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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-02-10
Couldn't Whip the Yankees

Spartanburg. Feb. A. Ben
Jamin +. O'Kelley one of the
most picturesque characters in
upper South Carolina, has pass
ed away at his home three miles
east of Walhalla, Oconee
County. When a young man
entering the Confederate Army
he took an oath that he would
not have his hair cut until the
Contederates had whipped the
Yankees. He kept his word and
the long white hair reaching his
waist which has distinguished
hlm Tor years, was the evidence
OF his regard for his oath.
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Negro Pardoned by Blease is
Again Convicted

Washington, Feb. 4.-John
Nan, a negro, who was pardon
;edSlast November by ex Gov.
Blease of South Carolina, while
.Serving term of IS years inn
fisOnment for manslaughter,
AaS been convicted of robbery
@atore Chief Justice Covington
81 the criminal division of the
Nistrict supreme court.
Vans liberty was short lived,
as he was apprehended during
the Christmas holidays in a s.
and 10-cent store, where he
Picked a woman's pocket. He
secured only an eyeglass case.
which he mistook for a purse.
Van denied the charge, and on
the witness stand declared he
bad never been in prison. Mr..
Archer, assistant United States
attorney, then enquired if he had
not been pardoned by the COVER
nor of South Caorlina last No
yember. The witness then adj
mitted his identity.
P. H. MCGOWAN.
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Pageland, S. G..

Sir: With reference to your
letter of the 2Sth ultimo, stating
that there is dissatisfaction since
the withdrawal of rural route
No. l, Jefferson, South Carolina,
from Pageland, and suggesting
either that the former method of
service on the route be restored
Or that the carrier on the Jeffer.
son route be held until the re-
ceipt of mail from McBee, beg
to state that in view of the ex-
cessive duplication and interlac-
ing involved restoration of the
former service on the route from
Jefferson is deemed inadvisable.
The matter of changing the
schedule of the carrier, however,
SO as to require him to leave
after the receipt of mail from
McBee, will be given considera-
ton. RespectfuIly.
James S. Blaksley
Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General.
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Old Time Prices.

Mr.. ]. NJ. Clark was here the
other day and he handed us a
clipping of prices taken from the
"Cheraw Advertiser, published
at Cheraw and dated Saturday,
October II, 1866. Comparison
with present-day prices may be
interesting amusement for some
of our readers:
Bacon per lb 24a25
Bagging, per Id 45a47
Beef, per lb 5a10
Butter, per ID 30a35
Candles Adamantine lb 4Oa6O
Candles Tallow, per lb 3Oa35
Cheese per lb 33 1-2a35
Chickens 20a30
Coffee, per ID 33a35
Corn per buShel $l.4O
Cotton, in currency, lb 2Sa23
Cotton in specie, per lb 18a22
Eggs, per dOz. 3Oa33
Fodder, per Cwt. 75a$1.00
Flour, per bbl. $l5al6
Glass, per hundred $8.5OalO.50
Lard, per ID 25a3O
Mackerel, per Dbl $20a$25
Mutton, per lb 8a10
MolasSes, per gal S0aS5
Nails, per lb 1Oa12 II
Peas, per buShel $1.25al.35
Potatoes, sweet, per bushel Is
Potatoes, Irish, per bushels .25
Rope, per ID 2Oa30
RoSin, per Dbl $l.25a3.00
Salt, per sack $4.00
Sugar, per lib 20a25
TalloW, per lb II 1-2a15
Turpentine per gal 35a45
Twine, per Id 80
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Chesterfield County Wants
Better Roads.

