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f“ John M. Parker of New Orleans,
convention at Chicago, Is a fire eater
by taste awl Instinct. Trouble Is his
thinks he is in the right, and doesn’t
footing is not his line. As he himself
says, he “hires a hall," advertises the
Parker is not as well known as he de
manhood that he put his foot down on
York city, who played second to John
in matters appertaining to larks and frolics. Somehow the faculty never
failed to receive word about this particular student’s shortcomings. As a
consequence, lie spent much time in the “jug,” and suffered heavy loss in free
lime as punishment.
I’arker in some way learned who it was that had told on his friend. He
lined up half a dozen or more of his cronies and arranged plans for retribuc
tion. That evening in the refectory he gave the command. The students
detailed to assist him surrounded the table at which the members of the
faculty were gathered. Parker laid hands on the offending student and set
him on his feet. The learned gentlemen Mere kept in their chairs. Then
John addressed them and his fellow students. He recited the crime of the
student under arrest. The man had betrayed a classmate. No punishment
could be too severe for him.
Perhaps greatest of the generals
the war lias produced in France is 'x
Foch, now commanding the forces of
the republic in the Somme drive. Says '// y '
one who knows him: “He has intui- f \
tion nnd the power of divination. He <■ 1$; 0
is great in his instunt grasp of a situ- «
ntion, his perception of the needs, ids ##*.*s>*’ ▼
vision of the next hour. General I
Joffre is his warmest admirer.” i lf'> * ... Jk
General Foch, like General Joffre,
conies from the Pyrenees. He is a Hp'-
gallant, picturesque figure. He is not \>
tall, five feet six Inches in height, but \
you do not see that until afterward. * 4
IVhat you see first is his eye. He lias (v
n large, well-shaped head, rather thin i 3^3*^
iron-gray hair and n broad, high fore
head. His gray eyes, set wide apart,
bore through you and burn you up
and smile on you, ail at the same time. flßbo
His nose is large, Ids mouth wide and ,;;F ;: .
straight, and his fiercely benevolent
iron-gray mustache first comes down ' ■ ---———
over the corners of his mouth and then points straight up at his eyes. His
chin is massive from any point of view.
During a battle General Foeh is to be found in the big room at his
headquarters. He stands before one of those large scale maps with a pencil
in his hand and the telephone receiver at his ear. His staff stands in a
semicircle behind him. There is perfect silence, and the only movement is of
the general’s pencil on the map ns lie follows the battle and ponders the
detail of the district where the fighting is in progress.
WINSLOW’S FAMOUS FEAT
“————————————- Admiral Cameron Mcßae Winslow,
gwho retired recently at the statutory
age of sixty-two, gained great fame
and a boost of five numbers in rank
during the war with Spain when us
Lieut. C. McR. Winslow he cut the
cables in Cienfucgos harbor, Cuba —
with the Spaniards firing from u dis-
In tlds engagement a marine was
killed and nine men—including Lieu
tenant Winslow —wounded. Winslow
was wounded in the hand. His promo
tion came when he was recommended
for “extraordinary heroism.”
Winslow and his men went out in
sail and motor launches. With the
big guns on the ship out in the harbor
firing at the cable office —they wrecked
it before Winslow reached shore —Win-
L reported, "but the work done.
At the time of ids retirement Winslow was a full admiral, being entitled
to that rank by virtue of his command of the Pacific fleet. He served as a
member of the Slocum commission when the burning of the New York
excursion steamer was investigated.
Winslow was born in Washington in 1854. He was appointed to the naval
academy by the president in 1870, and graduated in 1875.
NELSON COULD PRONOUNCE IT
During the cnll of the calendar in p————————————
the senate some time ago a bill pro- .
vidlng for relief for the owners of a
certain steamship was reached. The
clerk glanced at the title, read a small
part of it and stopped. ‘‘Let the clerk «
read the entire title,” suggested a sen
courageously backed off and made a
fresh start. He succeeded well enough
with the first few words, hut at length 1 I s.* \ X
he bumped into “Bruusgnrd Kiosterud V\ V . & &
Dumpskipaktieselskab,” the name of \
hto best efforts availed nothing except wf
Competent are agreed that
enough. It s pronounced—’ and he gave the pronunciation correctly—so fa’
as at.) one in the senate knew.
“THE REBEL CAPTAIN”
FOCH OF FRANCE
THE
EPITOME OF THE
week;s events
in a Condensed Form the Happenings of
All Nationalities Are Given
For Our Readers.
WEEK'S NEWS AT A GLANCE
Important Events of the United States
and Particularly in the
South.
Mexican News
Wholesale executions are taking
place in Chihuahua City following the
Villa attack, it is announced at mili
tary headquarters at El Paso.
