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J[in TfiEfinmfim «U» JJ====^f C. R. CRANE AND HIS MONEY hero long deceased. Crane noticed that the interior of the memorial was not eny too artistic in its style of decoration. Being a patron of art, he was greatly distressed over this. And the story has it that he hunted up the committee in charge and told them he would pay for all the interior work on the memorial If they would just kindly let him see to it that it was carried out along strictly artistic lines. He was afraid that after he had returned home, the thought of all that poor art would haunt him and depress him, and he preferred to pay for the project rather than have the recollection of it disturb his peace of mind. BRITAIN’S HEAD NURSE Before the war the staff of mili tary nurses In Great Britain numbered 298. Today the number of those under the control of the war office —every one of whom possesses a certificate of training of at least three years— numbers 6,395. And. taking into ac count those supplied by the Red Cross and the auxiliary agencies, 30,000 wom en today are devoting their lives and energies to the care of the soldiers of Great Britain. Miss E. H. Becher, R. R. C„ whose official title Is that of matron in chief, is responsible for the army of nearly 7,000 military nurses. From her room in the war office she controls the en tire organization and supplies the calls for nurses that come to her from the varied regions where British forces are operating. But one sees no sign 3 of nervous haste or fussiness about her. Apart from her gray uniform •with its scarlet braid and row of service decorations she is the type of well-bred English gentlewoman. She might be the head of a vast industrial concern employing only women. With perfect calm she rulea the work of a force of women in number both unex pected and unprecedented, whose work has perhaps been the finest performed throughout the war. the three officers in confinement, unless they gave their parole not to leave American territory. The state department legal authorities decided that Cowdin and his mates were not subject to the international regulations, be cause they came to this country of their own volition, and did not seek an American port to protect themselves from capture by Germany or her allies. By an act of congress a commit tee was established in 1910 to prepare specifications, receive the proposals of bidders and to award contracts for government supplies. This committee is known as the general supply com mittee and consists of representatives from the executive departments and federal commissions. Dr. O. H. Briggs was made superintendent of the com mittee. His duties are detailed and manifold. He was formerly superin tendent of supplies at the post office department. By means of the committee a wider range of business is done than is handled by any other corporation in any country in the world. One of the first rules is efficiency, and effi ciency in their particular line means economy. Economy for the United States government means close buy ing of all its supplies. During the last five years the gen eral supply committee has materially assisted Uncle Sam in saving over $2,500,- 000. It is possible for it tg obtain bargains that will enable the country to make even e greater saving All contract prices range from 10 to 40 per cent lower than those quoted in the open market. Buying for 1 ncle Sam is a tremendous task. Supplies include everything from pickles to automobiles, from sarsaparilla to pumps. The aggregate cost amounts to several million dollars each year. The general supply committee contracts for articles by the year, an estimate having first been made as to the number or quantity of each particular Item needed. In all there are soma 209,000 items. Charles R. Crane of Chicago is one of the oddest millionaires America owns. He finds more funny ways of spending his money than anyone else can think of. A young man with am bitions to be a poet once went to Crane with a sad story of how he was obliged to devote himself to mere com mercial pursuits, when if he only had an assured income he would write a really great poem and hand it down to posterity. Crane was telling a friend about the incident. “And did you stake him?’’ the friend inquired. "Certainly,’’ replied Crane; "he didn’t want much —only SSO or S6O a month and I was afraid to turn him down for fear he really might have a good poem in him.’’ Once Mr. Crane was traveling in Russia and happened to stay over night in a town where there was being built an elaborate monument to some /T \ I X ‘kr~ J HE FLIES FOR FRANCE According to recent advices from Paris, Sergt. Elliot C. Cowdin of New York has been transferred from the reserves to the battleplane squadron at Verdun. When he received his orders he exclaimed: “Thank heaven! I am going where there’s something doing. What’s the use of being a French army avia tor if you can’t be in the biggest scrap the war has produced?” Cowdin la well known in New York society. A graduate of Harvard, ho is a polo player and an all around sportsman. He has distinguished him self in the French army flying corps, having won promotion and the war cross. When Cowdin, Second Lieu tenant William Thaw and Sergt. Norman Prince returned to New Y'ork