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VOL. I NO. 7
"SYLVA, N. C., AUGUST. 14 1914
$1.00 THE YEAR IN ADVANCE
NEWS OF THE
WEEK CONDENSED.
Friday German's haVe ,80,000
men before the Belgian city of Liege
Up to the present the advantage has
lain with the Belgians, 40,000 of
whom are holding in check several
German army corps.
The germans Liege have request
ed a twenty-four hours' armistice,
according to announcement made
tonight by the Belgian ministry of
war. At the ministry it was stated
the Germans admitted their casual
ties numbered 25,000.
The bombardment of Belgrade by
the Austrians, which began July 29
has continued almost steadily since.
The capital was crowded with wo
men and children when the Austrian
artillery opened fire and there was
a rush for the country, but the
people were obliged to return be
cause of the concentration of food
supplies here.
The German government is doing
its utmost to bring about a change
in Itly's attitude in the European
situation but direct appeals to King
Victor Emmanuel have been in vain
It is asserted that Italy, having de
clared her neutrality intends to
maintain it.
Saturday In Berlin there has
been great rejoicing over a report
that Liege has fallen. A dispatch
received from the German capital,
says:
"The news of; the . f ajl Liee
spiead with -' lightning rapidity
throughout Berlin, and created
boundless enthusiasm. The Emper
or sent an aide de camp to an
nounce the capture of the city to
crowds that assembled outside the
palace." "
ihe French are rejoicing over
the capture of the village of Altkirch
in Olasace Lauane. 20.000 English
troops have landed at Astend, Cal
ais and Dunkirk. They are now
proceeding toward Namur, to the
west of Liege on the main railroad
to assist the Belgians.
Sunday Germans still claim that
they have captured Liege, Paris and
London deny the report.
A dispatch to the Times from
Berne, says 40,000 Austrian troops
have concentrated near Basel and
that German and French troops
also are near the Swiss frontier
and a big battle may occur at any
moment.
The foreign office has received a
telegram from the British vice-consul
at Venice saying the Austrian
merchantman, Izglad, which arrived
at Venice Friday, reported a strong
Austrian fleet off Pola, Austria, and
that the lights in the lighthouses on
the Austrian coast of the Adriatic
had been extinguished.
Whether Japan will participate
to an attack on the German colony
Tsing Tau, is a question gravely
concerning British subjects xand
other foreigners in China, It is be.
If
ueveanere mat serious conversa
tions are proceeding between Tokio
and London to deteemine the future
status of Taing Tail.
German cruisers are said to be
searching the Yellow Sea and caus
ing British, French, and Russian
merchant vessels to remain in port
From Shanghai reports were re
ceived today that the British Pa
cific fleet had passed toward the
north accompanied by two French
cruisers.
Monday: The situation at Liege
remains the same, the Germans
seem to have possession of the city,
while the Belgians are holding the
forts.
The Austrian ambassador to
France has demanded his passports
which -indicated that Austria-Hungary
has broken diplamatic relations
with Fraace, and those two coun
tries may as well be considered as
being officially at war.
The German liner, Kronprinz Wil-
helm, which slipped away from
New York, under cover of darkness
last week, loaded with coal, is re
ported captured by the British
cruiser Essex and being taken to
Bermuda as a prize of war. It is
believed that other war vessels are
lurking near the American coast to
pick up prizes of war. Wireless
communication between vessels in
New York harbor and those on the
sea has been ordered stopped by the
United States govornment.
The bread situation in Belgium is
grave, and appeals have been made
to exporters of the Uuited States to
let wheat go forward, and the Bel
gian" government has offered to
guarantee war risks.
Brussels is covered by a net
work of German spies, and 600
have been arrested and 100 sum
marily executed.
WHAT S. C. I IS DOING
By John R. Jones.
A word to those who are interes
ted inkhownSgwh
ing done at the Sylva Collegiate In
stitute. The teaching force has been in
creased almost One Hundred per
cent for the next ensuing term
which begins August the 25th. 1914.
