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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
CAPE TO CAIRO
the Chicago Journal.

From the Chicago Journal.
 The dream of Cecil Rhodes is on the verge of coming true. The promise Is now made that the Cape-to- Cairo rail- road will be completed by the first of September.
 Let no one imagine, however. that the completion of this route means that the traveller can get into railway coach in Cairo and stay there until the train draks into Capetown. The Cape-to-C Cairo route is very different from our trans- continental railroads. It is a mixture of land and water travel Instead of one continuous railroad there are five or six sections. separated by long stretches of lake and river, where the steamboat takes place of the locomotive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
Leaving For Atlanta

Richard H. Edmonds. editor of the Man. ufacturers Record, and Mrs. Edmonds will leave this afternoon for Atlanta. Mir. Edmonds is a member of the executive committee of the American Road Con- gross, which will meet in Atlanta Novem- Der to IA. This is the first meeting of the congress ever held in the south. Sev- eral thousand delegates are expected, many of them from the far northwest and the Pacific coast.
 MT. Edmonds- has been an enthusiastic advocate of good roads for many years and he thinks the American Road Con gress this year will be the most important meeting in the interest of good roads ever held in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Judge Rossa of Roselle, N. J., refused to fine Louis Orman, a peddler, for car rying on his business without license but when the same man in gratitude threw his arms around the judges neck and kissed him the dispenser of law assessed a fine of g and ordered the peddler to leave town. It is evident that Judge Ros- sa sets great store by his dignity, but had the peddler been lady there might have been no punishment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

now comes this clear-cut victory in the open sea after a battle in which the opposing forces were compara- lively equal.
 Had the German programme on land been carried out as successfully as that of the sea Paris would long ere this have been in the hands of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

the law. But my client. a shrewd old fel- low, made up his mind to try He set the trap all right. and when the local au- thorities got on to it, they determined to at the same time make him pay for his transgression. The law provides that fine of $10 day may be levied on any one setting fish trap, up to lS0 days, and the town officials thought they would soak the violator of the law as hard as they could So they let the trap remain ls0 days, and then had the man arrested, imposing a fine of $500.
 My client came into my office and pre- sented the case. Isn't there any appeal from this?' he asked me. I told him I could see no way to avoid payment of the fine.
 'John. he said, that fish trap wasn't any good after 10 days. for the blamed thing was rotten after.t that time. l didn't get fish and the truth is l forgot all about it.
 Ignorance of the law or lapse of mem- ory is no excuse, I told him. and it looked like he would have to pay.
 We'll he said. I've been a church member all my life. and I am going to continue to be. wouldn't swear to save myself or the $1S00 but know some of my neighbors who, if such thing were perpetrated on them, would declare 1t to be the d--dst outrage ever committed and would wish all the authorities were in h-l'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
POOR TRIxIE.


 Our heart bleds for Trixie Friganza. Two years ago she married a man who vas presumably her manager, and since that time has supported him as conscien- tiously as any theatrical wife ever did support the partner of her joys and sor- rows. Doubtless there are a great many men who marry well known actresses and don't get half as much as MT. Trixie Frfganza received from his generous mate, whose heart is as ample as her figure. And what does Trixie get in return? Cruel abuse-most cruel abuse. She paiu his bills, she bought his clothes. Did he show gratitude for being supported in idleness? No. He slapped her on both cheeks in the presence of responsible witness. Instant freedom for Trixie, is what we say, and better luck with the next one! PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
IN NOTRE DAME OF REIMS

E. Ashmead Bartlett in Golfers Weekly
 covered with dust half an inch
 A thick, with clipped off masonry, pieces of lead piping from the shattered windows, and with countless fragments of vari-colored glass. In the center lay a steel chain. That morning a fragment for centuries from the roof suspened by a steel chain. That morning a fragment of shell had cut the chain in half and dropped it's ancient burden to the hard stone floor beneath, where it lay bent and crumpled.
 Light was streaming in from all sorts of unexpected angles, flashes of blue, red white, pink and green Illuminating the somber interior with cruel insolence such as it had never known before.
 gazed aloft at the great blue windows and saw that they were smashed and that much of the glass had disappeared. In others the lead work had been twisted out of shape. The highest windows ap- peared to have been damaged by the con cussion of the shells bursting outside, and the lower ones hit by flying fragments of steel. One lower window, facing south, the side from which the Germans seem to have brought their heavy guns to bear, had been hit plumb by a shell and nothing remains save a mass of twisted lead.
 A great wave of sunshine lit up a som- Der picture of carnage and suffering at the western end, near the main entrance. Here, on piles of straw, lay the wounded Germans in all stages of suffering Their round shaven heads, thin cheeks and blu ish-gray uniforms entrusted strangely with the somber black of the silent priests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
Superior to Hard Timcs

