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THE PAGFLAND JOURNAL _ - ' Vol. 5 NO. 24 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRDARY. 24, 1915 $1.00 per year ====== ?? ?- , ? American ShiD Sunk in North I Fr?..rfE. n..?i- o 1 -r " Sea . Washington, Feb. 22.?The United States government was advised officially tonight of the destruction of the first Ajnerican vessel on the high seas since the outbreak of the European war. American Consul Fee at Bremen cabled that the steamer Evelyn and her cargo of cotton bound for Bremen had been "blown up" at Borkum, iust.off the German coast, and that the crew had been saved. The cause? submarine or mine?was not rriiron ?r* Amvu in iuc uisyuicu. After a conference with President Wilson, Secretary Bryan - cabled Ambassador Page at London and Ambassador Gerard at Berlin to make an exhaustive inquiry as to the facts, and, if the crew was landed in either of their respective jurisdictions, to furnish every care and conveni ence to Capt. Smith and his men. Although the extent of sea zones of war proclaimed by Germany was never defined exactly,',the Borkum islands are considered far distant from the danger areas of submarines. The waters ;of the .vicinity are mined for defensive purposes and Germanv nlo/avc Vine : J ?. .? ?J J lino (IIIUICU incoming ships through. At the German embassy tonight it was pointed out that the accident must have been caused by a mine, as Germany, sorely in nqed of cotton, would not torpedo ii. vessel laden with such a cargo for German consumption, Financial Troubles. ^M^yrtfttnreturning to his home -several ivw' absence, met one of mis old negroes, a former servant of his family, relates Lippincojt's Magazine. "Uncle Moses,"/lie said, j **f po r vnil Vl ri, f/l nrn??An . ><VH> juu ttuv^uncH mm ried." "Yes, Marse Tom, I is, and I'se having a moughty troublesome time, Marse Tom, jnoughty troublesome." "What's the trouble?" said my friend. "Why, dat yaller woman Marse Tom. She all de time axin' me fer money. She don't give me no peace." "How long have you been married, Uncle Moses?" "Nigh on ter two years, come dis spring." "And how much money have you given her?" "Well, I ain't done gin her none yit." r? ? - ~ correspondingly Small. Quiet and confident, the young traveler for the patent fertilizer determined to sound Farmer Filbert as to his firm's latest product. But the farmer saw him coming ayont the turnips, and knew him and his ilk of old. "No, young fellow," he finished up, after a lengthy argument. "These new-fangled ideas don't appeal to me. Nothing can beat the old natural fertilizer." "Good heavens sir!" exclaimed the exasperated young patentpusher. "The day is coming when a man will be able to carry enough fertilizer for an acre of land in his watch pocket!" "Maybe he will, my boy," allowed Filbert, as he chewed a fresh straw. "And 1 reckon he'll be able to carry the crop in the same pocket, too!"?Exchange. "Yes," said the young lady, "I spent the entire evening telling him that he had a terrible reputation for Kissing girls against their will." "And what did he do?" , "He ant there like it booh flnil dwWtttVJtmwiwi - ? ? * Ui \^uui icl rj ivcpurl UI County Supervisor, for 1914 Outside aid SI88.00 D M Barentine 37.50 Dr J H Harden 10.00 Dr L E Bull 10.00 Dr J T Buff 16.50 G M Rogers 50.00 J A A rant 37.50 Wallces Evans Cogs'll Co. 449.31 E W Moore 225.00 W J Tiller 100.00 J T Grant . 225.00 u r uougiass 376.60 D H Eunderburk 5.00 Walker Evans Cogs'll Co. 75.39 Odom Bros. Co. 50.18 Dr T E Wanamaker 3.75 A B Cassidy 90.00 Armfield Hardware Co. 42.60 John W. Knight 152.10 J E Williams 15.93 Cheravv Sash & Door Co. 1.75 H L Baker 4.10 R A Rouse 300.00 H J Sellers Co. 52.86 0 1) Turnage 4.60 Dr J T Butf 5.00 D H Means 17.50 Chesterfield Tel. &Tel. Co. 15.00 A Sullivan 221.30 1 P Mangum 283.70 J W McCassidv ' 16.60 F M Moore 41.66 J C Rivers 62.49 G A Malloy 71.16 A B Cassidy - 30.1)0 John W. Knight 50.00 1 W belle 31.66 H T Atkinson 83.32 A J Outlaw 11.00 J as. Griffeth 24.58 C \ Baker ' 33.32 Dr W \ Gantt 10.00 Chesterfield Merc. Co. 92.16 D H Laney 3.75 J W Rascoe 55.70 J A Welsh 100 00 J N Davis 83.32 J rr-*m<v-K Meihlejohn Lumber Co^^^T60 C L Crowley 50.00 Chesterfield Advertiser 4r>.60 J R Abbot 214 80 P C McLauren 303.05 Anderson Lucus 64.00 W A Douglass 112.00 H F King 412.00 J