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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

He's a good loser" you hear some one say in admiring tones. Win or lose, it's all the same to him. He keeps the same sort Of face" We'll
 It's sometimes good thing to be a good loser" The very effort to set the jaw in the face of defeat leads to the resolution to win next time. And that counts for much.
 But not everyone recognizes and praises the good loser" There's John ny Evers. for example. the ball player, who formed part of the famous Chi- cago infield, generally considered one of the best that ever played the Amer lean national game, later became man. ager of the Chicago team and has been playing this year with the Boston team. He said when he was still man ger of the Chicago team:
 "0ivs me tho ball player that is sore when gems has been lost and I'll show you . ball player that has somsthing in him. don't want any of those players who take defeat with . smiIs and look forward to the next day with . sort of luck may favor us' expression. s=s
 1T am locking for the playera who fight all the tirns, rssardless of the score. l like . hard loser when 1t comes to playing baseball"
 In other words. Hvers wanted in beseball--and the game of life wants in ethsr fislds-ths person who. being defsseed. dope not take 1efset too cas- Ely. 1t sreuses in him tho Astermina- tion to est up and light again. net the calm acquisscenes h AsfsaG
 Todey's game is losts the enemy has ecored toe many runs against us, but we won't say, "well bsttsr luck next tine" Wen got mad eId we'll deter- luina % land eh the bal hard In the next gams and pass up nothipg when we're playlAe in tho field. and ws'll shew the etnsr team what's what!
 The trouble is--
 Bsing geed loser leads too estsn ts tektpg aofsat toe sasily. The loser forms the hsbts e rseasetpg . Ioss iightly. TruA . setbAsk elton oonvsys uesful Isssen. bst tes many sstbacks. eeming ens after 6nother end each ono taken sesl1y' beat dpwn the habit of
 Il bsccmes . sstsi,y sasy ts serm the hAhlt of bolng . l6oer. And that Hills all chsncee on the ball Held or slss-
 No bell tsem cen iess steadily ail soAeea end thea oGpeoe e win the pen. Asnt in . sueh q tAe Sn4 e the seesdr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

Qualifications, take up strong defensive position and hurl tho bulk of her armies against the on-rolling tide of Russian in-
 vasion. If this should be the course or
 events. the Germans would settle down to war of defense, which might last for
 two or three years. and end in the con
 testants fighting each other to the poina of utter exhaustion. There is no reason to believe that the German of the twen- tieth century has lost any of the powers
 of recuperation and dogged resistance which carried him through the seven years
 of way under the great Frederick Germany must battle alone. Ii is noe
 likely that Austria will prove an ally
 upon whom the Kaiser can rely. In tho
 dual Kingdom there Is an utter lack of tho
 cohesveness that makes Germany such
 formidable opponent. The non-Teu-
 tonic races of Austra-Hungary have
 proven poor dependencies in the great
 crises. The inextinguishable flame of pa
 triotism is not burning in their breasts.
 They regard the war as a price too great
 by far to pay for the soothing of 0
 senile potentates wounded susceptible
 ties. They are not endued with the belief
 that they carry upon their bayonets the sole hope of civilization and "cuture''
 They decline to look upon the peoples of
 their own race as barbarians to be ex-
 terminated.
 Germany refused to bring influence
 10 bear upon Vienna and thus prevent
 the world-war Francis Joseph had tho assurance of the fullest cooperation from Berlin when he decided to coerco Servia. When tho full truth becomes
 known. then probably 1t will be estab- lished that Berlin, rather than Vienna,
 was the stronger for Servia's punish
 ment. Already 1t has been clearly proven that Germanys declaration of
 war against Russia was received in St..
 Petersburg at a time when promise was held for a renewal of the negotiations kbetween Russia and Austria Hungary. F Italy failed him, Belgium refused to stand aside and let his soldiers make a thoroughfare of the kingdom; Great Britain unexpectedly threw In her Lot with his enemies; Austria Hungary has proven broken reed--but the Kaiser will brave fate undaunted and una fraid. He deliberately chose fhis path: he will pursue 1t without terror and without ruth.
 With all his bravery, with all his zeal. with all his faith that he fights for and with God, it would be strange if often the imperial couch were ro.
 surrounded by phantom hosts of cruel Cossacks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

