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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-02

Mauritius is prosperous British
colony in the south Indian ocean, sit
uated about 500 miles east of MAZDA :
gascar. The area of the mainland Is
about TIC square miles, and that of the
small neighboring islets about four
square miles. OF the 3s2,140 !nhabit-
ants at the end OF 1915. 261,093 were
Indians. who make up the laboring ele-
ment. The industrial and commercial
activities of the colony are controlled
by the Mauritian descendants of the
former French and Dutch settlers and
Indian and British merchants. Most OF
the commerce is carried on at Port
Louis, the capital and principal town,
on the northwest coast The popula-
ton of this place is about $4,000.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16

are not exempt from non. COM
batant service. In addition, the
President is authorized to ex.
clude or discharge from draft
the following:
County and municipal officers,
customs house clerks; postal en-
ployes, workmen in navy yards
or arsenals or armories; others in
the Federal Governments EN-.
ploy whom the President may
designate; pilots and mariners
actually employed in sea service;
persons engaged in industries,
including agriculture, found to
be necessary TO the maintenance
OF the military establishment or
the effective operation of the
military forces or the mainten-
ance of National interest during
the emergency" those having
persons dependent upon them
tor support, and those found TO
be physically or morally deficient.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16
len Million Men in Draft Limit.

Washington, May 12.-Ten
million men in the United
States will be subject to the Sc
lective conscription on July l.
within the ages agreed upon in
the conference report on the
war army bill. Director Rogers
OF the census bureau announced
today. This number of men be
tween the ages of 21and 80, in
elusive, represents very nearly
10 per cent. of the total estrmat.
ed population of between 1O3,.
600 600 and 1O4,OOO,OOO on July
l, 1917. Of these conscript1on
eligibles the bureau estimates
Alabama will have 2O9. 900, Ar.
kansas l56,60O, Florida 95,3OO,
Georgia 255,4OO, Kentucky 2O2,-
200, Louisiana III, 900, Maryland
121 500, Mississippi IT'S, 100. North
Carolina 194,400, South Caro-,
lima $4,000, Tennessee 1875. .OSO,
Texas 100000, Virginia 1876, 400.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16
Tide Has Turned

For a few years the Union
county citizens have received
their liquor at Pageland because
they could get a gallon instead
of quart. Now the tide has
turned and the journeyine is in
the opposite direction, if we are
to accept John Beasley's state
ment in the Monroe Journal as
true He says:
South Carolina's prohibition
law must be very drastic. as we
have always considered the lid
most tight in Union county un-
til recently when we began to
notice that good many Page
land and Chesterfield gentlemen
have been reversing the tables
on us Union county folks. who
have well-beaten path to the
Pagelald express office. by
coming to Monroe after their
quart. This condition must be
rather painful TO Editor Tucker,
as he was exhuberatlng over the
general health of the communi-
~ in the last issue of The Page
land Journal. He said:
1.-The general health of the
people must be fairly good. Not
a quart of medicine has been re.
ceIved at the express office here
since April 25th, and the same IS
true of Ruby and Mt. Croghan.
A few quarts have been receiv-
ed at Chesterfield as the probate
Judge is SO handy. 1t may be
possible, however, that some of
our people have been in need of
this kind of medicine but were
not able TO go down 10 the court
house for the permit
This statement is not merely
on heresy, as we ourselves wit
messed four Pageland gentlemen
make affidavit before magis-
trate so that they might get their
priced possession out of the cx
press office. Editor Tucker is
fooled,-and fooled bad"
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16
Somebody's Got Our Monev

Editor Wollack of the Jeffer-
sonlan gives out the information
that there are enough pennies
and nlckels in circulation to give
every person twelve pennies and
five nickels, and states plainly
that J. N. Stricklin of the Che
raw Chronicle and the editor of
this paper are included. He
goes even further and congrat-
ulates us on this prosperity.
Well, we can't speak for Strick
lin but we can say that some
scoundrel has ours and we don't
even know who he is or where
he is.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16
Auditors Notice

Physicians and other parties
responsible under the law. are
notified hereby that all records
of births and deaths must be re
corded with the aegistrar of vi
tai statistics. A penalty is pre-
scIibed for failure to attend to
this matter and those failing 10
make reports will be reported to
the State authorities.
T. w. EDDINS, Registrar.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16
Jews in Our Wars
Philadelphia Enquirer.

