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bis opera glasses in his pocket. A bird may take the view of the one in the
poem and assert: “Nobody knows but my mate and I, where our nestlings lie.
Chee, chee, chee.”
But that bird is wrong. For Platt knows.
One morning Platt paused in a little park on his way up to Capitol hill
to fix his opera glasses on a bird that was going twee, twee, twee, in a mighty
oak tree. Innocent pedestrians stopped to look, wondering what manner of
man or beast Platt had sighted in the tree. One old fellow, however, was
smarter than the rest. As he passed he remarked out of the corner of his
mouth to Platt:
“I’ve seen you practical jokers before. You’ll stare up yonder a long time
before you’ll get me to look.” _
DEMOCRATS’ NEW SECRETARY
Normal promotion and recogni
tion of ability both operated when W.
R. Hollister was appointed acting sec
retary of the Democratic national
committee not long ago. The change
was made necessary by the lamented
death of Thomas J. Pence, the secre
tary, and it is believed and hoped by
the many friends of Mr. Hollister that
his present temporary position will
be made permanent at the Democratic
national convention at St. Louis next
June. Mr. Hollister was appointed
assistant secretary by Mr. Pence and
conducted the affairs of the office for
several weeks under the direction of
the secretary.
Mr. Hollister, who hails from Jef
ferson City, Mo., is clerk of the sen
ate committee on foreign relations, of
which Senator Stone of Missouri is
chairman. Moreover, he has con
ducted two campaigns for Senator
Stone with skill and success. In 1912,
before the Baltimore convention, he was an active member of the forces that
tried in vain to bring about the nomination of Speaker Clark, but as soon as
bis party decided it wanted to run Woodrow Wilson for president, Mr. Hol
lister devoted all his energy and experience to the election of that gentleman.
The new secretary is still a bachelor, despite his good looks, affability and
wide acquaintance.
INTERVIEWING CARTER GLASS
reporter used both “hell and perdition” in his indignant outburst for press
gallery consumption and analysis.
KEYNOTER FOR REPUBLICANS
Warren G. Harding. United States
senator from Ohio, selected as tem
porary chairman of the Republican
national convention in Chicago in
June by the executive committee
of the national committee, will
be called upon to sound, in his open
ing address to the convention, the
keynote of the Republican campaign.
That he will sound it in eloquent
periods is a certainty, for he is one of
the silver-tongued orators of his party,
whose words are a delight to the ear,
whether or not they carry conviction
to the ipind.
Mr. Harding has been classed as a
conservative and has announced that
preparedness and the tariff will be the
paramount issues in the next cam
paign. Consequently these questions
will be dealt with at length in the key
note address.
Senator Harding is a tall, erect,
striking figure. Born In Blooming
Grove, 0., in 1865, and educated at the now defunct Ohio Central college at
Iberia, he became a printer, and book rose from the case to be editor and
owner of the Marion Star. Naturally drifting into politics, he was elected a
state senator in 1899 and served two terms. Then, in 1903, he was made lieu
tenant governor. In 1910 he was the Kepublican candidate for governor, but
was defeated by Judson Harmon. Four years later he contested the Repub
lican nomination for United States senator with Senator Foraker and wou
out, and was elected. His term expires in 1921.
So well does Ohio think of Senator Harding that until a few months ago
he was much talked of as that state's "favorite son’’ for the presidential
nomination at the Chicago convention.
PLATT KNOWS BIRDS
Representative Edmund Platt, who
is a newspaper publisher of Pough
keepsie, N. Y., knows more things
that are true about birds than any
body else in congress.
Whehever he can collect a little
spare time, Platt puts dull statecraft
behind him and sets forth into the
woods and fields to listen to the song
and twitter of the birds. Sparrows,
robins, flamingoes, storks, crows,
wrens —no matter what kind of birds
he sees, Platt knows them all by sight.
If a bird is sitting still he can tell it
by its plumage, if flying, by its flight.
And if he can’t see the stork or linnet
or cockatoo or whatever the bird is,
he can identify it by its song. A bird
finds it practically impossible to fool
Platt. The blackbird that tries to
pass itself off on Platt for a quail pre
sents an absurd spectacle.
Rarely does Platt venture out of
the house without his bird book and
“When is an interview not an in
terview?” was a question asked by
Washington correspondents one day
not long ago after an experience with
Representative Carter Glass of Vir
ginia, chairman of the house commit*
tee on banking and currency and one
of the steadfast supporters of Presi
dent Wilson in the “armed-ship” con
troversy.
