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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 NN THEN it can be truthfully said
 wy that in England the he Il"s intsrnea ned
 V V German prisoners of war are being treated as guests, even if unwel- come ones, and that on the contrary the British and allied prisoners in Germany are being rated as galley slaves, contrast can go no further. The world, indeed, is just beginning to realize that the German system of working its 100000 prisoners of war is return to conditions the analo- gies of which can only be found in past savagery or in the historic semiciviliza- tions of the Orient, refined on the sur face but inhumanly cruel throughout. In consequence Doctor Curtin, the American correspondent of the London Times. who has recently returned from Germany and is giving that paper the beneht or ms close study of German social and indus trial conditions during the war; is doing humanity public service in painting things just as they are. Up to date Ger many has been more than adept In keep ing the truth h.lden from the world at large. but the manner in which this new form of obligated slavery is carried on in her prison camps cannot forever re- main unknown. and any light at this juncture is welcome.
 As for the British side of the balance sheet most people do not know that partly from humane reasons and partly from the pressure of the trade unions, England is not working and cannot work the prisoners of war in her mines ana factories and her swamps and fields, as i Is done in Germany. Moreover, not only has the American embassy in London re- ported officially on the British prison camps and given them good recommen- dation. but the attitude of the press .of 1 Great Britain is against any repr.S-S
 even against proved German cruelties. 4 ] typical editorial runs as follows:
 Compassionate treatment Of prisoners
 of war has for centuries been British
 characteristic. At the best the condition
 of prisoners of war is hard one, and Il ! is the duty of a civilized state calling it. 1 self Christian to mitigate their irksomt lot by every means In its power. What ever the enemy may do or not do, 1t i: l not for us to initiate his bad example | Lei if suffice that our own duty Is plain l We re1oice that that duty Is being per formed in the right spirit by the com mandants of the internment camps i l Great Britain and Ireland. In so acting they are maintaining a noble British tra ] dition of which we have a right to b.
 proud"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
REBUILDING A BATTERED FACE

From the New York World.
 Battling Nelson, late champion light weight pugilist, is reported to have en- gagged surgical specialists to reconstruct his face, battered in former prize ring contests The contractor perhaps we beauty doctors to remodel the pugilist's 8 cauliflowered ears, aymmetrize his disin- tegrated nose and shape up his lips, made pendulous by upper cuts
 This facial reconstruction, it is inti- mated, has been ordered with a view to the pugllst's remarriage. But that is inconsequential. Many of the great rakes of history and some, of the best husbands have been homely men. In the case of most veteran prize fighters there is more need to remove the ravages of time than the earmarks of their trade; for these a little arnica and bit of surgeons plas- ter usually suffice.
 The important thing is the precedent set by the pugilist. Why should not any man who is dissatisfied with his face have it improved and beautified by the surgeons art? That art has performed narvels of facial restoration in the war hospitals of Europe. Men with faces riddled by shrapnel, with their features shot away, have been restored to sem blance of themselves by the knife, and the experience has brought plastic sur gery to it's highest state of development. Why should the art be allowed to lan- guish after the war? There are un- realized possibilities in it's use in peace to make men beautiful, and the pugilist de- serves credit for setting the example
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

the side of law and order the woman he desires he asks in marriage. The nov elistic creed of the moment is well eX- pressed by Coningsby Dawson, whose Slaves of Freedom" completes an ad- mirable three-sided study of passionate romantic love.
 If ever you're tempted to get love the wrong way says the man who has tested life to the lad just beginning to ask life questions, "be strong enough to go without it. It isn't worth having. You have to lie and cheat t6 get it at first and you have to lie and cheat to keep some of 1t when it's ended"
 Illicit love is meant. of course, since the entire book glorifies love of higher order. And 1t isn't worth having" spells marked progress as contrasted with the not too distant novehstic jargon of love is higher than law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
HONDURAS LOAN SHARK VICTIM

