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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-06
HOG CHOLERA
Every Farmer Should Know How to
Inject Cholera Serum.

Write to DR.. r. o. Feeley, Clemson
College. S. c.. and request a free bull
letin on hog cholera symptoms. and
post yourself. When your hogs show
these symptoms phone or wire your
county demonstration agent at once
FOR aid, unless you have already had
mis- services. in which case you ought
to know how to proceed without his
help. 1t Is impossible for him to see
every mans hogs. so it will be neces-
sary for you to learn to treat them
yourself after one demonstration.
Prevention is worth more than
cure is an old adage which applies
especially to this malady
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-06
CANNING
PRECAUTIONS

Cleanliness Is one of the important
secrets to success in canning. Be alb
solutely clean in every operation and
keep all the surroundings the same.
Carefully sterilize with boiling water
every utensil before it is used. Also
the jars. rubbers. and cans.
In buying glass Jars. secure the best
One of the most satisfactory types of
jars is the lightning Patent with q
glass top held in place by a simple
wire spring.
Use the best grade of tin cans even
though they cost n little more than
the cheaper grades
With glass jars always use new rub
bers.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-06

send out yearly over $4,000
letters and over 435,000
other pieces of mail matter,
most of which gives agricu-
tural information.
In addition to the parent
station. the college maintains
two branch experiments sta
tions-one near Summerville
and the other at Florence.
One more Is to be situated
in the sand hill sections Of
the State. just as soon as
funds will permit, will COM
plete n system representing
the principal soil types of the
State.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-06
Award Of Scholarships and
Free Tuition

The State Board Charities and Corrections H c,rood
with investigating the financial standing all applicants for
scholarships and free tuition and reporting their
hndgs to the Board of Trustees of the College This
passes finally the matter accepting as correct the
gathered by the State Board Appeal from the
delson OF the Trustees be made State Board of
Education. ~ ~ iN -
me College will furnish blanks to all applicants for
scholarships and free tuition. ~
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-06

Fruit for canning should be ripe but
firm. Do not use overripe specimens.
Vegetables for canning should be
young and tender.
Fruit and vegetables are better for
canning If gathered in the early morn
ing and kept in a cool place until
ready for use.
Fruits and vegetables must be
thoroughly cleaned before being put
in jars or cans.
Do not attempt to can decayed or
dirty fruits or vegetables.
Write the Horticultural Division
Clemson College. S. c., for circular
No. 27, Home Canning Of Fruits and
Vegetables" also Home Gardening"
bulletin.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Autoeratie stupidity.

In Buckles History of Civilization
an Interesting chapter is devoted to
the blighting effect of the autOcratic
rule of Louis XIV and Louis XIV,
upon the literature and art of France.
When this deadening influence was in
large part removed through the grow
ing liberalism of the eighteenth GEN.
fury and the decline of ecclesiastical
authority there burst forth that prOdi-
gality of ideas, many Of them wild
and visionary, which foreshadowed the
great revolution. The weak personal
ity of Louis XVI contributed material
ly to hasten the coming Of that ire
mendous upheava1.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Rats in the Trenches.

AS rat catchers in the trenches no
animal, not even the ferret, can COM
pete with the terriers and spaniels that
have been taken to the trent in large
numbers by the French. Some months
ago an army order announced that each
soldier fetching rat-catching dog to
the trenches would be entitled to two
extra days leave on his next permits
sien, and since then nearly every man
going back to the front has taken a
do: Of some description with him. Be-
sides the two days leave the owner of
the dog is entitled to five confines or
one sou for each rat that his dog kills
and it is said that some soldiers have
made a good thing out Of this as a
"sile line"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
SANGFROID OF THE SWAMPER
Story illustrates ImpossibiIity Of Dis
turbing Eguanimity of Unique
Type of Humanity.

Horace Kephart tells a story about
an experience with Southern swamp
er which illustrates the sanEfreid Of
that unique species of humanity. Mr..
Kephart and a companion were pad
ding canoe through the crooked wa
terways Of the swamps when they en-
cOuntered the swamper in dugout.
Both boats stopped to pass the time
of day and to crafty their mutual Gu
riOsity about each other. AS they
talked Mr.. Kephart fillC1 his pipe and
took from his box a match that had
been waterproofed by dipping the head
in paraffin. This match he deliberate
ly dipped in the water oversize and
then scratched it on the gunwale of the
canoe and lighted his pipe.
The swamper watched him incuri-
ously and as the process was complet-
ed drawled out:
"Say, stranger, I reckon the Teller
that invented them things was kicked
ut of h, wasn't he?"-Outing.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Reading Faces.

