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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
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 A tonic to sufferers. especial ly those with chronic ailments, than the feeling that, in spite of their own helplessness, they themselves can still be helpful to others says the Journal of the American Medical association. ITO be brought into touch with those for whom they themselves can feel is a precious source of consolation and uplift Pity is a luxury to be enjoyed, but no human being likes to be pitied or to feel that he is an object of pity. To be conscious of some advantage in oEe's situation over that of others Is of itself an alleviation for many sick nesses.'
 Not alone for the physically i'll.
 There's lesson here for the down. cast. Have you trials of your own? Lose the thought of them in the con- temptation of the ills of others and de- termine to do something to alleviate those ills.
 It can't be done? It has been done!
 It will be done in the future by the Etrong of mind and of heart. By think ing of others they shall bear up in spirit against the weight that crushes tHefil, dIQ III IlSHtlnS lO lhioW it oii they shall win renewed strength for the battle of life.
 In an invalid chair sits an old man. He was stricken by paralysis some nonths ago, and he is helpless and must be cared for constantly. Con- stant pains torture him.
 He is not an American by birth. In his youth he fought in the Franco Prussian war on the side of the victor. He was a brave soldier and saw much active service.
 When the great war broke out in Flu rope this old man. whose mind is strong, although his body is feeble was asked to explain the former war and its bearing on this years strife.
 It was pleasant to see him straighten Vup. in spite of his infirmity. and try ,to make everything clear to his ques- tioner. With patient finger he traced on the map the movements of the Ger man and French armies.
 Forgotten were his new afflfctions and his pains in his desire to be help full to the younger generation to make them understand the cause for which he had fought.
 He was doing something for others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

be so proud that he just couldn't stand 1t, and this country might be involved in a war before it knew what 1t was all about.
 The stress of circumstances has caused 1t to be made apparent that America ambassadors. ministers and consuls can is Myron T. Herriek republican of Ohio, representing the United States in France. MT HerricE has labored day and night to relieve the distress of the thousands of Americans caught there at the breaking out of the war He has shown himself the right man in the right place, and the threat Of a siege has not scared him from Paris. He is right on the job and is doing yeoman service. MT. Herrick at the prensent time Is entrusted with the conduct of the affairs of six nations. he having been requested 70 represent England, Russia, Japan, Ger many, Servia and Austria at Paris during the war. Mrs. Herrick has been i'll. but she has elected to remain with her hus- band at his post of duty. All Americans should be real proud of Myron T. Herrick.
 Up to the present war, no Jew had ever been allowed to hold a commission in the Russian army or navy It was all right for them to fight in the ranks, but they were not permitted to mingle with gentlemen" upon an equal footing.
 The Czar has issued decree abolishing all these repressive measures, and the Jew will be given command in both the army and navy. This recognition has been won by gallantry shown by Jews while serving in the ranks. And, strange it may seem. the new order of things has been met with generous acclaim even among those circles where once it was considered breach of etiquette even to mention the name of a Jew.
 Much of the Muscovite's medieval preju- dice has been swept away by the sirocco of war,
 It begins to look like this war, in strict accord with precedent is going to be fought on land and water. The sub
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

Nanoleon invited the closest intimacy. and found pleasure in arranging for the great cavalry officer to become his brother in-law by marrying his youngest sister. a girl of IS. while Nfurat was ss. In all the brilliant campaigns of Napoleon. and they were the most brilliant in the history of war, aTurat was kept close to tlfe side of the Emperor. his judgment being eonsult- ed moro than that of any other.
 Mnrat was tall, we'll built. handsome, dashing and always lavishly dressed in a say colored uniform. His beard was iarg. black and silky, while his curly locks fell back on his shoulders in pro- fusion. He always wore a long plume in his three-eornered hat. and when a charge was ordered that long plume would luiver in the air. as he sped forward at the head of Ais laundering troopers, who learned to keep their eyes or that feather as a signal of inspiration. When the two. Napoleon and Murat, would review the cavalry, the contrast was most striking. Napoleon sitting his horse like a frog in a perch, while the dashing Murat was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

your natural business ability, nevsv learned to read and write"
 "yell," said MT. c. maybe if coma read and write would yet be der 1ani- tor"
 The inference is that he had done beo. ter without the handicap of an educa- ton. Perhaps. so, from financial view point.
 But look at the other side of the shield.
 For instance there are the wonderful stores Of knowledge, of literature and science, open only to those who have mastered at least the rudiments of an education Are they not worth some thing, even in comparison with business success?
 The sunset and the sunrise, with the simmer of the moonlight on the mid night waters, the perfume of the rose and the hum of the bee are this man's just as much as they are yours and mine. He shares with us the delight of the landscape which no private ownership of the land can take away
 But the great and beautiful lines in which these have been described for us. the treasure house of poetry, the words of the sages are not for him, save as he learns them by hearsay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