on leave to spend last Christmas, German sympathizers told Secretary of State Lansing he would violate American neutrality if he did not hold BUYS FOR UNCLE SAM # ■ : ■ •• X pr \ JF/ ■ \ *1 Jk Jk THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. EPITOME OF THE EVENTS In a Condensed Form the Happenings of All Nationalities Are Gives For Our Readers. WEEK’S NEWSJIT A GLANCE Important Events of the United Btatoa and Particularly in the South. Mexican News Claiming that the words and pro tests of the United States have been entirely contradiction of their acts, and that in spite of protests not to intervene in the affairs of Mexico, soldiers of the United States are in Mexico without the consent of the Mexican government and in violation of Mexico’s sovereignty, the Mexican government now asks for the imme diate withdrawal of those troops. Re quest is made in a 12,000-word note made public at the foreign office in Mexico City. The Mexican note is interpreted by many in Washington to mean “that the United States troops will have to get out of Mexico or fight.” The Mexican note was presented to the department of state by Eliseo Ar redondo, the Mexican ambassador des ignate. It is stated in Washington that the president will personally prepare the answer to Carranza’s note. Ten machine guns, 380 rifles and a quantity of ammunition discovered in Villa cache near Namiquipa, Mexico, were taken to American headquarters. American army intelligence officers are centering their efforts on seeking further hiding places of weapons and amunition, realizing that the cleaning of northern Chihuahua of such caches is vital should Villa or any of his ad herents reorganize and attempt to op erate in that region. On the eve of the receipt of Gen eral Carranza’s note which officials be lieve will renew the demand for with drawal of American troops from Mex* ico, and with another conference be tween American and Mexican military commanders about to begin, a protect has been received in Washington re porting serious difficulties between American oil operators at Tampico and the Mexican authorities. It is stated that the Mexicans in Tampico are promulgating decrees de signed to make it impossible for any American to do business in that coun try, and it is stated that an Amer ican has been imprisoned for three hours because he refused to pay his employees wages fixed by the author ities in excess of terms previously agreed upon with the men. Candlaria Cervantes and Juan Beau como were buried without religious ceremony at Columbus, N. M. These two bandits have caused as much trou ble on the border as Villa himseir, or nearly as much. There were no flowered carts in the funeral proces sion, followed by a few Mexicans wrapped in dirty blankets. European War The French troops northwest of Ver dun, in the region of Le Mort Homme, have turned on the offensive against the Germans, and have captured a very strongly organized position on the slopes southwest of Le Mort Homme. Seven machine guns and 225 prison ers were taken in the attack. The town of Avocourt and Hill 304 in the Verdun vicinity are under a heavy bombardment and shells of large caliber are being made. Bom bardments are in progress north of Verdun. The British casualties in the month of May are reported to have been 1,- 767 officers and 28,470 men. French positions on a front of ap proximately two miles, extending from the southern ridge of Le Mort Homine to the Cumieres village, northwest of Verdun, have been captured by the Germans. In addition the Teutons have again pressed forward in the Thiaumont wood, northeast of Verdun, and added their line in the eastern part of it. Around Le Mort Homme and Cu mieres a violent bombardment is still in progress, but there has been a dim inution in the intensity of the fire of the big guns northeast of Verdun. The Verdun region and southern Ty rol continue the theaters where the most sanguinary battles are taking place. While the Italians are holding back, the Austrians are forming fur ther advances and inflicting heavy losess on them in counter attacks in Tyrol, their German allies having been able to make another gain in the cap ture of about three hundred meters of French trenches northwest of the village of Cumieres on the left bank of the Meuse near Verdun. Minor successes have been obtained by the Russians over the Turks in the Rivandouza region of the Caucasus front. In the German reichstag Gustave Noske, Socialist, protested against the speech of Herr Hirsch, National Lib eral of Essen, which, he declared, was calculated to prevent the neutral pow ers from mediating in behalf of peace. He said: “There is no disposition among the German people to hazard the lives of further hundreds of thou sands for fantastic plans of conquest.” Except for a report from Petrograd that the Germans have repeatedly bombarded the railway line to the east of Riga, no operation of moment has taken place on the Russian front. After crossing the Aegean sea with out !