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the pageiInd journal Vol. 5 NO. 26 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10. 1915 $1.00 per year " i ' 1 ' "Indian" Doctor Before the Courts. For several months a negro up at Indian Trail has been playing "Indian doctor" and i^e wonders he has performed are little short of the miraculous. From far and near his deluded patients came, and out of the entire category of human ailments, not one case was beyond his power. He cured anything from hysterics to pellagra, so they claimed, and his fame spread like wildfire. He made a few calls to this section and made it pay. Among his patients he numbered about as many whites as blacks. The "doctor" has had his wings cropped, however, and he may not be able to do so great a work very much longer. He was hailed before the recorder in Monroe last week and sentenced to 12 months on the roads for practicing without license. * He appealed to the superior court. The Monroe correspondent to the Charlotte Observer gave the following account of the trial: \ great deal of interest was taked by the public in a case tried by the recorder here yesterday in which an old negro who wears the name of J. W. ? T ?ti r. ? ixuuiusun ana j. w. KODinstone indiscriminately was prosecuted for practicing medicine without having registered and obtained a certificate from the clerk of Superior Court. JAccording to the State's witnesses, and the defendant offered no testimony, the old fellow has been making a good thing out of his attempts , to follow in the footsteps of. Iftppocrates and Calen, although j ncyividcn^^h^.t. had ever heart^^t^^^^*entle- r men. The State having proved by the clerk of Superior Court that the defendant had not registered and obtained the required certi ficate, and by Sheriff Griffith that he had not obtained and paid for a county license to practice as a physician, Chief of Police Laney was put on the stand to testify as to statemenfs made to him by the defendant in which the latter admitted that he was administering medicine to people for various bodily ailments. After several white women testified that thpv <rot nioHi cine from the defendant for different ills, James Sill, a white man, stated that he called on the healer at Indian Trail to get; treated for what the doctors had told him was diabetes. The defendant for him, said Sills after an examination, that he didn't have "any diabetes;" but that he had kind of a stomach trouble, "not exactly a tapeworm or a hook-worm, but a worm hptivppn ?t,? " "ij~ .. vvu II1C l>? V/. I If I said he could cure me for $5. I asked him what I could eat, and he said to eat anything in the world; it would not hurt me if I took that medicine. I ate some cake and some beans, and they came very near knocking me out ol the box." The witness went on to state that the defendant told him that he could knock that worm out in 15 minutes when he got ready nnrt that tho *- - ..iv iivuiv.mc was u> gel the patient ready for the knockingout process on the worm. "He had me blow my breath into a tube, and he would listen, and said he could look in that and see all through my stomach. He said he saw a worm betwixt a tape-worm and hook-worm, about 18 inches long." Lelia Staten, a colored woman . of large dimensions, testified that the defendant treated her for rheumatism in the feet, for which she paid him $1, and that j the medicine did her so much j good that she could wear shoes j | she had not been able to wear j ( for a long time and that she wore the shoes up there the very '' next time she called for further ' treatment. The witness called s attention to her shoes, the size of \ which indicated that they had < been built either upon a special last or a dry-dock befote being! launched. 1 Sandy Bennett, another color * ed woman said that she was 5 treated by the defendant, who < t )Id her to pay what she could , and she gave him $3. She went , up there and stayed at the Indian Trail office of defendant for two or three months, where * the defendant had nurses in 1 training. Witness said that the 1 defendant had done her "all 1 good," better than the rest of the 1 doctors. * s ( Congress Adjourns After Long ' Siege. 1 ] Washington, March 4.?After two years of almost continuous j session the Sixty-third congress, which revised the tariff and the currency system of the nation, supplemented the trust laws, created an income tax and demonstrated the first popular election of United States senators ended at noon today. When gavels feJi jn the house * and senate, signalizing the adjournment, they signaled the ' close of half of President Wil- : son's administration, the first : under domination of the Demo ' cratic party since 1895. Strenu ous scenes enlivened the fading hours, devoted chiefly to com 1 pleting thtjuappropriation bills ; bills, failecHi^^^^^Rnegisla- 1 tive crush after desperate efforts ' had been made to save them. In 5 the emergency occasioned by their failure joint resolutions were passed and signed by the , president continuing in force appropriations of the present year. While