MT. Kipling was not so quick in mopii- izing as most of his fellow poets put his contribution hit the center of the target For All We Have and Are bids fair to take rank with the best that has come from his pen. It is true there are some lines in it that l am not sure I understand, but certainly that is not Mir Kipling's fault.
 Two American oil engineers who were caught in Roumania by the outbreak of the war have reached London by way of Budapest and Berlin. The stories they tell are most interesting. They declare that the whole of Silesia is mined and awaits only the tread of hostile feet to be blown into kingdom, come. Other tales they relate are equally thrilling and as unbelievable. For instance, they say that in the German capital business is proceeding just as if no war is in progress. Food, they assert, is extremely cheap in Berlin, and all the restaurants, including the best, have greatly reduced their tariffs.
 A Reuters dispatch from Petrograd says that commerce there is proceeding undisturbed. The savings banks have not been affected, owing to the state of the Russian mind and the public schools have their usual number of pupils Ow- ing to the curtailment of exports, a considerable reduction in the price of foodstuffs has occurred.
 This is assuredly the time to emigrate to Berlin or Petrograd. Conditions there must be a whole lot better than they are on this side of the water, where the ghouls and the harpies have united to raise the cost of living and bring on suffering among the poor in order that the pockets of few may be filled. It S all legitimate, of course Just as legit- innate as the monopolies that used to be peddled by the monarchs of England. Just as legitimate as that old French law which permitted 'nobleman' to kill not more than two peasants that he might refresh his tired feet in their warm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

the belief which is woven of convic- tion"
 As life goes on the thinking man, with deep, sincere belief in righteous ness and its power of ruling all lives. holds faster and faster to the faith that all will yet be we'll even if the explana- tion of some things are still hidden from mortal eyes.
 That is setting the colors of life with
 the sharp mordant of experience"
 It is a belief and a hope that are born of the soul of man and not of the experl- ences of the body The latter pass; the former is immortal
 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired. not by his friends or his townspeople or his con temporaries. but by all men, and which is to be more beautiful to the eve in proportion to it's culture must dfsin- eividualize himself and be a man Of nc party and no manners and no age. but one through whom the soul of all men circulates the common air through his lungs.-Emerson
 In other words
 To do good work you must get out side of your self. You must forget your own interests and temporary ad : vantages and strive with an eye to the future. It must content you to know in your own heart and soul that the thing you are engaged in is worthy and i'll meet with ultimate approval.
 Such is the spirit that animates the good mechanic at his bench or lathe. the cobbler who puts on the patch true, the artist who expresses his in : spiration with pen OF brush or chisel. tho statesman who labors for the ad : vanc. ment of his country and of the world.
 Each partakes of the universal spirit.
 The worker is lost in the work. It possesses him and fills him. It grips nm with the never slackening grip of the thing that must be done if his own Individuality is to find expression It Is the recognition of this feeling which makes others than the workers admire the well tuEped furrow, the husiness-like way in which the horse shoer goes about his work or the man ner in which the riveter catches the red bot pieces of iron in his bucket.
 As each of us individually recognizes and admires good work. however done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

