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n niiiJii'iriioiiT FORESAW VALUE OF SUBMARINE out upon a nation and a world that holds the submarine in the highest respect und refrains from saying, “'I told you so.” He was the first officer of the navy to make a report on the submarine as a warcraft following actual service in one beneath the surface. In many respects he may he termed the father of the submarine. And yet he declines to boast. Hear Admiral Lowe was born in Liverpool, England, and migrated with his family to Columbus, O. lie enlisted in the Union army, was wounded at Bull Hun and on recovery entered the naval service as an engineer otficer. He was a member of the Greeley relief expedition, and did valiant service In the Spanish-Amerlcan war. WHEN PERSHING WAS A BOY In Linn county, Missouri, where he was born, John Joseph Pershing is re vered clear up to the limit. He is the apple of the eye of the countryside. Residents of Laclede, Pershing’s home town, tingle and glow at the men tion of his name. Those who knew him as a boy bask in the reflection of his distinction. To have known Pershing —to have gone to school with him —is enough. Pershing’s seatmute in school, C. C. Rigger, a lawyer, says John —they all call him John —had almost white hair until he was nearly grown, and that he was nicknamed “tow heud.” “His complexion was almost as fair as a girl’s,” Mr. Bigger contributes. “I’ve had many a fight with him and I always could whip him because I was bigger, but he was always ready to keep right on fighting. Whip him one day and he would be right back to tackle you the next. When he took his examination for West Point with others who were trying for the appointment to be given by Congressman Burrough my brother was on the examining board. The United States came near losing a great soldier right there because John was only One point ahead of the next man, a fellow named Higginbotham. The wrong answer to one question would have sent the other man to West Point, and Pershing would have been a lawyer, because he always inclined that way.” figure of the cavalryman. A fearless erectness of the heud, a cool, steady glance out of clean, clear blue eyes that are set in a maze of tiny wrinkles; a square, stern jaw, a close-clipped light brown mustache over an Irish mouth — these are tilings that impress the observer. There is a deliberateness of manner and speech about him that betoken the man of poise, strength, determination and bravery. He looks like one who is afraid of nothing on earth. QUEEN OF PITCAIRN ISLAND Queen Emily McCoy of Pitcairn island recently started back from the United States to her tropical kingdom of the South Pacific, where sin is un known and the simple life is led. She is the daughter of John It. McCoy, the present ruler of the island. Queen Emily, who has been in this country for the last eight years studying economies, nursing, medicine, dentistry, music and the other arts of modern civilization in order to perfect herself as ruler of her 175 subjects, returns to her home unmarried. She says that everything is “up to” the ruler. In view of this statement Queen Emily was asked if she didn't need a Btrong man to share her royal burdens. "Aren’t you looking for a prince con sort?” was the question put directly to her. “Well, 1 haven’t made such an an nouncement yet,” she replied, “for that is to be.” Then as an arch smile lighted up her features, which give a hint of her Polynesian ancestry. Queen Emily continued: “If the right prince consort should come along I might be very glad to have his advice. He must be a teetotaller, however, as alcohol is unknown among my people and I am not going to tolerate its introduction.” “The facts recorded in this report prove, beyond shadow of doubt, that submarine vessels are a distinct prac ticability and that, therefore, subma rine warfare is capable and worthy of development.” This sentence is from a report to the navy department written in 1898 by Captain and Chief Engineer John Lowe, U. S. N., on the submarine Holland. It was the deliberate judgment of an experienced veteran of three naval wars, then sixty years old, who, when he wrote the report knew well that lie was calling down upon his head the contemptuous assertion of many so called authorities that “Lowe is a senile old fool who bus been carried away by this toy.” And now the writer of the report, Rear Admiral John Lowe, U. S. N. (re tired), vigorous, good nutured, keen and active, from his summer home at Fortunes Rock, Biddeford, Me., looks DUVAL WEST President Wilson’s later policy in dealing with Mexico is attributed, by those who know, to the information supplied to him by Duval West of San Antonio, Tex. Mr. West