A delegation of Chesterfield
county citizens went to Colum-
bia Friday and asked the Ches-
terfield legislators to pass a bill
permitting any township in the
county to vote bonds for road
improvement.
The Columbia State gave the
following account:
Chesterfield county has come
forward with new type of
highway Improvement bonds
proposition. Essentially the
plan consists of legislation
whereby any township in the
county may bond itself at will
for permanent betterment of its
roads. LaCoste Evans of Che
raw, whose diligence and zeal in
the cause has procured him the
sobriquent locally of THE Good
Roads Pusher," is promoting the
movement, with the cooperation
of an organization of his form
ing called the 1865 Day Good
Roads League of Chesterfield
County,"
Delegates from this associa-
ton were much in evidence in
Columbia the other day, when
they came down to interview
the Chesterfield county legisla-
tive delegation in regard to their
project. Representatives of all
of the eight townships, were on
hand. One of these townships,
Alligator, has already bonded
itself generously for highway
improvement. The group COM
prised the following citizens:
From Cheraw-Lacoste Evans,
Isaac Huntley, Thomas Amos.
From Chesterfield Court
House-C. L. Huntly, M. ].
Hough, ]. w. Griggs, w. ]. Til
ler, H. F. King and r. NJ. Myers.
From Mt. Croghan-Jule S.
McGregor, F. M. Moore, w. A.
Rivers.
From Cole HiIl-J.EE. Will
ans, the Rev. B. D. Thames.
From Steer Pen-Cordy Win
burn, D. S. Matheson.
From Alligator-W. L. Mccoy
and G. T. Horton.
From Jefferson-M. M. John
son and w. C. Sutton.
From Old Store-L. l.. Parker
and ]. E. Agerton.
Senator Laney and Represen-
tatives Odom and Rivers gave
the visitors careful hearing
and the delegates afterward ex-
pressed themselves as satisfied
with the prospects.
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Special to The Journal

what is the difference" asked
the teacher, between caution
and cowardice?"
Johnny, who observed things
carefully for SO youthful a per-
son, answered:
Caution is when you're afraid
and cowardice is when the other
fellows afraid. ."-Exchange.
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MIR. Odom Writes Concerning
Bill

Mr. Odom Writes Concerning
Bill
Columbia, S. G. Feb. 5th
MIR. Editor:-I notice in your
issue of this week some COM
ments on the bill introduced in
the House by the Chesterfield
Delegation which proposes to
abolish the office of magistrates
constable and devolve their
duties, both criminal and civil,
on the rural policemen.
Mr.. Rivers is taxed with being
the author OF the bill, and he is
charged with being actuated by
spite. Mr.. Rivers is no more
responsible than | am, and if
there is any odium attached to
it, am willing to bear my
SHARE,
| was approached by numer-
Gus persons before | came to the
opening of the present session,
and asked to abolish the office
of magistrates constable and
devolve their duties upon the
rural policemen of the county.
| had not thought of the matter
until it was thus called to my
attention. The argument was
that the rural policemen could
do their usual work and that Of
the constables, and thereby save
the county something over
100000 per year. l am fully
convinced that the argument is
sound, and by proper distribu-
ton, the rural policemen can do
the work formerly required OF
both.
l fail to see why any one
should be opposed to the bill
who has the financial interest OF
the county at heart, provided
the work can be done properly,
and there is no doubt in my
mind about the ability of the
rural police to take care of this
work in a satisfactory manner.
1t is up to them to do it, and il
will be to their interest as well to
I.e-iRtcreSt ofthNunlds1isInfsr
them to make go 1
The imputation til me bill
was born in spite is a reflection
upon the delegation that resent
with all the power of my being.
l had in mind only the ecolom-
ical aspect of the question, and
thought nothing of Spiting any
one. | feel sure that when this
bill is fully understood, those
who are unselfishlv opposed to
it will become its friends. II
may be that some of those per-
sons who expected a constable's
place may be a trifle sore for a
while, but time, the great healer
of wounds, will show them their
error.
The bill provides that in an
emergency, the magistrate is
authorized to deputize a special
constable. Such emergency
would arise when it is impossi.
bic TO get hold of rural police
man, and the case is urgent.
We are trying to save the
county some money during the
panlcky time now on us and we
would be recreant TO The trust
imposed on lis if we did not do
all IN power to decrease taxes
without impairing efficiency.
BE impartial and lets give the
law a trial. If it will not work,
as we believe it will. it can be
changed at the next session OF
the legislature. Yours truly,
w. p. Odom.
Couldn't Whip the Yankees
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Use Your Head as Well as
Your Hands


