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n v Waller Hodgera mar 17 THE PAGELAND JOURNAL Vol.6 NO. 30 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1916 $1.00 per year vM.,? u c .j i *? i * mt ~ ' i uuuji > tcm j i ui u, invenror Literary Digest. Taking a watch apart is a common experience of inquisitive childhood, but the sad fate of most boys is to find, on trying to put it all together again, that enough cogs, pins, wheels, and springs are left over to start a small machine-shop. Perhaps Henry Ford holds the small boy's record for this job. He al most succeeded. Rose Wilder Lane, to whom "Henry Ford's Storv" seems to have hopn rpln. ed by some member of ttfe immediate family. On this particular Sunday morning Henry was more than usually rebellious. He was not sullen about it. He merely re marked frankly that he hated their old Sunday, anyhow. Mother and father and the four children set out for church as usual. At the hitching-posts, Where William Ford tied the horses before going into the church, they met their neighbors, the Bennetts. Will Ben nett, a youngst er about Henry's age, hailed him from the other carriage. "Hi, Hen! C'mere! I got something you ain't got." Henry Scrambled out over the ? 1 t ? - wneei ana nurriea to see what it might be. It was a watch, a real watch, as large and shinv as his father's Henry looked at it with awed admiration, and then with envy. It was Will's own watch; his grandfather had given it to him. On a strict, cross-vour heart promise to give it back, Henry was allowed to take it in his hands. Then he cheered up somewhat. "That ain't much!" he scornfully remarked. "It ain't runnin'." At the same momenta dazzling idea occurred to him. He had always wanted to see thp inciHac a/ n ,nn</,U ..aw luiiiuvo Ui a vnniLll. "I bet I c'n fix it for you," he declared. A few minutes later, when Mary Ford looked for Henry, he was nowhere to be found. Will was also missing. When, after services, they had hot appeared, the parents became worried. They searched. Inquiries and explorations failed to reveal ihe boys. They were in the Bennett's farm "shop," busy with the watch. Having no screwdriver small enough, Henrv made one by filing a shinglenail. Then he set to work and took out every screw in the mechanism. The works came out ot the case to the accompanient of an agonized protest from Will; the cogs fell apart, the springs unwound. Altogether it was a beautiful disorder, enough to de light any small boy. "Now look what you've went and done!" cried Will, torn be tween natural emotion over the disaster to his watch and admiration of Henry's daripg. "Well, von said vam ?*roo , j J vru II HO KVIllI to put it together," he reminded that experimenter many times in the next few hours. Dinner-time came, and Will, recalling the fried chicken, dump lings, puddings, cakes of the Sunday dinner, grew more than restless, but Henry held him there by the sheer force of his enthusiasm. The afternoon wore alone:, and he was still investigating those fasinating gears and springs. When at last outraged perental authority descended upon the boys, Henry's Sunday clothes were a wreck, his hands and face were grimy, but he had correctly replaced most of the screws, and he passionately Ue elated that if their would only M.nson negro Charged With Murder Ephraim Smith, colored, came to Wadesboro Sunday afternoon and surrendered to Sheriff T. S. Clark, saying that he had shot "Gallon*' Smith near the colored Savannah church, in lower Liles ville Township. Ephraim is i said to have told those who talked with him that he shot in self defense, after some of the ne gros had fired three shots at him. ; He says he shot and ran and did nA( *U? .1 . t iiui iviiuu iui uit: unit: mill lie had hit anyone. The others claim that Coot Smith, Wilej' Smith and Ephraim came upon "Gallon" and others and began ' quarreling with them, that Coot attempted first to cut "Gallon" and later Wiley Smith handed Fphraim a pistol and he shot "Gallon" in the head, killing him almost instantly.?Wadesboro Ansonian. , Obeying Orders Mike Murphy, contractor, became rich and purchased a handsome automobile. Mrs. Murphy Invited Mrs. Clancy for a ride in it. "Whatever you do, Mrs. Clanft .1 * " s~yt sue warned, aon't talk to the chauffeur at all, nat a word or a whisper to him, for it takes his mind off what he is doing." So they started out at a rapid clip; the chauffer went zip round the corner and zip round another corner; sometimes the car was on two wheels, sometimes on one. Finally Mrs. Clancy could stand it no longer, so she touched the chauffer on the back and said: "Mr. Shatfer. I