The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
Seen at Best and Worst

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 From all parts of the war zone come stories tending to show human nature at it's best and worst, all throwing interest- ing sdelights on the great conflict. From New York comes this:
 Nora Bayes and her husband, Harry Clark. actress and actor. respectively, were rescued from Germany by Jack Norworth, Nora Bayes' former husband who since has acquired another wife. A letter from London containing the details of the unusual incident was received by a friehd of Norworth's yesterday.
 Norworth was in London. He figured that Miss Bayes and sler husband, who were in Bad Kissngen, would be glad to see anybody with money-even an ex- husband. So he took a week off and has tened to Bad l<issngen, where he found Miss Bayes and Harry Clark counting a few pennies and wondering how it would feel to starve to death. He took them back to London.
 Next is an appeal to mankind for suf- fering humanity:
 Paris. August 25--Dr Alexis Carrel. who has decided oremain in France dur ing the war has written letter to a friend in which he says;
 l am seeking men ready to give their blood for their country in the literal sense; that is. for transfusions to wornd- ed soldiers. I have already found doe tor and a lawyer, and hope soon to have several others.
 Further along is a bit of contentious ad- vice to a worried wife:
 Paris, August 25.-The Paris Matin gives an amusing instance of the severity of the censorshlps in France yesterday A young Parisian woman received at her house a letter, on the envelope of which she recognized the handwriting of her husband, now serving at the front She eagerly tore open the envelope. only to find that it was empty, but in the corner of the envelope in hand quite unfa- miliar to her was written the laconic mes sage:
 Madame, your husband is quite well. but is too communicative.' The young wife understood that her husbands letter must have been inter- cepted by the military authorities" A note of revenge and tragedy is sounded in this tense story from Macs tricht, Holland:
 Tn the Franco-P Prussian war the Ger mans, invading Alsace, ruined the farm of man named Hauff. Enraged thereby | Hauff shot a couple of the marauders, | whereupon 20 Germans placed him against wall and shot him. When his wife. who had tainted, came to her senses she found her little boy weeping on the body of his father. Mamma" said the boy. when I ha ye grown up I will shoot the Germans who killed father"
 Madame Hauf emgrated to Belgium and settled near Wise. Her son married and became the father of family When the Germans appeared Farmer Hauff's old hatred was rekindled in the son. He shot one of the invaders. At once 20 Germans bundled the farmer and his two sons 1A t,I, oil a wall and shot them. New York vouches for the truth of the following pathetic tale, which tells it's own moral:
 A millionaire American capitalist has a son who has played the prodigal on more than one occasion. The bills were always paid, and the son properly lee tured on the evils of extravagance. Fate put the father at Paris when the war broke out, and the son in New York received an urgent cable for prompt remittance.
 The prodigal wired: Glad you know what it is to be broke, dad Funds fol- lowing"
 | Maurice Maeterlinck. seen working in the harvest fields of Belgium, said: I could not fight and felt that I must do whatever was nearest to fighting. The harvest had to be got in soon, as Bel gium had been drawn into the war by the madness of the ego-mania Kaiser claimed a place in the Civil Guard, but it was only two days ago that I re- ceived the paper which wanted It was then too late, as the Civil Guard had been disbanded.
 have tried to write Out find it im- possible to begin) a series of articles on the war. Nothing came of my ef- forts Ones imagination is paraIyzed by the appalling realities. The thought that only a few hundred kilometers away millions of men are ranged against one another to kill. main or destroy blots out every other thought.
 The waste of it! After men have fought so valiantly against disease and death. after we have struggled so successfully against natural forces. to fall at the will of despot into this welter or carnage,
 And when the veil of censorship is lift ed. many more pathetic and humorous tales will come from the greatest charnal house of all times-civilized Europe.
 A Great Chase
 London Cable to New York Sun: The mother of the wireless operator of the British cruiser Gloucester has received a letter from her son describing the chase of the German cruisers Goeben and Bres- lau. in which the Gloucester participated. The letter said:
 "rhe chase lasted four days and nights. during which our gunner indulged in some 2ong range shots ct the Breslau. After