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the pageland journal Vol.6 NO. 25 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1916 $1.00 per year 17 1 I 1? l lmr-n r? 1 ?? - " ' " ~ ' i wuu anu i ecu vropi TV ui r ay Best This Year. To the thinking:, reading: wide awake farmer, there can be only one sensible course to follow in 1916, and that is, first of all, to feed his family, his livestock and his land, and then devote his surplus lands and energies to the production of whatever cash crop may be best suited to his particular con ditions. Of course, as in the past, there are going to de thausands of tenont larmnrc n1/\nnr nniVi mui ?u&auvtaii/u^ mill v/uicia who, by reason of their methods, are on the straight road to tenancy, who will put everything in cotton, tobacco, or some other single crop, depending on it to furnish the money to pav for food, feed and fertilizers; bu t this is all the more reason why the thinking farmer, the man who is getting ahead by using his head should make living at home his primary business. Cotton now is bringing only fair prices; the price is tending dounward instead of upward, and there is no definite assurance that prices will be high next fall. But whether prices are high or low is aside from the main point; for even were cotton selling at twentv cents a nnnnH we hold that no man can afford to gro& it to the exclusion of food, feed and soil-building crop; grow it to buy bread, meat, molasses, corn, oats, hay and fertilizers. Let's get right on this question, Brother. Let's make a good living, whether we make any cotton or tobacco or not. The following are, it seems to us, points that every fanner in the whole South should in tke it his business to see to, and to see to now. 1 0..4 - ? * i. v^uiiiui tne ieea imiis. Liollar corn from Iowa and $25 Western hay will break any coilon farmer. We can raise these crops at home at from one-third to onehalf the store prices, and improve our lands at the same time Now is the time to plan a big corn acreage?amply sufficient to supply your home needs, with a surplus to spare; now is the time to plan to put velvet beans, soy beans, cowpeas, or peanuts in all the corn nnH tlw> r?ote ? ktiW VillJ 2. Cut out the meat and bread bills. Plenty of corn, peanuts peas and beans usually mean 1 plenty of meat, milk and butter; these produced on the farm, in ( turn, mean cotton money to go 1 in the bank instead of into the 1 pocket of the "time prices" mer- 1 chant. 1 3. Cut down the fertilizer hills 1 . For 75 per cent of the farmers of j the South, a really good syylem of rotation farming, a system that would include the planting of peas, beans, or some other legume in every field of corn j aud alter every acie of oats; a crop of crimson clover to plow under for every acre of corn to be planted; and a crop of green on every single acre every winter, would enable us to cut out commercial nitrogen and potash, leaving only phosphoric acid lo lti> hmnilit ""'' 1 1 1 Uv..^>u, nuu nil) COIIIU IJ.' |>UI chasm in rock phosphate at only a 1 taction of the cost in acid phosphate. In oilier words, living at home and farming as we should will enable us to cut our fertilizer bills anywhere from 50 to 80 or 90 per cent. Let's try these plans this year. Thev will place us on the straight road toward rich land, tat cattle, big crops and indepen tienctwProgressive Farmer. , winter rues. t "Inclosed please find a specimen of one of the early spring flies, caught January 22, 1916. About how many less flies will there be later in the spring by the destruction of this one?" writes A. J. L. Let us assume that this fly was a female and that the sea son will be about normal, that all conditions for fly life will be perfect, and that every female hatched will live to full maturity and lay her full quota of eggs. She would begin laying about April and her daughters would have been ready to lay about May 1. The females of the second crop would lay in May and their young would be ready to lay about June 1, After that we figure that to pass through the stage?egg, larvae, pupa, fly to fly, ready to lay, would require 24 days. This would mean five crops by October 1. The calculated number of descendants of this old lady on Oc looer 1 next would be 131 quin- 1 tillions, 220 quadrillions or 4 131,220,000,000,000,000,000. 1 Hewitt says: "It has been calculated that if the progeny of a \ single pair of flies, assuming that 1 they all lived, were pressed together at the end of the summer 1 they would occupy a space of 1 about 250,000 cubic feet." 5 Would you care to know their J weight? 1 The North Carolina Bulletin \ warns the people of that State 1 to kill the winter flies. There 5 were fewer flies in North Caro- ' lina in the summer of 1915 and ?h:? <1./. *"?- ? - 4 una IUC cunui UI 1 lie ?