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THE WORLD OVER
Happenincs of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
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THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What la Taking Place In the South
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Domestic
The deadlock in the balloting for
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of At
lanta (Ga.), to succeed the late Cle
land Kinloch Nelson, was broken on
the seventeenth ballot, when the Rev.
Robert Sanders Coupland of New Or
leans was elected.
Prominent instructors in economics
in the United States, in a memorial
forwarded from Minneapolis, Minn , to
each member of congress and the pres
ident and his cabinet, urge the adop
tion of the policy of taxation rather
than that of bond issues as the prin
cipal means of meeting the expendi
tures of this country in the war.
Secret codes containing a cipher
order to dismantle machinery on in
terned German liners upon the sever
ance of diplomatic relations by the
United States were discovered on the
German steamships Prinz Oskar and
Rhatetia, according to W. H. Berry,
collector of the port of Philadelphia.
It is announced that when interned
liners are made seaworthy they be
placed in trans-Atlantic merchant serv
ice.
Figures compiled by the Anti-Saloon
league show that 142 saloons were
voted out of business in elections in
various cities and towns of Illinois.
The drys won in fourteen wet cities
and towns, but lost three dry towns.
Michigan’s $5,000,000 war loan bill
has been signed by Governor Sleeper.
The bill also creates a state war pre
paredness board.
The war was brought to the shores
of the United States when the destroy
er Smith reported by radio that an
enemy submarine had tried unsuccess
fully to torpedo her 100 miles south
of New York.
Recruiting figures for -the regular
army made public by the war depart
ment show that more than enough
men to form a regiment are being ob
tained daily. For the five-day period,
April 11 to 15, a total of 7,171 men
were recruited, a daily average of*
1.434.
Detailing of army officers to educa
tional institutions for military in
struction work is ordered discontin
ued by the war department, w 7 ith the
suggestions that students of military
age. can best serve their country by
joining the army or navy.
The white house is about to join
the increased food production move
ment by planting a garden of its own
in which President Wilson may wield
a hoe when he finds a spare moment.
The assistance of the department of
agriculture will be asked in select
ing seed for the land.
The Minnesota legislature passed a
bill, which has been signed by the gov
ernor, providing a commission of pub
lic safety for the duration of war. The
bill carries an appropriation of one
million dollars to be used for war
purposes.
The governor of Maryland an
nounces that all idlers in that state
must go to work either voluntarily on
the farm or in houses of correction.
A bill has been introduced in the
home of representatives at Washing
ton proposing that exemption of mar
ried men from military Juiv under any
future compulsory service legislation
shall not apply to those married after
April 1, this year.
Washington
The government's program for food
control during the war was put. be
fore congress by Secretary Houston
in a communication to the senate ask
ing power for the department of agri
culture to take direct supervision of
food production and distribution in the
United States and requesting a $25,-
(100,000 appropriation for putting the
plan into operation
Market grades and classes for farm
produce, according to the agricultural
department, is one of the chief needs
of the country to insure proper condi
tions in producing and marketing of
farm products.
President Wilson probably will name
within a few days a group of distin
guished Americans to confer w’ith
members of the Russian duma anent
the war with Germany.
Any one who has knowledge of a
treasonable act and fails to make
known the facts may be sent to prison
for seven years. The United States
at war is in a very different position
from a neutral. The iron hand will
be applied to any form of treasonable
utterance, deed or suppression of in
formation.
The president personally appeals to
the farmers of the South to plant
foodstuffs. He says the Southern farm
ers “can show their patriotism in no
better or more convincing way than by
resisting the great temptation of the
present price of cotton and helping
feed the nations and the peoples every
where fighting for their liberties and
our own.”
President Wilson has created a pub
licity board, the head of which is vest
ed in Secretaries Lansing, Daniels and
Raker of the state, navy and war de
partments, respectively.
The agricultural department aska
congress to require of transportation
companies preference for the move
ment of farm machinery, seeds, fertil
izers and materials that enter into
the processes of food production.
Approximately three thousand Ger
man residents of the United States
are under close surveillance, depart
ment of justice officials announce, be
cause of their activities in behalf of
the German government before the
United States entry Into the war or
because of their pro-German sympa
thies.