Your Hands
Progressive Farmer
AS never before, farming is
becoming a business where
brains count, and nowhere is
this more apparent than in the
use of labor-saving, time saving,
money-saving farm machinery.
1t is far cry from the cradle
and scythe to the modern bind
cr; from the OK wagon and
stage coach 10 the modern auto
mobile; from the scooter" plow
to the riding cultivator; from the
limited, uncertain agricultural
knowledge of fifty years ago to
the splendid store of scientific
and technical information that
awaits the husbandman who will
avail himself of it. 1t is long
step, indeed, from the tools and
the facts to which our fathers
and grandfathersshad access, to
those that we may use; but as
we do use these, harnessing our
heads and hands to the machin-
cry science and invention have
given us, so do we prosper.
This does not mean, though,
that all farm machinery will pay
on all farms; for it is in the pur-
chase, as well as in the use, of
improved implements that real
thinking and wise discrimination
between which is really needed
and which is not must be exer-
cised. Largely what a farmer
needs and what will return him
real profits is an individual, local
problem, and must be gone at as
such.
Obviously the machinery
needed on a 500 acre wheat farm
of the Northwest will be quite
different from that required on
the ten-aCre Florida truck farm;
and likewise the implements
that may be used profitably on a
level, stump-free cotton farm are
greatly different from what the
s-teFase-eettonVenaI4t,- his
one mule and stumpy. quilted
patches, may employ.
To know a real need from an
apparent one; to be able to de-
eide what implements are suited
to a given set of conditions
these are tests of the judgement,
and the farmer who meets these
successfully will have taken a
most important step toward the
use of machinery in place of the
more expensive hand labor.
But this is not all: In the
operation and intelligent care of
farm implements there lies an
immense field for the exercise of
sound sense and unless he
possesses and is willing to exer-
else these faculties the farmer
will still find his implements a
liability rather than d dividend
producing asset.
Summing up, there are many
many millions of dollars worth
of farm machinery needed in the
South, ii our labor is to be most
productive; but we doubt not
toe; because of a lack of adapta-
ton 10 local conditions, because
of ignorance and carelessness in
operating, and because of ex-
posure to weather and a general
lack of care, that there also are
right now on Southern farms
several millions of dollars worth
OF implements that will never be
anything more than a dead loss.
Merely buying an improved i'm
plement doesn't put the stamp OF
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Office of Constable Abolished
in Chesterfield County.

OttIce OF Constable Abolished
in Chesterfield County.
Special to The Journal
Columbia, S. c., Feb. 81 did
not write you last week because
the session adjourned Friday
afternoon, and l went home.
Now we have had several
stormy debates over the various
bills presented. notable among
which was the repeating act
concerning the cotton ware
house act, passed by the extra
session last fall. The repeal act
failed to pass. The hunters
license act created world of
debate, both pro & con and has
passed to third reading. The
land commission bill which
sought to create an office and
appoint an officer to go over the
state and purchase land for the
state, and sell the same to buyers
at long time credit, virtually put
ting the state in the real estate
business, failed to pass, But the
hottest time yet has been the de-
bate upon the compulsory edu.
cation bills, 2 in number; after
two days, of continuous debate
and voting we are yet at sea as
to the ultimate fate of the meas
ure. believe that this legisla-
ture will pass some compulsory
law, but in just what form can
not say. Personally l am oppos-
ed to bills as offered but favor a
law which leaves the matter to
each school district.
Just now we are in a debate
upon the tobacco bill. which
does not concern Our county
very much at present. The old
soldiers pension bill will be
taken UP tonight.
Yes, sir, the Chesterfield
delegation introduced a bill to
elimiD2111aais6nal - pastahles
III mCaeSterflelu County, and the
same was passed by the senate
last Friday, Jan. 10Th, which
makes it impossible for Senator
Laney to have held up the bill
after Monday or Tuesday of this
week. Now in regard to this
bill I will say that it was only
intended for an economical
measure: saving to our county
the sum of $4,000 in salaries
alone: we devolve the duties up.
on the rural policemen of the
county both civil and criminal:
with the right reserved to the
magistrate to appoint a special
constable for occasions of emer-
gency and when a rural police
man cannot be had. We are
trimming all the county expen-
ses, working hard to save our
people all the money we can in
the way of taxes. which, with
the present crisis upon us, we
think is proper and necessary,
and we ask the people of our
county to uphold our actions for
economy. resent the ins;nua-
ton or imputation that I origi-
mated the bill within myself or
that it was originated for selfish
motives. | resent that because
all the gentlemen who were to
be appointed constable are and
have been my close personal
friends, some of them my close
kin by blood and marriage and
any report that | favored the bill
Tor selfish motives or for any
other purpose, except for good
service and economy, is entirely
without foundation and is false
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Will Consider Change

The following letter explains
itself: {.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-02-10

''Did YOU tell Blinks | was {
fool?"
No; | thought he knew it,
Exchange.
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"How did you know your
patient had appendicitis, doc
tor?"
81 operated on him."-Ex.
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SOME ILLUSIONS OF YOUTH
Difficult Task confronts Parent In Un.
folding World to chlid-Matter
for Meditation.

