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V r the pageland journal Vol.6 NO. 38 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1916 $1.00 per year - - ' i ' : A Hospital For Monroe. Monroe Enquirer. Under the provisions of the will of the late Mrs. Ellen E. Fitzgerald the City of Monroe comes into possession of her splendid home place on Hayne street, so long as the said property is worth readily ten thousand dollars and is splendidly located. It is a rich gift Mrs. Fitzgerald has made to relieve suffering humanity. Mrs. Fitzgerald's will has not been filed for probate but it is understood that with the excep~ c -i 1 nun ui me auuve liieuuuneu property her good estate is divided among her relatives. Mr. W. E. Funderburk has ' sold sixty-six hogs from his farm south of town this season?not just pigs but hogs?pork hogs. Mr, Funderburk is a ''creamery man" and he sells about one hundred dollars worth of butter fat to the Monroe Creamery As sociation every month. His "butter fat" check last month was $135 and his cattle feed bill for the month was $18. Good pastures did the resi. Belle, Mr. W. S. Lee's buggy animal; died a few days ago. Belle was one of the oldest horses in the county and was about 35 years old. They do say that Belle lay down and died when Mr. Lee got his handsome new Buick touring car. Mr. W. R. McNeelv, of Jackson township, is in receipt ot a package sent through the Uni led States State Department bv Consul Garrels, of Alexandria, Egypt, containing a watch and thirty-four English sovereigns, found in the money belt of Consul Ney McNeely, of this city, when his steamer to Persia, was torpedoed in the Mediterranean last December. Mr. McNeely's family will keep the sovereigns and hold them beyond price. Each member of the family will have one of the gold pieces as a keep sake. "A ?? C?? wt: li V.W1UI tU 111UU 111M11 VV lii^'dlc came to Charlotte yesterday," says Friday's Observer, "with a gold nugget from Union county that weighed two and a half ounces. It contained a small percentage of quartz, but was principally solid in its gold formation and the negro took it in to a local store to have it weighed, the nugget attracting much O tton f irvn I# 1 Mtivuiivriif 11 Wild (11C litrjJCSl gold nugget mined in North Carolina in some time and many were the questions asked the negro as to where he found it, but he evaded them by saying that he was working the proper ty on share and that it was located in Union county." Ridding Hens and Chicks of Lice Clemson College, S. C., May ?.Lice live and breed on poul try and can be exterminated by greasing each fowl with 33 per cent mercurial ointment which can be bought at a drug store The grease is placed on the flesh below the vent, covering a space not larger than a 25 cent piece with a small amount of the oint ment. This ointment poisons the lice end it is necessary to apply it only once a month. Sitting hens can be greased before the commencement of the hatch and when the chicks are dry. If the latter peep and stand with their eyes closed, ex amine the head minutely, and you will probably find one or more large bead lice. Anoint the bead and the part under the beak with carbolized vaseline, or one part of the 33 per cent mercurial ointment and four parts of grease. 1 House Voles $6,000,000 To En- 1 large Navy Yards Washington, June 1.?Advocates of greater preparedness i than is provided by the naval bill as reported by the committee < won some victories today in the 1 House. They succeeded in obtaining appropriations not to ex- 1 ceed $6,000,000 for enlarging the < Navy Yards at Norfolk, New < Orleans, Charleston, Boston, < Portsmouth, N. H., Philadelphia 1 and Puget Sound. Capital ships 1 would be constructed at the Norfolk, Puget Sound, Philadelphia j and Boston yards. An amend j ment designed to lower the en- ( listment period in the Navy i from four to three years and to permit men to enter the reserve i after one year's service also was s adopted. An unsuccessful fight was led < by Representative Gardner of < Massachusetts against the section of the naval bill, embracing l the Hensley resolution authoriz i ing participation by the United j States in the establishment of an international court for the en- < forcemeot of peace. The sec- i tion was retained without a roll i call in the House, sitting as a committee of the whole ] Pacificists, so called "little na- < vy" men and manv advocates of general preparedness rallied to i the support of the section, i Speaker Clark took the floor i and aroused enthusiasm by de- i claring the section was the best < feature of the bill. j The Hensley section would j appropriate $200,000 and provide for the appointment of nine men by the President, at the close of the European war, to enter into negotiations with other