The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-16

sort with the nails bitten down. They're
fighting hands.
There's something. too. in the way a
man walks. I've noticed 1t times with
out number. and I've never been wrong.
Give me the heel-dggers. A man who
puts his foot down firm turns 1t out
bit and grnds on his heel, he's fight
ing man. Toe-walkers don't stick II
Cleary, and in an interview he said !:
"Cleary Is the bravest man | ever saw.
He stood about the streets where the
shells were dropping every minute as
uneoncerned as If he were in the Amer
lean bar at the Savoy hotel.'
When Cleary got back his friends con-
graduated him on his galantry and he
was genuinely puzzled. What did do ?"
he asked. They showed him Kearton's
statement "Kearton is a id fool he
said, after he had read it, 'If a man
stands still he only occupies so much
space. If he hops about he occupies
three or four times the space and is ten
times likely to be hit. I had it all
figured out. That's all the heroism there
is about me-"
Another One on Press Bureau
You in America must be getting tired
of the stories of the censorship, but
really it is always doing something new
and funny. A few days ago a writer
on naval subjects submitted an article
of a somewhat technical nature. 1t came
back from the press bureau with almost
everything of interest in it deleted,
and written across the proof was the
comment This information is likely to
be OF use to the enemy" My friend went
down to the press bureau and showed
the officials that every piece of informa-
ton which they had cut out was OBJ
tanned from the standard German naval
textbook, 'Nauticus. The censor didn't
apologize and he wasn't a bit grateful.
Neither did he release the article.
Rumor Factory Works Overtime
The rumor factory has been as busy
as usual this week A couple OF days
after the loss of the Hawke the whole
country was humming with the news
that the Germans had torpedoed the Ter
rible, the Invincibe and couple of other
battleships in the North sea, and so
persistent did the rumors become that
the admiralty felt called on to issue an
official denial. 1t also instituted an In
vestigation into the source of the rumors
and l am told obtained the following In
formation. A man at Harwich was tele-
phoning on business to a customer, in
an inland town. At the end of his busi-
ness conversation he remarked, referring,
of course. to the Hawke. 1--WE have just
lost another warship. It's TERRIBLE The
man at the other end OF the line jumped
to the conclusion that the Terrible had
been sunk and spread the news abroad
Others added other ships of the same
class and by the time the news reached
London. passing from mouth to mouth. 1t
had become a fulfedged naval disaster.
l have Just heard from France Of
the collapse of another "stumour,' AZ
such fakes are called here That was
the alleged shooting OF General Percin
in the early days of the war for the
abandonment of Lille to the Germans
AS matter of fact General Percin
who Is one of the most efficient ar
tillerists in the French army, is still
doing excellent work for his country,
and Lille was abandoned much against
his advice. Percin declared that ha
could hold the town, but the citizens
who saw before them another Louvain.
appealed to the French government to
declare 1t an open town and convinced
the politicians that It could not be
defended Now Lille is suffering all
the horrors that LouvaiI went through
for 1t Is a center of the fighting on the
left wing of the allies
Another rumor which has been fly
ing about and which is probably as
untrue as the rest concerns an alleged
attempt by German agents in Calcutta
to stir up trouble In the bazars. One
version says that the German consul
there has been shot. The objection 10
that Is that all the German diplomats
and consular agents left British terri
tory when the war began.
Pity the Poor Horses
We are just beginning to hear now
OF the tremendous wastage OF horses
In this war. 1t has been to an extent
altogether unexpected cavalry war
and war of a kind that Is uncom-
monty hard on horses. The German
cavalry has been seriously crippled
am told and our own remount depart
ment is securing the world for fresh
sources of supply. One officer with
whom I talked the other day estiIuate a
that on an average each trooper had
used up three horses since the begin
ming of the war He himself had lost
four horses.
a purely Irish brigade, differed az