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the Pagela^d journal Vol. 5 NO. 49 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1915 S1.00 per year The Arabic Torpedoed. London, Aug. 19.?The bij White Star liner Arabic fron Liverpool for New York: wai torpedoed and sunk bv a Ger man submarine at 9:15 o'c^ocfc Thursday morning: Southeaa t o: Fastnet. The steamer, says a White Star Line statement, was littacked without warning: an d went down in 10 minutes. O I the 423 persons on board (18V passengers and 242 members oi the crew) 32 are believed to have perished. Most of those who have not been accounted for belong to the crew. Only six passengers are reported missing. \in if - r yy iiemer any oi inese not accounted for are Americans has not yet been determined, but there were only 26 citizens of the United States on board, 22 in the second cabin and four in the steerage. The vessel had no first class passengers, having been turned into a two-class liner. The survivors who left the steamer, in the ship's boats and were picked up later by passing vessels, arrived in Queenstown tonight and are being cared for in hotels and boarding houses in the little town which so recently cared for the survivors and dead of the Lusitania. Details of the sinking are lacking but that the loss of life was not great doubtless was due to the fact that the weather was fine and that steamers plying the German submarine war zone now keep their boats swung out and otherwise are prepared for -jsmerefencies. . A _ Arabic struck her on the starboard side 100 feet from hei stern. The vessel had left Liverpool Wednesday afternoon and taken a southerly course, well off the Irish coast, doubtless with a view of avoiding the submarines which frequent the waters nearer the shore. When some 50 miles west ol where the Lusitania was sunk in May the German underwater boat rose to the surface an< launched a torpedo. The nrarks manship of the Germans, as le the case of the Lusitania, was deadly accurate and like the Lusitania the liner quicklv settled and shortly disappeared from view. Some of the sur vivors, according to reports re ceived here, say they had jusi witnessed the torpedoing of s British steamer, presumably the Dunsley and that this hac caused great alarm. In. theii fright the passengers had lushed for life-preservers and had bare ly adjusted them when the Ger man submarine turned it: torpedo against the vessel side Ten life-boats and a numbei of liferafts were quickly gol over the side of the steamer anc into these a large number af the passengers and members o< th< crew scrambled. Many ocf the passengers, however, fell intc the water but got hold of raft! and later were rescued. One of the passengers wai Kenneth Douglas, well-knowr English actor. Mr. Douglass was on the Lusitania when sh< was sent to the bottom. Hit good luck followed him agair today for he is among the sur vivors. "Happiness," declaimed tin philosopher pompously, "is onlj the pursuit of something, not the catching of it." "Oh, I don,t know answer^ the plain citizen. "Have yoi ever chased the last car pn i rainy day?"?Philadelphia puhlj< Udftt Something About Shrapnel. ? How much copper is used in 1 the manufacture of shrapnel? s How much steel? What other - metals? What is the cost? : These are the questions Wall * street is asking, k Expressed in the language of Wall street, shrapnel is costing I European countries now at war f about $18 each on the firing line. Manufacturers in this country and Canada are getting from $15 . to more than $18 for each shell, 'the additional expense to the foreign contracts being cost of transportation and, in certain in stances, filling: the cartridge case wilii powder abroad. From the point of view of engineers shrapnel, one of the most effectiv e agencies for the destruction c<f human life vet devised, is an extremely complex mechanism, its complexity being shown by the sub-contracting of the order received by the Canadian Car and Foundry company a raong 50 concerns in the United S totes and Canada. The company's order called for 5,000.0 0)0 shrapnel, at an approximate cost of $83,000,000, or $16.65 each. Close to 20,000,000 pounds c if copper are being used in their r nanufacture or about four 1 KMinds to each shrapnel. The complete shrapnel is composed of three principal parts: The time fuse, the projectile proper, a hollow steel shell filled with bullets and a bursting charge of black powder; | and a brass cartridge case, filled H with smokeless powder to shoot I the projectile^ from the gun. | ary rifle or revolver cartridge. .J The time fuse is a very com 1 plicated mechanical devisee I which may be set to burst the [ steel projectile any number of 5 seconds or feet after it has left ; the muzzle of the gun. It is as 5 delicately constructed as a watch or a safe lock and is made large I ly of biass and alloys of allumi num. r The time fuse is screwed into I the point of the steel projectile, . the projectile is filled with small ( bullets, usually about 250 in . number, and is exploded by , means of a charge of black . powder seated at the opposite [ end from tbe time fuse. When . it explodes the bullets are hurled . over a range of about 250 square I yards. The bullets are 88 per i cent lead and 12 per cent an5 timonv. I The cartridge case is from a r foot to almost two feet long and [ is made of sheet brass and filled . with smokeless powder. It is set . off bv a percussion cap and will j hurl the projectile up to 6,000 yards, making that distance in a . trifle less than 20 seconds.?Ex. t | Jefferson Graded School Opens s September Sixth. } Jeffersonian i The trustees have secured a > strong corps of teachers, namely 5 Mr. J. C. Pate, who for the past five years has been superinten5 dent of Downer Institute, Beech i Island, and who comes to us i highly recommended as a gentle? man of the highest type and a i teacher of experience and ability, i He is a graduate of the Citadel. Miss Mattie James of Greenville, who has been an assistant in ine Kidgeland High School, ; comes highly recommended; / Mi&s Kate Agnew will again be a af l>er post with the fourth and fiftji grades: and Miss Mamie 1 Etheredge, of Leesville, will j have charge of the Primary a Department. She has had six C years experience in this work tad bat b??n quilt twMtitful. Program Woman's Missionary Union?September 9. The following program has been ananged for the Baptisl Woman's Missionary Union Convention which is to be held at Thomson's Creek church Thursday, September 9: 10, a. m. Devotional services Mrs. Wm. Coker. Roll call of churches. Recognition of visitors. "Why We Wanted You," Miss Marie Smith. "Why We Came," Miss Maude Funderburk. "Scriptural Authority for Woman's Missionary Work," Mrs. B. S. Funderburk. A * rvppointmen 101 committees. Noon hour. 2, p. m. Devotional service, Mrs. E. K. Smith. Reading of Associational policy, Mrs. J. W. Miller. Message from president of the Southern Union. "Why Support the Training School," Miss Mary Adams. "What the Society has Done tor me," Mrs. J. H. Ratliff. Obituary report, Mrs. J. E. King. Adjourn. 8, p. m. Address on Statewide prohibition. Friday, 10 a. m. Devotional service, Mrs. D. E. Clark. "What the Society Should Mean to the Church and Com-* munity," Mrs. S. A. Funderburk. "Teaching the Bible in the Society," Mrs. B. D. Thames, i r? rin bP. r "How I Earned Some Money for the Work," open discussion. 'Noon hour. 2 p. m. "The Importance of Sunbeam Work," Mrs. A. F. Funderburk. Reports from societies. Report of committees on changes, on time and place, on awarding the Banner, on resolutions, on nominations. Adjournment. \\7 o Vl Ano II V nuuiai cvcijf U'dyiisi church in the Chesterfield Asso ciation will send representatives to this meeting. We will have some of our best speakers there. Every Sunbeam society in the association will be expected to report at this meeting so that the banner may be given to the one making the best report. I want to ask that we all go to this meeting very simply dressed. We want to show to each other and to the world that we are not on a dress parade but are in earnest about our Master's business. We don't want any woman to stay away because she hasn't anything fine to wear. Edva V. Funderburk. Left a Towel In Him Toms River, N. J.?An unusual condition has been discovered as the cause of the unaccountable illness of Dr. J. Rdgar Todd. On December 7 he was operated on for kidney trouble at a hospital in Loner Island. Poponfltr rot r/\r? iwvvuuj, OLVtll I1IVJI1IIIS itliciward, Mrs. Todd was dressing the wound that never had healed and she saw something white projecting. She took hold of it with a pair of forceps and working at it for an hour and a half, she succeeded in extracting from the wound a surgeon's towel about 10 inches square. It had been left in the body at the time of the operation. Doctor Todd has had several setbacks since the operation, but since the towel has been removed he hag shown signs of im? provemenl, . v i T?? "" 1 : ??