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most of the situation. He found innnk occasions for passing in and out of the
tent, saluting every time he passed’Sentry Wardman, who was obliged by
military courtesy to return the salrte. It is said that a broad grin ornamented
the features of the reporter everj time the tent flap closed behind him, but
Private Wardman took it all in thaine of duty.
Later Mr. Wardman was commissioned a lieutenant and sent to I-crto
Pico, where he saw fighting and soWell conducted himself that he was men
tioned in orders and commended fo gallantry.
COSBY TESTS POISON GASES
Col. Spencer Cosby, United States -
military attache at Paris, has beenj
speaking in a hoarse whisper of late,
and his friends are congratulating him
on losing nothing more than his voice.
When the German army begim the
use of poison gases, Colonel Cosby
shared the keen interest of his brother
military invesftjpitors in the new ele
ment of warfare, and determined to
test the gases on himself. He was
given the opportunity by the French
army chemists, who had samples of the
three kinds used, direct from the front.
The two less deadly varieties were
tried, and Colonel Cosby found them
not especially overpowering.
They had now reached the deadly
gas which clutches and kills.
chemist paused.
“You will not try this,” he scß,
appealingly.
“Yes, all of them,” said the colon*
positively.
“Then we must be very cautious.lsaid thifhemist. “Place yourself about
a foot away from the bottle. I will rae the gtps stopper the slightest possible
fraction of an inch, so that only an iugnifleai* portion of gas can escape—but
it will be enough. Now, ready!”
He drew the stopper the sllghtesparticltj and only for an instant, with
Colonel Cosby a foot away. But in tt instaijt the colonel felt he had been
hurled back 20 feet. Tongues of fire sre eating at his throat, and ten thou
sand needles were darting around hispek. It seemed as though live vitriol
had been emptied in his mouth and waoursiDg through his veins. His whole
vocal system was paralyzed. This inflesimal portion of the deadly gas hud,
in an instant, overpowered him.
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nn Aueust 6, 18G7, attended New York O e und Columbia university
and was admitted to the bar In 1888.
He Is associated as member or director ttcally with every Jewish
Dhilanthropic organization in New York city. is vice president of the
Free Synagogue and a trustee of the Baron de :h fund .
Mr fifkiis was married in 1890 to Gertrude less of New York. They
have two daughters, Ethel J. and Katharine, an*. son , James Mess Elkt*
Madame Bnkhmeteff, the wife of the
Russian ambassador, has taken a t jer
in fashions, and in Introducing to the
rich and exclusive set at Newport the
brilliantly colored cotton and s
shawls such as the peasants of her
adopted country wear, she has at t
same time given a stimulus to the co -
ton trade which should materially In
crease the Russian market for Ameri
can cotton.
When women of fashion are mo
or less taking on the accouterments of
war In the style of their hats and
coats and the picturesque dress of the
peasants of many of the counti esia
war, this innovation of Mme. Bakm -
teff in the way of a light wrap or
either morning or evening has become
a charity as well as a fad, or
manufacture of these shawls or scarfs
helps the cottage peasant industries
of Russia, furnishing work to hundreds
s=f ;
The newspaper life of Ervin Ward
man, w'ho became publisher of ;he
New York Sun w T hen it was purchased
by Frank Munsey, has been for the
most port a steady, day-by-day affair.
But It had one lively Interlude, during
the Spanish-American war. Mr.
Wardman, then editor of the New
York Press, enlisted as a private, and
was sent at first to Chattanooga. Of
his stay there a little story is related.
Mr. Wardman had ordered one
of his reporters to the encampment
for instructions on a certain story, and,
as fate would have it, the day of the
reporter’s arrival at the camp was
Private Wardman’s day for sentry duty
in front of the commandant’s tent. It
also happened that the commandant
and the reporter were old friends, and
the latter received an Invitation to
dinner in the soldier’s tent, with a
cold bottle on the side.
Naturally the reporter made the
NEW ENVOYO TURKEY
STARTS A CHARITAI FAD
Keeping up the custom of sending
ftublic-spirited, broad-minded, pliil
hropic Jew to represent the United
les in Turkey, the president has ap
feed Abram I. Elkus, a well-known
* York lawyer, as ambassador to
Sjed Henry Morgenthau, who made
a tinguished record for himself and
h'untry during trying times at Con
sthople.
f. Elkus, who has a high reputa
, a lawyer, is senior member of
of Elkus, Gleason & Pros
l£a,Vmd is known especially for his
counsel for the state factory
l nve iting commission, a position
held f rora i9ii till 1915. He
has \ed some 30 bills, all of which
were cted i aw , mitigating the
evils c hn d labor, especially in
canne and tenefflent houses and
prohiti- undue work and night work
for wl
Mfcus was born in New York
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
NEWS BRIERY TOLD
Dispatches ot Important Events Gath
ered From All Farts of The
World.
