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NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
John Hessln Clarke of Cleveland,
’ ~ 0., whom President Wilson has ap
/a. S'fC■ ■ pointed an associate Justice of the Su
tSWkMmk £2§BKlk. preme court of the United States, is
.|'JPP fifty-nine years old and u bachelor, lie
• HB&W' was horn at Lisbon, 0., was graduated
B~c i f/' / ’from the Western Reserve university
gyi &/ ”*'/ in 1877 and admitted to the bar in
*J§ ■. 1878. Up to the time he wus made u
jsE' " district judge by President Wilson in
11)1-4 he had practiced law in Ohio an<l
'/ “ had also edited u newspaper at Youngs-
W */,f J V/l town. Ills newspaper, the Youngstown
* Vindicator, has long been one of the
W r *****« prominent Democratic organs In the
J '' W In 1903 Judge Clarke was the
yk Democratic uomiuee for United States
K Jjjfew senator, hut was beaten by the lute
W jE&jZxZfo Murk Hanna, who wus re-el« eted.
•. In < •lev.dniid. Judge Clarke for ;i
long time H' - 1 ,; e. e d in p..1,:i. s
mmm With the late Mayor Tom Johnson and
Secretary linker. He has been classed
as a progressive Democrat, and has taken part In several reform movements.
In 189 ti he bolted Bryan’s nomination, but returned to the party fold in 1900.
lie was a Wilson delegate at the Baltimore convention.
LINKS SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
American business men agree that ___________________________
applied science and industry must be
linked together in tills country by
stronger bonds than have heretofore
existed if American industry Is to meet
tiie new conditions and to tuke full m
advantage of the new opportunity ere- w
“But that thought is not new,” '§HBK
said Hr. Snmnel W. Stratton, father,
creator und director of the bureau of /?]
standards, when lie was drawn Into u I .£ K f<J
conversation on the subject. “In fact, | Jjjjjhp!'• •'*~
years for Just such conditions as exist,
lndystxj_ai)fl
considerations of standards.”
A. native of Litchfield, 111., born July 18, 18(31, Doctor Stratton took his
I>. S. In mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois In 1884 and
promptly was attached to the teaching staff of that institution, where he re
mained until 1892, when the University of Chicago took him over in the
physics department. He was full professor of that department when he
entered the government service in 1901 as director of the newly created bureau
of standards.
HAS FUN WITH HIS FACE
1 Representative Simeon D. Less of
Ohio is proud of the fact that lie is, as
he himself declares, “absurdly unpre
“lf I were really a handsome
l man.” says Foss, “1 would not have
k half the fun with myself thut I now
Whenever he goes anywhere to
W lecture, as he does frequently, Fess
I likes to sneak off the train utid keep
/ away from reception committees until
the hour of his lecture. The commit
tee is usually half incredulous, when it
sees him, about his being the real lec
turer, and the way the members ex
change disappointed glances with one
another gives Fess much quiet sport.
When he was special lecturer In
' s '* history for the University of Chicago,
i Fess went to a town in Pennsylvania
■S - »-’ ■PSpil to speak one night, and while waiting
jRfcY BBBj for his turn he sat next to a fashion
ably dressed woman, who talked to
him patronizingly about the program for the evening. She asked him if he
knew anything about Fess, aud Fess said be knew nothing except that lie was
a man of commanding personality. In due course Fess excused himself to take
his place on the platform, and he suw the astonished woman get up uud leave
t.h» hall iu disgust.
MRS. LANSING’S SUCCESS
Washington society, following the
appointment of Robert Lansing us
secretary of state, expressed keen iu- V
terest in the part liis wife would play V
In social activity there. Mrs. Lansing \
hus proved to be one of the ablest 'A
social leaders Washington has seen in
years. She is well equipped for her V Lj
duties, which are next to those of jf Wjr
“the first lady of the administration,”
for ns Hiss Eleanor Foster, daughter ;.
of Jolm W. Foster, secretary of state l
under President Harrison, she was JPI?'
given an early training iu Washing
ton’s sociul activities.