The senate has recorded itself in fa
vor of a press censorship during the
war.
First call to the country for war
finances will be made, Secretary Mc-
Adoo announces, as soon as the seven
billion dollar bill becomes law.
The var finance bill, providing for
issuance of $7,000,000,000 in securities
—the largest single war budget in any
nation’s history—was passed uani
mously by the senate.
George Bakmeteff, Russian ambas
sador to the United States since 1911,
cabled the provisional government at
Petrograd that he has decided to re
linquish his office and asks that some
one be named to take charge of the
embassy.
That, in the inability of the nation
to supply men at once for the fight
ing line, money should be America’s
immediate contribution to her allies,
was the dominant thought expressed
during the debate on the war finance
bill in the senate.
European War
Steady progress is being made by
the troops of General Nivelle in driv
ing back the Germans in the region
of Soissons and Rheims.
Since the beginning of the French
offensive in the west, more than nine
teen thousand prisoners have been
taken from the Germans.
General Maude, commanding the
British forces in Mesopotamia, has
forced a passage of the Shatt-el-Ad
hem, attacked the Turkish main posi
tions, and completely routed the Turk
ish forces.
1 he British operating in Egypt have
advanced to formidable positions north
of the Wadi Ghuzze.
The great offensive of the French
army against the Germans from the
bend in the line in France from Sois
sons eastward into the Champagne
continues unabated. In three days’
fighting more than seventeen thousand
unwounded prisoners have fallen into
the hands of the French, together with
seventy-five cannon.
The British war office reports that
the forces of Field Marshal Haig have
gained additional ground along the
River Scarpe, to the east of Fampoux,
and also captured the village of Vil
liers-Gaislain, north of St. Quentin.
Northwest of Braila, on the Danube
river, in Roumania, the Germans deliv
ered a violent attack against the Rus
sians, but were repulsed, says the Pe
trograd war office.
Popular feeling against Germany in
Brazil is reported. German newspapers
have suspended publication, and the
German flags have been taken down.
Several big German business establish
ments are reported destroyed by fire.
Russia has forwarded assurances to
the United that under no conditions
now conceivable will the provisional
government of'.Russia yield to the
overtures from German and Austrian
Socialistic representatives to negotiate
a separate peace. The entente diplo
mats frankly confess a great sense
of relief.
A Madrid, Spain, dispatch says that
th Spanish steamship Tom was torpe
doed and sunk without warning, en
tailing the loss of eighteen lives.
General von Biasing, governor gen
eral of Belgium since German occupa
tion, and who became notorious be
cause of his consent to the execution
of Miss Edith Cavell, an English nurse,
is dead.
It is freely admitted in Germany
that if Germany loses the monarchy
loses with it.
The emperor and empress of Aus
tria prayed for peace in St. Stephen's
church, while the people sobbed.
The English house of lords and
house of commons have passed resolu
tions expressing profound appreciation
of the Hritish nation for the action
of the United States government and
people in entering the world war in
defense of the high cause of freedom
and the rights of humanity.
Prince Ziaed-Din, heir apparent to
the Turkish throne, arriving at the
German main headquarters, presented
Emperor William a sword from the
sultan “as a sign of the royal com
radeship in arms of the allied armies
and in recognition of the deeds of
the German army.” The prince pro
ceeded to the western front.
French troops in the department of
the Aisne and the Marne delivered a
violent infantry attack against the
Germans over a front of twenty-five
miles and made important gains and
captured more than ten thousand pris
oners and large quantities of war ma
terial.
London reports that the German war
losses since the beginning of the war
total 4,180,966 men.
Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, now
English first sea lord, says that any
thing and everything in the way of
small craft, from destroyers to tugo,
will be the most useful contribution
the United -States can make against
German submarines.
The news comes by way of Swit
zerland that the answer of the German
people to the United States’ declara
tion of a state of war is a huge pop
ular war loan.
German war losses during the
month of March this year are reported
to have been 645,503 men.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS. GEORGIA.
We
CASTAWAY
By MARY PARRISH
(Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.)
