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^bsuLSFSR pi i^^ijfiiui piirtal Vol. 13 No. 7~ PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY^M'RNINGt OCTOBER 25. 1922. $1.00 per year WITH THE POETS I . -V _? The Great Contrast "Once it was the blessing, Now it is the Lord: Once it was the feeling, NIaw it ic 141 ?s \\J /\r4 1 Once His gifts I wanted, Now Himself alone; i Once I sought for healing, Now the Healer own. 'Once 'twas painful trying, , Now 'tis perfect trust; Once a half salvation. Now the uttermost; Once 'twas ceaseless holding, Now He folds me fast; Once 'twas constant drifting, * Now my anchor's cast. 1 "Once 'twas busy planning Now 'tis trustful prayer; * Once'twas anxious caring, J Now He has the care; Once 'twas what I wanted. * Now what lesus says; c Ooce 'twas constant asking, ] Now 'tis ceaseless praise. "Once it was my working, ( His it hence shall be; c Once I tried to yse Him, f Now he uses me; Once the power I wanted, Now the mighty One; Once I worked for glory, Now His will alone. ?Selected. v t The Persian Crocus 6 s All flowers bring messages, if we I will hear; Soft whispers from a world we do not see, Some hint how "rainbows round the throne" mav hp: And some, of thorns the Sinless Ooe did wear; And purple dyes and crimson c \ stains agree In whispering how His sor- c rows set us free 1 Who scorn and shame and death % for us did bear. * And sflme?fair Crocus, thou art surely one? ' c Come tor a moment, just to let \ us know v What robes are ready when c earth's cares are done, s For those, sin-stained and travel- c worn below, \ Who, washed and sanctified through the Pure One, c - Shall "walk in white" before the g eternal throne. t ?Mrs. J. O.-Ballard in "Scarlet r Ook."_ i A Warning I [ t A man who would not take his home paper sent his little boy to j borrow the copy taken by a neighbor. In his haste the boy _____ ran over a hive of bees and in ten minutes he looked like a warty j squash. His cries reached his father, who ran to his assistance, failing to note a barb wire fence, { x which he ran into breaking it j down, cutting a handful of flesh from his anatomy, and ruining a $5 pair of pants. The cow took advantage of the gap in the fence and got into the corn. Hearing the racket, his wife ran out, up setting a 4 gallon churn of rich 1 cieam into a oasnet ot kittens 1 and drowned them. In her haste ' she lost a $17 set of teeth. The < baby, left alone, crawled through ' the cream into the parlor and < ruined a brand new $20 carpet < During the excitement the oldest ( daughter run away with the hired man, the dog broke up eleven ' settings of eggs and the calves 1 chewed the tails of four night ( i.k<r<s r^tiannav kn fr*m t/v ~ ( villi io. viivo^ui vjy i at iu IJUVC , the paper delivered, says a South | Dakota newspaper.?Pacific Her- \ aid, Waldport, Ore. < a-' - : : 'v IT IS SAID Barkis is willin'.?Dickens. Put your best foot foremost.? Congreve. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.?Shakespeare. An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.?Johnson. The manly part is to do with might and main what you can Jo.?Emerson. The people once belonged to ihe kings: now the kings belongto the people.?Heine. The use of money is all the iJvantage there is in having noney.?Benjamin Franklin. See, there is Tackson, standng like a stonewall!?Bernard E. Bee at the Battle of Manassas. The perfect manhood of the ace in Christ Jesus is the errand )f Christianity.?Henry Ward 3eecher. Health, longevity, beautv. are >ther names for personal purity; ind temperance is the regimen or all.?A. Bronson Alcott. October is the opal month of he year. It is the month of?gloy, of ripeness. It is the picturenonth.?Hfenry Ward Beecher. Industry, temperance, and pitty are the only means of preset enjoyment, and the only true ources of future happiness.? 