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When Robert Lansing, secretary of
stnte, has a particularly busy day his
office at quitting time is a cross be
tween a lawyer’s den and the art room
of a metropolitan daily.
This is due to the cabinet pre
mier’s lifelong habit of sketching heads
of beautiful women when working on
abstract problems.
Secretary Lansing has the unusual
knack of tackling some intricate prob
lem of international law with his right
hand while drawing the most exquisite
heads with his left.
There is a feeling around the state
department that he could as well write
a German note with his right and draw
n beautiful blonde with his left, but
this has never been established, be
cause the secretary locks himself in
when he tackles a diplomatic note.
It’s just a little diversion, the sec
retary says of his art labors. lie finds
it an aid to concentration to do a little
free-hand sketching while his mind is turning over some legal problems.
And when thus engaged the secretary uses his left hand because his right
fs apt to be engaged in Jotting down notes on the problem his mind is
evolving.
The secretary never saves the results of his artistic endeavors. They go
into the state department wastebasket at the end of the day.
Biloff’s group of armies into Bukowina which, in June and July, broke up the
Austrian armies of the south.
SMOOTHER OF TROUBLES
Although he did not succeed In
settling the dispute between the rail
road brotherhoods and railroad presi
dents recently, Judge William Lee
Chambers, head of the federal board
of mediation and conciliation, has
smoothed out many such troubles In
the past, and long before he became
a member of the board he was engaged
in bringing controversies to a peaceful
conclusion.
Like so many other men now in
high public places, Judge Chambers
is a Southerner, having been born in
Georgia, the son of a wealthy planter.
In his younger days he was a teacher
and banker, and in 181*3 he was prac
ticing law in Washington. President
Cleveland sent him to Samoa as land
commissioner, and then President Mc-
Kinley made him chief justice of the
international court at Apia. During
his four years in that office he presided
at the hearing of rival claims to the
throne, which resulted in the abolishment of the kingship and the partition
of the islands. Soon after that Judge Chambers came home and was a
member of the Spanish war claims commission.
When the Newlands mediation bill was passed in 1913, Judge Chambers
was appointed commissioner and his first task was to avert a threatened
strike of the conductors and trainmen employed on 42 railroads in the East.
In this he was eminently successful, as he has been in various other similar
instances.
SLAYDEN’S TALE OF TEXAS COURTESY
Oiat I shall try not to let It occur again.”
“And that,” says Slnyden, “Is Just typical of the Texas sense of courtesy.”
Caesar was one of the first to part his name in the middle. How account
for his dislike of “Caius?”
There is still the occasional illusion that a reckless, ill-natured remark is
“wit.”
LANSING AS AN ARTIST
GENERAL LECHITSKY
Representative James L. Slnyden
of San Antonio. Tex., was about to
make a campaign address in a small
town in his district one night when
word was brought that a prominent
citizen had just shot a man. Without
waiting to hear another word, Slayden
announced that he would postpone his
speech to some other day. He had
traveled far to make his address, but
he knew that everybody in town would
want to go and gaze at the body of
the man who was shot, rather than
hear about politics.
On the following morning as he
was waiting for his train to pull out,
Slayden received a message. It was
handed to him by the sheriff of the
county and was from the man who had
done the murdering the night before.
“I want to beg your pardon for our
little affair last night,” wrote the mur
derer. “I’m afraid it spoiled your
meeting and I’m sorry. I assure you
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General Lechitsky, who has been
In command of the left wing of the
Russian armies, is a man of sixty, and
for the greater portion of his service
has done duty with the Siberian corps
of the Russian army. Siberia ordinnrily
serves as the great training school for
Russian higher officers. There some
of the ablest of the modern generals
of Russia have studied the handling of
troops on a large scale. Siberia in
that regard offers much the same ad
vantages that India is considered to
offer for British commanders. During
the war with Japan General Lechitsky
led the Siberian Rifles division. He
was promoted thence to the command
of the First Guards division at Petro
grad. In 1908 he took command of
the Eighteenth army corps. At the
outset of the present war he was in
military charge of the Amur army re
gion. It fell to General Lechitsky to
lead the advance thrust of General Bru-
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WEEKS EVENTS
In a Condensed Form the Happenings of
Ail Nationalities Are Given
For Our Readers.
WEEK’S NEWS AT A GLANCE
Important Event* of the United State*
and Particularly In the
South.
Mexican News
Revolutionary attacks are reported
to have been made upon Guadalajara,
Tampico and Vera Cruz on September
16, simultaneously with Villa’s Hidal
go day attack upon Chihuahua City.
The government losses in killed and
wounded in the recent battle of Chi
huahua City are placed at fifty-three,
and the Villa casualties are estimated
to have been in the neighborhood of
two hundred and fifty, including nine
ty-four prisoners taken and executed.
