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i /" \ :T?- Walter ltodgera mar 16 Vol. 5 NO. 31 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 14, 1915 $1.00 per year A >.1 r- *? ' I ? - - miuuici uerman trainer at Newport News Newport News, Va., April 11. ?The German converted cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm, another of those elusive raiders of com merce in the south seas, slipped into this port today and asked for fuel and provisions. Many times reported destroyed, the fomier North German Lloyd linCT eluded the warships for eight months while she sent merchantmen to the bottom and her officers say she was forced to steal her way through a fleet of four allied cruisers off this coast in order to reach this refuge. "We got in without being seen by the enemy and we c^n get out the same way," declared her commander, Lieut. Capt. Paul Thierfelder, formerly navigating officer of the German cruiser Karlsruhe. When she anchored off Old Point the \\ ilhelm had less than 25 tons of coal and scant provisions for the crew of 500 men and 61 prisoners from British merchant sunk in the South Atlantic. The drab painted 15,000-ton cruiser came wilh a record of ^15 merchant ships captured, 14 ot them sunk, nine British, four French, and one Norwegian. The British ship Chasehill, captured, was allowed to proceed taktng to shore more than 300 prisoners from previous raids. The values of these ships and their cargoes, officers of the Wilhelm tonight estimated at $7,000,000. Since she slipped out of New York harbor August 3, last, as German merchant and passenger sailor, the Wilhelm never touche^land and took 960 pris& va"ous vessels des^^Smitf^^^Sic!mpons, on German ships which met the raider in response to wireless calls. The 61 now on board who will be landed here tomorrow are British sailors taken from steamship Tamar, destroyed March 25 and Coleby, destroyed March 27 last. Two Good Carpenters Monroe Enquirer Messrs. John C. Williams and Angus Deese were two of the best carpenter in this county in their day. They were not fast workmen, but iliey were painstaking and when they completed a job it was well done. These old men build Philadelphia Baptist church in Lanes Creek town ship over forty years ago That house is right now one of the best in the county. The framing muoers are large, mortised and draw-pinned. Every piece of outside lumber is selected heart. The ceiiing is broad and every foot of it was dressed by hand plane, but that ceiling was so thoroughly dried in an oldfashioned drykiln that it has not shrunk a particle in all these years. Every joint about the building is the work of a master hand. The windows are as steady in their frames as if they were of one piece. There are no cracks nor air holes about the house. It is a monument to its builders. The members of Philadelphia church take pride in their church building and keep it well painted inside and out and the grounds in good condition. ,4Is this suit all wool?" "Not precisely. It also contains horse ' hair, iron filings, cocoanut fiber, block tin, pipe clav, glue, jute, rope ends, spun glass, shellac, and some cotton. However, there is the usual amount of wool in it." Hk ?4 U- lL "TfHVOlj ^??| him the order.?Puck Don't Be Misled Progressive Farmer As the planting season ap- ( proaches cotton mounts upvvard, new crop months in New Orleans and New "fork now selling around ten cents. Whether this'', rise be due to speculative niani-11 pulation, to a larger consumption |< of cotton than was anticipated,!* to prospects for a reduced acre-;' age, or to a combination of these 1 factors, is difficult to say. The point we wish to make!1 here is that this rise, coming at 5 this late date when probably 1 four-fifths of last year's crop has |1 left the growers' hands, may do ' more harm than good. It most 1 certainly will if it be allowed to 1 mislead farmers into planting ' another big cotton crop at the expense of food and feed crops. 