The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-30

with the result that they recelVeu Just as much money for the beef and still had the hides and horns, etc., left. Then there sprung up industrial enterprises for the manufacture of by-products which gave employment at good wages, and put check upon the stream of emigration try was flowing away.
 The lesson that the south should learn
 
 ture. By his side was his rifle and a little pile of empty cartridges, indicat- ing that he had kept up the fight unni the very last. He was large young man of fine athletic build. It was the un- usual look of composure on his handsome face amid these awful surroundings that caught the captains attention. The or fcer decided that he would write the soldiers relatives and tell them that ne had died hero, and so he searched his pockets for his name. He found letter which the young man had received from his father shortly before the battle. The letter was written from Stettin. The cap tain reads German well, so he examined its contents. The father said that all the family missed him very much, but that they were proud to know that he was doing his part for the fatherland; that they were praying for him and hoped to see him at home again before long, final ly, never to forget the honorable part his father had taken in the war of lSio-h, and above all at all times to do his duty.
 One Man Especially Lucky
 I know one young American who has been particularly lucky in the matter of seeing the battlefieds He was in Gren- oble at the time mobilization was declared and as he is the owner of particularly fine auto of American make he offered himself and his car at the outset to the military authorities in that section of France. His move was a very wise one, for, later on, after they had ceased to need his services in that section, they did not confiscate his machine, probably out of gratitude for his having rendered his aid so quickly. He then came to Paris and offered his car to the military at tache here. I saw him yesterday and he told me that he had just returned from a week s trip around the battlefieds. They passed everywhere in the wake of the armies and saw the destruction that they had wrought. He told me that he never got very close to the fighting. though he heard it from a distance several times. He said that one of the most interesting llllnSS Indl ne SAW WAS d CHdltdu III lllt valley of the Marne around which heavy hhting had been going on The place had been taken and retaken five times so he was told, and when the French finally captured it with the aid of their 75's not single man of the German regi- ment that had occupied it was left alive. The ruin caused by the fighting was ter rible. Most of the building had been shot away and it was horrible sight, he said, to see the remnants of the beautiful furniture, pictures and croekery mixed up with the debris of battle.
 Richard Harding Davis Trip
 Yesterday l saw Richard Harding Davis and he gave me some pointers on how to get to the battefields. He had just re- turned from the vicinity of Meaux and Montmirail. He said that he had worked his way to a position from which he could see the fighting when an officer ap- peared and ordered him to return to Paris. He protested, but 1t was of no use Finally happy thought struck him, by which he sought to gain time. He called out to number of soldiers, saying that he was going back to Paris and asking if they wanted any letters taken back to the city. They yelled for him to wait and all commenced writing notes for him to take back with him. So many wanted to write notes that he had to wait four hours, much to his delight during all of which time he could observe the battle unmolested. The officer, seeing the in- sistance of the soldiers, ceased his objec- tions and allowed Mir. Davis to stay. On the way back, however soldiers went through everything in his car and took away the helmets and other trophies that he had gathered from the battlefield.
 German helmets, by the way, are seen almost everywhere in Paris now. The French regard them as symbols of Ger man militarism and bring back as many as they can to the city. It Is no unusual thing to see a French or English motor car come whirling in from the front dec orated with number of German hell nets.
 Ignorant of Next Move
 As to the present military situation. and what the move of the Germans will be next, no one knows anything. By the tune this letter reaches you you will Know what plan of campaign the Ger mans will have inaugurated. 1t seems to me that this retreat of the invading forces has been more precipitate than was nec- essary. It may be that internal conditions In Germany, the Russian campaign in east Prussia, or the reported Austrian de- lection has caused the German govern ment to recall its armies to its own terri tory in view of the fact that the dash at Paris failed There is another factor which might be disturping them the lorces nassed in the Belgian cities of Antwerp and Ostend. It is undoubtedly true that the British government has sent a considerable force to the latter point. ALSO there is persistent rumor that will not be killed to the effect that Russian iorce of about 750OO Cossacks has been brought from Archangel to the north of scotland, thence by train to the south of i.hsiand, thence to Ostend, where it is supposed to be now. A number of Eng iishmen who live in Paris have told me that letters from home from relatives confirm the truth of the story. Trainload aiter trainload of Russians have gone .ni oush the DIE cities in the dead of the ish' With blinds drawn, so these reports say ihe Britishers believe it and they ienlinu you that Kitchener said at the outset that there were goinp to be . ,ot oi surprises in this war They figure that lhis particular surprise is one of his own arrangement which he intends using S q d trump card against the Germans in Belgium. Aii
 l talked to Mir. Davis when he first reached here a week or so a go ana 6nd ', l,iat ne does not attach any credence to the report whatever. He was in Iouvain SD ne sa'd before the Germans arrived " hen they sd there they arrested him i"u eooN nm to Brussels, at which place ne witnessed the entry of the Germa, army. Thence he passed over to England and With regards to the Cossacks he said that everyone there believed it was true though it was impossible to find anyone who himself would say that he had seen them, though everyone had seen someone