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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10
Only $40 Reported Saved.

AS the Ministry Of Marine on Feb
ruary % announced that the number
Of survivors Of the Provence disaster
was estimated at $40, it is Indicated by
the foregoing dispatch that approxi-
mately $3.50 lives were lost.
The loss of more than 5000 lives in
the sinking OF the Provence is the
greatest ocean disaster of modern
times. Up to the present the largest
number of lives ever lost in one wreck
was when the White Star liner Titanic
struck an iceberg off the Newfoundland
banks on April IA, 1912, and sank with
a death loss Of 1896, The rescued
numbered 743
The French Ministry Of Marine had
previously issued no statement as to
the number of persons on the Prov
ence when she went down. The yes
sci, however. when in the trans-At-
lantic service could carry 1860 per-
sons, including the crew, and 1t has
been presumed that, as she was trans
porting troops between ports not far
apart, she was carrying a number Of
men larger than her normal capacity.
The official statement announcing
the sinking of the Provence said:
''The French auxiliary cruiser Pro-
vence II ESQ designated to distinguish
her from the French battleship Pro-
vence), engaged in transporting troops
to Saloniki, was sunk in the Mediter-
ranean on February 26. Two hundred
and ninety-six survivors have been
brought to Malta and about 400 to
Melos by French and British patrol
vessels summoned by wireless.
'.No signs of submarine were mo-
ticed either before or after the sink
ing. La Provence was armed with five
cannon Of Il centimetres. two of 81
millimetres and four of AZ millimetres.
Losses tn Similar Disasters.
Among the other great sea dis
asters. in addition to the Titanic, al
ready mentioned, are:
The Cunard Line steamship LUST
tania, which was torpedoed by Ger
men submarine and sunk off the head
OF Kinsaie, Ireland, on May z, 1915.
with the loss of 1906 lives.
The burning of the excursion steam
ship General Slocum in the East River.
New York. June Is. 1904, when nearly
1000 persons met their death.
The French line steamship La Bour-
gogne, sunk in collision with the
steamship Cromartyshire, July 4. 1898,
with the loss of $50 lives.
The Japanese liner Kicker Maru.
sunk off the coast Of Japan, Septem-
Der %, 1912. with the loss Of 1000
lives.
The Canadian-Pacifics steamship En-
press of Ireland, sunk in collision with
the Danish collier Storstad in the st.
Lawrence river, May 90. 1914. with the
loss of more than 1000 lives.
The burning of the Uranium line
steamship volturno in mid-ocean on
October 9. 1918, with the loss Of 1856
lives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10

understand. Have you ever sat in the
desert on mOOnIit night and looked
at the Sphinx It holds you--It holds
yours eyes in vice. You wonder
why. I'll tell you. 1t knows. That's
the way it was with Bodsky. He only
toEered knew understood. IL that
is nothing, Bodsky was nothing"
They were silent. Presently Col
lingeford helped her out and together
they passed through the rich foyer. the
lattIced palm room. and up the steps
into the latest cry in dining rooms A
little table In the far corner had been
reserved for them. As they crossed
the crowded room hush fell over the
tables. Some looked and were silent
because Alix was beautiful and dam
lily gowned and Collingeford all that a
man should be, but those who knew
looked because Alix was Alix and Col
lingeford was ColIingeford. These soon
fell to whispering, predicting match.
Alix bowed abstractedly here and
there as she followed the head waiter
to her seat
They sat down, each half facing the
room. Alix caught her breath. Whit
fing the old air?" asked Collingeford.
NO" answered Alix. "Only sigh
ing. I feel so out of it and that al
ways makes one sigh whether one
wants to be in it or not"
Alix paused. go or" said Collinge-
ford.
There are only few men in the
room, but almost all Of these women
have husbands. The husbands are in
two lenses past and future There
must be present but it is nebulous. |
didn't know before but know now
that in time these women will go back
or forward to their husbands. Some
day they viii get dizzy and fall and
the shock will wake them up"
s.You see, you understand, you are
prophetic" said ColIlngeford. smiling
s'But I do not tower like your Bod
sky" said Alix and then bit her tongue
at the slip.
A shadow seemed to fall on them.
The rooms high, delicate paneling and
the painted oval of the ceiling seemed
to hover over a suddenly darkened
emptiness. The hum and chatter of
the throng became little and far away.
Collingeford and Alix felt as though
they sat alone and yet not alone. Col
Iingefofd nodded as though Alix had
spoken. EYES," he said, "Bodsky has
come back to us. Don't regret 1t.
don't know how 1t is with you but
feel that we two are alone with him
and that it's worth while. He's come
on US like cloud.
"But l like Clouds" he continued.
''big black clouds. If it were not for
them you couldn't see the lightning or
hear the thunder. They make light
ming and thunder-the arm and the
voice of the gods.
"Bodsky was elemental. He was an
element. He could not produce but he
could make fertile the lives Of lesser
men. I've sat at his feet ever since
the first time he spoke to me. didn't
know l was doing 1t but I can see it
now. And the result it this: Bodsky
couldn't go home. But can and I'm
going home before I've seen the whole
world. Only-only wish could take
you with me-
There, there" said Alix, playfully.
but her eyes were soft. "We must go
now or you will miss your ship"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10
.3,OOOLIvESLOST ON
CRUISER PROVENCE
Greatest Ocean Disaster Of
Modern Times.
1000 TROOPS ON BOARD
Only sTO sased--Loss OF Life Double
That On Titanic = Cruiser on
Way To salonil<i When Sunk
ln Mediterranean.