1 We are not quarreling with ' the man who is doing good ' farminir If ? ?1 ? ' ' .u.n.Mif, ?? nvy K-I KUMllf; pit'Diy I of bread, meal, potatoes, hay, 1 and legumes to enrich his land, and then making cotton his sur- 1 plus cash crop; but for the all- ' cotton farmer, be he landowner or tenant, to persist in doing as ' he has done in the past is little 1 less than a tragedy. c]ueh men have never raised cotton at a red profit, and they never will, 5 he the price high or low. Do we want another fall like last fall? Are we going to let the South pass through such another period of hard times? We are at the parting of the ways. The next six weeks will determine whether Southern farmers are going to commit economic suicide. Surely, surely our bitter lesson has not been in in vnin* Snrnlv ?* * - ? ?? ? | uut vi j ** c ill C 111.11 IU l)C misled by the glittering: bauble of high priced cotton when we 1 torrrr ?uo i.^tacnrto-uj^Jli" --C ? Which road shall you take? * < A Morbid Desire Two octogenarian darkies at ( White Sulphur Springs, having , been employed by one hotel | management since the Civil War, are now retained as pensi- ^ oners, though they occasionally , do light and pottering jobs about , the place. , tjne day not long ago they were languidly raking leaves on the lawn. As a lady passed she j heard them quarreling and stop- , ped to listen. "Nigger," stated the older of the pair, "does you know whut 1 wish't? I wish't dat hotel yon der had a thousan' rooms in it 1 and you wu/. laid out daid in 1 ev'y room!" ' ^ t Mrs. Ella McCreight. Cheraw, April lh.?After a lingering illness, Mrs. Ella Mo Creight, widow of I)r William McCreight, long a prominent business man of Cheraw, died and was buried on Wednesday in old St. David's church yard .She lived nearly all her life here, and had many friends who i ' x.iucu iivi manv line qualities o| heaTt. She is survived by two] sons, Robert, who is inlendant of Ruby, this countv, and Wilson, who is in the office of Steadman & Prince, Cheravv. Boy's Le{? Broken by Wheel, j Jeffersonian A two-year-old son of Mr. J as. Bird, who lives a few miies from town, had the misfortune to pet one of its leps broken last Saturday while playinp near a wapon. Mr. Bird was in the act of preasinp the wapon, and had slipped one wheel nearly off in order to pet to the spindle, and in some j way the wheel fell on the little : boy and the wapon came down on the wheel. The bone was set by Dr. Thomas and the little boy is eettinp alonp nicely. Meeting of Grant and Lee Recalled Charlotte Observer, Saturday* Fifty years ago yesterday, Gen. Robert K. Lee, commander-in:hief of the Confederate forces, in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia and Gen. Ulysses S. 3rant,commander-in-chief of the Union armies, met in the sitting room of the McLean House, some have said under the apple tree at Appomntox Court House \nd there arranged the terms of the surrender of the~Confederate forces that had so long protected the Confederate Capital. Richmond, but which had been compelled to evacuate that city on April 2. This marked the real end -oH l ! [he bitterest civil strife that thifc; country has ever seen and it is a | period fraught with memories ttf ill tiiose now living who partial Dated. It brought to a close Mid rears of fratricidal strife for, wi^j [he surrender of the Army qf Northern Virginia and its ablest! leader, it was but a question of lime until the other scattered ! units of the Confederate armies would give out. Negotiations between Gene ds Lee and Grant were openejg Dn April 7, when General Grd^fl lispatched to General Lee a notfl in which he said: "The results ol [helast week must convinceydjl jf the hopelessness of further resistance." General Lee answer* yd that he did not so regard thfjj :ause but that sharing with biq> 'the desire to avoid useless eM fusion ol blood" he would 10 know, before considering tlnE proposition, what terms he| wouri onor on condition ot ffMH render. General Grant's repH'J kya^^imoh that "the_me^^i(J officers surrendered shnM^H disqualified for taking up artxfl| against the Government of th<J United States until properly eu changed." Several communica-1 tions had thus passed back and! forth when on April 9 Generalfl Lee, eager for a restoration off peace, also devoutly desired byi General Grant, asked for an in-j tervievv. General Lee and his military secretary, Coi. Charfefl Marshall, advanced towaral Appomattox Court House USm the conference with General! Grant. | Card of Thanks We desire to thank the people/ of Pa&eland and surrounding country for the aid that has been Bjiven us since we lost bv fire our household jjoods. We ap preciate the good will and sym pathetic feeling that has beeii manifested by all. Very truly \1. S. Jordan and Family. \ Attei Are you a reader oi Post, The Ladies Hoi Country Gentlemen? 