h'iaueipnla Enquirer.
There is not an importal
chapter in the history of this
country. and much less wal,
IN which the Jews have net
played a conspicuous part.
The roll of honor of the Revo.
lutlonary war, as well as those
of the war of 1912, the Mexican
war and the Civil war, are full
OF the deeds of Jewish officers
and men. In the last mentioned
war. Major General G.. O. How
ard said of them:
"lntrlnsically. there are no
more patriotic men than those
who claim to be of Hebrew de-
cent and who served with me
in parallel command or directly
under my Instructions"
AS to the Spanish American
war. there is no page of its
annals, from the blowing up of
the Maine, in which IS of their
co-rellgionlst perished, to the
firing of the last volley, in which
the Jews did not occupy an
honorable place.
The 1901 issue of the Jewish
Year Book printed the names of
over 1000 Hebrews who actual
ly served in this war, but this is
no criticism of the total who
volunteered, for, in New York
alone 5000 offered their servi-
ces to Governor Blake.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16
Jerusalem A Fortress

Jerusalem is safe from attack
for the present. The Holy City,
with its great natural defences,
will not be stormed by the Brit.
ish until the rest of the Holy
Land has been token. 1t would
be folly to try to take the city
now. in the opinion of the mill
tarv men at Carlo, Egypt. Bibli-
cal and ancient history show
that the best way to capture
the coast region of Palestine and
then to starve out the city.
The strength of Jerusalem for
defence is very great. This is
not due to her ancient wall and
towers, nor to the trenches
which the Turks have dug The
city is encircled by rugged
mountains. while the few passes
are in deep valleys, capable of
easy defense. 1t was these con
ditions of natural strength that
enabled the kingdom of Judah
to outlive that of Israel by con.
siderably more than a century.
that made possible the success
of the Jewish uprising against
tue Greco Syrians, and. two cen
turies later, prolonged the resis-
tance of the Jews against the
Romans.
The pass up the Valleys Es
SAINT and Es sur, through which
Antiochus V made a successful
attack with camels and ele-
plants IN l63 B. c., would be
suitable only for mountain guns,
and could hardly be used for the
main attack. The direct routes
are via of the railway through
the valley of Sorek, a long wind
ing way thorugh a teep gorge
very easily defended, and the
more open, but still difficult
high road a little further north.
Probably the entrances to both
these valleys are we'll fortified.
Open plains, wildernesSes and
mountains protect all other ap.
proaches.
The British forces have Sc
lected the finest season of the
year for their entrance into the
Holy Land. The country is
now at its best climatically.
The fields of Philistia are green
with young corn, affording
abundant fodder for horses and
camels; the ground has harden
ed since the winters rains, and
fresh breeZeS and occasional
showers mitigate the heat The
malaria, which makes camping
dangerous in the plains during
the summer and autumn, is now
of a mild type, and can usually
be avoided. North of the GAIA,
there should be no lack of water
or provender for the army.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16
$4,000 Fire At Marshville
Wednesday Night