FOR THE BUSY READER
The Happenings of Seven Days Are
Given In Epitomized Form for
Quick Reading.
Mexican News
Charges are being circulated in Chi
huahua, Mexico that certain Ameri
can mining and other concerns with
vast properties in Mexico are refusing
to operate in order to bring about
intervention.
Mexican officials assert that with
plenty of work to do the laboring
classes of Mexico would quit turning
to banditry.
Mexican officials claim that there
are now only small band groups op
erating, and that they are few' in num
ber, both in bands and the number
of men in the bands.
American owners of mines in Mex
ico are reported to be importing food
in large quantities.
Domestic
No lives were lost in the Lake Tox
away, N. C., flood disaster.
At Clemson college at Rock Hill,
S. C., the Seneca river rose nine feet
due to the Lake Toxaway dam break
ing, but no damage is reported.
Charles E. Hughes, speaking to a
female audience in Spokane, Wash.,
addressed them as “fellow citizens.”
This is the first time since his nom
ination that Mr, Hugiies has addressed
an audience of women.
The first Georgia bale of sea island
cotton, marketed at Valdosta, Ga.,
brought 35c a pound.
Considerable damage to crops and
homes is reported in North Carolina
as a result of the dam at Lake Tox
away giving w'ay.
The Lake Toxaway dam, near Ashe
ville, N. C., weakened by the recent
floods, broke down sending a great
wall of water through the valley to
ward western North Carolina. No
lives are reported lost.
Lake Toxaway, completely drained
by the recent North Carolina floods,
is an artificial lake, having been built
by eastern capitalists, covers 550 acres
and has an average depth of 30 foot.
The towm of Lake Toxaway, a
summer resort, sustained only minor
damages due to the breaking of the
dam at Lake Toxaway.
One version of the breaking of Lake
Toxaway is that a’ small spring had
seeped away the foundation at a
heavily pressed point.
Lake Toxaway is the third lake in
North Carolina destroyed by the
floods.
The death toll resulting from a
w'reck on the line of the Southern
Cambria Traction company seven
miles from Johnstow’n, Pa., totals 26
people.
A farmer named Palmer, near Na
cona., Texas, nearly fainted when,
plowing, several days ago, on his farm,
he threw up silver bars estimated to
be worth $280,000, thought to have
been hidden there in the 16th or 17th
century by Spaniards.
One hundred thousand dollars’ worth
of w'hiskey was destroyed at Girard,
Ala., by the sheriff. This is the out
growth of the raid made by the Ala
bama state government some months
ago on the “tigers” of Girard, across
the river from Columbus, Ga.
Thirty-five bodies have been recov
ered in the flooded district of W’est
Virginia.
Food and clothing are being hurried
to the Cabin Creek flooded district
in West Virginia, and supply bases
are being established by the military
authorities.
Washington
Orders for the remaining mobiliz
ed units of the National Guard to
proceed to the border have been sus
pended by the war department. No
official explanation has been made,
but it is known that the delicacy of
the railroad strike situation is the
moving consideration.
Some of the Kentucky, Ohio and
Vermont troops were about ready to
go to the border when the order re
scinding the movement was received.
Congress has virtually completed
the national defense program by final
ly approving the great increases in
naval construction and personnel writ
ten into the navy bill and urgently
supported by the administration.
The threatened strike of the rail
ways involving two million men can
now be averted only by the good of
fices of the president, which controver
sy has been laid before him at his
own request, after the railroad work
ers flatly refused to accept arbitration.
The suspension of the movement of
the Guard to the border
is stated to be based on the fact that
the railroad situation might possibly
curtail the food supply.
Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis
declines to serve on the joint com
mission that will attempt to settle the
differences between Mexico and the
United States. He says the mass of
business before the Supreme court is
too great for him to spare the time.
Nineteen southern cities have ap
plied to the farm loan board to be
designated as the site of farm land
banks under the new rural credits
law.
The revenue measure as amended
by the senate finance committee was
approved in the Democratic caucus,
held August 14
The Sixty-fourth congress is nearing
completion, and the importance of the
two hundred million dollar revenue
bill is being impressed upon the lead
ers of the senate.