A Hall 5.50 vv n ^ .. ** W.UVU vu.uu l^oatis Davis Co. 32.05 A C Burr 63.50 M W Duvall 283.42 D C Smith 53.00 F i\I Moore 20 83 las. Griffeth 14.30 The McNair Co. 7.7<? CFKing 1.50 D H Laney 10.08 Chesterfield Dry Goods Co 26.50 Theo Winburn 96.80 W J Davidson 2.00 Dr D T Teal 81.00 Davis & Rivers 28.60 1 t ' c ? I? j \_/ ^nuucia 1U.40 T W Edciins 145.44 J E Williams 21.4 J N 1 Davidson 4.31 M D and HE Smith .">0.35 Armfield-Porter Co. 200.00 H M Odom 37.92 Chesterfield Drug Co. 24.90 Jefferson ian 23.48 24.61 H A Watson 6.19 I Threat! Bros. 281.08 J R Jowers ' 2.50 D 11 Laney 5.25 A F Davis 1.25 C 13 Redfeain 7.00 R D Marsh 68.65 J L Smith 9.41 T r Mnllnn M. 1TAVJIV/11 M J Hough 42<>.0<> W D Craig 27.00 Wesley Campbell ir>.00 Pageland Journal 41.50 F. A Plyler 7.75 J A Aran! 50.00 G M Rogers 50.00 BDTurnage 18.55 A Sullivan 02.85 Cheraw Chronicle 00.60 Cordv Winburn 10.00 Hugh ttalcs 55,00 f ^4 n _ i j i* smw* 14,on * wonaerrul Exposition Opens at San Francisco Exposition Grounds, San Francisco, Feb. 20.?The Panama-Pacific International exposit'on was formally opened at noon today, Pacific coast ti.ne. The dedication was made as short and simple as possible. United States soldiers and marines escorted Secretary Lane, Gov. Johnson and the other officials to a stand facing the main entrance to the exposition, where welcomed by President Charles C. Moore and the other executive officers. Secretary Lane, President Wilson's personal representative, delivered a brief address, during which he read this telegram from the president: "Please rnnvpv m\r Vionrtinrf 1?1J "VUI IIVOI congratulations to the authorities of the exposition and express my hope that their highest expectations for its distinguished success will be more than realized." President Wilson, in the White House, touched a telegraph key completing an electric circuit \vhich swung open the doors of the Palace of Machinery, unloosed the waters of the Fountain of Energy and detonated signal bombs. "Today is the triumph," said Gov. Johnson, speaking for California, "of a San Francisco that nine years ago lay in ruins," All records for exposition first day attendance were broken at the opening tobay. By 4 o,clock this afternoon the turnstiles had clicked off 225,000 admissions and it was expected that by midnight the total would have reached more than 300,000. The* previous record was at the open-] The crowd was a spectacle in itself. It filled the grandstands, it packed the great courts and concourses, it poured through the aisles, it overflowed from the sidewalks into the avenues, fr?m *1..-. i.:n~ * - ? uvsiu niv inns iu me oay as iar as ihe eve could reach, in unending rivers of bobbing heads. "No," They Are Scoundrels. The Progressive Farmer gives the following emphatic reply to a suffering reader: A reader in.Alabama has clipped an|udvertisment of a quack doctor out of his daily paper and sent it to us. Says he: "I am suffering with catarrh, and these people claim they can treat successfully this and most other diseases bv mail." ' Dear people, let such scoundrels alone. They are worse than theives, for thieves usually steal from those that have money and wealth. Few thieves would molest a poor man, and would be ashamed to rob a sick one. But these "quack" doctors are robbing the sick, the ignorant and the dying. They are no better than hyenas. When vou are sick and suffer ing, see a reDutahW>. dt?r*?nt hiurl. class physician or surgeon in your own vicinity. Don't trust the "advertising doctor" (?) and the patent medicine man. Compared to them, dive-keepers are gentlemen, and stand a better chance of heaven when they die. "Begin at the bottom and work your way up, Patrick. That is i the only way." "It can't be done in my busii ness. I'm a well digger."