1 hole, of wasted energy and money, O disappointment for all concerned.
 Of course
 Deciding on the future of children i. hard problem Possibly the best way is to begin very early in the child life to study his inclination and capaci- ties and direct his education with view to developing them.
 At best the process is an uncertain one.
 Ansexact illustration of pessimism was that given by an elderly person who re- marked one sunny morning: T have a premonition that something is going to happen today. I don't know what, but 1 won't like it.''-Collier's Weekly. Let's be charitable. This person had at least one virtue. He -or more probably she, for the remark sounds feminine-was prepared for the worst. And that's a good thing. But She wis not only prepared to meet the worst, but was willing to go more than half way toward it. She welcomed it. It waA her habit when there was no shadow in life to create one.
 If you are certain not to like what you are going to meet in the course of the days living, why. you will not meet anything that you will like. All goodness and cheerfulness may appear to you in dreary clothing. In fact, you won't see them at all. So far as you are con cerned they won't exist
 And the world will pass you by with cheery grin.
 This habit of determination not to like life grows on one. It begins generally with a grouch and the conviction that
 'the whole world is against me- From that 1t is an easy step Ln the belief that there is nothing likable in the. whole world. Even the smile of child or the trill of a birds song or the perfume of a flower loses it's charm. All is dark and dreary and disagreeable and. discordant
 Now
 Some of the professional "cheer up stuff Is counterfeit It does not ring true when sounded on the slab of experience. It is false coin. There are times when cheering up is impossible, and the heal ing of the blows must be left to the slow processes of time. No words of consolation can remove the grief. for ex- ample, when the hand of death takes away a loved one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

label of greatness on him at the outset.
 His ease and port, his politeness and suayity of manner made him the subject of general comment among the village folk He rode hofse like a younr Bedouin, for his fondness for horses made his fathers stables the place of most frequent resort to the youthful Frenchman. His parents singled him for the priesthood, and sent hom to a small .ei5hsSr;ssg college with that end in view. but the scrapes and escapades of a vo- latile youth suggested anything else than a sacred calling. A love affair with a pretty French maid put an end to all clerical suggestions and he left school and joined the army. Firing of the in activity of the local camp, he succeeded Tn procuring an honorable discharge, went again to his books, grew weary of them, returned to the army, this time to stay Soon the rumbles of the French revolution began. and young Murat was sent to Paris. where he became a mem per or the royal guard of Louis XVI. 1t Was Tn the storm that swept Paris that the two genial spirits. Napoleon and
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entrails when returning wearied from the hunt
 We are shocked to read of pillage done by men in arms men drunk with the lust of battle, men crazed with desire to kill. But sycophants that we are. we applaud the unholy scoundrel whose business acumen'' has seized advantage of an opportunity to squeeze the last pennies from the pockets of the poor.
 News comes from Stockholm that the name of Kaiser Wilhelm has been stricken from the list of those eligible for the Nobel peace prize Possibly Emperor William did not consider all the dire consequences when he told Austria to go ahead and stamp the filling out of Servia while he kept Russia busy.
 In France the last of the reserves have been called to the colors In Germany, grey bearded men and fuzzy faced boys are drilling in anticipation of the coming of the Cossack. England has sent cry of distress to her colonials scattered among the waste of world-waters, and the Sepoys of India are embarking for the DatlleleldS Ol Europe. AuStrld hds enrolled every man she can rely on and scores of thousands in whom no depend- ence can be placed. Servia and Monte negro are employing their full strength in invasions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A telegram recites condition in Russia .quite different The Czar, it is reported, Las notified one levy of half million men that their services are not required right now and they have been allowed to go home for six weeks.
 Tn officially acknowledging that she has suspended offensive operations against Servia for the time being, in order that she may bring all her resources against the invading Russians. Austria Hungary attempts to explain why her armies were given such a complete beating by the Servians. This was due to the fact, says the Vienna statement that the Ser
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Charles N Lurie

"a thing that would have seemed i'm possible to him before. The effort LOON him back to the days when he was young and strong. fighting for a cause he believed to be right. So will our efforts make us forget our aches and pains. physical and men, tai, if we lose ourselves in thinking of those whom we may help. It is not often that the world gets a new idea in regard to the training of children in the way they should go, but here is something that seems at least t, be neV:A
 If a boy has mania for blood-loves tc slaughter cats and chickens-make a sur geon or a butcher out of him. said pr w. J. dickson of the psychopathic labora tory of the Chicago municipal court. ''l knows case of a feeble minded boy who had . mania for starting fires. We eel him shoveling coal in a boiler house, and he made the best stoker they ever had It's all matter of turning their thoughts to useful lives"
 It sounds plausible. But
 Suppose the lad, after you set him al his new work in which you think his perverted instincts will be turned tc happy uses. decides not to follow out the path you have marked for him?
 In this case. as in so many others. il is dangerous to reason from the particu- lar to the general. That means that Il Is not safe to take a number of cases, however large or small ind deduce from them principles which will apply to al cases having similar characteristics. The opportunity for the display of dissimiar- ity is too large.
 Especially when one is dealing with hu- man beings.
 Tre boy set to work in 5c.lerhouse shov cling coal may decide to quit his shovel and set fire to the boiler house. Up goes the theory in smoke, literally as well a figuratively.
 But this is true-
 Too few parents study the character istics of their children and their fitness or unfitness for certain work. My son shall be a lawyer" or My daughter shall be a schoolteacher', says the parent in the sincere belief that in thus map ping out the chld's life hs is performins true service for him or her.
 Then follows, in many instances, a case of the square peg in the round
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

