The Pageland Journal, 1914-08-05

Great Surgical Achievement Christian Herald. Among the wonders of the scientific world are the triumphs of modern orthopedic surgery. A case which looks little short of the miraculous is reported from the Emergency hospital, Washington. William Averhill, a 5-year-old boy from near Oxford, N. C., was taken to the hospital with clubfeet were turned aside and under, and his gait was slow and laborious, really more a shuffle than a step. He was put on the table, and the surgeon went to work on one foot, then on the other, cutting ligaments, separating tendons and readjusting little bones, and all but amputating the child's feet. Then the members were readjusted, given the necessary antiseptic treatment and skilfully wrapped in plaster of Paris casts extending to the knees. About three weeks ago, a little less than five weeks after the operation, the plaster cases were removed, and something akin to a miracle had been wrought. Two littlp

luuieu uy uvune as declaring hat export business in wheat rom the Uuited States already tad been paralyzed. To a lesser legree, the same statement applied to all dealings in wheat, especially speculative transactions. 3ne of the consequences was he action today of prominent irms on the board of trade in riving their pit agents orders "to ake a furlough." Business which three days ago vas counted in millions of bushels dwindled at times-today to ilmost the vanishing point, iazard of being whipsawed out >f a fortune by the chance of a noment proved too much for even the most seasoned traders. The principal efforts seemed to )e directed to keeping would-be nvestors out of the market. It was pointed out that practically all the ocean-carrying tonlage was owned by foreign capial, was subiect to goveroment ise for army transports and that jraiia laden vessels in the case of f tv rnfiiiild u- ?- ??*

board became no longer road worthy it was traded to Mr. E.C. c Williams for a mustang pony. ( Now everybody openly or t secretly wants an automobile. f It is said that $10,000,000 are ? invested in machines in North t Caroline. To June 30, 12,^00 machines had been licensed "in \ the State. Last year the tax was c paid on 7,618 in the state show- ? ing an increase of nearly 5,Q00 1 machines. The tags this year < are of a green color while last i year they were white. There is c one connty in the state, Mitchell, r in which the sheriff reports there t is not a single gas wagon.? i Monroe Journal. . c Death of Mr. W. J McGuuft, i The Waxhaw Enterprise giwes t the following account of Ae 1 death of Mr. WilliamJ. } erly of this township, died at his J, home i.ear Unionville yesterday of heart trouble. He was about s 65 years old and had been in ^ poor health for three years. He r

Automobiles Multipyling. ^ * Monroe was very backwan&JA taking up the automobile craif, N but at last it is breaking out all i over. From the little old buck- j board which Mr. Lorenzo Med- t lin imported to the city yews 1 ago to the big Studebaker which t Hon. John C. Sikes has just s bought, is a far cry. But no kind s of a machine would now create c half the talk and interest which c the famous buckboard of Mr. t Medlin aroused when it was the c only machine in these parts, t When Mr. Medlin went out to t take a little exercise he was r always accompanied by a crowd ? of boys and little negroes. These flanked the machine on either c side to shoo it out of the ditches, t and behind to push it up grade, f and all fell aboard and rode t down hill. And when the bu<&- c

feet, once considered hopelessly deformed, had been transformed into normal organs, in which practically no trace of their former deformity was left except the scars made by the surgeon's knife. ? "As Poor Richard Says." The following quotations are from "Poor Richard's Almanac," which was written and published by Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's Almanac was a model upon which many modern almanac's have been based: A word to the wise is enougfl voti* t iiiy ,, * el. God helps those who help . themselves. Sloth, like rust, consumes fast- 1 er than lobor wears, while the used key is always bright. 1 Dost thou love life? Then don't squander time, for that's .

mey may so elect. This feat is to be accomplished so soon by the energetic efforts of James S. Gibson of Winona, who owns the land where the ferry touches on both sides of the Great Pee Dee at Mars Bluff landing. Mr. Gibson has gone to work at great expense and has had built and will launch on Friday afternoon at 7 o'clock his splendid ferry boat, the Henry H. Husbands, which is henceforth to be used in moving passengers, automobiles, vehicles and the like from Florence to Marion county and vice versa. Mr. Gibson has decided to name his new ferrv boat the Henry H. Husband in honor of the Florence man who was one of the first citizens of this mnntv

:eenly sought prey of hostile leets. In other words, if was aid, the United States largely yould lose its foreign outlet, and ie powerless to prevent the pilag up of wheat at terminal mar;ets, the possible blockading of ailway tracks or the glutting of torage facilities. Common Vegetables Which Are Corrective of Many Ills. ""he Detroit Tribune. Every vegetable garden is a aedicine chest full of remedies hat are recognized by physicians s af considerable value in the reatment of various diseases. )nions, for example, contain ulphur oil and are recommendd for insomnia and as an aid to gastric digestion. They should lave a prominent place in the

ignored or rejected. The explanation of this would appear to be that Germany and France are each seeking to throw upon the other the onus of beginning a war that may plunge all Europe into bloodshed bloodshedIn - In bloodshedIn fact, while the nations of Furope are flying at each other's throats they are vieing with each other in protesting their desire to maintain peace. In this curious situation, France, according to British opinion, has the strongest justification. She was the last to mobilize and seems to have taken the greatest precautions to avoid frontier collisions. On the other hand Germany invading French territory with -