1 give you the best, in ill can buy. I have accepted the these publications and subscriptions whether jr J, A. K Using Cottonseed Meal in Place of Part of the Com in Feeding Horses. A reader says lie is feeding his horse corn fodder (blades) and 30 ears of corn a day and wants to know how much cottonseed meal he should feed and by how many ears of corn he can reduce the present ration. If the 3<> ears of corn are of a size that 112 will make a bushel, then our reader is feeding 15 nbunds of corn daily; but it is fupre likely that it will take 140 ?$? to make a bushel of shelled i 1- t ? c>vi H, uuu in suui case no is only Seeding 12 pounds of corn. We 4degest reducing the corn ration jj|ne-fourth and putting in thq feace of this corn, from one and Sr* -1 $>nehaif to two pounds of cotton ?ed meal. In other words, wboiit eight ears of corn may be wftjout and from two to two and pne-lialf pints of cottonseed $nehl put in their place.?Prof. nWssey in Progressive Farmer. May Take His Team fif If a blind tiger goes to haul rhiskey about now he is liable nder the State law to have his km and all property connected Pith the transaction seized and Bold and the liquor destroyed, lust as it is done under the KJnited States law in case of seized blockade. It looks like the blind tiger has really been femote hip and thigh.?iMonroe Journal. ftg Crushed When He Tries fc . .To Swing Train. Brne little son of Tim Braxton, Blored, fell under the wheels of Be C. & L. train last Thursday Ifel his right leg was so badly crushed that it had to be taken Jbff at the knee. The boy was attempting to "swing" the train, a habit he was abdicted to and which he had frequently been warned against. A peculiar con cidence in this case is that the boy's father lost a leg in his jyoung days in the same manner. Chesterfield Officers Chesterfield Advertiser The town election Tuesdajresulted as follows: Intendant, T. E. Mulloy; wardens, II. M. Odom, K. M. Myers, J. C. Rivers and J. T. Hurst. Mr. Armfield has had a splendid administration, has stood for the strict enforcement of law and declined to stand for re-election. Mr. Mulloy was clerk of the tetiring council. ition the Safurday Evening ne Journal and The [( nol, w liy not? They leir lines, that money subscription aaencv lor A 19 J will appreciate your lew or renawals. NIGHT High Place in Union Monroe Enquirer About seven miles southeast of Monroe on the Camden road, there is a fine spring known as Mountain Spring. The stranger traveling the Camden road would never realize that he was near one of the greatest elevations in the county when he is at Mountain Spring, but by going across the lields about a quarter of a mile north of Mountain Spring you will be amply repaid for the walk. You get one of the lincst views in this country ami on a clear day you can see field and forest, streams and hills for miles and miles in ever}' direction. The rainfall is greater on and around this little moun lam man it is in the surrounding country. The snowfall last Saturday must have been almost twice as great on and immediately around this elevation as it was on the surrounding country, for Sunday morning when practically all the snow for miles around was melted the snow in the woods around Mountain Spring was so plentiful that a man could have been tracked in it. Breeding Scrub Sows The Federal Division of Ani mal Husbandry has long sought to impress upon Southern farmers the fact that their native scrub cows when bred to purebred bulls produce excellent types of beef animals. The same principle applies to the Southern scrub sow?the razorback. Examples of the successful breeding of such sows to purebred boars are not lacking. Georgia can furnish an abuhdaDcc of instances, lames E. flownmg.lfig' tmu uigunif*.! -tu Georgia, is always ready to tell about a razorback sow owned by S. L. Dowling, seven miles from Valdosta. This sow was bred to a purebred Berkshire