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The pagelj o journal Vol. 5 NO. 37 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNEmPmORNING, MAY 26, 1915 $1.00 per year Italy Finally Takes Long Deferred Plunge Into War Rome, May 23.?via Paris? Italy is at war with AustriaHungary. With the issuance of the general mobilization order the Italian G overmen t issued a proclamation declaring war on Austria, which officially will begin tomorrow. Prior to thi?, /and after a lengthy consultation, the Ministers of War and Marine proi 11 ^ i t enumeu uii ine provinces oordering on Austria and the islands and coast towns of the Adriatic in a state ol war which was equivalent to the establishment of martial law, the step usually preceding the formal declaration. Although drastic action has been looked for momentarily, Italians of all classes have been electrified by the swiftly moving events. Early this morning great crowds gathered around the Quirinal to await the Ministers, who called on the King for the purpose of discussing the question and signing the decree. \Vhen Premier Salandra and Signor Sonnino, the Foreign Minister left the Palace the people cheered them enthusiasti cally. (General Zaippill, Minister of War, and Vice Admiral Viale, Minister of Marine, remained with the King for a considerable time after the others left and later they had a conference with Lieutenant General Cadorna, Chief of Staff and Vice Admiral Phaon di Revel. Chief of the Naval Staff. Aaistro Italian front, on the Ilustrian side of which feverish preparations have been going on the last few days to make the . pcjctcong; as possible, and to clear the way for effective artillery action, von Buelow, and the Austria Ambassador, Baron von Macchio, are still in Rome so far as is known. They have waited to the last moment in the hope that some way might be found to prevent a clash at arms They will be given safe conduct when they do leave and so far as German and Austrian residents in Italy are concerned, every effort has been made to see them safely out of the country. On the other hand, most alarming reports have been received from Italian border towns that Italian residents in the Austrian Tyrol are experiencing great difficulty in returning to Italy and in many cases have been placed under arrest. Two Pictures. An old farmhouse with meadows wide, * * And sweet with clover on each side; A bright eyed boy, who looks from out The door with woodbine wreathed about, And wishes his one thought all day: "Oh, if I could but fly away From this dull spot, the world to see, How happv, happy, hunnv How happy I should be!" Amid the city's constant din, A man who round the world has been, Who, 'mid the tumult and the throng, Is thinking, thinking all day long: "Oh, could I only tread once more The field path to the farmhouse door, The old green meadow could I see, How happy, happy, happy, (low Jinppy I should be!" Union County News. Monroe Knquirer. An effort is being made to or-' gani/.ea Baptist church at Bock Rest, four miles east of Monroe. ' If the church is organized an attractive house of worship wiil be built near Rock Rest school. | The news comes that iris a; ceitaintv that work on the new, railroad from McBee to Monroe will begin in the near future and will be rushed until the road i<= completed. The Phifer, Price and Davis goldmines in Vance township have been sold to a Trenton, New Jersey, company and this trio of mines will again be worked. Mr. I'.. A Armiield says that the ore from these mines is the richest in the I county. Those three minus are right near each other. Sheriff Griffth ami Constable Earnhardt made a raid one night last week and found the site of a still about half a mile otf the Morgan Mill road and twelve miles northeast of Monroe. I he furnace was hot, but the slid had been removed. .About five hundred gallons of beer was poured out bv the officers McW'hirter Brothers Teeter is the name of a new firm at Wingate. The members of the firm are Messrs. K. L. McW'hir-' ter, A. B. McW'hirter and N. A.