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AFGHANISTAN CLOSER COUNTRY
Foreigner Takes Life in His Hand I
When He Goes Into That Land.
A report on industrial and living
conditions in Afghanistan, which a 1
Christian enters on pain of death, t
has been made to the department of s
commerce by United States Consul c
Henry D. Baker, on special commer- s
cial service in the Far East, says The *
Washington Star. c
Mr. Baker calls Afghanistan the *
buffer State between British India s
and the Russian possessions in Asia. ?
It has an area of 200,000 square *
miles and a population estimated at ^
s nnn nnn tboneh no census has ever *
been taken. Its inhabitants are *
without exeception Mohammedans, 1
and, save only Tibet, it is the largest 1
closed country in :he world, present- 1
ing the anchronism of a nation in
the 20th century which forbids the
entrance into its territory of the
foreign missionaries either of reli- "
?
gion or commerce, as well as making ,
the profession of Christianity among
its subjects punishable by death.
/ * Guards Are Necessary.
"If any person particularly wishes
to visit Afghanistan, be can get into 1
the country only bv interesting the fc
amir personally in the object of his
visit, which, however, it may be found
f
very difficult to do." Mr. Baker says:
No commercial traveler can get into A
Afghanistan unless the amir might
be induced to take an interest in his 1
particular line of business. Even then s
f
it would not be found convenient or
advantageous to undertake a trip into 1
r
Afghanistan unless the amir would ~
personally guarantee one's comfort "
and safety and provide a military escort
to Kabul or Kandahar, or wher- a
ever else it was desired to go. In 1
fact, unless the Afghanistan govern c
met itself assumed all expenses of 1
such a trip and gave a guaranty as to
a certain amount of profitable busi- *
ness it would probbly never pay for
anv American business or manufac- "
c
turing firm to send a representative "
into the country, as the expense of c
travel and of transport of personal c
supplies would be so great as to off- s
set any profits which might be expected.
Must Go at Own Risk.
"After application has been made 1
to the amir for a permit, or firman. t
to visit Afghanistan?and by hav- c
ing advanced some particularly *
potent argument the firman may per- c
haps be granted?the deputy secre- 8
tarv to thp government of India in s
J w ^ s
the foreign department, if he deems
it wise, will then grant permission
to cross the frontier at the traveler's
own risk.
"A regulation letter granting such
k permission to a representative of a
" business house in Bombay, of which I
hav6 a copy, reads as follows:
44 'With reference to your letter
dated ?, I am directed to inform
you that the honorable the chief
commissioner and agent to the governor
general in the northwest frontier
province is being directed to allow
Mr. of your firm to cross
the frontier, subject to the production
of him of his majesty the amir's
firman and the political agent in the
Khyber pass being satisfied that the
Afghan government has made arrangements
for Mr. 's escort
, and transport.
44 'I am to add that the government
of India accepts no responsibility
whatever in connection with the object
of Mr. 's journey to or stay
in Afghanistan, and that he proceeds
there at his own risk."
Few Foreigners There.
"About the only instances in which
Europeans or Americans have ever e
been allowed to travel into Afghan- c
istan is when machinery or other
?
articles have been required by the
amir or his government, or special
medical assistance needed at the
court. At present there are underC
stood to be six Europeans and two J
Americans residing in the country.
Among the very few European per- c
sons who have for any length of j
time sojourned in Afghanistan within
recent years may be mentioned
^E. T. Thornton, who established a ^
government leather and boot and
shoe factory at Kabul, and wrote, in
1909, a book entitled 'Leaves from ,
an Afghan Scrapebook;.' Dr. J. A. '
Gray, who was private physician to
the late amir, and wrote, in 1901, a
book entitled 'My Residence at the J
Court of the Amir,' and Mrs. Kate
Daly, physician to the amir's harem, *
who wrote, in 1905, a book entitled
'Eight Years Among the Afghans."
Mr. Baker refers to the late Dr. T. ^
L. Pennell, an English medical mis- i
sionary, as having been the best authority
on the frontier tribesmen of
1
Afghanistan. He gained their confidence
and esteem after years of effort,
but the relations between the
frontiersmen and the English gen- .
erally are far from cordial.
H. W. .Johnson will offer for sale 1
at public auction. Monday, February 1
Und,' during the legal hours of sale. 1
the furniture now in use in the John- ,
son Hotel.? adv.
