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Vol. 5 NO. 31 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 14, 1915 $1.00 per year
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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
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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 ?* * -
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misled by the glittering: bauble
of high priced cotton when we 1
torrrr ?uo i.^tacnrto-uj^Jli" --C ?
Which road shall you take? *
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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!" '
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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
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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.
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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
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leir lines, that money
subscription aaencv lor
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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
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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.