?The i Comet. J T Grant lul.5u i (.arjv/uta v^u. -,3U ?H. F. Kiog, County Supervisor. lAavoiti^mout] Mr. Buy Grub au<| Hi* Pit'ful tpugh. Since this is only to farmers-fjreal ^id imitation-reverybbdy else will please to "stand asicle." And as Mr. Buy Grub's ease is the most?urgent, we will attend to his first Mr. Buy Grub, is generally a I "one crop" man, but his one crop is not always a money crop, though he plants and cultivates it with that end in view, He is the man who makes it necessary , for one line'of the country merchants' letter heads to read: "Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries." He is the man who doesn't know where his next mnrtl to * uiuw to wv/iuiuK iium, nor wnere his last one came from, for that matter. But if he has the cash or credit to buy a few meals ahead we would find that thev came from about everywhere in the.U. S. A. His flour very likely comes from Minnesota, his CQrn from Illinois, his potatoes f^om maine, his beans from ! Michigan, his dried fruit from California, his canned goods from Maryland and his meat from any one of a dozen differ ; ent places. For every single one of these articles of food Mr. Buy Grub is paying at least twice what it would cost him to raise them on his own^farm. Jf I were asked the ofd question,? "who pays the freight,"l'd point my finger straight at Mr., Buy 1 Grub. 4 This same Mr. Buy Grub is ' the mail who is guilty of keeping [the South away down toward ; the bottom financially for all *1?^ ' -? - uicae years, ana mis loo in ; spite Jf the assertion of the first ex- : jj^j^vvha dec'a red our coun Per shone upon," in spite of tfie tact that we ureblessed above all others in climate, long growing ! seasons, rainfall and other natr ral advantages. Mr. Buy Grub can't afford to fool with such a little thing as a garden, or if he plants one the weeds and grasshoppers soon have full possession of it. Of course he doesn't read the farm papers. They have too much to say about diversified farming and he doesn't believe in such stuff. Why, the kind of farming the papers advocate would keep him busy about 12 months in the year, and Mr. Grub likes to loaf on the job about one-third of the time. Now let's have a look at Mr. Live-at-home. He lives better than any king on earth. In fact all the kings' jobs of the Eastern Hemisphere could go hang for all of him. He and his family are contented and prosperous, and neither "high cost of living" zor the "upward 'rend of prices" is worrying him a mite. Of course this condition did not come about by Mr. Live at Home sitting down and dreaming, nor did he bring it about by waving the magician's wand. He knows th at just about everv tiling comes to him who waits, if lie hustles while he waits, so he gets up early in the morning and hustles and he keeps this up pretty regularly 12 months in the year, lie grows his own hog and apple pie and has very little business to transact at the grocery store, except to sell his surplus products. Mr. Live at-Home has learned the value of a good garden and orchard and acts accordingly. He has something either fresh or canned on his table 365 days in the year, and it is not the ' wilted, stale stuff that has been ' picked over for a week either. t\lr. Live at-Home keeps one or more pood cows to supply thd tttilk; cfeum and butter HO necessarv for the proper development of growing boys and girls. Mr. Buy Grub couldn't keep a cow, because a cow isn't built to manufacture milk out of the stuff he raises on his farm. Now, farmer friend, if you are Mr. Buy Grub, isn't there a chance for you to "get promoted into or rather adopted into the Live at-Home family? Even though it takes a long hard struggle, remember the old adage "Nothing great is easilywon, and this Js great.?J. E. YOU NT, in Progressive Farmer. Frenk James Dies Peacefully In B< J Excelsior Springs, Mo., Feb. 18. ?Frank James of the notorious James gang died on his farm near here late today. James, who was 74, had been in illhealth several months and was stricken with apoplexy early today. One of the last members of the robber band whose unparalleled career of crime during the war and the unsettled period that followed kept the people of a dozen States in terror, Frank lames bad linen livino- the a quiet farmer for more than 30 years. The son of a minister, respected throughout the community, Frank James joined Quantrell's guerillas in the War of Secession, together with his brother Jesse, and took part in the sacking of Lawrence, Kan. After the guerillas disbanded the James brothers became bandits. Many notorious crimes of the . h.ave w ~ Younginer gang, of which the surviving members were Frank James and Cole Younginer, the latter of whom is now living at Lees Summit, Mo. Detectives surrounded the James home near Kearney, Mo., on January 25, 1875, and threw a lighted bomb into the house, thinking to kill the James brothers. It