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iNTTiifligiiifim ORLEANS ALWAYS A FLIRT 1 the wish, but the stern old Comte de Paris kept a keen eye on his sons and prevented the meeting between them and the bewitching daughters of Virginia. A reporter for a Richmond newspaper who happened to be aboard the boat knew r the girls and arranged with them to bring the duke and his brother for a call at their home in Richmond that evening. The distinguished visitors took rooms at the old Lexington hotel. A problem was to get the count to sleep so the party could slip out for the evening. Finally when he was tucked away the trio took a cab, called on the girls and returned to the hotel before midnight. One of the young men stumbled just across the hall from the old count’s rooms, and he appeared in the doorway as his sons were attempting to sneak into their apartments. He took them to Washington that night. LOOKS LIKE JIM JEFFRIES Mr. “Wild Bill” Gordon, one of the representatives in congress from Cleve land, 0., impresses one Aid all with his resemblance to a certain large, two fisted man who once figured promi nently in the public prints, to wit: Mr. James J. Jeffries. And they do say that the resemblance does not stop with mere looks, either. The story is that when Bill Gordon was a young chap out in Oak Harbor, 0., where he was brought up, he was regarded as a person of much prominence in the fistic way. One night Gordon made a little run over to Toledo to take in a boxing tournament. The hefty young man who won the championship of the eve ning was obliged to lick three other able-bodied men, one after the other, and this was a task that entailed some little fatigue. Just when the champion thought his work was over for the eve ning, a large, well-knit man arose in the audience and declared that he was prepared to knock the eternal smith ereens out of the winner right then and there, without fear, favor or failure. Now, the proposition appealed to young Bill Gordon as unsportsmanlike in the extreme. So he arose and said that while he didn’t think the three time winner should be asked to fight again, yet he didn’t wish to see the volunteer disappointed. If the man was going to have his evening spoiled unless he got into a fight, he, Gordon, would accommodate him. And the word that has been handed down from those who were present is that the things nineteen-year-old Bill Gordon did to hts adversary were entirely satis factory to one and all, with the sole exception of Mr. Adversary himself. / ,«OK-S< a sneakers. There is a lambent wit behind his forcible, incisive and carefully selected language, which sets him apart from his political contemporaries. RUSSIAN CHIEF OF STAFF Gen. Michel Alexieff, Nicholas H’s chief of staff, and, next to the em peror, responsible for operations along the whole Russian front, is the son of a preacher and a self-made man. He is at the top because he put himself there by hard work. When the emperor assumed com mand of the army and General Alexieff went to work with him the czar and his chief of stalf always lunched to gether at the czar’s quarters. The lunches naturally were of a more or less formal nature, ending up with coffee and smokes and the inevitable conversations, in all consuming about an hour and a half. General Alexieff stood this for some days, but it was apparent he was getting more and more ill at ease Finally one day he went to the czur. “Sire,” he said, "I realize it is im possible to cut the lunch shorter. But I am losing a lot of time every day. Permit me to lunch with my officers, at their mess. I will be very grateful. The emperor laughed. “Of course, it shall be as you wish, general, he said recognizing by his knowledge of his officers’ personalities, the general s motive. And from that day on the chief ate with his men. Cablegrams telling of the intention of the duke of Orleans to seek annul ment of his marriage to Archduchess Maria Dorothea, who left him long ago on account of his fondness for other women, recall a well-founded story of the duke’s flirtation in this country more than 20 years ago. In the early nineties the duke and his younger brother were brought to America by their father the Comte de Paris. They were handsome, high strung young fellows, out for adven ture and romance. When en route from Norfolk to Richmond on a river steamer both young men were attract ed by the beauty of two Richmond girls, the Misses Bullington, who were aboard the boat. One of the girls was a dainty blonde, the other a vivacious brunette. They soon suspected the distin guished young aristocrats desired to meet them, and cleverly encouraged ||p*r' y AUSTRALIA’S BIG MAN At once the biggest small man and the smallest big man whom Australian public life has produced, Hon. William Morris