>uiieun believes to be due to the active * campaign "against the winter } fly, and to the vigilance of the \ tidy housewife in cleaning up and destroying the 'holdover' in ' the spring." ( Now is the lime to swat every 1 fly in sight. Ycu can be ex- * cused for failing to swat every 1 fly in summer. Swatting Hies 1 in a flyful place is an endless, 1 hopeless task. One fly in August left alone may not breed { more than 1,000. Swatting every ' nv tnat shows at this season is ( an easy task. No one can af ] ford to neglect them. One left 1 alive means quintillions, cubic t feet, tons of flies, before the season has ended. ( Says The North Carolina Bui ( letin: "Con't trust the cold to * kill them. Don't assume that * they are dead when you find ' tVlom lifinn ?- ?I 1 ' iruif; uu uuuia UI WIIKIOW sills in unused rooms. They are s playing possum and will re c cover when the temperature ' rises. Clean up the house and f eive special attention to every N out of the way place where flies s may lurk. Make sure that there is nothing left which may har- ^ t)or their eggs."?Dr. W. A. Kyans in The State. HZZZZHZZZHZZZZT 1 Wood's Productive i Seed Corns. ! Our yirginia-grown Seed 1 thorns have an established r reputation for superiority in f productiveness and germina- t ting qualities. Wood's Descriptive Catalog . tells about the best of prize-winning and profit-making varieties in 5 both Whit* and Yellow Corns. ( Cotton Seed. * We offer the best and most im proved varieties, grown in sections absolutely free from boll weevil. t Our Catalog gives prices and informatlon, and tells about the best of * Southern Seeds, i< 100-DAY VELVET BEANS. Soj* n Bean*. SUDAN GRASS. DallU Grui and all Sor^humi and MQIeti. 1 Catalog mailed free on request. ^ T.W.WOOD O SONS. J SEEDSMEN. - Richmond, V>. German Sacrifices For Douau- 1 mont Greatest Yet Paris, March 4.?The fire of s French machine guns and rifles 1 las been pouring death for two * iays into the ranks of the Ger- \ nans attacking in mass the vil age of Douaumont. The French ( aold the summit of the knoll i which dominates the village t From the south. Parts of the , town have been taken and re- , taken repeatedly, and each time ( ll A. it / - ' * - * luui me ionune 01 oattle lias , chanced more dead from the , thick masses of German assail- j ants have been added to the piles , behind which their surviving ( comrades have sought brief pro- , tection. . Each time remnants of regi- , ments already cut to pieces were , pushed ahead by other bodies of ' troops surging ou the field of , battle until the ground was . strewn with bodies. Eyewit- , esses assert that nothing at Charlerol, on the Marne, along , the Yser, or in the Champagne , equalled the sacrifices which the , troops of the German Crown \ Prince already have made for ; the village of Douaumont alone in the battle of Verdun. It is the opinion in all quarters , that the Crown Prince has de- , termined to pav the price neces- < aary to capture Verdun, if pos- , sible, drive the French from the , right bank of the Meuse, and ] establish a front along that river j if he is unable to pierce the lines 1 and open ud the way to Chalons , and Paris. ^ All information thus far re- j :eived indicates that the Ger nans already have paid a very | leaw pnce and that Verdun it- , self has not yet been shaken. , The ultimate cost of the drive is ( problematical. Paris remains j :onfident thai tlie Germans will j ;ind it impossible to achieve , iventual success. This feeling , las been made still more pro j lounced by the recitals of the , < wounded and of German soldiers. { French infantry is disputing t ivery inch of the ground with ' persistent courage, and last night t pnce more compelled their ad- j /ersaries to suspend efforts, leav ^ ng artillery alone to keep up t he pressure on the fortress. Whenever the German assault , >n the French lines reached the J langer point, the blue clad , roops leaped forward with fixed ^ >ayonets to the strains of the , National battle hymn. Accounts j )f this fighting from French iources say that on each oc- j :asion the slodiers of the Repub ^ ic got the better of their op- r jonents, pushing back Germans vho did not fall under the cold it eel. A^hat Stevenson Thinks about A Roads 1 g The last statement made by Vlr. W. F. Slevenson as to what t Congress should do for a farm ng district like this was that it inrl Qnpnt 117^ fllift AHA OA . _ ? wfwM* * i/^wV)WUt"V Ull ivers and nothing on roads. It las also spent S100/>00,000 on irigation projects, to water lands g or less than 1,00*>,000 people in ^ he West. Why not do some hing to take the water out of r he roads in the South? In g ioutli Carolina the State and vOiiniies and Towns and Town { hips spent in I MI 4 about $ 1,000, , >00.00 on ro.ids, and still of the o 5,310 miles of roads in the State >..!