The Sixty-fourth congress when it
adjourns will have exceeded the pre
vious high record in appropriations
by at least a half billion dollars.
More than ninety million dollars
for special purposes will have been
appropriated by the Sixty-fourth con
gress when it adjourns.
European War
The Russians, after a considerable
period of inactivity, are moving ag
gressively against the Teutonic forces
in that region.
Following the taking of Jablonitza,
one of the chief gateways of Hungary,
the Russians captured a series of
heights west of Vorokhta and Adze
moy.
Over three hundred and fifty-eight
thousand men have been taken by
Russian General Brusiloff since the
4th of June, when the offensive was
inaugurated.
The entente allies, after a brisk
combat, have captured a line of Ger
man trenches on a front of fifteen
hundred meters to the north of Mau
repas, in the Somme region.
German trenches 1,200 meters long
to the south of Belloy-en-Santerre
have been captured by the British.
It is stated that 750,000 Armenians
have been murdered by the Turks
since they entered the European Arma
geddon.
Officials connected with the United
States government at Washington be
lieve that the Turks are planning to
destroy other races besides the Arme
nians.
The Armenian patriarchate in Tur
key has been abolished by order of
the Turkish government, and this is
believed to be a war of extermination
against the Armenians.
Before the war there were 1,750,000
Armenians in Turkey, but 750,000 are
reported to have been killed and 250,-
000 to have fled. As a result Arme
nian power in Turkey is thought to be
entirely dissipated.
A new loan of $250,000,000 to Great
Britain, pledged against which are se
curities to the value of $300,000,000,
is announced in New York. The loan
is in the form of gold notes dated
September 1, 1916.
The British government reserves the
right to redeem thb new loan placed
in the United States on thirty notice
at any time up to August 31, 1917, at
101 and accrued interest.
According to German reports one
million shells were fired by the Brit
ish on the Somme front in twenty-four
hours. What the losses in human life
resulting from this deluge of fire is
hard to estimate.
The allies are fighting the Bulgari
ans on a front of one hundred miles,
and have captured the station at Doi
ran and four villages at other points
on the front.
Paris reports that the Germans are
taking over the defenses of Trieste,
sending troops especially organized
for that purpose.
The Italian dreadnaught Leonardo
da Vinci caught fire and blew up in
the harbor of Taranto, Italy, and 300
of her crew were drowned. The date
of the disaster is given as a day in
August.
The war bill of France at the end
of July was 39,000,000,000 francs. The
miscellaneous expenses of the govern
ment were 10,000,000 francs. The
average cost of the war, the figures
show, is now 1,987,000,000 francs a
month.
The Russians have captured Jablon
itza, one of the principal gateways
from Russia to the Hungarian plains.
Farther to the north of Galicia the
Russians are continuing their drive
against the Austrians with apparent
ly uninterrupted success.
Premier Romanones of Spain con
ferred with the French and Italian
ambassadors and the Portuguese min
isters. The meetings are considered
very mysterious in diplomatic circles.
There is no clue whatever to the rea
son of the conferences.
The Austrians and Germans in Ga
licia are still falling back before the
advancing Russians.
The Russians have captured the
strongly fortified town of Tustobaby,
northwest of Dniester.
The Germans are holding the Rus
sians on the upper Sereth.
South of Brody, the Germans have
checked the onrush of the Russians,
and German advices are that the Teu
tons have taken 300 prisoners.
The Italians in the Isonzo district
have captured many trenches and im
portant positions in the Carso pla
teau.
The Austrians says the Italian at
tacks in Gorizia have been put down,
and that here the advance of the Ital
ians has been checked.
The Turks in Armenia are retreat
ing before the Russians.
The Russians in Persia are retreat
ing before the Ottoman troops.
In Armenia, north of Bitlis, the
Turks report repeated successes.
Hard fighting continues in all war
zones.
A German submarine is reported as
having been sunk by a Swedish cruis
er between Stockholm and Skargaard.
The most notable advance was by
the British who captured 300 to 400
yards over a front of nearly a mile
against the Germans in the Somme re
gion.
The French southeast of Maurepas
gained a further foothold on the slopes
of Hill 109.
The Russians have captured many
thousands of prisoners, especially on
the right bank of the Sereth, where
the prisoners taken number five thou
sand.
SfIDMnONAL
SUMS*
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
•he Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute. Chicago.)
(Copyright, lUI6. Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR AUGUST 27
JOURNEYING TO JERUSALEM.
