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Iw nw If ran nut? ALEXANDRA STILL POPULAR ' the art of being agreeable and useful to charity and other good work. The London public has been treated to so many “flag days” on behalf of war charities that national enthusiasm In support of street solicitations has oozed out and there was considerable misgiving when the date arrived for the annual “Alexandra day,” upon which pretty women annually apjaenr in the London streets and sell roses to any passer-by for the purpose of raising money for the hospitals in which Queen Alexandra is interested. Yet this year “Alex andra day” was more successful than It has ever been. Millions of roses were sold and a large sum was turned over to the fund. CANNON HAS PLENTY OF “PEP” Although he has passed the four score mark, “Uncle Joe” Cannon was able to convince younger and more active members of the house recently that he still retains lots of “the old pep.” He was in his sent In the house despite the blistering temperature and his return from a trip to the North Carolina sounds that used up most of his collengues. Uncle Joe made the trip up the Dismal Swamp feeder to Lake Drum mond, hoofing It through the # deep un derbrush of that weird region, like a Boy Scout on a hike. After the pnrty came out of the swamp the prowess of the veteran leg islator was again put to the test. The pnrty reached Elizabeth City, N. C., but in order to complete the inspection of the so-called North Carolina cut in time, was obliged to press on to Albermarle sound and there anchor over night. There were four good berths on the boat, hut there were ten men In the party. Everyone of the ten insisted “Uncle Joe” should take the state room. “Whnt?” said the venerable former speaker, "with the Stars and Stripes aglow nnd this North Carolina breeze a-blowing. Some of you younger fellows take the stateroom. I sleep on deck.” And, wrapping himself in an army blanket, he picked out a place on the plauks, gazed up at the sky and was soon fast asleep. In the morning he wanted to take a bath in the Sound, but the boat was already homeward bound. FLANNAGAN AT THE BALL GAME Mr. Flannagun, who fs a resident of New Jersey, served ns secretary of the Joint committee of congress on rural credits and so naturally fell into his present berth when the farm loan law was passed and the commission was appointed. DOCTOR SUN AGAIN A POWER The return to China of Dr. Sun Ynt Sen, first provisional president of the Chinese republic, announced in the United States by Ills official repre sentatives, is an event of international importance. Sun Yat Sen has been in exile in Japan, driven out of the coun try in the summer of 1013 by Yuan Shi ICni after the latter hnd been made president of China to succeed Sun Ya* Sen. A man of high education, which he obtained In the United States and England, he spent 20 years in exile from his native country organizing the revolutionary movement against the Chinese monarchy and the Man chus. Sun Ynt Sen and Yuan Shi Kni were at first on cordial terms. In the summer of 1013 Sun Ynt Sen fled to Japan, having been denounced by uan Shi Kai as a traitor and a swin dler and an agent of the Japanese government. The great powers of Europe having a finger in the pie of China's government, the United States and Japan have all of them had so much to do with Sun 1 at Son during the last 25 years that it is a question of importance to discover which foreign power he will favor at Peking. Sun lnt Sen can claim to be an American under a ruling made in 1904 by the department of commerce and labor at Washington, which stated that Dr. Sun lnt S<-n had been born in the Hawaiian islands and came under the provi sions n f the act of 1900 which bestowed American citizenship upon all citizens of this territory. Queen Alexandra still remains the popular member of the royal family of England, nnd scarcely a day passes that she does not make at least one public appearance at some bene fit for war veterans. Although she will celebrate her seventy-third birth day next December, Alexandra takes the utmost pride In her personal ap pearance, and at a distance she gives more the impression of being unaf fected by time than does Queen Mary. Nobody thinks of calling the wid ow queen the “queen mother” or the “dowager queen.” She objects to be ing designated by either of these ti tles in print, yet no familiar use of them by the press would lead her friends to adopt them In speaking of her. They don’t fit. She doesn't take life so seriously as Queen Mary, does not and never has attempted to inter fere in politics, nnd devotes herself now, as always, with studious care to W. W. Flannagan, banker of al most world-wide fame, and just at present secretary of the rural credits commission, never saw a professional baseball game until one day recently, when he went with Daniel O’Connell to the American league park in Wash ington. Even at that he didn’t seem to take