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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
HAMILTON'S IRON RULE
Sir Bruce Hamilton's Fight
 ing Career

From the London Tit Bits.
 The Sixth British army, in command of which Lord Kitchener has placed Gen. Sir Bruce Hamilton, will undoubtedly de- velop into one of Great Britains most valuable fighting forces. Sir Bruce, as his work in past campaigns has amply proved, is a born commander of men, ard one who has the lSiack of getting the best out of his troops. On account of his reputation for hard work. the com lnander of the Sixth army is known as Brute Hamilton. This does not mean that he is unpopular The nickname is meant in a complimentary sense, and is "Tommys' tribute to the untiring, activ- ity of his chief.
 Sir Bruce Hamilton commenced his army career 3S years ago, when he entered the East Works regiment. He had fighting blood in his veins, for he was the second son of a famous British lighting family, his father being Lieut.. Gen. Meade Ham, ilton, C. B. Sir Bruce received his bap- tsm of fire in the Afghan war. and was awarded medal Since then he has served in tine Boer war of 1881. the Burma campaign. the Ashanti expedition. and in the last South African war. In the Boer campaign his vigorous work with the East Yorkshire regiment resulted in his being mentioned in dispatches on six casions, and he was promoted to the ranl, of major general Sir Bruce was in cora-. mand of the British forces which were mainly responsible for the great Boer sur render in the Wittebergen, when 400 men laid down their arms and gave themselves up as prisoners of war. He also carried out a number of daring raids in the east ern Transvaal, and several memorable forced nsarches across the veldt with the object of enfanlng the enemy.
 Sir Bruce is the type of grim, deter mined camraigner whom Tommy wor7. ships, though he may fear his iron rulef You wouldn't play tricks with him. rg marked a soldier of Sir Bruce recentE. mo more than you would twist ball dogs tail"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
SOMETHING ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO TELLS WHITE
 EXAGGERA

forward since the Father of Lies' justi' fled the first one but way down deep in your heart and in mine you know as | know that we can generally evade an is- sue that calls for the unpleasant truth that might wound.
 It is seldom that we are called on to act as exeeutor at a friends happiness; the lies we tell and love to tell and keep on telling are of an altogether different nature.
 And listen; it is ourselves who are n- jured most in the telling. and which of us has the right to do this? Certainly not the boy to his sweetheart; certainly not the husband to his wife certainly not the wife to the husband; and certainly not friend to friend.
 Again, it isn't the lie that hurts; it is the principle back of it.
 What husband would care if his wife had paid sS5 for hat instead of $50 if she were only honest enough to tell him that she needed the s15 for something else?
 But the wife who wheedles $50 hat out of her husband and who only pays $35 for it and uses the other $15 for something else is corrupting her own morals and undermining her own chance for happi- ness every lie she tells is only the quag- mire that will finally suck her in A woman of my acquaintance boasts of having deceived her husband for years about bills" having things charged as other than what they were
 Why, l wear anything on my head
  ver baking dishes," she laughingly told group of friends, and told it proudly, if you please, and then followed the explana-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

nRUTH may or may not be stranger
 than fiction, but certainly 1t is
 4 safer than fiction, if the fiction takes the form of white lies," or pink 6bs,'' or even pale blue congregations to ones friends and home folk.
 E The boy who cried Wolf the third 6ay after twice fooling his friends was left to his fate when real wolf did come with devouring intent.
 Sc also it is often borne home to us that a woman who uses petty subterfuges And direct evasions in dealing with her husband or her sweetheart or her friends. Till sooner or later have 10 pay the piper in the loss of confidence of the one whose respect she most wishes to retain
 ! recall seeing lovely Clara Bloodgood, whose tragic death some years ago startled not only the theatrical world, but The social world as well. where Mrs. William Lmaibeer she was a feted beauty and belle in Clyde Fitch's clever play, 'srhe Truth The spoiled beauty of so- riety played the part of the fibbing Becky, the beautiful young wife who wouldn't even tell the truth when it would serve 
 her purpose.
 T don't believe Becky can keep from telling lies" one of her friends re- marked. Why if she even crosses to Jer- sey she tells every one she's been abroad. and if man asks her politely to pass the butter. she tells somebody the next mo- nent that he's in love with her"
 Don't you know women just like that Anc q hate to say it heaps of them?
 We knew them at school when we were young and frank enough to discredit everything they said to their face.
 Afterward when convention and dignity attendant upon being grown up" inter tei ed with such surface frankness, we still kept on knowing that they were just As unreliable as in the old days.
 She doesn't really mean to exaggerate pr tell an untruth," we'd say, Its just her way"
 How charitab ble.
 ''Inveterate liar' is a terrible thing to attach to any woman's name.
 ''The Truth" as a play was very in- teresting because it showed how mar velously quick the day of reck oning comes to hand-when the woman who has told lies must face the mu- sic-and either confess her faults and be forgiven or else stick to her lies and lose her paradise.
 In real life as in the play the gravest feature of such trouble is that hus-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