«nrgr the an army in full strength now has been landed at Sal onika according to a wireless dispatch in Paris. DoY ,e «tic The lower house of the Louisiana legislature passed a bill which would make Columbus Day—October 12 a legal holiday in that state. A pocket knife was thrown at Colo nel Roosevelt in Kansas City, Mo., which struck the arm of John W. Mc- Grath, the former president’s secre tary, and fell to the running board of the car. Colonel Roosevelt says it was a trivial incident, and that he had a “bully” time. Four persons were killed and a score injured at Dallas, Texas, when a wooden awning, suspended by chains in front of a store in the business district, collapsed under the weight of spectators viewing a demonstration for preparedness. Five hundred thousand rabbits for consumption by the British army in France comprises part of the cargo of the British steamer Cumberland, which put in at Norfolk, Va., for coal. Seaboard train No. 5 ran into an automobile containing six persons and killed four and injured two, two miles south of Statham, Ga. The party tried to cross the track in an automobile in front of the train, when the auto mobile engine stuck on the track. James J. Hill, railroad builder, cap italist and most widely known figure of the Northwest, died at his home in St. Paul, Minn. He was uncon scious for nearly twelve hours before he died. He was probably worth in the neighborhood of $250,000,000. A declaration that he wishes no ap peal in his behalf was contained in a statement issued from his cell in the Tombs in New York City by Dr. Ar thur Warren Waite, convicted of the murder of his father-in-law, John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids. It is estimated that the liquor con fiscated at Girard, Ala., up to date has a total value of $1,250,000. But this is not all. There is still some $250,- 000 worth of whiskey stored under ground and other places in Girard. The assertion is made in Alabama that the town of Girard will be under martial law for perhaps a year -while the question of disposing of the con fiscated property is being threshed out in the courts. It will probably be car ried to the United States Supreme £ourt for final settlement. Lieut. Clrence Alvin Richards, com mander of the destroyer Fanning, was instantly killed by an electric shock in the station of the Sag Harbor (L. I.) Light and Power company. The night watchman says it was undoubtedly sui cide. A standard street dress for women was endorsed by two thousand wom en, delegates, alternates and visiting club members of the thirteenth bien nial session of the Federation of Women’s Clubs at an open conference of the home economics committee of the federation in New Y’ork City. Washington A dispatch announces that Lieut. Sir Ernest Shackleford, the English Antarctic explorer, has arrived safely at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. The whole party were in very good health, but in a condition which demanded quick relief. Amendments to the naval appropri ation bill to provide for a $11,000,000 government armor plate plant for $3,- 500,000 instead of $2,000,000 worth of aeroplanes, for 2,730 additional sailors and for a bonus system to encourage the speedy private construction of war ships were adopted by the house sit ting as a committee of the whole. Par ty lines were broken down on every vote. President Wilson delivered the Me morial Day address at Arlington Na tional cemetery in which he defined the spirit of America, warning citi zens of foreign birth not to set them selves against the purposes of the nation and calling upon the young men to perform military service. He defended his recent suggestion for an alliance of nations to preserve peace. President Wilson says the United States is ready at any time to be come a partner in any alliance of the nations “which would guarantee pub lic right against selfish aggression.” President Wilson, in his Memorial Day address, said: “I shall never my self consent to an entangling alliance, but would gladly assent to a disen tangling alliance, an alliance which would disentagle the peoples of the world from those combinations in which they seek their own separate and private interests.” Col. John S. Mosby, famous Confed erate raider of the Civil war, is dead at a Washington hospital. Death was due to old age. He dared death over fifty years ago when at the head or a band of a few hundred Confederate raiders he rode up and down the Shen andoah valley, capturing outposts, de stroying supply trains and cutting off means of communication. Prices of staple foods in the United States increased on an average of one per cent from February 15 to Marcn 15 last. Taxes on whiskey, beer, cigar, ci garettes and tobacco for the fiscal year amount to $303,000,000. Figures made public by the depart ment of labor show that all meat prices have increased, as did the price of sugar, since March 1, 1915. Half a billion dollars will be the government’s internal revenue tax toll for the fiscal year ending June 30 next, according to a statement is sued by Secretary McAdoo. Taxes on the incomes of individuals and corporations for the fiscal year 1915-16 amount to $11,500,000. tofiMnONAL SUJWSOIOOL Lesson (By E O. SELLERS, Acting Director of tne Sunday School Course In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago./ (Copyright by Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR JUNE 11 SOWING AND REAPING (TEMPER ANCE LESSON.) LESSON TEXT—Galatians 6. GOLDEN TEXT—God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.