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EPITOME OF THE
WEEK’S EVENTS
In a Condensed Form the Happenings of
All Nationalities Are Given
For Our Readers.
WEEK'S NEWS AT A GLANCE
Important Eventa of the United State*
and Particularly in the
South.
European War
The Austro-German forces, recently
j under personal supervision of Emper
j or William, have driven the Russian
: armies, stretching for a length of two
hundred miles in the Galician hills in
| northern Austria, back into Poland ac
[ cording to advices from Vienna and
! Berlin. The report was somewhat con
i firmed by the hasty departure of Em
i peror Nicholas from Petrograd to the
i front. The Teutonic forces claim to
i have crossed the San river.
Emperor William himself narrowly
escaped death from a Russian shell
in Galicia, according to a Budapest
dispatch. The imperial chauffeur was
killed.
The London and Paris war offices
claim the Anglo-French forces and
fleet in the Dardanelles are gaining
daily. An Athens dispatch states the
Turks have been out of ammunition
for a fortnight, but have been re
plenished with an ample supply of war
stores from Berlin.
Another English merchantman, the
Drumcree, has been sunk by a Ger
man submarine, torpedoed in the Eng
lish channel.
The English parliament shows a re
iuctancy in passing a conscription act
which is being urged by Lord Kitchen
er and the Asquith ministry.
Italians ha.ve clashed with Austrian
troops at Pola. Both the Austro-Hun
garian and German ambassadors at
Rome have asked for their passports.
Declaration of war is expected any
moment. It has been definitely an
nounced that the old triple alliance is
now shattered.
The German imperial chancellor, in
addressing the reichstag, said all had
been done by Austria to keep peace
between Vienna and Rome, but with
out, success.
The London admiralty office ad
j mits that an Australian submarine,
making its way into the Sea of Mar
mora, was sunk by the Turks. A
crew of thirty was lost.
That dissatisfaction prevails in
many official and political circles in
London over the many serious losses
suffered by the British navy since the
war began is shown by the prevalent
rumor that Winston Spencer Churc
hill, first lord of the admiralty, will
soon retire from the Asquith cabinet
to be succeeded by Arthur J. Balfour,
former premier, and leader of another
party. Churchill may accept another
post in the government.
Lord Kitchener has called for more
recruits and has asked parliament to
provide means to procure equipment
for large stores of poisonous gas for
use on the Gallipoli peninsula.
The admiralty office in London has
ordered the English channel heavily
mined for the destruction of German
submarines.
The American note to Germany has
just been made public in Berlin. The
imperial government’s reply is not
expected to be forthcoming for a num
ber of days.
Sir John French, chief of the Brit
ish forces on the continent, has sent
word to London that he had made per
ceptible gains in Flanders, and has
captured many German trenches at
Richebourg-l’Avoue, and has made
several successful drives north of La
Brasse.
French and English correspondents
on the Gallipoli peninsula have sent
reports to London and Paris of Turk
ish massacres of the Armenians.
A suggestion has come from Berlin
that Germany, after considering the
American note, will offer to arbitrate
the question at issue between the
United States and the imperial gov
ernment growing out of the Lusitania
incident. It is believed by diplomatic
authorities that Germany will offer a
compromise with America to abandon
submarine warfare in exchange for
the assurance of the delivery of Amer
ican foodstuffs.
Domestic
Theatrical producers of New York
lost their suit against the theatrical
critics, in which they sought to bar
critics from attending plays in their
official capacities and commenting up
on the merits of a production. Jus
tice Hendrick of the New York su
preme court ruled every critic was
entitled to a seat as a means of pro
tection to the public.
The final act of the Tennessee sen
ate before adjournment was the adop
tion of a resolution asking Governor
Slaton and Governor-elect Harris of
Georgia for clemency for Leo Frank.
A band of 200 Austrians, leaving
Winnipeg. Canada for the United
States to join an army of unemployed
they heard was being formed by
Northwestern tramps, were tarred
i from\crossing the international boun
dary by the United States immigration
officials at Pembina. N. D.
The date, May 31, has been set by
the Georgia prison commission to
hear the apepal for clemency of Leo
Frank. Hundreds of letters have been
received by Governor Slaton and Gov
ernor-elect Harris in Frank’s behalf,
including many governors and promi
nent statesmen.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
The West Virginia state senate
adopted a joint resolution petitioning
Governor Slaton of Georgia to com
mute the death sentence of Leo Frank
to life imprisonment.