She said while it seemed hard then, now she knew she owed all her happi- ness in life to the discipline of her sainted mother and father-who rev. cred and adored the truth.
 They simply inoculated me with it. she said. T look back now and recall how my parents were almost fla natics on the subject of the truth. Other girls parents overlooked exag- gerations or fibs, but my parents were absolutely intolerant of anything that even appeared like lie,
 When we look things straight in the face there is nothing on earth worth lying about; truth may hurt, but it is a healing agent a lie is an acid that corrodes; thing that undermines and threatens; truth is always powerful in the end, and like murder, ''it will out ; perfect freedom only comes when we know the truth, as the Bible says and it sets us free.
 A lie is an awful jailer; pity the woman who is in the clutches of it.
 Some wise philosopher has said that to cover up one lie, a person must summon 20 others to assist at the bur ial and each of these in turn becomes menace.
 Lies are like chickens they come home to roost. If only We could tell one lie and let it end there, but We can't because it is like a boomerang" it may take many days to strike back where it started, but it will do so at last.
 The truth is so beautiful, and lie is sinister that it is curious that anyone should be deceived; the very
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

Clyde Fitch's play has many parallels in life; there are still many lovely 'Beckys" who meet men for whom they don't care rap, but who cultivate them just because it is fashionable for a married woman to be popular and have besux," they explain, and then its such fun"
 There have been many tragic endings to such beginnings. and sometimes such cases have resulted in the man and the woman becoming greatly attached to each other, divorce following-mse humilia- ton, despair and suicide!
 One lie after another leads to all this cls intestine meetings, husband and chil- dren neglected, and chaos and confusion in the home-all because of a bunch of white lies or pink fibs" or pale blue congregations at the start.
 It. is so easy when a body has told a little innocent CD lie to add to it and add and add until it becomes an enormous falsehood.
 They say if you keep on telling the same lie long enough that you yourself will eventually believe it is the truth; this may or may not be true. but I heard of a girl once who confessed that she had told so often that she had lost brand new pair of white 20-button gloves at a ball. instead of an old, rusty pair, that had been cleaned at least six times, that she really believed they were new.
 friend of mine once told me of how she had been brought up in the most rigid household, where the chill dren were severely punished every time they were caught "in a story
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

easiest way in the world to get out ofI trouble is by just telling the plain old truth; it is so much simpler in the end j and saves such terrible lot of suf-| fering and heartachel
 Isn't 1t Thoreau, who asks the sim pie question that would solve all things if. we could but, see it that way: :|
 Let the beautiful laws prevail. Led
 us not weary ourselves by resisting| them When we rest our bodies we| cease to support them; we recline on| the lap of the earth. So when we| would rest our spirits we must recline| on the great spirit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
Women Stand Mems Work We'll

From the London Chronicle.
 Glasgow is proud of her women wa1 workers One sees them everywhere, on| trains, motors, vans and ambulance cars ] delivering letters from door to door, hur-| rying about the central station with brush| and pail. collecting tickets at the differ Il ent gangways, in the booking offices| bearing the torch to light the darkened| city. What strikes one most in watchingI the worker is the busfness-like, sensiblcI manner in which she goes about her| work, the plain, practical neatness of herl attire, and her courtesy toward the pub lie.
 The tired lines around the eyes of thcl female tram conductor, which roused| pity and doubt as to the success of the| woman worker during the first week of trial, have in some mysterious way| smoothed themselves out. The conductor| seems to have become accustomed to tho long stand and the narrow, steep stairs. And it is a pleasant sight of a morning. to meet the postwoman, with her bright| smile of greeting, her short navy bluc skirt. her stout boots and her bundle off letters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