| "CuHCoudy lNlSnt
Monroe Journal.
Nashville was the scene of a
disastrous fire Wednesday
night which totally destroyed
the general store of Marsh Lee
Co., Harrel Bros. and Nc
Bride & Hallman. The total
loss amounted to over $80.O00.
All three firms carried insurance,
but not enough to cover the
loss.
The fire of unknown origin,
started in the Marsh-Lee mill.
nerv department. AS the town
does not possess fire fighting
apparatus, the flames spread
over the eDtire building un.
checked, and the big store went
up in smoke and flames. Sweep
ing westward, the flames soon
covered Harrel Bros store, and
it shared the same fate of Marsh
Lees store. The store of Nc.
Bride & Hallman, next in the
path of the flames, was burned
next, and the adjoining build
ings were saved bv virtue of
the fact that an alley separated
from the flames.
Marsh-Lee Co. were the heavi-
est losers. For years they have
been conducting a first-class
general store, and in that time
they had accumulated a valu-
able line of dry goods. clothing,
millinery, groceries and hard
ware. Their loss is estimated
at $4,000, partly covered by in.
surance. Harrell Bros loss
will amount to about $4,000.
They carried general line of
groceries, clothing and shoes.
Many articles, such as some
flour, corn, and feed suff were
saved from the burning build
ing, but were damaged in trans
port.
Volunteers carried out most
OF Mcbride & Hallman's stock
before the flames had gained
much headway. But like the
goods saved from Harrel Bros
store. they were damaged con-
siderably.
Mrs. Irene Marsh owned the
building occupied by Marsh-Lee
Co.. while Mrs. ]. G.. Little own.
ed the adjoining building occu
pied by Harrell Bros. The
store room occupied by Mcbride
& Hallman was owned.by Har-
rel Bros. All three buildings
were of brick.
The MarSh-Lee firm is com
posed of H. B. Marsh. E. E.
Marsh and ]. H. Lee, of Mon
roe. and other stockholders.
This establishment has grown
up with the town, the late ]. w.
Marsh being at one time a big
promoter in the firm. The Har-
rell Bros. firm was established
a few years later and is com
posed of Frank L.. w. O., Hor-
ace and James S. Harrell aud
John Long.
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J. b. Mum, roads and bridges
+. 7. Teal, roads and bridges
Rex Typewriter Co., typewriter
p. A. Nicholson & Sons, roads and BRIDGE
w. M. Redfearn, coffin
The Sinking Fund Insurance
Atlanta Fruit and Canning Co., gang
Frederick Disidfectant Co., disinfectant
Wizard Products Co., w. F. &C.
Mlkeljohn Lumber Co., roads and bridges
A. Sullivan, poor house
T. E. Mulloy, clerk
S. M. Jordan, roads and bridges
A. Blakeney, janitor
Charles Moore. guard
Manuel Rowcll, guard
H. F. King, salary
Oscar Hurst, roads and bridges
The City Market, gang and express
w. l.. Boone, outside aid
w. N. Lee magistrate
G. NJ. Rodgers, magistrate
w. ]. Odom, roads and bridges
II. T. Atkinson, coroner
Jno. w. Knight, gang
J. w. Roscoe, magistrate
d. l.. l., Gregory. lunacy
M. w. Duvall, gang
d. F. Brock, magistrate
(Coninued on last pag,
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16

Little girl, why aren't you
provided with an umbrella?"
Because father hasn't been to
church this year."-Puck.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16
Conscription Ages Fixed at FL
to 80, Inclusive

Conscription Ages Fixed at FL
to 80, Inclusive
Washington, Nav 1O.-The
long deadlock of Senate and
House conferees on the selec
tive draft military bill was
broken today with an agreement
on compromise measure under
which great war army would
be raised by selective conscrip-
tiOn of men from 21 to so years
years of age inclusive.
Authorization for recruiting
Colonel Roosevelt's proposed
volunteer division for service in
France written into the bill by
the Senate finally was thrown
out on the insistence of House
conferees. In return, the House
yielded to the Senate's proposal
fer prohibition at military posts.
The conference report is ex
pected to be approved by both
Senate and House in a few days
and within two weeks after the
President has affixed his sigma
ture, registration of those eligible
for conscription will be under
way throughout the country.
The War Department has erect
ed vast and intricate war ma
chine tor assigning and organ
izing the conscripts. They will
be assembled at training camps
in September.
The compromise bill is under
stood to be generally satisfactory
to the Administration and the
Army General Staff. The most
important change made in Con-
gress was in the age limits, fixed
BY the staff at 19 and 25, inclu
sive. The Senate made them 2l
and q and the House 81 and 40.
The ages named in the confer.
ence agreement makes the draft
applicable to all male voters
under 80.
With the Roosevelt proposal,
the conferees also threw out a
Senate amendment under which
three regiments of volun-
teers could have been en-
listed for service on the Mexican
border.
The section dealing with ex-
emptions from draft was re-writ-
ten in part by the conference
committee and provision was
made for hearings in exemption
applications before local civil
tribunals with the right to appeal
to second tribunal and finally
to the President.
Republicans in the Senate
who have favored giving Colon
ell Roosevelt authority to raise
and take American troops to
France declared tonight that an
effort would be made on the
floor to have the Senate insist
on the retention of this feature.
The general expectation, how.
ever, IS that the conference de-
cision will prevail.
The prohibition provision. as
agreed TO, excludes liquor, beer
and wines from any military
post, but does not forbid selling
or giving these beverages to
soldiers except when in uniform.
The conferees put into the bill
an amendment giving the Presi
dent power to organize and
equip for each infantry and cav
airy brigade three machine gun
companies. and for each division
of these services. four machine
gun companies in addition 10
those comprised in each organ
ization of these units. He also
was given authority to organize
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-05-16