a serious view of the situation, for when the seventh inning came and the crowd stood up in obedience to the old tradition which brings luck to the home team at that juncture, Mr. Flannagan started home. “Where are you going?” asked Mr. O’Connell. “Why, isn’t the game over? Every one is getting up.” Dan pulled him back Into the seat. In the ninth inning the teams were tied nnd Mr. Flannagan began to grow excited, which shows he is a real American, after all. After this perhaps he’ll lie a regular fan. MB* EPITOME OF THE WEEKS EVENTS In 3 Condensed Form tbe Kappenings nf (II Nationalities (re Gives For Our Readers. WEEK’S NEWS AT A GLANCE Important Events of the United States and Particularly In the Bcuth. Domestic Cole L. Blease was defeated for governor of South Carolina by the in cumbent, Governor Manning, by about five thousand majority. The committee on marriage and di vorce which will report to the general convention of the Episcopal church at St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 11, will recom mend that no clergyman of that body be permitted to remarry divorced peo ple. Armed posses of citizens and squads of policemen and sheriff's deputies are searching for Seymour Clay, a negro who shot and killed a prominent New Orleans merchant and wounded four other persons. Prof. Edwin Augustus Grosvenor of Amhurst, Mass., was elected president of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity at the session of the National Council in Philadelphia. Hugh M. Dorsey of Atlanta, former solicitor general of Fulton county, will be the next governor of Georgia, having received both the popular vote and county-unit leadership by a land slide vote in the Georgia state Demo cratic primary. Governor Harris ran second. Returns from the Second congres sional district (Georgia) show that Congressman Frank Park will prob ably be returned to congress. Walter Eldridge, 23 years old, an employe of a circus, was killed by an elephant at Kingsport, Tenn., before several thousand spectators. The ele phant grabbed the young man and pounded him against the ground and then trampled on him. Maine Republicans, reinforced by re turning Progressives, won a victory at the election held in that state. They elected a governor, an auditor, two United States senators and four representatives in congress and also wrested control of the state house of representatives from the Demo crats. They will be able, on a joint vote of the legislature, to elect the other state officers not chosen by a popular vote. With surface car transit in New York City virtually at a standstill in Manhattan, the Bronx, Yonkers and parts of Westchester county, and with subway and elevated facilities affected more than at any time since the Inter borough Rapid Transit strike was called, the traction situation in New York assumed a more serious aspect. It is stated in New York City that the European war is encroaching se riously upon the meat supply of this country. Notwithstanding the marked decrease in the number of food ani mals in the United States, exports of meat have trebled since the beginning of the war and on beef alone exports are greater by tenfold. A box containing $8,070, which was stolen when two men held up and fa tally wounded Lee Ranking, paymas ter for the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal company, near Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, was found by boys in a wood a few hundred yards from the scene of the robbery. European War All along the Macedonian front the heavy offensive of the entente allies continues. Bulgarian trenches to a depth of 800 yards have been captured by the French west of the Vardar river. On the Struma front, the British, aided by the French, have made ad ditional gains east of the river in the Lake Takinos region. Unofficial reports are to the effect that the Bulgarians have evacuated the forts at Kavala, on the Aegean sea, which they captured in August. Berlin reports further progress for the German and Bulgarian forces un der command of Field Marshal von Mackensen in the Dobrudja region of eastern Roumania. The Russians have captured several stretegic positions in the Carpathians. The Norwegian steam Lindborg, bound from London for Rotterdam, has been sunk by a submarine. The crew of the submarine stripped the steamer of all copper objects before blowing her up. Continuing their advance in western Dobrudja, the German and Bulgarian forces have captured the old Bulgari an fortress of Silistra, which lies on the eastern bank of the Danube, about twenty-five miles east of Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, and about an equal distance to the south of the Constanza-Bucharest railway line. The British steamer Lexie has been reported sunk. It is stated that the excitement in Saloniki due to army disaffection has died out. In Banat, north of Orsova, the Rou manians are keeping up their advance against the Austrians, having compell ed the