Hughes, prime minister of Aus tralia, is one of the potent creative forces of the British empire. He is a mere handful of luraan, weighing little over 100 pound." He has been a life-long martyr to dyspep sia. But for 50 years his mind has been matter. Above all things he is a fighter, a fierce, tena cious, boisterous, deadly fighter. Op ponents carry his scars to their graves. He possesses a turn of sarcasm, a mas tery of mordant raillery, a command of barbed words which bite like corro sive sublimate. A spontaneous oratory is his. “Hughes is up” has always been a rallying cry in the federal parliament. To natural gifts he has added the arti fice born of a study of the speeches and style of the world’s most famous I , , . ■■■■'■■ * THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. SMITH & By EDGAR JENNINGS (Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.) It was the last thing “Smith” had expected, and it came with the sud denness of the expected. “Smith” had been watching the girl wdth bitterness in his heart, the bit terness which he felt toward all hu manity. Even a criminal can feel the pangs of exile, and “Smith” was shak ing the dust of his native land off his feet forever. To be more precise, when “Smith” boarded the boat that ran across Lake Michigan, a sheriff's deputy w r as about five minutes behind him. In front of him lay Canada, and “Smith” knew that he.had succeeded in throwing the deputy off his trail long enough to en able him to reach the coveted haven of a new land without having to answer any inconvenient, not to say imperti nent questions about his past. In plain er words, no wire had been sent to search the boat for him. And “Smith” had been disgusted at the sight of the girl. She seemed somehow to remind him of that past when he had not spent his days plan ning to circumvent the law. She was bright and winsome and free, and her clear eyes, which looked upon the world in friendly fashion, betokened that she was at peace with it and feared nothing. She had looked in the same friendly fashion upon “Smith,” and “Smith” bad muttered under his breath and slunk away. He was still looking at her from a distance when, without any warning, Began to Support Her Under the Shoulders. the unexpected happened. The vessel quietly tipped on her side and cap sized. She went right under and floated hull upward. Some structural defect, the blow of a wave, a shifting of the cargo? Nobody ever knew. It was one of those unexpected things that happen. “Smith” found himself in the water. He was aware of the cries of the passengers who had been flung from the deck. Those imprisoned in the hull had died very painlessly and quickly. Buf two score of unfortu nates were fighting for their lives, just out of sight of land. “Smith” was one of these. The girl was the other. He fought hard, He looked about ( him for a spar, but there was no wreckage. It was not a wreck, it was a catastrophe. One minute the ship had sailed proudly across the lake water; the next it was floating, screws upward, upon its surface. “Smith” saw the girl near him. She was swimming pluckily, but it was evi dent that' her strength would not sus tain her very long. “Smith” made his way toward her through the waves. He did not know what impulse it was that prompted him; perhaps an ances tral one, derived from generations of honest, sturdy forebears. “Trust yourself to me,” he shouted. She nodded, and “Smith,” turning on his back, began to support her un der the shoulders. The water was warm, and “Smith,” unaiding her, could have swuflft indefinitely. Oddly enough, he remembered something that his fnther had said to him, years before, when he met with an accident on the river: “You'll never drown, Johnny; you were born to be hanged.” He was smilirtg at the memory now as he tloated, bearing up the girl’s body. They were alone upon the sur face of the lake. The unfortunates about them had gone under. In the distance a steamer was mak ing her way toward them. She had seen the disaster; but it was a ques tion whether “Smith’s” strength would sustain him. And the girl was grow ing weak from her immersion; if she fainted “Smith’s” task would become infinitely harder. “Help is coming!” he shouted, as her eyes began to close. “Look yon der !” She smiled faintly. “Smith” mar veled at her courage. The steamer was quite close now, and was lower- ing a boat. Somehow “Smith” man aged to support the girl until they were drawn aboard. Then they both fainted in the bottom of the boat. The steamer had come from Wau kegan and was putting in to shore again. “Smith” discovered this when he opened his eyes. He would never see Canada —at least, not until he had completed" his interview with the law. For at his side waited patiently the deputy who had wanted him so badly. “Hard