countries i for establishment of an interna ^ tional court to enforce peace. It was placed in the bill as a < compromise when it appeared 1 that the opponents of a greater 1 Navy would not support the s committee measure. Representative Garnoer de I clared the plan could not be ' carried out and that if the Uni ! ted States had been a party to such am agreement in 1914 Con I gress would not have voted to 1 send the country's quota of 500,- < 000 men abroad to aid in the en- < fr?rr?pmt?nt nf naono State Campaign Dates Dates for the county to county swing of the State Democratic campaign party were announced recently by John Gary Evans, chairman of the committee. The opening day falls to Spartanburg June 20, and the closing date is at Winnsboro, August 26. The primary is on Tuesday, August 29. Spartanburg, June 20; Greenville, June 21; Pickens, June 22, Walhalla, June 23; Anderson, i i * juuc vjieenwoou, june Li\ d Abbeville, June 28; McCormick, June 29; Laurens, June 30; New- * berry, July 1; Columbia, luly 4; ! Lexington, July 5; Saluda, July 1 6; Ldgefield, July 7; Aiken, July 1 8; Barnwell, Julv 18; Hampton, ' July 19; Beaufort, July 20; Kidgeland, July 21; Walterboro, < July 22; Charleston, July 25; St. ! George, July 26; Bamberg, July 1 27; Orangeburg, luly 28; St. 1 Matthews, July 29; Sumter, ' A * ? * - " ' migusi i; Manning, August 2; ' Monck's Corner, August 3; Georgetown, August 4; Kingstree, August 5; Florence, Au- 1 gust 8: Marion, August 8; Conway, August 10; Dillon, August 1 11; Darlington, August 12; 1 Bishopville, August 14; Benneltsville, August 10; Chester- 1 field, August 17; Camden, August 18; Lancaster, August IV; t Union, August 22; Gatfney, ' August 23; York, August 24; < Chester, August 25; Winnsboro, < August 20. ( New Discovery to Take The Place of Gasolene A dispatch from New York >ays: Louis Rnricht has sold the se:ret formula of his penny and a tialf a gallon for $2,000,000! Enricht's neighbors in the lit lie village of Farmingdale, down :>n Long Island, thought En rich t ireaming when he claimed he :ould operate an automobile with a mysterious green liquid tie invented. But the Maxim Munition Com pany figured the formula so ?ood it has agreed to pay $1,000,300 in cash and $1,000,000 in stock to the inventor. The process of manufacture, morvr/ltnnr 4 ? - - uin^ IU ijiuitui, i1) very simple. Four ounces of a strange :hemical mixture, green in color, is stirred into five gallons of water. The solution goes into the auto's tank and the auto runs just as it would if fed with gasoline. Henry Ford visited the inventor, who is 70, and he came away convinced that Enricht's discovery was genuine, it is said. The cost of manufacturing the liquid is about one and one halfzents a gallon. Here is as much of an explanation of his invention as Enricht is willing to make: The addition of his "green mystery" to the water in the "gas" tank of an auto releases the hydrogen gas in the water, The hydrogen passes into the carburetor, where it comes into contact with the air, taken into the engine through the air intake pipe. The explosive energy to drive the engine is the result of this combustion. ? Just after he announced his discovery, Enricht stopped making his fluid because, he said, tie didn't dare to go to drug stores to buy ingredients. 4lI can't go anywhere without being followed by detectives working for the oil companies," said Enricht. Maxim company officials say they will produce a substitute that will be used by every auto owner and knock the bottom out of the high price of gasoline. Value Received. He was a young preacher, fresh Horn the theological seminary, and it was his first experience in the mountains of Kentucky, says the New York Post. Higher criticism has not worried the mountaineers, because they nave not heard of such things. To them?mountaineers are naturally religious?the Rible is a nook to be taken literally, and no onb would think of doubling that the whale really swallowed lonah, or anything else in the Book. But the youthful theologian did not know that. With the assistance of the best authorties he had prepared an elabo ate sermon condemning higher criticism. Every person in the little :hurch listened as attentively as possible as the speaker piled rul Iflilf* cjrpucm r??