A concurrent resolution was adopt
ed by the Pennsylvania legislature
begging Governor Slaton of Georgia
for clemency in the case of Leo
Frank.
Former President Taft, in an ad
dress at Painesville, Ohio, declared
there was too much competition
among the churches and not enough
unity.
The Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly is in session at Newport
News.
Before adjournment at Houston,
Texas, the Southern Baptist conven
tion adopted a resolution protesting
against the presence of a papal diplo
matic delegate from Rome to the Unit
ed States at Washington.
Governor Dunne’s scheme to con
nect the great lakes with the Gulf
of Mexico by a canal from the Chi
cago river to the Illinois river at Pe
oria, won its first victory in the Illi
nois legislature at Springfield when
its $5,000,000 appropriation passed the
lower house after a hard fought bat
tle.
Governor Manning of South Caroli
na has ordered the “tiger” laws of that
state enforced which means a war
against some of the municipal govern
ments of the state.
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, prominent
New York attorney and railroad mag
nate, is dead. He was a Civil war
veteran.
Governor Walsh of Massachusetts
has issued to all state governors his
official invitation for the conference
of governors to convene in Boston in
September for their annual meeting.
The conference last year was held in
Madison, Wis.
In his argument to the jury at the
close of the Barnes-Roosevelt libel
suit at Syracuse, Colonel Rooseveli’s
counsel, John M. Bowers, begged the
jury not to destroy the former presi
dent’s power in America by deciding
against him, but to let him continue
in following President Wilson as a
guide of the nation.
Washington
President Wilson, who is back at
the White House from New York,
where he went to review the fleet,
emphaticaly announced there would
be no bartering with Germany over
his recent note, that he meant fully all
he said.
Rev. Eugene S. Gaddis of Denver,
former head of Ihe Rockefeller’s Col
orado corporation’s socialogical de
partment, testified before the federal
industrial relations committee that the
Colorado miners were justified in re
belling and that the strike was caus
ed by brutes and bullies. Rev. Mr.
Gaddis was later let out by the Rocke
feller interests, he said, and made an
unsuccessful appeal to be reinstated.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston
has received an extensive report from
the British agricultural office on the
first experimental cotton crop raised
in New South Wales on the Australian
continent.
Clarence Darrow, counsel for the
McNamaras, stated to the federal in
dustrial relations commission that, in
his opinion, the McNamaras, in being
sent to San Quinten prison for life
and fifteen years, respectively, for
blowing up the Los Angeles Times
and killing 120 people and blowing
up bridges and other properties were
martyrs.
An intense feeling of bitterness has
been shown in the injunction suit
brought by the Riggs National bank
officials against Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo, Comptroller of the
Currency Williams and John Burke,
treasurer of the United States. For
mer Senator Bailey of Texas is chief
counsel for the Biggs bank, while
Louis A. Brandeis and Samuel Unter
meyer, original graft investigators,
have the case in charge for the sec
retary and -his associates.
Foreign
The Canadian government steamer,
Christine, was rammed in the St. Law
rence river by a Canadian submarine,
causing the loss of eight lives. Six
of the crew were saved.
Some Americans residing at San
Diego report that they were fired on
while in their private fishing launch,
the New Ancono, while on a fishing
cruise in Mexican waters in one of
the harbors of Lower California. They
report their craft waved the American
flag.
Marriage by proxy has been made
legal in France by a special act of
the chamber of deputies. The first to
avail themselves of the new law were
Alfred Lorin, a Paris attorney, now a
soldier at the front, and Mile Marie
Martigny. The bridegroom was repre- i
sented at the ceremony by a close
friend.
Princess Yasu, youngest sister of
the emperor of Japan, was married
with great pomp in Tokyo to Prince
Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, who is at
tached to the second army division of
the empire.
King Constantine of Greece, who
has been reported very low at Ath
ens, is somewhat improved according
to later advices. His physicians now
hope for his recovery.
The press of the various South
American republics have approved the
course taken by President Y.’ilson in
the stand of the United States toward
Germany in regard to the Lusitania
incident.
The minister of commerce of the
French cabinet has reported) to Pres
ident Poincare that France has lost
half of her foreign commerce since
the war began.
imanoNAL
SIMMS*
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS. Acting Director of
Sunday School Course of Moody Bible
Institute, Chicago.)
LESSON FOR MAY 30
BRINGS ARK TO JERUSALEM.
LESSON TEXT—II Samuel 6:12-19 and
Psalm 24 (Study all of chapter 6.)
