The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-21

will you sleep tonight2 On the wet i ground general was the reply. Why ] he said without tent or other cover 1 ing you will die. I will go to that house i over wonder and engage a room for us tonight and you will sleep with me- "
 General Buffers career as a statesman began with his entrance into the Senate Of the United States General Hamp- ton being his colleague for 12 years. Af ter leaving the Senate he formed law partnership with two distinguished law yers in the city of Washington (one of them the beloved General Shelley of Ala bama) under the firm name of Shelley. Butler & Martin This firm did a luc- rative business and it was while pur- suing the oven tenor of his way that President Mckinley appointed General Butler a major general in the United States army during the Spanish Amer fcan war; his confirmation as such was unanimous by the Senate-not even re- ferred to a committee-and he was com missioned May 2S, 1898.
 Thus we see the young 8-year-old and gallant major general of Confederate cavalry leading his ragged veterans on to victory at the battles of Reams Station, August %, and Burgesses Mill, October 27, 1864 and 34 years afterward a major general in the United States army com manding the Second army corps And. owing to his long service as a member of the United States Senate and his thorough knowledge of diplomacy he was appointed on the Cuban peace commission anu attended to his arduous duties at Havana.
 General Butler died in Columbia. s. C., April IA, 1909.
 MT. Brooks book is very interesting even to the younger generation; those who fought. bled and had relatives die along side of them in the great civil war will be delighted to peruse this instructive, capable volume-a loving offering to his comrades in Buffers cavalry. The book has anecdotes, history of the different companies side lights on different com manders and men-in a word 1t is full history of that great command that Tn story and in song, the hero's name
 Will live, and banners with their weight
 of tears
 Droop low, for ah! the glory of his fame
 And valiant deeds will outlive all the
 years" Ellie Brooks Jones. "The Third Degree" by Charles Klein
 and Arthur Hornblow. G. w. Dilling-
 ham Co)
 "The Third Degree" is a new novel by Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow, the editor of the Theatre Magazine. who, to- gether, collaborated on that rather pow erful and quite interesting story, made out of the play, ''rhe Lion and the Mouse" which the publishers say sold over 100000 copies.
 "The Third Degree" as a play was one of the huge successes of last season, and is still being performed before immense audiences all over the United States-in the provinces" as the New Workers would and do say. The book, the novel made from the play by Messrs. Klein and Hornblow, deals in an interesting fashion with the abuses in this country of the po- lice system, showing in a dramatic man. ner the terrible danger to which even an innocent man Is exposed if unlucky enough to become entangled in the tolls of the law. Running through the story there is tender and quite unusually interesting love romance-the untiring devotion of a faithful wife to the man whose name she bears. It is how right, with the capital R, finally triumphs, enabling the wife to rescue the unhappy husband from the very shadow of the electric chair that makes the reading of this book of much human interest.
 The story deals with the son of a mem- Der of an old Knickerbocker family who married a girl, who, by reason of her strength of character and strong men tality. Is as good as any woman in the land, but her parentage causes her hus- band to be disowned by his father. The youth not being of strong mental caliber (on the contrary he burnt one-hundredth of one candle power, and that very dim ly) plunges into dissipation and debt A death occurring under strange circum- stances, causes suspicion to be fastened on the young fellow. The police, groping blindly for a clue, seize upon him as their victim It is here that there begins a most interesting expose of the methods of the police officials of the city, in their as- sumption of powers never conferred by law, together with picture of the work ings of the so-called third degree" Un- aided and alone, with no help save that of a womans wit, ingenuity and stead- fastness of purpose, and supreme conf- dence in her husbands innocence, the girl wife wins against such great odds that even the strongest of men would hesitate to overcome.
 "The Danger Mark" by Robert W. Cham
 bers. ID. Appleton & Co)
 Almost all-of the ladylike, Mellin's Food, sn't-it-lovely? book reviewers of this country have been telling us before, sometimes during and after meals, of chocolate eclair and things of that sort, what a charming, lovely, so moving q novel is "The Danger Mark"
 Everybody has the right in this day and generation to make all the money he can conscientiously. But when @ man gifted as MT. Chambers has shown himself to be, years ago alas and slack, in his early romances. throws away that talent in the production of such stuff-and "gtuff' is used advisedly-as '-The Danger Mark" there should be an amendment added to the constitution of the state in which he resides with not only . section 2 but 20 or so of sections.
 Of course, those cultivated young peo- pie who read the ''best sellers" and noth- ing else, if they missed '-The Danger Mark" just as did an editorial writer in the far vest when the novel was running serially, when he said: Good gracious. Geraldine is drunk again this week; Chambers will kill that poor girl yet if he doesn't watch out carefully" You know the plot of this deep story of course you dol This reviewer attempt ed to skip "The Danger Mark but couldn't As he has been requested to tell what he thinks of the effusion. hs is try ing to do the very best he can. 1 Twins, a boy and girl. are orphaned 1 at an early age. They live with their l grandfather. who dies a drunkard but
 drunkard that he was he had all kinds
 of money with which to institute a trust | to preserve for his grand-chicks the vast fortune that he leaves. The unities seem
 to be litte awry there-don't you think
 Drunkenness and the ability to make .
 lot of money7 We'll Annie Howe, as
 they say up in New York city where
 this story Is supposed to happen, tho