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JlMmlfinmaitT JLi /— ■ & NEW AMERICAN COUNTESS The new countess of Sandwich, formerly Miss Alhorta Sturges, five daughter of a Chicago banker and a Stepdaughter of the late Francis 11. Leggett of New York, is scarcely known in her native country. Her mother, Mrs. Leggett, went to Europe to live many years ago, and Miss Sturges was educated In Paris and made her debut in London 15 years ago, when her mother became one of the lavish hostesses in the American colony who inaugurated the brilliant regime of King Edward as soon us he ascended the throne. The late earl of Sandwich and his nephew, the new earl, had a serious disagreement about the inclusion of the American girl into the family. The bridegroom’s father, Rear Ad miral Victor Montagu, who died last January, and his wife, a daughter of the earl of Hardwicke, fully approved of tlie marriage. Yet even they could not win over the old earl. Sixty-six years old and a widower of two marriages when George Charles Montagu made Miss Sturges his bride. Lord Sandwich vowed that, ulthough he had never had any children, he would take unto him self u new wife at once and defeut Miss Sturges’ plans of becoming countess of Sandwich by bringing up a family. He plunged ut once into the gayetie.s of society, accepted invitations right and left, but soon found this to be a bore, while his new niece-in-law succeeded in impressing him witli the fact that she had married her husband for love and was, after ail, a charming lady. RUSSIA’S LATEST HERO now one of the best cavalrymen in Europe, he cau outdistance expert and youthful horsemen. Weather does not exist for him. He is noted for his laconic orders. “Hold out, whatever happens!” And they hold out. No frenzied attacks, no tempestuous canonade will drive them back when such an order lias been given. There is lu currency the followiug soldier’s remark: “What, retreat? Impossible! We are Brusiloff’s !” HUGHES’ CAMPAIGN LEADER William Russell Willeox, the new chairman of the Republican national committee, who was chosen by Mr. Hughes personally to manage his cam paign, is un entirely self-made man. lli> was horn on an upstate New York farm, never saw a city till he was seventeen, went to New York 30 years ago and Immediately took an active interest in polities, lie has held three Important ollices, In each of which he distinguished himself as an energetic and capable public servant. He was park commissioner under Mayor Seth Low in 1002. Two years later President Roosevelt appointed him postmaster of New York, and on the creation of the public service com mission in 1007 he was selected by Governor Hughes as its first chair man. He retired at the expiration of ids five-year term on February 1, 1013, after having virtually completed the contracts for the new subways which are now being Built. It was during his administration of the department of parks that Mr. Willcox, who Is always a most forheariug man, proved that it was not impossible to prod him out of a state of courtesy. One of the subway contractors hud squatted in Bryant park and despite Mr. Willcox’s most engaging smiles and politest requests refused to move. One day the commis sioner of parks ajipeared on the scene with 30 husky laborers, a strong police escort ami a number of wagons, and without further parley proceeded to tear up and cart away nil tlie obstructions. CENSOR OF ARMY NEWS V" m : \ 1r - war, later traveling through Chius, Indo-China, Java nud Jndia. As captain of engineers he participated in the first mobilization of troops on the Mexican border in 1911. He went with General Funston’s troop.jpinJ participated in the occupation of Vera Cruz. In 3913 he was assigned to Mats as a member of the general staff corps on duty at the war department uiJ was reassigned to rha: duty in April of this year. .. f J Gen. A. A. Brousiloff, commander of the Russian offensive against the Austrians and latest hero of the czar's realm, is sixty-four years old and looks forty-five. Bruslloff lives by nerves, strenuous work and a sense of duty. He eats very little. He regards dinner as a necessary evil and it is finished In not more than 20 minutes. Immediately after, he goes to the work room of his head of the staff and they are occupied together till late at night. The soldiers worship him. He never courts popularity among them. He frulks to them seldom and then with a matter-of-fact abruptness, but ia ids few words lies a knowledge of tlie soldiers’ soul; a skill ia finding the direct road to tlie soldiers’ heart, which could never he taugtit, but which must be deeply rooted in the man himself. Brusiloff’s physical endurance at sixty-four is said to lie amazing. Even {<& Ip MaJ. Douglas MacArthur, who has been appointed military aid to the secretary of war and military “cen sor” of the war department, is a l>orn executive and one of tlie recognized military experts of the general staff. Major MacArthur comes from a military fa milt’. His father, Lieuten ant General MacArthur, made a name that will go down iu military history. In 1899 a competitive examination was held at Milwaukee to fill a va cancy in West Point. MacArthur was one of the candidates. He outdistanced his competitors and won the appoint ment. When he