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EPITOME OF THE
WEEK'S EVENTS
lo a Condensed Form the Happenings of
All Nationalities Are Given
For Our Readers.
WEEK'S NEWSAT A GLANCE
Important Events of the United States
and Particularly in the
South.
European War
What is probably the last link in
the Irish Sinn Fein rebellion culminat
ed in the execution in the Pentonville
prison, England, of Sir Roger Case
ment, the charge being high treason.
The opinion had become widespread
that Casehient would be sent to prison
for life, and there was much surprise
whert the announcement was made of
his execution. He had been knighted
and had served the English govern
ment in many capacities, and was
highly thought of until he entered
into what the English term a conspir
acy with Germany to ferment an up
rising in Ireland, which, but for Eng
lish naval supremacy, might have
reached enormous proportions.
A London dispatch says that Gene
ral Count von Bothner’s army is re
ported to be almost enveloped by the
Russians in Galicia.
Cossack divisions after the occupa
tion of Bordy by the Russians are
said to have destroyed the railways
behind the Austrian army.
The Germans are withdrawing from
Kovel, taking their heavy artillery,
food and munition depots.
The city of Vladimir-Volynski, in
Volhynia, is said to have been com
pletely evacuated by the Germans.
With General Kaledine’s army in
full control of the Stokhod river, the
Russian war department at Petrograd
announces that the Russians are now
well advanced in the campaign against
the two important centers of Kovel
and Lemberg.
The Russian offensive has been so
vigorous and unrelenting that the
Austro-Qermans apparently have been
in a serious predicament, not knowing
from which point to spare troops to
reinforce the defense of some other
part of the front.
Kovel is threatened from the west,
where the Russians have successfully
passed the Stohkod river, and from
the south, where the Russians re
cently reached an advanced point on
the Vladimir-Volynski road, south of
Kiselin.
According to a very cautious valua
tion by the eGrman war office the to
tal Anglo-French losses in the Somme
offensive will reach three hundred and
fifty thousand men.
A month has now elapsed since the
beginning of the great Anglo-French
“great sweep.”
Russian troops advancing toward
Kovel have crossed the Stokhod river
along the whole stretch between the
Sarny-Kovel and the Kcvel-Rojitcvhe
railroads.
Russian General Letchitzky, whose
operations were suspended by the
Dniester floods, is moving on again
and working toward Stanislau, an im
portant railway center.
The eastern and southeastern coun
ties of England had another visitation
from German airships. An attack by
a number of hostile airships developed
before midnight one night recently.
The raiders crossed the coast line
along the eastern and southeastern
counties. Bombs were dropped off the
Thames estuary.
The Russians in Volhynia, in the
region of the Stokhod river, have
forced the Germans to give further
ground before their advance.
In the fighting between the Ger
mans and the Russians in Volhynia the
men at various points met in hand-to
hand combats.
Berlin says that the withdrawal
from the Stokhod curve had been con
templated for some time, and was
made without interruption by the Rus
sians.
The Russians claim an advance for
the Russians near Brody and in Ga
licia.
Washington
A Norfolk, Va., dispatch announces
that the German merchant submarine
passed out the Virginia capes at 8:30
p. m., August 2, apparently unobserv
ed by the allied warfehips waiting for
her, and so far as known here, is
now safely on her homeward voy
age. No untoward incident marked
the departure of the giant submersi
ble. She was accompanied only by
her tug and a newspaper dispatch
boat.
Possession of the British liner Ap
pam, brought into Hampton Roads
last February by a German prize crew,
was awarded her English owners, the
African Steam Navigation company,
by Judge Waddill of the federal dis
trict court at Norfolk, Va.
While discharge of National Guards
men with persons dependent upon
them are now proceeding at the rate
of only ten a day, it is expected that
in another week or so the average will
be one hundred a day.
The August cotton report of the
department of agriculture gives the
condition of cotton as 72.3 per cent.
A Pekin, China, dispatch received
here announces that in a revolutionary
outbreak in Hankow a large district
was burned and looted and many na
tives were killed and some Russian
women injured before foreign volun
teers checked the uprising.
S. S. McClure, the American pub
lisher, who was ordered to return to
the United States when he arrived at
Liverpool on the American line steam
ship Philadelphia, is spending the in
terval in London. It is stated that his
difficulties arose over his passport be
ing made out for Switzerland as well
as for France and England, and it
was suggested that he might go to
Germany also. When this was point
ed out to him by the English author
ities he volunteered to come home.