Private John Clyne, B company, Sec
ond Missouri regiment, was shot and
killed by a military guard at Dolores,
Texas, as a result, it is said, of an
altercation with the guard.
Villa’s own troops executed a sur
prise attack on Chihuahua in the dark
of the morning, and ended in a com
plete victory for the de facto gov
ernment troops under General Trevi
no, who received a flesh wound in the
left forearm under the fire.
The attack on Chihuahua City by
Villa occurred at 3:30 o’clock during
a heavy rain, and while the people
were asleep, after the festivities of two
nights in honor of the Mexican Inde
pendence Day. The Vilal forces enter
ed the town in two columns, one of
which made straight for the peniten
tiary arid released the politcal prison
ers.
Domestic
Cool weather in North Carolina and
parts of South Carolina has caused
some damage to cotton.
Picking and ginning cotton is pro
ceeding under favorable conditions is
most of the Southern states.
Most of the tobacco crop in Virginia,
Kentucky and Tennessee has been
housed and is being cured.
Rains have delayed picking cotton
in western Florida and some lint has
been stained.
In Georgia the cotton crop is about
all open, and the weather is favorable
for picking.
In Louisiana and Texas little or no
top crop is expected, owing to boll
weevil. Cotton is reported as being
made in the greater portion of Ar
kansas, which state will reap a har
vest from that staple unless all signs
fall.
Frost did considerable damage dur
ing recent weeks to late corn in sev
eral northern states.
The trustees of the Mississippi
state prison farm sold 400 bales of
cotton at an average of 21.49 cents
per pound and four carloads of cotton
seed at $46.20 a ton.
President Wilson has anonunced
that he has no intention of making a
campaign tour, but that he will carry
out plans already tentatively made for
several speeches on public questions
before non-partisan organizations.
It is announced at Democratic na
tional committee headquarters that
President Wilson has many invitations
to speak in various parts of the coun
try.
North and South shook hands in the
white house of the Confederacy at
Richmond, Va., now a museum of the
Confederate Memorial Literary Soci
ety, when presentation was made by
the Worcester Continentals of a Con
federate drum picked up on a battle
field near Winchester and retained in
possession of the Continentals from
then until now.
The members of the civilian naval
consulting board are Thomas Edison,
William L. Saunders of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, Dr. Pe
ter C. Hewitt of the Inventors’ Guild,
Thomas Robbins of the Inventors’
Guild, W. R. Whitney, L. H. Baeke
land, F. I. Sprague and Lawrence Ad
dicks.
Two possemen were killed and two
injured in an encounter in the Ever
glades (Florida) with four bandits
sought for robbery of $6,000 from the
State Bank at Homestead, Fla.
Mrs. Anne E. Howe, only sister of
President Wilson, died at a hotel in
New London, Conn., of peritonitis,
from which she had been suffering
for some time.
European War
Maj. Ernst Bassermann, a leader of
the German National Liberal party,
declares that the submarine campaign
has been postponed, not abandoned.
He advocates the widest possible use
of both submarines and Zeppelins and
the most ruthless methods of warfare.
The reduction in the price of bread
stuffs was followed by a lowering of
the meat prices in Berlin.
Roasting beef has been reduced
from 60 cents to 40 cents a pound in
Berlin, with a corresponding decrease
in other grades of meat.
The war chancellories at Berlin, So
fiia and Vienna record victories for the
Teutonic allies over the Roumanians
in Transylvania and Dobrudja.
Large quantities of ammunition and
war material are falling dp.ty into the
hands of the British and French in
the fighting along the Somme.
Artillery engagements for the most
part are going on along both the
British and French sectors of the
front
Galicia. V J
Along the Stokhod river the GerJ
mans and Austro-Hungarians hav«
taken the offensive against the Rusi
sians, according to Berlin, near Za-'
recze have crossed the river in pur- ‘
suit of their retreating foe and have
captured 31 officers and 2,511 men and
seventeen machine guns.
In Galicia, a attack by the
forces of the central powers along the
Narayuvka river southeast of Lem
berg, brought further success to the
German aims and resulted in the cap
ture of an additional 4,200 men.
In the Carpathians, in the Ludowa
region, the Russians have gained some
new positions.
Along a wide front the British have
advanced and have captured a Ger
man fortified work which had previ
ously resisted all their efforts. This
is indicative of the intention of the
British commander to force the battle
along the Somme front without cessa
tion.
North and south of the Somme the
British and French troops at various
points are keeping up their vigorous
offensive against the Germans, and
have put down strong German coun
ter attacks.
In Macedonia the French troops
have captured the town of Fiorina,
Greece, from the Bulgarians.
