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Vol. 5 NO. 24 American Ship Sunk in North Sea Washington, Feb. 22.?The United States government was advised officially tonight of the destruction of the first American 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 given in the dispatch. 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 Germany always has piloted 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 need of cotton, would not torpedo a vessel laden with such a cargo for German consumption, v Financial Troubles. ^l^^nan^eturmng to his home -ac.vcraL yor-^ absence, met one of his old j negroes, a former servant of his' family, relates Lippincot t's Mag- j a/.ine. "Uncle Moses,"/he said, "I hear you have gotten mar ried." "Yes, Marse Tom, I is, and Use having a moughty troublesome time, Marse Tom, moughty troublesome." "What's thp tmnMnJ" ? w ..V/UI/IV OIIIVI I UN I friend. "Why, dat ynller 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 tiow much money have you given her?" "Well, I ain't done gin her none vit." Correspondingly Small. Quiet and confident, the young traveler for the patent fertilizer determined to sound Farmer Filbert as to his firm's latest product. Hut 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 I reckon he'll be able to carry the crop in the same pocket, too!"?Exchange. "Yes," said the young lady, "1 spent the entire evening telling mm mat he had a terrible reputation for Kissing girls against their will." "And what did he do?" "He sat there like w boob and dewed It,1K i PAG1 1 Fourth Quarterly Report of County Supei v'sor, for 1914 (Outside aid $188.0(1 D M Barentine 37.5(1 Dr J II Harden 10.0(1 Dr L E Bull 10.0(1 Dr J T Buff If>.50 G M Rogers 50.0(1 J A A ran I 37.50 Walkes Evans Cogs'll Co. 140.31 E W Moore 225.00 W J Tiller 100.00 J T Grant 225.00 D P Douglass 376.60 D II Eunderburk 5.00 Walker Evans Cogs'll Co. 75.30 Otlom Bros. Co. 50.IS Dr T E Wanamaker 3.75 A B Cassidy 00.00 Armlield Hardware Co. 42.00 John W. Knight 152.10 J E Williams 15.93 Cheraw Sash & Door Co. 1.75 H L Baker 4.10 R A Rouse 300.00 H J Sellers Co. 52.80 0 i> Turnage 1.60 Dr J T Bull 5.00 D II Means 17.50 Chesterfield Tel. & Tel. Co. 15.00 A Sullivan 221.30 1 P Mangum 2N3.70 J W McCassidv 16.60 E M Moore 41.66 J C Rivers 62.49 (J A Malloy 71.16 A B Cassidy - 30.1)0 John W. Knight 50.00 T W Belle 31.66 il T Atkinson 83.32 A J Outlaw 11.0' > J as. Grilfeth 24.58 C \ Baker 33.32 Dr W \ Gantt 10.00 Chesterfield Merc. Co. 92.16 D 11 Laney 3.75 J W Knscoe 55.70 J A Welsh iOOOO J N Davis 83.32 J rr^m(CTT ? Meihlejohn Lumber Co^^^w.60 C L Crowley 50.00 Chesterfield Advertiser 45.60 J K Abbot 214 80 1' C McLauren 303.05 Anderson Lucus 64.00 W A Douglass 112.00 11 l1 King 412.00 J A Hall 5.50 W II Hilton 00.00 boatis Davis Co. 32.05 A C Jhirr 63.50 IV1 W Duval I .>84.12 D C Smith K M Moore 20 84 I us. Grifteth 14..".0 The McNnir Co. 7.7<? C 1' Kin^ 1.50 D 11 Laney 10.08 Chesterfield Dry Goods Co 2?>.;,(? Theo Winhuru 00.80 W J Davidson 2.00 Dr D T Teal 81.00 Davis & Rivers 28.00 J C Sanders 10 10 T W Kddins 1 15.41 J K Williams 21.4 > i\ I Davidson 4.ai M 1> and II L Siniili " ? ... Armlield Porter Co. 200.00 II M Otloni 37.02 Chesterfield Drug; Co. 21.90 Jeffersonian 23.48 21.01 II A Watson 0.19 Threalt liros. 281.08 J K lowers 2.50 14 II Laney r?.25 A I- Davis 1.25 C H Kedfeain 7.0(1 I< 14 Marsh 08.05 J 1, Smith 9.11 T C Melton 32.00 M J I louj?h I4i?n< W I-) Craig 27.0(1 Wesley Campbell 15.0(1 PamelancJ journal H.5(J F. A Pl> ler 7.7.1 J A Arant 50.0(1 G M Rogers 50.0(1 15 I) Turnage IS..55 A Sullivan 02.S3 Cheraw Chronicle 00.0(1 |Cordv Winburn 10.0(J Hugh Bales ."?5.od 11 (- SHIHUmk i-l.oli ELAND, S. C., WEDNESDA Wonderful Exposition Opens at San Francisco >1 Exposition Grounds, San Francisco, Feb. 20.?The Pana H ma-Pacific International exposii tion was formally opened at > noon today, Pacific coast ti.ne. > The dedication was made as 1 short and simple as possible. 1'nited 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 bv President Charles C. Moore and the other executive officers. Secretary Lane, President Wilson's personal renrr?spnt<iiivo - ~r- ?%*?