was graduated from tlie military academy, in I!H>3, he was number one in a class of 100. lie was seat to the Philippines as second lieutenant of engineers and partici pated in a number of campaigns in tlie islands. In 1904 he wa* sent ns military observer during the Russo-Japanese THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA EPITOME OF THE EVENTS la a Condensed Form the Happenings of All Nationalities Are Given For Our Readers. WEEK’S NEWSOT A GLANCE Important Event* of the United States and Particularly in the South. European War Turkey has placed a force of Otto man troops at the disposition of the central powers for service in Europe. These troops are now ip transit through the Balkans. A British biplane was shot down by a Gentian submarine at a point north of Zeebrugge, Belgium, one of the most remarkable feats of the war. In the Volhynia district, notwith standing the severity of the German fire, the Russians scent their troops across the Slonevke river. Many pris oners were taken by the Russians in this region. Petrograd says that the Russian cav alry has thrown back every Austrian attack in the Carpathian passes. The Turks in Armenia are fleeing before the Russians. The Turks, Pe trograd says, are leaving gun 3 and munitions along the roads. The kaiser says it is a “privilege” to fight the British, and regrets ex ceeding that he is not allowed to go in the trenches and himself lead the German patriots. The village of Pozieres, which is described as a “death trap,” i 3 still held by the British, notwithstanding repeated attempts of the Germans to regain possession of the village. Cossack detachments succeeded in crossing into Hungary on July 14, cre ating a panic through the frontier towns and villages and causing thou sands of refugees to swarm down on to the plains, says a Budapest dis patch. Lieutenant Marchal of the French aviation corps, last month left French soil and flew over the German capital, upon which he dropped proclamations reciting that the French did not “thus kill women and innocent children,” and then continued his flight, intend ing to land in the Russian lines. He was forced to descend in Poland, and taken prisoner by the Germans. The Austrians in the Carpathian re gion, threatened with a heavy Russian attack in the district southeast of Ta tarow, have withdrawn their forces toward the main ridge of the Carpath ians. Petrograd reports the capture of additional men and guns in the dis trict southeast of Tatarow. The Berlin war office says the Rus sian attempts to advance southeast of the city of Riga were broken up by the Teutons, as was also a maneuver in which the crossing of the Styr riv er in Volhynia was the objective. Washington The thirteen Southern states will re ceive a total of $1,438,059, of the $5,- 000,000 federal road fund made avail able for this fiscal year under tlie new federal aid road act approved this month. The department of agriculture announcement shows that Texas re ceived the largest allotment of any state in the Union. Future apportionments from the federal good road fund will be made on the same basis they are made this year—that is. each state must spend an equal amount with the federal gov ernment. The good road fund, which was au thorized July 11, when President Wil son signed the bill authr izing same, will be put into operation immediately. Actual construction of some of tlie roads will begin this fall. Congressional representatives from the flooded districts in the South have taken energetic measures for the re lief of the thousands of victims of the disaster. At a meeting of the house military committee for the purpose of taking some action, Chairman Hay and other members of the committee were disposed to accord whatever re lief seems imperative. It is announced here that S. S. Mc- Clure, the American publisher, who has been detained in Great Britain for some time by the British authorities, must return to the United States on board the same vessel he left the United States, as he is persona non grata to the British government. Naval officials located in Washing ton opine that the Danish West In dians, lying near Porto Rico, possess excellent advantages as a naval base and coaling station. The body of Lieut. Col. Butler of the Sixth United States cavalry, who was killed at Alpine. Texas, by Harry J. Spanneli, a hotel manager, was bur ied in Arlington cemetery. Greenland is a Danish possession, and it is stated in official circles of Washington that the rights abandoned in that country by the United States are merely rights of discovery. Anent the negotiations between the United States and Denmark for the purchase by the United States of the Danish West Indies, it is stated in of ficial circles that Denmark is anxious to sell, because she feels the pinch of the European war, and desires to rid herself of the islands as a financial proposition and at the same time elim inate a troublesome element in main taining her own neutrality. Inci cased pay for officers and men of tlie regular army and National Guard in active service for the Mexi can emergency, improved camp condi tions to safeguard their health and authorization for them to vote in the field at the coming presidential elec tion were provided in amendments to the army