traveller by the owner from whom the
 animals have been hired. The mozo prac-
 t.cally arranges the days journey; he
 packs and saddles the mules, shows the
 way, does any odd thing desired while,
 on the road, and may be depended on
 always to get a house for the night. for,
 except in Amapala, Tegucigalpa, Puerto
 Cortes, or the largest places, so-called
 hotels cannot be found.
 "As a. rule the night will be spent in
 native house, sometimes little more
 than hut, built of mud, matched or roofed with tiles One Is apparently al- ways welcome to the best the house af- lords; but a hammock as part of the travellers outfit is necessity, for the beds or stretched bull hide or canvas are. home you are a giest, then by other residents greatly to be feared. Everybody sleeps in one room-men, women and children together. Your hSsts are curious, but politely so, watching you
 undress and get into your hammock, with
 a calm stare that must not be consid- cred impertinent, for white man is not
 an every day visitor. !, myself, rarely
 LII. dressed completely. Sometimes would only take off hat coat and boots some times only my hat for sleeping in ones
 clothes becomes second nature after l awhile, and bathing and changes of ! linen can be better indulged in along the roadside.
 Arriving in Tegucigalpa, one discovers that 1t is not necessary to carry large outfit from the states The city, with the adjacent town of Comayaguela,
 boasts 8 population of from 12.0oO to 15,- GOO, and has many good stores where al- most all the ordinary things required on such trip can be purchased.
 l Tn time the country will be far better known than 1t at present seems to be, | for it undoubtedly holds great mineral wealth among Its natural resources. It | is said to be the most backward of all the Central American republic, and it 1 will remain so until railroads cross the country and the government becomes
 stable. Then there will be great oppor-
 tunities here for many, and Americans
 and American capital will always be l welcome"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

You may have had some real call. downs in your career. But did you ever have a girl tell you that you were no gentleman?
 There are many kinds of music One kind Is when a joy rider almost runs you down and you hear one of his tires blow out after he passes you.
 Our idea of bad egg is fellow who isn't on speaking terms with his owu COL science.
 A man will roar like a wounded lion on Saturday afternoon when his wife asks him for $2 extra for household ex- penses Then he will stay out until mid night and blow in l2 bucks on foolish ness and think nothing of it.
 Our idea of zero in occupation is to be ar installment collector and hear the same old excuses from the same old women every week.
 When daughter gets a natural photo graph of herself she appears with a clean sheet draped around her torso and Is gag ing at the sky witch q faraway look in he eyes. But natural photograph of mother would show her draped in a solid wrapper and gazing at a dishpan heaped with unwashed plates and saucers
 Imagination Is great stuff. A mans leg covered with a silk stocking means nothing. But it is different when the filling is feminine. Don't blame 1t all on your wife. In stead of taking your grouch home with you every night try taking a box o1 candy and see if you do not get along better.
 A man hasn't as much sense as 8
 woman Mother never puts napkins or 1 the table unless she has company, and | she uses her napkin just as though shs had one at every meal But father wil go ahead and feed and forget all abou 1 the fact that he has a napkin at hi' l elbow.
 | The big difference between cheese ant other things Is that cheese costs more {, after it has spoiled | The maddest man we ever met was : 1 reformer who once found himself the tar
 get of reform
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

Wilson. It has only five electoral votes, but in these days every vote will be appreciated
 In other states red men are so few as to be practically negligible. There are less than HOO Indian voters reg istered in New York, but if this small remnant will stand solidly by Wilson, even in Hughes state, they may help materially in turning the scale.
 All honor to the democracy of the aborigines!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Prosperity Coming

Tt seems as if the Birmingham dis trict is coming into its own now," said Commissioner George Ward. "Ihe money that has been in the east and west for the past year and half is gradually coming toward the south. ] look for prosperity to reach the high water mark in the south after the presidential election is over
 The year of 1916 is the first year in the past half century which was a prosperous presidential year Most of the people feel uncertain and perturbed during the year of the presidential election. This uncertainty is shared by every section in the United States. This year has been the exception to the rule. The greater portion of the coun- try has been rolling in wealth and while the south has not been on a boom things have been fairly good. In a very short time things will be excep- tionally good in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Z AsHTNGToN. D. C.. october 2S.
 Special Honduras, probably nn 1,,,lrrnu.,, land Ia raanra