This addition alone will mean
much to the school and to the stud
ent body as well, and yet there are
others that I wish to mention
which I feel sure will be good news
for those who are interested in the
in the school.
The Treat Dormitory has been
moved to a more suitable location,
re-covered old flues torn down and
replaced with safe chimneys and
grates and has also just received
a new coat of paint on the inside.
Some necessary repairs have
been and are being made on the
school building, the Grindstaff build
ing, and the Girls Dormitory. The
hall of the Girls Dormitory is to be
painted at once.
Anew $400,00 piano is on the
wav for the benetit ot tne music
students.
A new range has been added to
the Domestic Science department.
The ladies of Asheville have
just supplied the dinning room with
all necessary dishes.
A man in Asheville gave several
hundred feet of lumber for repairs.
Several hundred dollars have
been spent on improvement by the
Home Board, Mr. Treat of Pennsyl
vania, and the good people of Sylva,
It is the aim and ambition of the
Principal and those who are deeply
interested in Sylva Collegiate Insti
tute, to make it the great Mars .H ill
of all this section.
S. W. Crawford was here yesterday
from Addie and subscribed for. the
Journal.
M.L. Coggins was m the city
from Addie,
Miss Effie and Arthur McDade
are in Asheville visiting relatives.
IN ATTEMPT
TO ESCAPE ATTACK.
Asheville Citizen.
Running into the French Broad
river near Hot Springs N. C. Friday
morning in an effort to escape at
tack at the hands of Mrs. Margaret
Graham, who is alleged to have
fired at her with a revolver, Mrs.
Ethel Woody was drowned before
her friends could come to her res-
cue. according to news received'
here. Mrs. Graham was under ar
rest yesterday morning by mem
bers of the sheriff's department
from Marshall and lodged in the
Si
Madison county jail at that place
on a warrant charging her with as
sault with intent to commit Mur
der and carrying a concealed wea
pon. The news of the affair first reach
ed Asheville when a prisoner was
brought here to serve a term on
the Buncombe county roads and
the deputy sheriff accompanying
him told o.f the arrest of Mrs. Gra
ham. When communicated with, Sheriff
W. M. Buckner stated that Mrs.
Graham refused to make any state
ment in regard to the affair and
that he had been unable to discov
er a reason for the alleged trouble
between them. It is expected, how
ever, that the whole affair will be
brought .to light when the prisoner
is given a hearing Wednesday in
Madison county.
sslfesrtated that the shooting done
by Mrs. Graham was near the home
of Mrs. Woody and that the chase
to the river led through the woods
or some distance before the de
ceased entered the water and was
drowned. The weapon said to have
been used by the prisoner was a
revolver and since the body of the
deceased has not been recovered
t is not known whether or not any
of the bullets struck her. The firing
of the shots is reported to have
been heard by several residents of
the section and relatives and friends
of both women have been greatly
aroused over the affair.
As soon as it had been learned
that Mrs. Woody had -been drowned
men began to drag the stream for
her body and it is expected that it
will be located in a short time. The
current is swilt ana tne water is
deed at the point where the woman
entered and it is thought that the
body drifted some distance.
W. M. S. MEETING.
The regular business meetinfTof
the W. M. S. was held August 3rd.
with Mrs. W. H. Rhodes.
Eleven members and six visitors
were present.
Some important items of business
were attended to.
The next business meeting will
be held with Mrs.E L. McKee Sept,
7th.
After adjournment Mrs. Rhodes
served delightful sherbet and cake.
Helen Cathey, Sec.
Mrs A R. Stillwell visited her
her brother, Theo. Buchanan for
several days this week.
Mrs. Jas. R. Love of Athens, Tenn.
is visiting friends in the city.
M. M. Presley of Speedwell was
in the city Thursday ami called in
and advanced his subscription to
the Journal.
DROWNED
COL. GEO. P. MILLER
T0 SPEAK
Col. Geo. P. Miller will make a
visit to each school in Jackson
County in the interest of the Jack
son County fair. We expect to
print the dates and place for each
speech in next week's issue of the
Journal.
The management are very fortu
nate in securing the services of
Col. Miller in the interest of the fair.
