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TALES OF TWO SENATORS
■ 1 ' "| The old notion that a new senator
must sit around like an empty plate,
JeT '/■' \ and not open his mouth during his
fe- v first year in office, has, as everybody
gP&?w& : ;- i knows, been completely nudged aside,
is*iP||bf | Senator Thomas of Colorado, for ex-
Ep ,->- /><• | nmple, began to take part in sena
t torial debates almost from the day he
itifftlL tf struck Washington.
vij One afternoon, soon after his ar
h rival, Tliomas offered a resolution
y about something or other. Immediute-
V / v- f ly another senator jumped up, saying:
W , • , >y “The senator must have over-
J»' i V ~ j 4 looked the fact that someone intro
f duced the same resolution a day or
JHjja, Thomas was embarrassed nt his
v|jwSl)||v rt l oversight, but only for a moment.
* 114I 14 h’* admitted, “hut I wish
7 ft to offer this one to give the matter
ajaSjipjP ** A "j al * ?w *ki»»J Dignified senators occasionally
* ——— - have odd chores to perform*. A Unit
ed States judge up in New Hampshire did not like the location of a wash
bowl in the room where he usually washed his hands in the federal building.
So he wrote to Senator Hollis and insisted that Hollis consult one of the
government architects in charge of such matters with a view to having the
washbowl moved. As the request came from a United States judge, the
senator did not like to ignore it. In setting out on his important mission,
Hollis announced to friends in his office:
“I have at last found my real niche in statesmanship. Such minor mat
ters as foreign treaties and the state of the Union can now wait while I go up
and help to determine the grave question of where Judge So-and-so shall
wash his hands.”
WADSWORTH’S RAPID RISE
James W. Wadsworth, .Tr.. who " ■ ....
will bo the senior senator from New H
York, and whose rise In politics lias v* v*'
been particularly rapid. Is a descend- * 'fiT ' ,Tlijf
ant of the Wadsworth family which
settled in the Oenessee valley in New ‘’S9
York state two centuries ago. j
Senator Wadsworth Is a graduate
of Yale university and married Miss uj 'M
Alice Hay, daughter of the late John ’lf
Hay He is a grandson of Gen.
James W. Wadsworth, who was killed V” 1 * .•; x
in battle of the Wilderness. He \Cf ■
entered polities under the tutelnge of V /
his father, who served several terms V '/
Jn the house of representatives. In j
I9ofl, when only twenty-seven years Ay / "• J
old, he wns elected speaker of the £■ f
New York state assembly, in which 'Jllyy- 4.
position lit* served until his retire- / ’M
ment in 1010. •nTTJYfIMWBK'
Used to fanning on a large scale
on his estate in Livingston county, >
Senator Wadsworth passed a large ;
jtait of his time, until his re-entry into public life, in association with the big
tldngs of western outdoor life on a 550.000-ncre raneh in Texas.
One of the most popular young Republicans in New York state, lie was
nominated for United States senator. His election in a fight against James
W. Gerard, ambassador, to Germany, is now political history.
Oddly enough, both Ambassador Gerard and Senator Wadsworth were
boys in Livingston county, Mr. Gerard having received his early education
at the State Normal school at Geneseo, not far from the Wadsworth estates,
where riding to hounds still is in vogue.
NEW EMPEROR DEMOCRATIC
Charles, the new emperor of Aus
ttria and king of Hungary, was not
brought up as a probable ruler of
the most aristocratic and precedent
governed court in Europe. He is
only a grandnephew of the late Franz
Josef, and in his youth there were
several lives between him and the
imperial crown. For this reason In*
was educated much more informally
than if the chance of his succession
to the throne had been stronger.
TTe attended public school for a
time, and imbibed a strong liking for
democracy, which never has loft him.
Ho has the reputation of being the
English. When I was courting my wife —she was still in school in a convent
—I spent a long time on the Isle of Wight, so that I could see her every day.
That was where 1 learned English.”
He was born in 1887. His marriage to the Princess Zita of Parma took
place in 1911. They have three children, Francis Joseph Otto, born 1912;
Adelaide Marie, born 1914, and Robert Charles Ludwig, born 1915.
“ANGEL OF THE BLIND”
Happy to hare helped, as she ox- ,
ing a score of soldiers. I believe I am ——————————
the only woman who has been allowed the much-coveted privilege of going to
the frout and viewing the work of military departments in the Somme region.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OF THE SOOTH
What Taking Place in the South
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Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic
Twenty miners were killed and
seven injured in an explosion in the
Reedy & Ryan coal mine at Stone
City, 15 miles southwest of Pittsburg,
Kans.