The illusions which youth entertains
about the things Of the world are at
once the most appalling and the most
delicate things with which older per
sons have to do. There Is NO lodging
the fact ths. the Illusions must go.
The conscientious mother who has
taught her son that to lie Is to sin
knows quite well that when he grows
older he will learn that lies are OF two
kinds. white and black. and that the
time will come when he will have to
tell white lies, and. because they are
SO like the black lies against which
his mother >admonished, he will find 1t
hard.
And the father who looks upon his
daughters innocence with pride will
shudder a little at the thought that
time will bring to her some cold ex-
amples of the duplicity OF mankind.
II he is fearful. 1t is not. without rea-
son; for on the parent devolves the
duty of guiding the disillusioning
process. As this is done well or i'll,
SO will the child's view OF life be In
fluenced. q writer in the Indianapolis
News remarks. II. for instance. a child
reared in home where kindness is
master is suddenly confronted with
the spectacle OF two drunken men
brawling in the street. the child's illu-
sions are treated to an assault alto
gether beyond its power to combat.
In the course of events, 1t would nat
urally learn that men get drunk and
fight, but that Is revelation which
should come to mind whose rules of
conduct are pretty well established. In
this case the parent may well be
moved to anguish.
To unfold the world to a child is a
matter for meditation and ingenuity,
and the parent who leaves It to chance
is no less guilty Of maltreatment than
the parent who wantonly exposes
child to contagious disease, for the
mind Of child is q delicate instru-
ment Of SURPRISING sensltiveness.
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FAULTS OF MANY SWIMMERS
Most Of Energy Which Would Garry
Them Aioas Smoothly, II Applied
Rightly, 10 Wasted.

The trouble with good many swim.
mers is that they do not know how
to swim. Most Of the energy which
would carry them along smoothly and
rapidly. II properly applied, is wasted
In faulty movements. (
Time and again I have seen men
thrash away madly for . short space.
misus:ng arms and LEGS. then stop sud.
denly pufhng hard and in distress. To
such tyros swimming means stub
born Tight to keep going. and there is
NO doubt that II they tried to swim for
exercise, frequently serious harm
might come from 1t. But can this
parody of workmanship be considered
swimming! Hardly. according to the
present-day standards.
Watch q skilled trudgeon or crawl
exponent and note the difference He
will take . graceful dive. strike out un.
harried. move along without fuss or
furry. rolling gently from side to side
and emerge from the water fresh and
invigorated. barely breathing hard.
Rest assured It is not he that will
suffer even from daily practice.-Out-
ing.
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Hymns and Longevity. 1

The practice of hymn writing ap-
pears to be conducive to longevity.
charlotte Elliott, who. wrote Just As
4 Am" was eighty.two at the time OF
her death: Bishop Bickersteth, who
wrote Peace, Perfect Peace" was
eishty-one, as also was Charles wes-
ley. Bishop Walsham How, author OF
some Of the most popular Of the
Hymns. Ancient and Modern; ." John
heoie and Bishop Kerr. the writer Of
the famous Evening Hymn" were all
seventy-four. And In compiling such
list as this. one ought not to forget
the name Of W. e. Gladstone. who mar
rowiy escaped being = nonasenarian.
one OF Mr.. Gladstone's hymns-"o
Lead Ny Blindness By the HANDS
TO be found in the Enxlish Hvmnal.
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away from him and must sit close.
He can have her all to himself. with
out the annoyance of having a third
party about. Her cousins and her
aunts cannot expect an invitation to
accompany him as his cutter holds but
two and, perforce. they must sit snugly
together at that. What delight to
whirl over the country road, with the
air just keen enough to bring the roses
to their cheeks and to exhilarate their
spirits! Even the horse is on his met
tie and fairly flies over the crisp
ground. No young man who has a
sleigh or can rig up anything on run
fners to look like one would miss
his sleigh ride with his dearie on a
bright, starry, moonlight night.
OF course, the young men are ex-
pected to pay strict attention to their
get and Cupid slyly steals the reins
from their grasp for moment. there's
pretty apt to be spill-out. Couples
who race by shout with laughter. They
guess. intuitively. by their own expe-
rience. that Dobbin must have gotten
away while his master was popping
the question to the fair one by his
side. For how could he pay strict at
tention to the maiden and to guiding
reins the same time? - n,, +,
1t is an odd fact that more proposals
OF marriage have taken place while
sleigh riding than on any other occa-
sion. 1t seems the most natural thing
in the world for the man to whisper
to the girl so near him the secret that
he has held SO carefully In his heart,
Il love you!" and in his next words
to breathe the hope that has been the
one thought Of his life. will you be
my wife?" II the girl really loves him.
he wins from her that timid confession
and with 1t the promise that she will
marry him II he can gain the consent
of her loved ones at home.
The girl who goes out sleighing with
proey young man. who is Indifferent
as to whether the robe is tucked in
about her or If his conversation is in
teresting or not, treating Of the wealth
er or the crops he hopes to harvest In
the spring, his business problems. etc,
is not apt to remain out very long with
him. Nor will she be in hurry to ac-
cept another invitation from him to
go sleighing very soon.
Wintry evenings are deeting and
sleighing does not last long. Few girls
want to waste time on the young man
who has no intention Of wooing and
wedding. He who lets winter slip by
may fit in summer. Beaux. make
haste in proposing marriage to the girl
you love best while the chance is yours
In dear old sleighing time. Be not like
the young man who could not be with
his sweetheart at sleighing time to ask
her the all.importapt question. He had
to content himself by writing her:
oh. Love. II you were here
This drea-y. weary day.
II your lips. warm and dear.
Found some sweet word to say,
Then hardly would seem drear
These skies of wintry gray
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tn. Kaiser. wardrobe.