5. R. Haydon, The Divine mind is. as visible a its full energy of operation on very lowly bank and mouldring stone, as in the lifting of tie pillars of heaven, and settling luskin. ? Morality without religion is >niy a kind of dead reckoning, -an endeavor to find our place >n a cloudy sea by measuring he distance we have run, but vithout any observation of the leavenly bodies.? Longfellow. If a young lady has that dis:retion and modesty without vhich all knowledge is little vorth, she will never make an >stentatious parade of it, because ihe will rather be intent on acluiring more, than on displaying vhat she has.?Hannah More. Character is money; and acordinp as the man earns or pends the money, the money in urn becomes haracter. As moley is the most evident power the world's uses, so the use hat he makes of money is often ill that the world knows about he man.?Bulwer-Lytton. Every man's powers have re ation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of u ~ J- i a ^uiit which ue t_;iu uu nesi? bat to which his powers are >est adapted?he finds that which will give him the best developnent, and that by which he can )est build up, or make, his manlood.?J. G. Holland. A Billion Dollar Strike Columbia Record J. G. Bradley, of WiNt Virginia ormerly president of the Naional Coal Association, declared n in address before the Ameiii Mining Congress Cleve-, a d the other-day that the re'i 't Urike in lht? real indnctrv :: lsed a total loss of $1,190,000,Xr?. - . _ i his loss was figured by Mr, Eh lley, as, loss in wages to the LJ: . -'d Mine workers of Amerigo, \ estimated by them, $450.M)< v 00; loss to the railroads, as fi^u.ed by them, $300,000,000; o<?s to the public in cost of fuel, Mho.000,000 and loss to the mine operators, $40,000,000, * / . /* KAte. . >V.. ? / .. "iU:" ' William H. Funderburk The ripened fruit must fall. The matured grain must be gathered in. "How fitting then that man, when the fullness of his years has passed, should fade as fades the flower in the mellowness of the autumn sun. * What a beautiful thine it is tn be allowed to live in this world for nearly a century. To see the changing seasons and the passing of the old, the conting in of the new, so many golden years. The death on Sunday October 15, of Mr. William H. Funderburk in the Dudley community, cast a shadow over a wide circle; of relatives and friends in the; surrounding communities. ^ William IT Funderburk born September 16, 1834. JW He was first marrieJ on tfai^H of Dec. 1855 io Sarah Anne MmH gum. To them were born UjB9 children, a daughter, Willie. rl 5 ._?rl 1V4- T tliM U1V.U VI utll u V.HIIU, ;?11. 1. Vy. derburk of Dudley, and Mrs JIM M. Baucum of Union countyjHnj C. Mr.- S. A. Fun derburk, a aBSj died several years ago. His fHB died Tuly 11, 1911. He ina^^H Mrs.Flora Fincher of Rock |HH S. C., who died Sent. 11. iHfl Her death was such a shoclfl 1 him he never rallied- or got dfl m ir. His two remaining hrotflS arc J. T. and J. M. Fundert^Kfl of Dudley He was a gentleman of tfi<r^H| school, a noble Confederate eran, having followed theSc^HH em flag through all the^HH years of the Contederater 9^H He was in five battles aij&jHfl captured once, but came U a^,H\h^vWliome? the'surrender he found that thgfl Yankees had burned every bu|H|| ing on his place, stolen all tuBg could carry away and his famXt was left destitute, but like lB| hundreds of other Southerners that day who though their cauflH was lost, never lost the spir^ nf 11 tt nnnn I inrnKln ?v? nnh rv/>/4 v/i uiiwM\juviaui? tuauuvA/u, went to work -to build up jJH own home and the bruise&jti^H not brokeu community. Iim^H dition to his work at home ftjfl taught school in a little log build ing year alter year, receiving nc money at all and only such pa\ in farm produce as the parent!; of the children who had been de prived of the privilege of schoo so many years, could pay him. He was a faithful mcmhpr n? the Baptist church through alt the years and attended it as Ions: as he was able to do so. He was buried at Liberty Hill cemetery Oct. 16, Rev. Zeb Cau* die conducting the funeral services. The passing of this grand old man brings very forcibly to our minds the following lines: Passing out of the shadow Tnto a purer light, Stepping behind the curtain, Getting a clearer sight. Laying aside the burdens, This weary mortal coil; Done with the world's vexations, Done with its tears and toil. .... ..... i Tired or all earth's playthings, Heart sick and ready to sleep, Keady to bid his friends farewell, Wondering why they weep. Passing out in the shadow into e^rnal day, Why do-we call it dying, This sweet going away. ?Edna V. Funderburk. Her AbseoMliiided Crandfathei, A little girl, who was trying t > ttll a friend how absent minde I her grandpa was, said: "He walk? around thinking about nothing, and when he remembers it; he tK,\n f/\r/vrvtA tits* 4 anUrtt Ua I1IVU IMIKCI9 mill WliillllC IUUUK1I(! of was something entirely differ]ent from what he wanted to remember.'