General Bell at El Paso has a re
port of a skirmish at Arena, ten miles
south of Juarez, between Carranza sol
diers and Villa bandits. Wounded sol
diers taken to Juarez tell of the fight.
Domestic
An illicit still has been discovered
in the very heart of Atlanta. It con
sisted of two fifty-gallon copper stills,
worms, several barrels and other dis
tillery paraphernalia. The plant was
in full operation when raided by the
revenue officers.
Rear Edward Vreeland, U. S. N.,
retired, died at a hotel in Atlantic City,
N. J.
One New York shell and torpedo
manufacturing company has declared
an extra dividend of 100 per cent in
cash on the common stock.
Michigan Central passenger train
No. 14, known as the New York-Chi
cago Express, bound from Chicago to
Detroit, was held up by a gang of rob
bers, near' Dearborn, Mich., late at
night, and robbed.
Five hundred bales of cotton stored
in a big warehouse in Atlanta, were
totally destroyed by fire.
Making friends with two blood
hounds, which had been placed on his
trail when he escaped from a convict
camp, H. D. Rogers, a prisoner, is
missing from Moultrie, Ga., and with
him the two famous man-hunters.
Indorsement of the national admin
istration, the unanimous ratification of
the people’s choice, from governor
down, and nomination of three appel
late court judgeship aspirants created
by the general assembly, were the out
standing features of the Georgia Dem
ocratic state convention held at Ma
con, September 26. The ovation ac
corded to the nominee for governor,
Hugh M. Dorsey, was the greatest
demonstration in the history of the
state.
Two British army officers detained
at Ellis island, New York, under a
recent order from Washington to hold
soldiers of belligerent countries, were
taken before a board of inquiry. It
is probable that they will be discharg
ed if they can establish that they are
members of the British army and give
correct information as to their des
tination.
Many negroes from the flood-swept
area of Alabama are leaving for north
ern and western points.
All the eels in the Flint river, near
Bainbridge, Ga., are leaving the fresh
water and going to salt water. Their
migration always takes place in the
night or in the late afternoon. How
ever, it is stated, they always return
in the spring.
Incensed at poultry dealers for forc
ing up the price of Kosher chickens,
thousands of New York City house
wives, backed by the United Hebrew
trades, went on “strike” here. The
women declare they will not buy poul
try until prices reach their proper
level.
Major General Goethals has sailed
from Colon for New York. It is not
believed in Colon that he will return
to the isthmus.
An effort will be made to enroll
one million boys in the United States
in the military training movement by
the spring of 1917.
A further increase of $807,881,660 in
the amount of American railroad se
curities abroad absorbed by American
financial interests and individual in
vestors between July 31, 1915, and
July 31, 1916, is shown in the last
compilation made in New York City.
Because the society which had col
lected money for the parents of Sam
uel Meisinberg, who was killed at
Vera Cruz, failed to turn over the
money to them, Edward Meisinberg
prevented the dedication of a monu
ment to his memory in Chicago.
European War
Attacking simultaneously on an arc
of 15 miles, running from Martinpuich
to the Somme, the British and French
forces have delivered another smash
ing blow on the German lines and
pushed forward their positions for
notable' gains.
General Haig’s lines between Mar
tinpuich and Flers, a distance of about
one mile, has been straightened out
after taking two lines of German for
tifications.
The Anglo French forces captured
during the time intervening between
July 1 and September IS more than
fifty-five thousand prisoners.
The French are undertaking local
operations against the outskirts of
Coinbles itself, after checking the Ger
man attacks southeast of Combles.
The Germans claims successes in
Volhynia and southern Bukowina.
According to Athens dispatches re
ceived in London, M. Venizelos will
issue a manifesto to the Greek people
from Cana, Island of Crete, where he
probably will direct the formation of
a separatist government.
A council of the Greek ministers
has decided in agreement with King
Constantine upon military co-opera
tion with the entente powers.
It is reported in London that the
Greek battleship Hydra has joined the
allied fleet.
One thing that precipitated Greece
into the war, according to English crit
ics, was the chaos in the military or
ganization of that country, many of
the officers having joined the entente
allies.
Athens dispatches say that despite
the profound popular belief that the
Grecian empire is facing the greatest
crisis in its history, but calm expectan
cy reigns in Athens, and that there
are no outburst of incendiary charac
ter.
The twenty-mile battle arc running
from the Ancre river to the Somme is
being rapidly transformed by the great
Anglo-Franco offensive.
Ten thousand German prisoners
have fallen into the hands of the
British within a fortnight in the fight
ing around the Somme.
Combles, the pivotal point in the
German line guarding the approach of
Bapaume, on the north, and Peronne,
on the south of the Somme, has fallen
before the terrific attacks of the Brit
ish and French, the Germans fighting
to the, death or surrendering when
ther® was no longer hope.
