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S NO. 46 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDA^ MORNING, AUGUST 4. 1915 $1.00 per year
Trading In The Trenches. I
War has occasional amenities
that modify its horrors, as the
following story, told by one of 1'
the actors therein, goes to show. e
The tale appeared in the?Lon- 8
don Daily News. Its truth is f
vouched for by that newspaper: t(
A white tlag rose slowly from a
a German trench, and moved
itself about to attact attention. J
British rifles in the trench across
the way were at once fixed on
it. A hand appeared beneath >
the flag. Then came an arm b
and a bead, and presently tbeir c
owner, a German captain of in^ ^
fantry, clambered from the r
trench. He flapped the white c
flag, and advanced slowly but r
confidently. When he was E
twenty yards away, he was E
ordered to halt. He did, and a *
British officer inquired his business.
(
The German answered in per
feet English, "I want to have a c
few words with you chaos. I J
want to ask a favor." i
"What are those parcels under 1
your arms, then? What are they 1
for?"
im i. i - H
uvn i worry aooui mem," ?
said the German. He was *
warned that rifles covered him. 1
The defenders of the trench *
could not risk having explosives <
hurled among them. 1
The German captain reached 1
the British trench and jumped '
down. 4 I've come to beg some (
tea,** he explained. "We Ibaven't
had a cup of tea for a fortnight. '
been in the business for more
than a dozen years in London,
in a sho? oh Bond Street.**
So they made him welcome,
and invited him to have tea with
them then and there,?they
were just preparing it,?and he
stayed, and they all talked of
London, and nothing about the
war. Afterward, they gave him
a pound or two of tea, and he
got out of the trench and was
returning to his own.
A few yards off, he turned
back and called out, "Any of
you likely to be seeing London
shortly?"
A soldier replied, "Yes, I expect
to go home there on leave
in a day or two."
"Well, would you mind calling
011 my wife?she's there
with our six children?and telling
her how you saw me, and
that I am unhurt and well?
You know how hard it would
be for me to get a letter through.
She hasn't heard from me."
T :ii .L.
vci imuiy, x win. vvnai 9 iiic
address?"
"Number?Holloway Road."
"Did vou call?" asked a friend
of the soldier, when he related
the story here in London.
"Of course. It was no trouble.
His wife lived next door to my
mother in Holloway Road."
Telling the Time
Midnight is his nickname and
although it fits him exactly as
far as his color is concerned he
is not always pleased to hear
someone refer to him by that
name.
He had been sulking in a corner
of the playground for some
time the other day when another
? 11 _i . ~
coioreu ooy unuust us uiuck us
"himself called out, "Come on
over here and play, Midnight."
Midnight stared at the speaker
a moment and then answered
scornfully, "Go 'long you black
rascal, you look like fcalf past
eleven yourself."
Resistance of Russia No Longer
Can Endure
Warsaw, the goal of the Teuonic
armies in the east is being
ivacuated by the Russian forces,
iccording to advices received
rom Laibach, Austria, transmitted
through Geneva. German
viators returning from observaions
over the Polish Capital,
eported that the troops of Grand
)uke Nicholas could be seen
etiring to the eastward.
A hundred miles southeast of
Varsaw, Austro German cavalry
Lave entered Lublin, one of the
:hief cities of Poland. The
lustro-German military comnandcrs
have thus succeeded in
:utting the Lublin-Chelm Rail
oad, an important line of comnunication,
with the Russians
nassed between the Vistula and
lug Rivers.
To the north of Warsaw, the
Germans are making a determinid
effort to reach Vilna, with the
>bject of severing the Warsaw'etrograd
Railway and of makng
more hazardous the retirenent
of the Russian forces in the
egion of the Polish Capital.
Military operations in the wesern
theater were confined to
irtillery duels, the explosion of
nines and attacks by aeroplanes.
German aviators dropped bombs
??' r>
ju iuc i'icuv^u iuwas ui vjriavclines,
Pol Sur-Mar and Nancy,
but according to the French
official communication no great
damage was done.
The British steamship Iberian,
of 5,223 tons gross burden, and
I.e viand line, carwer?
saved but seven, including on<
American, are reported to hav<
lost their lives. The captain o
the Iberian, according to thi
report of the American Consu
at Queenstown, attempted t<
escape and was shelled by tin
submarine. The crew was givei
time to enter the lifeboats befor<
the vessel was torpedoed am
sent to the bottom.