Paris.-R was announced at the
French Ministry of Marine that there
were nearly 1900 men, on board the
French auxiliary cruiser Provence,
which was sunk in the Mediterranean
on February &c.
It was stated that on board the
Provence were the stan of the Third
Colonial Infantry Regiment, the Third
Battalion. the Second Company Of the
First Battalion. the Second Machine
Gun Company, and one extra company,
in all nearly 1000 men
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10

Bodsky. You said yesterday that Bod
sky used naked language. You were
right. Bodsky undressed things. Just
as some people see red and some blue.
Bodsky saw things naked. He could
look through a black robe OF rumor
spangled with lies and see truth naked.
He was naked himself-naked and un-
ashamed. It's hard for me to make
you see because you did not know dim.
Bodsky was one of those men wLG
could have accomplished anything
only he didn't. He sifted life through
big mesh. All the nonessentiais-
the trivialities-feIl through. An act
with Bodsky was volition. measured.
weighed. and then hurled. That's why
IL you knew him you knew that In his
hands crime was not crime. That's
why know that he is dead. He new
err used stale cartridge-his gun new
er missed fire."
Alix unused. II can't see hlm--I
can't quite see him. A man who can
accomplish anything and doesn't seems
wrong-a waste"
'.You don't see said CoIlingeford.
because you are facing my point of
view. You must turn around Bod
sky used to say that all humanity had
a soul. but it took tragedy to make
man, His tragedy was that life cut
him cut from the herd. He wasn't a
creator, he was a creation. Genera-
tions. races, cons. created Bodsky and
left him standing like a SCARED crag.
He had but one misslon-to see and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10

The calm which had settled on Alix'
life puzzled. her. She wondered If she
was beginning to miss Gerry less. She
was still debating the point when Col
lingeford arrived in the city. Upon
arrival he called ON Mrs. J. Y. and
then on Nance and then. of course, on
ak. AS she came into the room he
felt strange futtering in his throat.
1t stopped his words of greeting. He
suffered and stared He had never
felt so glad at the sight of any one
what are you looking so dislnayed
about?. cried Alix with smile and
holding out her hand. Has short
year changed me so muchf Am SO
thin or so fat?''
Colllngeford recovered himself. mel
ther too thin nor too fat. 1t is per-
lection. not imperfection, that dis
mays man. You call 1t short year?''
he added grayely. Its been an eter-
uity-not a year!"
But Allx was not to be diverted
from her tone of badinage. She looked
him over critically. "Well," size said,
4 congratulate you. didn't know be-
fore that bronze could bronze. What
a lot of health you carry about with
gou.n
CollIngeford smiled. "Clem said |
ooked as though had been living on
)ables."
They sat and stared at each other
r ea..ra tie otEer good tc look up
;,ne colllngeford's tall,
4 IL. r., ola l.r.nlif.- 81
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10