Sale stables, horses and mules, buggies
and harness. RIZER & MOYE.
Fairfax, S. C. <
LITTLE\\EGIiO KILLED.
loy of Seven Shoots Playmate of
Nine, Both Colored.
Gaffnev, Jan. 1 7.?On the plantaion
of L. R. Ross, near Gaffney, yeserday
a' negro boy, 7 years of age.
hot and killed another negro 9 years
>f age. The boys were playing when
;ome disagreement arose between
hem. One of the boys, telling the
>ther that he would shoot him, went
o the house, returned with a gun
tnd shot the other through the stomich,
inflicting a wound from which
he victim died early this morning.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
o the effect that Littlejohn came to
lis death from a gunshot wound at
he hands of Edwards. The Edwards
)oy is in jail, where he was placed
mmediately after the verdict.
State Sunday School Convention.
Never before in the history of the
Sunday-school work in this State has
iuch splendid plans been laid for a
State convention as are being laid for
he convention at Anderson, Febuary
11-13.
Anderson is using every resource
n her power to make it the great;st
as well as the biggest convention
hat has ever been held in the State.
The talent employed for the program
ar exceeds any previous one in
ariety and excellence. The State
Association has been most fortunate
n securing Dr. William J. Williamon.
Third Baptist Church, St. Louis,
or this convention. Dr. Williamson
s one of the leading Bible teachers
if this country, and also a practical
5unday-school man. Dr. Williamson
sill have the Bible study period and
ilso inspirational addresses before
he convention, in addition to the adIress
before the Baptist Conference,
Friday afternoon. February 13.
Dr. L. X. Caley, of Philadelphia,
las also been secured. Dr. Caley is
l national figure in the Sunday;chool
world. At the head of the
5unday-school Institute of the Episopal
Church, and one of the editors
)f the "American Church Sundayschool
.Magazine." he has made < a
arge contribution to the Sunday.
chool life of the nation.
Mr. J. Shreve Durham, of Chicago,
he man who planned and carried
hrough the great house visitation
anvasses of Chicago, Richmond and
)allas, will be at the convention to
liscuss ways and means of finding
md enrolling the 500.890 people
itill untouched by the Sundayichools
of South Carolina. Mrs.
dary Foster Bryner, of Chicago, will
>resent the elementary work.
The morning sessions of the con'ention
will be given up to practical
nethods of work. For these sesiions,
two of the leading State general
secretaries have been secured:
drs. John C. Carman, of the Colora
lo "Association, and Mr. D. W. Sims,
>f the Georgia Association.
One of the social features of the
convention will be a luncheon given
o the elementary workers of the
>tate by the ladies of Anderson, with
drs. Bryner as guest of honor.
The annual meeting of the execuive
committee will be held in the
rirst Baptist Church on Tuesday
evening, February 10th. Rev. W. H.
v. Pendleton, of Spartanburg, will
)reside. After the business meetng.
a banquet will be served to the
nembers of the committee with Rev.
>V. I. Herbert, president of the State
Association, as toast master.
One of the most vital features of
he convention will be the denomma.ional
conferences held in the diferent
churches of the city, Friday
tfternoon, February loth. At these
conferences, the leading denominaional
men will present the Sunday;chool
work of the State from a delominational
view point.
The splendid local choir will be
rained by Dr. Fisher, of the Ander
>on College. One of the most pracical,
as well as pleasant features of
his State-wide meeting will be a
Sunday-school Superintendents' co.i'erence
to be held in St. John's Methidist
Church. Thursday afternoor,
February 12. This conference will
)e led by Mr. D. W. Sims, of Atlanta,
vho is the general secretary of the
Georgia Sunday-school Association.
Mr. Sims is practical business man.
.vho has been general secretary of
:he Alabama and 'Georgia Sundayschool
Associations for the last
;welve years. Before going into the
Association work, Mr. Sims was
superintendent of a Sunday-school of
nore than 2,000 members. At the
md of the conference a banquet will
De served to the superintendents by
the local superintendents, and the
committee for this banquet are ar
~anging for covers for LMM) men.
Everything possible that can be
:lone for the comfort and pleasure
)f the delegates to Anderson is being
planned by the local committee.