| Tjpeter. Their place of business the former stand of the W ingate Supply Company. They will carry a general stock. The largest load of butter ever on the streets of Monroe was a load of 1,830 pounds?fine vel low butter it was, too?and it was taken from the Monroe Creamery in t^^rstoni Rnrt_pi/! town i uesuay anifoUu pounds I of it was shipped to Charleston, S. C., and 1,230 pounds to Norfolk, Ya., The Monroe! Creamery is turning out a fine grade of butter and is making lots Ol It. The trustees of the Wingate School have elected the following faculty for next year: Prof. J. G % Carroll, principal; Prof. Henry C. Langston, of Green ville, N. C.. assistant principal;1 Miss Bertha Johnson, intcrmcdi ate classes; Miss Pronie Perry, fifth and sixth grades; Miss Carolina Webster, third and fourth grades; Miss Osee Long, primary' department; Henry 1. Langston, music. A rocu quarry is being work- | ed on Mr. (J. (). Pulen wider1 sj place in Benton Heights for the ; purpose ol getting rock tc1 macadam roads. The convicts unearthed a peculiar formation in that quarry last Mond.13. Tlli'V fnnrtd Kiiiii'.n.n 1 ? - F . 'I.MW i/v \ vii IIR' myi'is | of hard blue slate rock a pocket containing half a bushel of slate j rock about the size and shape1 of noose eggs. Some of thej oval shaped rocks are embed ' ded in the hard blue slate rock and others are 1\ inn loose in tin pocket. Tile oval slate rock are all blue slate. BiK I .iar A current newspaper item is as follows: "The wife of a Methodist minislci in West1 Virginia has been married three times. Iler maiden name was Partridge, her first husband was named Robins, her second Spar row, the present Ounil. There are now two young robins, one sparrow and three quails in the! family. One grandfather was a | swan and another a Jav, hut lie's dead now and a bird of |?aidise. They live on I lawk avenue, Kujdeville, Canary Island, and the fellow who wrote this is a l yre and a relative <>' 'he; familv." I- \ When Will It End? jE S-.uiird y l'"vfiling Post. -?B Ai Lloyd's in London?-flH| cables say?I liev are bettiaH seventeen to one tlval war ?D not end wiili August. Lxprg^E ed iii : ' ms of insurance, \ oil |WH something over ninety-fqjra pounds premium in order recover a hundred pounds if war rur.s to September. Kecegjra Iv orders were placed in.a^H country for tools used in makiag sbr.?pnel ?deliveries to run dp to August i11st. Nobody at this writing, 'iifj/j. fine, can see anv tangible proij AlM mi so of peace this summer; ad^f even cm '.be proposition that a .. ... .. : 11 i .i.:? ~..i i - - ?:Jti11 v. ;11 wm-uiiu litir* tUKiiuiti yuttl j' Lloyd's offers less than evert jJ money. . .Nine months of continuous N fi ditin^ has simply developed | the ancient problem as to what 1 will happen when an irresistibleij f< ree meets am immovable body. * t"jst and west, the German lines ? hold about where tliey were I planted after the first victorious* \ rushes. Considering the foiCe < already expended in vairt against them, pushing thOSlfS; lines back across German soil isp a stupendous undertaking. '? On the other hand, Germany's!! colossal eflort has so far been iw vain. Nowhere has she ye? reached an objective. where has she definitely gainedi the upper hand. 4 The military resources onr five great Powers have beers strained to the utmost for three!, (piartcrs of a year without ac*j complishing anything which! even points in the direction of fill settlement through jnilitsyafc means, i fuTCunless othefra^J tors ot a decisive sort develoW within the next three monthi will probably inspire a resort tcJ other means of settlement. f I How You Clan Avoid the Pla-' gues of Flies This Summer. * Not only are flies unpleasant when they share with us our front porches, kitchens and dining rooms, hut we may he <juite sure that they are responihle for as much sickness as perhaps any other single agency. Typhoid, fever is verv frequently carried/ hv the ordinary fly, and a big! percentage of the serious summer ills of children are due to the same cause. (>n the farm rnore than 90 per cent of all house flies breed in horse manure, and it is of interest and value to know that the Fnited States Department of Agriculture, after a series ot f..i : A? ? .- i ' i iM-iui invesug.uions. n;is lounu tlv.it ordinary borax, when sprinkled over the manure, prevents the hatching of more than J u<) per cent of the eggs laid. It was found also that the ouantity of borax necessary to prevent flies breeding had no injurious effect on the manure. It is recommended that about j ten ounces of borax he used for j each eight bushels of manure,! and that it he sprinkled on iwith i a fine sieve. Two or three gal ; Ions of water should then he, sprinkled over the manure. I l he cost of this treatment is1 estimated at one cent per horse per dav. In oilier words, the farmer with two horses can keep down the flies from May until (kloher at a cost of only three dollars Isn't this worth trying The Government Bulletin, No IIS, giving details regarding this method of preventing