~ ' Jewish \New Year To Be Kei>t Soon. ^ f . Roshl Hdshanah, the Hebrew 1 New Year, will be celebrated this y?ar September 9 and 10 a days latter, September 19, Yom 1 Kippnj, the day of atonement, J will be | observed. As is the custom special services will be held 1 in the Jewish Synagogues. Jews a all ovejr the world observe these holy davs. Rosli Hashanab is * one ofItr? p\as>? oui'ewrn feasts c >f 1 the Hftrew religion. In the Jewish traditions, the c Rosh 'Jashanah marks the an- 11 niversary of the creation of thje ' world, supposed to have taken ? place 5,676 years ago. Th'e * preseijt Rosh Hashannah, therd- s fore, i rill mark the beginning ojf the y< ar 5676. J Tin change of date, however, Jj is of we or no importance, an 1 if theflewish New Year's Day *( had am further significance, its 0 appenlto the Jew would be vefv e faint indeed. It is not the change of yeir, but the change of life, a that tlis day stresses, that make? it stand out as one of the holiest v days I in the Jewish calendar. u Herel^t radically differs froriji j3 the cyH New Year; it is a day set roart for introspection and u self-examination. Tjfc sacred character of this p day if implied in the two othejr 8 names by which it is known, vifc a the day of memorial and the day t( of tbh blowing of the trumpets. e In tlje first place it is the day of 11 memorial, or remembrance. As e such.it calls upon the Jew to e remember the divine purposes 0 of his life; secondly, it is the day oi^lLblovving of the trumpets; its purpose is an rouse Israel stir him to high resolves and e nobler deeds.?Ex. v High Cost of Living. ^ A good deal is being said these t] days about the high cost of living. It would be nearer the truth ^ to speak of the high cost of ^ high living, or more accurately still, the high cost of losv living. ^ As a side-light on this assertion, v idKe tne toilowing tacts clipped from an exchange, touching the expenditures last year in this ^ country: Eighty million gallons of w whiskey were made in the United States last year. Who S) drank it all? 5 Fifteen Hillion cigaretts were S) manufactured in the United j States last year. Who smoked p them all? j Thirty-two million pounds of s] snuff were manufactured in the United states last year. Who gj did all the sneezing? Two hundered and twenty million pounds of smoking tobacco were made in the United States last year. Who had all J the pipe dreams? Eight and a half billion cigars J1 were made in the United States " last year. Who made all the a smoke? Half a billon packages of chewing gum were manufactur- n ea last year in the United States. 1 Who worked their jaws? s Ttveniy thousand moving pictureltheatres paid $25,000,000 for v filmi last year and ll,0t)0,000 persons saw the moving pictures, h Where did they all get the dim^s and nickles * "Ck> animals posess the senti- | merit of affection?" asked the teacher, according to The Liter- r [ ary (Digest. x "Yes, ma'am, almost always." "Correct," said the teacher. r I Tuning to young Harold: "And c now tell me what animal has the greatest natural fondness for t man ?" t With but a slight pause the little fellow answered!"Woman," c * \ * ? * * \ Say Britain Has New Gun. "Jew York Special to Philadelphia Public Ledger. Recent arrivals from England _ ire able to afford some explana ion of the delayed British ad- * ranee," which as muctt in Eng- F and as throughout the rest of s he world, has caused consider- v ible bewilderment Their explanation is that Lord Citchener has been waiting to ' aunch "his great surprise." r< And this surprise lies in the ompletion of new guns and a f tew type of shell which it is be- ( ieved will revolutionize artillery ^ operations and make the path of he Allies to Berlin more pos- ? ible than hitherto. ' Soon after the beginning of the var, when it became patent that liffh eXDlosivPK wprp to ho tho 0 ominating factor in the struggle ' or victory, the combined efforts >f British chemists and ordnance n xperts invented a shell unquesionably more powerful than * nv perviously used. In destructive power it was ^ vithout superior to any previo- . isly known. A variation in ex * losive composition rendered it ikely to supersede all types in } se. " The Government ordered ex- .1 >erimeats to be made with big i uns then being manufactured c. t Wool which Arsenal. These . ook place, with a result that 11 very gun so used was either al- n lost blown to pieces or render- r d unfit for service for a consid- . radle period. The only way S1 >ut was to find guns suitable for e< tie task. NV As far back as November tovernment experts were at this problem. They xpenmenieuT"WTtu. at jys of steel, try to find one that G /ould stand the strain of such a V hell. Finally they succeeded, j* "hey produced a 17 inch gun it tiat would suit this purpose. 