Mr. Glass was questioned by sev
eral correspondents regarding the
near revolt in the house, and he used
vigorous language in expressing his
opinion of certain of his colleagues.
One correspondent prepared his
“story” and took it to Mr. Glaa* lor
approval before publication. The Vir
ginian made a few changes and later
In the evening called up the writer
and asked him to "make it perdition
instead of hell.” The next day, when
he saw his words in cold type, he de
nied he had been interviewed. The
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
EPITOME OF THE
WEEKS 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 Btates
and Particularly in the
South.
Mexican News
Demetrio de la Garza, once known
as the “bad man of the Big Bend
country,” met his death in a long
range rifle duel with a United States
trooper in the hills near Boquillas.
The cavalryman not only killed de la
Garza, but killed his companion as
well.
One million pounds of rifle ammuni
tion which Mexicans attempted to
smuggle across the river into Mexico,
near Laredo, Texas, was confiscated
by United States troops. It is believ
ed the ammunition was intended for
use of bandits.
Because the garrison at Marathon,
Texas, has only eight men, Captain
Chambers, quartermaster, was com
pelled to engage Mexicans to forward
forage to Colonel Sibley’s command,
now near the Mexican border at Bo
quillas.
With 8,000 additional trogps, under
orders for the Mexican border, includ
ing 4,000 National Guardsmen from
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, ad
ministration officials felt that imme
diate necessary steps had been taken
to prevent further raiding of United
States border towns.
President Wilson and his cabinet
discussed the Mexican situation at a
formal meeting, but the president had
already authorized the new troops or
ders before his advisers gathered. His
action followed the recommendation
of General Scott and General Funston
that additional forces be sent to the
border.
There are now nearly fifty thousand
troops on the border of Mexico.
This is the first time the National
Guard has been called out under the
present militia law, but by the terms
of the law the Guardsmen must be
mustered into the regular army.
The full enrolled strength of the Na
tional Guard called out is liable for
service under penalty of court or
courtmartial action.
A battalion of the Twentieth infan
try which has been stationed at Fort
Bliss, Texas, has been ordered to El
Paso, and will be stationed near the
stock yards dominating the Mexican
section of El Paso. The stock yards
are a quarter of a mile from the river
and Juarez.
The sending of the troops from Fort
Bliss to El Paso was a precautionary
effort to avert what seemed impend
ing trouble. The troops are under the
command of Col. Alfred Hasbrouck.
One of the companies sent is a ma
chine gun company.
Twenty war-mad Apache Indians
acting as scouts with the American
expedition, took a prominent part in
the recent battle at Ojos Azules. They
demonstrated their marksmanship
with six-shooters, killing a goodly
number of the fifty-five Mexican vic
tims.
Alleged Villa bandits, some seventy
in number, forded the Rio Grande and,
sweeping fifteen miles inland on Unit
ed States soil, raided the little set
tlement of Glenn Springs, Texas, and
attacked a detachment of American
cavalry, consisting of nine men of
troop A, the Fourteenth cavalry.
Three troopers and a little ten-year
old boy were wounded and another
is missing, who is believed to be a
prisoner of the bandits.
Two American citizens were car
ried across the Rio Grande by the ban
dits who raided Glenn Springs, and
it is reported that their throats were
severed.
The battle of Glenn Springs occur
red in a little adobe house containing
nine cavalrymen. The battle waged
for two hours, when the Mexicans
resorted to fire balls and smoked the
Americans into the open. Smashing
the door the Americans broken in a
run; two were killed in the flight, and
another was killed as he tried to jump
through a window'.
Washington is greatly surprised at
the Glenn Springs raid, and it is hard
to say what developments will bring
about.
European War
In the region of Mush, in Armenia,
the Russians have driven the Otto
man forces from their mountain fast
nesses, and the Turks are fleeing like
scattered sheep.
The Russians are pushing their op
erations toward Bagdad, Mesopotamia,
and are constantly dislodging the
Turks from fortified positions and
driving them by infantry attacks and
bayonets.
The 13,000-ton White Star Liner
Cymric, which for some time has been
engaged in freight service, has been
torpedoed by a German submarine,
off the west coast of Ireland. This
is the news sent out from London.
No details.
The British government has decid
ed to release the thirty-eight Germans
and Austrians taken from the Ameri
can steamship China. The release of
these men will be ordered immediate
ly.
The French flagship Patrie brought
down a Zeppelin at two o’clock in
the morning at Saloniki.
The text of the American reply to
the German note is before the Ger
man public, having been printed in
the morning papers of May 10 in Ber
lin.
The British estimate that the Ger
mans have lost since the war began
2,822,079 men.