1 band who has been lied to for so long
 who has been deceived constantly
 about not only the big things, bu
 the little things, has no faith left tc
 credit his wife however sincerely he
 may wish to condone her shortcomings Tt can't be done.' many declare
 when they are discussing whether a person can break themselves of the habit of telling falsehoods once they have become addicted to the habit like the drug fiend It can be done, but its a powerfully hard struggle; a fight that involves drugs-or any other awful habit-for it is a habit, pure and simple, the telling of 'stories.'
 A body can understand how a man or woman either who is in the habit of lying, would try to fight to conceal his disgrace; it is this fight, this try ing to bolster one lie with a thousand more that forms the network of false hoods against which so many find themselves beating their spirits out and ground down in defeat Some poet has said that happiness was born a twin.
 This may be true, but even truer is it that a liar is born a centipede or matched with brood of sinister brothers and sisters as fearful as him. self.
 One lie never stands alone; the weak always have to be supported; did you ever see coward who went about alone night or day? Did you ever see a woman liar who wasn't surrounded by as many people as her original lie is flanked by attendant falsehoods? Never
 There is a queer organ called Con science" You remember in that wonderful i, it was the last attribute to desert her!
 Well, the terrible thing called Con science talks to men and women some times when they are alone. 1 This funny mental talking machine" is awfully hard on lies
 It is to the advantage of liar to sur
 round himself always with such com
 panions as will deaden the voice of the l
 l inner monitor.
 l The worst of all lies is the first lie; it is
 the tiny key that opens the gate to tha'
 false Paradise where one eats the allurl'. 2
 fruits and finds that they turn dead sea
 ashes on his lips.
 1 But" cries some one would you have
 me be one of those candid people wnc
 are so unpleasant that all the friends they
 see coming toward them are going .ht other way?
 No; certainly not; why should any ont l of us go ont of our way to tell the 'bru. 1 tai truth as Mir. Kip'ing puts it
 Neither is there any necessity to huri
 one's feelings by something that were bet
 ter left unsaid.
 These arguments have been brought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
!DUrYSr1ArunS1
 IPHILOSOPHE|

Ole Kiss, hit allus meks me laf whin I hears us Wimmin Folks called de Weaker Sex" Bless de Lawd! Weaker Sex"-nuthin!" Us ain't no Weaker Sex," Les sen you means dat de Men Folk is Stronger fer Us dan we is fer Dem. Yassum!
 
 ton of how she bought hats and gowns and had them charged as household goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
Lydia E. Pmkham's Vegetable Compound


CUMMING, GA.-"I tell some suffering wo- man every day of Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound and what it has done for me- could not eat or sleep, had bad stomach and was in misery all the time. | could not do my housework or walk any dis tance without suffering great pain. 1tried doctors medicines and different patent med icines but failed to get relief. Nv husband brought home your Vegetable Compound and in two weeks could eat anything. could sleep like healthy baby, and walk a long distance without feeling tired. | can highly recommend your Vegetable Com pound to women who suffer as I did. and you are at liberty to use this letter.n-Mrs CHARLIE BAoLEY, R. 3, Cumming, Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

FLORENCE, So DAKOTA A-"I used to he very sick every month with bearing down pains and backache, and had headache good deal of the time and very little appe- tite. The pains were so bad that used to sit right down on the floor and cry, because it hurt me so and l could not do any work at those times. An old woman advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and got bottle. felt better the next month so took three more bottles of it and got well so I could work ali the time. hope every woman who suffers like I did will try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "-- Mrs. P. w. LANsENG. Box 8. Allyn, Wash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
QUIET AT ALL POINTS
ALONG MEXICAN BORDER
Detachment Of United States Cavalry
Continue Search for Missing
Private johnson.
OF ARMS HELD UP
Cartridges and Army Rifles Con
signed for Carranza Agents De
tanned Mt Laredo on Federal Or
ders for Investigation"

