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*/03 my-’" 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. DICKERSON, KELLY & ROBERTS Attorneys at Law Tanner-Dickerson Building, DOUGLAS, GA. 4++++4- + 4 4 4 4 4 444444444444 W. C. Lankford. R. A. Moore. LANKFORD & MOORE Lawyers DOUGLAS GEORGIA. 444444444444 ************* DR. WILL SIBBETT, Treatment of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat a Specialty. DOUGLAS, GA. 4444444444444 444444444444 w. C. 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