The New York Medical Record in
an article entitled "The Face and It's
Expression in Diagnosis" is of the
opinion that the Sherlock Holmes fac
ulty in the average doctor enables him
to read in his patients face in mo-
ment's observation that which the
laboratory or physical examination will
be a long time finding out. Going
somewhat further the writer says that
the physician may have read some
thing in the face of the dog of the
patients household. That at the doc
tors first visit the dogs face would
have shined forth q welcome; at the
next day he could read unallOyed glad
ness at his visit and confidence in him !;
at the third visit the dogs face would
wear a detected look. The wise physi-
clan would know what this meant. The
family had changed DOCTORS"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
A HShoestrinu RepubIic.U

Dan Ward says in World Out
look:
Chile is as long as from New York
to San Francisco and as narrow as
Lake Erie Truly "shoestring repnb-
lie" She is squeezed tightly between
the mountain range and the coast. Her
cities look up to the hills and down to
the sea, with, as Arthur Ruhl puts it,
"the Andes hanging like a beautiful
drOp-curtain at the eastern end of
every street" Chile contains. "a
provinces, and the largest province
is big enough to hold all Pennsyl-
vania, Vermont, Rhode Island and
massachusetts. The Chileans are the
Yankees of South America, aggressive,
keen, making fortunes from nitrate,
erecting a chain Of wireless stations
from the near-tropical north tip of
the Chilean shoestring to the Antarc-
tic south tip, end preparing for Pan.
anna trade by expanding S12,00O,O00 on
port and dock improvements. Chile
is elbowing her way in among the
most forward-pushing nations Of the
twentieth century.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Cutting Makes the Hair Grow.

According to DR.. William Allen Pus-
sey, the hair grows a half an inch a
month until it reaches it's natural
length. With men the natural length is
from eight to twelve inches. With
women it grows anywhere from eight
cen inches to their heels.
The hair grows faster in summer
than in winter because of the greater
activity Of the skin in warm weather.
The hair also grows faster when cut Off
The reason for this is based upon the
general principle that whenever tissue
is called upon to make up a deficit it
generally comes to the rescue with
added energy. If you cut off your hair
there is the stimulus of increased de-
mand placed upon nature to make your
hair reach it's natural length.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
ARE STILL NOMADS
ApaChes Demand and Are Given
Plenty of Room.
Worst In Country Still Refuses to
Take Up Real Farming.

OF all the wards of Uncle Sam,
none enjoyed worse reputation nor a
better deserved one, than the Apache
Indians Of the Southwest SO years ago.
They terrorized the Mexicans, robbed
the wagon trains in the Santa Fee trail,
made the frOntiersman's life miserable,
caused the patient troopers of the reg
ular army to plod and struggle over
countless miles of hot sand and blue
lava on their trail, and as soon as they
were fairly beaten and settled down
they broke out in new place. Today
their country Is given over to the
farmer and the f1ivver, and what re-
mains of the tribe occupies a spacious
reservation in northwestern New Mex
leo, says the Buffalo News.
The reservation is spacious, because
the Apache needs plenty of room. 1t
contains little besides space, because
that is the kind of land that suits him;
and, luckily for him, has little attrac-
ton for anybody else. The Apache's
idea Of a small one-man homestead
would run anywhere from q thousand
acres up. He does not go in for in
tensive cultivation. He plants little
corn here aud there, and he harvests
wild hay wherever it chances to grow
thickly enough to make the process
worth while, but real farming is in
compatible with hts idea Of the dignity
of a man and an Indian.
The boundaries of the reservation
are not visible to the naked eye, so
that If you chance to be travelling in
the neighbOrhoOd you may easily stray
over the Apache's hearth and home
without finding it out. The owner,
however, viii inform you of the fact
with great vigOr, if he chances to find
you. On the other hand, you may travel
on Apache land for weeks and never
meet soul. The reservation comprises
hundreds of square miles, and the In
from place to place as the fancy
SeiZes.
The reservation is land Of rolling
hills, with few stubby mountain
ranges, and a share of barren plain.
Most Of the country is fertile enough,
especially the hill land, but the Indian
makes no attempt to realize on it's fer
tility. AT least, he is doing nothing to
exhaust the soil, and should his race
or another ever come to farm it they
will find earth as virgin as that Of the
western prairies hundred years ago.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
BEATS FOOT TRAVEL
HOW ITALIANS ARE MAKING WAY
THROUGH ALPS.
System Of Gable Railways Has Proved
Invaluable for the Transportation
of Troops and Ammunition
During War.