Jean Thayer having for the past ten
years earned her living in office posi
tions, and the occasional acceptance of
a story at very small pay, and with
long intervals between the checks, was
very glad to find herself in a position
with better pay, shorter hours, and
some promise of permanency. Like
many other women not trained to any
trade or profession, when she found
herself thrown on her own resources it
was a case of experimenting to see
what she could do, and like many more
women who have not the faith In them
selves that moves mountains, her ex
periments had not met with much suc
cess.
When Peter Shields had asked her
to be his private secretary she had at
once accepted the offer. He was the
senior member of a publishing firm,
and had begun to withdraw from an ac
tive participation in the business. He
came down to the office for an hour or
two, sometimes only three or four
times a week. He was a collector of
autograph letters and manuscripts, and
was becoming more and more devoted
to his hobby. Jean working in the of
fice as a stenographer had attracted
his attention. She was not a “girlie”
with very short skirts, very high heels,
and vividly tinted cheeks and lips, and
she attended to her work without side
Perhaps She Could Help This Man in
Some Way.
glances and ruses to attract attention.
The senior partner decided she looked
“sensible,” and enguged her.
It was a pleasant change for Jean
when she walked into the handsome
library that expressed everywhere the
fine taste and attainment of Its owner.
Shields had no family. A housekeeper
and servants took care of the house.
After a time Jean found that the por
trait of the young, beautiful woman in
the library was his wife who had died
twenty years ago.
One day on acquaintance, whom Jean
had worked with in the publishing
house, met her, and asked a good many
questions about her “new berth.” When
it came to Mr. Shields’ domestic rela
tions before Jean entered the house
she knew nothing, but the acquaintance
seemed to know a great deal. Mrs.
Shields had died when the little girl
was born, and the child had only lived
five or six years.
“Poor man !” said the girl. “He’s had
plenty of sorrow and trouble. Wasn’t
it awful about that son?”
“Son?” queried Jean. “I never knew
there was one.”
"No, I don’t suppose he ever speaks
of him. Don’t you remember when a
young fellow, Nathan Shields, forged
his father’s nnme for a big amount, and
got sent to the penitentiary. It was
five or ten years—l don’t remember
which. He denied to the very last that
he was guilty; but all the evidence
was dead against him, and he was con
victed. People thought if he had con
fessed. his father would have done
everything in his power to save him,
but he believed him guilty, and turned
against him. It was a strange case.
There must have been something more
In it than most folks knew. They say
Shields has never once been to visit
his son in prison since he has been
there. And of course no one dares to
even mention his name to him. I
can’t understand how a man can be so
hard on his own flesh and blood.”
Jean’s informer left her wondering
grhatly. But she doubted if she would
ever know any more about the mystery
than she did then. Mr. Shields’ eyes
began to give him trouble, and often
he asked her to drop her other work
and read to him. Then when he had
kept her overtime, he would beg her to
stay and dine with him.
It came to her ears that people
were saying that Peter Shields would
either marry or adopt Jean Thayer.
But. at any rate, she was likely to be
well provided for for life. Jean was J
happy in the work and companionship,
and there was also real comfort in the
steady income without the fluctuations
of former years.
Jean had been Instructed to slit the
ends of envelopes and lay the mail
ready for Mr. Shields, but not to open
or read any letters unless called upon
to do so. Two letters addressed in a
masculine hand she had noticed he had
tossed into the wastebasket without
even taking them from the envelope. At
first she thought not much about it,
supposing he took it for a begging let
ter or some inconsequential matter
about which he did not wish to be both
ered. But she noticed that after each
of these letters he seemed irritable.
When the third one came, and met
with the same reception, Jean's won
derment and curiosity reached tha
boiling point. Among other wild sur
mises one suddenly struck her with
force. Suppose these letters were
from the son trying to see or speuk
with this father?
She could see the corner of the let
ter stlckng out between others. She
was entirely alone with that letter. No
one would ever know if she read it. But
Jean had a strong sense of honor. To
read another person’s letter was to her
about the same as putting her hand in
his pocket and taking something; still,
she reasoned, perhaps she could help
this man in some way, if she only knew
how. She was aware this was sophis
try, but it got the better of her. She
looked again at the letter, drew it out,
and read it.