appropriation bill agreed to by the senate. The department of agriculture is in receipt, of information that India’s wheat crop this year is put at 16 per cent less than last year’s in consular advices. Negotiations between the United States and Denmark for the purchase of the Danish West Indies are under stood to have reached a definite stage where some important development may come soon. While the purchase has not been concluded, there were In dications that some of the more for midable barriers to an agreement had been removed, giving the negotiations promise of a successful outcome. Mexican News At Chihuahua City, Mexico, General Trevino announces that he has receiv ed orders from General Carranza to make every possible effort to pacify and rehabilitate northern Mexico. Reports from General Ramos, in the northern district of Durango, indicate that the extermination of the Villa bands is nearly accomplished, accord ing to the Mexican view. A heavily armed and well-mounted Mexican de ; achment has been detail ed to capture Villa, and his scatter ed forces are being relentlessly pur sued. Because of his recent hard riding Villa’s leg is reported to be giving him great agony. No surgeon is avail able and he has been forced to iance his wound himself, sometimes with a rude knife. A formal statement has been issued in Chihuahua City denying that Gen eral Trevino has been demoted. It is anonnuced that shipments of ore have been resumed from the Mex ican Santa Eulalia mines, about twen ty miles east of Chihuahua City. This, it is stated, will do much to relieve the distress manifested with the shut ting down of industrial plants. Gen. Jose Robles reports that condi tions in the Saltillo district have been quiet for some time. General Bell, commanding the El Paso military district, has received as surances from Gen. Francisco Gonza les, commanding in Juarez, that “the island” wall be depopulated by Mexi can authorities to prevent a repetition of the recent firing across the border line. Four negro soldiers, members of the Eighth Illinois National Guard, were shot by a squad of the provost guard of the Nineteenth regulars that had come to the rescue of a white man the soldiers were attacking near the mili tia camp. Closer and closer is the cordon of the Carranza troops being throwm about Villa and the remnant of his main band, beaten and scattered in the recent engagement along the Na zas river, in northern Durango, accord ing to dispatches emanating from El Paso, Texas. Domestic “Snubs” to which he and his family had been subjected because of his testimony against Roman Catholic clergymen, rather than fear the result of a second test of his efficiency as a telephone eavesdropper, was the rea son given in an ante-mortem state ment by Detective John Kennel, chief of the New York police wire tapping squad, for his attempt at suicide by shooting himself. Appropriations totaling SBOO,OOO for the relief of storm and flood sufferers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi are provided in joint resolutions introduc ed in the bouse at Washington and re ferred immediately to the committee on military affairs. If the aid asked by the flood suffer ers in the stricken southern section is passed by congress, North Carolina will ge: $300,000; South Carolina SIOO,- 000; Georgia $200,000, and Alabama and Mississippi $200,000. A New York dispatch recites that the wealth of the Salvation Army in the United States can be safely placed at $8,353,179. This came out in an application of officers of the Army to mortgage certain property. Eight men were Injured when a homeseekers’ special train collided with a troop train at Bay City, Texas, on the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mex ican railroad, according to official re ports to General Funston at San An tonio. Returning to his home at Waynes boro, Miss., after a mysterious disap pearance of more than eighteen months, and after he had been re garded as dead and the body of a man identified and interred as his own, and after his estate had been officially settled, C. C. Green, sixty-one years of age, former banker and land owner, maintained silence as to the reason for his long absence without word to his family or friends. Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, awaiting electrocution in Sing Sing prison. New York, for the murder of his father-in law, John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich., whose case attracted nation wide interest, was found in his cell in the “death house” bleeding from a wound in his chest made in the shape of a cross. The prisoner had cut him self with a piece of broken glass. Damage estimated at $250,600 was caused in the businer-3 district of Aus tin, Texas, by a fire during which a terrific explosion occurred in a gar age. All telephones were put out of commission. IMWIOM. SINMfSOIOOL Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS. Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute. Chicago.) (Copyright. 