* ^Manl Cover Crops Now m Cemson College?Now that v^iave had rain throughout the sua an(* there is good seasorin the ground, it is a splendid to plant cover crops. The 8Qfaer cover crops are planted nov the better results will be sec^ed. ne agronomist Deueve mat iJvalue of cover crops can not jjjpverestimated, for they will ljtfve a marked influence not Mily on crops next year but on Rose for several years to come. Be now know that the most imBrtant factor in fighting the boll Beevil is fertile soil and we also now that the most important fning in getting a fertile soil is IheIncorporation ot organic matijfcCover crops not only add fflinic matter but they also add IHjfcat deal of nitrogen, if legum|Rs cover crops are grown. He strongly recommend the JHiting of cover crops on all EMm exppnt where cotton is to I?lanted next yea4. says Prof. ?, Blackwell, Agronomist; but do not recommend the plantof cover crops where cotton > be planted next vear, except ire soil is sandy and where farmer is sure that he has suf;nt force to plow under his er crop at the proper time in spring so that it will not delay planting of cotton. Covei ps may be planted preceding i, peanuts, soy beans, and sral others of our regular field ^s. "* i hey may be planted eithet leeding broadcast after cotton ks have been plowed nnder a three-tub^^| SJlthuT" l h eWcof|| I iftd under beforSpBHJMHU H crop if possible.,*Wnere gfoill delay the plautitljf'of the for crop until iateiiMhe year, SjHbrohnbly bes^hSTphant cover Wjlfr^with a stalk cutter after Ml ihas killed the cotton. HppiB Of our best cover crops is RjtAfld hairy vetch. It is our Ha crop and is almost certain npBve a good result if seeded Bbn' and at the rate of sixty pounds of rye and twenty pounds of vetch per acre Oats and vetch used at the sump rate r?f seeding wiii also give good results. Another good cover crop is crimson clover. The only objection to it is that it is not so easv to grow and that a failure frequently results with farmers inexperienced in its use. What the Strike Ccst * Spartanburg Herald. An Associated Press dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, said that J. G. Bradley, of Dundon, West Virginia, former President of the Natiohal Coal Association, told the American Mining Congress in session at Cleveland that the total loss to the coal industry of the recent coal strike was$1,190,000,000 divided as follows: ' j Wages of miners $450,000,000 Railroads, in freight. 3OO,G00.O00 Public in cost of fuel 400,000,000 Mine owners 40,000,000 Mr. Bradley added: If every family in America were lo pay $45 it would barely cover this loss," Mr. Bradley said, "price of the struggle which has i ist been passed through is enor t; ?us. It is at least to be hoped ti it it hits had its lesson from w : ich bolh sides may profit." ' it was a game fight, if a very f< dish fight, that the miners n. de and it will take a long time f ; thpm tr? rprnnn tlipir Iaqcps i indeed it can ever be done. They are nearly half a billion OUR EXCHANGES The State France now looks to the Turk and the Bolsheviki, and the Bolsheviki and the Turk now look to France. It is not a pretty alliance, even if it insures peace in Europe and Asia Minor. Marshville Home. There isn't an acre ol land in cultivation in this community that can not be caused to double its crop yields within three years bv the use of clovers under systematic crop rotation. There are plenty of examples ol one hundred per cent increase in yields of crops following: the first gear's seedings with lespedeza The time is almost at hand in this community when a farmei will be considered very much o: ? {,Wn/*lr r? nrViAeo farm ir d UQCI\ IIU U1UV.I TV uuov miui It the spring shows a wheat or oa crop without a "nurse" crop o lespedeza or other clovers grow ing with it. The Calhoun Times, A cotton buyer of St. Matthew took a few samples of long stap le cotton to a city, not a thous and miles away, a few days age to sound the market. The: were beauties and the demane was eager. But listen at thistal which proves how the little fisl : are eaten up by the sharks. Th . first bid out of the box was 2 cents. You would naturally sup < pose the competing wholesaler \ would have