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: v . ... 'V-'-'-'r-Z?? ::* -gwr4 " . ? The Pagel and journal -" * ^ . i ? Vol.6 NO. 16 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1916 $1.00 per year Persia Torpedoed Without Warning London, Jan. 2.?Unofficial dispatches from Cairo say the 1 British steamer Persia sunk on > Thursday was torpedoed with- i out warning and sank in five ' minutes. Between 150 and 160 survivors have been landed at Alexandria, Egypt. Reuter's Cairo correspondent : says Robert N. McNeely lost his life. Charles H. Grant of Boston was saved. Details of the sinking of the ( Persia came in slowly today but such information as was received made it appear that the number of persons who escaped in ( the four boats which were put 1 off was larger than was hoped * when the first news was receiv- ' ed yesterday. The Peninsula & 1 Oriental Company, which owned 1 the Persia announced this morn- 1 ing that 158 survivors had arriv- ( ed at Alexandria. 1 The survivors include the chief officer, second officer, \ seven engineers, 27 seamen, 63 ' lascars and 59 passengers. A 1 Lloyd's dispatch Rives the num- 4 ber as 155, made up of 59 pas sengers of whom 17 are women ' and 94 members of die crew in- ' eluding 59 lascars. 1 The survivors ioclude 10 1 military officers and eight persons who are not British sub- ' jects. "Survivors say it was litde \ short of a miracle* that anyone ] was saved.. There was no panic. 1 Four boats were launched with J the utmost promptitude. i" When hS^seen h?wa^swra^ > ming after the liner had plunged beneath the surface." v , ^ Both the Peninsula & Oriental Company and Reuter's Cairo correspondent say that Mr. Grant , I has been landed at Alexandria, j -The steamship company this ( htlai I??/l ?? ? pl?? HWM UBU 1CVC1VCU UU UCW9 ( of Mr. McNeely's fate. Edward Rose of Denver left the Persia at Gibraltar as was reported yesterday. A dispatch to The Times from Cairo says that two boatloads 01 i people were drawn with thee steamer Persia when she sanl , as there was no time to cut the ropes. Four boats got away, . but it was 30 hours before a trawler picked them up. Severf - - ai snips passed Dy without as , sisting refugees, being afraid, , presumably, of decoys. Many passengers were thrown into the water when the vessel heeled over. The Answer. ' They were speaking of marri' - age proposals the other evening, says The Philadelphia Tele ! grranh whan tliia o<Ar<r ? ?? ? , , ..uwu una aiui J was 1C" called by Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina: Some time ago a young man became very much enamored of a beautiful girl, and meeting her at a reception one night, he de- : termined to know his fate. "Miss Smith," said he, leading the beautiful girl amid the glad palms and seating her on a soft i sofa, "there is something that I must ten you, something that i I?" "All right, Mr. Jones," interposed the pretty one, "only you must hurry. I don't want to miss the next waltz." "It is a question that lies near < to my heart. Miss Smith," continued the young lover. "Could ' you?do you think you could 1 marry a man like me?" "Why yes," was the calm re- j joinder of Miss Smith, "that is, j if be wasn't too much like you," t The Menace of Mohammedan- A ism. One of the greatest enemies of Christianity is Mohammedanism, oi and the following facts taken t> from the World Outlook will be A of interest: io Every eighth person in the world is a Mohammedan. ' From one to five times a day two hundred million of the hu " man race turn their faces toward fc Mecca and repeat the prayer: L "There is but one God and Ma- ti hommet is his prophet/' ri The slogan of the Moslem to ti day is "Africa for Islam." Each Moslem trader is a mis- oi sionary of his faith. Penetrating to to every nook and corner of the hi dark continent, he is enlisting ai new adherents by the hundreds in of thousands. Mohammedanism p is spreading three times more hi rapidly in Africa that is Chris- m tianity. For every thirty three natives who become Christian, cc one hundred become Moham- in medans. tta Slavery, polygamy and the th demoralization of character dur- pi 2 the twelve centuries of Mos h lem control have made north a \frica a moral desert. su Lying is a fine art in Moslem w lands. Mohammed declares. "A w lie is allowable in three cases? a/f to women, to reconcile friends, ec and in war"' % ^ ' Moslem "hoht* cities** are th centers of immorality. in This is the challenge the ju Christian churches face not only w in Africa but in southern Eu ic [Ope, Arabia, Persia, India Ma- pc laysia and China. ?r cs ^ "is Chesterfield Adfvertll*. r. al That Chesterfield County has v< an efficient force of rural police pi goes without saying. These gen- p1 tlemen are always on the job P ?nd in the performance of their 10 duty, while fearless to a man, 1)1 often exercise a fine sense of _ descrimination where slight offenses are concerned. These H' things are well known, but the year's record as shown on the ^ county's books will probably ?y prove interesting. c< Since the organization of this c< force in place of the former constables, the entire salaries up to st Dec. 15th, 1915 amounts to ?