LIE would be very deaf student
 of the present situation who \ ! should fail to recognize the voice of the socialist even above the din of war. Just as it is unquestion- able that the party of peace, though temporarily ignored and swept aside, is moving more rapidly than ever to- ward the final abolition of war. sol on the other hand. the socialist party. in every European land. is making enor- nous strides through the discreditable treakoown of our boasted civilization.
 Already the world had seen what in- telligent governments might do to- ward the abolition of poverty. In spite of their terrific burdens on behalf of sarmed peace, Germany and Great Brit
 ain had vied with one another in the nobler enterprise of shielding the
 wage earner against sickness, acci- dent, death and unemployment. How these insurance funds of the govern ments would fare in these bankrupting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27
SOME SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR-By Harry J. Burney

Perhaps even this Is too much of Spen- ccr Eddy's story to be printed here. His accounts of mutilations of men and out rages to women may be left to the i'm. agination.
 Herr von Bethmann-Ho Holweg, chancellor of the German empire. and the German
 crown prince, so tho dispatches relate
 recently have fallen under the Kaiser's
 displeasure. and each has been tho recipi-
 ent of some pointed comments regarding
 his conduct in such times as now exist These stories one can easily believe. but
 the correspondents who cabled them seem
 to have sloughed off much Of the per
 fervid imagination that characterized
 their work in the earlier stages of the
 war. Those who have carefully followed
 the war news naturally expected that the accounts of the unpleasant half hours of
 the chancellor and the crown prince
 would have wound up with details of
 their suicides. The style of war cor
 responding has changed in the last few
 weeks.
 The German general staff, In . formal statement given out In Berlin. gravely de- clares that any accounts of victories which may have been announced in Lon don, Petrograd or Bordeaux are untrue.
 So far so good. But wouldn't 1t have been
 well to have gone little farther and de-
 olared that any accounts which may be
 given out in the future also will be un-
 true7
 Henry s. Breckenridge. United States assistant secretary of war, in an inter- view given out In London says the
 present wars outstanding lesson to America is in times of peace to prepare against annihilation. He says he has the highest opinion of the German army and also for those of France and England. but 1t Is increasingly evident that one can't fight . trained army with raw material. A foreign army of s00.00c could go through the United States from coast to coast if success : fully landed" MT. Breckenridge has taken cursory view of the zone of
 hostilities and is ready to hand out ad- vice in large chunks. He would have l the United States join the military marathon which has brought Europe to misery and woe. Mir. Breckenridge lis 2s. The United States will be ready to listen to him when he grows up. A daring raid of flotilla of German
 submarines resulting in the sinking ot three British armored cruisers has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

If one is advised
 "Get away from your conscience fol awhile" the counsel would sound dan gerous, would. it not? Of course. there's too much peril fl giving your conscience a vacation. I ought to be Ion the job'' and active 2 hours of every day. Unlike the body ana the mind. 1t needs no rest. It is tn, sleepless guardian of the gates of virtue warning in unmistakable notes when den. ger approaches.
 Still
 It is advisable once in awhile to strain the leash which holds the conscience Here is authority for the statement: q confess for myself that (with nc great deliquencies to answer for) an glad for reason to take an airing be- yond the diocese of the strict conscience came back to my cage and self restraint the fresher and more healthy for it.'' That was written as far back as 1s2 by Charles Lamb, the essayist and poet whose observations on men and morali and manners sound as fresh to the readeI now as when they were written. for they are compounded of truth and keen obser' vation of life.
 When the season comes for rest iron work 1t is pleasant to lay off for time to loaf and invite your soul" Take of the mental and physical strain; give tn, bow chance to unbend. It will breal | if forever strung. So also with the conscience. There is something in human nature Perhaps 1t is the innate dspravtty o which some theologians write whicl makes the soul rebel asainst tho constan preachings of good. The mind, havina heard for years the assertion of the basic principles which underlie morality. be comes weary of their reiteration. It calis for q rest.
 Well--
 Then is the time to take the little '.ajr. ing beyond the diocese of the striet con. science" of which Lamb speaks oe' away from the usual routine and do soens
 of the things which you have forbiddsz to yourBslf
 Only
 Bs very, very sure that those thinsu are not evil in themselves. Sin is in arld must not be indulged in at any tino. The healthy conscience will tell wh1rt to draw the line. The Germans have an expression foy which there is no sxact synonyTn lu English- IL can be defined only by the
 use of a phrase. It 10 the ad3oee1ve
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

