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QjT-ofQmmw - Peopled 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 land Will Be Found In 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. ♦ ♦ t DICKERSON, KELLY 4 4 & ROBERTS 4 t Attorneys at Law 4 * Tanner-Dickerson Building, HP 4 DOUGLAS, GA 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ + * + + + ♦♦ + + ♦♦♦ + ♦ + + ♦♦ + + ♦ + ♦* + ♦♦ * + 4W. C. Lankford. R. A. Moore. ♦ ir LANKFORD & MOORE 4 4 Lawyers ♦ 4 DOUGLAS GEORGIA. 4 4 ♦ 44444 + + + + + * + + + ♦ 444444 + + 4 + 44 + 4 ♦ 4 4 DR. WILL SIBBETT, 4 ♦ Treatment of Eye, Ear, Nose 4 ♦ and Throat a Specialty. 4 ♦ DOUGLAS, GA. 4 ♦ + ♦♦++♦*+♦ + + ♦ + + ♦♦ 4444 + 44 + 44 + 444 ♦ 4 4 W. C. 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