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JOE FOLK’S COBBLESTONES
Samuel Huston Thompson, assist
ant attorney general, and Mrs. Thomp
jriison were at dinner one night with Mr.
and Mrg Joseph Folk. After dinner it
was suggeste<i that the party should
;J|jk go up to the Folk residence to listen to
%'iU some graphophone music.
So they all started On reaching
IS, 1 there Mr. Folk put his hand in his
gC% 7 pocket to find his keys. He took his
jg, " lOrfe'l hand out of that pocket and sought
J Y f another pocket. Then he tried his
, f ’ jWm right vest pocket, then his left vest
v ■■* «**#, M pocket, then other of his numerous
wllliiir pockets in rapid succession.
/W Then he left the veetibule and
Vi’ ’ walked down the steps, leaving his
J yjM wife and two friends in the doorway.
At Across the street was a pile of cob
\ blestones. Carefully selecting a fine
\ ' S Ik round stone, he retraced his steps and
*• V '• entered the vestibule again.
'Vjjti&f' \ ’ 7 JBBBk There was a smash of glass, and
'y. ‘‘■■Y# a large hole appeared in the Folk
front door. Joe Folk inserted his
hand therein and unlocked the door from the inside, bade his friends enter,
and in a few minutes the graphophone was playing.
“And,” said Commissioner Oliver Newman, who told this at the White
House, "the funny part is that was the third time this season that a cobble
has been used. When they finally move that pile of stones, Joe will have to
carry a battering ram.”
CHIEF FLYNN’S FIRE ESCAPE
William Flynn, the secret service
chief, used to have ambitions to be
an inventor. His taste ran toward
getting up a new-fangled fire escape
that would fold up when not in use M2t \
an<3 not seriously mar the appearance Kr \
of u building. He felt that if he could Hfc.
Just do something to save a few dls- figi
tracted persons caught In burning iJpSw" wWi
buildings he would not have lived In
vain. Being a resourceful person, \fjf \
Flynn thought and thought about the \ * : 4l| jifc M
proposition until finally he got a plan \ b&mZM
all worked out. He showed his draw
ings to several friends, who declared ■•y
that it was thoroughly practical. All j
that remained to be done was to have A aftlMltliSMl^
the thing patented and then sit back
and reap the fortune that was his. v
One afternoon he was strolling
across Brooklyn bridge on his way mHEMi
to look at a piece of property he was / ■ ijA.
going to buy when the money began -•</
to pour In from the new fire escape. ’ L v i
He chanced to glance across at a build
ing and noticed a fire escape that looked something like his. He went nearer
and found that the device was exactly like the one he had just invented. On
inquiry he found that the one on the building had been patented about 1860.
There was not a thing wrong with his invention, except that he was about
thirty-five years too late in getting around to it.
CARSON WISHES HE COULD FIGHT
1 — ■■■-■ ■■■• .. Sir Edward Carson, the great
Irish anti-homerule leader, who suc
ceeded Sir John Simon as attorney
general in the coalition government,
made a striking confession when at
- 'V>' | n recru ' tin P meeting he appealed for
V.'-' ’ ' “1 only wish," he said. ’’l were
j young enough to be accepted, even as
Vraf WJntTMt L a P riva, ° J* would give me more joy
B| "PEJTt |l than any so-called honor won else-
where. I would gladly give up every-
L thing if I could be even in the ranks.”
\ Always a fighter, Sir Edward was
/ at his best when there was a difficult
A«H '^gMl/ case to be won, his extraordinary
* A powers of cross-examination and the
| Icy. biting style he adopted towards
hostile witnesses being among his
It was in the days when he carried
Bk / BsH| out Balfour's policy in Ireland
BaH that Sir Edward once asked a parish
priest of his acquaintance what his
parishioners, one or two of whom hatk
had the misfortune to appear in the dock on political charges, thought of the
man who conducted the prosecutions. «
“Well,” came the pithy reply, “if they hated Satan half as much as they
hate you, I should be out of work.”
Sir Edward has been solicitor general both for Ireland and for England;
he is a K. C., of both the English and Irish bars, and he is a bencher of the
Dublin King's Inn and of the Middle Temple. His rise at the bar was the
quickest ever known.