The senate has confirmed the nom
ination of the new farm loan, there
being no opposition to any of those
named by President Wilson.
Charges that the price of news print
paper has been forced up exorbitantly
by a combination of manufacturers
have been made by publishers, but
have been denied by representatives
of the manufacturers at a hearing
which concluded an exhaustive inqui
ry into the subject by the federal
trade commission.
A Cobalt, Ontario, dispatch an
nounces that 306 lives were lost in
the recent forest fires.
The German submarine merchant
man Deutschland has sailed from Bal
timore on a return voyage to Ger
many.
Heavy damage to the growing cot
ton crop between June 25 and July
25 has caused a reduction of one mil
lion three hundred and fifty thousand
bales in the prospective production.
Dispatches reaching Washington re
garding the forest fires raging in
northern Ontario, Canada, place the
loss of life from one hundred and
fifty to two hundred lives. Several
small towns have been wiped out by
the flames.
Great Britain is warned, in the
American note of protest against the
blacklist, made public by the state de
partment, of the “many serious con
sequences to neutral rights and neu
tral relations which such an act must
necessarily involve.”
Mexican News
Residents of Finlay, Texas, who left
their homes and fled to the hills on
reports that a force of 150 Mexican
bandits had crossed the Rio Grande
and was encamped in Lasca pass south
of Finlay, have all returned.
Investigation discloses the fact that
the report of the presence of bandits
near Finlay, Texas, probably arose
from the fact that three cattle men
leading several horses passed near a
Massachusetts outpost. Believing a
large party of bandits was in the vi
cinity, the National Guardsmen fired
a number of shote, which alarmed
the residents of Finlay.
Carranza troops and United States
soldiers fought side by side in the
engagement with Mexican bandits to
the south of Fort Hancock, Texas.
In the battle with the Mexican ban
dits near Fort Hancock, after the ban
dits had been surrounded in a ranch
house on the American side of the
Rio Grande river and an American
customs guard had been killed, an
other customs guard named Bean, ran
down to the river bank and called to
a detachment of Carranza soldiers on
the Mexican side to come over and
assist the American troops.
In the latest battle with the Mex
ican bandits, four bandits and two
United States soldiers were killed.
The American force in the battle
with the bandits near Fort Hancock
consisted of eight men under com
mand of Sergeant Thompson, two hos
pital corps men and two customs
guards.
Customs Guard Woods was the first
to fall in the battle near Fort Han
cock. He was laid low by a bandit
who slipped outside and shot him
down, but a moment«dater his death
was avenged by a hospital corps man,
who shot down the bandit, just as he
tried to make it back to the house.
The Carranza soldiers went in hot
pursuit of the fleeing bandits engaged
in the scrap near Fort Hancock, Tex
as, and General Funston said no Amer
icans will join in the pursuit. The
number of escaping bandits is not
yet known.
Domestic
With the finding on Deer Island,
near Biloxi, Miss., of a bottle in which
was inclosed a note bearing the words,
“Help! help! On an unknown island.
George Duggan and crew,” prepara
tions were made by shipping interests
and relatives of Captain Duggan to
search the islands of the Chandeleur
group for the captain and five mem
bers of the crew of the lumber schoon
er Emma Harvey during the. tropical
hurricane of July 5.
Charles E. Hughes has been formal
ly notified of his nomination by the
Republican party for the presidency.
In his speech of acceptance he out
lined the issues which he proposes to
emphasize. H« assailed the Demo
cratic administration for its policy of
“directing diplomatic intercourse”
with other nations.
The flood sufferers of North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi will get $540,-
000 if a favorable report by the house
military committee is adopted by con
gress.
The body of the missing young
timekeeper, John Wurm, with his
hands tied tightly with a piece of
copper wire, was discovered by boat
men lodged in the meshes of floating
debris and partly submerged in the
muddy waters of the Chattahoochee,
within less than a mile of Pace’s ferry
road, close to Atlanta, Ga.
Property loss estimated at $25,000.-
000 was caused by a series of terrific
explosions of ammunition awaiting
shipment to the entente allies and
stored on Black Tom Island, a small
strip cf land jutting into New York
bay off Jersey City.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
taMnoNAt
StNWSGKE
LESSOR
(By E. O. SELLERS. Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute. Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR AUGUST 13
THE GRACEOF LIVING.