taste for reading. He dreamed not of fame, had no other ambition than that of becoming a quiet. sober, loyal man, liv- ing in quietness and making life as smooth as possible. He rapidly gained on all with whom he had to do. was eventually made a partner in the concern with which he worked. added immensely to the prosperity of the shop. and finally rose to the head of the printing establishment.
 Though he was now a resident of Lon don. he never abandoned the sturdy vir- tues acquired and trained in his rural
 home. Richardson soon developed fa- cility for letter writing, and possessed a
 felicity of expression in correspondence quite unusual. so that he was requested
 to prepare a manual of form for the
 guidance of correspondents on various subjects. When he set himself to this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27
TALKS-By Charles N. Lurie

the monument. "Her arm is around a little child, whose upturned face as it looks Into her own beaming with lovc expresses the loving veneration
 that all children left for her.
 "Around the statues base bloom the flowers she loved. and just back of 1t towers the monument dearer to her than any marble memorial could ever
 be-. the orphan asylum which she
 fotnded and iovsh while living and provided for in dyipg so that 1t shall ever stand q memorial of her and of her love for children"
 There's . farmers wife in the middle
 west" says . writer In Farm and Fire
 side, who has worked out the solution
 of her own problem with energy and de- termination enough left to help very ma
 terially her sisters to do the same. On
 being asked what aided her in solving
 her own problem she replied. Hearing a
 few good talks. reading few good books
 and thinking on the problem AS the boys say
 Good stuff!
 Good not only for the farm woman.
 but for every woman. Good not only for every woman. but for every man. Good. in fact. for everybody who has reached the years of ability to think things out.
 With every human life goes problem Sometimes 1t assumes one form. some- times another. With the majority 1t ass sumes tho ugly. sordid shape of providing means of support. The clothing. food and sheIter--thres prime necessaries oi lifs-auestion is the hardest of ali to face and down.
 Yst--
 How few there are who are confronted with this vitaily important matter who take the trouble of ''thinking on theil problem" They spend their spare time
 such hours as they can steal from the work of their hands and brain. in trying to set away from the problem. in diver sion. rather than in thinking thinss over. vhsAr minds become atrephied for lack e usa.
 The workers with the hands are essen-
 tiai for the carrying on of the world. | But
 1 It is the workers with the brain. after all, who direct them. And the largest rewards always 90 to tho directors. They are tho men and women who have formed the habit. as has this farmers 6 wife of the middle west. of sitting down with their problem. and thinking on t.
 The other part 6e the advice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

's ss %ssss ss, Of tn. \ world that he is anxious for peace among the warning nations. He has peer deterred by no worm-eatern precedent from making it known to the contenoins Ii countries that he stands ready at any \ moment to become the medium for nego- tiations looking toward a cessation or the carnage. Europe is not yet ready TOT peace. however This astounding tragedy has been long in the brewing. trifie precipitated it; but no trifle will end it. The prostration of one or the other oi the combatants must come before the dogs of war are chained. Then there may sbe negotiated peace that will be endur- ing
 washington has done what it could with the means at hand. But it was evident !. from the beginning that hopes TOT 1, restoration of tranquility hung upon 8 | tenuous thread. Reports that the recent attempted negotiations originated with the bankers rather than with the beliigerents are probably true Wall street exerted itself in behalf oi humanity, put IL Has eAerteu ieSSi- AA vain.
 Speyer & Co., are anxious to float 3 loan for Germany. France sometime age approached J. P. Morgan & Co. in ar effort to borrow $100O00,000 in this coun- try Kuhn. Loeb Co. wish to put few million dollars in Austrian securities upor the American market. The bankers would profit by an early ending of the war. Ant so would all others. But it Is not to be. Hl If one believed all he read in the news papers he might be led to the conclusion that the allies are acting foolishly 1T throwing their armies against the terri ble German front. Why not just let tho Germans alone until they all kill eacf other? One morning the papers con tained accounts of German artillery she'll ing its own forces and of two regiments spf German infantry mistaking each other Tor the enemy and fighting until only 6 few were left. The next morning we were regaled with this:
 '.The information reaching Petrosrad i: that a large flotilla engaged in hunting down passenger steamers Gin the Baltic seal mistook their own for the enemy. ships and engaged in lively battle. Int number. of vessels crippled Is unknown tbut several cruisers entered Kiel badly SAnau,ed and riddled and carrying many wounded.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