Mrs. Lansing is one of the most z' ♦
striking looking women in administra- ? ■
tion circles. Although as wife-of the >: , / |
secretary of state she takes precedence I
over many older women, her charm of 1§ i f Is
manner and rare tact have gained i «$' <, ■ f s - f|.
great popularity for her. '-liTPI , v
Much of Mr. Lansing's success is r*t'l'""*' 1 '•" |£■ 1
attributed to the aid of his wife. She ' — 1 *%earfu
received a broad education and has read extensively, and has alwW votes poll'
I her husband’s work on International law with much iuterest. be no
Bitters iu connection with his duties. k
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
EPITOME OF THE
WEEKS EVENTS
to 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.
Domestic
A cloudburst swept the Cabin creek
and Coal river valley of West Virginia
spreading devastation throughout the
district. The loss of life is placed
at between 11 and 150 people. The
property damage was placed at no’t
less than one million dollars.
Three enlisted sailors of the in
terned German cruiser Kron Prinz
Wilhelm, who escaped by jumping
overboard, were captured by United
States marines. The internes swam
what is known as Black creek, near
Norfolk, Va., which separates the Ger
man village from the marine exercis
ing grounds. z
Frank Hanly and Ira I.andrith, can
didates for president and vice presi
dent, respectively, of the Prohibition
party have been notified of their re
spective nominations, the ceremonies
occurring at Indianapolis, Ind.
The eight hundred delegates attend
ing the annual convention of the Na
tional Rural Carriers’ association, in
Chicago, whose membership is said to
be thirty thousand, discussed good
roads, pensions and suitable parcel
post packages among other subjects of
interest to them.
The New York City street car
strikers won every point for which
they contended, and have returned to
work.
Cotton is soaring, and it is pre
dicted that the fall crop will bring
15 cents.
Joseph Francis Daly, a former jus
tice of the New York state supreme
court, died suddenly at his home in
Yonkers, N. Y. He was born at Ply
mouth, N. C., in 1840. In 1900 he was
made a member of the commission to
revise the laws of Porto Rico.
Five unmasked automobile bandits
at Detroit held up an automobile in
which $50,000 payroll money was con
tained, seized about thirty-four thou
sand dollars and escaped in plain
view of hundreds of employes of sev
eral automobile factories.
The health department of New York
City reports that infantile paralysis
continues to gain headway.
Over one thousand children have
already been killed in New York City
by infantile paralysis, and there is
yet no let-up.
Washington
Secretary Daniels announces that
plans for the ships to be built under
the pending naval bill are so far ad
vanced that contracts for all but the
battle cruisers and the ammunition
ship can be advertised within a week
after the measure has been signed by
the president.
Persistency of infantile paralysis in
spite of all efforts of state and fed
eral officials caused the federal pub
lic health service to request state
health authorities throughout the coun
try to send representatives to a con
ference in Washington to discuss the
means for preventing a further spread
of the disease.
The United States has asked for
and received permission from Germa
ny to publish as a formal document
the last note in the Lusitania case, in
which Germany “recognizes liability,”
promised to make reparation by the
payment of indemnity, gives assur
ance for the future and declares that
reprisals, such as ruthless submarine
operations, must not be directed at
other than enemy subjects.
The new farm loan scheme has
many points of resemblance to the
federal reserve system, but in many
essential features it is entirely dif
ferent.
In no way will the new farm loan
scheme do commercial banking, and
it is not probable that the new system
will ever have the resources of the
reserve system.
Dispatches from the border an
nounce that the health of the National
Guardsmen is good, and that the gen
eral showing of the state troops is
as good as that of the regulars.
In operation the new’ farm loan sys
tem will to some extent do for the
farmer what the federal reserve sys
tem does for the business man in
the cities.
The new farm loan board, charged
with organization of the federal land
bank system provid g methods for
making loans to farmers on first mort
gages of land at the treasury depart
ment has been appointed, consisting
of Secretary McAdoo, chairman ex
officia; C. E. Lobdell, George W. Nor
ris, W. S. A. Smith and Herbert
Quick.