> 4,888 miles are surfaced nd really improved?and that s the work of ^ years. 40,661 niles are yet to he fixed, and all iilist be maintained. The Govc rnment carries mail over most ?f llicm; why is it not rij^lit for ^ I to licit? fix them? iA'4vftrU*emoni) p Mr. Sam Mangum Dies Suddenly T . Mr. Sam Mangum, youngest ton of Mr. and Mrs. John C. > Mangum, died suddenly about c 1.30 o'clock Saturday night at t he home of Mr. George C. smith 2 miles north of town, rhis young man had about re- s covered from a recent attack of c grippe and had been at work at i the Mangum Drug company's [ store on Saturday. He had felt t a pain about his heart for three or four davs but little thought was given it. He was at a social gathering of young people at Mr. Smith's when the summons came. He was apparently well, and was charting with his companions when he fell backward without a word and was dead. The news was a great shock to the entire community. It was hard to realize that one who had been seen so recently in health had passed away. Mr. Mangum was a member of Pageland Baptist church, and was and upright young man, sober and honest. He is spoken of in high terms by all. He was 21 years old the 30th day of last July. His death was all the more J sad because he was engaged and was to have been married on Wednesday, March 15th. His 1 wedding suit had been bought, c ind in this his body was buried 1 [n the morning of life when ? aopes and ambitions were high, l, the Reaper came and called him without warning to his reward, thus bringing great sorrow to F lis loved ones 1 The funeral was conducted at 1 ih^ Baptist church Sunday after_ 1 ... 4 1A t n ? iuuu auuui t.ov oy nevs. Leon ^Sfunderburk. The lo- j :al cajftil of the Junior ordef iad charge 6f"the body, marching double file from ihe home to lie church along with the funer ll procession. An unusually arge crowd was in attendance v it the service, thus showing the c ixtent to which the people were v ouched by the news of his death, r The service was concluded at o nv. iicaiuj' ^lavc unci (lie UOUV iad been lowered b> the six is r'oung pall bearers, associates of a he deceased. S He is survived by his father fi md mother and the following t< irothers and sisters: Mr. J. F. n ^langumof Angelus; Mrs. Esther a Whitley of Mint Hill, N. C.; Mr. ^ . A. Mangum of Tatum, S. C.; v drs. Addie Pigg, Mr. E. B. Man- i< ?uin and Misses Mattie and May g dangum: All members of the s amily were present at the funeril. V ai According to Instructions it An Irishman from a country ^ tillage landed in Now York on t( lis way to live with a brother in Sl i small town a hundred mr!es or a 0 away. A friend put him on n he train, and asked the conduc- v! or to put him off at the right tat ion. * The train, however, ran into J1 1 freight and was wrecked. Pat 1 vas thrown through a window a in/I 1 r? rwJ o/l r\r? K?r> * inu iuiiuvu u1i 1119 ll<IUUS ill HI ;nees, but beyond a severe shakng up and a few scratches was il lot hurt. Picking himself up p ind brushing: his clothes he valked to a building: some disunce away, which turned out to v> >e the station where he was to ? ;et out. Pat immediately hunt n d up his brother. ?' After the usual greetings were " ?ver, Pat was asked how he lik- : d our railway service. !r "Ye sure have some foine, omtortable trains," ne replied, and they do go loike the divil, c< ut Oi think there could be pome nprovement in the way they st ut ye off ut yer station," in i t Newspaper a Cammunity Asset Under the above caption the Wilmington Star a few days ago :arried an excellent editorial seting forth the real worth of a tewspaper to a town or city and howing that no town or city ran hope to forge ahead unless t has a newspaper and unless t's citizens co operate in making he paper a success. The remarks of the Star were jrought about by the action of he Chamber of Commerce in a rertain Southern city in enumeriting the various enterprises of hat town and totally ignoring VlO fuift V >iiu ieprcscning an approximate cash value >f half a million dollars and cmiloying several score of men vho helped in making the town i good place in which to live. Newspaper people rarely like o sing their own praise. It ;hould be unnecessary for them o do so. The citizens of any own or city in which there is a lewspaper should realize what a H"eat factor it is in the developnent and promotion of their city ind boost it as much as possible vithout being prompted every ew days. Without a newspaper, a good lewspaper, any town is handi:apped. It has no way of let ing the world know what it is loihg and consequently, is dentical with the merchant who loes not advertise his wares. It might be said that a ncws>aper is worth more to a municpality than other one of it's enerprisesand every citizen should ake a pride in it and help to nake it representative' of the own or city in which it is pubished.?Newbern Journal. ienate Effectually Kills Gore Warning Resolution Washington, March 3.?By a ote of 68 to 14 the Senate today arried out Presides* Wilson's fish and killed Senator Gore's iitum A WVIVIUIIUU IU VT U 1 II illllt'l ICilllS ff armed belligerent ships. In a turbulent scene, such as i seldom witnessed in the Sente, the voting proceeded with enators shouting objections, Litilely demanding recognition 3 explain their positions and laking hot retorts to each other 11 of which were out of order, it one time so many Sena' TS /ere shouting for the Vice Pres ? .t * .iv.