bai? vour nnr. don, I- was told not to speak to vou at all, but I must say tbat . Mrs. Murphy hasn't been in the car for the last ten ipinutes." leave him alone he wofald have the watch running in no time. Family discipline was strict in those days. Undoubtedly, Henry was punished, but he does not recall that now. What he does remember vividly is the passion for investigating clocks and watches that followed. In a few months he had taken apart and put together every timepiece on the place, excepting only his father's watch. "Every clock in the house shuddered when it saw me com mg," ne says. From clocks to automobiles is not a tremendous leap, especially in view of the size of automobiles. Young Ford's next experiment of note was the construction of the first Ford car. This is briefly described: The boy had exhausted the possibilities of the farm shop. His last work in it was building a small steam-engine. For this, helped partly by pictures, partly by his boyish ingenuity, he made his own patterns, his own castings, did his own machine work. His material was bits of old iron, pieces of wagon-tires, stray teeth from harrows?anything and everything from the scrappile in the shop which he could utilize in any imaginable way. When the engine was finished Henry mounted it on an improvised chassis which he had cut down from an old fat m-wagon, attached it by a direct driving wheel on one side, something like a locomotive connecting rod, and capped the whole with , a whistle. When he had completed the job he looked at the results with some natural pride. Sitting at the throttle, tooting the ear snlit l ing whistle, he charged up and down the meadow lot a? nearly ten miles an hour, (lightening every cow on tlw pte, I Fire is Ruining Many A Farm ! Of all tbe insane. practices which adhere to Southern farming:, the burning: of vegetable matter, in preparing: for spriug planting:, vis the least excusable. In a climate where all vegetable ' matter rots quickly and is wash- ed and leached away by our ( heavv rains; on lands that lack above everything: else humus 5 and nilrogen, the burning of 5 g^ass, corn and cotton stalks is ( little short of criminal. It is cer- < rainiy insane ana we wouid < make our condemnation strong- 1 er if we could. 1 "Oh!" but our "practical" t farmer will say, "the cotton and ' corn stalks will be in the way of < cultivating the crops," or in { those sections where a scarcity < of moisture is an important fac- 1 tor in limiting crop yields, we 1 are told that "the turning under i of the cotton and corn stalks 5 causes the land to dry out too 1 much, so that better crops are made when these stalks are * burned." '< There is about the same sense 5 or logic in such arguments as in that of the small boy who can see no need for washing himself because he only gets dirty again. It is true that large quantities ' of grass and stalks may be in the 1 way of proper cultivation if not < turned under properly. But if they are cut up and turned un- < der early enough, no such trou i ble occurs. It may also be true, 1 and as a matter of fact often is < true, that a heavy crop of stalks s turned under late in the spring, 1 especially when the rainfall is light, may cause the land to dry 1 out more than when the stacks 1 are burned; but this, aguu^d^fcJ Mjji rase if the st|fl? well cut up before they are 4.*. ed under and the plowin^^H done early enough. Furthermore it may be that a ? heavy crop of stalks cannot be 1 satisfactorily turned under with i a one-horse plow, but as a mat- I ter of fact, the man who uses a '? one-horse plow seldom has a I heavy crop of stalks to turn un- * i A aer. A.nu moreover, no one '? should use a one-horse plow J Of course, some will say they < are compelled to do so, but I I don't believe it. I believe every 1 man can get his land broken < with a two horse plow if he tries 1 hard enough. If he can't get 1 another horse, he could cooper- '? ate with some Other one linr?e t farmer. < Many of those "'ho read The I Progressive Farmei will wonder * if such a practice, really is com mon in any sectionjbut we assure these that the practice is f quite common. We have seen 1 it extensively practiced by the hill fanners of Mississippi and east Texas; in the famous Yazoo I Delta of Mississippi; by the black land farmers of Texas; by the large farmers of Oklahoma; and 1 the large and small farmers of s Arkansas in this good year of 1916. Our one greatest soil need, all * over the South, it matters not whether on sandy or heavy 1 buckshot lands, whether in the humid East or where the rainfall s is less abundant farther west* is nitrogen and