National defense legislation in con
gress is approaching completion.
Forty cities have put in application
for the rural credits banks.
The battle for a greater navy has
won out in congress. Democratic
leaders in the house will support the
big building naval program.
Mr. Padgett and Senator Swanson,
ranking Democrats of the senate com
mittee, talked over the subject of the
vig naval,’mjcldine; p.rpyr&n with Pres
-d [they want to see Wwod ta
twvfoliar [have to. eqtjte to Zi^kle'.
Complete revision of the munitions
tax section of the house revenue bill
and sweeping increases in the inher
itance tax were ordered recommended
by Democratic members of the sen
ate finance committee.
Cotton linters, used in the manufac
ture of war munitions, have been add
ed to the list of commodities to be
taxed by the senate finance commit
tee.
The proposed higher taxes on big
inheritances would increase the esti
mated revenue from that section of
the pending bill before congress from
fifty-one million to seventy-two million
dollars anually.
Under the farm loan scheme the
farmer is given opportunity to secure
money on his most available asset,
just like the merchant is accommo
dated at the federal reserve bank —
for instance, his land —and his paper
based on that will find a ready mar
ket.
European War
More than five million prisoners,
double the number of men engaged In
any previous war that the world has
known, are now confined in prison
camps of the belligerent nations.
A French torpedo boat destroyer
torpedoed an Austrian submarine
north of the Island of Corfu.
An official dispatch from Berlin
says that between July 31 and August
5 one German submarine sank in the
North sea thirteen British steam traw
lers and one British government coal
steamer.
The entente allies in the main the
aters of the war have made additional
notable gains against the Teutonic al
lies.
In France Joffre’s men have taken
three trenches; have again won a
foothold in the Thiaumont work near
Verdun and have captured two lines
of German trenches on the Vaux-Chap
itre-Chenois front.
The British in the Somme region
near Guillemont have thrown forward
their line about four hundred yards.
The Italian war office announces the
capture of the Gorizia brideghead by
the Italians.
The Italians claim the capture of
more than eight thousand prisoners
on August 6.
Air bombardments are playing an
important part in the Austro-Italian
war theater.
A telegram announces that the Ger
man merchant submarine Bremen is
in the hands of the French navy. It
is stated that the submarine was cap
tured on its outward trip to the Unit
ed States.
The intente allies have notified the
Greek government of a curtailment of
food shipments to Greece.
Amid continuous heavy rains which
have turned the country into a quag
mire, the Russians are keeping up
their strong offensive against the Teu
tonic allies in northern Galicia.
Along the Stokhod river in Volhynia
near the town of Zarecze, the Rus
sians have captured Teutonic trench
es, taking 12 officers and 200 men
prisoners, and capturing one machine
gun.
In the Carpathians the Germans re
port the capture of two peaks.
Constantinople reports a series of
gains for the Turks fighting against
the Russians.
The Turks says that an attack by
the Russians north of Bukan on the
Persian front was put down with se
vere losses for the Russians.
The Russians in Turkish Armenia
have beeui put to flight near Bitlis and
Mush.
Italian troops have captured strong
Austrian positions commanding com
munications between the Travenanzes
valley and the Sare Torrent in the
Gader valley, i nthe Tofano region.
On the lower Isonzo the Italian
have gained possession of nearly the
whole of Hill No. 85.
Aviators felt the concussion 9,000
feet in the air when a brigade of Brit
ish aeroplanes bombarded Henin.
When the sheds and storehouse of
the Germans were fired by incendiary
bombs, a vast pillar of smoke from
the conflagration rose to a height of
8,000 feet.
In northern Galicia, the Russians
have struck another hard blow at the
Teutonic allies.
In the fighting around Sereth and
Graberki in Galicia the Russians cap
tured a regimental commander and
140 other officers and more than fifty
five hundred men.
Berlin asserts that the Russians
have been driven from positions along
the Stokhod river, south of Zareczo,
and that in the Carpathians the Ger
mans are still operating successfully.
In Asiatic Turkey the Russians re
port the capture at various places of
new Turkish positions.