LESSON TEXT-Acts 20:16-38.
GOLDEN TEXT—I commend you to God
and to the word of his grace.—Acts 20:32.
After his experience in Ephesus Paul
went to Corinth, where, amidst much
sickness and nfliiction, he cared for
the churches, corrected their wrong
conduct and probably wrote several of
his letters and epistles (II Cor. 4:7-11;
11:28; 12:20). From Corinth he jour
neyed by way of Phillipl to Troas
where he preached his famous long
sermon (v. 5-12), that sermon which
had such a tragic result. It is recorded
as a witness to the power of the pray
er of faith and Paul’s readiness to
serve In time of need. In his haste to
reach Jerusalem before the Day of
Pentecost (A. D. 58) Paul did not re
turn to Ephesus, but, in order to save
time, he had the elders of that church
meet him at Miletus (See a good
map).
1. A Great Review (vv. 17-28). Paul’s
statesmanship and genius for organi
zation is nowhere more clearly set
forth than here. He had plans for a
great evangelistic campaign of Latin
lands, (Ch. 19:21), Before pursuing
his plan he decided to visit Jerusalem,
carrying with him the collections
which had been systematically taken
up in the various churches on lids
tour (Rom. 15:2G; I Cor. 10:1-5; Acts
24:17) and he was accompanied by a
considerable number of pilgrims. (See
v. 4.) It is a good thing to pause occa
sionally and to take stock, to review
our lives and to see what progress we
have made. This Paul did, and to this
Ephesian delegation he enumerates (1)
his character among them (vv. 18-19).
They knew his manner of life, how
that, as a bond servant, and “with all
lowliness of mind,” he had served
their church. They also knew that
with tears he had wept over their hard
and impenitent hearts (v. 31) and all
of this amidst many testings; (2) his
method of work (v. 20). Paul not
only worked at his trade of tentmak
ing, but found time for the public
proclamation of the gospel und also
house to house visitation. He was
ufter men, not notoriety. He was al
ways and ever at it, amidst trials, self
denial and the “lying in wait,” (Am. R.
V.) of men; (3) his methods (v. 21).
He had the same message for Jew and
Gentile, “repentance toward God and
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Repentance is not for Jews alone. Paul
shrank not from declaring all that was
profitable for their encouragement, re
proof, warning, help, training in serv
ice and hard study. He had taught
them publicly in classes, and had vis
ited them from house to house and had
invited them to his own home. Paul’s
aim, as is the teacher’s aim, was to
make all people patriotic citizens of
the kingdom of heaven while on eurth,
that they might fight the good fight of
faith against all evils, even the prin
cipalities and powers of evil.
It was a great undertaking, and he
knew not what might befall him, but
lie did know that bonds and nfliiction
awaited him; however, none of these
things could move him from his pur
pose.
He “counted not his life as dear unto
himself” if so he he might hold out
until the end and accomplish his
course and ministry. This epoch-mak
ing journey, one of the greatest in his
tory, suggests in many points our
Savior’s last journey towards that
same city (Luke 9:51). Like his mas
ter, Paul knew that ahead of him were
trials, but he also knew that God was
leading him in obedience to the Spir
it’s guidance, though it was over the
protests of his friends.
11. A Great Charge (vv. 28-38). It is
a great experience when one can de
clare himself pure from the blood of
all men (v. 26), and that he has not
shrunk from declaring the whole coun
sel of God. Such conduct always
brings an obligation upon those who
know and hear such men, viz., that
it should be emulated. These elders
were to return to the church at Ephe
sus, not to be servants of themselves
but to feed the church of God (v. 28).
Paul knew, as a prophet, what would
be in store for them (vv. 29-30). There
fore he exhorts them to watch, and
warns them how by his own hands he
had supported himself and had lived a
righteous life among them (v. 34).
We have here rescued from oblivion
a new saying of our Lord Jesus
Christ, “It is more blessed to give than
to receive,” one not found in the gos
pels.
It is this giving which produces a
higher quality of happiness and a more
noble character.
It is the blessedness of Christ, of
heaven, and of the Christian religion.
It is also the blessedness that en
dures.
Paul then poured forth his prayer
on their behalf (vv. 36-39).
Blessed is the Sunday-school class
and the church which has such a
teacher and such a leader.
These friends sensed the significance
of tlris final separation from Paul (v.
38), and their greater sorrow seemed
to be to miss his personality than to
lose the help of his teaching.
No teacher’s influence exceeds his
character.
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