Austrian right wing, after it had pushed them back two and a half miles, to withdraw to its former po siton under a strong counter attack. In southern Bukowina, near the junction of the Hungarian and Rouma nian borders, the Germans are in con tact with the Roumanians. The French north of Peronne are holding tenaciously to the salient they have driven into the German line east of the Bethune-Peronne road near Bou chavenes. The capture by the French of a pow erfully organized German trench, near the road running west from Rancourt to Crombles, is an important feat for the FYench. In two days fighting more than twen ty-three hundred Germans were taken prisoners and a large number of guns and machine guns were captured. South of the Somme heavy artillery duels between the French and Ger mans continue. In the Carpathians, Russian attacks along the entire front Rave been re pulsed. The Serbian troops on the Macedo nian front have made important prog gress. King Constantine of Greece has ac cepted the resignation of Premier Zai mis and his cabinet and has asked M. Dimitracopulos, former minister of justice, and in favor of the Venizelos policies, to form a new cabinet Heavy fighting continues all along the Macedonian fropjt, but no import ant changes are nflWd, according to British reports. The Italians have formed a coalition with the French and British in the Macedonian fighting. The Turks and Russians are still at grips in Asiatic Turkey, with both sides claiming successes. Attacks by the Russians in east Galicia and on the lower Stokhod river in Russia have been repulsed by the Austro-German forces. The usual bombardments and small skirmishes continue in the Austro- Italian theater. Athens, Greece, is virtually under martial law, Patrols of infantry and cavalry parade the streets and the entente legations are under strong guard. In the Roumanian theater the Aus trians are in retreat before the Rou manians in the Maros and Toplitza valleys. To the south of Hermannstadt the Roumanians have occupied the village of Helimbar. Vienna admits a further withdrawal of the Austrian forces near Gyergo. Washington The Japanese government has offi cially informed the United States, through Ambassador Guthrie, that while it has made important demands on China in connection with the re cent clash at Cheng Chiatun, there is nothing in the representations in fringing on American interests by vio lating the open door, Chinese integrity or the Root-Takahira agreement. The president has received a person al note from Emperor William reply ing to his appeal regarding famine re lief measures for inhabitants of Po land. President Wilson has received re plies from his letters to King George and President Poincaire regarding the Polish scarcity of food, setting forth the position that nothing can be done because of Germany’s insistence upon feeding her armies on the products of occupied portions of Poland. Violation of American neutrality by a British torpedo boat, which held up and examined the Philipipne steam er Cebu within the territorial waters of the Philippines, was reported to the war department by Governor General Harrison. Nearly fifteen thousand National Guardsmen have been discharged by the war department for various causes since the state troops were mustered into the federal service. A dispatch from Quebec, Canada, says that with the loss of eleven lives, the second attempt to bridge the St. Lawrence there resulted in a failure when the massive center span, weigh ing 5,100 tons, suddenly collapsed and fell into the river. Of nearly ninety men caught on the span when it be gan to sway, all were rescued except eleven, and of these only four bodies have been found. Nine years ago a similar accident occurred at the same spot when a toll of seventy lives was exacted. The war department is now prepared to train the hundreds of National Guardsmen who seek to become mili tary aviators, the Aero Club of Amer ica announces. Provision for this train ing is contained in the new army re organization act. Fifty-odd dreadnaughts, pre-dread naughts, destroyers and supply ships of the Atlantic fleet steamed from Hampton Roads for the southern drill grounds off the Virginia capes to en gage in which naval officers say will be the most important battle maneuv ers and target practice ever held by the fleet. Federal and state officials operating in Chicago declare they will know by the end of the week of September 16 whether or not the proposed general increase in the price of bread is jus tified. Sixty-seven of the largest steam rail ways earned a net revenue of $545 per mile last July, an increase of $43 a mile over July, 1915. Adjournment of the first session of the sixtv-fourth congress came with out a hitch in the plans of the sen ate and house leaders. Nearly all the congressmen and sen ators have left Washington, either for rest, or to take part in the national campaign this fall. The Filipinos were given a wider scope in an enlarged system of self government by the sixty-fourth con gress. Pressure from political and business quarters is being brought to bear upon Secretary of War Baker and other ad ministration officials to withdraw Na tional Guard organizations from the ImrawnoNAL SUNWSOWOL 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 SEPTEMBER 24 REVIEW. READING LESSON—II Cor. 4:l-5:4. GOLDEN TEXT—We loox not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.