-wl >v>nv| cuivujiia nuu lUillKll lllVt'L' ive on the higher critics. Perplexity was writ large on every face, and after services were [over, there was a good deal of whispered comment as to what the preacher was driving at. Motherly old Mrs. Janners. naturally of a philosophical riind, also kindhearted, did what >he could to defend the young ninister, and wound up with: "An we all ain't got no right o expect a great deal anywa y mere was only 11 cents in the :olleclion plate this mornin\ an' what can vou expect for 14 :ents?" Fall Crop of Irieh Potatoes Clemson College, S. C.?The Irish potato is one of the most im portant truck crops of the South, yet. it is a crop that is grown to a limited extent by the people of our State. The farmers do not produce enough for their own use during the winter months. During die last few years, we have tested a large number of varieties at this Station, the idea being to find a variety especially adapted for planting in mid-summer, or as a second crop. The trouble with most varieties is thnt tllPV f.lil tr> V. ...... . vj iuii iu o^'iuui w null planted in the summer, and therefore, the stand of plants is very poor, and the yield neceSt sarily unsatisfactory. We have found that the Lookout Moun tain potato will produce better when planted in mid-summer than when planted in the spring. The tubers will keep from November until the following August in perfect condition. If this variety proves to be well adapted to the Eastern part of our State, it seems to me that it will practically revolutionize potato growing in this State. The potato can be grown as cheaply in this State as any where else, and the fact that two crops may be grown on the same land in nine months, make this vegetable of especial importance. A spring crop may be grown and shipped to the Eastern markets. Anotli er crop may be planted on this same land, and the tubers harvested in November for market 1 .? - during me winter months. The strong points of this variety are that 95 per cent of the tubers planted in July and August will produce stong plants, and it k?eps better than any variety I have ever grown. Unfortunately, it is, not as good for baking and for cream potatoes as some other varieties, but we hope by selecting to overcome this defect. I strongly recommend that a series of experiments with the Irish potato be begun at the Coast Station. Do Good, But Don't Talk About It Atlanta Georgian. Don't be a braggart. Don't be vainglorious. If you do some good act and you cannot forget about your goodness, your motive was not right, no matter what you told yourself. Real charity is not done to gratify one's vanity. Neither does the recipient of your kindness like to feel that you tell , people how much you have done to help So and So along. It takes all the pleasure away from one who is granted a favor to have some one come up and say: 4'I have just heard of what A did for vou, and I think it was lovely of him to do it. Of course, he could as well as not, but many another would not have been so generous." It leaves a sting when you find out that your kind friend is reporting his goodness to you, and what shall we say of the one who is constantly reminding the recipient of the favors bestowed? Don't do good so some one will have to pat you on the back. Almost any person would rather do willunn a favor than find out that his benefactor is making capital out ol his generosity. "You see a bullet from one of those new rifles will kill six men standing one behind another," said the sergeant. "You don't say so sergeant," "In that case a man might as well go to the front," said Pat.? Exchange. Unless You Pull Fodder For The < Fun of It, Here's a Better Plan The demonstration force has 1 set itself to the task of stopping fodder pulling in this state by getting so much other forage I grown that it will not be neces sary. State Agent Hudson makes the following comparison of the two methods of saving forage: "One method is to pull one blade of fodder by hand at a time. This is not only slow and therefore expensive, but it comes usually in the hottest part of the year. The other way is to grow clover, cowpeas and other legu uiinous crops ana narvest them by horsepower, cutting a swath three or four feet wide, with the blade running almost at lightning speed. Certainly any busi ness farmer will admit, even without testing it, that the latter plan is more economical. It is a question, in other words, of ( the farmer increasing his work ( power, and therefore his earning capacity." Mcst farmers who pull fodder , every year do so not because they , are compelled to, but because , they are in the habit of doing so. It is now time to get ready to obviate the necessity of having to pull fodder this year. , The thing to do is to grow | some of the splendid crops? , cowpeas, soy beans, velvet beans, , millet, etc.?that are so well , adapted to that purpose. A farmer who does this a few times will not have to resort to the antiquated method of stripping llic r?r?rn looiroc T ( ~ ? 