—Gal. 6:7. We turn aside today to consider the second temperance lesson for the year. Paul’s letter to the churches of Galatia strongly contrasts law and grace. It’s key verse Is ch. 2:16, and its most prominent word Is “law.” many claim verse one of Chapter 5 as its golden verse. This final chap ter is a most practical one and rich in suggestion regarding our social rela tions. Let each member come pre pared to give a temperance applica tion or to ask a temperance question. I, “Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens” (vv. 1-5). If a man trespass, be sur prised in a sin, be caught in the very act, or surprised into committing a sin, “ye which are spiritual” (literal ly, guided and governed by the spirit; ch. 5:16-25) are t 6 restore such a one. This is to be done, not by cut ting off or casting aside the erring one, but as a dislocated limb is re stored to its place, so we are to “re store” that one to his place as a be liever; each believer being a member of the body of Christ (I Cor. 12:12, 14, 27); one who falls Into sin is a dis located limb or member, and the stronger ones are to restore him to his proper place. This must be done, however, not with any sense of our own infallibility, but in meekness, gentleness and with great tenderness. (See II Tim. 2:24-26). Paul's reason for this, “lest thou also be tempted” should lay low the pride any of us who have not fallen might feel (v. 1; Math. 7:2-5; Jas. 2:13). Instead of exclaiming, “I could never have done any such act,” we ought rather to say, “But for the grace of God I might have done even worse than that.” (I Cor. 10:13). The burdens (v. 2) or weights which we are to bear are not the unnecessary details of the Mosaic law (Math. 23:4; Acts 15:10) but rath er they are the temptations, weak nesses and failures of others. The master “came not to be ministered unto but to minister”'and was “tempt ed in all points,” “touched with a feel ing of our infirmities” and in our thus sharing with each other we but follow in his steps (Ch. 5:4; John 13:34, 15:12; Romans 15:3). This is the “law of Christ,” not onerous, not a grievous burden, not necessarily an obligation, but a “law” because he, our “file lead er,” fully and perfectly exemplifies It (Phil. 2:5-8). It is chiefly self-conceit and spiritual pride (v. 3) which stands in the way of gentle forbearance in dealing with our erring brothers. Such pride does not usually deceive others (Jas. 1:22-24) and he who is so con trolled, “deceiveth himself.” 11. “Whatsoever a Man Soweth” vv. 6-8. While each must so bear his burden, yet those who are taught are to help those who teach to bear their burdens by contributing “in all good things” (Rom. 15:27; I Cor. 9:11-14). Paul sounds a solemn warning to those who refuse thus to help forward the work of righteousness, those who fall to support others and think that their selfishness will accrue to their advantage (v. 7). The natural world has many illustrations of this immut able law. Men may mock (sneer at) this law, but find eventually that there is no escape from its operation. This law has many applications. The one in the context is, first, a physical one (v. 8), a most familiar one to us all. The same is true spiritually, and has been repeatedly illustrated throughout the history of the Christian church. (II Cor. 9:56; Prov. 11:24). In all of our actions, physical, mental, moral, social and spiritual, we reap what we sow; like in kind, sown sparingly we reap sparingly; abundantly, and we reap in abundance. 111. “We Shall Reap, If We Faint Not” vv. 9-18. Paul now proceeds to make the practical application. If we act under the leadership of the Spirit (See ch. 5:16-25) we avoid carnal mindedness, and we are sowing to the Spirit and of the Spirit (who is life John 6:63; II Cor. 3:6), we shall reap “life eternal,” i. e., life which is end less in duration and divine in its es sence. There must be, however, per sistence. We must not withhold the good seed nor refrain from sowing it if we are to reap the reward sug gested in verses nine and ten. If we do so withhold, or should we sow ought but the “good seed,” we will surely reap the awful harvest sug gested In verses 7 and 8. Tem poral weariness or discouragement will not excuse us for any negligence. Nor are we to be impatient, for "in due season,” in God’s time (I Tim. 6:14, 15) we shall reap; not perhaps immediately. bSt the issue Is certain. Some fail to reap because of laxity; others continue cultivation too long; still others, by overlooking their “op portunity” to do good (v. 10) and hence having not sown, they cannot reap. Paul suggests fv. 12) that the sow ing of which he speaks is not for any outward show, nor for conformity to the edicts and regulations of men in order to avoid persecution, (v. 12 R. V.). DICKERSON, KELLY A ROBERTS Attorneys at Law Tanner-Dickerson Building, DOUGLAS, GA. W. C. Lankford. R. A. Moore. LANKFORD A MOORE Lawyers DOUGLAS GEORGIA. A DR. WILL SIBBETT, Treatment of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat a Specialty. DOUGLAS. GA. W. C. BRYAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Lankford Building, DOUGLAS, GA. CHASTAIN A HENSON ATTORNEYS AT LAW Overstreet Building DOUGLAS, .... GEORGIA. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PAPER. DR. 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