The Merchants and Miners’ passen
ger steamer Powhatan collided with
an unknown ship near Norfolk, Va.,
and had to be beached. Four mem
bers of her crew were injured.
The threatened strike of the train
men of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railway, which has been
pending for some time, came to an
end when an agreement was reached
at Nashville, Tenn., that was satis
factory to both sides to the contro
versy.
It is announced that special accounts
of wages due employees under the
Adamson law will be kept and all
other litigation will be held in abey
ance by agreement between the gov
ernment and the railroads until the
decision a.- to the constitutionality of
the new law is given.
The indications at the beginning of
the 1916 cotton crop were that there
would be a 11,266,000 crop, but storms
and insects, and not reduction of the
acreage, wrought havoc with the grow
ing plants as the season progressed,
and the latest estimate is that the
crop will barely touch the 11,611,000
mark.
William E. Mickle of New Orleans,
adjutant general of the United Con
federate Veterans, announces that the
week beginning June 4 has been decid
ed upon as the date for holding the
1917 reunion of the veterans in Wash
ington, D. C.
Mexican
A Mexican courier reached the bor
ber from P’raneisco Villa’s camp in
the Guerrero district of Chihuahua,
with proposals for the United States
government that Villa would refrain
from further destruction of foreign
life and property in Mexico on condi
tion that the United States would not
interfere with his campaign against
the Carranza government.
An El Paso, Texas, dispatch an
nounces that a message from a for
eign consul in Torreon, Cohuila, con
firms the report of the killing of How
ard Gray, or Howard Weeks, at Par
ral by Villa followers.
A French named Alexander Ricault
was killed by the Villa soldiers after
they had occupied Parral, according
to a telegram emanating in El Paso,
Texas.
Carranza's action on the protocol
signed at Atlantic City, N. J., by the
Mexican-American joint, commission
will be submitted to the American
commissioners by the Mexican mem
bers at a preliminary meeting to be
held at Philadelphia December 18.
Washington officials are inclined to
credit unofficial reports that instead
of affixing his signature to the pro
tocol agreed upon at Atlantic City,
Carranza has proposed changes in the
agr "ment and it is feared that his
attitude may nullify all of the work
of tho commission, and cause further
complications.
It is indicated in official Washing
ton that a demand for material
changes in the Mexican-American pro
tocol, such as were foreshadowed by
the reported determination of Carran
za to insist unconditionally upon the
retirement of American troops from
Mexico, would mean immediate aban
donment of the conference.
European War
Buzeu, an important railway center
northeast of Bucharest and an excel
lent base from Avhich to begin opera
tions in Moldavia, has been captured
by the Austro-Germans.
The Germans and Bulgarians have
begun an offensive movement in Do
hrudja.
British troops have taken the offen
sive in the fighting around the Gar
den of Eden, and have taken several
important Turkish positions.
Advices say that the British are
now within two and one-half miles of
Kut-El-Amara.
The Greek government has accepted
the ultimatum presented by the en
tente allies.
The allied powers have made de
mands for reparation for the events
of December 1 and 2, when fighting
took place between entente landing
forces and Greek troops, but the for
mula of the demands has not been
announced.
In the Austro-Italian theater only
artillery engagements are reported.
The Hungarian and German troops
fighting on the center of the line in
Roumania have emerged from the
swamp lands of Jalomitza river and
made a crossing of the stream near
Kecenau, about midway between Buch
arest and the important railroad junc
tion town of Buzeu.
The Roumanian attacks which have
held the Ploechti region have been
i broken, according to German reports.
In the fighting in the eastern Car
pathians and along the Moldavian
front, all the Russian attacks have
been repulsed, says the Berlin war
office.
French troops have again made an
effective thrust in the Verdun region,
driving the troops cf the crown prince
back over two miles and capturing
over seventy-five hundred prisoners,
together with many guns and muni
tions of war.
It is stated that all Greek troops
with be withdrawn from Thessaly, and
only a certain number of Greek sol
diers will be concentrated in Polopon
nassus.
Fighting is in progress between the
Greek regular troopn and the French.