< $8,100. lr T-L - t- 1 i - 'I1 x tie cusu urougni mio tne )" treasury through fines paid, due ,n to arrests by the rural police, ^ amounts to $8,244.50. ^ Number of days worked on st the chain gang, 7,380. The esti mated value of a days work on ^ the gang is 60 jcents. This N makes the total value io the county of said work, $4,4-8. ol Thus the income through the "J activity of the police has been " $12,672.50, at an expense of w 8,100. " ' U1 U Ford Will Not Mist the Money. ^ Concord Times. 3| The total cost of the Ford ^ peace expedition is estimated at C1 $444,950. This includes the entire expenses oi* the expedition " up to the time of Mr. Ford's de- ?' parture from Christiana, and the cheek for $270,000 he left behind to finance the remainder of the expedition. It is stated by the ^ New York World that the Ford plant can in less than three days pay the expenses of the entire e: peace junket. Mr. Ford, it is S stated, makes a profit $100 on at each car. It will, therefore, 11 take 4,450 cars to pay the bill w The daily output of cars is 1,800 sc a day. The plant, it tnay be fa found by a little figuring, can ry for the expedition in 2 days, r hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds. It would come high to ar iome of us, but not to Henry, W ustrian N^ke Apparently Meets Demand. Washington, Dec. 30.?Danger f a break in diplomatic relations etween the United States and ustria-Hungary over the sinkig of the liner Ancona probably as been cleared away if the fficial text of Austria's reply to le second American note controls to press dispatches from ondon saying the communicaon announces that the submane commander who torpedoed le steamer has been punished. The cabled press translation f the note reached Washington might too late to be seen by igh officials of the government id a dispatch received earlier i the day from Ambassador enfield merely said the reply id been handed him and gave ) intimation as to its nature. Punishment of the submarine xnmander for failure to take to account the panic aboard e Ancona before torpedoing e vessel apparently meets the ihcipal American demand, i effect it might be regarded as disavowal of the act and asirances that an incident tor tiich an officer of the navy as punished would not happen tain might be taken for grant'remaining demanded, ajt reparation ny payment of qemnity be made for the in ijr or loss of life by Americans, quid be an object for diplomatadjustment once the other >jnts at issue are disposed of. Although officials here indij_ J i-i it- . -? tqeu itxiay mai mere were m I s favojablte \xj dti ?u&n*ic>le settlement of the conlro2rsy there had been nothing in r0ss dispatches from abroad or iiblished official advices to sugjst that Austria would admit omediately wrongdoing on the irt of her officer. old Stored Like Cord Wood. olland's Letter. There is stored in one place in ew York gold valued at a little yer $100,000,000 and yet so >mpact that if measured by >rd measurement it would be >und to occupy a space subantially similar to the space zcupied by three cords of wood. 1 other places in New York? le clearinghouses vaults, for istance, and other vaults?gold hose aggregate value is mil cms of dollars is stored. Subantial additions to these stores ill be made every week, very kely, throughout the year 1916. o one seems to be willing to redict what the accumulation f gold in bank vaults, clearingDuse vaults and the Assay Of ce will be in the year 1916, but >me of the guesses put the figres as high as a billion dollars, ntil Europe, and especially ngland, began about 12 months go to export gold to the United tates the authorities were acjstomed to figure chiefly upon te output from our mines as le means of adding yearly to ur stock of gold. This output as ranged for some years he veen $90,000,000 and $95,000,000. faman Shot in White Store Township. Kmaline Covington, a respccti colored woman of White tore Township, was shot dead : her home last night between I and 12 o'clock. She was alking across the room when me one filed a load of shot om a small guaged gun into ?r temple, killing