boar. The sow produced three litters of pigs in one 3*ear, and one of the gilts of her first litter produced seven pigs. The first litter numbered eleven; the second, twelve; and the third, twelve. This made a total of forty two pigs, all produced in one year. All of them were strong, thrifty animals. When slaughtered the eleven pigs ot the first litter dressed an average of 174 pounds. The second litter of twelve dressed an average of 146 pounds. Both lots sold at ten cents a pound? a total of $366.60. The first litter cost four cents a pound to produce, and the second litter cost two cents a pound. The total cost of the two litters slaughtered was $111.60. This amount, subtracted from $366.6* >, leaves $255 as profit on the two litters. When Mr. Dowling visited the farm to get these figures there remained to be accounted for the last litter of twelve pigs and the gilt and her seven pigs?a f A -W I- ? -t 4-4 1 iuiui ui nvt-uij iu uu suiugiiiereu and converted into money. --Country Gentleman. Soldering a Gasoline Can. Morvcn Sentinel. A gasoline can that Dave Owens, colored, was repairing at his shop yesterday morning exploded with a loud report^ that was heard all over town. He was preparing to solder the spout on the can, and had emptied all the gasoline out of it that he could and did not think that there was enough left to do any damage, but as soon as the hot iron touched the top of the can the gasoline in the inside caught fire and exploded at once No damage was done except tc the can, A Thief Defined. From Hilly Sunday's Sermon on the Ten Commandments. "Thou shalt not steal." Listen a minute. A man is a thief when he takes that for which he does not give adequate return, either in property, work or money. A man is a thief when he makes false representations. A man is a thief when he says: "This is all wool," and il is half cotton. A man is a thief when he says: "This is imported," when it was made in Philadelphia. A man is a thief when he says: "This is a pure article," when it is adulterated. If he knows it, understand he is a thief. The employer that makes the ^ workingman work for wages that keep him on the verge of starvation and don't begin to pay him for the labor he expends is a thief; so is the workingman that doesn't give his employer honest return for his wages a thief. The church that holds a lottery is a thief, too. Get Away From the Crowd. Robert B irdette, in a talk to young men, said?"Get away from the crowd for awhile, and tinnK. Stand on one side and let the world run by, while you get acquainted with yourself and see what kind of a fellow you are. "Ask yourself hard questions about yourself. Ascertain, from original sources, if you are really the manner of man you say you are; and if you are always honest; if you always tell the square, i perfect trmli in business details; ^ if your life is as good and upas it is at ^oont^^PWNS|fe1,**,^^ good a temperance man on a fishing excursion as you are on a Sunday school picnic; if you are as good when you go to the city as you are at home; if, in short, you are really the sort of man your father hopes you are and your sweetheart believes you are. Get on intimate terms with yourself, my boy, and believe me, every time you come out of one of those private interviews you will be a stronger, better, purer man. Don't forget this, and it will do you good."?Exchange. An Agreeable Relief Hob Davis stood under the dripping portico of a London hotel, peering out into the rain He had then been in London for two weeks and he had almost forgotten how sunshine looked. A wet cab driver stood against the wall trying to keep out of the downpour. VJVM./U UV/IU. oaiu L/<1 v 1^1 "Does it always rain here?" "Oh, no, sir," said the cabman; "last Wednesday it hailed." "Sand Clav" model roads and Concrete and Steel Bridges?and Chesterfield county will be out of the sand, mud and ruts for ever. The more I see of the outside world the more I realize that Chesterfield county needs "Good Roads." ?LaCoste Evans, "Good Roads Pusher." Teacher?Now Willie, tell me how many hones vou have in your body. 1 Willie?Two hundred and eight. Teacher?Wrong. You have but two hundred and seven. Willie?Yes, but I swallowed > a fish bone this morning at breakfast.