W AeeaaroH (speslal p 1. 0sasoss pposaay %
 an unknown land to more
 Americans than any other country of the
 western hemisphere, presents many diffi-
 culties to the traveller, according to F. J.
 Youngblood in communication to the
 National Geographic society, a part of
 which has been released by the society
 as the following bulletin:
 This country. which is just little larger than the state. of Pennsylvania, has 8 population of only @ little more than 5O0000. It has the largest per capita debt of any nation on the face of the globe except New Zealand-at least, it had before the present European war ! upset all statistical conditions. Each
 man, woman and child in the land owes y22O for the nation, and most of this debt was created by loan shark methods, for Honduras would agree to pay $10 in order to get one-or some such ridiculous proportion.
 "The name of this country is said to
 be derived from a Spanish term meaning depth. the early explorers having found
  enough for anchorage. They were so de- lighted when they reached the Nicara- guan shore nearby that they called the
 headland Cape Gracias a Dios' Cape Thanks to GodD, name it still holds. Tt is a voyage of p days from San Francisco to Amapala, the Pacific coast 1 for for Tegucigalpa, the inland capital of Honduras. It is not the distance which l necessitates so long a time, but the slow boats and the numerous stops at Mexican and Guatemalan ports in order to dis | charge freight.
 , 'Tegucigalpa has the unenviable distinc- | tion of being the only capital city in | North or South America which Is not connected with the seaboard by rail The l three days journey inland must be made, I therefore, on mule back, with heavy bag 1 gage sent forward by the slower ox-cart l "A mozo or servant is hired with the mules. He is an absolute necessity to the stranger and is usually sent to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Bicycle Riders a Menace

"The commission should pass an or dinance requiring all vehicles to have lights at night" said Dr. Michael No- Ian. This would help to minimize col lisions and aid materially in the safe guarding of the public. Most of the cities throughout the country have adopted ordinances of this sort.
 "It is very hard to see a speeding bicyclist coming down the street at night. If one is in an automobile and it is equipped with the best lights 1t is well-nigh impossible for the driver of the machine to discern the rider approaching him. The smallest sort of light on vehicles shows that an object is in front of you or Is approaching The boys on wheels are a menace to the careful driver who wishes to avoid accidents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
THE HERO IMPROVES
From the Chicago Herald.

From the CnlcaSO Heraiu
 Students of literature recently dis tressed by sundry degrading features of the contemporary novel may take heart of grace this season. Fictional morals are on the mend, distinctly Moore and Dreiser to the contrary and notwith- standing, scarce a 1916 novel but one mother may decently discuss.
 The Seformation began last season when the fictional heroine. of late years boldly demanding her mate" and her man." returned to the paths of com parative conventionality and once more laid claim to a lover or huSband. An ele- ment of harmony always obtaining in regard to sex fashions, the hero now has followed suit.
 The 1916 novel man loves like man and not a cheap combination of wild ami mals and stage hero. Sturdy honest or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
* * *
Appeal for Aid That
 Went Unanswered

"A NEGRO man, mortally wounded, GA staggered or crawled up the front steps of the residence of well known citizen of Birmingham who lives on the Southside. While the wounded man lay on the veranda bleeding profusely, repeated attempts were made to have him removed by the police department to hospital. The gentleman who had been appealed to for help was told by the police au- thorities that the city had no way of moving the negro. The result was that the unfortunate negro lay for about three hours where he had fallen and was dead when finally taken away.
 There must have been something wrong somewhere. Hundreds of wounded negroes have been carried to the hospitals in the past and doctors worked hard to save their lives, re- gardless of whether they were criml- nals, the victims of assault or hurt in accidents. Had there not been gross negligence or an inhuman disregard for suffering, this. negro would not have been permitted to die like a beast. The fact that he was at the home of a we'll known business man who tried in vain to have him cared for by the authorities is grave re- flection on a community supposed to be enlightened and humane.
 There is no excuse or palliation for an incident of this kind. Even if it could be proved to have been unavoida- ble, it should never be allowed to happen again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Imdiaul Vote In the
 Presidential Election