BROWNSVILLE. TEN. September IS
United States border patrols tonight
reported the situation quiet at all
points along the international bound
airy Dctachments OF the Twelfth Cav
airy continued their search to-day for
Private Richard =. Johnson. Of Troop
<, who disappeared after the attack on
Progreso by band OF Mexican raid
ers Friday. but found no trace OF the
missing man. 1t is beloved that John
son either was Killed or kidnapped by
the Mcxicans and taken into Mexico.
The body of Private Henry w. Stubble-
field. of Troop e. Twelfth Cavalry. no
was killed in the ProEreso fight. was
sent to Big stone Gap, Va, to-day for
burial.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
NEW PANAMA TREATY
government Desires TO suppiant Sec
tons Of Convention OF I0O3 Made
with United States

PANAMA, September 26-Wha, mr.
ports 10 be the draft of a new treaty
"h!ch the Panama government desires
70 enter into with the United Statea
government was made public here to-
cay The treaty, intended to sunplant
'hat OF 1903, contains twelve articles.
me most important Governs tive
panste! 10 the Panama government of
al! Panama railroad owned lands in
III" cities Of Panama and Colon. cxccnt
SuCn as on which BUILDINGS ALREADY
nave been erected or are used hv the
railroad
O'her clauses provide for the cxenn.
non OF machinery and agricultural i'm :
r!ements manufactured in the United
states from duty. the establishment of
compulsory military service IN pauarp.,
ior the defense Of the canal i'm raso
Panama should be called npon "a In
So Panama 20 night common cne,,.
IN case OF war: no Intervention In tho
ihhnina elections by the United states
/ except at the request OF the presidcn,
OF the republic; ana the arbitration -,
dlNerences between Panama and ,ho
Chl'ed States hy commission com
posed OF one member each From, IN.
two countries Interested, and ono eart
| from the republics Of Brain. Chile nd
Argentina.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
IMPROVED CONDITIONS
IN MEXICO CAPITAL

WASHINGTON. September 2e.-Con-
1itons In Mexico city arc Improving
according TO official dispatches to the
state department. General vcnustiano
Carranza himself telegraphed similar
word TO his agency here.
There were no developments in the
border situation. officials awaiting
further word from Mhjo General Fun
ston and government agents as to the
cause Of the outbreaks in tho Vicinity
OF Brownsville and the real identity of
Tho uniformed soldiers who nred on
American troops from the Mexican side
The message from General Carrnnza
on food conditions IN the Mexican
capital follows:
The reports appearing tn the Amer
icnn rr-ss to the effect that condi.
tions In Mexico City were again bad
and growing worse than heretofore,
In so far as the food situation Is con-
cerncd are untrue. for the Constitu-
tonRlist government has forwarded
through the several lines OF railway
communication to the capital 1000 car
loads or foodstuYs. the greater por-
tioE OF which IL has not yet been pos
sitlc 10 unload. or these consienments.
the American Red Cross sent fol-.
ward only two carloads. We have and
are now extending them every facility
To forward all that they may desire"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27

Heeklcr was Respondent. Miss Palmer
complained of bcinS III and asked
ficckler to &C out and set her some
stimulant.
w. w. Houston. OF No. 81 West Thir-
ucth Street, Il friend a the couple,
Volunteered to accompany him. While
they wero out Hcckler declared his
oeiier that Miss Planners love for him
was waning. Finally hc began to
weep. but Houston quietcd him.
returning to the Conservatory
Building. Heckler went to the room OF
MISS Palmer alone. Soon the couple
were heard i'm a violent quarrel. Then
TOUR shots. fired I'm quick succession,
sounded.
Nine. Parker and Houston summoned
Tatrolman koeniE. who was passing,
ana they hurried to the top floor. Miss
rainier was lying against the door In
such manner that 1t was some time
before II could be opened. She was
unconscious Heckler was lying I'm the
center of the room dead, with the re.
folver still grnsped in his hand
foiyclinic Hospital was notified, and
an ambulance soon arrived. Tho
singer did not regain consciousness.
ana the surgeon said her death was u
matter OF but few hours.
Hecklcr is said TO be the son of n
prominent business man of Chicago.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
CHURCHES TURN SERVICES
INTO THANKSGIVING MEETINGS