And he should keep who can
 According to this suave anti-Christ the attempt to save the lives of the diseased
 is weakness. sheer foolish and even vic- ious sentimentality. He being judge. the miracles of healing performed by the Master long ago, if they happened at all, were reprehensible By eliminating dis eased persons. by letting the weak die out, there will be evolved new type, strong, perfect, resourceful, the super man. It is for him that the ages wait. and he can arrive only by this free play of the original brute forces. the unre- stricted operation of the law that the fit and the strong survive by crushing out competition.
 A most excellent theoryl So long as it was the plaything of the publicists this doctrine of anti-Christ was not much more dreadful than the
 Something large and smooth and round Which he. beside the rivulet
 In playing there had found,''-
 just cannon ball, relic of the Blenheim fight, and of tour good prince, Eugene But when the cannon ball Is revived and made into shrapnel, blowing off the heads of living French or Belgians, and when Eugene becomes Wilhelm and when the Almighty God is patronisingly compll- mented as having ''done brilliantly" in helping Wilhelm blow off the said Bel gian or French heads, the doctrines of Nietzsche also have evidently become dangerously active.
 And now the question comes: Who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
He Was a Good Sleener

from the Louisville Herald.
 The lawyer got tartar when in c recent trial in a southern city he sum- moned to the stand an aged darlSey who had been an eyewitness of fight that had occurred between number of per- sons.
 "Tell Us what you know about rnrs fisht" said the counsel. when old Nose had been placed on the stand.
 ''Fight?' ask ed Nose. apparently greatly surprised. sAW hat fieht?"
 You know very we'll what fight I meant said the counsel Tell us about It."
 q don't know nothin' about fight" insisted the witness What was itf'
 See here. Mosei' exclaimed the law yer; mo trifling. The fight day before yesterday You know all about 1t. Tell us
 "oh. de fight day befo' yisterday.~ said Nose. Well. suh. you see I'se slept since dc day befo' yisterday and never kin rickollect anything after Ise been asleep"
 And that was all they could get from him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

RVIN S. COBB, James OConnell
 Bennett, John T. McCutcheon and a
 couple of others of the newspaper bunch have been prisoners in the hands of the Germans. In the course of their captivity they were compelled to traverse about 100 miles of Belgian territory. They testify that they were treated most humanely, and they pledge their personal and professional word that not one instance of barbarous practices on the part of the Germans against the non combatants of Belgium came under their notice. It is their deliberate judgment that accounts of atrocities have abso- lutely no foundation in fact.
 Richard Harding Davis also we'll known in press and literary circles, likewise has been a prisoner of the Germans MI Davis cables his papers that had all the citizens of the United States seen what he has seen in Belgium they would be unanimously of the opinion that this country should at once abandon it's atti- tude of neutrality and join with the all lies in fighting the Germans. He accuses the Kaisers soldiers of bestiality, brutali- ty and barbarfty, and declares that they have violated every rule of civilized war fare.
 Oh, well-er--.
 The state department has not taken the fulminations of MT. A. Rustem Bey any too seriously, and it might be well for the rest of the United States to follow Mir. Bryan in this matter. In the past MT. Bryan has not been popular With all the variant classes of the United States at the same time, but right now in re Bey-Wall street should join with Wichita in giving him free hand. If MT. Rustem becomes too obstreperous, there is no doubt but that he will be gently chided by our genial and peace-loving Secretary of State. Mir. Bryan has quite system of washing away international complications with few dashes of grape juice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13

It begins to look like this war, in strict accord with precedent. is going to be fought on land and water. The sub
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