sV1 ~ sNOt @OONhi9 HSty vHStbS Ftetss
ease. Ny world has left yours behind.
There is a pale. Behind it lies Red
Hill. Do you know haven't been to
the Fill for three years? Behind it
lies Nance, the faithfullest, most trust
ing foster-sister waster ever had.
And now you. You lie behind 1t and
toy with my soul through the bars"
Alix spfang to her feet and laid
strong, nervous hands on Alan's shout
ders. She shook him and turned him
SO that he faced the light. Alan did
not laugh. There was fire in Alix'
eyes. You little thing" she said
tensely, mot to see that the bars are
down.
He turned under her hands and she
let him go. He stood looking out of
the window at the bare trees Alix
watched him. 'Alan, you can come to
the Hill tonight. They-we-are all
going to be together here. It's Clem's
birthday. If you can feel the pale,
that's enough for me. want you to
be with us"
"Alix, believe me or not, it's be-
cause feel the pale that won't come.
If there's a ship sailing for the ends
of the earth before night it shall carry
me. This big city isn't big enough to
hold all the Hill and leave me room
to wander outside"
ssThen why-why-"
"I'n tell you. The last time I saw
J. Y. he said to me among other
things, Yesterday Glen was crying be-
cause you had not come to the house.
try to think, Alan, that it is because
Glenn ia there that you have not come
Well, there it Is in nutshell bear
the mark OF the beast. Do you think
/ want Glen to see it2"
Alan's hands were locked behind
him. He turned from the window.
'.Alix. can't see Glen yet She is
expecting me. l told her that the bet
ter half of me would look her up Gas
soon as get back. But what if some
body that doesn't know my better half
at all should see me riding-walking
with Ciem? l can't risk that. Do you
understands
.But oh, Alan,' said Alix. "If you
could only see Glen now. She's glori-
Gus. Why it's three years-three years
since you saw her. You used to think
me beautiful"
"Usedr' protested Alan, casting a
valuiHg glance at Alix' pale beauty
"Well,'' conceded Alix, ''you think
me beautiful. Beside Glen with her
heaps of brown hair and deep blue
eyes. / am nothing. / am worse--l
am doll And she was born with
strange wisdom and strength of her
own. The world has never reaches
,her-will never reach her. She's made
her own world and she's made it right
And yet-the wisdom in her deep eyes
Alan, She knows-she knows it all
and you know that she knows. only
faith sits enthroned"
Faith sits enthroned.' repeated
Alan; that's why l can't come to-
night He looked around for his hat
and stick.
"By the way" said Alix, why j. Y
and why Mrs. j. Y? I've always Won
dered."
Il don't know" said Alan. "I've
always wondered too, / suppose. But
here's the judge. He can tell YOU
Tell what?" asked the indge as he
walked in and took Alix' outstretched
hand
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10
TO YOU WOMEN

Suppose your husband desert-
ed you because you played a
rather dangerous prank on him
danger Of family dishonor2 Sup
pose, after he had been gone
two years, another man came
along and laid his love at your
feet? Would you do right in en-
eourauing him? Should you
wait longer for the husband?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10

CTo RE coNTINUED.S
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10

Considering his past delin-
quencies, do you believe that
Alan Wayne has moral right
even to hope for clenr's hand In
rnarriage7 VIII this fire, clean
girl look on Alan with favor?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-02