flies may he had from the Governon nt I'rinling < >ffice, Washington I >. < it fell i e1 Is a ? op^fl I ( I WpfefCrnlodes and Kills One.' ISif boiler at Mr. George GarIw's saw mill on Mr. Lester kfifgins' farm in Lanes Creek 1 HBn&Bbip exploded last Wednes j JBKttlorning about S o'clock and j , Bed Toland Hlakenev. colored, HUfrroke Maston (Gardner's e leg in two {daces. The '' Ewas getting up steam to 1 the days sawing and was . the engine when the | exploded and hurled him | 1 distance of IS feet and so ? njured him that he spoke onlv ' :>nce and died an hour later. Young Gardner was standing ! tviih his father in the saw dust ^ fit at the saw mill a short dis- ? tit. . fi r lilUCC * /'IV <>I UIC IIUL'S I rom Mn' hoiler struck him and ' stoke his leg as stated above, but his father, standing less than throe feet away, escaped with- t >ut a scratch. The boiler was" a Lidded, 20fiorse and was old. Mr. Gard ner considered it safe to use, however, and says it burst because the fireman filled it too full of water. Me says this had been done a few times before and that he warned the negro the day before the accident that he was going to he killed by that boiler if he didn't quit pumping it so full of water. The boiler ripped open from &r.d to end and turned wrong side out. It fell several feet from its location, and the lead P?pe was found 250 yards away. Tli,o rock and brick with which Ll. _ * me LAoiler was lined were blown away \\ipd a clear place was WWRT"wneTe uie uifiTer siOOu. The timbers and plank covering were blown a way at.d Mr. Gardner savs he has seen only a piece or two of the heavy timber and that he doesiv't know where the other is. The negro who was killed was an unusnally good negro. Mr. Gardner says he had never heard him use a word ol pro fane language during the many months he hail worked for him. The negro'> body was only slightly bruised and it is thought that the shock caused his death. Mr. Gardner is preparing to install another boilet and con tinue to run his mill. Homicide N f?n r -.v...... "'K-1' Yesterda\ morning jibont 7 o'clock Mr. A. 1'. Hammond, who lives niidw.iv between Pleasant Hill and Heath Springs, shot and instantly killed a negro employe by'the name of Jim Gill. It appears that Mr. Ham mond and Gill had had some trouble and (Jill came into Mr. Hammond's yard and renewed the trouble, throwing a rock at Mr. Hammond, who in defense of himself, tired the fatal shot with a pistol. Magistrate II. \V. Mobley held the impiest yesterday. There were no eye wit nes es to the difficulty. Mr. Hafrnnond was one of the witnesses at the impicst. He stated that he fired the shot in selfldefer.se. The verdict of the jury wii-s mat the deceased came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by Mr Hammond. Mr. Hammond immediately surrendered to the sheriff and wiil make application for bail at once.? Lancaster News. Stranger -"What'syour name, little boy?" Little I toy?"Willie." St ran ger?" Willie what ?" Little Lo\ "Willie Don't. I guess. That's what mama a!-; mays t ills mi'." r \< huit/c i Keep The Babies Well. I)111 in?jt the months ot May iiul June the baby death rate egitis to climb, reaching its leight in July and August. It hould not be forgotten that his is the season when babies hould be given the greatest are and attention in order to ;ee|> them well. There are two auses demanding this: heat and lies. Ileal is depressing. It ncreases every danger that >alw is lack of cleanliness about >aby or !> iby*s things, heat in scascs it and makes it harder to >enr; if baby lives in foul and uiiiv ;ur, I lent makes it sickenwg and unendurable if its food s not handled with greatest deanliness and care, heat makes ;renter its infection and thereore increases its danger to why's health and life. Then there are flies. Flies ire baby's greatest enemy, rhev should never be allowed o come in contact with baby tself, or its food, or any of its daythings. They carry numerous diseases but are the main carriers of diarrhoeal diseases, commonly known as "baby itimmer complaint." The baby death rate from this lisease climbs especially high luring these months. And strange as it may seem to some mothers this is a preventable lisease. It is mainly a fly borne lisease, though it may somelimes be carried in impure milk anil water. The mother therelore would be safe in giving her child only pasteurized milk and an abundance of cooled boiled water, and in keeping it from flies and fly* infected food. To keep the baby well will be worth all the pains and more.? \ 7 