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1 1 . r*W** T 7 yk "***"•'ij—ng| '' W ik Wto*! ■ B E 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 A? |* W w 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- Uinnamon oars tea aa quinine is r LmofflirTji mt*' 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. aSSK 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. 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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 walked." If Coffee V" don’t a|ree Q, use Mrnm | "There’s «Urfl Reason'' fj Fortum Cereal Co., ltd, , Battle Creek. Mich.