1916, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR AUG. 6 GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD. (Temperance Lesson.) True ministry is in the exercise of spiritual gifts (Eph. 4:7-15). Every believer is a member of the body of Christ, and therefore has a definite ministry. Though the gifts are di verse, all are equally honorable be cause they are bestowed, administered and energized by the Holy Spirit. Love alone gives vatue to the ministry of any gift. I. Fill the Gift With Love Jvv. 1-3). Just as the body is dead unless a liv ing soul abides in and inspires it, so is the gift unless filled with the spirit of love. This is the “more excellent way” to which Paul makes reference at the conclusion of Chapter 12. In praising love Paul does not fall into the error of criticizing others, not even his followers, and suggests that even he may be wanting in this trait. The Corinthians were eager to attain ex cellence and to be prominent in wis dom and philosophy; to understand the world in which they lived; to be scholars and teachers and improve and correct society. Paul therefore shows how vain are such things unless tilled with the motive of love. (1) The gift of tongues. Tlie saints in the church at Corinth seem to have been particularly gifted in this direction, and to have been proud of it, (Ch. 14: 2-23) and eager to outstrip the others. Paul tells them that such boasting amounts to little. The grace of love is a far more excellent way. (2) The gift of prophecy. The New Testament prophet was a fortli-teller, not a teller of the future. To be a forth-teller was a thing to be coveted and admired, but not unless accompanied by loye. (3) Miracle working. A man can have this in the most powerful form con ceivable, and yet if he lias not love, he is nothing. 11. Love Is Known by Its Mani festations (vv. 4-7). Having shown the absolute necessity of love Paul shows how we may recognize it. The behav ior of love can be seen and known. Paul set for us 15 manifestations. (1) Love suffereth long. Love is no pass ing emotion, but a fixed thought. (2) It is kind. Kindness in action, love at work. (3) Love envieth not. It does not grow out of selfishness, for selfishness is the very opposite of love. (4) Love vaunteth not itself, does not climb to the housetops to proclaim its glory. (5) Is not puffed up. There is no inflation, like a soap bubble, to dazzle the eye. (6) Does not behave itself unseemly, that is without deli cacy of feeling. Unseemly conduct grows from pride and selfishness, whereas love is the foundation of true courtesy.’ (7) Seekoth not her own. Is not looking out for self first of all. (8) Is not easily not irritable. To lose ope's temper Is a dangerous evil. The evil is not so much in the temper but in our failure to control it. (9) Thinketh no evil. Puts the best construction upon the acts of others, making all possible al lowances. (10) Rejoiceth not in ini quity. (11) Rejoiceth in the truth, that is. is in sympathy with all that is true. (12) Beareth all things; endureth hardships and trials for the working out of the kingdom. (13) Believeth all things; not credulous but putting the best construction upon the words of others, and having faith in the final outcome of every good cause. (14) Hopeth all things; i 3 not discouraged in the dark and shadowy days. (15) Endureth all things; It goes ou believ ing and hoping to the end; no obstacle can stop it. Surely such a catalogue of the marks of love is enough to make us all pause and meditate. 111. The Permanence of Life (vv. 8-13). The word “faileth” here denotes failing in the sense of cessation, and love is contrasted with three typical but passing forms of Christian ex pression. (1) “Prophecies;” not the things prophesied but the gift or act of prophesying (v. 3) which at best can only partially express God’s word. Prophecy will pass away in the fuller vision and wider knowledge of God “Who is love.” (2) “Tongues.” The time will come when they will not be needed as a sign nor to enable us to express our varied emotions. The di vinely inspired prophecies tell but a part of what is yet to be. (3) “Knowl edge.” It shall be done away in the fuller knowledge of the eternal world as the light of the stars vanish before ihe rising sun. When that which is perfect is come these lights will be seen to be only like the separate stones of a quarry which can only be fully understood when the whole building stands before us in its completion. Paul gives an illustration of this truth from the familiar case of the growing child (vv. 11, 12). In conclusion (v. 13) faith, hope, love abideth, three graces, imperishable and immortal. “Hope is a fountain; faith draws the water and drinks; love distributes the water to others.” Dr. J. H. Jowett. But the greatest of these is love, (a) Love Is greater in its nature. It brings us closer to God. making us partakers of his nature. It is the one thing with out which faith and hope are of little avail, (b) It is powerful as an in fluence for good and the strongest mo tive for the upbuilding of character. WOMAN HAD NERVOUSIRiiIIBLE Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegeta ble Compound Helped Her. West Danby, N. Y.-‘‘l have had nervous trouble all my life until I took ■- ,-i Lydia E. Pinkham’s ;i Vegetable Com- pound for nerves and for female trou- Mgjf-'-'X 18 bles and it straight ened me out in good F . ' 1 . shape. I work nearly ! ! all the time, as wa j live on a farm and I jflplss*'] | have four girls. 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