Thiepval and the fortified town of
Gueudecourt have fallen into the
hands of the British.
At Bucharest sixty persons were
killed and a large number wounded
by bombs dropped from a squadron
of aeroplanes of the Teutonic allies,
and five others were killed later by
bombs dropped on the city from a
Zeppelin. Two-thirds of the victims
are declared to have been women and
children.
Thirty-six persons were killed in a
Zeppelin raid on London. The princi
pal attacks were aimed at the indus
trial centers.
Of the twelve big Zeppelins which
recently invaded the British Isles at
night to deal death and destruction
from the skies, two w r ere left stark
and black masses of steel ancf alumi
num in the little village of Mangold,
Essex county. They fell victims of the
anti-aircraft defenses of London and
outlying districts.
The death and burning of the Zep
pelins engaged in the recent raid on
London, was witnessed by tens of
thousands of London’s residents, but
the wounding and descent of some of
them was in doubt until official state
ments were later given out.
In the recent Zeppelin raid on Lon
don the raiders took a heavy toll of
life before their destruction, twenty
eight persons being killed and ninety
nine wounded in the metropolitan dis
trict of London.
The roar of dropping bombs by the
Zeppelins in the last raid on London
was heard in many districts where the
raiders were invisible.
The aerial fight in which Sergeant
Kiffin Rockwell of Atlanta (Georgia)
was mortally wounded by a German
airman, took place over the town )f
Thann. The body of the American av
iator fell in reconquered territory in
AJsace, near where Rockwell shot
down his first adversary five months
ago.
Sergeant Rockwell, the American
aviator fighting with the French aer
oplane squadron in Alsace Loraine,
who recently lost his life, was known
as an “ace,” a name given to the
most skillful and daring pilot. Lieut.
William Thaw of Pittsburg, Pa., be
fore he was wounded and Rockwell
made a formidable fighting pair.
Beginning October 1, it is reported
in Berlin, the salaries of German of
ficers of high rank will be reduced.
Married officers and those having de
pendents will, be allowed special in
demnities.
Washington
The Japanese question has bobbed
up again in official Washington. It
is stated on the best authority that
there is no question but that Japan
will renew her contention for the right
of her people to emigrate to and own
land in the United States.
It had been generally assumed that
the Japanese issue would remain in
abeyance only while Japan was occu
pied with the war, but until now no
one in a position to speak with au
thority has said so. In Japanese cir
cles it is the concensus of opinion
that the war is practically over, and
hence the question is again before the
people of the United States.
Consul General Skinner at Ixmdon
has cabled the state department that
Isador Polak, the American citizen tak
en off the Dutch steamer Prinz Hen
drik by a German warship, has been
released and now is at Amsterdam,
Holland.
Officials of both the department of
justice and the federal trade commis
sion are watching advance of bread
prices with considerable interest, but
so far no general investigation has
been determined upon.
Federal district attorneys have been
instructed by the department of justice
to watch for any evidence of illegal
combinations to advance prices in
foodstuffs.
American exports have passed the
half billion dollar mark. Statistics is
sued by the department of commerce
show r that goods sent abroad in Au
gust were valued at $510,000,000, a
record not only for this country, but
for the world. The total is $35,000,-
000 above the previous high record,
established in May, and $45,000,000
higher than the June figure.
The department of commerce has
cabled the American consul general at
Havana to investigate a published re
port that millions of tons of potash
have been discovered near Motembo,
in Cuba.
Mmstionm.
SONMSOKIOL
Lesson
(By 13. O'. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute, Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1916, Weatern Newspaper Union )
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 8
PAUL BEFORE FELIX.
LESSON TEXT-Acts Si.
GOLDEN TEXT—Herein I also exercise
myself to have a conscience void of of
fense toward God and meh always.—Acts
24:16.
This is a court scene, and it might
be well with certain classes to intro
duce the lesson by describing such a
gathering. The lesson occurred five
days after the last lesson, and twelve
days after Paul reached Jerusalem,
bearing the collection for the poor.
The place, Caesarea, was the Roman
capital of Judea.