2( Various experiments have een made, and are believed to C ave been actually successful. a: It is stated that the shell will e carried 2h miles and will a /ork havoc ou a scale entirely k nprecedented. ft it Ir. A. C Funderburk Has Ty- P phoid Fever lonroe inquirer ? A. C. Funderburk, who is ? erving a three years term in u tate prison for homicide, has a evere attack of typhoid fever, d le is on the State farm on the e' Loanoke river. Mr. W. E. Fun- a! erburk, of east Monroe townliip, left last Thursday to be by e< le bedside of his son. The ick man is recovering:. ir His Version. ^ The small boy came home om Sunday school looking so f loucavcicu illlU UUSiy II1Q1 II1C ^ lother had grave suspicions of is having been at Sunday shool t all, says The National Month/. He explained his disarray by lie fact that he had stopped at a eighbor's house to see some uppies, and had climed into a y table in order to be able to find hem. "What is the Golden Text?" nquired the parent. " " 4 Don't worry, you'll get the danket,, was the answer. "There's nothing like that in f( he Rible,' declared the mother, ^ "Yes, there is. I guess I Know he Golden Text. Our class said v t over and over." 0 To settle her doubts the ?i ? - * IIUI1ICI IClCl'llUllCU IU lilt' DOV 8 { eacher. "Harry tells me that the Gold- ? in Text today was: T)on*t wor- 1 v you'll get the blanket.' What t lose he mean?' With a peal of laughter the eacher explained the boy's statenent, giving the text correctly: "Fear not, the Comforter shall 1 wine unto you." Italy, Provoked by Turk, Declares War on Ottoman London, Aug. 21.?Marquis )i Garroni, Italian Ambassador 3 Turkey, today handed to the *orte a note declaring Italy conidered herself in a state of war irith Turkey and demanded his assports, according to an official elegram from Constantinople eceived at Amsterdam and ransmitted to the Central News. The reason given in the note 3r Italy's declaration of war krere the support given by *urkey to the revolt in Libya nd the prevention of the deparure of Italian residents from yria. Although Italy declared war n Austria on May 24 and hostities between the two Powers egan immediately, there has ever been any declaration of k'ar between Italy and Germany, /hile until now Ttalv "Fur. ey nominally have been at eace. Friction between Turkey and taly however, has been in evience since shortly after the itter's entry into the war. Early 1 June there were reports that talian Consuls were gradually saving Turkey and that Amerian officials were taking over le task of looking out for Italian iterests. Later charges were tade that the Ottoman Governtent was preventing these lonsuls from leaving and that milar coercion was being exertd over Italian civilians who 'ished to quit Turkish soil. Death Toll From Flood. Houston. Texas^Aue. 19.Monday night's Vest Indian hurricane accord?g to reports here tonight. Missig outside of Galveston total )5. Of the missing list it was sared more than half were dead, lommunication with Galveston nd Texas City, a distance of 60 dies from here, continued to be matter of many hours. It was nown that Galvestion's loss of fe was comparatively light and was not rushing out any apeals for aid. Remote points on Galveston ay began to report today, some f them bringing small quotas of nidentified dead. At Anahuac te loss of the United States redge boat No. 12 was confirmed but there was no loss of life 5 reported from Beaumont. The >ss of life at Anahuac was placi at five. Two men had been arrested 1 a dry town for drinking, and te prosecuting witness was on te stand, relates Judge. "You say," said the attorney >r the defense, "that you saw vo men drinking in the field? * "Yes. sir; I did." "Was the field fenced?" "Yes, sir." "Where were you?" "On the far side of the fence." "Was there a board off that ou could see through?" "No, sir." "Was there a knothole in the ence?" "No, sir." The attorney braced himself or the crushing question that he lad ready to launch at the victim vhom he thought he had so idroitlv cornered. "Now," he said, banging the able, will you tell the court how 'ou could see two men drinking n a field surrounded by a fence vith no boards off and never a mothole in it?" "Yes, sir," said the witness, "Well, tell it," commanded lie attorney impatiently. "It wii ? barbed wire leans" / i