In the Lake Ostrovo region and near
Cerna the Serbs have gained addition
al ground.
On the Doiran front, where the Brit
ish are engaged, only artillery engage
ments have taken place recently.
To stem the tide of the advance of
the army of the central powers in the
Dobrudja region of Roumania, the
Roumanians and Russians have ceased
their retreat and drawn a definite bat
tle line.
The British have lost since the war
began 41,014 officers.
During the last fortnight of August
British General Potter was killed;
also five lieutenant colonels.
A torpedo sank the British ship
Kelvinia, carrying twenty-eight Amer
icans. This is the statement of G.
W. Dillard of Richmond, Va., who was
one of the passengers.
Capt Franz von Papen, former mili
tary attache of the German govern
ment at Washington, D. C., is now in
the center of the fighting on the
Somme front, being the chief general
staff officer of a division holding one
of the most .crucial salients on this
front.
German positions exceeding four
miles in length were captured by the
British and French armies in the con
tinuation of 'the offensive north and
south of the Somme river in France.
Prince Frederick William of Hesse
has been killed at Cara Orman, it is
officially announced by the war office
at Berlin in its reports on the opera
tions on the Balkan front.
Near Thiepval the British report Im
portant gains, and have captured
ground for which they have been con
tending for weeks,
chavenes.
Washington
Great Britain has formally express
ed regret for the action of a British
destroyer in holding up and examin
ing the Philippine steamer Cebu with
in the territorial waters of the Philip
pines. Because of a heavy fog, it is
explained, the destroyer commander
did not know the vessel was so near
the shore.
It is reported here in dispatches
from China that nearly a million peo
ple have been made homeless by one
of the greatest floods on record in
that section of China.
The navy civilian consulting board,
composed of twenty-four of the na
tion’s most eminent scientists and en
gineers, took its place as a legalized
bureau of the navy department, and
the names of its members, headed by
Thomas A. Edison, as chairman, were
placed upon the rolls under a recent
act of congress as “officers of the
United States government.”
The lowest death rate in the coun
try’s history is shown in the prelimi
nary vital statistics for the year 1915,
made public by the census bureau.
The rate, 13.5 per thousand, is based
on reports from twenty-five states and
forty-one cities, with a total popula
tion of sixty-seven million people.
In 1914 the census bureau states
the percentage of deaths was 13.6, the
lowest ever recorded up to that time.
The average rate during the period
1901-05 was 16.2.
MaJ. Gen. Albert L. Mills, chief of
the bureau of militia affairs, holder
of the army medal of honor for brav
ery under fire, builder of the new
West Point, and former president of
the Army War College, died in Wash
ington after fifteen hours of illness
from pneumonia.
The task of federalizing the state
troops under the plan laid out by con
gress in the reorganization bill recent
ly signed has rested largely upon Gen
eral Mills, who has just died in Wash
ington, as he was chief of the militia
bureau. The work was greatly com
plicated because of the fact that the
troops were called for border duty
before an opportunity presented itself
to work out the new scheme.
Advices sent from Laredo, Texas,
to the war department indicate that a
reign of terror exists in the state of
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, from the
Neuvo Leon state line to Queretaro,
as a result of the activity of a band
of outlaws. One report states that the
bandits recently held up a train near
Tamosopo.
Two British officers commanding
the boarding party which recently held
up and examined the Philippine Cebu
within Philippine territorial waters,
were armed, according to a report re
ceived by the war department from
Governor General Harrison.
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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 OCTOBER 1
PLOT THAT FAILED.
LESSON TEXT-Acts 23.
GOLDEN TEXT—They shall fight
against thee: but they shall not prevail
against thee; for I am with thee, saith
Jehovah, to deliver thee.—Jer. 1:19.
The stirring events of this lesson oc
curred in the Castle Antonia and the
Sanhedrin hall, near the temple court
of Jerusalem; also in Caesarea, the
Roman capital of Judea, on the Medi
teranean coast, in the year A. D. 57,
just at the close of Paul's third mis
sionary journey. The lesson pictures
two successive days of strange adven
tures in which Paul was concerned, a
narrow escape and the unexpected
providences used in his deliverance.
The day was inaugurated by Paul’s
magic words “I am a Roman citizen,”
which caused the commander, Lysias,
to release him from the threatened
scourging, and made him more than
ordinarily careful in his treatment of
Paul. •
I. Before the Elders (vv. 1-12). By
referring back to chapter 21, v. 13, we
find tke charge which really underlay
all of Paul’s trouble, his preaching in
the name of the Lord Jesus. Paul’s
defense is interesting. He gives us a
rehearsal of his Christian life, laying
emphasis upon its blamelessness and
the fact that he is not an apostate
Jew. The high priest speaks to silence
Him, but not gently. Although Paul
for a moment seems to give way to his
justifiable indignation, lie quickly re
veals his reverence for the rulers of
the people. He then divides the san
hedrin. Read carefully chapter 22:6-7,
and compare with verses 17 and 18.