“Dear father,” It said, “I have re
ceived no answer to any of my letters.
At first I thought you might not have
gotten them, but I ain forced now to
think otherwise. Still I am making
one more appeal, for it seems incred
ible you should go on believing me
what you said. It has come nearer
to breaking my heart, and making
a wreck of my life than anything else
in the whole bitter experience. If
you Mill not listen to me or see me, at
least let me know if you are well. I
have been out of prison for over six
months, but have found it hard to get
anything to do. The taint follows me.
At present I am working on a railroad
with day laborers, but this job will
not last very long.”
Jean copied the address, and put the
letter back in the basket.
Her thoughts played havoc with her
work. The appeal and pathos of
the letter haunted her. It seemed
tragic to her that this father and
son should be so far apart. But
even suppose she could bring them to
gether, what would she be doing for
herself? She had begun almost to
know that Shields felt toward her as
though she were a daughter, and her
future seemed assured.
“I am well punished for my curios
ity,” she thought. “If I had let that
letter alone, I would not have to be
fighting this battle with myself.”
Day after day she put off doing any
thing, till only a short time intervened
before the two weeks would be up.
There was only one right, one just thing
to do, and that was to try to bring this
man into his own. She wrote to him,
explaining who she was, and telling
him his father had never opened his
letters. She asked him to have con
fidence in her, and to let her know any
change in his address till she could ad
vise him further. He answered, ex
pressing his gratitude for her kind
ness.
One day in the parlor of her board
ing house she faced a man of about
thirty, with clear-cut features, a good
pair of shoulders, and the bearing of a
gentleman. It was Nathaniel Shields.
He told her something of his story. A
woman whom he had found out to be
an adventuress, had managed to gain
the affections of his father some three
or four years after his mother’s death,
and when he had finally succeeded in
unmasking her to his father, so that
the engagement had been broken off,
her revenge had not rested till she
had succeeded by the help of one of
her pals in throwing the guilt of the
forged note on him. After his convic
tion she had written his father that he
meant to give the money to her, as
he had been giving her large sums to
buy her silence, since he was deter
mined she should not marry him, and
that all his stories were lies.
Jean believed him. The more she
saw of him, the more was her confi
dence enlisted in his behalf. One day
she said to him: “I can see but one
thing to do. I will bring you to him. If
he sends me from the house never to
enter it again, it must be tried.”
“I can’t let you do. It,” he said.
“You must,” she answered. “It will
be kinder to me to do as I ask than to
refuse.”
The next day she took him with her
to the house. She put him in the
drawing room, knowing that Shields
would not be likely to go in there. In
the library she found the elder man.
“There is someone waiting for you,”
she said. “Someone you ought to
see —”
“No!” he broke in seeming at once
to divine who it was.
“Yes,” she said. “By the eternal
justice! by God’s justice, you must!”
She went to the other room, and
brought with her Nathan Shields. The
old man stood like a rock, not speaking
nor moving.
“He is not guilty—and he is your
son,” she said. Then she turned, and
went from the room.
Jean waited in the great drawing
room wondering what would happen.
In about half an hour a maid came and
asked her to go to the library. Peter
Shields met her taking her hand in a
warm grasp. Looking in his face she
knew- what had happened.
“You must stay and dine with us,”
he said. “We will have a family par
ty.”
Jean did not at once lose her posi
tion ns secretary, though there was a
slight interruption when she became
Nathan Shields’ wife.
IffIBMIONAL
SHNMfSOIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SETTERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday Sche©l Course in the Moody
Bible Intultute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1917. Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR APRIL 29
JESUS WELCOMED AS KING.
DESSON TEXT-John 12:12-19.
GOLDEN TEXT—Blessed Is the King
of Israel that cometh In the name of the
Lord—John 12:13.
This lesson marks the beginning of
that last tragic week In the life of
our Lord, the most important week in
all history since creation. The date
was probably April 1, A. D. 30.
I. The Lesson of His Kinship, (vv.
12-16). Reading carefully the record
of each evangelist, regarding this tri
umphal entry, we are still at a loss
fully to describe the scene. It oc
curred the day following the supper in
the home of Mary and Martha and
Lazarus, i. e. on the Jewish Sabbath.