humus. Iiy fire | we destroy these materials by ( thousands, yes millions of tons j annually. It seems almost un- ( believable, but the man who ( thinks the farmers of the s South have been educated out , of such folly need only take a j f trip through the South during s Marrli <14? I .I .1 ......tio i IlilVC UUIIC I m'llllV c to be convinced that thousands \ have not yet been taught this j simple, basic fact of agriculture. | Wp have not learned the first \ mm 01 me uipimtwt in sol) pre 11 Statement of The Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc., Required By The Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, Of The Pageland Journal pub lislied weekly at Pageland for (\pril 1, 1916. State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared C. M. "Pucker, who, having been inly sworn according to law, leposes and says that he is the Publisher of die Pageland Jour-1 lal and that the following is, to he best of his knowledge and relief, a true statement of the ownership, management fand if t daily paper, the circulation), jtc., ol the aforesaid publication or the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of \ugust 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, to wit: 1. That the names and addressis of the publisher, editor, manicing editor, and business manigers are: Publisher and Editor, C. M. Tucker, Pageland, S. C. 2. That the owners are: R. H. Blakeney, M. L. Davis, Miss Alice Knight, J. E. Agerton, Ed. B. Sowell, C. G. - Morgan, M. Tucker, Pageland, S. C. 3. That the known bondholdirs, mortgagees, and other securty holders owning or holding 1 ber cent or more of total amount bf bonds, mortgages, or other ecurities are: The Bank of Pageland. 4. That the two paragraphs lext above, giving the nfeme$ of in other tiducihryreiation, the name of he person or corporation for ,vhom such trustee is acting, is liven; also that the said two parrgraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge ind belief as to the circumstances ind conditions under which Stockholders and sprnritv hr?1#l irs who do not appear upon the pooks of the company as trustees, lold stock and securities in a :apacity other than that of a pona fide owner; and this affiant las no reason to believe that iny person, association, or corporation has any interest direct pr indirect in the said stock, ponds, or other securities than as ?o stated hv him. " >/ C. M. Tucker, Publisher. Sworn to and subscribed beore me this 8th day of April, 1916. S. W. \Vatts, Notary Public. (My commission expires at the deasure of Governor.) "Aren't you the chap who ap >lied here a week apo for a doiition as office boy?" "Yes. sir." "And didn't 1 tell you I wantid an older boy?" "Yes, sir; that's whv I'm here low." ;ervation We have for vearsbeen urging he growing ot cover crops and :rops to turn under to furnish Himus and nitrogen, because hese form the one great need of )ur soils, and >et we have not Hopped the destruction of hunus and nitrogen supplying maerials l?y fire. Corn and cotton talks are raked up and burned; jrass is set on fire; pastures are nirned over, while such decayng materials are more needed Ivan all other things combined in >oth the dry and the humid secioni.?Thfl Piojwalve Furmir. Town Judged by New&paper. "Show me some copies of the paper published in your town and I will tell you some facts ( about it and your people," ] The man who said that was an active business man, who was considering: an expansive ' nmnncitinn TVir* " * ? p> v^/v/uuivu i tic iLiluriiiciiion | he wanted was all in issues of a i weekly newspaper. I He wanted to know about the , stocks of goods carried by the merchants, to judge of their business capacity by the style ' and amount of advertising they 1 employed?the paper would < show him. He wanted to know some , thing of the social activities of the town, which the paper 1 would show him. 1 He wanted to know some thing of the pursuits of the peo- ! pie in the town and the condition of the SIirrOlinHino- ^niintrv The paper would show him. He would scan those papers carefully and would be able to give the information as he had started. j He would judge the business prospects from the advertising columns, of prospective selling ' possibilities bv the local happenings, of the tastes and intelligence of the people by the reading ! matter the paper gives its read- ' ers, and whether they were a progressive, alert or an easy go. 1 ing and comparatively inactive 1 sort. 1 Your paper tells the story fully to the active, observant business ! man, who never saw your town 1 15 Ure IU)l life it would spell in glaring let- ! ters "Nothing doing." If