iTii, > A Circular Screwdriver. The simple idea that makes the inventor successful is illustrated bv a new vest-pocket screwdriver capable of fitting screws of any size. It is nothing but disk of metal about the size of a large coin. The edge of the disk is put into the slot of a screw like the blade of an ordinary screwdriver. One edge is thin, for small screws, and another is thick, with a graduated thickness net ween the two extremes for the purpose of having an edge that will fit any slot. A hole in the middle of the disu gives a chance to slip in a nail or pocketknife, or anytlt+ng else hand**, to be used as a lever on tight screws. Electric Fly-Catcher. Catching flies with an electric motor has been proved entirely pi at/livable, and such machines have now appeared on the market. The motor does not chase the flies round the room, hut induces them to come near and then captures them. The machine operates like a suction cleaner, a fan creating a strong suction. Round the pipe through which the air is sucked in, some sweets?such as moistened sugar?are spread. Any flv that comes near the pipe will he quickly sucked in and dropped into a steel cage for future attention. Killed by Lighting. I rank 1 lildreth, colored, was struck and instantly killed In lightning at his home at Chcs ? * .. 1 I 1 - r- - u'liicui : uuMiti\ auernoon. 11 o was sitliiii; on a reaper under a shelter near his home when tin holt struck him. Scarcely ti mark could he found on liis person and there was but little damage to the. building. < lies pi held \ * I "* ej Usel. Italy Votes to Enter War. Rome, May 21 (via Paris).? Italian senate today by a vote of 2(>2 to 2 passed Premier Salandra's bill granting plenary powers to the government in dealing with the situation that has arisen through the inability of Italy and Austria to reach an agreement concerning Italy's demands. When the vote, which virtually assures Italy's entry into . i - me war, was announced there was a great demonstration of enthusiasm inside the senate chamber. Shouts of "Long live Italy!" intermingled with the cheering and liandclapping of the senators, the ministers, armband navy officers and the peoi pie in the gallery. King Victor Kmmanuel and members of the roval Household witnessed the demonstrations. Prince Colonna, mayor of Rome, had been chosen to present the bill to the senate, and his speech was frequently interrupted by applause. The mayor said he was proud to address the senate on an occasion so momentous for the country.. In ^H| the name of the people, he asked the king and the parliament of country to make a just war in order to deliver their oppressed brothers. v, The bill was referred to a committee. Meanwhile the senate took a recess. When the senate again convened the committee reported the hill favor- . able and it passed almost unani- fl mously. I An Old World. M Scientists hesitate to estimate geologic time in terms of years.. Such estimates have, however, -bcen-madv:, ami pubr,isfcirA? by Prof. Charles Schuchert in 1910 states that about 12,000,000 years have elapsed since the close of the Carboniferous age, an age, as the name suggests, in which great deposits of carbon, in coal, were being formed in many parts of the world. This age has been divided by geoloj gist into the Mississippian, Penn! sylvanian, and Permian epochs, I of which the Mississippian is the oldest and the Permian the voungest. The Pennsylvanian epoch alone is estimated by Schuchert to have covered 2,100,00'> years, and animal life is supposed to have existed on the earth for over 1 1,000,000 years before that time.?Press Bulletin. Stopping The Paper. "I've stopped my paper, yes. 1 have; 1 didn't like to do it, But the editor got too smart And I allow he'll rue it. 1 I'm a man as pays my debts, An* I wont be insulted, So when an editor nets smart 1 want to be consulted. I took his paper 'levon years, An' helped him all 1 could, sir, An' when it comes to dunnin' me, ! 1 didn't think he would, sir; Hut that he did, an' you can bet It made me hot as thunder Says 1, I'll stop that sheet I will If the cussed thinn noes under! 1 hunted up the measly whelp. Anil for h<? iMinnin' rnnnr I paid them'leven years an' quit! Yes sir, I've stopped his paper!" The small son of a Washington official was asked by his I mother what he intended to be when he became a man. "I think I shall be a burglar," , he replied. "Why, Willie," his shocked 11 mother pretested, "that isn't 1 nice." "Oh, it will be all right," he assured his mother. "1 shan't steal anything tiom you "