Sarah Brown and others, outside aid
G. L. Melton, rural police expenses
F. P. Evans, magistrate
w. w. Lyn. gang
w N. Lee, magistrate
H. T. Atkinson, salary and inquest
L. E. Bull. examinations
&c. Baker, gang
F. II. Boatwright, roads and bridges
O. M. Rodgers, magistrate
Teal Jones Co., gang
]. +. Griggs, roads and bridges
w. X. Evans. salary and expenses
II. F. King, salary and stamps
Manuel Rowel, guard
]. w. Ousley 3 months salarv, magistrate
Charles Moore, guard
John w. Knight, supt. gang and supplies
G. & L. R. r., freight and drayage
Walter Terrell Co., gang
d. F. Moore, magistrate
M. 5. Watson, magistrate
A. B. Coward, gang
M. D. and H. L. Smith Co., gang
Chesterfield Telephone Co., rent
T. E, Davis. jail report
.Adaline Burr, outside aid
Thos. Jordan, - ,
Rachel Gainey, - ,
Cary Calder, . :,
PC. McLaurin. rural police
Colon Askew, gang
&. M. Hunt, outside aid
Stephen Johnson, outside aid
A. Sullivan, poor house
G. B. Rodgers, magistrate
A. F. Davis, gang
]. w. Roscoe. magistrate
]. A. Davis, roads and bridges
]. 7. Grant, rural police
Mary "A. E. Laney, board for poor
r. A. Rouse, salary
Miss Stella Minis, demonstrator ~.
J. M. Gathings. road and bridges
Horton and Hendrix, gang
H. H. Streater, roads and bridges
D. P. Douglass, salary
w. w Melton, work on boxes
Cheraw Hardware and Supply Co., locks f
G. l.. Melton, inquest
Alonza Mclean. roads and bridges
K. w. Gaddy, roads and bridges
u. T. Douglass, expense account
r. w. Rivers, roads and bridges
H. w. Pusser & Sons. poor house
W. A. Douglass, salary
D. T. Teal, lunacy
I. E. Mullov. clerk and pencils
A. Blakeney, janitor
Armfield Hardware Co., gang
Lee Dees, outside aid
|. P. Mangum, salary and expenses
I. w. Eddins. salary
J. ?. Poison. road and bridges
Tom Walcott, painting Jail
Jas. Crosby, putting IN CRATES
Bank of Chesterfield, draft
Walker Evans & Cogshall Co., printing
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TRUNK OF ESCAPED
 GERMAN PRISONER SEIZED
WAS CHARGED WITH AN ALEC. ED PLOT TO SMUGGLE AERO
 PLANES INTO MEXICO.

Nosales. Ariz., March IA depart. ment of justice agent seized trunk here today belonging to w. H. Sch weib, who claimed to be former German army officer and who esCap- ed fast July from federal officers sev- eral days after he had been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to smuggle aeroplanes from the United States into Mexico.
 II. E. Mock government agent who seized the trunk at local express of flee on search warrant. declined to give any information regarding the contents
 Recent letters received by the agent here of the department from SchNe. iDz, it was learned today, bore the following inscription in Spanish Un- der Scheibz's name: Major instruc- tor of staff of the Mexican secretary of war at Mexico City, SchWeibl escaped from a deputy United States marshal as he was being taken to a train for removal 70 Tucson, AriI He ran across the international boundary into Mexico and American officers were prevented from pursuing him.
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means the exhibition of the unusual The play throws a strong searchlight into the civic rat holes that were dis covered by the investigation of the famous Illinois Welfare Commission It does it without being sordid or maudlin, as in the case of scenario plays based on the imagination. It is a dramatization of conditions as amazing as they are true every incl dent bearing the stamp of authentic ity by the records of that commission. The Little Girl Next Door" pro yo<es discussion because the state of affairs it lays bare is little dreamed of by the average citizen.
 This big production plays an en- tire week at the Lyric next week, commencing Monday, and runs con tinuously from o'clock in the after noon until Il at night. Prices will he 25 cents 70 all No children under the age of l6 years will be admitted.
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PUBLISHED INTRIGUE OF GERMANY
 IS AUTHENTIC