a vast corporation with hundreds of
millions of capital and even billions.
Owing to the present growing inc
quality between capitalist and indi-
vidual working men, the advantage
even of labor unions becomes appar-
ent.- The st. Joe Lead Company can
better do without the services of an
individual man than the miner can do
without the wages of the st. Joe Lead
Company A brakeman or section
man on the M. Il. & B. t. railroad
is more anxious to keep his job than
the M. R. & B. 7. railroad is of retain
ing his services. The individual
workman, unprotected by a union, is
at the mercy of, and defenseless
against, the large employer. AS ev-
idence of this, allow me to cite the fee
Bile strike by the foreigners of the
Lead Belt a few weeks ago, and in
this connection let it be said that the
average foreigner, though much ma
ligned and abused by his American
brother-workman, has the courage and
backbone to ask for what he thinks
is justly due him, This foreigners
strike went the way of all strikes I'M
1ertaken without organization upon
The part of the employees, and we ven
ture the assertion that there is, not
an industrial district in this State
that needs strong labor organization
as badly as this Lead Belt, and one of
the chief reasons is, that since the
death of C. B. Parsons and F. p.
Graves our working conditions have
been growing gradually worse; our
working conditions, instead of being
fixed at Bonnie Terre and Doe Run
offices, as formerly, are now fixed in
a New York skyscraper, and our
working conditions will continue to
grow worse until we have effected a
strong organization or obtained rep
resentation on the board of directors.
We will hail the day with joy that
the one who seems to be our only
friend is made director of st. joe
Doe Run Lead Companies. / refer to
that splendid young business man,
Mr.. Robert Holmes of st. Louis. We
sincerely believe that if Mr.. Holmes
should be in position to do so, he
would fight for square deal for the
laborers, as did Parsons and Graves.
We believe Mr.. Holmes is right in his
fight against the business methods Of
those companies. If Mr.. Holmes wins
his mandamus suit, and an investi-
cation of the books and records of
those companies reveal what Mr..
Holmes alleges such an investigation
will reveal, it will certainly be an
eye-opener. May he continue his
fight SO long as there is a suspicion
of graft by those little men in big
places.
A WORKER.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-02
Mr.. WILSON MAKES
NOTABLE PEACE SPEECH
Favors Universal Association of Ma
tons to Maintain Freedom of Seas
and National Sovereignty
He Says the United States Must Be Reckoned With in
Council to End the European Conflict

we shall be as much concerned as the
nations at war TO see peace assume
an aspect Of peImanence, give prom
Use Of days from which the anxiety of
uncertainty shall be lifted, being some
assurance that peace and war shall
always hereafter be reckoned part of
the common interest of mankind,
Blames Secret COunsels
eve are participants, whether we
would or not, in the life of the world.
The interests of all nations are our
own also. We are partners with the
rest. What affects mankind is inev-
itably our affair, rs well as the affair
Of the nations Of Europe and Of Asia.
Gone observation on the causes of
the present war we are at liberty to
make and to make it may throw
some light forward upon the future
as well as backward upon the past.
1t is plain that this war could have
come only as it did, suddenly and out
of secret counsels, without warning
to the world, without discussion, with
out any of the deliberate movements
of counsel with which it would seem
natural to approach so stupendous a
contest.
at is probable that if it had been
foreseen just what would happen, just
what alliances would be formed, Just
what forces arrayed against one an
other, these who brought the great
contest on, would have been glad to
substitute conference for force
'If we ourselves had been afforded
seine opportunity to apprise the bel
ligerents of the attitude which it
would be our duty TO take, of the poll
icies and practices against Which we
would feel bound to use all our MGR
al and economic strength and in GER
tain circumstances even our physi-
cal strength also, our own contribu-
ton to the counsel which might have
ayerted the struggle, would have been
considered worth weighing and re-
garding.
"And the lesson which the shock of
being taken by surprise in matter so
deeply vital to all the nations of the
world has made poignantly clear, is,
that the peace of the world must
henceforth depend upon a new and
more wholesome diplomacy.
"Only when the great nations of the
world have reached some sort of
agreement as to what they hold to be
fundamental to their common inter
est, and as to some feasible method of
acting in concert when any nation or
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-02

ance of its peace that has its origin in
aggression and disregard of the rights
Of peoples and nations.
$50 sincerely do we believe in these
things that / am sure that | speak
the mind and wish of the people OF
America when say that the United
States is willing to become a partner
in any feasible association of nations
formed in order to realize these OBJ
iects and make them secure against
violation. There is nothing the Unit
ed States wants for itself that any
other nation has. We are willing, on
the contrary, to limit ourselves along
with them TO prescribed course OF
duty and respect for the rights OF
others which will check any selfish
an aggressive impulse of others.
passion of our own, as it will check
"If it should ever be our privilege
to suggest OF initiate movement for
peace among the nations now at war,
am sure that the people of the Unit
ed States would wish their govern
ment to move along these lines.
First, such settlement with re-
gard to their own immediate interests
as the belligerents may agree upon.
We have nothing material OF any kind
to ask for ourselves and are quite
aware that we are in no sense or de-
gree parties to the present quarrel.
Our interest is only in peace and its
future guarantees.
For Universal Peace League
Second, a universal association of
the nations to maintain the inviolate
security of the highway of the seas
for the common and unhindered use
of all the nations of the world and to
prevent any war begun either con-
trary to treaty covenants or without
warning and full submission Of the
caucusses Of the opinion Of the world
"a virtual guarantee of territorial
integrity and political independence.
''But | did not Ocme here, let me
repeat, to discuss program. | came
only to avOw creed and give express
sion to the confidence l feel that the
world is even now upon the eve of
great contamination, when some COM
mon force will be brought into exist
ence which will safeguard as the first
and most fundamental interest of all
peoples and all governments when CO.
erciOn shall be summoned, not to the
service of political ambition or sell
fish hostility, but to the service of
common order, common justice and
common peace. God grant that the
dawn Of that day of frank dealing
| and Of settled peace, concord and CO.
operation may be near at hand"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-02
CONGRESSMAN RUSSELL
PAYS THE FREIGHT, ETC.