is one of the leading lawyers of Texas. He knows Mexico and the Mexicans intimately, closely. He is learned in international law. He has no axes to grind. He is not a politician. But he is an intense ly practical, hard-headed lawyer who knows how to get at the root of any thing he undertakes to investigate. He investigated Mexico and its factional leaders and he reported to the president his findings, his estimates of the men who are to the front there, and his conclusions. Ills report Is a con fidential document in the hands of the president. But that it is to have a tremendous bearing on the future of Mexico is admitted by ail who have knowledge of the facts. A slender, erect,- small-boned figure he has; not tall, neither short, but the V. y % f £%».. ... THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. EPITOME OF THE | EVENTS in a Condensed Form the Happenings of Ail 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 collector of ancient curios in Kan sas City, resenting attempts to eject him from his apartment, shot and kill ed two policemen, fatally wounded two ■other policemen and slightly wounded Mrs. Maude Echord, living in a nearby apartment. Larkin was killed. A carload of food and clothing was shipped to the Mud river valley, West Virginia, following the receipt of ad vices that more than one hundred families were in destitute circum stances as a result of the recent flood. More than thirty negroes taken to Wyandotte, Mich., from Alabama have been told they cannot remain in that city, and were given twenty-four hours to make their get away. Receiver for the Boston and Maine railroad has been applied for in the federal court at Boston. Eight persons were killed and a number of others are reported missing as the result of an explosion at Jack son, Tenn., at the plant of the Har lan Morris Stove company. The boil ers gave way and the shock was felt throughout the city. Thirteen persons were killed and property valued at approximately two million dollars was destroyed in the storm which struck Corpus Christi and swept ten adjacent counties in south Texas. The Texas storm-stricken area ex tends along about one hundred and fifty miles of the lower gulf coast from Corpus Christi to Brownsville, reaching inland from thirty to fifty miles. Seizure of $25,000 worth of jewels and the arrest of a man who said his name was Hans Edward Thompson in New York City, led customs officials to believe they were about to uncover a big smuggling conspiracy. Thomp son returned from abroad July 11 as a steerage passenger and smuggled the jewels ashore. More arrests are ex pected. Blowing at seventy miles an hour a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mex ico hit the Texas coast at Corpus Christ at Brownsville and on the in termediate points. In the tropical storm at Corpus Christi, the wooden buildings of the lowa National Guard were blown down, the Illinois camp was under water, the horses of the Illinois Guard suffered greatly from exposure, some were lost and the roads rendered im passable. At Fort Sam Houston the Texas tropical storm blew down the tents of the New York National Guard, as also at Llane Grande, Mercedes and Mission. Thirty thousand soldiers are sleep ing in public buildings at Fort Sam Houston as a result of the tropical storm on the Texas coast. The tropical storm was accompanied by a deluge of rain, four and a half inches being registered at many points. Washington Secretay Lansing announces that Secretary of the Interior Lane, Judge George Gray of Wilmington, Del., and Dr. John R. Mott of New York City will compose the joint commission to settle the differences of this country with Mexico. The United States has sent repre sentations to the Turkish porte ask ing that the Turkish amy be more considerate with the Armenians, and that useless taking of life be dispensed with. It is stated in official circles that American residents along the inter national line between Mexico and the United States are enjoying peace and security. There is no doubt that the National Guard will be retained on the Mexican border until it can be withdrawn without endanging American lives and property. Secretary Baker says the training the enlisted men are receiving under supervision of regular army officers will fit them to act in time of war or other emergency as a supporting arm, or second line, for the regular army, furnishing a valuable asset to national preparedness that could not be otherwise obtained. The story of a Villa chief with his own hands cutting off the ears of 20 prisoners, who later were shot, is told by a rescued prisoner in El Demo crata of Chihuahua City, Mexico, cop ies of which have been forwarded to