LONDON, September 26.--London re-
ceived the news Of the successes OF
the allies on the western front early
SUNDAY afternoon, and il spread rapidly
by means OF extra editions OF the news
papers In the hotels, clubs and
churches great Joy WAS shown. In
many instances the churches turned
their evening services into meetings
OF thanksgiving.
The morning newspapers to-day
employ the biggest type they have
used during the war in telling Of the
progress OF the British and French
troops
Editorially they greet the news with
enthusiasm and express relief for the
victories. after months % waiting.
Some of the newspapers evince gratih-
cation in view of the fact that they
deem the gains OF the allies as offsets
10 the Weekend casualty lists they
publish this morning, giving the names
of 1903 officers and 3,s7i men who have
either been killed or wounded or are
missing
The editorials announce the realiza-
ton that the pushing forward OF the
British and French troops means fur
NN'1 i1tdN lpSS'St tHl va til' Ntltcl :
welcome the move as proving that the
German is not impre enable.
The Times says ii regrets that opera :
tons OF such Importance should he SO
scantily recorded
Gould the story Of Saturdays action
have been told in some fullucss and
under due restrictions,' says the Times,
"it would have carried a mcssag" OF
JOY TO countless British homes. Tho
nation needs cheering ana tho present
occasion seems to have afforded n suit
able opportunity Presumably we shall
learn the detail ~ dribcts from Dutch
or American sources. to which the press
of this country is now compelled to
turn for Information. which is often Of
doubtful validity"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
SHOOTS WOMAN HE LOVES.
THEN ENDS HIS OWN LIFE
Herbert HecltIcr. Young Opern singer,
Mortally Wounds Miss Pearl Palm
or, After Violent Quarrel.
Especial to The Tlmcs-Dlspatch.l

Especial to The Times Dispatchl
NEW YORK, September 26.-Hcrbert
Heckler, twenty-seven years old an
opera singer. of Chicago, shot and
mortally wounded Miss Pearl Palmer,
twenty-threc years old, also an opera
singer, tonight. at IL o'clock, in the
Conservatory Building at 2i0 West
Seventy-Second street. and then sen: n
bullet through his own forehead He
died instantly.
Miss Palmer WAS hurried to the
Polytechnic Hospital. where it was
found three bullets had entered her
body. ono Of which went through her
head. The doctors reported she could
not live through the night.
Miss Palmer has been singing prima
donna roles in Victor Hcrbert's opera.
princess Pat" She was In philadcl-
phia last week and arrived here this
morning. engaging a room OH the top
floor. lleckler has been In the city for
several days.
According TO Nine. Alice Andreas
Parker who has q studio In the build
ing. Hecklor and Miss Palmer have
been swecthearts for three years
Two years ago they became engaged
and since that time have been In each
others company. Iccklcr frequently
urged Miss Palmer to marry him. but
| she delayed fulfilling her promise he
cause she desired to continue her stage
| career.
, Hccklcr arrived at the Conservatory
! Building this evening about . o'clock
| and went TO the apartment occupcd
by Miss Palmer. Madame Parker was
present, and. according TO her story,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
NORTH CAROLINA OUTLAW
CAPTI RED ny oDFICERS

ASHENILLE, y. @, September 20
Ed Williams. noted outlaw. was can.
tured last nigh; near Robbinsvilic
Graham County by Sheriff Anmous
according TO dispatch received here
tonight Williams, who was officially
declared an outlaw by Judge Ferguson
recently, is said 10 hay. been uuarmeI
at the time OF ms capture He l.,
charged with the murder Of his VII.
brother-in- law and nothcr-in.layy
some time ago, ana is also CHARGED
of his father.in-law. Philip ptilirs :, :.
Robbinsville. for which Hardy WIG
gins and Merritt Miller are unGcf sen.
tence TO die To-niehts dispatch saws
that Williams is reported to nave con
fessed TO the murder OF Phillips and
to have exonerated Miller and Virgins
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
WIlLER ARRESTED FOR
SCRATCHING PLATE GLASS
FoIice Make First Arrest After Months
Of Complaint From Outraged
Property Owners.

me ponce are OF the opinion that
,heN nave al !at' s"cceedeh IN appre-
hehH'ns one OF INC men responsible for
ne "ainast Mn'th mas "eeii oone 10
large plate glass windows in the down
Town section.
Ld'e Sa'uIoa% afternoon Policeman
nhrN was standing on Eighth street
"heh ne saw man approaching him
from Main street ana scrapins his
name along 'he riate glass windows
OF the News Leader office Gary