A splendid local executive commit
[ee has been organized and is now at
work. The chairman of this committee
is Mr. F. M. Burnett, the secretary
of the Y. M. C. A. The secretary
of the committee is Mr. Porter
Whaley. secretary of the chamber of
commerce.
OIL OXCE THROWN* AWAY.
Petroleum Has Had Romantic History
in United States.
The radius of the world's discovered
oil fields is becoming extended
more widely every year, and the
increasing area over which oil is
found, helps to prove the theory that
petroleum is a product of the delayed
decomposition of marine life and
vegetation of the carbombaerous and
tertiary periods; for though there
are undoubtedly limits to pronfic oil
bearing strata, very few countries
exist in which small quantities may
not occur. Even, in England small
amounts have been noticed in deep
wells at Willesden and Newark.
When in 1849 James Young firsi
made mineral lubricants from oil is
suing from the shales in the-Riddings
Collery, and afterward obtained the
oil by distilling certain Scotch shales
and cannels at a low temperature, the
lighter portions of the distillation
were looked upon as waste products,
only the heavy residue being needed
as a lubricant. Young, however, discovered
eventually that these lighter
portions were being bought/ up and
shipped to Germany for use in specially
constructed lamps, and having
obtained patterns of these lamps he
had them made in Edinburg.
Ten years after the original discovery
of shale oil Col. Drake, in
sinking a well for brine in Pennsylvania,
came across oil in quantity at
a depth of about 6-9 feet, his well
(despite the early difficulties of collection
and storage) yielding about
2,000 barrels in a year. This led to"
an enormous number of wells being
sunk near Oil Creek and along the
valleys of the Alleglienies. where
large volumes oUoil were found, although
at far greater depth than in
the first instance.
Until 1S61 these wells continued
to yield a moderate supply, the oil
having to be pumped, but in that
year oil was found suddenly under
enormous pressure at a depth of 400
feet, and some of the wells in the
neighborhood gave a yield of 2,500
barrels a day.
This was the beginning of the oil
fever in America, and prospecting began
in every direction. Such quantities
of oil were discovered that,
despite criminal waste due to the
wells being sunk without proper provision
for collecting the oil, the supply
rapidly outran the demand, which
was then in its infancy, and the price
fell to such an extent that in many
cases the barrels cost more than was
fetched by their contents, the latter
frequently being allowed to run to
waste. Indeed, it is supposed that in
Pennsylvania alone 10,000,000 barrels
of oil were run down the streams
owing to the impossibility of dealing
with the overglutted market.
Slowly, however, the market improved,
and with the growth of the
European demaild that came into being
attention was drawn to the
wealth of oil already known to exist
in the Baku district of Russia, where
up to that time the oil production
had been a monoply in the hands of
Meersoeff, a trader. In 1872 the
government withdrew this concession
and imposed a tax on the oil produced
as a result of which the whole
Apsheron Peninsula was developed
rapidly and rich strata were pierced.
At present the world's supply of
petroleum approximates to the enormous
amount of 50,000,000 tons annually,
more than 350,000,000 bar- ,
rels, drawn from the following countries:
Million
Tons.
United States 31.40
Russia 9.00
.Mexico 3.20
Romania . }. 1.S0
Dutch East Indies 1.35
Galicia 1.10
India 1.05
Other countries 1.10
?London Times.
Good Resolutions.
The pastor of a New York church
on Sunday after New Year's, proposed
the following ten New Year resolutions
for the members of his
congregation:
I will say a hearty "Hello" at half
a chance and help everywhere.
I will practice smiling until it becomes
a fixed habit.
I will cultivate my heart as well
as fill my pocketbook.
I will not forget to say "thank
you" to God and man.
I will swallow three times before
speaking when angry.
r ...ill ? ~* /?.Uinico hut
1 Will I1UL V- 1 1IIV IOC UUl. IUUII;iiiuv"?
folk, and that not gingerly.
I will choke back complaints about
aches, ills and bad luck
1 will take my head and heart to
church quite regularly.
1 will say my prayers with a child's
spirit and an adult's will.
1 will daily look myself over and
make all possible improvements.
All of us would be doing well if we
adopted these resolutions and live']
up to them.?Greenville Piedmont.
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of Pythias meets first and fourth t vct
Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. ' Visit- INS I
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