VI -
 TN every presidential campaign N great deal is heard of the Irish vote and of the labor vote, and in the present contest the German American vote looms large as a factor in the republican calculations. Hughes has the backing of the German American alliance, just as Blaine had the SUD- port of the Irish-American vote in the campaign of 1884.
 But what of the Indian vote? Presi- dent Wilson stands out in strong relief as the American candidate. His Amer icanism is of the true blue sort. Many Irish-Americans will vote for him, but his direct appeal has been not to hyphenates of any class, but to those who love this country first and last, regardless of where they were born or how their sympathies may go out to the struggling people of other lands.
 But if racial questions are to enter into the campaign why not consider the aborigen? As he is an unadul- terated American, the only voter in iiginous to the soil, his suffrage I ,uld come by right to President Wilson,
 The Indian population. (, decreases every year and in the census of 1916 it was only 333, ,010. It is distributed over many states, but in at least two the red man is still to be reckoned with. In Oklahoma the Indians arc most numerous. There are. nearly 118,000 in that state, enough to holo the balance of power in a close con- tset. Nominee Benson of the socialist party had been claiming Oklahoma but it is now safely in the democratic column. It is said that the Indians are almost a unit for Wilson.
 In South Dakota. with an Indian population of 10000, the aboriger electorate is about 4000-strone enough to play a part in close race Roosevelt carried South Dakota 1T 1912, but it is one cf the westerr states now reasonably assured fol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Only Week More of
 Presidential Campaign

FT@sld@MG1al Champaign 1N HE Wilson rally in Madison
 S Square garden, New York city, on Friday night of next week will be followed by a Hughes rally at the same place Saturday night. The few days intervening between now and the end of the campaign will be crowded with work at both headquar- ters, and the respective standard bearers will face vast throngs in the meantime
 Nominee Hughes, in his speaking tours, has been greeted occasionally with enthusiasm, but as rule his au- diences have been undemonstrative. While he is accounted a good stump speaker, his addresses have lacked the orators fire, which comes only from sincere conviction.
 MT. Hughes being a zoo per cent candidate" is politician first, and in every one of his campaign speeches he has talked as an officeseeker rather than a statesman. Hence it is that addresses such as his fail to arouse his auditors to high pitch of fervor.
 President Wilson has made few speeches-very few compared with those made by his opponent-but he has met with ovations wherever he has gone. The people cheer them selves hoarse whenever they catch a glimpse of him. And the spontaneity of the demonstrations is what has im- pressed the public in singular de- gree and turned the tide strongly to- ward the democratic ticket. All indications now point to the Presidents reelection. The race is still regarded as close, but Wilson's chances for carrying the state of New York grow brighter every day. In all campaigns both sides make tactical blunders. Hughes and his managers have made many mistakes, some of them serious, while Wilson and his campaign workers have made few, and none of them grave.
 Never did party have so much to it's credit available for campaign capi- tai as the democracy has today. If splendid achievement counts for any, thing, Wilson should carry almost as many states as he carried in 1912. But with victory perching once more upon the democratic banner there will be no complaint if Wilson's majoritS in the electoral college is only sufficient to keep him in the executive chair an other four years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
BUSINESS ACUMEN

BUSINESS ACUMEN That boy of mine is natural born snowman"
 What makes you think so?" "He gives circuses every afternoon in& our backyard that are the talk of the neighborhood."
 Aren't you afraid he'll break his neck, performing on trapeze or making high jumps?'
 NO, indeed. He takes the tickets. snowman. PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
ENTERTAINING THE TRADE