LESSON TEXT—II Cor. 9.
GOLDEN TEXT—In all things I gave
you an example, that so laboring ye ought
to help the weak, and to remember the
words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself
said, it is more blessed to give than to
neceive.—Acts 20:35.
Paul’s letters to the church in
Corinth are a divine commentary upon
church government. A stricter ad
herence to the principles enunciated
and a clearer interpretation of those
principles to the church of Jesus Christ
would save us from many errors and
heartaches. In this rich and populous
nation the lesson for consideration to
day is most vital, for it concerns one
of the fundamental principles which
underly the progress of mankind as
well as the kingdom of God.
1. Cheerful Giving (vv. 1-7). One of
the dangers assailing the early Chris
tian church was that of division be
tween the Jewish and Gentile believ
ers. One party suggested that the
Gentiles ought to have a closer union
with the Jews; on the other hand, cer
tain Gentiles could not see the necessi
ty of the Jewish ceremonial, and in
this Paul agreed with them, and there
fore they refused to assume any un
necessary burden. The great feasts
at Jerusalem were crowded with pil
grims, both Jews and Jewish Chris
tians. The pilgrims were often very
poor, and fatigue must have fostered
diseases. Here then was a place
where a work of ministry to the needy
might be done with the money which
had been systematically gathered
through the weekly contributions of
Christiun believers. Note how skill
fully Paul appealed to these Corin
thians. He recognizes their forward
ness of mind and their zeal (vv. 1 and
2, Am. R.). Most delicately does he
compliment them upon their work, for,
said he, “I glory in your behalf.”
He desired their collections to be a
matter of bounty, and not of covetous
ness or extortion. Paul’s principle of
giving is that it shall be a matter of
free and beneficent gifts, not a matter
of covetous greed; not a quid pro quo.
He says that they who sow sparingly
shall reap sparingly.
11. The Results of Giving (vv. 8-15).
The law of reaping according to the
seed we sow and of reaping in propor
tion to the quality and quantity of thA
seed sown is also to be supplemented
by the law of the necessity of sys
tematic giving (See I Cor. 16:2). One
of the sweetest and most cheerful and
inspiring promises of the Bible is
found in verse 8 of this section,
“God is able.” He is able to make all
grace abound, and he does this “to
the bountiful giver.” Nothing more
surely limits the measure of grace that
we receive than our penurious, nig
gardly giving (Phil. 4:19 and context).
This giving of grace is “in order that
ye always having all sufficiency in all
things may abound unto every good
w r ork.” God’s abundant grace is be
stowed upon us that we may work for
others, and live abounding, sufficient
lives in everything. How poor indeed
our lives must appear when measured
by the standard of this verse. Literal
ly this is “hilarious giving.” God loves
the full-souled, hilarious giver who
gives time and money. Such giving is
like unto God’s giving, who gave his
only begotten son. If we sow as God
provides, he will multiply the seed for
sowing and increase the fruits of our
righteousness. If we do not sow, he
will cease to supply.
This liberality will work through us
to others and thanksgiving to God on
the part of those who receive (v. 11, R.
V.). Such giving abounds to his honor
and glory through the many thanks
givings which it will occasion (Heb.
13:15). The more we give, the more
God will increase our power to give,
and in this way we will be enriched in
everything unto all liberality (Prov.
11:24-25). The church in Jerusalem,
■when the saints of Corinth had given
proof by the ministration to their need,
would glorify God for the obedience of
the saints in Corinth and their confes
sion of the gospel of Christ, and also
for the liberality of their contribution
unto them (v. 13, It, V.). They would
repay their generosity with prayer (v.
14, It. V.) and they would long after
them by reason of the grace of God
which was in them.
Paul's words about our giving with
thanksgiving to God for his unspeak
able gift—(See Ch. 8:9) the unspeak
able gift of God, Jesus Christ (John
3:16; Rom. 8:32) —is an exhortation
to us. Nothing should so move us to
give to others as the thought of what
God has given of his very best and
dearest for us.
The Sunday school, as the training
school of the church, ought to give in
struction not alone in salvation truth
and life teaching, but also in systematic
giving. Train the children early to
give to the church a portion of their
substance, and they will learn to love
it and support it in the years to come.
Persistent practice is the secret of
mastery here as in everything else.