himself to the task of writing novel of some consequence, guided by the model which he had so unintentionally formed. So that eight years after the appear ance of his first venture he wrote "Clar- issa Harlowe," a decided advance on his former undertaking. and a masterpiece of fiction for that early time. The pioneer in a new sphere. he was the lion of the day in literary circles. Ills name was on every lip. his fame without rival ship.
 "Clarissa Harlowe" would be novelty now. but it was the ancestor of all the novels, great and otherwise that have since appeared. It represents the first serious attempt at novel writing, and was a prodigy at that early time. The story swings and oscillates. wobbles with gro- tesqueness, is characterized by & dissec-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

ton of character which would now be in- tolerable. is often painfully proiix. and is as devoid of style as an onion is of sweetness. but the germ of the novel Is there. and therein lies the occasion of the fame of Samuel Richardson. He wrote utterly without artifice. in plain. matter-of-fact sort of fashion. using the first words that came to him. and the first imaginary instances suggested, It Is not the merit of this parent work that fs insisted on, but the fact that 1t was the first real novel-the fountain source of new stream of literature that has re- freshed humanity for ITS years.
 Richardson's idea of novel writing was one purely ethical. His aim was to be a benefactor by the medication of q pffn- ciple. Not bad idea was this. but 1t Is one that has been sadly deflected from its original channel. The ambition of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

task, 1t occurred to him that spright- Illness would be given the art if the letters were made to tell related story. In doing this he wrote series of let ters. and called his work Pamela, or Virtue Restored,'' and without suspect ing that he had done more than to pre- sent a series of model letters, he had written the first novel that the world ever saw. Judged by the present stand ard. it was a crude work of fiction, but it was the embryonic novel. No one was more surprised than Richardson him self that he had fallen into a new path of literature. never before travelled, but so he had.
 Naturally it created a sensation Tn the reading circles of London and elsewhere and now conceiving the possibility of a new sphere of literature, Richardson set
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

and commended, in turn. the bad and the good.
 That so little should be known of Samuel Richardson. the father of ths novel and that his name Is so seldom mentioned, is due to an ignorance that Is not creditabie to the present genera ton Of readers of novels. No sugges- ton Is heard Of celebrating any occasion in honor to the man who was a distinct creator of remarkable brapch of lit- erature. Nobody speaks of A monument to the man who devised a means of hu- man pleasure in study and reading. sec ond to no other who ever wielded the pen.
 In the wide field of literature, Samuel Richardson towers pre-eminently as ths forerunncr of fiction writing. the harbing- CT of a new and pleasurable class of literature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