HAD HEARD ROGERS BEFORE
Representative John Jacob Rogers
of Massachusetts is a young man, a
Harvard graduate, and really began
his congressional career while a half- /
back at college. It happened that
Hamlin, who was assistant secretary /
of the treasury under Cleveland, came ; ; I xM§l||fx
to Harvard to give lectures in po
litical and governmental matters, and
among his most interested pupils was
that Rogers determined to enter pub
lie life, and did so. reaching congress .
to serve his first term March 4. 1912. V s.;
When making his canvass of his dis- 1 f-|
ji trict he was obliged frequently to V
I speak, an obligation which is very X
At one place he rose, and, going to
■the front of the platform, said in an A . ' .V,
lordinafy voice, with an assumption of Jv ?
fcumility, which was intended to
“I am not going to make any ~
speech tonight. ’ One tall individual in the audience rose, and, yawning
aloud, remarked:
I knows you ain't er going to make no speech—for I have heard yov
before!” - - ; ; -
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What l« Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphe.
Foreign
Thousands of people are starving in
Mexico City and bodies of women and
children are daily being picked up in
the streets there, according to an
American Red Cross agent.
The new president of Peru, Dr. Jose
Pardo, has taken the oath of office.
A public holiday was declared. The
army drawn up in the streets.
Labor organizations and other socie
ties . paraded.
Ex-Premier Eleutherios Venizclos
notified King Constantine of his read
iness to form a new Grecian cabinet
in succession to the Gounaris minis
try.
President Porras has closed all
gambling houses in Panama as a re
sult of the investigation into charges
of police corruption. It is stated that
evidence adduced in the investigation
indicates that several municipal offi
cials, too, have accepted money to
protect gambling places.
National registry day was held
throughout Great Britain. Every per
son between the ages of 15 and 65 had
to fill out a blank giving age, occupa
tion and ability to do work useful to
the state.
Armed Mexicans in force are report
ed to have crossed the Rio Grande
near Mercedes, Texas, and attacked an
outpost of half a dozen cavalry men at
Saenz. Ranger Lieutenant Reynau at
Mercedes telephoned State Adjutant
General Hutchings at Brownsville that
Corporal Wilman of Troop O, Twelfth
cavalry, was killed in this fight, and
Lieut. R. O. 'Henry and two privates
of the same troop wounded.
It is announced that Italian consuls
have left Turkish territory, and that
Italian interests have been confided
to American officials.
Baron Kikuijuro, Ishii, Japanese
ambassador to France, has accepted
the foreign portfolio in the new Oku
ma cabinet in Japan.
Now that danger of war with China
is over Japan and Korea are both
engaged in making supplies for Rus
sia and the allies. The war brought
big financial losses to Japan, but the
gaps are being filled in part by the
furnishing of guns, ammunition and
general necessities to the armies at
the front —particularly to the armies
of Russia.
Advices from London intimate that
the recent shipment of $20,000,000
gold to the United States via Halifax
is soon to be supplemented by heavy
imports direct from South Africa and
Australia.
In London, England, George Joseph
Smith, the wife murderer, )vas hanged
at Maidstone. He was convicted of
murdering three wives in order to col
lect life insurance. It was stated he
had married five women.
Domestic
With large sections of the storm
swept coast of Texas cut off from
communication reports received place
the number known to have been kill
ed in the tropical hurricane, which
swept the Texas coast, at more than
100. The property loss was vaguely
estimated in the millions, some esti
mates placing the probable loss as
high as thirty million dollars.
Walter Ortolph, charged with en
tering government reservations to ob
tain information regarding national de
fenses to which he was not entitled,
pleaded not guilty at a preliminary
hearing in Tallahassee, Fla., before
Commissioner McCord.
The border situation along the low
er Rio Grande has assumed an ugly
Rspect. Gathering of Mexicans in force
at Progreso and their firing across the
river striking troopers of the Twelfth
United States cavalry was not the only
aggravating feature of the situation.
Authorities received reports that 25
horses, including some recognized as
animals stolen by bandits in recent
raids on the Texas side, were deliver
ed in Matmoros, the Mexican town
opposite Brownsville, Texas.
Nineteen men and one woman were
rushed to a hospital in Atlanta, Ga.,
from all parts of the city, suffering
from ptomaine poisoning. The twenty
patients declared that they had drunk
buttermilk at the branch dairy and
attributed their illness to that milk.
The full effects of the West Indian
hurricane which passed through the
Yucatan channel were felt along the
Texas gulf coast, the wind reaching a
velocity of TO mtles an hour. No loss
of life or serious damage to property
or shipping has been reported.
“Sport” shirts and the standing of
the baseball teams engaged the atten
tion of Mohammed's supreme envoy to
the United States, when the latter ar
rived in New York. City. Sahid M.
Wagih Gillani, Assistant Sehikh U 1 Is
lam and a direct descendant of Mo
hammed, is the envoy's full designa
tion. •
The American dollar rules the finan
cial world with an iron grip. Foreign
exchange went down to new depths in
a torrent of bills that poured into the
exchange markets from American
manufacturers seeking pay for big war
contracts.