This is the report sent out from Ber
lin, and the report further says the
fighting is taking place north of Kat
erina, about 60 miles southwest of Sal
onika
Russian troops captured a line of
Teutonic trenches on the heights to
the south of Agusualia in the region
of the Trotus valley of Roumania.
Considerable heavy fighting is re
ported in the Cerna river region of
Serbia.
Washington
President Wilson has decided that
the notes of the central powers pro
posing a discussion of peace to the
entente allies will be sent forward by
the United States government acting
as intermediary without any accom
panying mediation offer of its own.
Legislation aimed at the destruction
of the liquor traffic continues to ac
cumulate in congress.
After fifteen years of experimenta
tion in breeding and selection, plant
specialists of the department of agri
culture have developed a second new
variety of the valuable Egyptian cot
ton grown in this county.
The entente powers have decided to
grant safe conduct to Count Tarnows
ki von Tarnow, recently appointed
Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the
United States.
President Wilson has proved the ac
tion of an army court in sentencing L.
O. Gardner a National Guardsman of
New Mexico, to dishonorable discharge
and a year in prison at hard labor, for
failure to obey the federal call for
border duty last June, but remitted
the prison sentence because the case
had been made as a test case.
A note of explanation from Germany
in response to the inqui» of the Unit
ed States concerning the sinking of
the steamer Lanao on October 28 has
reached the state department from
Charge Grew at Berlin. It says that
the Lanao was sailing under the Brit
ish flag and was sunk by a submarine
after provision for the safety of her
crew had been secured because she
was carrying contraband.
Reports to the United States on the
food conditions abroad say the Belgi
an refugees have opened a horse
slaughter house at Halifax in York
shire, and are teaching English work
ing men to eat horse meat.
After another day of debate over
the exclusion of aliens on account of
race, the senate adopted the commit
tee amendment to the immigration
bill which would bar Hindus and cer
tain other Asiatics without mentioning
them by name, with an added provi
sion stipulating that nothing in the
act shall be construed to repeal any
existing law, treaty or agreement that
serves to prohibit or restrict immigra
tion.
The United States battleship. Arizo
na, put into commission recently and
regarded by naval experts as the
speediest and most efficient American
dreadnaught, is proceeding north
along the Atlantic coast with only
her port engine supplying motive
power and with her starboard turbine
crippled.
Germany and her allies, Austria-
Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, took
the first decisive step to bring to an
end the greatest and bloodiest war in
the history of the world. Direct ap
peal was made to the entente powers
for a peace conference through the
United States, Spain, Switzerland and
the Vatican.
The main points in Germany’s peace
proposal are: 1. That Poland and Lith
uania be recognized as independent
kingdoms. 2. That Germany restore
Belgium and northern France. 3. That
the fate of the Balkan states be set
tled in a general peace conference. It
is understood that Germany will in
sist on restoration of its colonies in
return for evacuation of northern
France and Belgium.
Germany’s move for peace comes
just two years and 135 days after she
had declared war on Russia and two
years and 129 days after England de
clared war on Germany.
The Austro-Hungarian territory cap
tured by the allies comprises about
one-half of Galicia and all of Buko
wina and the southern fringe of Tren
tino, as well as the western border
of the Istrian peninsula, north of the
city of Trieste.
None of the Bulgarian territory has
yet been captured by the allies.
The United States transport Sumner,
hound from Colon for New York, went
aground in a heavy fog off Barnegat,
N. J. The steamer is commanded by
Captain Webber.
Further reduction in the estimated
size of this year’s cotton crop was
recorded in the department of agri
culture’s final report, putting the pro
duction at 11,511,000 equivalent 500
peund bales.
Determination by the Supreme court
of the constitutionality cf the Adamson
law in time for congress to enact any
desired supplementary legislation at
this session was regarded as assured
when the court advanced the test case
for argument on January 8.
Information assembled at the state
department and believed by some of
ficials to present a clear-cut violation
of German pledges in the sinking of
the British steamer Marina, with the
loss of six American lives, has been
forwarded to Berlin for submission to
the German foreign office.
INIUMIONAL
SIINMrSfIIOOL
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 24
UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN.
LESSON TEXT—lsaiah 9:1-7.
GOLDEN TEXT—For unto us a child
is born, unto us a son is given; and the
government shall be upon his shoulders;
and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, the Mighty God, tho Everlast
ing Father, the Prince of Peace.—lsa. 9:ti.