The German losses, the British war
office announces, during the month of
April, were 91,162.
The trial of Sir Roger Casement for
high treason in connection with the
Sinn Fein Irish rebellion will be made
public, and Casement will probably
act in his own defense. The crown
prosecutors have already completed
their case.
Lewis Harcourt has declined to suc
ceed Augustine Birrel as chief secreta
ry for Ireland, giving ill-health as his
reason.
The Russians in Armenia have put
down with heavy casualties a stub
born Turk attack.
In the Austrian-Italian theater the
Gorizia bridgehead end the region
around San Martino have been heavily
bombarded.
It is the concensus of opinion that
there will be an automatic break in
relations between Germany and the
United States if Germany fails to keep
her word.
The sinking of an allied transport
in the Mediterranean by a mine is an
nounced. Six hundred Russians were
drowned.
Countess Georgiana Markievlcz, a
prominent figure in the Irish rebellion,
has been sentenced to death, but the
higher military authorities commuted
her sentence to life imprisonment.
Two brothers of Joseph Plunkett,
a prominent official in the Irish re
bellion who was executed, have been
sentenced to ten years’ penal servi
tude.
Domestic
Thirteen negroes were burned to
death in a moving picture show at
Norfolk, Va., while from 25 to 30
others were more or less seriously in
jured in a fire which destroyed a frame
hall in which moving pictures were
being shown at Wallacetown, a ham
let on the Dismal svjjimp camp, 12
miles from Norfolk. The fire resulted
from the explosion of a gasoline tank.
The steamer Roanoke, which left
San. Francisco on May 8 for Valpa
raiso, founded at sea, according to a
stoiy told at San Luis Obispo, Cal.,
by three survivors, who, in a lifeboat,
drifted ashore there.
For the first time in the history of
Knoxville, Tenn., a bread line was
formed .after a big fire which had its
origin in a mattress factory had made
200 homeless and destitute.
Two army officers were killed and
two others injured at Fort Sill, Okla.,
as a result of an automobile accident.
They were returning from a party
when a tire explosion precipitated
the auto into a tree.
The women of the Methodist Epis
copal church have raised during the
last fiscal year $3,432,505 for home
missionary purposes, it is reported at
the general conference in Saratoga, N.
Y., of that church.
Washington
Germany, in a note received in
Washington by the state department,
by cable from the Ambassador Gerard,
admits that a German submarine tor
pedoed the channel steamer Sussex
in violation of assurances given the
United States, and agrees to make
reparation for injuries to Americans
who were on board the vessel.
The commander who sank the Sus
sex, the German authorities announce,
has been duly punished.
Foreign Minister von Jagow, in a
note, says that he acted hastily in the
report of the Sussex incident and
therefore did not exercise particular
care.
The secretary of commerce and la
bor says that prosperity is so firmly
entrenched in the American republic
that the cessation or the continuation
of the European war will have no ef
fect whatever on conditions.
It is stated authoritatively that the
present prosperity of ihe country is
not enhanced by as much as five per
cent war business.
A note cabled by Secretary Lan
sing to Ambassador Gerard for deliv
ery to the Berlin foreign office in
forms the German government that
the United States accepts Germany’s
"declaration of its abandonment” of
its former submarine policy and now
relies upon a scrupulous execution of
the altered policy to remove the prin
cipal danger of an interruption of the
good relations existing between the
two countries.
The concensus of opinion of the
press of the Uniteds States, in the
opinion of statesmen in Washington,
is that the German note was "impu
dent.” However, it is further stated
here that diplomatic relations with
Germany depends entirely on how Ger
many keeps the promises made in the
note.
A New York dispatch announces
that Robert Fay, Walter Scholz and
Paul Daeclie, charged with conspir
acy to destroy munitions ships through
bomb contrivances, have been found
guilty.
The United States will rely <yi the
new policy expressed in the last Ger
man note, especially that -T>art refer
ring to the interruption of the good
relations existing between the United
States and Germany.
Secretary Lansing’s note to the im
perial German government in no w;,ay
predicates what its future action will
be if any untoward contingencies
arise.
The reply to the German govern
ment’s last note makes it plain that
the United States will not in any
measure permit the rights of Ameri
can citizens to be abridged.
IrntMONAL
StiNMTSOIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute. Chicago.)
(Copyright. 1916, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR MAY 21
THE CRIPPLE OF LYSTRA.
LESSON TEXT-Acts 14.
GOLDEN TEXT—He glveth power to
the faint; and to them that have no
might be increaseth strength.—lsa. 40:25.
