to you a to~-e exemption, when you
lavish your millions on the Methodist Col
leges in Cuba, in Korea, and in China?
Who told you that it was your duty to
wiring $4,000 out of the Baptists, and build
a Chinese gymnasium with it?
Who ordered you to seend DR.. t. w. Ayers
to China, and to finance his medical fub-dub
there, for whole generation?
Who commanded the Methodists to build
palace for Bishop Warne, in Hindostan, and
to finance that naughty ecclesiastical all these
years?
Ayers and Warne are the two supercilious
"missionares" who boldly defend the luxuries
which the miss onaries en- Joy.
Ayers employs a houseful of servants, and
so does Warne.
And Warne had an article in the Wesleyan
Advocate, few weeks ago, eulogizing poor
slave of a woman in America who gave her
all, to such fellows as Warne, just as Silver
working at so cents day, who gave so cents
a week to Silver service Ainsworth.
Where did God command us to finance
foreign hospitals, schools, colleges, and sta
tionary doctors, nurses surgeons, dentists and
truculent bishops?
When and where did we American
Christians received orders to send pills to
China?
O n1y cOuntrymen, BE SURE!
Recover your common sence. Feed the
Lazarus at your gate: clothe the naked, in
your street. visit the sick, on your block:
shelter the homeless, whose cry you hear:
educate the boy, whose need you see.
Don't let the Bessie Tiff starve
Don't let old Mercer 60 down!
Think Of the home-folks and the home
needs.
Cut down your foreign work to the Tesla
ment standard let the herald preach the
Word, and pass on.
Don't pamper your missionaries don't fat
ten them in stalls: don't station them in pala-
ces, where throngs of menials minister to their
selfish wants at your expense.
Be sane! Retrace your steps toward the
Pauline landmarks!
Cut out the embroideries that are so ex-
pensive and so Intellectual.
Quit tempting the heather with material
advantages.
Quit offering a chrome to the convert.
Renounce the premium, the subsidy, the
bounty
Tell the Chinaman and the HiHndoo to
take Christ on the same terms you did.
If he isn't willing to do that, he isn't in
earnest.
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Thursday, February 8, 1916

It's "p1umb ridiculous" as one of my
neighbors once told me, in commenting upon
the conduct of a Thomson gentleman who
had shot at his brother-in-law several times,
because of a trivial family difference.
Yes, it's plumb ridiculous!'
I can't see, for the life of me, that our
friend, William Hohenzollern, has done any,
thing inconsistent. He is living up to rep.
We had the sample, and we knew what goods
to expect.
Why all this sudden rucous?
We gave the Kaiser whole year to build
new submarines, and to get good and ready.
Is it strange that he made the best use of
the year?
War is war: Roosevelt and I haze seen all
along qCh0t acas coming, and we told you a
couple of years ago how it would be.
DIDN'T WE?
From the very start, there were two public
men who warned their people against Ger
man intrigue, German brutality, German bad
faith, and German ambition: those two men
are Theodore Roosevelt and myself.
But the country wouldn't listen: the male
women, and the female men, all look after the
Princeton Professor and now we are in for
it, after having given whole year of prepara-
ton to the most dangerous antagonist to our
system THAT ANY SYSTEM EVER FACED.
Back of a ruthless medieval Kaiser, bent
on personal rule, is ruthless medieval Vati-
can, bent on pope rule.
We have given these deadly foes whole
year to get ready for us-and what have we
DONE to get ready for them?
NOTHING
The Professor has talked, written, golfed,
and posed: he has baslzed in the adulation of
funkeys, sycophants, time-servers, place.
hunters, and most asiduous press bureau.
He has meddled in the war, and has had
his face slapped.
It was not his business to NEEDLE with the
war; and nobody can be surprised that he did
get slapped
Must ace go to war, because Europe told
the Professor to 60 to h-ll?
That's about the size of it.
Wilson meddled with what didn't concern
him, and he has had his nose punched.
Listen
The Kaiser is 6zufmg! He can't do
thing to us that he has not already done.
He IS aOhipped, all along the line, and is
trying TO save his face with Germany by ar
raging the whole world against him, so that
he may say to the duped Germans
II couldn't fight all the earth. I had
whipped Russia, England, France, Servia,
and Roumania; but when America, Spain,
Holland and Switzerland double teamed on
me, the odds were too great"
Thus he hopes to save the Hohenzollern
family, and the Hapsburg dynasty, and the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-02-08
Or. FOFreSter's Appeal.

IN last weeks Christian Index, appeared the
l following:
WHAT WILL THE CHURCHES DO ABOUT
THIS.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
A Famous New York Street.