Washington. Investigation of reports from Pan ama that a sixty thousand-acre tract of land at the Atlantic end of the ca nal is being sought by a Spaniard • named Fernandez, presumably for Jap anese interests, has been ordered by Secretary Lansing. The announce ment is significant, although the sec retary of state refuses to discuss the report. State department officials do not at tempt to disguise their chagrin over the premature publication of General Funston’s latest recommendation of withdrawing the troops from Mexico. The railroad problem brought on by the 8-hour demand of railroad employ ees is considered here the most im portant question ever presented in the industrial history of the country. It is evident here that most of the railroad executives have come to be lieve that there can be only one way of preventing a strike and that is by accepting the 8-hour day plan. The chief effort now is to arrive at a so lution of the additional expense in volved. General Pershing, in a telegram to the war department., says that Villa’s prestige in Mexico has been destroyed and will never be revived again. Reports from army officers are to the effect that Villa and his few re maining followers are secluded in the mountains southwest of Chihuahua. Senate leaders say that they would be willing to adjourn if the house could be prevailed upon to accept the amended revenue bill without a con troversy. General Funston has sent a recom mendation to the war department that the troops now in Mexico be with drawn. The world’s production of crude pe troleum in 1915 was 426,892,673 bar rels, the greatest in the history of the industtry. Russia was second, the United States leading all countries. European War Leads of the Liberal (or the Veni zelist party) in Greece are organizing volunteers to aid the Greek command er at Seres in resisting the Bulgari ans. The Deutschland, the merchant sub marine vessel which crossed the At lantic, has arrived at the mouth of the Weser, it is announced in Ber lin. The vessel left Baltimore on Au gust 1 and made the return trip in 23 days, which is considered a good record, in view of the obstacles which were met and overcome. A dispatch from Rotterdam, Hol land, says the American steamer Os wego was fired upon by a German sub marine off the Isle of Wight, but sus tained no damage. After the ship’s papers were examined, she was per mitted to go on her way. The Bulgars have been driven from a series of height at the entrance to Vardar valley. Both allied wing on the Saloniki front have been bent back by the Bul garians. The Serbians in the fighting in the advance from Saloniki have been the heaviest losers. The advancing British in the allied movement from Saloniki who crossed the Struma towards the Bulgarian frontier, were forced back on the riv er. The Russians are landing troops at Saloniki to assist in the fighting in the Balkans. The arrival of Russian soldiers at Saloniki has created a deep impres sion on the Greeks, even among the most extreme royalists. It appears to the Greeks that the dream of a Greater Greece has been crushed in its incipiency. A dispatch from London announces that a British submarine has sunk a German battleship. The opening of the allied offensive at Saloniki, it is stated, is the signal for the entrance of Roumania with the allies. It is stated in Berlin that there is a possibility that Roumania has granted permission to Russia to send an army through Roumania to fight the Teutonic allies. Serious loss of life is feared as the result of the explosion of a munitions plant in Yorkshire, England. No fig ures on the casualties have been giv en out. On the western front the French continue to press forward in the neigh borhood of Guillemont, and Paris re ports the capture of a strongly forti fied wood between that town and Mau repa3. In the Verdun sector the Germans are fiercely counter attacking in an effort to regain Fleury, the loss of which they concede. The British report the repulse of a German counter attack and the cap ture of a portion of trenches north of Bazentin-le-Petit. In the east the Russians are ap parently centering their efforts on their new drive toward Kovel. Fierce fighting continues on the Crest of the Carpathians, where the Russians are battling within sight of the Hungarian plains. The offensive on the Saloniki front is slowly developing and the fighting is growing in intensity on the 150- mile battle line from Lake Presba to Lake Dairan. An interesting feature of the fight ing in the Balkans is the advance of Bulgarian detachments toward the Greek seaport of Kavala. Two British light cruisers, the Not tingham and Falmouth, were sunk in the North sea by German submarines, while the