her instantly, oroner R. B. Jones is holding i inquest over the body.? radesboro Ansoman. Vane Richardson Pardoned Monroe Enquirer. Vane Richardson, colored, tvho was sentenced in superior court in this county in January, 1911, to serve ten years in the State prison, for murder in the second degree, has been granted a conditional pardon by Gover nor Craig. It will be remembered that Charles Plyler, white, and Will Funderburk, George Mahew and Vane Richardson, colored, were tried for the mur der of Carter Parks, in Buford township, in June, 1910. Plyler was sentenced to the electric chair but his sentence was commuted by Governor Kitchih to life imprisonment. Funderburk was sentenced to thirty years, Mahew to fifteen vears and Richardson to ten years in the State prison. All except the man just pardoned are serving their terms. Governor Craig gives as his reason for pardoning Vane Richardson that the testimony given by Richardson, tl.iHpr nrnmioo K.. (riwuiigv iJ J iuc |iuvh1c prosecution that he would not h-.xve to suffer for his part in the crime, enabled the State to convict otKer guilty ones and that it would have been impossible to convict them had it not been for the testimony given by Richardsen. Mr. J. C. M. Vann saw Governor Craig l^st Thursday laid the matter of par dot? fpr Vane Richardson before htm. . Jenuary Suggestions for The J- Home' - y Clothe the children warmly. Vweeo the house warm, but ^ v X. j " **? | [Keep the feet warm and the head cool. Provide the table with heatproducing and muscle and brain1 !1j! e ~ ' uuuuing leeus, out not too mucti pork. Now is the time to buy white wear and make it up?children's summer clothes, underwear and work dresses. Watch shQes and rubbers; let there be no damp feet. . Be interested in the children's New Year resolutions. Birthday parties bind the children to the home. Study a plumbing system in every catalog you can find, even if you cannot put it in until next year this time. Do something: to make the teacher happy. Do something; to give her a respect for her pupils* parents. This is the month for father and the boys toTead aloud while mother and the girls sew. Read the advertisements. It is a good way to keep in touch with the progress of the world. Turn a blind eye on the patent medicine advertisements, lest your pocket be lighter and your health undermined. Are your sweet pea seed planted deep? Is your lettuce transplanted for April eating? Spray the nen roosts for mites or the hens may stop laying. Are your hens roosting in the trees and do you give them table scraps, or is it that you don't care for winter eggs? I ne evenings are long; make go 3d use of them.?Progressive Farmer. I Enthusiastic Lady?"Oh, sir, I may we tarry here awhile and drink deep of these rural delights?" Practical Native? "Can't drink nothin' deep here, lady. This here's a dry Jown." ?Baltimore American. \!ONEY--does not grow on tree, bi;t it does grow in banks. A fk.0 pound bale of cotton at pres ent price will earn you $23.43 in eight years, Bank of Pageland. 4 ." Ai New Liquor Law to Be Enforced The Stale Saturday. "With the help of God and the support of the people this and all other laws of our great State shall be rigidly enforced so long as I am gnvernor." said Gov. Manning in a New Year's greeting to the people of South Carolina yesterday. The statement follows: "For the blessings of peace and prosperity to the people of South Carolina throughout the year just ended, we are profoundly thankful. We have had our trials and grave problems, but in meeting and solving these problems we have been made stronger and better fitted to meet the problems of the future. South Carolinians today, with all the true potriotism of their forefathers, stand shoulder to shoulder a united Deonle ficht ing for the things that are right and just for all the people of our grand old South Carolina. "With this spirit of union and co-operation among our people we may look to the future with optimism and confidence, meeting any difficulties that may be presented and conquering them as only true patriotic South Carolinians can do. "Many problems must be met during the year 1916. The death of the dispensary system after a storm life of 23 years, aiidiher enactment of a law prohibiting the sahrof_ alcoholic liquors, places a responsibility upon our people that can not be shirked or thrown off without grave danger. Law is the result of the demand of the people, and the neoole in nrdpr that | their law be properly enforced, must siana even closer together and continue the fight for its enforcement, upholding and assisting those officers who are striving to do their