% * delivered a brief address, during which he read this telegram from the president: "Please convey my heartiest congratulations to the authorities of the exposition anil 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 which 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 A ? uuy 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. Thoj previous record was at the openThe crowd was a spectacle in itseli. It filled the grandstands, it packed the great courts and concourses, it poured through the aisles, i'. overflowed from the sidewalks into the avenues, from the hills to il?<? Kn- ?<? %ttv WUJ ?l J 1(11 vis the eve could reach, in unending ?ivers 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 antvidvertisment of a quack doctor out of his daily paper and sent it to us. Sa>she: "lam building \uth catarrh, and these people claim they can treat successfully this and most other diseases by mail.* Dear people, let such scoundrels alone. They are worse than theives, for thieves usually steal hum those that have money and wealth. Few thieves would moicst a poor man, and would he ashamed to rob a sick one. 1 >ut these "quack" doctors are robbing the sick, ihe ignorant and the dying. They are no belter than hyenas. When you are sick and suffer ing, see a reputable, decent, highclass physician or surgeon in ' 3uui own vicinity. Don'l trust i the "advertising doctor" (?) and i the patent medicine man. I Compared to them, divc-keepi ers are gentlemen, and stand a better chance oi heaven when they die. i "iiegin at the bottom and work i your way up, Patrick, that is i the only way." i "It can't be done in my busi I ness. I'm a well digger."?the I Comet. J 1 Grunt lul.5? IV-iil Jones Co. -.51 - II. 1?. Kinu, County Supervisor tAUvmtlneWC'Uij I x * * H ,-,s jf * r -*-V- v jji | * Y MORNING, FEBRUARY 2 Mr. Buy Grub and His Pif ful Plight Since this is to^qtaly only to farmers?real and imitation? everybody else will please to "stand aside." And as Mr. Buy Grub's case is the most urgent, we will attend to his first Mr. Buy Grub is generally a "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 necessaiy 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 meal is coming from, nor where 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 corn from Illinois, his potatoes from 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. If I were asked the old qqestion,? "who pays the freight," I'd point my finger straight at Mr. Buy Grub. t This same Mr. Buy Grub is the man who is guilty of keeping lite South away down toward the bottom financially for all these years, and this too in spite 4^ the assertion of the first ex^^yj^vho dec'a/ed our coun | per shone upon," in spUeoTtTi? fact that we areblessed above all others in climate, long growing , seasons, rainfall and other nnti ral advantages. Mr. Buy Grub can't afford to fooi 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 faim papers. They have too much to sav 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 jo?) about one third of the time. Now let's have a look at Mr. I .4 1 if i' * iiuinc. iic lives Doner than any king on earth. !n fact all the kinds' jobs of the Lastem Hemisphere could go hang for all of him. lie and his family are contented and prosperous, and neither "high cost of living" nor the "upward trend of prices" is worrying him a mite. Of course this condition did not come about by Mr. Live at Home sitting down and dream ing, nor did he bring it about by waving the magician's wand. He knows th it ins! about every thing comes to him who waits, if he hustles while he waits, so he gets up early in the morning and ! hi sties and lie keeps this lip pretty regularly 12 months in the year, lie grows his own hog and apple pie and lias 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. : lie lias something either fresh or canned on his table days in tbe v<?!ir iind it iv n/ii tl??> ' willed, stale stuff that has been * picked over for a week either. ,\Ir. Live at Home keeps one or more Rood cows to supplv the itiifU, ? letun .mil hulhM mi 3URNAI 4, 1915 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 be 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 i ?? 