From the Selma Journal.
 The convict department of Alabama still makes money, regardless of war, hard times and the cotton situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

The man elected to succeed Carranza as provisional President of Mexico has a name slightly harder to pronounce than that of his predecessor, but the chances are that he won't figure in the press dis patches long,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
ALABAMA SANCTUMS
A Poor Return

From the Annlston Star.
 Teddy put the arm in Armageddon, but 1t didn't hand him anything except a jolt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
sure to Free Him

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 A New York youth confesses to forging s65,0oo. It pains us to think what south ern jury would do to that young man if he had bought 10-cent cotton with the money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

compositor recently gave to a well known opera singer the curious name of Friday" but the singers luck still holds good, for her real name is Freda.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
PIucking of Turkey

From the Huntsville Mercury Banner.
 If Turkey has a tail-feather left after this scrap the world will scarce believe that England and Russia have done their duty toward the balance of civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
Not EncOurariur

From the Opelika News.
 The appointment of a special commit tee by Congress to sit during the vacation On the cotton question, rather has the tinge of adding insult to injury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
WRITERS OF WAR

hicHdru I1druinB DAVIS In Scribner's
 Magazine.
 What wars I have seen have taken place in spots isolated and inaccessible. far from the haunts of men. By day you follow the fight and tried to find the censor, and at night you sat on A cracker box and by the light of a candle struggled to keep awake and to writs deathless prose. In Belgium it was not like that. The motor car which Gerald Morgan of the London Daily Telegraph and I shared was of surpassing beaptv. speed and comfort It was as lons as a Plant freight car and as yellow; and from 1t Tapped in the breeze more Eng fish, Belgian. French and Russian f1aes than fly from the roof of the New York hippodrome. Whenever we sighted an army we lashed the flags of its country to our headlight, and at SO miles an hour bore down upon 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
AN EXCELLENT SCHEME

From the Boston Transcript.
 Lend me s6, will you, old chap?"
 Haven't got it. But I'll tell you what I'll do I'll lend you the five I lent Jobson over a year ago if you can collect it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Charity begins at home, of course, but the plight of Belgium calls for speedy re- lief and the United States Is best able to help her stricken people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

BEGINNING THE DAY.-O God, most high, most holy, acknowledge my sin before Thee. l have run leesly broken Thy laws. nave fallen short of the great glory. II Thou vast hard God, what inte were mine!. Hut Thou nrt fcnoer md rentIe-Thou art my Father ! lean upon Thy love. 0, forsiFe anu help. For Jesus sake. Amen' M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Panama canal tolls for last month amounted to $370oO. That is comparative ly a small amount and yet you don't hear Uncle Sam complaining of poor business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
When At His Best

From the Mobile Item.
 General Villa says he wants peace. Only when he's asleep, we suppose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
WHAT DOES WEALTH MEAN TO YOU

O From Golfers
 It makes us stop and think to see an item like this:
 Hammond. Ind.-Receiving a letter from Greece that he Is heir to S7.- 100000 estate, Matthias ConstAnte, a steelworker here, has hired five close friend at $5ooO year apiece to help him spend his money. That Is all they will have to do.
 This man has the same view of riches that the Huns and Goths had 1900 years ago; lots to eat and drink. money to spend! The power that wealth gives, the room for living and serv- ing, the long reach of 1t toward the future under the fostering of science to all things Matthias Constante Is blind. What does wealth mean to you: What dream of yours would come true If you had $7.0oo.ooo at your command tomorrow?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

The optimistic Russians continue 10 claim victories all along the line. Ever since experiencing a change of name Pe- trograd has had cheerful outlook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Turkey seems to be of the opinion that second thoughts are best, but in these days and times an apology doesn't go very far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Among those who have been unable to come back is MT. Ad Wolgast, who used to have a very good opinion of his punch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Vesuvius seems to be sharing in the general unrest of Italy and has resumed operations at the old stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

At heart the Turk is doubtless with Me und Gott," but expediency compels him to play an abject role.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
A DELICATE MATTER.

Henry, call Willie and send him down to the corner grocery store for a pound of butter. We need some for lunch' T haven't the heart to do 1t. wife"
 "why not?' ~
 Hes dressed to attend rally of the Boy Scouts. We must show the proper respect for his uniform"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

A short while ago we were wondering how we would get along without irn- ported beer and now we scarcely give the matter a thought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Even the greatest show on earth is a tame affair compared to a war in which Il nations are more or less involved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
THEN THERE WAS SILENCE.

THEN THERE WAS SILENCE.
 Before we were married, John, you used to pull me about in a rowboat and exclaim, This is the lifev"
 so l did, my dear. You were a slip of a girl then and little did I dream that some day 1t would require all my avail able strength to assist you on a trolley car"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Now that water has been discovered on Mars, what are the astronomers going to do with 1t?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
APRoPos OF WINTER.