vessels were searching for the German high sea fleet. One Ger man submarine was destroyed by the British in the scrap. Berlin admits that the Russians have crossed the Stokhod river at one point and Petrograd says that the Russians have pushed on beyond the river and captured a series of heights on the road to Kovel. Reports from British lookout squad rons in the North sea show consid erable activity. The report that Crown Prince Fred erick William is wounded at Verdun is denied in Berlin and Paris. Assaults of British and French forces north of the Somme in France have resulted in the gaining of addi tional ground by the attackers. INIIMIONAL SINMTSOIOOL 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 SEPT. 3 PAUL, THE HERO. LESSON TEXT—II Cor. 11:21-12:10. GOLDEN TEXT—My grace is sufficient for thee; for my power is made perfect in weakness.—ll Cor. 12:9. This letter raises interesting ques tions for research and discussion, such as: 1. What is the difference between Paul's heroism and that of a soldier? 2. Is war essential to the development of heroism? 3. Which courage is high er, moral or physical? I.Paul,the Hero (11:21-22). To a man of a sensitive nature, craving perfec tion, sarcasm stirs up the deepest bit terness of the soul. We do not believe Paul primarily desired to refuse these false charges—they were unworthy o« him—but the knowledge of his suffer ings for the cause of Christ and the truth of the gospel would augment his power to serve the church. For the sake of those whom he had reclaimed from heathenism he was willing to seem to be boasting. Literally he says: “I speak by way of disparage ment (of myself) as though we had been weak,” yet he adds: “Whereinso ever any is bold, I am bold also.” Paul had as much to boast of as any one of his Jewish opponents (v. 21). “Are they Hebrew's? (Of the purest blood, of one nation and language?) So am I.” Are they Israelites, worshiping only one God? Are they of the seed of Abraham, inheritors of the ministry of the promise and the Messianic hope and the kingdom of God? Are they ministers of the Messiah, seeking to bring all men into his kingdom? “I speak as a fool. I speak as one beside himself. I am more.” In labors he was more abundant; he had occupied a larger field with greater results. In stripes above measure —those inflicted by the heathen were not limited to forty blows —besides other beatings re ferred to in this list. In prisons oft (Acts 16:23). Frequently exposed to death and to the perils of robbers by land and sea (v. 24). “Five times I received forty stripes, save one, from the Jews” (v. 25). “Thrice was I beaten with rods; once was I stoned” (Acts. 14:19). “Thrice I suffered ship wreck,” evidently not recorded in Acts, for his shipwreck on the way to Rome was later. “A night and a day in the deep,” this not otiierwise recorded. “In journeyings often,” suffering from the perils of hard travel, often on foot in uncivilized regions. “In perils of water,” literally “in rivers.” Bridges were rare, and floods sudden and fre quent. “In perils of robbers.” Every road in Asia Minor then as now was infested with robbers. “In perils of his own countrymen“ln perils by the Gentiles“ln perils in the city “In perils in the wilderness;” “In per ils in the sea” from storms, rocks, pi lates; “In perils among false breth ren” —Judaising teachers who were self-seeking instead of making the gos pel first (Gal. 2:4; II Cor., 11:13). “In weariness and painfmness,” literally in labor and travail; “In watchings oft en ;” repeated nights of sleeplessness due to anxiety or pain. “In hunger and thirst, in fastings often,” hunger un satisfied for a long time. “In cold and nakedness;” in the mountain passes badly shod and badly clothed. Besides these things which were without, in numerable other trials such as the care of or anxiety over the churches (vv. 32, 33). 11. God’s Sustaining Grace (12:1-10). To Paul God gave one of the greatest tasks over committed to man, viz., the planting of the gospel in heathen lands; founding churches; teaching them the gospel truths of the Lord Je sus. He wrote to these churches two fifths of the New Testament, thirteen of its twenty-seven books, and this work was accomplished under the greatest difficulty, trials and suffering. To sustain and guide, the Lord gave him “visions and revelations” (v. 1). These revelations came to him from the very beginning of his Christian life and continued in every great crisis. The first was given at his conversion, twenty years before this letter was written, when he saw Jesus in His glory and received his marching or ders. Again (vv. 2-4), fourteen years before, or about A. 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