The teleferica, or cable railway, that
the Italians have cOntrived to supply
their mountain troops quickly and cas-
ily with ammunition and provisions, is
one of the most interesting inventions
that the war has brought forth be-
tween high mountain and low noun
tain.
The steam railways, says writer In
the Railway Age Gazette, run In the
valleys at the foot of the Alps. The
freight, however, has to be picked up
and distributed by wagon or automo-
bile truck, and 1t must go up the nigh
er mountains on mule and mans back,
and finally on mans back alone, bit by
bit. But here the teleferica steps In
and says, LET me do it. I'm quicker
and surer. / can go in all weathers.
Avaianches can't stop me-"
Along the 400-mile front the tele-
ferica daily does the work Of an army
Of at least 100000 men-or 10000
mules. The last figure is interesting
when it is considered that there are
only 115,0OO mules and horses used for
transportation purposes in this entire
army that the Italians have organized
to fight the AustriAns.
According to tAe s0cal statistics
there ere 12o nuian q talskes4aa Sset
tered along the 1rsnt, with . fetal
daily carrying power OF $500 tons
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Briohtens CARPETS,

A suggestion for making carpet
look like new and bringing out all the
bright cOlors again, at a cost of Is
cents, follows: Shave one bar of
white soap in dish and dissolve with
a gallon of hot water; to this add 10
cents worth Of salts of tartar. This
forms soft paste. When cold put a
handful of paste on carpet and with a
scrub brush scrub this well into the
carpet; then with a dull knife scrape
the paste from the carpet and then
wiring d cloth out of clear water and
go over the place just cleaned. In
this manner go over the surface of the
entire carpet, and you will be sur
priSed at the result.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28

Each te1eferica built can carry rough
ly 80 tons. There are some 120 diff
ferent stations, each with a line mile
or so in length. The one saw reached
height Of 1900 feet on the side Of
Monte Adamello, in the central Alps;
it did the work of 1000 men every
day.
The operation of the teleferica Is not
much more difficult than that of an
electric elevator in q "skyscraper."
Once the heavy motors and machinery
are got up the mountain sides and the
three-quarter-inch steel cables strung
across deep valleys and chasms and
rivers, the mounting Of the car upon
the overhead cable and the attaching
of the pulley cable are simple enough.
We had been coming up all morning
by burro from the valley, the Alpinist
colonel and /, riding along narrow
roads built ON the side of huge noun
tain.
We came at last to small shack
that blocked the road. The colonel dis
mounted, greeted the officer in charge
of the station, and let me take look
round. l saw a couple of heavy mo-
tors with cables. Ny eye followed
those cables, however, and they kept
going across the valley and up the
side Of the opposite mountain until the
eye, dazzled by the snow, could follow
no longer. "Well," remarked the col
onel, as he cheeriIy knocked the snow
from his thick, hobnailsd boots, Sup
pose we 60 up"
We climbed into the basket, four
feet long by two wide, with side rails
not more than six inches high. Wheels
began to whir, and eur car ran smooth
| ly out into space.
/ held on for dear Ne to those low
aAAs nd iwv0tly Ae0AA ~ esaAsA'
VssA 1T roak the hAot. 'sID tlbll
wouldn't pay In peace times" sead.
The car ran upgrade on 2O-degre>
INCLINE for cQUQle Of minutes AQG
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28

aOhs and of the Greeks who wrote
out their social or business commune
cations on blocks Of stone or wood. But
for the first letter writer of distinction
it Is necessary to turn to the Book Of
Kings, where in chapter q, verses to
10, we are told how Queen Jezebel,
wife Of Ahab, wishing to compass the
death Of Naboth, "wrote letters in
Ahab's name and sealed them with his
seal and sent the letters unto the eld-
ers and to the mobiles that were in his
city and that dwelt with Naboth," these
dignitaries suggesting a plot which
ended in the death of NabOth by ston-
ing.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Home of Indian Peace-Pipe,

The calumet or peace-pipe Of the
Indians was made from a red stone
found in lodges near the source Of the
Des Moines river. "Forty centuries
before the Nazarene appeared on earth
this spot was solemnly consecrated to
the cause Of worldwide peace" writes
Charles Keyes of Des Moines in the
Scientific Monthly. "Peace at once
reigned among warning nations wher-
ever the smallest fragment Of this red
rock was carried"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
For Diphtheria.