We say: “When a rich man dies he
leaves all his wealth behind him.”
True, but it is also true that we
change into the currency of the coun
try to which we are going the gifts
which we have given here.
STOP CALOMEL^ TAKE
New Discovery! Takes Place of Dangerous Calomel —It Puts Your Liver To
Work Without Making You Sick—Eat Anything—lt Can Not
Salivate —Don’t Lose a Day’s Work!
I discovered a vegetable compound that does
the work of dangerous, sickening calomel and I
want every reader of this paper to try a bottle
and if it doesn't straighten you up better and
quicker than salivating calomel just go back to
the store and get your money.
I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson’s
Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work
and clean your thirty feet of bowels of the sour
bile and constipation poison which is clogging
your system and making you feel miserable.
I guarantee that one spoonful of this harmless
liquid liver medicine will relieve the headache, bil
iousness, coated tongue, ague, malaria, sour stom
ach or any other distress caused by a torpid liver
as quickly as a dose of vile, nauseating calomel,
besides it will not make you sick or keep you from
All Gone.
“Blinks doesn’t seem to have much
snap in him any more.”
“No; he used to have so much snap
in him that now he’s broke.”
SUFFERING BABY
RELIEVED AT ONCE
Mr. H. J. Lamar, Macon, Ga„ writes:
“We used Hancock Sulphur Compound
on our one-year-old baby who was
suffering intensely from prickly heat
and a half dozen applications, in the
course of 2 days, entirely relieved her.
When we first applied it, she was
broken out almost over her entire
body, causing fretfulness and loss of
sleep, but she has not suffered since.
You should recommend the Sulphur
Compound strongly to mothers as
many children suffer so much from
heat. We also used a tablespoonful
in her bath for 3 days and it proved
very soothing.”
Hancock Sulphur Compound and
Ointment are sold by all dealers.
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Balti
more, Md. Write for Booklet.—Adv.
To Remove the Fly Paper.
When sticky fly paper gets on cloth
ing, linoleum or oilcloth, pour kero
sene on the spots and let soak at least
two minutes, then wash in warm soap
suds and they will come off readily.
SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with “La Creole’’ Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. SI.OO. —Adv.
Warned.
“Is old skinflint an approachable
man?”
“Yes, very, provided you don’t care
what happens to you after you ap
proach him.”
important to Motners
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that It
Signature of
In Use for Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Maybe.
"Reforms are being carried on every
where just now.”
“Yes, and after we have reformed
some of our reforms we will probably
have matters in pretty good shape
again.”
To Fortify the System Against
Summer Heat
Many users of Grove's Tasteless Chill
Tonic make it a practice to take this old
standard remedy regularly to fortify the
system against the depressing effect of
summer heat, as those who are strong
withstand the heat of summer better'than
those who are weak. Price 50c.
Modern Villain.
Through the shrubbery Marcus I’eif,
the wealthy rejected suitor, watched
Harry Harrison, the village black
smith, clasp Ruth Roberts in his strong
young arms.
“Curse ’em !” he hissed. “I'll have me
revenge! I'll buy ’em an automobile
for a wedding present, and then look
on gloatingly while they mortgage the
blacksmith shop to buy gasoline!”
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few —a beautiful
head of hair. If yours Is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re
store It to its former beauty and lus
ter by using “La Creole” Hair Dress
ing. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Love Is Blind.
Another proof that love is blind is
that no decent husband ever sees a
freckle or wrinkle on the face of the
wife who has just put a bait of fried
chicken, hoecake, roas’n’ears, sliced to
matoes and sparrow grass in front of
iiLu. —Houston Post.
a day’s work. I want to see a bottle of this won
derful liver medicine in every home here.
Calomel is poison—it’s mercury—it attacks the
bones, often causing rheumatism. Calomel is dan
gerous. It sickens —while my Dodson’s Liver
Tone is safe, pleasant and harmless. Eat any
thing afterwards, because it can not salivate. Give
it to the children because it doesn’t upset the stom
ach or shock the liver. Take a spoonful tonight
and wake up feeling fine and ready for a full
day’s work.
Get a bottle! Try it! If it doesn’t do exactly
what I say, tell your dealer to hand your money
back. Every druggist and store keeper here knows
me and knows of my wonderful discovery of a
vegetable medicine that takes the place of danger
ous calomeL —Adv.
f jsteksmsth’s “
p fHHLLTONIC
r Druf Stores.