IF
RUDYARD KIPLING.
If you can keep your head when all
about you
. Are losing theirs and blaming it
on you;
If you can trust yourself when all
men doubt you,
But make allowance for their
doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by
waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in
lies.
Or being hated don't give away to
hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor
talk to wise;
If you can dream and not make
dreams your master;
If you can think and not make
thoughts ycur aim,
If you can meet with triumph and
disaster
And treat . those, two imposters
just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth
you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a
trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your
life to broken ,
And stoop and build' em up with
wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all
your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-
v and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your be
ginnings And never breathe a word about
your loss;
If you can force your heart and
nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they
are gone,
And so hold on when there is noth
ing in you
JJxcept the Will which says to
them: "Hold on."
If you can talk with crowds and
A keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings nor lose the
common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can
hurt you
If all men count with you, but
none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds, worth of distance-run,
Yours is the Earth and every thing
that's in it,
Andr-which is more Youll be a
Man, my son!
L. A Buchanan and Mack Brown
have purchased Holmes Bry son's
Sylva store from Mr. Bryson and
will conduct a general merchandise
business at the Rhinehardt Powell
Company's old stand. Both Mr.
Buchanan and Mr. Brown are well
known young business men in Jack
son County and we bespeak for
them much success in their new
enterprise Mr. Brown will
not come to Sylva at this time but
will remain at Harris
A WAR OFJUTOCRACY
(New York World)
When peace is again established
in Europe there will come a new
order of things. Democracy will
not stand forever, upon the scaffold,
with autocracy forever on the
throne.
Ten-days ago the German people
were at peace with all the world.
They had no quarrel of their own
with anybody. Their commerce
reached to every nook and corner
pf the globe. Their ships floated
on every sea. Their victories were
no victories of brute force, but tri
umphs of applied skill and trained
minds. In many respects the Ger
mans had touched the high-water
mark of human civilization. There
was not another country in the
world but could learn something
from them.
Suddenly this vast fabric woven
by peace and industry and skill
and science is torn in two. All the
machinery of progress is stopped
by the hand of autocracy. The
Kaiser plunges Europe into the
most devastating conflict known to
human history, and every civilized
country reels under the shocks. And
about what? Ostensibly because Rus
sia had answered Austria's wanton
war against Servia by mobilizing
troops on frontier in order to protect
her own interests. In reality because
the reactionary party of Germany
was determined to invite a general
European conflict in order jto stay
the advancement of political re
forms.
All the world knew that a declar
ation of war against' Russia was in
effect a declaration of war against
France. Germany admitted it by
mobilizing her army not on the
Russian frontier but on the French
frontier. The decisive blow was to
be struck against the French Re
public, i:ot against its imperial ally.
It was not Russian despotism that
was to be crushed but French re
publicanism. The hollow hypocrisy of the
whole prodeeding is revealed in the
fact that before the clash of arms is
fairly begun the Austrian invasion
of Servia is practically abandoned.
TAKE IT HOME.
We presume that many people
think the newspaper men are persis
tent duns as they keep reiterating,
"look at the label on your paper
"move up the date," "you are back
on your subscription," "pay what
.. ll IT
you owe, pay up, pay us. now
let a farmer or business man place
himself in a similar position and
see if he would not do the same.
Suppose a farmer raises a crop of
one thousand bushels of wheat and
his neighbor should buy a bushel,
and the price was two dollars or
less, and the neighbor says, "I will
pay you the sum in a few days."
As the farmer dosn't want to be
small in the matter of small things
he says, "all right" Another comes
in the same way until the whole of
one thousand bushels are gone out
to the one thousand different per.
sons. No oner purchaser concerns
himself about it, and, of course, that
could not help him any. He does
not realize that the fanner has frit
tered away his crop of wheat in
little dribs and that he is seriously
embarrassed in his business because
his debtors treat it as a small matter
But if all would pay him promptly,
which they could do as well as not,
it would enable him to carry on his
business without difficulty. The
above comparison is too true of the
difficulties that a newspaper man
has to contend with. Franklia
Press.
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