1 - - ?v.u ivttf VJ. XI IS UUt Ulll) ] two expensive, but very often a few rains will destroy the fodder after it has been pulled, and , therefore the farmer loses his forage, his labor and has also j reduced his corn yields For the , heaviest yield of corn the leaves of the plant should be left on the , stalk until the corn is well ma- , tured.?North Carolina Experi- , ment Station. What to Do for Chigger, or Red Bug, Bites It may bfe of interest to know that it is not the adult red bug . that does the biting, but the little : orange-red larvae that are hatch ; ed from the eggs usually in June, , July and August. The adult red , bugs are harmless and care noth ing for human society. The lar- , vae. or vounn rt?d hntr* will w r-? | leave their native haunts, leaves, grass and damp logs, for just | one fateful burrow into the hu j man skin. I Moderately strong ammonia ( water has been recommended as , probably the best cure for the , bite. A solution of soda water , is also good, and the old house- , hold remedy, salted butter, is au excellent remedy if used before the bugs have burrowed very ' deep. Another splendid idea is j to take a strong salt water or \ soap suds bath as soon as possible after becoming infested. Removing the chigger with the point of a needle is not n hn<t plan, but the point of bite should be touched with a toothpick i dipped in tincture of iodine and ] alcohol, equal parts ?North Car- j olina Hoard of Health. ' J "I want to be excused," said i the worried-looking juryman, < addressing the judge. "I owe a < man five dollars that I borrow- 1 ed, and as he is leaving town to- day for some years I want to ; catch him before he gets on the J train and pay him the money." { "You are excused," returned j His Honor in irv tonne 4,I don't want anybody on the jury ! who can lie like that." I Greatest Naval Battle of the War The great naval battle of the present war was fought last Wednesday, and the reports of the losses bv the British and by the Germans are very conflicting. The battle was off the Jutland coast between the German and British navies. London, June 4.?The British admiralty tonight issued a statement saving there was the strongest grounds for the belief that the British navy in the battle with the Germans off Jutland last week had accounted for a total of 18 German men-of war and that there was nothing to add to or subtract from the original announcement of the British lossses. The statement gave the German losses as two battleships, two dreadnought battlecruisers, four light cruisers, nine torpedo boat destoyers and a submarine. The pessimism which prevailed as a result of the admiralty's original statement of losses, which now is considered to have been needlessly candid and conservative in underestimating the extent of the German lossess as compared with those of Great Britian has been greatly lessened by the latest statement. A dispatch from Copenhagen says rumors are current in Hamburg that two additional warships than those announced in the German communication? the battleship NVestfalen and the oattiecruiser Lutzow?\\ ore sunk in the battle. A wireless dispatch received here Saturday from Berlin said the German admiralty admitted the loss of the Westfalen. The - admiralty statement tonight declares that the German losses in the fight were not only relatively but absolutely greater than those of the British. Maintaining its practice of caution, the admiralty still refrains from giving the names of the lost German ships The Indefatigable the Invincible and the Queen Mary were the battle cruisers sent to the bottom by the Germans. The cruisers Defence, Black Prince and Warrior also were lost. The War nv^i 111 si was reported Uisaoieu, but subsequently it was announced that she had to be abandoned bv her crew. The battle seems to have lasted through the afternoon and the following night. The German fleets' losses are stated to have been serious but no very definite information of these losses is afforded. One batllecruiser is declared to have been destroyed and another severely damaged, while the belief is expressed that a large number of German destroyers were disposed of. Following quickly upon the Admiralty announcement, came the German official version of the fight which, in general, confirms the British account, bat claimed that the battleship Warspite also was sunk and other British battleships damaged. The German losses, according to the German version of the battle, were the small cruiser Wiesbaden, sunk by gunfire and the warship I'ommern by a torpedo, while thcc.ui.er Frauenlob and a number of tornedo boats are missing. The news was flashed out in special editions of the evening newspapers and caused greater consternation in the West Knd if London than has been witnessed on any previous occasion since the declaration of war. The frankness of the Admiralty innou icemen! concerning the serious nature of the British losses and the apparently small losses of the Germans in comparison, ...I 4- a! eu 10 ino assumption 111 most ninds that the Jiritisli vessels mist have t>een led into ;i mine leia.