A recent issue of the Indianapolis
Medical Journal contains an article
suggesting the use of fresh buttermilk
as a gargle for diphtheria. Another
method is to use swab with butter
milk, perhaps for the reason that some
persons cannot gargle. A practitioner
gives his experience in nine cases
where the plain buttermilk was used
five or six times day. He believes
that the diphtheria organisms were
displaced entirely after three days.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Beqinnino of Letter Writino.

The actual period of the beginning
of letter writing is, like many other Of
the familiar things Of today, lost III the
mistS of time, observes a writer in the
New York Evening World. Probably
the earliest historical records of epis-
tolary achievements are found in the
days of the Egyptians under the Phar-
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28

stopped, for we had completed the first
teleferica section Of the three that
would take us to our destination. In
seven minutes we had traversed a dis
lance that on foot required an hour.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28

N4t0h4l Result.
The car l vas tnvsAAG - vas
taODDed n ~ oo1AA."
"Wpt happened tAsAT
Il saw stars" --4L-.--s-
The Parker post., 1917-01-27
The Leading
Witness
90
ZN
Bu FRANK FILSON
lCopyright. 1916. by wv. G. Chapman.l

(Copyrlght. 1915. Dy w. ". Cnapman.)
Old Mrs. Susan Jenkins murder had
Mortified the town. Suspicion pointed
at once to frank Jenkins, her nephew,
who, after being repeatedly cut off and
reinstated in the old lady's will, had
disappeared from the scene for Sev-
eral years until the week before.
Frank Jenkins struck me as weak
rather than criminal. / could not see
him numbering his aunt in cold blood.
But sentiment was strongly against
him. His only friend was Mabel Arm
strong, who had helped keep the neer-
do-welf as straight as it was possible
for him to go.
The evidence seemed extremely
strong. Frank had been living with
his aunt for week. The old woman,
who was irascible, had threatened
him again with the loss of her prop
erty. So much Jad, the Polish farm
hand, had volunteered through an in
terpreter. Jad was a sullen, ungainly
lout, who could not speak word of
GISllSlls 1IC lltlu OCCA GU dOOul
three weeks and had come from an
immigrant bureau.
The Reeses, who lived next door,
had heard cries during the night, but
had thought the old lady was merely
angry and scOlding her nephew. At
six in the morning Frank had burst
into their home, shouting that his aunt
had been murdered. She had been
strangled with piece of tape, and
there were signs of a struggle in her
room. She clutched a lock of hair in
her hard. 1t was obviously Franks
hair. The boy was arrested as soon
as the police came on the scene.
Jad. who had slept in the loft over
the barn, deposed that he had heard
nothing.
The absolutely damning evidence,
however, was Phineas'. Phineas was
Mrs. Jenkins parrot. He was swing.
The Parker post., 1917-01-27
Women and Dishraas.

When a woman declares that she
''feels like a dishrag," she is dragging
herself down to the lowest level in
still life. We doubt not from the per-
sOnal appearance of that handy arti-
Gle of domestic utility that if any life
existed at all in said rag it could not
possibly fall Rover or feel meaner.
However, woman should never offer
herself in comparison with so degrad-
ed an object, for the simple reason
thSs mankind spurns the dishrag mos
veEemently, and as woman exists sole
ly for man she should not seek TO low.
er herself in his esteem. When rag
takes up it's duties in the dishpan it
has reached the tag end of abandoned
hope, the climax perhaps of merry
life. But it is not of it's past that i
speak. 1t is of it's present social stand
ing, it's vulgar environments and it's
utter self-abandOnment. 'Tis true that
you may feel fatigued to limp and
loppy degree, but never can you feel
SO utterly wretched and beyond re-
demption as a dishrag !-"Zim, in Car
toons Magazine.
The Parker post., 1917-01-27
MINE WARNING NOTICE.