—ll Cor. 4:18. A map is essential to an understand ing of Paul’s labors and adventures — especially a present-day map, with its modern names of the places which he visited. It should be used iu teaching this lesson, and New Testament his tory generally. It will cause the lessons to relate theniselves more closely to the world as we now know it. During the past quarter they have extended over a pe riod of about seven years, from ap proximately A. D. 50 to 57, and are all centered about the life and teaching of Paul. It is difficult to attempt a logical review. A number of lessons have been introduced from the letters of Paul, which are not chronological In the development of the church. It might be well, perhaps, to consider first the -leading events iti the life of Paul, and second the prominent char acteristics of Paul’s life as we have had them presented to us, and also to consider six of the cities in which Paul founded churches in Europe, studying their modern names and con ditions and looking into the difficulties and dangers which he encountered. Iu Lesson One we have the record of Paul's untiring activity, and his per sistent use of the Scriptures. Every one of his sermons was confirmed by the Word of Gud. Lesson Two pre sents his interest in those who were converted in his ministry; also a sug gestion as to his unceasing prayerful ness on thefr behalf. Lesson Three presents his tact and wisdom in preaching the Risen ChAst, and his emphasis upon the need of repentance. Lesson Four gives a suggestion of his untiring activity in the midst of great discouragement and in the fact of bit ter apposition. Lesson Five reveals his persistent determination to know and to preach nothing save Jesus Christ aud him crucified. Lesson Six is Paul’s panegyric on love as the su preme gift. Lesson Seven is an ex position of the duty and blessedness of cheerful giving. In it is given a new beatitude of Jesus, “It Is more blessed to give than to receive,” which is nowhere else recorded. Lesson Eight, another suggestion as to his courage. Lesson Nine emphasizes humility, compassionate love and a fearless declaration of the whole coun sel of God. Lesson Ten presents his forgetfulness of himself and his eager ness to preach Christ even when threatened by an unrestrained mob. Lesson Twelve again presents his for getfulness of himself, and his eager seizing of every possible opportunity to preach the Lord Jesus. Turning to the cities that Paul vis ited, we first encounter Philippi (now iu ruins). This is the first city in Eu rope where there was a Christian church, and it was one which Paul especially loved. Though he was driv en from it by a mob, and escaped by means of an nngel, yet his letter to that church is a revelation of his feel ing toward his first European congre gation. Thessaloniea, the modern Saloniki in Macedonia, formerly be longed to the Turkish empire in Eu rope. Here Paul founded a church, consisting of Jews and Greeks. Paul is accused of turning the world upside down, and teaching Jesus to be the Christian’s king. For this he wa3 accused of treason against Rome. Two epistles were written to the church iu which he does not record any fault finding. This church has been called the “Church Beautiful.” Athens was then, as now, the chief city of Greece, and one of the three most renowned cities in the history of the world. Paul’s famous address on Mars hill was treated with great indifference. His stay was short, and never after wards do we find him showing forth his learning, but ever after he ex presses his determination to know nothing save “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” (I. Cor. 2:1, 2).) Corinth was a great commercial city. At pres ent the original site is in ruins, but the new Corinth has been built three miles away, and is today q city of ap proximately 15,000 population. Paul spent a year and a half here, preach ing and teaching, and supplemented this with a period of three months of service. It was IT worldly and wicked city, and yet Paul here founded his largest church, converted from heath enism. During this time we have the story of the burning of the books of magic, of the silver shrine of Diana, and of the Ephesian riot which compelled Paul to leave the city. Paul afterwards revisited the churches he had founded in Europe and about C 2 A. D. wrote a letter to the Ephesian churches, some six years after he left them, and while he was a prisoner in Rome. 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