(Contributed.) A baptism in Hades' depths, As hot as boiling tar, Awaits the man who comes within And leaves the door ajar. But he who always closes doors, Shall be numbered with the blest, Where the wicked cease from troubling And the weary are at rest.
 -Ye Rhymester
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
RAPID.

Tt is remarkable how quickly the fash ions change.9
 Indeed 1t is. When a woman throws her clothes across a chair at night and tumbles into bed she never knows if she is going to wake up next morning in style or out of it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Why doesn't some enterprising milliner design hat to glorify the allies?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
IN HASTE. PROBABLY.

~' @<%.N5@ 4@f kfOAt<21 4. E ''The music of this show sounds renin- iscent." Reminiscent! My dear fellow, the chap who claims to have written the score for this musical comedy didn't even take the trouble to warm it over"
 so TO SPEAK. Poor old Pats buried now. His friends and relatives consumed 20 gallons of beer" Tn one particular at least Pats demise reminds me of an ocean liner" How so?" When he departed he had foamy wake"
 DROPSTITCHING Today it is neglected some; Twas not so worse, I often wonder what's become Of
 dropstitch
 verse.
 Win S. Adkins. m glad that you remind me, Bill; Such is the case Though dropstitch verse is rotten, still It
 fills
 up
 space. Paul Cook in Birmingham Age Herald. when Pegasus is sick or treed We grope for rhyme, And then there comes just what we need: stitch
 in
 time.
 Youngstown Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

Some say perhaps there won't be any thing left to slide at Culebra cut
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
WAR ECHOES

Washington Post: "Cracow, in Po-
 land. which has been the object of the riercest fighting between Germans, Austrians. and Russians. Is a city little Known to Americans, but rich in his-
 toric interest and one of the most won derful cities in the world" said Louis Lawlor of New York. a world traveller, at the shoreham. "Cracow, 1t is said,
 was founded by Krakus, builder of the 1ortress known as WaweI, and Po- lands kings were crowned there.
 The sacred shrine of Cracow is the
 Wawel. small fortified city including cathedral, chape1s. barracks. dwell ing houses and courtyards. all sur- rounded by a high wall with corner towers. The cathedral crypt Is the resting place of most of the monarchs of Poland. wawe1 lately has been rs- stored. With it gold. silver, jewels, stained glass. sculptures, metal cary- ings and marbles, the cathedral is of great interest to all students of art and history The great altar is sup ported by four massive columns
 The University of Cracow was founded in 1864 and grew into a uni versity from a library founded by Casimir the Great. In the city. square is stone tablet commemorative of the spot where in 17s4 Kosciusko as- stunned command of the Polish army. ic cof1 COW is one of the most wonderful in Europe. and many famous plays have had their original production there. The city of Cracow is one of the most wonderful in Europe, and many famous plays have had their original produc- ton there. The city of Cracow was four times in the hands of foreign in- vaders. It is not so European a me- tropolis as Warsaw, but has always remained characteristic Polish town. Should the fortunes of war bring an- other invasion of Cracow the inhabit- ants would not be surprised. for at dif- ferent times the Bohemian, Mongol Prussian. Swede. Tartar Russian, and Austrian armies have marched through its streets. It is one of the important strongholds of Austria"
 Irwin S. Cobb in the Saturday Even ing Post: These particular prisoners were most unhappy looking, all except the half dozen Turcos among the Frenchmen. They spraddled their baggy white legs and grinned com fortably, barring fine double rows of ivory in their brown faces. The others mainly were droopy figures of misery and shame.
 By reason of their hair, which they wore long and which now hung down in their eyes, and by reason also of their ridiculous loose red trousers and their long tailed awkward blue coats the Frenchmen showed themselves es- pecially unkempt and frowzy looking. Almost to a man they were dark, lean. slouchy fellows; they were from tho south of France. we judged. Certainly with a weeks growth of black whisk CTS upon their jaws they were fit now to play stage brigands without further makeup.
 "Wot a bloomin', stinlin', rotten country" came, two rows back from where I stood. voice uplifted to ths leaky skies. There aint nothin' to eat in it, and theer aint nothin' to drink In it. too"
 A little man alongside of me, whose chin was on his breast bone, spoke downward along his gray flannel shirt bosom:
 "Just wyte," he said; just wyte till n tr1a pd 'erdin' us about like cattle. Blightersp hia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