Few of the thousands of people who
pass the corner of Nassau and John
streets every day know the early his
tory of Nassau street. And yet right
at that corner is a bronze tnblet which
gives in concise form the following
historical information:
Nassau Street, Known Originally
as the Street That Runs by the Pye
Woman Was Laid Out About 1865 anil
Was Named In Honor of the House of
Nassau, Whose Head at That Time
Was William the Third, King of Eng
land and Stakeholder of the Dutch Re
public. Nassau Street Became Identi
fed With the Jewelry Trade More
Than Half Century Ago"
The bronze tablet is on the exterior
Of the building at the northwest cor
ner of Nassau and John streets. 1t
was erected by the Maiden Lane His
torical society in 1916.-New York Sun
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
William De Moroan.

In spite of himself William De Nor
gan became famous. He deliberately
violated all the rules made for the
guidance Of novelists who seek to be-
come popular. None of his novels was
addressed to the greater public that is
avid for the latest thing of the moment
in fiction, but nevertheless they reach
ed that public. He was a law unto
himself in the novels that he wrote
during hts marvellous career that span
ned only ten years. It is doubtful If
in English literature or in any ether
can be found a writer whose life and
literary career are comparable to his.
He was an old man when the world of
readers came to know him. and his age
was an asset toward celebrity. At
seventy he was hailed as eagerly as
Kipling was hailed at twenty, and in
his way he was no less prodigy than
the younger writer.-Bookman.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
Spanish Ooubloo1s

Should one find pirates buried
treasure he would have to dispose of
bis Spanish gold at its bullion value,
for since Aug. 1, 1908, when the COM
mon crier made proclamation from the
steps of the Royal Exchange of Lon
don that after that date the doubloon
would cease to be legal tender in the
West Indies, including British Guiana,
the doubloon has not been the precious
thing it was. In 1870 and for cen
tury after it was worth IS, more or
less. 1t has ceased to be coined in its
native country, Spain, and since 1908
1t has been unpopular III the West In
dies, where for long time it figured
in mixed circulation, embracing Brit
ish, United States and Spanish coins.
In the interest of romance, however.
the name at least must survive. It
signifies nothing more than that the
coin was double the value Of pistole,
but the "doubloon" was never such
mouth filling mockery as "pieces of
eight" which suggests great riches,
but means only Spanish silver dollars,
pieces equivalent to eight reals.-Roch.
ester Post Express.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
WALKS FORTY MILES
TO GIVE HIMSELF uu
Man Wanted For Forgery Said II, W..
Tired of Dodsins.

st. Louis.-After an effort which 9.
volved a forty mile walk and apnoaI.
to the authorities of two Missouri.
towns, C. III. Brown, wanted ON III.
Kansas side for forgery, succeeded IN
breaking into the Wyandotte countr
jail.
Brown left town Jan. 90. Coincidor
tally an advertising company, by which
he was employed, asked his arrest o.,
a charge of forgery.
For more than a month the no,;oo
got no trace of the missing man Tbon
the other day. bedraggled individno;
walked into the Office of the sborife 49,
Mexico, Mo.
T've walked forty miles to 90,
here" he told the sheriff. Pm want
ed in Kansas City on forgery CHARGE
Do go backT
An investigation disclosed that tho
story was true. Brown had tried "a
give himself up to a marshal in HawL
Point, Mo-, but the marshal badn,t
been interested. Then had come the
long walk.
Even the Mexico sheriff wasn't on
thusiastic. Instead of putting Brown
under arrest, he advised him that ~
he was really intent on getting In iai,
he might try the chief of police.
Brown. being Of persistent nature
went to the chief. The chief tele.
graphed Kansas City, and a deputa
sheriff returned with the prisoner,
Nothing unusual about it." said
Brown when questioned. II was tired
of running around and hiding from
the police, that's all Pm ready In
take my medicine now"
The amount involved in the forgery
was less than 500.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
PART OF BABYLONIAN
EPIC Is TRANSLATED
Missing Book of Gilgamesh, Re.
garded as One of Oldest
Poems In World.

Philadelphia.-In the University Of
PENNSYLVANIA Museum Journal pub.
Hshed recently is the translation Of q
Babylonian tablet, which will be of In
terest to the historical, religious and
literary world. 1t is one of the miss
ing books Of the epic Of Gilgamesh,
regarded as one of the oldest and
noblest poems in the world. The epic
was composed about the time Of
Abraham, but all known tablets ANDY
fragments Of tablets containing it date
from a much later period. George
Smith made the first discoveries more
than forty years ago. The tablet In
the University museum was probably
written between 900 3. G. and 800
DR.. Stephen Langdon, curator Of the
Babylonian section of the University
museum, and, according to that schol-
ar, contains important new material
bearing on the whole epic and also
supplies missing data and mentions
hitherto unrecorded nations. 1t tells
the story of how barbarous man, In
the person of Enkidu, is redeemed by
the love and devotion Of woman.
Gilgamesh, half mythical king, by
many identified with Nimrod, ruled 80
cruelty that the people asked the gods
for relief. The mother goddess made
from clay a wild satyr, covered with
hair. but strong enough to oppose Gil
gamesh, VINO was two-thirds a god
Eventually Enkidu is changed by love
Of woman to civilized being, loses
his hair and becomes rival Of Gfga-
mesh, with whom he has terrific
combat. Finally the men become
friends. Gigamesh forsakes his evlE
ways, and the two heroes start on ad-
ventures, which are told in the other
tablets already well known.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
The EmeraId-