I. The Prisoner's Examination (vv.
1-9). In addition to the Roman gov
ernor, Felix, attired in his gorgeous
official regalia, on a platform nearby,
were the high priest of the Jews, in his
highly colored and jeweled robes, the
Sjawyer, Tertullus, in his Roman toga,
and the elders of the Sanhedrin who
had come down from Jerusalem to be
witnesses against Paul. Of Tertullus
it was said that, by his persuasive
tongue, lie could make white seem
black, and could therefore more easily
make it appear that Paul was “a dan
ger to the Roman power, and not mere
ly a turbulent and renegade Jew.” The
judge, Felix, was an exceptionally bad
governor, who two years later was re
called by Nero to Rome. The infer
ence of verse two is that Paul was an
inciter of rebellion and robberies, but
the exact charges were three-fold:
(See vv. 5-6) (a) that Paul was a
mover of insurrection; (b) that he was
a ringleader of a sect of Nazarenes
who were causing trouble in the prov
ince: and (c) that he had profaned the
Jewish temple at Jerusalem. The
charge of insurrection would be espe
cially obnoxious to Felix who had just
been praised for keeping peace in his
dominion. That of being a leader of
heresy was not serious, for the Romans
had no desire to interfere between one
Jewish sect and another, but it led to
the last one, viz., profaning the tem
ple. The Romans had legalized the
Jewish ritual, and for Paul to profane
the holy place would be a serious out
rage. The weakness of Tertullus’ case
was that he produced no evidence to
support his charges. The accusers
were there, but they had no witnesses.
11. The Prisoner's Defense (vv. 10-21).
Paul cheerfully made his defense, for
he knew the Jews and their customs,
and that Felix had married a Jewess,
(v. 24). We might consider this de
fense first negatively and then positive
ly. On the negative side, Paul answers
each charge seriatim. In the first
place there had not been time for him
to cause an insurrection (v. 11). Going
back over these days; (1) his arrival
in Jerusalem (21:15) ; (2) his appear
ance before James (21:18) ; (3, 4, 5 and
6), the days of his vow (Ch. 21:26, 27) ;
(7) his arrest; (8) his appearance be
fore the Sanhedrin; (9) the conspiracy
and his deliverance; (10, 11, 12 and 13)
in Caesarea (See Ch. 24:1). Paul’s
statement showed that the whole story
of his experience was fresh in the
memories of both friends and foes. It
w r as the Jew's who did the stirring up.
Paul answers the second charge by
acknowledging (vv. 14-16) that he be
longed to ihe Christian way of salva
tion, but denied that this was heresy.
Paul was a true Jew and a good
Pharisee, for (1) he worshiped the
same God (v. 14); (2) he believed in
the Jewish law and prophets. From
them he knew he could prove that
Jesus was the Messiah. (3) He agreed
’with the Pharisees (v. 15) in hope to
w’ard God, a resurrection from tne
dead and immortal life. Paul’s life was
“void of offense” toward God in heart
and worship, and toward men as shown
in good deeds. It wms for this that he
exercised himself. Literally, he worked
upon the raw material, disciplining
and training it. Paul answers the third
charge by a simple denial that it had
actually taken place, and calls for wit
nesses. Positively, Paul explains that
he had followed the God of his fathers,
that he believed in fulfilled prophecy—
literally the resurrection of Jesus from
the dead —that he came to Jerusalem
with alms for the poor, and, as before
the council, he stands upon his in
tegrity.
111. The Judge’s Delay (vv. 22-27).
Felix had a “more perfect knowledge
of that way.” We believe he had se
cured this knowledge from Philip, the
evangelist, and from Cornelius, the Ro
man centurion, both of whom lived in
Caesarea. By deferring his decision,
Felix avoided an outrageous injustice
to Paul, and at the same time gave
serious offense to the troublesome
Jews who knew of his evil conduct.
From verse twenty-three we see that
Paul was given liberty, literally such
indulgence in freedom as would be con
sistent with his safety. Luke, the phy
sician, and Fhilip, the evangelist, vis
ited him here, bringing food, books and
letters. After a time Felix and his
wife, Drusilla, sent for Paul to talk
with him "concerning the faith in
Christ.” Drusilla was a daughter of
Herod Agrippa I (vv. 12-23), and a sis
ter of Herod II (See Ch. 26). She was
a beautiful woman, much younger than
Felix who was possibly about sixty
years of age. She and her only child
perished in the eruption of Vesuvius.
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Ingenious Excuse of Man Who Had
Imbibed Too Freely Did Not
Satisfy Policeman.
When Police Captain Patrick Cos
tello met a man on the main street
of Dobbs Ferry loudly and joyfully
dusturbing the peace of the historic
hamlet, he said: “My friend, you’re
drunk, and I’ll have to run you in.
The stranger drew a tattered Bible
from his pocket, and, leading the cap
tain to the nearest street lamp, read
with fervor: "First Timothy, five,
twenty-three: ‘Drink no longer water,
but use a little wine for thy stomach’s
sake and thine often infirmities.’ ”
The captain scratched his head and
thought. Finally he said: “What were
yon drinkin’?”
“Well,” replied the stranger, “the
last one was beer.”
“Then,” said the captain, “you lose
on a technicality, and it’s come with
me.”
So the stranger, who said he was
John Hasch of the Bowery, New
York, was locked up to await the
morning session of the police court. —
Cincinnati Times-Star.
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Private —Beggin’ your pardon, sir, I
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