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The medical faculty was put to
shame by a bolt of lightning which
the other night struck the farmhouse
of Charles A. Burdick, on Washing
ton Ridge, says the Berlin (Conn.)
correspondent of the New York Her
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house and did damage exceeeding sl,-
000, but it cured Mrs. Burdick of rheu
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for many years.
Mrs. Burdick was about to put wood
in the kitchen stove when the bolt
struck her, knocking her down and
rendering her unconscious. One of
her feet was on zinc beneath the
stove. The lightning took a nail out
of the sole of her shoe and her foot
was severely burned. Dr. Thomas
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her.
Today Mrs. Burdick, although suf
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was free from rheumatic pains. She
does not think the price her husband
must pay in repairs to the house too
high, but Mr. Burdick is discreetly si
lent.
He Took a Chance.
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in this case.”
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“Why, it carried a clause forbidding
me to engage in any extra hazardous
occupation.”
“Well, you weren't, were you?”
“Y'es, I was trying to sell Jones some
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ing to light his cigar.”
“Why, I never noticed. What does
com© next?”
“A picture of the man writing a
check.”
Some Town.
“We’re a growing town.” said the
leading citizen of Painted Post.
“I don't know,” said the traveling
man, “there aren't any more people
here than there was last year.”
“I know that," said the proud resi
dent, “but the Smith twins put on long
pants last week.”
Take Along a Hammer.
She —Have you been up to break
bread with the new bridegroom yet?
He—No, I'm not feeling very strong.
Bowdoinham. Me., reports catching
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T*" nniT.i,A<? ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS. GEORGIA.
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 Events of the United States
and Particularly in the
South.
Foreign
Bulgaria's mobilization a war
move that may solve the riddle of the
Balkans —has struck London with dra
matic suddenness.
Commanders of German submarines
have been given strict orders that in
case of doubt as to the intentions of
liners to take the safe course and per
mit the ship to escape rather than run
thes lightest risk.
Of the thirty-four American and Ger
man papers found in the possession of
James F. J. Archibald, the American
newspaper correspondent, when he
was apprehended at Falmouth, Eng
land, while proceeding from New
York for Rotterdam, seventeen are de
scribed as having been made public
and the other seventeen as being in
sufficient to warrant publication.
The greatest war budget in the his
tory of the world was introduced in
the British house of commons by Mc-
Kenna, chancellor of the exchequer,
as another step toward financing the
war, which is now costing Great Brit
ain nearly twenty-five million dol
lars daily.
Officials reports from Austrian and
German headquarters and dispatches
from the Balkan capitals show that the
long expected Teuton campaign to be
waged against Servia has begun.
Freight traffic has been suspended
on the Bulgarian railroads. Forty
five thousand Bulgarians in Macedo
nia and Thrace have been called to
the colors.
The leader of the Agrarian party in
Bulgaria is declared to have threaten
ed King Ferdinand with a revolution
if the alleged Germanophile policy of
Bulgaria is continued.
The Germans have lost twenty sub
marines since the beginning of the
W'ar, while the British losses have
been only seven, including the E-7.
The professional bicyclist, Doerflin
ger, a resident of Basel, Switzerland,
has been endemned to death as a spy
by a German courtmartial. The Swiss
government has intervened in his be
half with a request for clemency.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian
arctic explorer, is not dead, as was
reported, but found the new* land, and
the only hardships endured were those
of short rations.
Formal recognition has been accord
ed by the United States to the new
government of Haiti.
Domestic
Six bodies had been removed from
the wreck of a section of the Seventh
avenue subway excavation destroyed
by a dynamite blast, and the task of
uncovering the wreckage is reported
to be proceeding rapidly. Two of the
dead were passengers on the trolley,
and four were laborers on the subway.
Cotton bulged a quarter of a cent
a pound around the opening in New
Orleans on September 21, and later
took another upward turn, which land
ed the most active options in the fu
ture market 39 to 42 points, or more
than $2 a bale over the close of the
preceding close.
John I). Rockefeller, Jr., is visiting
the scene of ihe Ludlow battle in Col
orado and the mining camps of Ber
w'ind and Tabasco on his inspection
tour of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company properties. He talked free
ly with the miners and visited their
homes and conversed w*ith their wives.