The emerald has been known since
early times both in Europe and in GER
tain parts of the orient, where it's at
tractive color and rarity have endowed
it with the highest rank and varied
lore. Its name may be traced back to
an old Persian word which appeared
in Greek as 'smaragdos," mentioned
by Theophrastus over 300 years before
the Christian era, and again in Latin
as "smaragdus," seen in the writings
Of Pliny, who particularized somewhat
on its properties and supposed me-
dicinal virtues and was even shrewd
enough to suspect its identity with the
much more common beryl, although
eighteen centuries elapsed before this
suspicion was verified by scientific
proof.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
WILL RUN CANTEENS.
Girls and Boy Scouts Will Dispense
EatabIes to MiIitiamen.

New York. - Canteen stations, at
which girls and boy scouts in uni
form will dispense coffee, chocolate,
buns, sandwiches and cold ham to the
soldiers, sailors and militiamen detail
ed on guard duty, are to be established
in New York and other cities through
out the country, according to an an
nouncement by Mrs. William Carroi
Rafferty, of the Waldorf-Astoria, wife
OF Colonel Rafferty,, commandant at
Fort Hamilton.
Mrs. Rafferty, has been made honor
ary commandant of the emergency
canteen stations to be opened here
after the plan originated by Mrs
James Montgomery Hendrick in Lon
don. Uniforms are now being made
for girls of the Young Women's Chris
tian association, who will be in attend
ance.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
His Hard Luck.

A small boy whose record for de.
pertinent at school had always stood
at 100 came home one day recently
with his standing reduced to SO.
What have you been doing, my
SOM" asked his doting mother.
"Been doing?" replied the young
hopeful. Been doing just as 1 have
been doing all along, only the teacher
caught me this time" - Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12

fnOCo Dy american ITeSS Association.
WILLIAM DENMAN, CHAIRMAN OF SHIP
FING BoARD.
F. Huntington Clark, New York en-
gineer, conceived the idea of wooden
ship feet, probably will be associated
with him.
The story Of how the wooden ship
building plan grew from an idea con
ceived simultaneously by two mining
engineers until it has taken a place
in the forefront of Americas war
policy reveals that Yankee inventive
genius and ingenuity were as ready
to meet the present emergency as at
any time Of national stress in the past.
After Mr. Eustace and Mr.. Clark had
been called to Washington by Chair
man Denman of the shipping board.
and the board decided to take up the
plan, Mr.. Eustace decided to interest
General Goethals and went to place
the situation before him. The canal
builder Immediately seized on the plan
as the one way by which the United
States could do most to aid the allies
in defeating Germany. Then General
Goethals was told the board wished
him to take charge of the work. Re-
luctant at first to leave his post in New
Jersey, the general finally was con-
vinced the nation needed him.
General Goethals was chosen to head
the work, it was explained, for three
reasons-his capacity, his German de.
scent and as testimonial to the low
atty of American citizens of Teutonic
extraction and because he is consider
ed the one man in the United States
most offensive to Germany. Germany,
it has been sale, has never forgiven
the man who constructed the canal
when German experts said it could
not be accomplished.
In their efforts to persuade General
Goethals to take charge of building
the ships it was pointed out that he
probably would spend before the war
was over as much or more than was
expended in building the canal
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
PLANS VAST FLEET
Story of How Wooden Craft
Building Plan Grew.
TRIBUTE TO YANKEE GENIUS.

General GoethaIs, Chosen to Heao
Work, Has Never Been Forgiven by
Germany For Constructing Panama
Canal Whom German Experts Said IL
Could Mot Be ACCOMPLISHED.
Washington. - The administration
program for building vast fleet OF
wooden cargo ships TO transport sup
plies to the allies and thus defeat the
German submarine campaign was put
under way when the shipping boaru
formed corporation to build and oper-
ate the vessels.
Major General Goethals, who at the
direction of President Wilson mas
agreed to supervise building of the
ships. will come to Washington to take
charge of the work as soon as he can
arrange to leave his task of building
New Jersey highways. F. a. Eustace,
a Boston mining engineer, who. with
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
Troops to Get Bibles.

New YOrk.-The american Bible 50.
ciety has issued an emergency call
for $4,000 with which to provide large
editions Of New Testaments bound IN
khaki to be given to all soldiers an6
sailors through the Sunday School as
sociation and the Young Mems Chris
tian association. The society has co
operated with these agencies in the
distribution of about 100000 cNres
to soldiers in Europe and 100000 T.
men on the Mexican border. simila
distribution is to be started here with
out delay.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-07-12
Books In Brazil.

In Brazil, as throughout South Amer
lea, French is almost universally read.
Editions of the classics are found in
mnst homes and bookstores are filed
With modern French writer's of prose
or verse, sometimes in translation and
as frequently in the original. :.