The sanhedrin could not explain this
testimony of Paul, and were seeking
to put aside the whole question. An
interesting discussion would be to con
sider the insult to Paul. Was his in
dignation right and rightly expressed?
Another question, the matter of Paul’s
apology. Just for what did lie apolo
gize? Is it ever wrong to speak evil
of rulers? These were indeed days of
stress and storm. Was Paul justified
in dividing the sanhedrin in order to
conquer their opposition to him?
Again, how God used these incidents
in the furtherance of the gospcd is a
suggestive lesson for us all. It has
been hinted that Ananins was not in
his priestly garments, and therefore
perhaps not readily recognized by
Paul. Paul may never have seen him,
as he was elected high priest after
Paul had left the council. It is inter
esting to note that it is not said that
anyone struck Paul or that Paul did
not apologize for his words or deny
them to be true, but only for«their be
ing spoken to the high priest. Read
in this connection what Christ said to
the Pharisees (Matt. 23:27). Paul ap
ologized because he had broken the
law found in Exodus 22:28. In the
trial of Christ one of the officers struck
Jesus with the palm of his hand,
whereupon Jesus answered him, say
ing: “If I have spoken evil, bear wit
ness of the evil, but if well, why smit
est thou me?” On the other hand,
when Jesus was ill-treated by the com
mon soldires, he opened not his mouth.
11. The Plot and Deliverance (vv. 12-
35). Paul’s prospect was not a pleas
ant one. In liis darkness God appeared
to his faithful servant to cheer him
(v. 11). Perhaps Paul was tempted to
think he had made a mistake in com
ing to Jerusalem over the protests of
his friends, but evidently the Lord
heartily approved of his testimony
there. A dangerous conspiracy was
forming against him, but God was, as
he always is, beforehand with his com
fort and preparation for the crisis. We
have often speculated as to what be
came of the forty men who entered
into it (see v. 12) —whether they ac
tually lived up to their oath. If they
did, they must have died of starvation.
They were determined men, willing to
go any length, and fancied they were
doing the will of God. There is no
more dangerous man than he who fan
cies that he must be the judge as to
who are God’s friends and who are his
foes, and that he is the appointed exe
cutioner of God’s judgment. The plot
was well laid, and seemed certain of
success, but it failed miserably. (See
Psalm 2:1-4; 64:1-10; Isaiah 41:10).
The wicked, who leave God out of
their plans, no matter how cunningly
they plot, are doomed to failure (Rom.
8:31). These plotters co-operated with
the priest. Ecclesiastics have often
descended to the lowest villainy. Men
are not murdered today, though their
reputations are often blasted by un
principled and hellishly impelled pro
fessed followers of the lowly Naza
rene. Paul had friends in this city.
His nephewrts discovery and revelation,
and the Gentile soldier, a colonel, ef
fered his deliverance. In the boy’s
heart there must have been great ad
miration for the uncle. It would be
well for teachers of boys to have them
repent in their own language this boy’s
story. Paul was not safe in Jerusa
lem. The Roman governor recognized
the nature of the conspiracy, and the
desperate character of the Jewish fa
natics, and therefore sent him under a
strong guard to Caesarea, which was
reached after a journew on horseback,
lasting through the night and the fol
lowing day.
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TO SEEK MISSING EXPLORERS
Russians Who Went to Arctic in
1912 May Yet Be
Living.
Apparently hope has not been aban
doned entirely of rescuing the mem
bers, or some of them, of the Russian
polar expeditions which sailed in 1912
in the steam schooner Saint Anna,
under command of Lieutenant Brusl
loff of the Russian navy, and the mo
tor vessel Hercules, which was in
charge of the geologist, M. Bonsanoff.
Traces may be discovered in the north
ern Arctic, in the vicinity of Green
land, and of the North American arch
ipelago.
Through the consul general for Rus
sia appeals are made to all commercial
enterprises, navigators, and scientific
expeditions cruising in the polar seas
and engaged in researcli work in these
regions, and also to the inhabitants
along the coastline, to devote efforts
to the discovery of traces of the miss
ing explorers.
Useless.
“Time is the most precious thing we
have, and yet there’s not one of us
who doesn’t wjfste it as if it were of
no value whatever.”
“You’re right about that, old man. I
don’t suppose there’s a day goes by that
I don’t spend half an hour or more
trying to convince my wife that she is
spending more money than we can
afford.”
Good Omen.
“So the actor made no demur about
taking the house when you told him
it had the reputation of being
haunted ?”
“No; said he was only too glad to
get any place where the ghost
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