Germany's reply to the Ameri
can note of June 24 regardinj
the sinking of the Americai
wheat ship William P. Frye by i
German commerce raider in th<
South Atlantic has been des
mo /\*4 4/\ \i7neui?/y4/v?
^aiV/iicu i\s ? aoiuu^iuiii
Adti-American outbreaks ar<
repotted by travelers arriving a
Zurich, Switzerland, to hav<
taken place in Berlin. Student
are said to have gathered in fron
of the American Embassy build
ing, hooting and yelling unti
dispersed by the police.
The Joy of Giving
Malviny, who was coal-blacl
and weighed upward of tw<
hundred pounds, for long ha<
coveted a white evening gowi
belonging to her employer, i
clubwoman in a Southern towr
In spite of the fact that th
mistress was scarcely half th
bulk of the maid, the mail
nevertheless dreamed of the da;
when that wondrous frocl
would come into her possession
At what she regarded as th
proper moment she approachei
the lady on the subject.
"Miss Nita," she said, 41
suttinly does wish't you'
gimme dat white dress wid d
gold spangles on hit, now da
you done wore hit out and qui
wearin* hit."
t4Why, Malvina," said th
owner, 44you could't get inside c
that gown; you're too large."
"Jes* try me?dat's all I astsjes'
try me," said Malviny. 44
kin git inside of hit. Yessum,
knows I'm fleshy?but I gives.'
yaPSffi *
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Free Bulletins You Need. 1
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The United States Depart J
V
mant of Agriculture published f
many useful bulletins and fur* Jf
nishes them free to -those who 7
ask tor them. Below we give A ,1
list of bulletins that are helpful, h
These will be sent to you fof J
the asking. A postal card ad-jl'
dressed to the Department afflj
Washington giving the name l
and number of the bulletin you j
want will bring it. 1
142. Principles of Nutrition I
and Nutritive Value of Food. 11
34. Meats: Composition an^|
Cooking.
85. Fish as Food. "% I
128. Eggs and Their Uses as
Food.- jj
256. Preparation of Vegeta^jl
bles for the Table. ' ^ 3
289. Beans. J
293. Use of Fruit as Food. |
298. Food Value of Corn andU
Corn Products. 1
332. Nuts and Their Uses asH
Food. [1
363. The Use of Milk an
Food. H
553. Popcorn for the Homdfl
610. Honey. ^BH|
375. Care of Food in
Home. fcflH
183. Meat on the Fai^^|
Butchering, Curing and KeejHj
203. Canned Fruits, Presenriiil
and Jellies. j|
359. Canning Vegetables aH
the Home. 5
389. Bread and Bread Making^!
391. Economical Use of Mesa
in iI^bc. Jm
^Tan^^he^kabbits. ^
g 521. Canning Tomatoes and
g in Clnb Work.
g 594. Shipping Eggs by Parf
eel Post.
e 64. Ducks and Geese.
1 154. The Home Fruit Garden:
a Preparation and Care. A
g 255. TheJ Home VegetabJ
i Garden.
g 185. Beautifying the Home
i Grounds.
474. Use of Paint on the
i- Farm.
I 607. The Farm Kitchen as a
a Workshop.
a 270. Modern Conveniences
e of the Farm Home.
i- 54. Some Common Birds.
609. Bird Houses and How to
e Build Them.
t 393. Habit-forming Agents,
e 450. Some Facts About
s Malaria.
t 459. House Flies.
449. Rabies or Hydrophobia.
1 473. Tuberculosis.
German Newspapers Take
Stock of Year's Warfare
t Berlin, Aug. 1.?By wireless to
3 Sayville?Among the news items
i given out today by the Overseas
a News Agency was the follow
a ing:
i. "Reviewing the first year of
e the war, the Berlin newspapers
e point out that the territory of the
d Central Powers is free from
y invaders except for small strips
k in Alsace and Gnlicia, while the
i. German armies in the West
e occupy 53,000 square kilometers
d (a kilometer is two-thirds of a
mile) including Belgium and the
I most valuable part of France. In
d addition to this territory the
o Aiifitrn.nprmon AIHpc nrpnnu
it 150,000 square kilmeters in the
it East, including the Governments
of Kovno, Sunwalki, Courland,
e Ix>mza, Plock, Kalicz, Piotrkow,
if Radom and Kielce, as well as
large parts of the Governments
- of Warsaw and Lublin. The
1 total conquered territory is twice
I the area of the Kingdom o
uu vaiia*
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Monroe Boys in Wheat Fields.