To Whom it May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned, the EMPIRE-ARIZON
Copper Company, is the owner OF the
American Eagle and Gray Eagle lode
mining claims, situate in Cienega
mining district, Yuma county, state
of Arizona; and that said claims are
now in possession of and are being
worked under a leasing contract by
John j. Stein and Linley Harpending
The said owner. the undersigned,
hereby gives notice that neither the
above-named claims, nor the owner
thereof. will be responsible for any
debts contracted for supplies or ma
terials by the persons working said
claims.
EMPIRE-ARIZONA COPPER co
By G. F. BALDWIN,
Dated at Parker, this 2Sd day of
December, 1916.
The Parker post., 1917-01-27
Weekend in Bed,

A philosopher in London Opinion has
some views on warm-weather comfort
and happiness that are not altogether
new but are well worth considering,
even on this side of the Atlantic. His
view of happiness, or rather of COM
fort, is to retire to rest on Friday
night and get up on Monday after
noon. He regards the idea as restful
and economical, but finds that the
household government prevents putting
it in practice.
"Sloth," he says, eve are told in the
cOpybooks, is vicious, and moralist
has declared that what maintains one
vice could bring up two children. l
don't want to bring up two children .
declares this lazy philosopher, "but it
is pleasant to maintain one vice. Near
ly all the worries of life arise from the
initiative faculty. If duchesses sud
denly developed taste for breaking
coal with a hammer, the assistants in
drape shops would Immediately want
to do the Same-nOt because they en-
jOyed breaking coal with a hammer
but because it was the thing"
The Parker post., 1917-01-27
OLD TREE STILL PRODUCTIVE
Planted by Governor Endicott Nearly
Three Centuries Ago, 1t Bears
Yearly Crop of Fine Fruit.

Thought to be the oldest fruit tee
in this country, the pear tree planned
280 years ago by Governor Endicott of
Massachusetts, is still thriving well and
bearing a yearly crop of fruit of the
first quality. John Endicott purchased
a large tract of land at Danversport,
then known as the southern section of
Salem village The estate afterward
became known as the Endicott plan
tation. Governor Endicott, being a
great lover of sugar pears, sent 10 a
relative in Dorchester, England, for o
pear tree. After several months the
tree arrived, and at that time few pee
pie ever believed that the tree would
live, as the roots had become very dry.
The governor, believing that he, bet
ter than anyone else, was the proper
man to plant the tree, jonrneyed to the
plantation and there, in a sheltered
spot close to the Danvers river, dug
a hole and carefully planted it. For
many years he cared for it himself,
and it was not long before it became
the most famous of all fruit trees of
Massachusetts. This year it is esti-
mated that there were close to 5000
pears on the tree. Few people who
visited Danvers missed the opportunity
Of seeing this wonderful tree, which
was carefully guarded by picket
fence. The tree is made up of three
distinct trunks, which are partially de-
cayed, although the upper section of
the tree is quite healthy in appearance.
Endicott himself used to relate that
the tree supplied sufficient number
Of pears to supply the entire Salem
village, which in those days numbered
less than one hundred inhabitants.
When Governor Endicott died in the
year 1865 special mention was made
in his will in regard to the famous tree,
which was left in care of his daughter
The Parker post., 1917-01-27
GOES FAR BACK IN HISTORY
Nippur Tablet, Recently Discovered
and Translated, Has Brought Joy
to ArcheoIogists.

A Sumerian epic that tells the story
of the reconstruction of civilization af-
ter the deluge has been discovered on
one of the famous Nippur tablets in
the University of Pennsylvania mu-
scum. Announcement of the discov-
cry and the completion Of the trans
latfon of the epic has just been made
by DIR. Stephen H. Langdon, Sumeri-
an scholar and assistant curator of
the museum. The epic, according to
Doctor Langdon, takes up the history
Of civilization after Paradise, the fall
Of man and the flood, and is a sequel
to the Sumerian epic which he trans
lated year ago. The fragment which
contains the latest history is four and
one-half inches long and one inch
thick. 1t contains about 300 lines of
inscriptions. 1t dates from about
2250 B. c., and hence represents lit
erature older than that of the Baby
lonians and the Chaldeans. "The boat
or ark is mentioned" Doctor Lang
don announces, ''as we'll as Lahama,
the god of the deluge. 1t describes the
regeneration of the ancient land of
Sumeria at the hands of the god of
wisdom, who decreed that it should
be the center of civilization.