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. .t1otic curio.ity.' And now it is inti- mated that l am at tault,' he contina- eG, flor seeking to add request to that of the senaor from Massachu- .sotts who is so anxious to support the president when it please, him, and al- ways co qtick to oppose him when 1t ple1seo hm
 "' arl Let saying anything that as sa ls the president. Without men5ion- inc senators by name l think l nave stood as clo ely to the president and las firmly supported him as these gentle men whose nervous organisms are so delicate and whose o'actories enable them to detect an odor or smell of possible larger that does not exist.
 I have been rank with the presi- dent N hen talk to him | talk as would to another senator I do not go to the Waita house like some other people and immediately proclaim, by admiration and approval. of whatever the president suggests,
 "Tle pie,iCent knows this. We talk together man to man, and flat.er myself hc holds me in higher esteem than ~ou.a of the trucklers who come and go and say. what do you wish
 The president is a manly man, cou1ageous man, a man of aggressive intellect He can take care oi him.
 elf vuFWAere on the earth. resent and vii contin to resent any yth.na tnat Ray be sad by any senator that concerns ny sincerity of purpose or my sense of duty
 Senaio. Stone said he would gladly accept jbe substitute offered by Sen ator Smith Senator Hughes said he also was for the substitute
 Senator Underwood urged the sen ate to egh well every act in this twilight zone between war and peace. The Zimmerman letter at first alarm ed him. but later he came Co regard it only as a pebble in the great interna- t.onal controversies engaging the at- .ent:on of the world today
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HAS POWERFUL MORAL.
Startling Expose in Little Girl Next
 Door, at Lyric,

Startling Expose in Little Girl Next
 Door, at Lyric.
 Startling expose and lively enter tainment are cleyerly and powerfully combined in The Little Girl Next Door," which, after long runs in Chi cago. san Francisco, Los Angeles and other metropolitan centers, comes for the first time to the Lyric theater next week This photodrama, which is brought here by the large booking concern, Hayes. Golf X Ryland, has recorded the greatest hit of any film production in the large cities this year. and is apt to prove here as else where. the lveliest topic of discus sion furnished by any local theater since Damaged Goods" was swirling around in the current of conflict.
 The Little Girl Next Door may be called sensational if by that term one
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AT TIVE AUDITORIUM
4 Dauohter of the Gods.

In A Daughter Of the Gods the $l0o0,Oeo spectacle in which William Fox has featured Annette Kelermanl. the attraction at the Auditorium fou. nights and four matinees startings Met day, March 5th, it's creator and financial spon or has eclipsed anything ever attempted in the field Of motion pictures. Mr, Fox has stopped at nothing in his ambition to outdo all thers in the poetic, the beautifully spectacular and the artistic.
 Reasoning that all is possible 10 him who would try, he took over an entire tropical island and from an arid spot created city of thousands Of re idents, which he governed as su- preme sovereign by cable from his oI- fees in New York City Never feaed bv what to another would seem unsur- mountable, physical obstacles, he dt yeued a river from it's course and razed hills to the leyc. of a plain.
 Earthquakes, hurricanes and floods played their havoc for a time, but to h- credit it must be said that never daunted he continued on and finally accomplished what must go down in the n,story of the motion picture in dustry as the posthigh achievement Miss Kellerman too, accomplished prodigies in the water and some oi the scenes. fuu of actual peril from high surfing eas and treacherous rock are ful, of thrills as well as ea- -Lurinu Le-l.tN-
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INOUC EMEhTS OFFERED
 CHINA 10 JOIN WAR
FRENCH AND BELGIAN DlPLO- MATS HAVE MADE oVERTUREs
 TO CHINESE OFFICIALS.

Peltiu, March 1-The French minis ter and the Belgian charge daffajres. representing the entente allies have invited China to enter the war, offer ing her remission of the boxer in- dennity and a revision of the tariff as Inducements A cabinet crisis is imminent The vice president and the premier are urging China to join the entente
 The president is receiving much criticism for opposing immediate ac. tion He gave out an interview today saying he preferred to act with the United States and other neutrHs but that he was willing for China to join the entente if parliament approves.
 Dr. Wu Ting Fang has resigned the portfolio of foreign minister, assign ing deafness, the result of recent illness as the cause
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STRIKE NOT CALLED.

Cleveland Ohio, March l-The exc Cutive committee of the building trades council will not call strike of 2o000 workers engaged in build ing trades unless the employers lock out other unions in addition to the 4,500 members of the Common Labor CTS and Hod Carriers Union locked out today
 The executive committee of the labor council decided, however. to order sympathetic strike tomorrow of 5,000 union workmen engaged in construction work where union labor CTS have been locked out.
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WAS TO BE DASHED.

Fl Paso, Texas, March 1.-Dr. Schroeder, a German physician at Parral. Chihuahua was placed under arrest by General Francisco Murguia for having treated Francisco Villa while the rebel leader was in Parral and suffering from pneumonia, ac- cording to an American refuge who arrived here last night from Parral. Dr. Schroeder was ordered lashed fifty times a day for three days and linen released. Inc refugee stated.