fE~)N, this should start your mar. I. ried life right. May 1t grow ant
 may it bring you happiness"
 So said the millionaire to his son. jus
 married. 3as. W
 The this to which he referred was 6
 check for sl.OO0.0oo
 Happy bride and bridegroom.
 Not theirs to worry about the vol Lknarling at the door. All th6v have tt j Ao is to keep the N,0OO,0oo intact. Int
 income from that vast sum of money
 properly invested, is enough to maintain
 them in splendid luxury forever. Even living far beyond the scale of expendi' ture of 90 per cent of Americans, they
 will enjoy most of the material gooe things in life.
 On the other hand The loving fathers wedding gift to hii l. son is not an assurance of his sons hap { piness Money has been known to play tricks on young couples. No couple witt the income of $1, 100000 need take heed fol the financial morrow. There is no need for the planning and devising which nl the lives of most married couples. But
 Removed is also the need of the loving cooperation which means so much. Wher man and wife put their heads together to figure out ways of making ends meet the heads are very apt to get together in kiss. And that is . sign of mutual helpfulness and understanding and love. Starting right is not 2 matter of money Sometimes tho burden of money is ( heavy handicap In the race of life. II waighs down the runner instead of help fng him forward.
 One of the most loving couples In ons I z6f our big cities oonsist of an old mar
 and woman who came to America to mako their living more than % years ago. Afte' paying their travelling expenses they landed in New York with cents. And the cents were in forelgn money. Tha' swas in the days before the immigratior ' sieuuirements were a strict as they ars now. Now they would be excluded. Relatives helped this couple to obtain food and lodeinS. The man was rood nerchanic and soon obtained work al {~is trade.
 3xThey reared family in honesty and Shidustry. Their children are creditabl< additions to American citizenship n their old age-~they are happy. althousn they are not wealthy.
 They had no Sl.0oo0oo wedding gift. fet they have lived simple. honest. contsnted hapDv nvsa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27
BY-PATIs HISTORY: NOvEL-By Riley D.

Richardson was to unfold the soul of things to the eye, to translate morality from the language of theory to that of practice, to bring the higher and the lower principles of action into striking antithesis, and while prompting regard for the good. nt the same time excite antipathy for the bad.
 or course. this idea would be hooted at today. and is generally as much eschewed as are the plays of Shakespeare. in pref erence of the flim-flam performances of the modern stage. It Is as true now as it was in the days of Samuel Richardson. that flrst-class novel. one with high purpose. Is an agent for good
 It is claimed that Charles Dickens did more good by his novels than did all the contemporaneous statesmen of his time He went to the heart of things, and in A way entioing to the reader. he exposed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

That about hearing few good talks and reading a few good books that Is good also, provided you do not make them too few.
 In the good talks and the good books is to be found good counsel. the state- ment of general truths of which partic- ular application can be made to every life and it's problem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27
A Delishtful School

From the Detroit Free Press. He said he could teach me to swim in two lessons Did you accept His offerr' "Yes. but enjoyed the fret lessol, 70 much that I decided not t1 gs4Sue'
 atAs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

The Germans have an expression fol which there is no exact synonym 1r English- It can be defined only by tht use of a phrase. It is the ad1oet1v(
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

War and peace alike have their anom- allies Recently we have witnessed a nation using it's troops to repress civil- fans who insist that their country join the helligerents. Italy has had a hard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

A daring raid of flotilla of German submarines resulting in the sinking of three British armored cruisers has
Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-21
CHANGE YOUR LUokl
Get a "Buu" Durham Poeket-Pieoe
 and Freeze Onto It

Heads you win-if you smoke Bull Durham" and Trails you lose # you don't smoke Bull Durham"
 That's the way the new pocket piece reads Its a Jim Dandy coin, too a bright, shiny, solid copper uck-bringer Get hold of yours to- day when you go to buy that sack of Bull Carry it in your clothes an the time and every chance you get give it an extra rub. Every man likes @ pocket piece But it isn't orteh you can get specially designed Lucky Lou like this one
 This new bit of pocket furniture is just another little thing the Ameri- can Tobacco Company .s giving away with Bull" Durham smoking tobac- co in order to show "Bull users that Che makers of Bull" haven't really forgotten them And nasmuch as the sales of Bull" Durham are going mp nckety split every month it shows that the users of "Bun' haven't for gotten either
 Get in there today and get yourself one Of these lucky pieces. You'll have a lot of fun out of it-Adv
Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-21

Justice Wiest Of ingham County Circuit Court at Lansing Mich, has granted permanent injunction re- straining Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. from voting or controlling shares of Osceola Mining Co. Calumet will probably appeal to the Supreme Court
Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-21

Dun's index number of commodity prices proportioned to consumption was s116430 on May 1. as against Sl19,217 the month previous and $11S- 324 a year ago. On May 1, 1912. the index number was $12S.9S6