A second payment of $666,800 on
fourteen hundred bales of cotton
aboard the steamer Southerner, which
was diverted into Kirkwall by a Brit
ish cruiser, was made to W. Gordon
McCabe & Co., of Charleston, by the
British embassy.
Stormswept and battered, with a
loss of only fourteen lives, Galves
ton, fortified by its enormous sea wall,
emerged victorious from one of the
most severe storms known in the his
tory of the Gulf of Mexico. However,
about five hundred houses have been
crushed, and the island is covered
with debris. Four of the dead are
United States soldiers and ten civil
ians.
Former Deputy United States Reve
nue Collector E. N. Winters pleaded
guilty to embezzling federal funds
while connected with the internal rev
enue department and was sentenced to
in prison. He surren
dered a month ago at Bisbee, Arizona,
to which city he went from Mexico
when he learned that a federal indict
ment had been returned against him.
Veterans of foreign wars of the Unit
ed States, at their national convention
in Detroit, adopted resolutions favor
ing a navy second only to that of
Great Britain; a regular army of 1-25,-
000; a reserve force of 500,000 to meet
in camp annually and the appointment
of a national legislative commission
which could co-operate with all other
national patriotic societies in the for
mulation of plans for an adequate de
fense.
Washington
The American note to Germany,
made public in regard to the destruc
tion of the sailing ship, William P.
Frye, by a German auxiliary cruiser
may have important results in its bear
ing upon the question of the treatment
of neutral commerce by belligerents,
Washington officials believe.
Southern railroads were ordered by
the interstate commerce commission
to cease granting to Nashville dealers
the privilege of rebilling and reship
ping grain and hay so long as it is re
fused Georgia dealers.
The allies’ Intention to declare cot
ton contraband has been communicat
ed to the United States government
unofficially, but authoritatively. The
state department advices are that the
decision has been reached and the de
lay in making «n announcement is
due to the necessity of arranging uni
form treatment of the subject by all
of the allies.
The state department has made pub
lic the reply of the United States re
jecting the views set forth by the
Austro-Hungarian government in a re
cent note contending that exportation
of war munitions from America to
Austria’s enemies was conducted on
such a scale as to be “not in conso
nance with the definition of neutral
ity.”
President Wilson has begun a detail
ed study of plans for strengthening
the national defenses to be presented
to the coming session of congress.
The war department has given out
the announcement that the Atlantic
fleet, virtually in its full war strength,
will hold a series of defensive man
euvers in the waters off Block Island,
R. I.
The Pan-American appeal to Mexi
cans* to cease fighting and join in a
movement to restore constitutional
government has gone forward from
the state department.
New uprisings by the Bobo and Za
mor factions have broken out at Cape
Haitien, and have forced Rear Ad
miral Caperton to establish military
rule in the city, according to an an
nouncement at the state department.
European War
The outskirts of London w r ere raid
ed by Zeppelins. Ten persons were
killed. The damage to property was
not important.
Kovno, one of the crucial points in
the Russian defensive in the north,
has been captured by the Germans,
and the road to Vilna, Warsaw and
Petrograd railway is now' open to
Emperor William’s troops.
Further Italian advances through
the passes of the Alps and a brilliant
bayonet charge which captured a
strong line of Austrian entrench
ments in the Tolmino region are de
scribed in the Italian official report.
Germany has lost 43,972 officers
since the war began, according to fig
ures from German official sources.
The total dead are 13,803; the wound
ed 26,287; the missing 2,349, while 993
are numbered as prisoners. Included
in the total are one hundred and
twenty-three generals killed and miss
ing.
The sinking in the Aegean sea by
a German submarine of the British
transport Royal Edward with heavy
loss of life has shattered the British
navy’s proud tradition that it had
transported hundreds of thousands of
men across the sea without the de
struction of one troop-laden ship.
General von Buelow’s army operat
ing west of the river Dvinsk has again
taken the offensive and has beaten
the Russians in the vicinity of Ku
bisgo, taking more than two thousand
prisoners.
The Russians, probably, will have
to fall back further than the Brest-
Litovsk line, as Berlin reports that
General Litsmann has stormed and
taken forts on the southwest front
of Kovno, capturing 4,500 prisoners
and 240 guns. This probably means
the early fall of the fortress itself,
between which and the capture of the
Vilna-Warsaw-Petrograd railway there
cannot be much delay.
The Austrian submarine U-3 was
discovered by French torpedo boat de
stroyers and sent to the bottom by
gunfire on the morning of August 13.
MOMOONAL
SJNMTSOIOOL
Lesson
(By O. E. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible
LESSON FOR AUGUST 29
GOD’S CARE OF ELIJAH.
LESSON TEXT—I Kings 17:1-16.