exploded, tearing the arm off their mother and killing their brother, Archie. In 1882, after Jessie James had bten shot and killed in his home in St. Joseph, Mo., by Bob Ford, nkn ii hnn<lit fnr ti roivcirH nf $50,000, Frank James surrendered in Jefferson City, Mo. Germany Will Need 125,000 Bales a Month Washington, Feb. 20,?Germany will require 125,000 bales of American cotton a month to keep her mills running at threefourths capacity, Commercial Attache Ernest W. Thompson reported today. Cotton quotations at Hamburg on February 8 were: Fully good middling 16.44 cents per pound, and good middling 15.8 to 16 cents. An American traveler relates the following: Once I dined with an English farmer. We had ham?verj delicious ham, and the farmer'! son soon finished his portior and passed iiis plate again. "More 'am father," he said. The father frowned. "Don' say 'am son, say 'am." j "I did say 'am," the son protest ed in an injured tone. "You said 'am," cried the father fiercely. '* 'Ami's what it should be' no 'am." In the middle of the squabbh the farmer's wife turned to mi and with a deprecatory litth laugh, explained: "They botl think they're BftyhV 'Mb sit." What is A Pasture Marsbville Home A typical Union county pasture has been described as "a piec?-of land where grass won't grow, with a fence around it." That description will also tit the average pasture in all the . other "cotton" counties. And usually the pasture has a good stand of old field pines growing in it. Now and then however, you'll find a farmer who has put his best land in pastures, and stocked it with clover and pasture grasses?land that will produce a bale of cotton or fifty bushels of corn per acre. Of course it takes some nerve for a tarmer in the cotton belt to do that, but he is ahvavs well rewarded for his nerve. If we can't quite get the consent of our minds to put some of our best lands in pastures, we ought to at least put the two-horse plow on some of our old pasture lands in February or March and make a seed bed for seediner a mixture nf permanent pasture grasses for hill lands. The seed required for this purpose will not cost any more per acre than the expenditure we have been making for commercial fertilizers to put under cotton. There are two ways to get ready for profitiabie live stock farming. One is to provide better pastures, and the other is to raise feed for stock next winter. We might as well keep it in mind that we can't "go" into live stock industry in the sense ol making a howling success and a big income in the beginning, but that we must "grow" into the business, and the only economic apri practical way to grow into it is to provide for the service of gressive Union ccrafTT^mrmer the other day who was real anxious 10 get beliind our representatives in the general assembly and have a law enacted making it unlawful to keep for service in this county anything but pure bred sires. Certainly a law ot this kind would be much more desirable and constructive in its effect than a law to prevent the killing of scrub heifer calves. With only pure-bred sires there would soon be no desire to kill heifer calves. J. Z. G. Togo's Ideas on Automobiling Soonly there is a red whizz passing. It are a automobile of French extraction and Irish disposition. By front seat sets fatty gentlemen who is a owner of some trusts, because he looks like it. Nearly to him sets lion. Chaffer clasnimr teeth for nerves. "What speedometer is it?" asks Hon. Truster, eating some dust. "60-mile hourly we are going i it," say-he with wheels. , "Extreme slowness," derange > Hon. Finance. More pushes by gasoline. "Of what speedness now?" examine them Trust Magnet. "75-mile horse-power," say Hon. Chaffer with lung. t "Kvapwrfltp it'" olnnso linn r Boss for mania. 5 Hon. Chaffer liy to, but Hon. , Car make angrv race of cogs and do an explosion by fence where fraxions must be collected patiently. Injury is enjoyed t by all passengers who is afar off among clover-field where they . flew to.?Exchange. "Are you sure vou love your neighbor as yourself?" asked St. Peter, who was cross-examining t thf> nmv arrival. "Yes,'* answered the applicant i for a golden crown. "For ten years he used my telephone to " carry on his business, and I 13 never complained." i "Fnter, my jrood man," said Salnl Peiur, with much fpplini*