From Bethphage Jesus sent two of
his disciples into Jerusalem to secure
the colt. They were to loose him with
out asking anyone’s permission, and
bring the ass and her colt to him to
whom all things belong, with no other
explanation than. “The Lord hath need
of them” (Matt. 21:3). This command
was in line with the prophecy (Zech.
0:0). The young ass was a symbol of
peace, but the going of the disciples,
in obedience tp his command, was an
act of faith, and obedience is the su
preme test of discipleshfp (John
15:14). In response to their faith,
they found everything just as he said
it would be (Luke 19:32). Placing
their gnrments upon the colt (Matt.
21:7) Jesus rode upon it toward the
city, the people crying, “Hosanna”—
literally, “Save, I beseech” (Ps. 19:37-
40; see Luke 19:38; Mk. 11:9-10; Matt.
21 :9). The enthusiasm of the moment
was tremendous. For the moment this
great crowd (Mk. 11:8) believed that
Jesus was really the Messiah, threw
the garments of their holiday attire in
his way (Matt. 21:8), and cast their
palm branches before him. The Phari
sees protested (Luke 19:39-40), but the
enemies of Jesus for the moment were
impotent (John 12:19). The Phari
sees forgot their dignity to such an
extent ns to get excited along with the
multitude, though with another pur
pose (See Luke 19:37-40). Unfor
tunately the enthusiasm of the peo
ple was not long-lived. Many of the
same ones were soon crying, “Crucify
him” (Ch. 19:14-15). Jesus himself
did not join in the general joy (Luke
19:41-44), for he, with prophetic eye,
saw the outcome (Luke 19:41-44).
11. The Lesson of Reverence (vv. 17-
19.) It is one thing to acknowledge
Jesiis as a King. It is quite another to
revere him as Lord and Savior. Never
was there a time M - hen w 7 e need more
to have reverence for things holy and
for constituted authority than the
present day. The act of reverence on
the part of this multitude for the God
anointed King ought to he a suggestion
to those who look upon Jesus merely
as a man.
Ride triumphantly;
Behold we lay
Our lusts and proud wills in Thy way.
Jesus’ grief is in strange contrast
with the joy of the multitude. The
practical application for us today is:
“Have we cast our talents before him,
God’s rightfully anointed King?” There
had been a large company of people
present when Jesus was at the tomb
of Lazarus, and raised him from the
dead. The testimony of these eye
witnesses to the power of Jesus must
have had great weight with the multi
tude. The enthusiasm of this crowd
for Jesus excited the hatred of the
Pharisees, making it nil the more in
tense, for they saw the crowd forsak
ing them, and following one whom
they envied and hated. To one anoth
er they exclaimed, “Behold, how ye
prevail nothing.” Notice the personal
pronoun “ye,” seeking to lay the fault
upon others rather than taking their
own share of the burden, another
touch of human nature which is evi
dent even today.
111. The Lesson of the Greek Pil
grims (vv. 20-26). These Greeks came
first to Philip, who himseif was a
Greek. The hour had come (v. 23)
when the work of Jesus for the Jews
Mas to be finished. The Jews had
been threatened with Greek religion,
and that assault had been stopped by
the Pharisees. Christ came first to
the Jews that through them he might
reach the Gentiles. Now 7 his work for
the Jews is done. He rejoices as he
sees the Greeks coming to him. for it
was to be in Greek dress and in Greek
form of expression that Christianity
w-as to conquer the world. , But this
rejoicing is tinged with sorrow 7 , for it
was a prophecy of the price that he
must pay for the redemption of the
world.
The Son of Man was glorified by his
death; he was glorified by his recep
tion on the part of the Gentiles; he
was glorified by the approval of the
Father.
Verse 24 expresses one of the most
tremendous facts in the life of Jesus
(Cf. I Cor. 15:36).
Think of the rich fruits of Christ's
degth, the countless lives that he
reached and ennobled, and the effect
of his life on the practical affairs of
the world, the hospitals and every
movement for the advancement and
the well-being of mankind which can
be traced to the influence of his life.
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