Apolonio Rodrigues, who was sus
pected of having kidnaped a Texas
ranchman in February, 1914, has been
placed in the Laredo, Texas, jail. He
w'as formally charged with horse steal
ing, but interest is attached to his
arrest in view of demands made by
the Texas officials.
The proposed mammoth credit loan
to Great Britain and France, it is re
ported in New York City, is to be un
derwritten by a syndicate of Ameri
can fmnanciers, who are to receive a
commission for their services. The
loan will be between six hundred mil
lion and eight hundred million dol
lars.
In an after midnight session of the
Alabama senate the bill providing for
the abrogation of the convict lease
system in Alabama was killed, 21
to 12.
At Corpus Christi, Texas, a verdict
of guilty was returned in federal court
against five citizens of Nueces county
charged with irregularities in the gen
eral election in November, 1914. The
jury returned a verdict of not guilty
in the cases of sixteen other defend
ants.
Vincent J. Maloney, a messenger of
the Chatham and Phenix national
bank of New York city, was held up
in a Harlem street by two men and
robbed of a satchel containing two
thousand dollars in cash.
A serious slide in the Panama ca
nal is reported to have occurred north
of Gold Hill on the east bank. The
new movement is much greater than
the previous slide at this point. The
mass almost entirely fills the chan
nel, so that the earth shows above
the water where the ships ordinarily
pass. The yardage involved amounts
to more than 100.000 cubic yards.
Dr. Austin Flint, alienist, who was
much in the public eye recently as
star witness for the state against Har
ry K. Thaw, was found dead in his
home in New Y’ork City.
Anthony Comstock, the noted New
York City vice crusader, died at his
home in Summitt, N. J., after a brief
illness.
Tlie legal battle over the estate of
Francis A. Ogden, the eccentric Hous
ton, Texas, millionaire, who died June
6, 1014, begins shortly in the probate
court of Houston.
South Carolina has adopted state
wide prohibition to take effect Janu
ary 1, 1916, according to almost com
plete unofficial returns gathered in
Columbia.
European War
General Joffre, Sir John French and
King Albert of Belgium are developing
a new plan of campaign that involves
the almost continuous use of artillery
on a vast scale along the whole line.
The allies are methodically maintain
ing their shell fire for days at a time
without infantry attacks.
Austrian and German artillery are
reported to be bombarding Servian po
sitions south of the river frontier at
various points along the hundred-mile
front between the mouths of the Dri
na and Morava rivers. This action
is introductory to the “steam roller”
movement through Servia long ago
decided upon by Austria and Germany.
Gen. Sir lan Hamilton, commander
of the British forces at the Darda
nelles, tells how the British and
French through the summer kept at
grips with the Turks in Gallipoli, with
terrible losses on both sides in the
arid, congested area, where the gain
or loss of a few yards of trenches
measured the tide of battle and the
dead lay so thick that a temporary
armistice was imperative at times.
The Germans occupied Vilna, Russian
Poland, and by a wide-sweeping move
ment north of that city, almost sur
rounded -a part of the Russian army
fighting in the railway triangle be
tween Vilna, Lida and Vileika.
The capture of Hill No. 60, at the
Dardanelles was important, as it is
the last crest of the last ridge sepa
rating the Anzac zone from the plains
to the north, and thus constitutes a
point of union between the British
forces in the Anzac position and the
line across the Suola plains.
Von Hindenburg’s army now is well
astride the Dvinsk-Vilna railway in
Russian Poland.
The German center has made a
slight advance near Pinsk, Russian
Poland, anil there is a probability of a
separation of the northern and south
ern wings of the Russian armies oper
ating on either side of the Pripet
marshes.
The allies can no longer count on
the help of Bulgaria, as Turkey has
ceded certain territory to the Bulgari
ans, which pleases them so much they
will stay out of the war.
Washington
Exports exceeded three billion dol
lars during the year ending August 31,
breaking all records. The exact fig
ures were $3,035,033,280, the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce an
nounces.
The United States government will
make no effort to secure the safe con
duct from this country for Dr. Con
stantin Duinba, Austro-Hungarian am
bassador, until the Vienna government
has replied to the request that the
ambassador be recalled.