luck, Milton!” he said con solingly. “My name is Smith,” said Milton. “It’s all one to me,” answered the other easily. “You’re five feet ten and you got gray eyes and a scar on your temple and are wearing a blue suit with a gold horseshoe, and one of your front teeth is filled with gold. I want you if your name’s Julius Caesar.” “You must want me mighty bad, then,” said “Smith,” struggling up. “Where are we?” “In port at Waukegan.” “Say, you’ll give me five minutes, won’t you? I want to see the girl I picked out of the water.” “I guess so,” answered the other. “Seeing as it’s a ship. No jumping overboard, though.” “I’ve had enough of that,” said “Smith.” They admitted him to the girl’s side. She was lying in the captain’s cabin. She was conscious and smiled week ly at him. “Never mind,” said “Smith” as she began to thank him. He cast one eye toward the door, where the deputy lin gered. “I came to say good-by.” “But we must meet again,” an swered the girl. “My mother will nev er forgive me if I don’t give her the opportunity of thanking you for sav ing my life.” “I don’t know,” murmured “Smith.” “I live here. I was going across on an excursion, to see some friends. You’ll be in Waukegan for some time?” “Smith” shook his head. “I’m go ing a long distance away,” he an swered. “But I’ll come sometime— sure. What is your name?” “Hilda Winter. And we live at 900 Molasset avenue. And you must come,” the girl pleaded, “Mr. —” “Smith. John Smith.” “I shall look for you, Mr. Smith. How long will your journey take you?” “Smith” walked to the door. “Say, just a minute longer,” he pleaded. “Suppose I was Smith instead of Mil ton, how much do you suppose I’d get?” “You can search me,” answered the other. “Two years, maybe.” “Oh, then I’m wanted for that stock affair, eh?” asked “Smith,” vastly re lieved. “I thought it might have been something else.” He went back to the girl. “Suppose I didn’t come for two years, would you have forgotten me?” he asked. “I shall never forget,” she answered earnestly. “But two years, Mr. Smith —” “Ah, well, you see my business is of a very complicated nature,” “Smith” answered. “But I’ll come, I surely will.” He bent and kissed her hand. Then he hurried to the door. “I guess you were right about my name after all,” he said. “Come, let’s get it over. I’m anxious to begin on those two years.” WHEN HEALTH COMES BACK Early Days of Return to Convalescence Are Things That Linger Long in the Memory. The return from illness to health is like coming up from a dive, suppos ing the time from when the swimmer first sees light through the water un til his head rises to the surface to be the affair of weeks. The change in physical condition may be slow, but the change in orientation takes place in a twinkling and is complete. The eye no longer looks down intb un plumbed deeps, but back toward the liglit of day; curiosity for the ulti mate yields to u golden memory of 'famiiar things—friends, household goads, books, barking dogs, the fresh ness of grass and trees. The body has reasserted itself. The dreaming im agination is dragged away from its goal by the galloping senses. Eye, ear, touch, taste, start upon a ram page. Especially does the appetite for food wax furious, discovering itself endowed with power to transform a coddled egg into something rich and strange, and to illumine chicken broth with a charm that no art can equal. The universe, lately shrunk to the sick room, now rises again like the genie out of the bottle in which he had been imprisoned; the sickroom becomes a house of detention, and at its doors, as in a seashell clapped to the ear, the convalescent hearkens to all the rumors of the outer world. —Henry Dwight Sedgwick, in the Atlantic. Papa’s Limp. “Mother, what makes papa limp that way?” asked George. “Papa fell and hurt his leg when he was a little boy, and they had to put it in plaster, and it has never been well since.” That night there was company for dinner, and George called out in true enfant terrible style: “Papa, I know why you limp. It’s ’cause you got a mortar leg.” Smoking Girls. “There is a very excellent reason why a girl shouldn’t smoke.” “What?” she demanded. “Makes her less agreeable to kiss.” “Well, I’ll wait till somebody wants to kiss me,” she said; “when they do, I I’ll give up cigarettes—and take to a ! pipe!”—Margaret Poland, in the Wont ! an’s Home Companion. IffInMIONAL SUNMrScnOQL Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 10 FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. LESSON TEXT-Rev. 2:1-17. GOLDEN TEXT-Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.