The Christmas lesson naturally and
logically follows the three lessons we
have just had from the book of the
Revelation where Jesus In his glory
had been portJbyed, and the ultimate
success of his work is foreseen in tho
new heaven and the new earth. Isaiah
saw the vision of his first coming. John
saw the vision of his second coming,
when what he began the first time
shall ultimately be accomplished. The
prophecy here spoken was uttered dur
ing the reign of Ahaz, B. C. 7148 to
723. The king of Assyria was attack
ing Syria. The tribes of northern Is
rael were carried away as captives.
Judah was in danger of invasion. (See
II Kings 15:20.) Isaiah was preach
ing in his home city, Jerusalem. His
vision of the Messiah Savior was not
more thnn SOO years before John saw
the vision of the glorified Jesus.
I. Darkness Versus Light (vv. 1-5).
We need to go back into the eighth
chapter to get the full historical situa
tion of this part of the lesson. Ahaz,
trembling in Jerusalem, had with him
the Prophet Isaiah, the wisest and
greatest man in his kingdom, yet Ahaz
listened not to his words of warning
and rebuke. He doggedly pursued his
own course and sought help in every
other quarter than the right one. This
explains Isaiah’s words, “The people
that walked 1c darkness.” Primarily
he may have referred to those of the
lands of Zebulon and Naphtali, the
Galilee of the nations (John 1:46;
7:52) and the light which shone in
them, which was the light cf the world,
Jesus of Nazareth (John 8:12). But
there is a larger application in this
verse to the whole world which lay
in darkness until Jesus came, and the
whole world has seen or shall see the
great light (Luke 1 :7S-79). With the
coming of light comes the increase of
joy (v. 3R. V.). In Israel there is to
be, through Christ, a wonderful in
crease (Isa. 49:20-22; Zech. 10:8). In
Christ there is to be great joy, the joy
of harvest and of victory. The re
ligion of Jesus Christ is pre-eminently
the religion of joy (Acts 8:8; Phil.
4:4; I Peter 1:8) but the Child that
was to be born was to be a Deliverer
100, for the “yoke of burden” was a tax
of §1,800,000 that had recently been
levied by the king of Assyria. It was
a night of thick darkness for Israel.
Then, even as now, we have the moral
darkness. (Read Rom. 1:20-32.) But
the prophet saw the joy of deliverance.
Jerusalem had been left in peace,
Ilezekiah succeeded his father, Ahaz,
and entered upon a religious revival in
the kingdom. The people who had
walked in darkness had seen a new
light. The prophet saw the dawning
rays through the midst of this dark
ness of Ignorance being removed. He
also saw the coming of the Light of
Men 700 years later, and the multi
plication of the nations, the increase
of their joy.
11. Unto Us a Son Is Born (vv. 6-7).
The greatest joy for Israel in Isaiah’s
time was in this vision of the Messiah,
the promised Savior. Isaiah is look
ing ahead seven centuries. Wo are
looking back nineteen. He was to be
king over his people. Name and title
Is here given. (1) “Wonderful” be
cause of his nature, being both hu
man and divine. The word made flesh
and dwelt among us. (2) “Counselor,”
one who has the wisdom to guide him
self and others. No one guided by him
has ever failed of true success. (3)
“The Mighty God.” He was truly God
so that we can trust him to the utter
most. He can also save to the utter
most. (4) “Everlasting Father,” ex
pressing his divine loving kindness and
■self-identification with the Father. (5)
He is also “Prince of Peace,” the one
who rules so that peace and prosper
ity abide in his kingdom. He brings
peace between man and God, and be
tween man and man. He is the peace
of the soul as well as bringing
peace to the soul. The completeness
of this picture \yhich Isaiah saw is
the one which St. John saw, of which
we have been recently studying. These
two verses are marvelous ones, not
only because cf the clear prediction of
Jesus of Nazareth, made more than
seven centuries before his first advent,
hut marvelous also for the fullness
and richness of the revelation they con
tain concerning the person, character
and work of Christ.
Our Lord’s earth life began at Beth
lehem, but he was from all eternity
(John 8:56-58; John 1 :l-2).
As a man is not at peace with God
he cannot he at peace with himself or
his fellows; but as Jesus restores
peace between man and God, he also
restores peace to the heart of the in
dividual (Phil. 4:7).
Sunday school officers and teachers
should realize the difference between
the peace with God (Rom. 5:1) and
the peace cf God (Phil. 4:7).
Let us see to it that in the fullest
sense our scholars may have the Prince
of Peace in their lives.
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