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THE PAGFLAND JOURNAL
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Vol. 5 NO. 24 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRDARY. 24, 1915 $1.00 per year
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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."
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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
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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
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.. ** 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
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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*