Death decreased the government’s
Civil w r ar pension roll nearly ten per
cent during the last fiscal year, accord
ing to the annual report of the com
missioner of pensions just made pub
lic.
According to reports received in
Washington, business conditions all
over the country are showing improve
ment and trade generally is picking
up.
The federal advisory council has
not yet taken up the credit loan by
American bankers to England.
Janies F. J. Archibald, the Ameri
can correspondent who carried a mes
sage from Dr. Constantin T. Dumba,
Austro-Hungarian ambassador at
Washington, which led to a request
from the United States for the am
bassador’s recall, issued a statement
in New York City denying that he had
connived to break the neutrality law
of the Llnited States.
How every phase of American in
dustry has been benefited by the world
war is outlined in an official state
ment hv ihe department of commerce
forecasting the effect of the conflict
on the industrial future of the coun
try.
Prospects for the recognition of
General Carranza, it was admitted in
official quarters, are much more fa
vorable than at any time since the
United States began to exert its in
fluence toward the establishment of a
central government in Mexico.
Rear Admiral Caperton reports that
he has exchanged national salutes
with the Haitien shores batteries and
that he has called, with his staff, on
the new president.
It is announced that the Austrian
government will recall Ambassador
Dumba for “consultation.”
A recent review of the ciiief indus
tries ministering particularly to the
temporary needs of the countries at
war in Europe shows that the final
outcome will be a very material addi
tion to the manufactures of the Unit
ed States.
Secretary Daniels ordered all sub
marines of the F-4 type out of commis
sion for a thorough examination. His
action was taken upon the report or
a board of inquiry which ascribes the
F-4 disaster to a bateery explosion.
toHWIONAL
SIINMIfSfIIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
th.- Sunday School Course, the Moody
Bible Institute, Chicago.)
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 3
ELIJAH IN NABOTH'S VINEYARD.
LESSON TEXT-I Kings 21:11-20.
GOLDEN TEXT—-Be sure your sin will
find you out.—Num. 32:23.
Ahab disobeyed God and failed to
follow up his victory over Ben-Hadad
(ch. 20:31-34). Thereupon one of the
prophets resorted to a plan whereby
Ahab was rebuked and also received
a message that sent him “to his house
heavy and displeased" (v. 43). All of
this needs to be borne in mind when
we study Ahab's course of action re
lated in this lesson. Learn by heart
the tenth commandment; also Luke
12:15.
I. The Schemes of Men, vv. 11-16.
Ahab had been king for twenty years
(B. C. 906?). .Jezreel was his summer
capital, about twenty miles northwest
of Samaria. The chief actors in this
tragedy were Naboth, a well-to-do citi
zen; Ahab, a petulant monarch to
whom Naboth refuses to sell his vine
yard; Jezebel, the Lady Macbeth of
Ahab's court; elders and nobles of
Jezreel, willing tools in the transac
tion; false witnesses, executioner, and
Elijah, the servant of God, who con
fronted the monarch in his newly
gained possession. Ahab was con
stantly in conflict with the purposes
of God and with his Word. Naboth
had no right to sell his vineyard (see
Numbers 36:7; Lev. 25:23; also Ezek.
46:16) and sturdily stood out for his
God-given rights. These land laws
were rigid, but at the same time wise
and beneficial. Instead of yielding to
God’s law Ahab sulks like a petted
child (v. 4) and thus again runs coun
ter to God’s Word (see tenth com
mandment). At this juncture Jezebel,
his wife, appeals to his pride and
power as the king (v. 7), and offers
to procure the coveted possession. The
methods of mankind whereby vast pos
sessions are accumulated do not al
ways bear investigation; murder and
rapine, broken hearts and shortened
lives, weakened bodies and stunted
children can largely be traced to the
sin or covetousness, against which we
all need to be on guard (Luke 12:15;
Eph. 5:5). The first sinner was covet
ous (Gen. 3:6), so also were the
chosen people of God (Josh. 7:21), and
it was this that caused the first dis
sension among Christian believers
(Acts 5:1-3). Jezebel most graciously
gave Ahab that which belonged to
others; how free we all can be with
the property of others! She also
cloaked her designs with the mantle
ot religion (8-13).