A London dispatch announces that
the strong Turkish force which attack
ed the British at Romani, 22 miles
east of the Suez canal on the fourth
of August, was defeated and put to
flight by a counter attack. The Turks
were vigorously pursued and more
than twenty-five hundred prisoners,
including several Germans, taken.
Several Austrian attacks on the
slopes of Monte Zebio, on the Setti
Communi plateau, were checked by
Italian artillery recently.
The Official Journal in Paris pub
lishes the names of American indi
viduals and firms placed on the French
blacklist under the charge of trading
with the enemy of the French repub
lic.
The French blacklist includes the
names of firms and individuals in Afri
ca, South America. Japan, the Phil
ippines, Cuba, Df k, Portugal, Hol
land, Greece, Jr j.nd Sweden, as
ell as the Uiake a cwßes.
Jh " •r jv '■ i* A
IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the Imita
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on "La Creole" Hair Dressing—
It’s the original. Darkens your hair In
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price SI.OO. —Adv.
A Subtle System.
‘‘What we want to get,’’ said the
editor of the household publication, ‘‘is
a good series of articles on how to
manuge a husband.”
‘‘For what?”
“In order to buy all the fashionable
things we’re going to advertise a wom
an will have to have the husband thor
oughly trained.”
Don’t Poison Baby.
FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have
PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it Bleep. These drugs will produce
sleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP
FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who
have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda
num and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists
are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or
to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of “narcotic”
f •, “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison
ous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death.” The taste and
smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names
of “ Drops,” “ Cordials,” “ Soothing Syrups, etc. You should not permit any
medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know
of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT
CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature
of Chas H. Fletcher.
Qenuine Castoria always bears the signature of /<6CC*uM
A Feminine Egotist.
“I consulted a fortune teller the oth
er day,” said the poor but proud young
man, “and she told me I was in love
with a beautiful heiress, but she would
never marry me. It looks like I was
up against it!”
“Oh, not necessarily,” rejoined the
fair maid on the other end of the
sofa. “No fortune teller has ever
been authorized to speak for me.”
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. sl.oo.—Adv.
Ribbon “White Elephant."
Three yards of silk ribbon are the
latest contribution to the conscience
fund. And thereby a great problem as
to how to cover the value into the
United States treasury has arisen.
The contribution seems something of
a white elephant, the Washington Star
says.
Probably the ribbon will be sold to
the highest bidder at public auction
and tlie amount realized covered into
the treasury. The value of the ribbon
cannot be judged and the prospective
amount of the credit to the conscience
fund cannot be established. The rib
bon is about four inches wide, vari
colored and of exquisite heavy qual
ity.
The envelope containing the ribbon
was postmarked Paterson, N. .T. There
was no message inclosed, the package
being addressed simply to “The Con
science Fund, Washington, D. C.” It
is presumed that the ribbon itself was
smuggled in and is now surrendered.
Tetterlne Conquer* Poiaon Oak.
1 enclose 50 cents in stamps for a box
of Tetterlne. I have poison oak on me
again, and that is all that has ever cured
tt. Please hurry it on to
M. E. Hamlett.
Montalba, Tex., May 21, ’OB.
Tetterine cures Eczema, Tetter, Ring
Worm, Itching Piles, Old Itching Sores,
Dandruff, Chilblains and every form of
Scalp and Skin Disease. Tetterine 50c;
Tetterine Soap 25c. Your druggist, or by
mail from the manufacturer. The Shup
trlne Co.. Savannah, Ga.
With every mail order for Tetterine we
give a box of Shuptrine’a 10c Liver Pills
free. Adv.
Dandelions Will Be Popular.
Dandelions will yet become popular
as an article of diet with the people.
They have always been so abundant
that they have not been appreciated.
Now some eastern canning establish
ments are advertising for dandelions
to can. They are about to be put on the
market, as a staple article of food, to
be had at any time of the year. If
they are so good for factories to can,
they are also good for the home gar
dener to can. Our schools are now
teaching the science of canning, which
will be a help in making the dande
lion green available. One of the great
advantages in favor of this vegetable
Is that it is extremely hardy. It .grows
as far north as the shores of the Arc
tic ocean. Some of the seed houses
carry dandelion seeds. Anyone, how
ever, can gather his own seed, and it
should prove interesting to experiment
along the line of raising dandelions
from native seed on very rich ground
and under garden conditions.