The kaiser's enormous wardrobe ex-
tends only to the top layers of apparel.
according TO the intimate disclosures
made by the author Of The Private
Lives of william II and His Consort." :"
In the matter OF shirts he is stated
to be restricted to the historical halt
dozen Of the Hiohenxollern house. and
even these are innocent Of cuffs. q
commodity William attaches with the
aid OF buttons and pulleys, like any
poor lieutenant" OF socks also never
above q dozen pairs are In use"
though there 10 no limit to handker>
chiefs But the outer garments,
which could equip the marines OF q
nrst-class battleship or the oficers
of ten army corps. are contrasted
with Frederick the Greats wardrobe.
sold to an old clothes man for 800
thalers."
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ely from the cold, The explorer. Dr.
J. B. Charcot. son-inlaw TO the poet
Victor Hugo. has suggested the use
of very big shoe, Polar explorers
never found their shoes large enough
he said, and in all cases Of frost.bit-
ten feet the cause could be traced to
the tightness of the footwear confin.
Ing the foot SO that II cannot by its
own exercise accelerate the circulation
OF the blood, This, Doctor Charcot
thinks. is the diniculty with the
French military shoe. which is 20 nat
at the toe as not to permit the free
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the aamiiy hotel. He has no privacy.
even at his own freside.

the .amiiy hotel. He has no privacy.
even at his own freside.
The wife who brings such discom-
forts upon the man who has married
her has not his interest at heart. No
gathering friends about him and CIV
ing them happy evening. there are
times when he needs the quiet con-
ISOLATION of home where no stranger
may intrude. II "a business blow
strikes him unawares. 1t Is not to a
group of merrymakers he would go for
cheer and counsel, but to his wife's
side in the home. In such an hour he
would bless and value the companion
ship of loving woman's presence, one
to whom he was dearer than all the
world beside. one who would feel his
sorrows more deeply than he. take his
hand, stroke his brow fondly while she
whispered words Of home to encourage
him and lift the weight of woe from
his heart. A man must feel that his
home Is his haven of rest. his wife his
Jewel in his casket whose beautiful
light shines only for him. that the
whole world is nothing to her COM
pared to him and his interests. There
should be happy evenings at home.
with Just two at their log fire. as in
their counting days. The husband pro-
vides the house. the woman makes the
home.
II she infuses sunshine. comfort and
love into It, the husband will never be
tempted to stray from 1t and find his
pleasure elsewhere. He has an incen-
tive to work hard and bring not only
comfort and luxuries to the wife, who
would, II need be. sacrifice all her Joys
for his sake. When house is divided
against itself there must be grave
reason.
A happy home is heaven on earth.
Few men are wandering from 1t. delib-
erately. willfully. They can see for
themselves when everything is being
done to make the home nest the dear
est spot on earth for them. There is
much depends upon the girl man
chooses to make happy home life for
him.