edged up a" cent o 1 something fine. But lo and'be I lml.1t lhau finallu no conscienceTn tne coumry any more? No surprise that the big fish will remain whales and the little fish the minnows. Kershaw Era. According to reports emenatin2 from the office of the state superintendent ot education, at the May examination for teach ers certificates held in every county in the state, 589 white applicants passed the required tests, while 919 failed. Of the negro applicants, 315 passed and 522 failed. These figures show that 61 per cent of the white applicants could not meet the test, while the percentage of negro applicants who failed was 62 pei cent, only one per cent more, both standing the same test. Such circumstance is not pleasant to contemplate and its occurrence testifies to gross neglect in the past. It ought to serve to stimulate a far greater interest in the education of the white youth in the state; that such a record may not continue to stand. dollars worse off than they were when their managers declared war against the owners and operators of the mines. They will * *1 At i_ TL .A 1 ? never gei uiai duck. i nai is impossible. The campaign managers or executive committees, or whatever they may be called, did not lose any thing, probably by the strike. Their salaries or tees doubtless ran along as if nothing was happening, and theinnocenl public has paid or will haye to pay $400,000,(XX) for being per mitted to live in this land of opno'rtunitv for strike-makers and strike breakers. "The dear public" will probably think on these things when the cold chills make them shiver in the wintry weather just ahead. The genuine essence of truth never dies.?Carlyle MORAL ISSUES A Prayer God of the Dew, In gentlest ministry. As silently Would I some soul refresh anew. God of the Sun, Far flaming heat and light, Bt my delight On radiant errands swift to run. God of the Star, To its stern orbit true, My soul imbue 1 With dread, lest I thine order mar. God of the Sea, Majestic, vast, profound, Enlarge my bound? t Broader and deeper let me be. ?Maltbie D. Babcock. t r Begin the Day With God ^ This is the way to do a good \ day's work: Begin it with God; t J _ _ 1 __ f '1 T j no an in me name 01 me L,ora Jesus and tor the glory of God; count nothing common or unclean in itself?it can be so only when the motive of your life is low. Be not content with eye3 service, but as servants of God, - do everything from the heart and for His "Well done." Ask > him to kmdle and maintain in V your heart the loftiest motives, 1 and be as men which watch for e the coming of the master of the t house;?F. B Meyer, e f The Werld Watches s Just as surely as the earth CSQBtSfcBClSIIMSBK ^ ''I'Ws ^xo church or ho^pvr i>' | ten we serve on committees, or : how much we give, or how anxious we say we are to save souls, if our daily living does not exactly coincide with our profession. There is no lasting personal power in any sphere of > action, unless the heart is separated from the world and bodnd with loving links to the great , heart of the universe. The world . is noi siow in nnain r out wnetner our lives are actuated by heav\ enly or worldly md ves. We I may deceive ourselvea but not . humanity.?Ida O Moulton. A Praying Church ! A prosperous church is a church which prays. It is written, "My house shall be called a [ house of prayer." We must never lose faiih in prayer. We must never abandon prayer. We must ( never lose the spirit of prayer. A rhnrrh ran t?pl on fnr a rnn. | siderable time withoul singing I and can go on indefinitely with indifferent singing. A church may do well with poor preaching, and even without preaching of any kind. But a church without prayer is no clturch at a!'. We might as well expect a man / 1! Al A 1 ll- ! A ^ to uve wiiuoui ureaimng us 10 expect a church to live without praying. Pray for the minister. Pray for the sick and afflicted. Pray for the children. Pray for , the lost. Pray for the community. Pray for one another. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that He may send forth laborers into His harvest. Pray without ceasing. Pray everywhere. Let the I church he characterized by prayer, filled with the atmosphere of prayer, and crowded with the , trophies of prayer. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know. [because they have never deceived us.?Johnson. \