duty without fear or favor. With the help of God and the support of the people this and all other laws of our great State shall be rigidly enforced so long as I am governor. "Another of our problems is that of education. A continuance of the fight for rural and common school education in 1916 will bring to us a great re f 1 f waru oeiore iae year is ended. Not Told of Son's Death Monroe, Jan. 2.?The torpedoins: of the steamship Persia, with the probable death of Robert Ney McNeelv, was the dominant topic of conversation here today. Mr. McNeely's relatives, who live in the country near here, have been clinging to such shreds of hope as vague cable dispatches left them, but absence of any news whatever of an optimistic character caused hope to diminish to almost the vanishing point. Mr. McNeelv's father, W. R. McNeely, a Confederate veteran rtf (llinilt 7ft iron" Una 1. ?? W. ? V TVUIO, tJttO IVCJU Ud closely as possible in touch with the authorities at Washington. The McNeelv household is dcublv distressed, for the mother of the missing consul sustained a stroke of paralysis last Wednesday night and is almost at the point of death. She has not been told of the disaster that befell the Persia. C. D. McNeely Was Not With Brother on Persia Monroe, Jan. 2.?Robert N. McNeely, American Consul at Aden, who i? reported lost on the steamer Persia, sunk off Crete Thursday, was not accom nnnio/l Kt? ^ ^ m m paui^u ijy iii9 uiuillCI) LI. MCNeely of Waxhaw, according to a statement made at the McNeely home today. C. D. McNeelv was said yes terdav to have been with the consul on the Persia as bis secretary. Ney McNeely on Torpedoed Ship in Mediterranean Sea London, Jan 1.?The British liner Persia with 160 passengers and a crew of 250 to 300 was sunk by an unidentified submarine at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon off the Island of Crete in the eastern Mediterranean. Messages received from various sources say that nearly all on board were lost. Robert Ney McNeely of Monroe, N. C., American Consul at Aden, and Robert Grant of Boston, were on the liner. The crew of the Persia virtually all were lascars. Four boats are known to have got away from the sinking vesssel, each capable of carrying 60 persons but it is not known if the boats were full. The rescued were picked up by a steamer bound |for Alexandria, where they were expected today. Sixty-one first class passengers and 83 second cabin passengers including eight children, boarded the Persia when she left London December 18 for Bombay, At Marseilles the vessell picked A up 231 including 87 women and jfr 25 children. A number of the passengers embarking at Lon- I don were landed at Gibraltar, f Marseilles and Malta. However 4 unofficial figures given out by 4 the Peninsular & Oriental Line, m oWaCGLpf the Persia, stated that m after deducting- .the passengwsl leaving the ship aT various . ports of call, about LfjO abroad when the vessel wa^SVU^SMfi Mr. McNeelev sailed New York for England on No^HUg ember 27, on the Holland-AmeBigBp ican liner Ryndam. &S8aK, He was on his way to tal^Kjffi| his first consular post. Mr. Skt?M??S npt fldvisfft him tr? coll f.\?- ^ ?- ?tv/ OUil 1V1 IUU East by the Dutch Line, but the young man already had engaged passage on the Persia. The Persia is the latest of several vessels to be sunk by submarines in the Eastern Medi terranean, through which her course to the Suez Canal would take her from Malta. On December 24 the French liner Ville de La Ciotat was sent to the bottom off the Island of Crete < ... -- DvasuDmarine, winch according to British unofficial advicesflew the Austrian flag. No advices have been received in New York as to the date on which the Persia sailed from London, She departed in advance of her advertised date of sailing, which was January lr?. The vovage from London to Malta ordinarily requires nine days. TM T"% * i ne rersia was Diiilt in PMMl at Greenock. She lias been in, the Bombay service since that time. On account of the danger from submarines the Mediterranean route had been abandoned bv the Japan Mail Steamships arround the Cape of Good Hope. Insurance rates for vessel passing through the Suez have been increased by English underwriters to three or four times the normal figure Flying tiits of Chaff. Mrs. Blinks?"T1 tore's hardly any living with my husband; he doesn't know anything." Mrs. Winks?"There's nn li i*i n tr a t all with my husband; he knows it all."?Indianapolis Star. Willie?"Ma, may 1 have Tommy Wilson over to our house to play Saturday?" Mother?/No; you make altogether too much noise. You'd h ti r go over to his hous.! ml pl.u * ?Boston Transcript.