GOLDEN TEXT—I was glad when they
said unto me, Let us go unto the house
of the Lord.—Psalm 122:1.
This event probably occurred B. C.
1042, in the twenty-second year of
David’s reign. It would be a good
plan to assign to various pupils such
subjects as: (a) What the ark was
and how it came to be lost; (b)
Where it had been since the days of
Joshua; (c) What occurred to it while
in possession of the Philistines; (d)
Who was Obed-edom? (e) Uzziah? (f)
Michal? (g) How Jerusalem came to
be the seat of government.
I. The Ark Recovered, vv. 1-5. David
realized that while God was the
God of all the tribes, still there was
no visible religious center; there was
the consequent danger of confound
ing the local place of worship with
that of some local Baal (god) and the
possible breaking up of the national
reliance upon Jehovah. Where Kir
jath-jearim was is not definitely
known, but perhaps it was eight or
ten miles west of Jerusalem. The ark
had lodged here for perhaps seventy
years. David and they that were with
him followed the example of the Phil
istines (I Sam. 6:1-1$) in their mode
of transferring the ark rather than to
have it carried upon the shoulders of
the priests (Josh. 3;3). Preceded by
"David and the house of Israel,” i. e.,
leaders of the people and all others
present, they began the return jour
ney from the house of Abinadab.
11. The Ark Retarded, vv. 6-11.
They had reached one of the open
places used as a threshing floor when
the oxen slipped and the cart was
shaken. Uzziah, one of the two into
whose charge it had been placed, laid
hold of the ark to keep it from fall
ing. Why was he slain therefore? We
have already suggested the reason.
How to carry the ark was plainly writ
ten (Num. 4:5-12; 7:9). Neglect of
God’s word gets many well-meaning
people into trouble, along with their
friends, also. The ark was the sym
bol of God’s presence, and men had
to be taught to revere his holy name
and his glorious presence (see last
clause v. 2). Uzziah’s sin was the sin
of irreverence. He seems not to
have sensed the invisible God in his
visible abode. The result struck ter
ror into the heart of David and the
people, and the ark was left in the
house of Obed of Edom for a period
of three months. David’s “improved
plan” was a proved failure.
111. The Ark Restored, vv. 9-19.
David, by thus abandoning the ark,
seems to have resented the judgment
of God, yet he must have realized
that God had sufficient cause for his
acts. The ark is a type of Christ,
who is Immanuel, God with us. The
ark contained the law of God, as
Christ enshrined the will of his Fa
ther. Over the law was the blood
sprinkled mercy seat where God met
his people (Ex. 25:18-22). In Christ
we find our mercy seat where we
meet God. Though this ark brought
judgment to Uzziah it brought bless
ing to Obed-edom (v. 12). Even so
Christ brings judgment or joy accord
ing to our treatment of him. Obed
edom so piously cared for the ark that
both he and his household were rich
ly blessed. If Christ is really in our
hearts we will be blessed, and Christ
abideth forever.
IV. The Psa'm of Praise, Ps. 24.
In the Jewish synagogue this psalm
is recited at the carrying back of the
book of the law to its shrine, and in
the Greek church at the consecration
of the church. The twenty-second
psalm presents the suffering Savior;
the twenty-third presents the risen
Savior as the shepherd caring for and
leading his sheep, and the twenty
fourth tells of the reigning, glorified
Lord. The whole earth is Jehovah's
(v. I) and no incident better teaches
the converse, viz., that he is God of
the earth and not a mere tribal deity.
He “founded’’ and “established’’ it,
and all “the fullness,” and “they that
dwell therein” are his by creative and
redemptive right. Since we belong
to him we owe him worship and serv
ice—and a servant is one who
’’stands’’ v. 3). The conditions of fel
lowship with Jehovah are “clean
hands and a pure heart" (v. 4), those
who deal with honesty and reverence.
“Vanity” and “idolatry” are frequently
synonymous terms.
The first and the fourth condition
relate to others, the second and the
third to one's inner life (see I John
1:6, 7).
The reward of acceptable worship
and service is ’’blessing from the
Lord” (v. 6). In verse eight we find
Israel's great name for God first used
in the Psalms.
He is gloriously strong, this Lord
of the hosts of heaven.
In I Cor. 2:8, Jesus who was cruci
fied is called the "Lord of Glory.” Even
so our coming King is “strong and
Mighty” and will prove himself
“mighty in battle” (see Rev. 19:19-21).
When he, the King of Glory, leads
captivity captive all of his followers
will have a part in that triumphal
entry.