Had Severe Kidney Trouble
Engineer J. E. Fellows of the C. N. O. &T. P. Ry, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., writes that when he was firing he was attacked with kidney trouble.
He took various medicines and tried doctors, but neither did him any good.
A friend advised him to try
Dr. Thacher’s Liver and Blood Syrup
He did so, and improved from the first. He has never been troubled since,
and what it did for him it will do for you. It is the safest and surest treat
ment for indigestion, kidney and liver trouble. 60c and sl, at all druggists.
ItfIHTERSMITH’s
1? (kILLTONIC
Sold for 47 yjear*. For Malaria, Chills arid Fever. Ala
i Fine General Strengthening Tonic. 50c ui fI.OO at ifl Urn* Stan
Whenever You Need a General Tooic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard -Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
j IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents.
No Objection.
Wife —“Do you object to my having
two hundred dollars a month spending
money?” Husband —“Certainly not, if
you find it anywhere.” —Judge.
One can become a near-nuisance by
continually criticizing the weather.
More Efficacious.
“In a few days, Mr. Grimm, you will
have no further trouble with my chick
ens,” said Neighbor Yaw. “I am work
ing on an invention which is calculated
to discourage them from scratching.
It is an attachment which fastens to
the fowl’s leg and has a prod project
ing out behind. When he or as
the case may be, attempts to scratch,
the prod strikes the ground and kicks
him or her forward. A few scratches,
and he or she kicks himself or herself
clear out Of the garden.”
“I do not expect to wait for your
chickens to kick themselves out of my
garden,” replied Gaunt N. Grimm. “The
next time I catch them in there I’ll
grab you by the neck, and kick you all
over this end of town.”
READ THIS FROM A
PROMINENT RAILROAD MAN
Mr. John W. Hager, Fuel Inspector of
the N. C. & St. L. Ry., living at 3008
Carlisle, Nashville, Tenn., writes: “During
the fall of 1914 I had the grippe for six
weeks and had three doctors. One bottle
of Lung-Vita did me more good than all
of the medicine they had given me. Last
winter my little boy had the whooping
cough and we thought he would never be
well again. We tried everything we could
think of, with no results, until we used
Lung-Vita. After using this medicine h#
is well and hardy and has never been both
ered any more. We would not be with
out it in our home.” Use Lung-Vita for
consumption, asthma, coughs, croup, colds,
and whooping cough. If your dealer does
not have it send $1.75 for a thirty-day
treatment today. Nashville Medicine Co.,
Dept. C, Nashville, Tenn. Adv.
Ordering Meals by Telephone.
A cafe in Plainfield, N. J., has In
stalled a unique system for the con
venience of its diners. Whether the
plan will eventually be welcomed by
the dining public has still to be proved,
but it has the merits of ingenuity and
novelty. Each table in this enterpris
ing cafe is connected directly with the
kitchen and the head chef by means of
a telephone. The fastidious diner, in
stead of trusting the fine points of his
order to a mere waiter, tells them di
rectly into the ear of the chef. Tlius
he can have his steak cooked to the
exact turn he likes and get exactly
the proper number of drops of season
ing in the sauces.
An Enlister.
“I thought you told me you were on
your wuy to enlist?”
“I am,” replied Plodding Pete. “I’m
tryin' to enlist sympathy for me large
an’ unsatisfied appetite.”
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 lu*-
ter by using “La Creole" Hair Dress
ing. Price sl.oo.—Adv.
Costly.
“I hope you’ll make a good job of
this portrait,” remarked the multimil
lionaire. “Remember, it’s costing me
in the neighborhood of ten thousand
dollars.”
“I beg pardon," said the artist. “My
price is only a thousand dollars.”
“Yes, yes, I know that. But think of
ail the valuable time I have to spend
posing for you.”