—Rev. 2:10. This passage most wonderfully illus trates that dominating purpose of Raul’s life. More than most lessons a map will be necessary to locate dis tinctly the places mentioned. There are interesting stories in connection with each of the seven cities and churches. It might he wise to give to seven different people ttie task of bring ing information to the class regard ing each one mentioned. I. Ephesus, whose love is waning (vv. 1-7). The key word to these mes sages is the word “overcometh.” In each of the messages our Lord de scribes himself in a different way ac cording to the peculiar needs of that particular church. Here he is repre sented as holding the stars (messen gers of the churches, Ch. 1:20) in his right hand, and keeping them secure, controlling them while he walks in the midst of tlie seven golden lamp stands, literally churches. The symbolism of “lamp stand” is used because the ■churches were intended to be light bearers as they held forth the light given by the oil of the Spirit (Math. 5:16; Phil. 2:16; Zech. 4:2-6). Ephesus was the capital of a province said to be ong of the richest in the Roman em pire. In it was the great temple of Diana. Here Paul had labored and had various experiences, and to Ephesus he had written a letter (See lesson 8, third quarter), but there were good things to be found in this Ephesian church (vv. 2,3). Forty years after be ing founded, John writes this message. He knew their “works,” their general moral conduct, especially its active and passive sides through its trials, its dealing with impostors and its prac tical energy and enterprise; and its pa tience (literally steadfast assurance) in bearing witness for Christ. Jesus knew of their never wearying endur ance. Surely these things would Indi cate pretty nearly a model church. Jesus says, “No, there is something seriously wrong,” so seriously wrong that unless repented of he would re move them out of their place. 11. Smyrna, the church with a crown of life (vv. 8-11). Smyrna was 40 or 50 miles from Ephesus, and at this time a city of 250,000 inhabitants. To this church the Son of Man (Ch. 1:11) sends another message. It is interest ing to note that this church and the one at Philadelphia received from the Master unqualified praise. It had works,’ activities; it also had tribula tions, riches and poverty (for thou qrt rich) rich in good works, rich toward God, rich in treasures laid up In heaven; however, it was in the midst of persecution. It was here that Poly carp labored, who afterward, as bishop of Smyrna, was martyred (see v. 10). Of I’olycarp it Is said that rather than save his life by renouncing Christ he cried out, “Eighty and six years have I served him, and he has done me no ill; how then can I blaspheme my king who hath saved me.” The crown is eternal life, the crown of victory. The second death is the final condemna tion which sinners undergo at the judg ment seat of God. 111. Pergamos, the church in a strong hold of faith (vv. 12-17). Our glorified Lord knew that the church in Pergamos was in a peculiarly difficult situation, that it was Satan’s headquarters, his “throne” (v. 13); hence they were in especial need of a defender and the Lord is represented as “he that hath a sharp, two-edged sword,” the word of God (Heb. 4 :12-13 ; John 5:22). Per gamos was almost fifty miles mirth of Smyrna, a city of about 17,000 inhabi tants, and the capital ,pf the province. To it were brought many of the early Christians who were compelled to suf fer martyrdom. Again we have a church whose works are commended, whose steadfastness is mentioned in that they “held fast to my name, and not denied the faith” —martyrs (vv. 13). However, dangers threatened them for there had been a compromise with the world and with other sys tems of faith, what we would call to day liberality in doctrine and breadth in view in teaching: (1) Some of their number had accepted and practiced the doctrine of Baalim (Jude 11; Num. 31-16). (2) These teachings cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel (v. 14). This was done by per suading the Israelites to join in the idolatrous feasts and revelings of the heathen, and also their impurity of worship. In the remaining part of the chapter we have some glimpses of the remain ing four churches, the good that was to be cherished and the evil that was to be overcome. Perhaps the most suggestive of all Is that of Laodicea, the lukewarm church. Lukewarmness is one of the most deadly evils to overcome, and hence the highest and most glorious of all the promises suggested ends with “I will give him to sit down with me in my throne as I also overcame and sat down with my father in his throne” (Am. B. V.). Peruna eases E iff the burden of the I housekeeper by keep- I 1&&2A in 2 away the danger ■ Alness resulting I from colds, coughs, I an<l indigestion due I to catarrhal condi- Hg \r tion. It speedily re- M k J lieves and overcomes ■ these. 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