“INTERVIEW" WITH THE HERO
Happening When Man From the Front
Explains Things to His
Fair Charmer.
“Oh, Mr. Hero, I’m so glad to see
you safely back from the war. Sit
right down and tell me all about it.
I’m awfully interested. Wasn’t it sim
ply terrible over there? And did you
really live in the trenches for weeks
at a time with shot and shell scream
ing all around you? 1 don’t see how
you could stand it. Were you ever hit
by one of those forty-two centimeter
guns? I mean by the bullet, of course;
not by the gun. But. then, of course,
you weren’t, or you’d have your arm
in a sling or something. Who do you
think is going to win? I suppose 1
shouldn't ask you that, though. Y’ou
soldiers are not allowed to tell mili
tary secrets, are you? Did you ever
really kill a man yourself, or don't
»ou know? My uncle, who was in the
Spanish war, says you never can tell
whether it’s your bullet or somebody
else’s that hits the enemy. 1 should
think that would be awfully annoying.
Not that you want to know that you'd
killed a man, but still you'd like to
know whether you're wasting your am
munition or not. Oh, must you go so
soon? I wish you could stay longer.
I’ve been so interested in hearing your
adventures. Call again soon, won’t
you, Good-by.”
The Heroines of Novels.
If I were his satanic majesty, and a
novelist came to me for - judgment, I
should beetle my brows in a horrible
manner and quiz him thus:
“Did you ever make your heroine
eighteen years old? Did you ever en
dow a maiden with the repartee of
Pinero, the intuition of Blavatsky, the
carriage of Garden, the hauteur of
the Medici, the beauty of Aphrodite
and the wisdom of Athene —all at the
age of eighteen years?”
If the novelist answered me “Cer
tainly not!” I should say: “To heaven
with you!” But if he answered: “Sure
1 did!” I would blast him where he
stood.
For, of all the iniquitous, fallacious,
unfair and dangerous doctrines, this
takes the icing of the cake —that the
female species reaches her apogee at
the immature age cf eighteen.—From
“Balm for Lovers.” by George Weston
in the Saturday Evening Post.
Drawing the Line.
“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.’’
“Maybe,” replied Mr. Cumrox. “But
I don't like to have a stenographer
copy my mistakes in grammar.”
Odd.
“What caused the coolness between
you and Jones?”
“A heated argument.”
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CLINCHED IN HIS MEMORY
Small Chance of Charles Abner Fop
getting the Day That Meant
Everything to Him.
Some time since Charles Abner
courted and married the beautiful El
len Estelle. One evening several
months later they were seated in their
cozy little den, Ellen Estelle reading
a popular novel and Charles Abner
looking over the sporting page.
“Charley, dear,’’ finally remarked
the little wife, “do you recall the time
you proposed to me?”
“Why, yes.” rather indifferently an
swered Charles Abner, 1 think i re
member it.”
“Of course, you do, ’ returned Ellen
Estelle. “It was in an automobile. I
shall never forget the lovely words
you spoke, and the noble sacrifices
you promised to make. It must have
cost you something to say those
things.”
“It did, Ellen Estelle,” responded
Charles Abner, with a reflective sigh,
“it cost me about two weeks salary
to hire the automobile.' —Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Irish Speed.
In Judge McKinley’s court they were
examining talesmen for the trial of a
boy who had killed his father. The
lawyers dwelt mostly on the facts of
marriage, paternity and whether there
had been insanity in the families of
the men under examination.
When they got around to Michael
McCarthy the wait had been long and
he proceeded to whip up.
Asked the first question he galloped
away with this:
“My name is Michael McCarthy and
I live at 1336 Fulton street and I am
thirty-five years old and I am married
and have one child and I have never
had any insanity in the family and if
1 had I wouldn’t be fool enough to tell
you.”
Youngest Iron Cross Winner.
The youngest “knight” to be decor
ated with the Iron Cross in Germany
is Alfonso Koberle, who is only thir
teen and one-half years of age and
who. for that reason, will have to wait
two and one-half years before the dec
oration will be actually piniSed on him,*
says the Boston Post.
Koberle is the son of a laborer.
Owing to his powerful build he was
readily accepted among the volunteer
bicycle men. His agility and his abilr.
ity to adjust himself to hJs environ
ment specially fitted him for patrol
duty, and he developed special skill
in the discovery and observation of
hostile positions.
A girl always tells a ylung man she
can cook —and she alwajs tells other
girls that she can’t