11. The Sentence of God, vv. 17-20.
The dead Naboth was happier than his
neighbors of Jezreel, the king and
queen or any of the other evil par
ticipants. Ahab began by breaking
the first commandment (I Kings 16:31;
Deut. 5:7) and thus laid the ground
work of the whole train of evil for
which he and his household and his
reign are famous. The elders readily
obeyed the word of Jezebel and Ahab
profited thereby, but now he was to
hear the Word of God and it was not
to be so welcome. Recently we saw
Elijah set aside, following his flight
from Jezebel, but ne is not entirely
beyend use and God now gave him a
new commission, one more task in
connection with his old opponent.
There is nothing indicating cowardice
In Elijah’s bold challenge of Ahab and
there is also a suggestion of a guilty
conscience in Ahab's exclamation.
“Hast thou found me, O mine enemy”
(v 20)? Aliab had “gone down to the
vineyard of Naboth” (v. 16) to enjoy
the pleasure of possessing his ill-got
ten treasure only to hear again his
word of doom (ch. 20:42; 21-19). It
was a poor exchange Ahab made
(Mark 8:37), a throne and his life in
exchange for the carrying out of his
own will and the possession of a vine
yard. In that exact spot where Na
both had been foully stoned the dogs
would lick up the blood of the king.
As is usually the case, the guilty sin
ner called the righteous servant of
God his “enemy,” yet had Ahab
obeyed the Word of Jehovah as so
frequently spoken by Elijah he would
have discovered him to be his true
and best friend, not his enemy. Ahab’s
sin had found him out (Golden Text,
Num. 32:23).
111. The Summary. Covetousness is
not the mere desire for things we do
not possess, but a deep longing which
is willing to do wrong, to injure oth
ers, to profit by the evil deeds of oth
ers in order to come into possession.
Covetousness seeks to gain at the ex
pense of higher and better things; it
is the extreme opposite of the spirit
of him who “gave all.”
The greatest danger of our land and
the chief source of sin is covetousness.
The source and fountain of covet
ousness is selfishness. Hence the one
and only cure is in a changed heart,
one consecrated to God and devoted
to the service of others.
Love God. obey his Word, strive
with all our ransomed powers to build
up and advance his kingdom and
covetousness will vanish as mist be
for the summer sun.
Covetousness is insatiable, it is
never satisfied.
It is like the drug habit, it grows by
leaps and bounds.
It is idolatry, effectually shutting us
out of the kingdom.
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GETTING RID OF INVENTOR
How General Miles Handled Wild-
Eyed Man With Bulletproof
Army Coat.
*
When General Miles was at the head
of the army he used to be continually
besieged by cranks with pneumatic
firing guns, dirigible war balloons and
other martial inventions. But the gen
eral would weed these cranks out with
admirable speed. An inventor in his
office one day tells of a curious inci
dent in this relation.
A card was brought in and laid be
fore the general.
“Oh, send him in,” said Miles. “His
business won't take more than a min
ute or two.”
So in came a wild-eyed, long-haired
man, twisting his soft hat nervously
in both hands.
“General,” he said, “I have here” —
and he took out a small parcel—“a
bulletproof army coat. If the govern
ment would adopt this —”
“Put it on; put it on!” said General
Miles. And he rang the bell. The
clerk appeared as the inventor was
getting into the coat.
“Jones,” said the general, “tell the
captain of the guard to order one of
his men to load his rifle with ball and
cartridge and —”
“Excuas me, general, 1 forgot some
thing,” interrupted the inventor. And
with a hunted look he disappeared.
His Plea.
“Well, Cuddyhump,” said Squire
Peavy, addressing a colored citizen
who was suspected of having wan
dered from the straight and narrow
path, “what have you to say for your
self?”
“Des dis, yo’ lionah—-dis vuh am
muh prevarication,” was the reply.
“Nemmine wadder I’a guilty or not,
but dess tempt mercy wid jestice and
tuhn me loose. Tuhn me loose, sah,
and sho’s yo’ bawn I’ll do as much for
yo’ some time!”
Relaxation.
“What did your husband think of
the ball game?”
“Oh, he doesn't go there to think.
He just hollers.”
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Master Men
Potash, sodium, lime and
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Grape-Nuts food is splen
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