tired senators and rep > resentalives were devoting their energies to final essentials. President Wilson spent more than an hour in his room at the capitol, surrounded by his cabinet, signing the last bills of legislation. The president found time in the midst of this task to greet senators and renresentii tives, and he made the occasion entirely one of congratulation, making no reference to projects which had failed. Scores of members of both I houses joined tonight in an ex odus from Washington, taking with them assurances that no extra session ol congress would I be called, at least before fall. Despite the fact that many important bills failed oi consideration because ol the long lilibust er against the ship purchase bill it was generally understood congress would be given a rest and the country a respite lrom legislation. It was regarded us extremely probable, however, that the Sixtv-fourth congress would be summoned in October to be! able to adjourn for the political conventions and national campaign of l'ilb. Worse than "Fundy" Clieraw Chronicle Joe Mikeluc, was in the city Saturday and Sunday, he is walking from Washington D. C. j to South America. Mr. Mikluc has three years to complete this | journey, he left Washington Feb. 5th. Mr. Mikluc will be remembered b> a number of people here as he was here in October 1909,. The Whipping Post. ; For the past 25 years, effort* lave been made periodically^ j,t? lie Delaware Legislating ibolish the whipping posC?^u :hat State remains iaifhiu incient institution, ft is 0 whip a prisoner than it eed him, and it is not often dim 1 man once whipped repeats;$M!| :rime for which he \\jsxs pOnjus&M id, or, if lie does, He gob^Vt?| some other Stale to do it. ^TftW a hipping post.mnyTbe regajdejjt is a relic of barbarism, ow nercentflpo nf rrimn in ware is always held up lisfw? irgument as to its. \bout six years agtejaq- em9 was made in the Noi?&1?itfd??iB Legislature to revive th^ llos^jJ ion in this State, but it jupport. The woruen^ii^giM^S if Delaware and tlie^>^^naH| Christian Temperani^^mKl whipping-post advoe^pS^^BftS lad a large part in lie law against the recent'jMpsS ative attach. It wouldtbp.jBm isling to know what st&ir#tfe<3 women of North Carolina \w>^lfi take 011 the whipping-post qafesjfl lion.?Charlotte Observer. f*ia . ' il'cW Uot 1 he Hay, but Not TRc Negro. J3 Chcraw Chronicle Jw "Bub" Reid, a notorious Glwjfl ?d character of this town, tB again in trouble. This time foi^ stealing three bales of hay Satur-; Jay night from the warehouse of j Mr. M. \V. Duvall. Bub got a' wagon from some source and! J rove righi up to the warehouse and loaded up and drove off The hay wa" r-issed and \w\ Covered but Bidr~goT",wiSi''^^ the fact that the cops were after him and made good his * get( away." * ; "A Powe Mr. Pound will ditorium Frida lure will concli season. Pagela lucky enough Pound give on Some one has: a marked degr ways the man, victions and m< SUBJECT "The .. - :'d* Mr. Pound makes yo lias died away his finer than mere nnm ??' R- received the benedic Remember The Lycei So Don't fail to come o LYCEU i W- ' ^ Compulsory Education in Pageland District. rJVlf. Editor?Everybody's busijijEsipis nobody's to attend to, and a needed thing that nobody's (b'atteud to is anybody's to s^e jbJ^^These are the general eon [elusions, I believe, but what this 'writer wants is some one to bejfeih right now to plan to put into ieffect die compulsory education daw in" this school district. In sonle districts the trustees might bejiCertfcio enforcing the law, bur I believe the trustees in 'Pagjffland school district are in sym"pathy with this law. t My understanding is tlrat it a [majority of the qualified electors Sin any district signs a petition for compulsory education before jthe first day of June that the law ?s then by their act already (effective. Now, let's work the thing up, [balk it op, and you, Mr. Editor, I published* it up. Let's go to work and have this thing we Iieed so badly. Suppose, to start he thing, one or more or all the fustees call a meeting to be held it. the school auditorium to coniyder the matter together. Then dt somebody who is surer than yuis scribe about the conditions pi putting the law into effect tell lis how to proceed, how to pro Bhiro 11 lift *1?^ 1' ? Pit iiai in uic <4 uuniieu >rs in the district. Then hit the job, move the job. ave the good job landed in ute (or longer). Interested Citizen. Card of Thanks We take this method to thank our friends for kindness shown as during the illness and death jfcQ^jylaughter. never Wrget the many acts of kindness Ishown us. May God bless each of you. Fraternally, yours Mrs. Mary A.Sowell. f h ftidine r on the give a lecture at y night, March 1 ide the Lyceum md may well be to have such a e of his noted said "He has the ee but back of th behind the word: nrli iH oolc " IJlf <^C*>C3q Americanization < ' - V u feel what he feels, an auditors are left with s reciation of eloquent la tion of noble purpose an urn Committee lias worked ha ut, and give your Support. 