' Monroe, ?uly 29.?There are
9tir Monroe Boys,-Messrs. Joe
^udson, - Morehead Stack,
Andrew Monroe and Archie
r?irley, in the Southwest help
pg the farmers to gather their
iheat. It seems, according to
ie letters the boys are writing
fne, that they have struck up
nth something more than the}
tended. One of the boys
forehead Stacks, the son of exolicitor
A. M. Stack, writing
ome said: "If I ever get out ol
mi* God-forsaken hole, I'll nevei
to go to church twice or
fcttfay."
The boys are running arounc
n pairs, Messrs. Hudson anc
itack being together and Messrs
Monroe and Fairly together
Vudrew Monroe wrote recently
i good yarn about the way tin
rain crews treat the "bos." H<
laid that about 15 of them wen
ding a little dinky passenge
lain one day when the con
wctor discovered them and pu
em off at a little waysid
Btion. Now as the trains di<
Bt stop at this little station ex
fept when flagged, they were it
I predicament. Taking stocl
fcey found that in all the crow
hey possessed only one littl
Bile. Chances were the
Ben to see who would buy
Hict with this sum and the 1c
Hi to Archie Fairley. Afte
Egging the train, Archie climl
fed'up in the train while the rei
Swung on the blinds and th
j^st of the secure places thi
HfcftrartoUhe he^rt of the h(
Mraefirounu and ' secure
Archie's little measly 10 cei
fare, he broke out in a big laug
and ask him how many boj
fcrere riding on his ticke
Archie replied good-humoredl
about 15: The conductor mer
klaughed and said "he reckoi
he could make his run wit
^that ballast swinging on b
lind."
Every Summer for the pa
ew years there has been a
ixodus of Monroe and Unic
| county youths for the who
ields. But it has been a peci
iar thing, the ones who haA
>een never go back.
Brudder Bill.
Dinah had not seen her o
iiystress for two or three yeai
Slays The Woman's Home Con
Panion. "For de lan sake, misi
I sure is glad to see you agai
How's all de folks?"
? "All just about the same, *ce
Bill. You 'members my bru
cjer Bill? Well, he sure, hi
growed. Lor', missy, you je
ought to see him! So big an
tall, folks all think for sure 1
am older dan what he is?"
; "Is that so?"
"Yas'm, dat's de livin' tru!
He sure does look older dj
what he is; but he ain't."
Trade in War Time.
Soon after the war broke ot
says the London Telegraph,
friend called on an English mt
c iant, who did a large Conti
e ital business.
, "This war must have hit y<
ha^d, he ventured.
^Very hard," said the mere
atft. "I've over $10,000 own
me in Germany, and it's touc
ahd-go whether I ever get
Pfcnny of it. Still, we've got
nn# itf\ titi#Tt orvmoiKinnr 4r\w #
f in u\f wiiii ovFiiiciiiiiij; tui i
Country."
"I'm glad you take it so che<
fully," said the friend.
"Well, of course there's pre
aqd loss in war time. I o^
$18,000 in Germany."
or."
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Things to do in August
1. Continue cultivation in all <
late planted crops, maintaining: a
, dust mulch to conserve mois
i ture.
2. Go after the weeds every- <
where about the farm; don't let
i any of them make seed to stock
: the place another year.
? 3. Select your seed corn from
among: the best stalks and ears,
, and plan to have, next year, a
. special seed corn patch,
r 4. Make the turnip patch rich
[ and make an extra big sowing
r for fall and winter greens.
i 5. Order your clover seed if
you did not save them; plant
1 crimson clover in the extreme
1 nrvrtVi^rn *V?^ O?1 A
? liui luciil pail. \J 1 UIC V/UllUll DClla
6. Keep the farm canner
' going: on all surplus fruits and
/
s vegetables, that grocery bills may
, be cut to a minimum next
e winter.
r 7. Plan now for putting in a
l* big fall oat crop; get seed if you
* haven't them already.
\ 8. Keep up with the opening
cotton; see your local banker
a about helping you to hold your
c, crop if prices are not right,
d 9. Watch the livestock, and if
e pastures get short supplement
n their feed.
a 10. Clean up, paint up, repair
>t the rotting fences and buildings,
r aud put the place to rights for
> another year.
st 11. Keep up the fight against
_ J - - - - ?
ie me.s ana mosqunoes ana tnus
it avoid doctors' bills.?Progressive
>. Farmer.