GOLDEN TEXT—Casting all your anx
iety upon him, because he careth for you.
1 Peter 6:7 R. V.
We now skip thirty to forty years
to consider the first of those great
prophets whose lives are recorded at
length. Samuel and David fought ani
mals, armies and giants, but these men
fought engagements in the moral and
spiritual realm of equal and greater
importance. Emphasize Elijah as a
real live flesh-and-blood hero. His
work was with the northern kingdom
and he probably first met Ahab at Sa
maria, his capital in 912 B. C. (?) The
Moabite stone (A. D. 1868) is a re
markable confirmation of the Bible
story of this period.
I. The Challenge, v. 1. The lesson
is a great illustration of faith. Sin
had again made vast inroads upon the
people (ch. 16:30-33) and this “man of
the hour,” whose name means “Jeho
vah My Strength,” (1) saw the condi
tions; (2) responded to the need, and
(3) had faith in his cause because it
was that of Jehovah. The source of
his faith was the word of the Lord
God (Deut. 11:18; 32:20). He that
“liveth” and before whom the prophet
stood in daily, hourly communication.
Elijah was a man with a mission
(Matt. 28:19) who trusted in God and
considered it safe to obey. His power,
"according to my word,” was in ratio
according to his life of faith (Rom.
10:17). He was also a man of prayer
James 5:17) and showed his faith by
hiß works (James 2:17, 20, 26).
11. The Command, vv. 2-7. Elijah’s
faith was not audacious. He took each
step as commanded by God (v. 2).
There is a time for seeming retreat
as well as for the spectacular charge.
Elijah’s first place of testing was
“Cherith,” a gorge to the east of the
river Jordan. This command was con
trary to human reason. “Would it not
soon be involved in his prophesied
drought?”
Again, ravens frequently feed upon
carrion, and he knew all the regula
tions regarding cleanness. Thus to be
secluded would prevent his observing
the effect of the drought upon both
king and people. Still the command is
explicit. It was “there” (v. 4), and
there only, that Jehovah was to save.
The miracle of saving was to be
wrought under the most adverse cir
cumstances and by the most unlikely
means. “So he went.” Having faced
the peril, God hid him to preserve him,
and at the proper time God also re
vealed him (ch. 18:12). It was a daily
testing for Elijah at Cherith, thus to
be fed and to see the water evaporat
ing, but it was a time of communion
and after the brook was dry there
came a new command (vv. 8,9).
111. The Continued Deliverance, vv.
8-16. Zarephath was (Luke 4:26) in
the dominions of Jezebel’s father, on
the coast of the Mediterranean sea be
tween Tyre and Sidon, a dangerous
journey for Elijah through Ahab’S
kingdom (ch. 18:10). The word Zare
phath means “smelting furnace,” and
it too was suffering from this same
famine. Commanded to hide in Cherith
Elijah is told to “dwell” in Zarephath
and that a widow was to be the agent
to supply his need. Again Elijah’s
pride had to be overcome for there
were abundant reasons for disliking
such a journey, such an abiding place
and such a dependence upon a poor
widow. Elijah, however, "arose add
went,” a continuance of his life of
obedience. He first asked for water
and as she went he added his request
for food. It was a particular widow to
whom he was sent (Luke 4:25-27) and
through her God was ready to work a
miracle of salvation on his behalf.
Though about to prepare what she
thought was to be her own and her
son’s last meal (v. 12), yet she at once
proceeds to obey the command of the
man of God as it was conditioned upon
the word of Jehovah (v. 14). God,
through his prophets, has commanded
us, given us assurance and promised
to sustain (Phil. 4:19), yet we hesi
tate. “She went and did” the seem
ing impossible, but according to the
word of command, and those of “her
house did eat many days.” Obedience
saved her own, her son’s and the
prophet's lives. There is sound philoso
phy in Prov. 11:24 which found its
complete fulfillment in Jesus who
“came not to be ministered unto but
to minister.” Read carefully Prov.
3:7-10 and II Cor. 9:6-11. As with the
Israelites in the wilderness the supply
was only from day to day (v. 16) noth
ing ahead, no accumulation, yet a per
petual supply because based on “the
word of the Lord” (v. 16).
God worked this miracle: (1) to up
hold and to preserve his chosen mes
senger for his great work in Israel;
(2) to show his loving kindness and
sustaining grace to the poor; (3) to
strengthen the faith of his prophet
against his spectacular conflict on Mt.
Carmel; (4) to the end that he might
show Israel and all others down
through the ages a great object lesson
of his sustaining grace and providence.
The widow’s "two mites” are filling
church treasuries today, and Mary's
box of ointment has filled all Christen
dom with its aroma and fragrance.
Providence is progressive.
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