attending them, while in the background the red trousers of the French soldiers were just visible on the steps outside straw behind the great Gothic pillars as if seeking shelter from their own shells. The priest conducted US to one of the aisles beneath the window where the shell had entered that morning. A great pool of blood lay there, staining the col- umn just as the blood of Thomas q Beckett must have stained the altar of Canterbury seven centuries before
 That, monsieur, is the blood of the French gendarine who was killed at Il this morning. But he did not go alone" The priest pointed to two more recumbenr figures, clad in the bluish-gray of the Kaiser's legions. There they lay stiff and cold as the effigies around them. All three had perished by the same she'll Civilian doctors of Reims moved among the wounded, who for the most part main- tained an attitude of stoical indifference to everything around them. Food is scare in the town and meat almost unobtain- able, but in the center of the cathedral transept lay the raw quarter of slaugh- tered OK, a horrid touch of materialism amidst a scene otherwise lacking all sense of reality.
 We moved around collecting fragments of the precious glass which the Kaiser had so unexpectedly thrown within our reach We were brought back to realities by hearing the unmistakable whistle of an approaching shell, followed by deaf ening explosion, and more fragments of glass came tumbling from aloft. The weary, war-worn Teutons instinctivey huddled closer to the Gothic arches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04
CRAFTY POLITICS.

What do my constituents think of | \ policies?" asked Congressman Blowste loftily.
 "To tell you the truth" said frieudb adviser, they don't know exactly what your policies are"
 ''Humi'
 But that's point in your favor. So long as you contrive to keep your cor stituents guessing you are reasonably sure of being reelected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-04

foe.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-23
PRIDE OF GALLANT NATION

be hard to say which showed the
greater skill in surprising and cap
turing British detachments and after
ward eluding pursuit. De la Rey had
more solid achievements to his credit,
among them Klerksdorp, where Lord
Methuen, sorely wounded, fell into his
hands and was released so that he
could obtain medical treatment.
All three of these able soldiers
aided the British in the reconstruc-
ton of South Africa. De Ia Rey Wis
tied India in 1903 TO persuade the
sBoer prisoners detained at Ahmed
magyar to take the oath of allegiance.
He was returned unopposed to the
first Transvaal parliament of the
union. or the Boer leaders none had
a more attractive personality. 1t was
fine race of people that could pro-
duce such soldiers and statesmen, and
never was there stronger proof Of the
excellence of British administration in
our times than the winning of Botha.
De la Rey and De Wet to the new
order in South Africa The empire
has known no more loyal citizens
New York Sun.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-23

able array of prickles, it looks a de-
cidedly dangerous customer. One is
relieved to learn that it's tastes are
exclusively vegetarian.
The vast majority of the hymenop-
terra 1.-THE ants, bees, wasps and their
relatives) are comparatively small in
sects, but among the solitary
spider-killing wasps (Pompilidae) we
md some notable exceptions. Some
OF these giants measure two inches or
more from head to tail, and withal
are exceptionally strong and vigorous
insects. The largest species are found
In South America, where they deal
death and destruction to the spider
population. Even the formidable
blrd-eating spider-a grim and hairy
monster with fearsome fangs-is at
tackled and destroyed 1t should be
noted that these wasps do not them
selves eat the spiders that they kill,
but store them away in cunningly con-
trived nests for the benefit of their
young. Our little Pompilus viaticus
unfortunately it has no popular
name) behaves in precisely the same
way, but naturally chooses spiders
proportionate to its own size. Even
in this instance, however, the spider
is usually several times heavier than
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-23
BANK ROBBERS GET $4,000
Six Men Shoot Out Windows In West
ern Institution and Escape
With Cash.

Bellingham, Wash, Oct. ia dar-
ing raid was made on the First Ma
tional bank of Sedro-Tooley by six
masked robbers, who escaped with
more than tweaty thousand dollars in
currency. The men swooped down on
the bank shortly before nine o'clock
at night and took citizens and en-
ployes of the institution by surprise.
Long black masks covered their faces
and each man carried revolver in
each hand. Before any of the towns
people had time to recover from
their surprise the robbers emerged
from the bank carrying canvas sacks
containing their booty and shooting
as they ran. One of the robbers was
wounded but escaped.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-23
SPARKS FROM
THE WIRE

Macon, Ga, Oct 17.-Thirty Mercer
university students and three mem
bers of the faculty became seriously
i'll here. 1t is thought they are suf-
fering With ptomaine poisoning from
food served in the college dormitory
at night.
st. Louis, Oct. 1S.-The st. Louis
franchise of the Southern Traction
company, a projected interurban line
promoted in part by William Lorimer
and planning loop at the west end
of the municipal bridge, was repealed
by the upper house of the municipal
assembly. A repeal measure had
passed the lower house.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 15.-Five men
employed by the government fleet OPP
posite Memphis were drowned when a
gasoline boat used to transfer them
from the city to the feet capsized in
the middle OF the Mississippi river.
Folsom, Cal, Oct 20.-In the coun-
try surrounding Folsom state prison
posses are searching for Frank Creeks.
who escaped in break which cost his
cellmate, Harold Flash, and j. b. Dru-
ry, a guard, their lives.