11? ^ i^uv .u iiwiiii; ivuiuiyr r.ven though it takes a long: hard struggle, remember the old adage "Nothing great is easily won, and this -is great.?J. E. YOUNT, in Progressive Farmer. Frrnk James Dies Peacefully In R* 4 Hxcelsior Springs, Mo., Feb. 18. ?Frank James of the notorious James pang died on his farm near here late today. James, who was 71, 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 do/.en States in terror, Frank James had been living the life of a quiet farmer for more than 30 years. The son of a minister, respected throughout the community, Frank James joined Ouantrell's gueriMas in the War of Secession, together with his brother Jesse, and took part in the sacking ot Lawrence, Kan. After the guerillas disbanded the James brotln rs became bandits. Many notorious crimes of the jlecfldo Chtlnwinff i?or rneen i-.n"f-f.v.; k ",ri ll."vvYounginer gang, of which the I surviving members were Frank i 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, j thinking to kill the James brothers. It exploded, tearing the I arm off their mother and killing their brother, Archie. In 188-, after Jessie James had j ken shot and killed in his home in St. Joseph, Mo., by Hob Ford, also a bandit, for a reward of $50,000, Frank James surrendcr; ed in Jefferson City, Mo. | Germany Will Need 125,000 R?l M nn Washington, Feb. 20,?Germany will require 125,000 bales of American cotton a month to keep her mills running at threefourths capacity, Commercial I Attache Ernest W. Thompson reported today. Cotton quotations at Hamburg on February 8 were: Fully good middling 1().41 cents per pound, and good middling 15.8 to 1(> cents. An American traveler relates the- following: 1 Once 1 dined with an English I f'.ii nil>r \V?? li.i.l !?.?.? I IIUI1IV.1I 1 I v. IMIVl I I 41 I ft 1 Vtl) | delicious hum, ami the farmer's I son soon finished his portion and passed his plate again. ; "More 'am father," he said. The father frowned. "Don't Isav 'am son, sav Yim." i t "1 diil say 'am," the son protested in an injured tone. "You said Yiui," cried the | father fiercely. " Win's what it should be' not 'am." In the middle of the squabble the farmer's wife turned to me land with a deprecatory little laugh; explained: "They both i think tlmv'ip savin' 'ant, sir," L $1.00 per year What is A Pasture Marsbvillc Home A typical Union county pasture has been described as "a piece-of land where grass won't grow, with a fence around it." 'PI a J i nai description will also lit 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 stock ed it with clover and pasture grasses?land that will produce p bale of cotton or fifty bushels of corn per acre. Of course it takes some nerve for a I armor in the cotton belt to do that, but he is alwavs 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 seeding a mixture of permanent pasture grasses for hill ltirwlc c.wwl - i * liv JttU I CV| 11 11 L'U 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 profitable 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 industrv in the sense of making a howling success and a big income in the beginning, but that we must "grow" into the business, and the only economic and practical way to grow into it is to providefor the service of gresstve 1 j nioncc^Wfianne^^^ the other day who was real anxious to get behind our repre sentatives 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. X. (J. Togo's Ideas on Automobiling Soonly there is a red whi// passing. It are a automobile ol [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 Hon. Chaffer clasping teeth for nerves. "What speedometer is it?" asks Hon. Truster, eating some dust. "hO-mile hourly we are going it," say-he with wheels. "Fxtrcme slowness," derange Hon. Finance. More pushes by gasoline. "Of what speedness now?" examine them Trust Magnet. "75-mile horse power," sa\ Hon. Chaffer with lung. "Exaggerate it!" elapse lion. Hoss for mania. Hon. Chaffer tiy to, hut lion. Car make angrv race of cogs and do an explosion hy fence where fraxions must he collect ed patiently. Injury is enjoyed 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 the new at rival. "Yes," answered the applicant r.._ .. i i ? .? ? -- I(H <1 KlHUeil ITOYVll. 1 <?1 I CM I years he used my telephone to cany on his business, and I never complained." 'Tnler. my good uvan,' said Sain I IVlwr, with mm h leeluif j