there . was a lack of high class, up to date reading matter on the livest 1 topics of the times, it would '' spell for him ? The investigation would end and the town be passed over as not worth considering; , i So then the weekly paper is i for 52 times a year showing peo- < pie who do not reside in the i town just how to judge if it is a I business and social center. < Sunday School Conference, < Florence District. < The /Vnnual Sunday school * conference of the Florence dis- 1 trict Methodist Episcopal church ' South, will convene at Harts- 1 ville, April 17-19 The opening 1 session will be held Monday night, April 17th in the Metho [ dist church at Hartsville, and the 1 conference will close with the ( morning session on Wednesday * April 19th. 1 A very strong program has ' been prepared, and some of the * best Sunday school workers of i the District will take part in the 1 discussions, t hese conterences v are most profitable and interesting gatherings, and it is hoped f that every pastor, every Sunday r school superintendent, and one ' teacher from each school will be present. In addition to these, it Is hoped that many others will J attend. All who are vitally interested in the great Sunday J school work should take ad van- tage of this opportunity. The good people of Hartsville " have opened their homes and ' \\t ill rAlffllKi rtll J i Till lujunj tuiciiniu Mil ilttlUU- ' ited delegates. It is needless to * say this, for Hartsville's well * known hospitality has gone t oKrAoH th rr\i ? rvk/\i? * d m/iuuu IIIIUII^UUUI lilt? niuu. | | All who come will be gladlv . welcomed and a rare treat is in | store for them. j1 Remember the date and place, i i lldrtgviilv, April 17-Hi jl New Communication Offered By M exico San Antonio, Texas, April ().~ Gen. Pershing reported to (Jen. Funston today that Mexieir Military authorities in Chihua U..J ? ? - uuii una unerea me .Mueiicai punitive expedition the use o the government telegraph and telephone lines. Gen. Pershing ilso reported that some suppliei for the United States troops, have been purchased in Chihuutiua but while merchants in ilia :ity showed no disposition tc withhold their goods the limited imount of foodstufts available made it almost impossible to get provisions. This report was filed in some part of the field of operation, the location of which was withheld. It was transmitted 1>\ wireless and aeroplanes to Columbus. The proffer of the use of the telegraph and telephone lines were made to drivers of the aeroplanes which visited Chihuah.ua last week. The aviators report that before the populace o! the city was convinced that they were on a friendly mission, .1 few stones were thrown and several shots were fired but no one was injured. Gen. Guiterrez, commander of the garrison at Clrhuahua, treat ed them courteously. the\ ic ported. The present positions of the advanced columns was not mar V public, but it was known ti t cavalry colmns under - C Brown and Dodd are rhiving south front Satevo with all speed. Dfficei^^HM^^^o information HMMIPBud the hat eifhnr I. would i?. Mf> ...VI 4 Wl l,U 11# surprise. Gen. Pershing himself is min ing south along the traii > S.;:evo. personally directing, so ta. is possible the pursuit of \ sil t French Capture Fortified Posts Paris, April (>.?French troops n hand to hand lighting south >vest of Fort Donauinont toduv ;arried German underground passages and works along a rront of 500 metres to a <.:< pth if about 20? > metres. A violent bombardment \\. s directed by tile Germans to i n iast of the Mouse against ( oi-> du Paivre but the I eneh curlain of fire prevented an ii;to?>11 \ attack, according to tin ofhci .1 statement by the war office i< light. Tiw, ...... -or: ' nt. \\ <n oiiu r 11 m i )l > , 1 I'll [his afternoon capture !>\ 1 e French of a large position w tit )f Avocourt known a- T s 'Jarre. This ground was c ip ur_d in the course ol light "g which went on all of \estei >\ ltternoon and last ni-iit in the Verdun region west o! the dense on the Avoc >u : I'.- i. tourt line At one point along i. \\'< tourt Bethineourt Itiv t > . * nans succeeded m pen, .it vrench positions. No More Piedmont Buggies >Ionroc Joutnul. The plant of the Piedmont 3uggy Com pan v and the i 'oilon States Wagon Company was .old at auction 1>\ the i <vj\e VIr. 1\ G. Ilendeison, >? terd r . t was bought hv Mi l!o? tc Meal for the sum of S!i.\ il he sale is confirmed 1>\ the :ourt. Mr. Neal expeivs t<> *. ?ninue to operate the l.iriee s as he Cotton Siatv > \V aeo;, (. <>m vanv, continuing the nork of ll'll/IIKr CIlniM'll li?l\ I 1< . I?iii ?\ nVcUmtiu Mrjri '.r |>jist?ukSk V'i 1 )0 CPnM9Mi??il: