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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15
.rHp HEART OF RACHEL

BY Kathleen Norris. Frontispiece in
color by C. E. Chambers. Doubleday,
Page & Co., publishers, Garden City,
Ne WORK.
Mrs Norris shifts her canvas all the
way across the continent in this new
novel of a woman's heart. She deals
here with men and women III New
York instead of in California, as is the
case in her former books; and she
shows that, however much the man
ners and conventions of these two To-
calities may differ. east is west and
west is east when it comes to cues
ton of the motives and principles that
guide people.
In "The Heart Of Rachael" Mrs. Nor
ris has told a story of the corroding
influence of modern society on domes-
tic ideals. The biggest problem or
social life today is divorce. In the
latest census the startling total of
more than 100000 divorced people liv-
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ing in the United States was reached
and each year the number swells. Mrs
Ncrris has something to say about this
and she says it not as one defending
a theory but as a woman who has
watched the course of lives all about
her and has appraised their strength
and their weakness. Rachael Fairfax
a beautiful girl possessed of potential
strength of character, marries and
faces some of the hardest problems
that a woman is called to solve. Mrs
Norris has no need to overdraw her
picture all the elements of romance,
oftragedy, of achievement are in the
situation she presents and 1t is the
final wrestling of victory from a cumu-
lation of errors and entanglements that
shows the growth in strength and
beauty of RachaeIs soul.
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THE FEDERAL FARM LOAN
SYSTEM -

BY Herbert Myrick, The Orange Judd
company, publishers, New York.
This is an intensely practical manual
upon organizing and conducting national
farm loan associations, also joint stock
land banks. in accordance with the new
law. tt says that the new system pos
sesses potentialties Of transcendent inn
portance to the American people and
may prove to be epochal in It's economic
and social benefits" The pen with which
President Wilson signed the new law he
presented to the author of this book, who
declares the act to be 1.-The Magma Charta
of American farm finance
The purpose and principles of the new
system are clearly defined. 1t rests upon
the individual farmer. Ten or more OF
them who wish to borrow money for long
time at reasonable rates upon easy terms
of repayment, may do so by joining a
national farm loan association. This local
indorses the borrowers note, which is
secured by a first mortgage on his farm
to not exceeding half its value. Then the
money is advanced by the federal land
bank for the district. Against such mort
cages. the bank may issue bonds to 20
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15
An Awakening

From the New York World.
Unreasonable Is the conceit Of some
people. Young Smirker, for instance, hon
estly. but mistakenly believes himself to
be more than ordinarily good looking.
One day he was in tramcar, when a
young lady with a sketch book entered
and took the opposite seat Young
Smirker stared persistently at her, and
at last she was forced to bring her own
gaze to bear upon his unlovely counte-
nance. But the egregious Snirker grinned
and raised his hat. Then the young lady
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15
"THE PLUNDERERs'

BY Edwin LeFevre. illustrated. Har-
per Brothers, publishers, New York.
Edwin LeFevre's book, 1.-THE Blunder-
ers," consists of four stories, which are
adventurous in their theme, and of the
Rob Roy type.
There is a company organized known
as 1.-THE Plumber Recovery Syndicate"
which has for it's mission the recovery
of the plumber which malefactors Of
wealth have taken from the public. The
syndicate does not undertake to restore
this money to the original victims; it's
members keep it for their own use and
enjoyment. They certainly earn it, if in
genuity, careful planning and bold ex-
ecution bestow the right of possession.
There are the pearls which H. r. III.
intends to bestow upon his daughter, the
Princess Patricia, during his visit to New
York. His A. d. c. visits the city's great
est jewelers., covertly haggleS over a COM
mission--and, with the aid of personals"
in a New York paper and the sending of
several decoys to Europe. the syndicate
pulls off the trick. Then there is the
bear break in Consolidated Steel; and the
miner from the Klondike who seeks con-
troll of trust company; and, finally, the
marrying off of young Meriwether-a
manipulation which comes off to the sat
isfaction of all concerned even of the
man who is taxed million dollars The
ingenuity of this band of sharpers is
bewildering. Their campaigns are begun
from the most unexpected quarters, and
if, in the retrospect. the reader recog-
nizes the improbability of 1t all, it is
only to appreciate the authors luxuriant
inventiveness all the more.
1.-THE Pearls of Patricia Cheap at a
Million" and the other two stories are
well written and very interesting and
1.-THE Lundersers'' Is destined to me a
much read and widely discussed book
since the wall street atmosphere per-
meates it and which is always an APP
pealing subject to most readers
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A London dispatch says a recent Ger
man army order commands strict econ
omy on the battlefield. Sandbags must be
counted, with heavy penalties attached
for loss, leather and metal articles must
be collected, and dead soldiers, both
friends and enemies, are stripped of boots
and clothes. Canvas is no longer to be
used in wrapping dead bodies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15

The demand for confectionery during
1915 at Bristol, England, was so large
that the manufacturers were not able to
fill more than a part of the orders re-
ceived. The demand was for the better
grade of goods, in spite of the fact that
the price of sugar, which is the chief raw
material used in such an industry, had
advanced 100 per cent.
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seized that moment, supported by Ire
lands exiled children in America and
by gallant allies in Europe
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times its capital, the sale of which fur
nishes additional money to loan.
All shares and funds of the system are
free of all tax, because the land pays the
taxes. Borrowers must repay the prin-
clpal by small installments semi-annually
or annually
Why borrow by this system, why buy
federal bank shares and why invest in
federal farm loan bonds are clearly set
forth. The author does not claim the
new system to be perfect, and reports
widespread interest in it's operation.
The style is so clear as to make simple
and easily understood an otherwise COM
pick subject. The type is large and easy
to read.
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acted on an impulse She produced her
sketch book and deliberately began
sketching the delightful Smirker.
Very flattering Of you, miss said
he.
Not at all!'' retorted the fair artist.
II want your face as model for a
gargoylen'
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LOOT,

BY Arthur Somers Roche. Illustrated
The Bobbs- Merrill Co., publishers, In
dianapolis.
This ingenious story, Loot" from the
pen of Arthur Somers Roche, Is delicious
ly clever, travelling at swift pace and
keeping the attention of the reader keyed
up to concert Pitch most of the time.
Those who enjoy reading detective
stories will find in Loot an unusually
bright and interesting contribution.
Bremen Carlow was an American null
timillionaire who attained the very height
of his ambition when he became engaged
to the beautiful Lady Gwendolyn Braith-
waite only daughter of the eighteenth
Marquis of Morton. OF course he very
much wanted to please his promised bride
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THE HAUsF-RAU RAMPANT"

By E. V. Lucas (from the German by
julius Stinde). George H. Doran COM
pany, publishers, New York.
Like Barry Pains Eliza says Mr..
Lucas, in his introduction, 1.-THE Buchholz
letters started out to be purely funny but
were too much for their author, and
became by flashes real documents"
AS naive as 1.-THE Peterkin Family, y
and quite as amusing, Frau Buchholz' s
sober narrative of domestic anxieties and
triumphs forms masterpiece of uncon-
scious hrumor.
The stories consist Of letters by Frau
Wilhelmina Buchholz," describing the
amusing adventures of her family in bour-
goise German society. The original Sc
ries. published in the los, suggests Dick
ems "Pickwick Papers, and the sue
ceedng volumes developed a popularity
not unlike that aroused by the famous
American series, '"The Peterkin Family"
The condensed translation no woffered is
selection of the best letters from the
four volumes-a book which will be OF
interest to all lovers Of German litera-
ture.
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All women ought to know the wonderful effects Of
taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound even
those who hopeessy ILL., Here three actual
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-15

so very much that he ordered for her
wonderful diamond necklace, a neck
lace which was to cost no less than
s., 100000, and be of an unusual and ex-
quisite design. The commission was in
trusted to Arabin, best known and richest
of New York jewellers, but before the or
nament was finally accepted and paid for,
it was necessary, Carlow thought, that
it should be compared with the original
drawing He did not want to go him
self, so he applied to his London solicit
ors, and they, being anxious to oblige
their wealthiest client, agreed TO send
Wade Hildreth, the youngest member of
the firm, to New York, where he was
to vote Carlow's stock at an important
meeting, to examine, and if proved sat-
isfactory, bring the necklace back with
him. 1t is with the adventures that be-
fell Hildreth while carrying out these
behests that the story deals.
with SERVIA INTO EXILE"
BY Forter Jones. For Illustrations from
photographs. The Century company,
publishers, New York
The only American who was with the
retreating Servian army all the way from
the Danube to the Adriatic tells in this
book fact-story at once incredibly
hideous and incredibly heroic. There are
details, soberly and straightforwardIy
oectSo as Ndlc0 l5lO, WHICH nave
been lifted from a tale of horror and
splendor belonging to the middle ages.
Mr.. Jones presents Servia in it's SUI
preme agony-the army of old and young,
handicapped by snow and sleet and Al
most impossible roads, beset by hunger
and lack of ammunition, fighting and re-
treating and dying; the struggling hordes
of women and children fleeting they hard
ly knew whittier, in automobiles, OK
carts, on foot; the mobs of doctors,
nurses, the rabble of relief expenditions,
of one of which Mr.. Jones was MEM
Der, surmounting difficulties almost be-
yond the power of Imagination in their
flight toward safety; little scenes, as OF
a Servian home and family when the
German and Austrian cannon began rain
ing shells in the town; poignant vignettes
of character, as of a 10-year-old Servian
sergeant catching and kissing the hand
of his old father, a private in the ranks.
to prevent his elder saluting him--of such
is Mr.. Jones report of the horrors and
the heroism of Servia going into exile.
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nrHE GREAT PUSH.

By Patrick MacGill. With decorated jack
ct by e. Rodman Bowker. George H.
Doran company, publishers. New York.
Here is the wonderful story of that ia
nous charge at Loos when the boys of
the Royal Irish dribbled football across
the shell torn fields to the German
trenches Patrick MacGill, the young Irish
author, charged with them--and came
through alive. In 'The Great Push he
gives his story. Nothing like it has been
written.
Patrick MacGill Is the author of "rhe
Rat Pit" Children of the Dead End"
1.-THE Red Horizon etc. Other men have
visited the lines-written in the trenches,
told of fierce encounters-but always at
second hand. This is the story of the
fiercest fight of ALL told by a master
writer who actually went through the
fight himself
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED.
(Reviews Later)
REAL PATRIOTISM" Compiled by
Samuel Francis Woodland. The Gold
smith-Woolard Publishing company,
publishers Wichta Kan.
THE KEYS OF THE CITY, BY Oscar
Graeve. The Century company, pub
fishers, New York.
WILSON AND THE ISSUES, BY
George Creel, The Century company,
publishers, New York.
"GULLTvER THE GREAT" BY Walter
A. Dyer. The Century company, pub
fishers, New York
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antees given by Governor von Huene to he Province Of Antwerp. extending them 10 the whole country, without any time limit. The governor gen. eral retained my petition in order to consider it at his leasure. The fol | lowing day he was good enough 10 come in person to Malnes to express his approval, and in the presence Of two aides-de-camp and of my private secretary. 10 confirm the promise that liberal of the Belgian citizens would be respected.
 Tn my letter Of October 10th last To Baron yon Bssing, after remind. ing him of the undertaking given by his predecessor. l concluded: Your EXcellency will understand how pain iul the burden of responsibility | should have incurred towards fami- lies would be if the confidence they placed in you through me and al my earnest entreaty should be so lament ably disappointed
 The governor general rerlied The employment of the Belaian un- employed in Germany, which has only been initiated after two years of war differs essentially from the captivity of men fit for military ser vice. Moreover, the measure is not related to the conduct of the war properly speaking but it is detormin- ed by social and economic causes.' As if the word of an honest man was terminable at the end Of a wear or two! As if the declaration con ! med in 1914 di dnot explicitly ex. clude both military operations and , forced labor As if. in fine, every 1 Belgian workman who takes the place of German workman, did not enable the latter 10 fill gap in the Corman army
 i We, the shepherds of these sheep who are torn from us by brutal force. full of anguish, at the thought of the moral and relieioua isolation. in which they are about to languish. i'm
 potent witnesses of the grief and ter TOT in the numerous homes shatteY- ed or threatened peal to all souls, believers or unbelievers in allied countries. and even in enemy coun-
 tries, who have a respect for human
 dignity.
 When Cardinal layigerie embark
 ed on his enslayory campaign Pope Leo KILL as he blessed his mission. ! remarked opinion is more than ever the queen of the world. 1t is on this you must work. You will
 only conquer by means of opinion
 May Divine Providence doien tr
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NUMBER f7f.

CT stated he was in Argenta at the time the Hess girl was murdered, but he denied emphatically that he was in any way implicated in the murder. Just what other information he gave Sheriff Hutton could not be learned.
 Chief of Police Bray stated Minor would be held in the city jail to await further investigation He was
 mugged' yesterday by the local of flee Sheriff Hutton, so Chief Bray said regarded the arrest of Minor as
 a very important catch It is an ticipated, however, that Minor will ue taken to Little Rock whenever off cials of that city request he be turn ed over to them The local police are materially assisting in the inye3tls8 tion of this case, and Minors lire in Hot Springs, from the time he arrived here two weeks ago until his arrest, will not long be secret
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nd tot. hers are exempt from this order
 The mayors will uo hold respon-
 ible for the proper eNeuction of this order which must be urought immedi ately to the knowledge of the inhab- itants
 "Rctween the anqouncement and the deportation there is an interval ot only ? hours.
 Under preteNt of public works to he erlomed on Belgian soil, the occupying power had attempted to ob. tain from the communities the lists Of working men ont of work. Most of inc communities proudly refused
 Three de.rets from the general eoyerumcE. prepared tbe way for the execution which k m force toaav
 Under date of AuaHt l-Jh 1915. a .rt de.ree imposes. under penalty O. imprisonment and fine. forced work on the idle, but adds that the work is 10 be executed in Belgium and that noncompliance will 8c ad udeed by Belgian tribunals
 "A second decree. dated May 2ud 131t, reserves he right of the Ger man authorities to supply work 10 the idle and hreafans a fine of three years Imprisonment and 2oO00 marks m osatle ou anybody executing or ordering o be executed work not ap- proved of by the general government
 "under the same decree, the right To judge ufra6uons which had re. mained with The Belgian tribunals, iasses from the Belgian 10 the Ger man tribunals.
 "A third decree. dated May 18th, 9iG. authorizes tine governors, the military commanders and the chiefs oi arrondissements 10 order that the unemployed be conducted by force to the places where they must work This was already fordale working, al. though in Belgium
 "Now it js no longer a question of lorciole working in Belgium. out in Germany and for the benefit of the Germans
 "To give an apnearapea of nlausi hilitv To these violent measures. the orcnpyna power insisted in the Ger man press. both in Germany and Bel. gium, on these two pretoXts The un- employed constitute d danger to rub lie order and a burden on official Hcueroleuce.
 ITO this we replied in a letter ad- dressed to fhe governor general and 10 the head of the political depale- mcHt, on October ltth as follows
 You are HeN aware that public
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Cardinals Protest Covers the Most Ter rible Situation Known to Mod-
 ern Warfare
Belgians Are Picked Up and Driven Under Du- ress to Transports to Be Turned Into Labor Avenues to Sustain Enemy That Had Already Ruined Their Country one Overturned Their HOmes

New York, Dec 16.-Cardlnal Ncr- cier's protest against the deportation ol Beleians to Germany, only brief excerpts of which came in the aie dispatches, has been received heTa 1y the Ass c,atad Press il js tu tgz. as follows
 1Malines. November E. lt.a
 Every day the military authorities deport from Belgium into Cano.'H thousands of lnotfersive citizens 10 oblige them there to perform forced labor.
 As early as Octooer lgth we sent to the Governor General a protest. a coy of which was handed to the rop- resentatiyes ol the Holy See ot Spain, the United States and Holland in Brussels, but the Governor General replied 70 it that uothin- could ae done
 At the time of our protestat.on. the orders og the occapNnl power threatened only the unemployed: to-. day every able bodied man is carried off pelmell, assembled in fret 4ht cars, and carried oil to unknown parts. like a herd Of slaves The
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"War Brides" which received its premiere at the Broadway theator last night, lifts the art of the film drama to the greatest heights il has yet attained.
 Not because of its purely speCtacu- lar features thoueh much gan he said Sof their extent and sensational values, but because the most powerful, dra matic and convincing presentment that has yet been made Of women as the detrminng factor in the greatest issues of the worlds affairs.
 II offers a proof hat women driven to desperation. or endowed with the powers O suffrage, could forever put an end to the horrors of war--a proof so realistic and overwhelming that one can scarcely believe fl is a set of pictures that so stirs inc derths of ones emotions.
 Tn producing this remarkable ex. ample of the dignity to which the power of "make-beliye' has risen there are two contributors.
 The technical skill and dramatic fudgement of the producer, Herbert Brenon. and his associate Lewis J Selznick.
 The splendid emotional powers Of Ala NazimoYa.
 It was the Rachael of Russia Nha firat appreciated the possibilities oi -tMarion Craig Wentworth's playlet War Brides" and who invested that \sketch with distinction and appeal II
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ARREST OF MINOR
 MOST IMPORTANT
SHERIFF HUTTON OF LITTLE WIT ROCK HAS INTERNIE Wilt ROCK HAS INTERVIEW WITH
 MURDER SUSPECT
Man Denies He Was In Any Way Connected With Killing of Little Hess Girl in Argeuta.

In the arrest of Dill Minor. suspect ed of being implicated in the murder of little Johanna Hess, who was found dead two weeks ago, the police believe they have secured one link in the chain of evidence concerning this crime. In yestigatiou has developed the fact that Minor had come to Hot Springs the day after the girls body was discovered. He had made Inc ae- quaintance of a servant girl who worked for a family on Benton stret and as soon as Minor was locked ut he asked the officers 10 send for this girl
 She came to the city iail Elt be fore she was permitted ta soc Minor the police told her Nny ha was arrest ed. She assisted them n 1atnng in formation from Minor.
 What have they oot you in here for2' she asked him
 "They think that l L.ll,l tla, little girl over in Argenta, Minor Juld the girl, "hut l didn't do it. lt wa, the other fellow"
 Just who the other fellow" is neither the girl nor the local officer could get Minor to state. The prisog CT also learned of another acquain tance he did not know was in Ho. Springs A young woman who re ports daily to police head quarters aI rived while the officers were quizzina Minor. She spoke to him and recall ed the good times they had together in Joplin, Mo. Minor at first denied knowing the girl but later admitted all that she had said was true.
 Sheriff William II. Hutton, of Little Rock, arrived in Hot Springs yester day afternoon and held a conference with Chief Of Police George Bray and later interviewed Minor The prison.
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enemy proceeds by regions. Vague umors had come to our ears that at- rests had been made in Tamau Gheu and alozt bat Ws were uJt aware ot the conditions under whi.h h they had been made Between Ort9- her 2Ith and November 2ud. it oc. orred in he rreion o Mons. Quiey- rain Saint Caislain, Jon4gH. iu bum hes of 500 to l.2aa men day. The next the following days, t oe- currod in the Arrouds-mauO of Ni- vel'as Here isa spe imeu Of the an nomcomcAj concerning the proceed ugs.
 By order Of the Erai htr every male erson over l1 years old. shall lro-eu himself Place saint Paul. on November sth. la6 at o'clock JBei 2Iun tmcl 9 o'clock lCutal tmel bringing with him his identification card and eventually his gard from the Neldeamt
 "Only mall handtae-age is per- mitted
 'lhosc not presenting themselves win be fVrcibly Gepored uto Gar- many and will besides ae liable 10 a hcavS tine and o lon1 imurisaameut
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