™ Stella-V it®
and Gained 28 Pounds
Mrs Mattie Spain, of Mario, Okla.. one of the vast number of women who have been saved by
Stella- Vitae says in praising this wonderful remedy: When I began using Stella-Vitae I weighed
but 82 pounds, and could hardly sit up to he weighed. Now I can work all day, feel better than I hava
in nine years, and have gained 28 pounds.” Stella-Vitae ia a godsend to suffering womanhood. It
gives strength and health to the female organs, acta as a tonic on the nerves, restores vigor and
brings the bloom of health to cheeks that are faded and pale. It is guaranteed. AH dealers SI s bottle
THACHER MEDICINE CO. y CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
War.
Officer —What are your duties, my
man?
Outpost—Ow; to mess around ’ere
till the relief comes. —London Opinion.
COULD NOT SPEAK
TO HER CHILDREN
“I have been a great sufferer from
asthma since I was thirteen years old,”
says Mrs. M. A. Mooney, 79 Carroll St.,
Nashville, Tenn. “Have been so bad many
times that I could not speak to my chil
dren nor make my wants known to them.
I have taken three small bottles of Lung-
Vita, which has entirely cured my
asthma.” Mrs. Rubie Clark, 315 Oriole
St., Nashville, Tenn., writes: “After hav
ing three doctors to tell me I had tuber
culosis, I can gladly say that Lung-Vita
cured me.”
These testimonials are taken from the
many we have on hand telling what Lung-
Vita has done in cases of consumption,
asthma, colds, croup, whooping cough and
grippe. If your dealer cannot supply you,
order direct. Price $1.75. Booklet upon
request. Nashville Medicine Co., Room 8
Steger Building, Nashville, Tenn. Adv.
The Crime.
“You don’t mean to say the sheriff
has done arrested the boys that made
up that lynchin’ party?”
“He sho’ did.”
“Name o’ goodness! What for?”
“Sheriff says he ’lows the law’s got
to be respected round here, an’
them boys used a tree in the cotehouse
grounds an’ tramped all over the lawn
right where there was a plain sign
sayin’ ‘Keep Off the Grass.’ ” —Town
Topics.
THI3 18 THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by
using “La Creole" Hair Dressing.—Adv.
Easy Money.
“Will Jack be a good provider, do
you think?”
“Oh, yes. He can borrow money
whenever he wants it.”
#^otWea«herllt
Meats Ȥ L
70|-: ***
Veal Leaf, to serve cold: Cooked Corned Beef, select
and appetizing. Chicken Loaf, Ham Loaf and Veal Loaf, 50 3-
delicately seasoned. Vienna Sausage, Genuine Deviled 40-L: 3.
Ham and Wafer Sliced Dried Beef for sandwiches and 30 li
dainty luncheons. 20-S ||
Insist on Libby’s at yout groctr’s 10 j—■ =j
Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago =
WHY WOT TRY POPHAM'S
ASTHMA MEDICINE
| Gives Prompt and Positive Relief in Every 1
. Case. Brad by Druggists. Price (1.00.
Trial Package by Hail 10c.
; WILLIAMS MFB. CO., Props. Cleveland, 0.
CW A P I* not recommended
”” aalvllT “ for everything; but it
I? Of)T you have kidney, liver
or bladder trouble It
may be found just the remedy you need.
At druggists In fifty cent and dollar sizes.
You may receive a sample size bottle of
this reliable medicine by Parcel Post,
also pamphlet telling about It.
Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton.
N. Y.. and enclose ten cents, also men
tion this paper.
Not a True Idealist.
“I always knew that Blnks was
lacking in thie poetical idealism,” said
the irate leader of one of the clans.
“Just before the last election he made
overtures to me for the purchase of 50
votes.”
“Well,” said the sophisticated friend,
“that didn’t offend you. did it?”
“Of course not; but when I made
the trade and delivered the goods the
conscienceless dog refused to pay.”
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
la her hair. If yourß is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre
ole" Hair Dressing and change it la
the natural way. Price SI.OO. — Adv.
Reason for Growling.
Rivers had just got home, and»was
stumbling over the things in the dark
hall.
“What are you growling about,
dear?” called out Mrs. Rivers from the
floor above.
“I am growling,” he answered in his
deepest bass voice, "to drown the bark
ing of my shins.”
Capital and labor are Impossible
terms to many of us.