Make a list of the seven cities men
tioned in this lesson and locate them
on a map. Let seven pupils attack to
the map a flag, or banner, to locate
each one. The visit to Iconium oc
curred probably in the spring of A. D.
47 (Ramsey). Paul and Barnabas had
a great triumph and a severe testing
at Iconium, wrought a great victory of
faith and became popular at Lystra,
only to meet great tribulation. On
their homeward journey they con
firmed saints, set up rules and gave
account of their labors to the home
church of Antioch.
I. In Iconium (vv. 1-7). This was
a Roman city of great antiquity and
importance. The modern city Konia
is an important Mohammedan and
trade center. Tradition saye Paul was
imprisoned for being a magician and
teaching a woman named Thekla not
to marry. This woman endured great
hardship* and trials for the faith, fin
ally becoming a nun at Selencia and
dying at the advanced age of ninety.
From this tradition we get most of our
ideas of Paul’s appearance—small,
bandy-legged, large eyed, shaggy eye
brows, long nose; full of grace with
sometimes the face of a man and at
others of an angel. This is tradition
only, hut is probably somewhat near
the truth. Paul followed his usual
first witnessing in the synagogue, wit
nessing to the entire population, Jew
and Gentile, and dividing them effec
tively by his words about Jesus.
11. In Lystra (vv. 8-21). (1) Popu
larity (vv. 8-18). Their introduction
here would seem propitious, healing
the cripple and at once gaining the
esteem of the people. Adoration and
gratitude appeal to the human heart.
Underneath the heathen idea that the
gods “came down to us in the likeness
of men,” is the great and glorious
truth of the incarnation (John 1:14;
Phil. 2:6, 7). We should hesitate to
condemn these men of Lystra too se
verely, for what American community
is not open to condemnation in this
regard? Too many Christians offer
garlands (v. 13) at the feet of the men
whom God has used to work his
mighty works. It was common com
plaint that in the days of his greatest
victories, men could not find Mr.
Moody when a service was dismissed,
or get into his quarters at the hotels;
he would give no opportunity for self
glorification. Paul and Barnabas had
hard work to restrain these hero wor
shipers (v. 14), and to convince them
who they were and how they had been
enabled to accomplish such a wonder
ful miracle (v. 15). Paul was of “like
stature” wdth them and would not ac
cept worship as did the Caesars or
Herod (12:22, 23). He exhorted the
Lystrians to turn from “these vain
things,” i. e., such idol worship, unto
the “living God” (see also I Cor. 8:4;
I Thess. 1:9). Hitherto God had not
miraculously interfered to turn
men from their evil ways (v. 16), but
left them to their own devices to show
their inability to find their -way hack
to him (see Acts 17:30; I Cor. 1:21).
Yet God is not “without witnesses”
(v. 17). The seasons and the natural
law's point to God, yet men still re
main blind and ungrateful. Thus by
vehement exhortation they prevented
this act of sacrilege. (2) Persecution
(vs. 19, 20). The mob is ever fickle,
(v. 18), but it did not turn them “unto
the living God” (v. 15). Conversion
is the simple turning from idols (I
Thess. 1-9), a rational thing, but one
contrary to the pride of men who de
sire to "do something” w’hereby they
may merit or can demand their sal
vation. Even as Paul had difficulty to
turn people aside from idols, so today
it is hard to keep men and women
from idolatry, not the gross or vulgar
idolatry of heathenism, but the re
fined idols of culture, success,pporer,w r er,
money and pleasure. To his difficul
ties Paul had the added persecution of
the vindictive Iconians and those from
Antioch (v. 19). God delivered him
from this trial (I Cor. 11:25, 27). All
loyal witnesses must expect persecu
tion from the God-hating world (II
Tim. 3:12; John 15:18-20).
111. The Return (vv. 22-28). “When
they had preached the gospel to the
city” (v. 21) literally “having evan
gelized the city,” they started home
confirming believers and appointing
leaders in each center visited. They
did not take the short cut of 160 miles
to Paul's home in Tarsus, but they
visited their new converts.
Symbolically the cripple of Lystra
is a type of sin, (a) helpless, (b) born
in that condition (Psa. 51:5), (c) had
to be helped from without, by outside
power (Rom. 5:6); (d) all could see
the change (James 2:18). This mir
acle wrought (a) Praise from the peo
ple, (b) Protestation on the part of
Paul and Barnabas, (c) Persecution
from the fickle and disappointed
priests who incited the people. Per
secution helped the proclamation of
the gospeL Those who believed
strengthened Paul by sharing His dan
ger (v. 20) and because of this ex
perience Paul "made many disciples.”
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