-iu s lucuKuuiuu mai ine servant at-Arms was called to retore quiet. After having maneuvered for wo days to get the resolution in uch parliamentary position that was disposed of without deate the Senate then proceeded ) a general discussion of the 1 ubiect which continued all fternoon to the dismay of Adunistration supporters. There /ere free expressions of opinion lat the Senate's action, because le vote actually was taken on a 1 lotion to table the Gore reso < ition with a correction by the 1 uthor and a substitute by Sen- ' tor McCumber, was in offect a ' "Scotch verdict" and had not ' ctuallv accomplished the pur- 1 ose of the President. Such 1 latements aroused the Presi- 1 < ent's friends, who feared they J rould produce an effect directly pposite to that intended?a i otice to the world that the Sen- 1 te stands behind the President 3 i his demand on Germany for le rights of Americans traveltg the seas. Mother: Jane, has Johnny 3me home from school vet? I ihinlf ?r? I Viatrnn'f J . ? <? *?? V/Vf. a llU V VU I I ?en him, but the cat is hiding j tider the sIoyc, f The Significance of Bible Numbers Rev. Junius Ilorton, who is well known here and who is uuw a siuuenr in uic Union Theological Semninarv at Richmond, Va., writes the Journal as follows: "I have been studying Bible numbers in mv course here and thought that the readers of the "Pageland Journal" would be interested in them. ' "Three denotes Deity. We find the Trinity of the Godhead expressed in the Baptismal formula and in the \postolic benediction. "Four is considered the world number. The Bible speaks of the four winds, the four living creatures, the four seasons and the four corners of the earth. "Seven is the number of Reve ranon. 111 tue book of the Revelation, we find the letters to the seven churches, the seven seals, the seven trumpets the seven mystic figures, and the seven vials. 7, is a covenant cumber and used to denote completeness. "Ten is the basic number,symbolizing harmony. In the Tabernacle, the Holy of Holies was 10 by 10 by 10 cubits. -l. ? ' a weivu is me numuer 01 completeness, the Divine number 3, times the human number 4. It is also a covenant number, and is used in the Bible as follows: the 12 tribes, the 12 Patriarchs, the 12 Apostles, the 12 gates of the New Jerusalem. "One hundred and forty-four is twelve times twelve, and stands for fcompleteness times completeness or absolute completeness. John on the isle of , Patmos saw the hundred and forty four thousand." British Orders to Merchantmen London, March 2.?The British Admiralty tonight officially made public the Admiralty's orders to armed merchantmen, given October 20, 1915. The orders say that the armament of such vessels must be used solely for resisting an attack by an armed vessel and for no other purpose. As British submarines and aircraft are ordered not to ap proach merchantmen, the orders say, the approach to a British merchantman of a submarine is to be regarded as done with a hostile intention. The official statement reads as follows: *4In view of the recent issue by the German Government of a memorandum on the treatment of armed merchant ships, the Admiralty has decided to make public the instructions actually governing: the actions of British merchant vessels armed for selfiefeiise. /-? - cautious Keporter "Young man," said the editor to the new reporter, "vou lack caution. You must lealn never to state a thing as a fact until it has been proved a fact. You lire apt to get us into libel suits. Do not say: ' The cashier stole the funds.' Say: ' The cashier, who is alleged to have stolen the lunds.' That's all. Oh, get something about that First Ward social lonitrbt " The next day, half way down the social column, the editor saw [lie following cautious paragraph: "It is rumored that a card jarty was given last evening by i number of reputed ladies of he First Ward. Mrs. Smith, gossip says, was the hostess, and he festivities are reported to lave continued until 11:30 in he evening. The alleged hostvss is believed to he the wife of ohn Smith, the so railed 'high>riced trrocer."