Son." said the merchant prince, now that I have taken you into the firm, hope you will reflect credit on me-"
 Rest easy on that score, governor" answered the gilded youth. I'm going to show your out-of-town customers a time they'll never forget"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE LEADING TOPICS

IIIL LLADIlNU IOI INo Who doesn't care for politics And's wearied by the war; Nor wonders what the records of The football heroes are; Who hates the sight of actorines And knocks the movie show, And what's new in the social world Has no desire to know; Who doesn't care for beauty hints And rules to make a home, And reasons why some married men Are so inclined to roam Methinks that such mortal might As well read Kipling's Kim; There's nothing in the papers now Of interest to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Convict Stripes
 To Be AboIished

THE attention of Life and other
 1 publications which profess to be concerned over the benighted and heathenish conditions in Alabama, is respectfully called to the new classi- fication scheme for convicts which will be put into effect November |. Convict stripes will be abolished, ex- cept in the case of prisoners who do not show themselves amenable to good treatment.
 The passing of convict stripes in Alabama will be new step forward in humanitarianism. This state has greatly improved in it's treatment of prisoners and when the system of leasing these unfortunates out to cor porations is finally abolished, there will be little for reformers to find fault with.
 It is significant that Governor Hen derson recently paroled a convict who will assist State Convict Chaplain Hubbard in doing educational and philanthropic work. There are hun hundreds of public-spirited men and women in Alabama who have inter- ested themselves in these unfortupates and have helped to improve their con- dition. The late Miss Julia s. Tutwiler was prominent in this admirable work. The good she accomplished is a mon- ument to her, although this was but one phase of life filled with many and varied activities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
WORST KIND OF LUCE

WOtboI hINO UT IUCN Ever arrested for speeding?' "Once." You are lucky" T don't think so. That was the only time ever got any speed out of my car"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
DOING HIS BEST

When do you think you will be able to pay this bill?" asked the collector. T don't know" replied the impecunious optimist, but I'll tell you what I'll do." "Well?"
 If you'll put up a dollar, I'll take you it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

BEGINNING THE DAY--o God, may look on men with Thine eyes, seeing in them not what is but what may become. May l remember what miracles Thou hast wrought with the world, and with me. Help me then to inquire not what men ean do, but what Thou canst do with them. For Christ's sake. Amen. HI. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
HE SHOULD WORRY

Care much for golf?" NO. Why should IT, replied the bon vivant.
 why, indeed?'
 T acquired a taste for Scotch whisky before the game was introduced into this country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
A CHINESE "LoTrERYv sw1NpLE

A CHINESE "LOTTERY" SPINDLE From the Washington Star.
 The eagerness of some people to risk money on gamble is illustrated by the success reported of a Chinaman in New York who has been working a clever swindle on clerks in stores He is we'll dressed and speaks perfect English and has the soft, persuasive manner of the celestial He drops into the store and asks for clerk whom he knows is ab- sent. On being told this fact he ex- sorry because he has come to pay the missing one $50 prize that he has just drawn in a lottery. This naturally arouses the interest of the clerk with whom he is speaking, and in a few min utes, in most cases, the soft spoken Chinaman has sold one or more lottery tickets. Of course, the lottery never yields any prizes. In fact, it does not exist It is stated that several thousand dollars have been obtained by this meth cd in New York in a few weeks The victims, some of whom are induced to buy the tickets on an assurance that for a slight bonus the Chinaman can guarantee a prize, are loath to complain to the police when they find they have been swindled because the law punishes the ticket buyer as well as the ticket seller in game of this kind It has been only by chance that the swindle has come to light, and now all New York is watching for the smooth tongued Chinaman with his innocent inquiries for absent persons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
THE sKEPTIcAL READER

Are you keeping up with all the po- litlcal news?'
 NO, indeed ! Aren't you interested?"
 "Oh, yes. But am unable to tell what is news and what is merely campaign material"