1 M C0M1V Cleaned Out the Well. The second deep well which was bored when Monroe put in its water system has long been 2 | stopped up. It is the most valu- a I able well by far which we have A ? vor bad and is about eleven b humhid feet deep. For years n nia:\ pi r^wns tried their hands ^ at cl -.miner the obstruction out an < everv one but made it d wcuse. Now a man is on the n job who knows his business so P w< !i that it is confidently belieyed that he will have the well f free ol all obstruction in a few c days. This news is of the great- c est interest to Monroe, as the s flow of this well will be suffi- c cient to furnish plenty of water for a long time to come. Mr. H. W. Abernethy is the man on the job, and he has been t rt work since the 4th of last Ian- i] uary. Piece by piece he has c pulled out obstructions of veiv T r v character, ami now he has hook- c cd what he think is the last one, s and with no accident, he will c have the thing at the top in a r few more hours. The well is t eight inches in diameter. After t it was found to be apparently 1 impossible to get it cleaned out t enough to put a pump in, some v one conceived the idea of digging a great cistern around the t well deep enough to reach the F point where the water rises of r its own motion. This plan was c followed and a great hole made, t Then another shaft about the a size of an ordinary well was sent d down for a depth of more than c a hundred feet. About this time ^ Mr. Aberncthy, who is a well h driller, came along and said that t he could clean out the well. No- a bods believed him, but every- d body, including the city alder-" t men. was willing to let him try. c ip.veryDoay else wiio wanted to s ' had had a try, and there could v g Pound; f 2 Platform" \ t tl a the School Au- v 19th Thlc !?/>. !. -M. JLI.1C7 ? course for this s proud of being talent as Prof. ! d lectures here. \ : orator's gift to c e speaker is als are deep con- 1 r V )i the World" t i d when the applause lomething truer and 1 nguage. They have d uplifting thoughts. i rd, all tor your benefit. Resnertfnllv 1 J V J IITTEE , Fined for Disturbing Peace With Car Monroe, March ?From Winate comes a storj- of a noisy utomobile and owner who wis ined and a policeman who was ieaten up for his activity in the natter. The facts, as reported iere are as follows: Ernest Robinson of Win gate rives a car that makes no slight loise. Me was held before the tolice court of Win irate and ined for "disturbing the peace." Resenting this, it is alleged, he ailed Policeman J. W. Smyth ut and attacked him with a tick breaking an aim for the dficer. Some Salt! The volume of the saline mater in the ocean is somewhat nore than 265,956,133,600,000 :ubic feet, according to the Jnited States Geological Survey >r enough to cover the entire urface of the Uuited States, ex:luding Alaska, 8,448 feet deep. >e no harm in another one or wo. He camps on the job, and inless all signs fail he will have hat valuable well as clear as a vhistle before many days. Nobody knew what was in he Well. It was known that the nimr* inil IiiukUaJi. ' -1 ?" 4 -wiuf uuu nuuuicua Ul ict'l ()I od, twentv-fivc feet of six-inch :asing, three or four hugh steel looks, a lot of two-inch rope, ind a ton or two of rock were lown there, but further than that inly Providence was wise. Mr. Vbernethy works in a way unknown to those who had tried he job before. He sends down i roll of stiff pipe clay in a cylinler, until it strikes an obstruclon makes an impression in the :la3'. ^Mfr-this is pulled up, it hows just what is on top in the veil. Then Mr. Abernethy >roceeds to make a tool that will ;rab and hold this particular king. Thus, step by step, he ias gone, making each time a lew tool for the particular >bstruction which the impresion in the clay showed. The irst thing he hauled un was 1 6-foot piece of casing. After hat came most any old thing, principally bearded hooks of leavy steel which had been sent own by those who were trying 0 bring up other things. About he hardest thing to get out was 1 great mass of Ma lilla rope vhich had been packed and repacked in the well by the various ittempts to get it out. l or five tundred feet lie encountered uch stuff as this. When he got to the long wooden pump rods his instrunents nipped off the ends as fast is thev were caught, but linallv ic got a bite on the iron joints vhich connect them, and the :atch held. He thinks that the lump and the further obstrucions in the well are holding to his, on account of the weight, t is so heavy that his engine canlot pull the load and he has gearid up a series of ratchets to be vorked by hand. This is mighty low but it is sure, for with it a i ? i. ~ * urn seven iiunisauu pumius ui tuff is slowly coming from he bottom of the well, and s now near the top. As said above, this is by far he most valuable well of all vhich have been sunk. The low is stronger and the water s better. Nobody knows how nuch money has been spent durng the years in the attempt to dean out the well.?Monroe lournal. (Later information is that the Lrtft knn<l tllrlt UU llirta UUUI1 iiuu Abernethy Rets the praise.- The lournal.)