U Wbat to do tor Kod 3pid?T"
As the Red Spider has shown
h up in several sections of this
's county it is very important that
d. you look over your farm and
l.y destroy all weeds, such as vioe
lets beds, polk weeds, blackberry,
Gimpson weed and other
h such weeds as grow on old
e- hedge rows, and as for the treat
ment, pull and burn all infected
st plants and spray all plants thai
m are adjoining those infected,
n Where the insects have iust
at started it is best to pull up and
11- burn, but where it has gained
e headway it is best to spray aftei
ourning an mieciea pianis. l ne
spray to us should be potassium
sulphite, 3 pounds to 100 gallons
Id of water; Also, lime sulphur,
Sf one gallon to 30 gallons ol
n. water.
jy I will assist you as far as posn!
sible in the fight on this or any
other insect if you will only call
pt on me.
d- The dry weather at present is
as very favorable to the spread o]
>st the Red Spider.
,d W. J. Tiller,
ie Local-Demonstration Agent
Russians Are Clinging To War
fe. saw's Fortress.
m Warsaw is ready for th<
evacuation intimated by th<
Russian War Minister in his ad
dress in the Duma. For days
it, there has been an exodus of th?
a population. Factories, Govern
sr- ment institutions and hospital
n- have been moved and the cit]
has hnen strinned of evervthim
? ? ? ? r i ? r
3u that might be of military value
to the Teutons.
:h- While the situation immediate
ig ly before Warsaw is reported
h Berlin as unchanged, additions
a gains by the forces of th<
to Teutonic Allies are claimed b
he Berlin along the Narew in th
Lomza region and on the re
gr- mainder of that front to th<
Vistula, before Ivangored and ii
>fit numerous sectors in the south
we east between the Vistulg and th
Bug.
The German Success.
Charlotte Observer.
The Russian disaster at Warsaw
need not be taken as a sign
of impending defeat for the
Allies. It is of immenst encouragement
to Germany, but it
is in no way decisive, as The
Observer said yesterday and it
may be the last great victory for
the German arms. It might possibly
be the climax, the turning
point from which German success
begins to wane. There are
some mighty good memories in
the North, and one of these is in
possession of the editor of The
New York Post. He recalls the
tact which will be in appreciaa!
1 # t ?
uon oy ^omeaerate readers,
that at the close of the first 14
months of the Civil War, "de- i
pression throughout the North J
was intense; Ball's Bluff had I
followed hard upon Bull Run, ^
and the failure of McClellan's A
Peninsula campaign had far off- A
set the capture of Port Royal
and New Orleans, on top of
which there came Pope's disastrous
campaign in Virginia and
the loss of the second Bull Run.
The Southern generals had
shown their superiority in handling
their troops whenever the
armies met, and European opinion
was as convinced as all
Germany is today as to its own
Ltiuac, IUUI uuiuiuk LUUIU pic*
vent the speedv triumph of the
Confederates. But the blockade,
and the later Northern strategy
based upon the blockade**?and
the Forth*s tremendous super- ^
iority in men and resources,
proved their undoing. The out- look
for the Allies at no time
?to Qettysbiirg, we might say.
Becker Pays Price For Deed Of
Blood;
Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N;
Y., July 30.?Charles Becker was
put to death in the electric chair
here this morning for the killing
of Herman Rosenthal, the New
York gambler. The former New
York police lieutenant retained
his composure and protested his
innocence to the last. He went
; to his death with a photograph
' of his wife pinned on his shirt
over his heart. Three shocks
were given before the prison
| physician pronounced Becker
' dead at 5:55 o'clock.
! Becker led the way to his
own execution. He sat up all
night on the edge of his cot,
| calmly talking to Deputy Warden
Charles H. Johnson.
"I have got to face it," said
Becker, "and I am going to
* meet it quietly and without
trouble to any one."
The deputy warden left Becker
about an hour before the
* time set for the execution and
when the priests, Father W. E.
Cashin. the nrison nriest. and
Father Curry of New York,
i came to administer the last rites
J they found the condemned man
- with his face resting on his hand
? gazing at the prison floor. The
s priests remained with him to
the end.
s
/ Jonny Made Good.
* In instructing a youthful class
' in mathematics the pretty young
teacher turned to Johnny Jones.
! "Johnny," she remarked, "can
y you tell me what an average is?"
{\ "Yes, ma'am," was the prompt
response of Johnny, "an average
is what a hen lays eggs on."
y "What?" exclaimed the amaze
ed teacher. "What on earth are
i- you talking about?"
q "That's right, Miss Mary,"
.. was the rejoinder of Johnny.
, 4,Most everv lesson in our
' 'rithmetic starts off 'if a ben lays
e two eges a day on an everage!' !
?Philadelphia Telegraph.