The two large cannon for Malone
Park recently given the city by the
government arrived here on Monday
and were at once taken to the park,
where at an early date they will be
placed on concrete foundations.
Mayor Malone saws that as soon as
practicable the old weapons will be
formally unveiled and presented to
the city with imposing ceremonies.
The Mayor says he is also in re-
ceipt of letter from Congressman Jo-
seph Russell offering to defray the
expenses of freight and the mounting
of the cannon. This is certainly a
very generous offer on the part of the
Congressman Sikeston Herald.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-02

President Wilson addressed the
banquet of the League to enforce
Peace at Washington City last Sat
urday night, which was regarded as a
preliminary feeler for peace in Eu-
rope. He outlined conditions on which
the United States would move if It
made d formal mediatory offer, with
the idea, it is understood, Of learning
how suggestions would be received
abroad. Every influence of the Unit
ed States will be exerted at the con-
clusion of the European war, Presi-
dent Wilson declares, to prevent re-
currence of the strife that has bathed
the old world in blood for two years.
! Presidents Speech in Full
when the invitation to be here to-
night came to me was glad to ac-
cept it-not because it offered me an
opportunity to discuss the program
of the league-that you will, | am
sure, not expect of me-but because
the desire of the whole world now
turns eagerly, more and more eagerly,
toward the hope of peace, and there
is just reason why we should take our
part in counsel upon the great theme.
1t is right that l, as spokesman of our
government, should attempt to give
expression of what | believe to be the
thought and purpose of the people of
the United States III this vital matter.
"This great war that broke so sud-
denly upon the world two years ago,
and which has swept with its flame
en- crraat a mari NJ the aivilizod world
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-02
TRAVELLERS GUIDE

To reach Pennington you can use
either one of the following routes:
(Yia st. Louis)
Iron Mountain--Leave st. Louis at
1850 or 9:05 a. M, arriving at Farm
ington over Electric Railway from De-
Lassus at 1912 p. IN.
NJ r. & B. T.-Leave St. Louis at
1850 a. M, 3:15 and 5:31 p. m, ar
irving at Pennington over Electric
Railway from Flat River at 11:46 a.
M, and Gal and 9:22 p. m.
From the South
Iron Mountain via Bismarck and
DeLassus-Arrive at Pennington ov-
err Electric Railway at 12:42 p. m.
Belmont Branch of Iron Mountain
Arrive at Pennington over Elec-
trio railway from DeLassus at 2:07
p. m.
Cape Girardeau Northern Arrive
at 3Farrnington atn8:10 p. M from
Cape Girardeau and intermediate
points. Going south the train leaves
Pennington at TOO a. m. Both
trains make connections with Frisco
trains at Perryville Junction.
To Reach st. Louis
You can go over either of the roads
at the following hours:
M. R. & B. T.--Leave Pennington
over Electric Railway to Flat River
at 4:24 and 8:14 a. m, and 2:10 p. M,
arriving in st. Louis at 1886 and 11:50
a. m. and $40 p. m. Fare from Farm
ington, $1.66. Round trip, 1922, (if
passenger can go and return same
day, the round trip rate is 1929.
Iron Mountain-Leave Pennington
over Electric Railway to DeLassus at
1888 p. M, arriving in st. Louis at
$40 p. m. Fare for one way from
Harrington, $1.90; round trip. $3.50.
ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY RY. co.
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