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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-25
Mrs. Charles S. Hamilton Dead

Montevallo, February A.-(Special.) Many relatives and friends in Birming- ham and throughout the state will be saddened to learn of the death of Mrs. Charles c. Hamilton. nee Miss Piretta Acker. which occurred in Atlanta Sun day, February IT,
 Mrs. Hamilton was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. w. Acker and sister of Mrs. William Lyman and Dr. Charles T. Acker of Montevallo and James S. Acker of Prescott, Ariz.
 Among the relatives residing in Bir- mingham are the Hogans, Coffees. vances and Hills. Her husband has been connected with the mail service over 30 years and her only child. MT. Eugene Hamilton, Is clerk of the Black stone hotel in New York
Evening star., 1918-07-07
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was his hurried exclamation as the
door closed behind them. II declare
l do not know which I pity more, her
victim or herself. The one Is freed
from all her troubles; the other
Do you think we ought to have a doc
phone?"
mot yet. We have much to learn
before taking any decided steps"
Then as he caught the look of amaze
gestion of difficulties was met he
paused on his way to the stairhead
his own: "Then you still think the
girl died d, from thrust given by this
,"of course. What else is there to
think? You saw where the arrow
came from. You saw that the only bow
the place contained was hanging high
and unstrung upon the wall, and you
are witness to this woman's ire
sponsible condition of mind. The
reach evidently aroused the homicidal
mania often latent in one of her
highly emotional nature. and when
this fresh young girl came by the
natural result followed. I only hope
l shall not be called upon to face the
to. them? What can anybody say?
Yet l do not see how we can be held
responsible for SO unprecedented an
attack as this, do you?"
Mr.. Gryce made no answer. He had
turned his back toward the stair head
planation Of tragedy so peculiar as
to have no prototype in all of the
hundreds of cases he had been called
upon to investigate in long life of
detective activity would satisfy all
the other persons then in the build
ing. 1t was his present business to
find QUITO search and probe among
the dozen or two people he saw col
lected below for the witness who had
seen or had heard some slight thing
q different light upon this matter.
For his mind-or shall we say the
almost unerring instinct Of this an
Client deliver into human hearts?-
would not accept without question
this theory of sudden madness in one
and inexplicable as her conduct SEEM
ed. Though 1T was quite among the
possibilities that she had struck the
fatal blow and in the manner men,
toned. 1t was equally, clear to his
mind that she had not done it in an
and he knew despairing one. Fan
tastic as her story certainly was, he
found himself more ready to believe
1t than to accept any explanation of
this crime which ascribed its peculiar
features to the Responsibilities of
lunacy.
However, he kept his impressions to
himself and in his anxiety to pursue
his inquiries among the people below
was on the point of descending
thither when he found his attention
arrested and that of the curator's as
we'll, by the sight of a young man
Fastening toward them through the
northern gallery. (The tragedy. as
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you will remember, had occurred in
the southern one.) He was dressed
in the uniform of the museum and
moved so quickly and in such an evil
dent furry of spirits that the de-
tective instinctively asked:
who's that? One of your own
men?"
Eyes, that's Corey, our best-informed
and most trusted attendant. Looks
as IL he had something to tell US.
Well, Corey, what is it?" he queried,
as the man emerged upon the landing
where they stood Anything new?
If there is. speak out plainly. Mr..
Gryce is anxious for all the evidence
he can get"
With an ingenuousness rather
pleasing than otherwise, to the man
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thus presented to his notice, the young
fellow stopped short and subjected
the famous detective to a keen and
close scrutiny before venturing to
give the required information.
Was 1t because of the Importance OF
what he had TO communicate" It
would seem SO from che suppressed
excitement of his tone, as, after his
brief but exceedingly satisfactory
survey, he jerked his finger over his
he had come, with the short remark:
II have something to show you."
Something! Mr.. Gryce had been
asking for this something only q mo-
ment before. We can imagine. then.
the celerity with which he followed
this new guide into the one spot OF
all others which possessed for him
the greatest interest. For IL by any
chance the arrow which had done
such deadly work had been sped from
a bow instead of having been used
as dart, then 1t was from this gal
building that 1t had been SO sped.
Any proof Of this could have but one
effect of generating from all blame
the woman who had SO impressed him.
He had traversed the first section and
had entered the second. when the
curator Joined him; together they
passed into the third.
For those who have not visited this
museum a more detailed description
of these galleries may be welcome.
Acting as a means Of communication
between the row of front rooms and
those at the back, they also serve to
exhibit certain choice articles which
call for little space and are Of ma
ture more or less ornamental. For
this purpose they are each divided
arches narrower but not less decora-
tive than those which open in direct
row upon the court. OF these sec
tions the middle one on either side is
much larger than the rest; otherwise
they do not differ.
section that Corey now stood. await
showcases filled with rare exhibits
in the two through which they had
just passed, but In this one there was
nothing to be seen but a gorgeous
whole wall, fianked at either end by
pedestal upholding vase of ines
timable value and corresponding uglt-
ness. A highly decorative arrange
ment. it is true. but in what lay its
interest for the criminal Investigator?
Corey was soon to show them.
With significant gesture toward the
tapestry, he eagerly exclaimed:
"You see that? I've run by 1t
several times since the accident sent
In0 uylHS III over lnc uu1IuHiB 81
everybody's call. But only just now,
when 1 had a moment to myself,
did remember that the door
hid behind 1t. It's door we no long
er use, and I'd no reason for thinking
it had anything to do with the kill
ing of the young lady in the opposite
gallery. But for all that I felt 1t
would do no harm to give it look,
and, running from the front. where 1
happened to be. 1 pulled out the tap
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estry and saw--but supposing wait
and let you see for yourselves. That
will be better" ~ ~
Leaving them where they stood face
to face with the great hanging. he
made dive for the pedestal towering
aloft at the farther end. and edging
himself In behind 1t. drew out the tap
estry from the wall. calling on them
as he did so to come and look behind
1t. The curator, did not hesitate. He
was there almost as soon as the young
man himself. a...
But the detective was not so hasty.
With a thousand things in mind, he
stopped to peer along the gallery and
down into the court before giving
himself away to any pryiny eve. Sat-
iafed that he might make The desired
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CHAPTER III,

1T Have Something to Show You"
Mr.. Gryce took advantage Of the
momentary disturbance to slip from
the room. He was followed by the
curator. who seemed more than ever
anxious to talk.
"You see! Mad as a March harew
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or Belgian can forget the suffering his people
endured at the hands of the barbarians. And The
German public mind is apprehensive Of the day
of wrath. The crushing defeat Of the German
armies in every theater of war has q foreboding
and sinister aspect that the popuhce understands
as well as the dynastic and military leaders.
They know that the Frenchmen and Belgians will
not forget the bloody events that have been en-
acted since August, 1914.
It has been suggested that France and Bel
gium not only obtain financial remuneration for
their losses, but that German laborers be forced
to restore every building, bridge, factory and
highway destroyed by the German war machine.
The proposition has many good points to recon-
mend it. France and Belgium will be short of
man power for many years. Germany will seek
to obtain the indennities it must pay by flooding
the markets of the world with it's products If
the men who will be engaged in her industries
after the war are forced to return to Belgium,
France Poland, Roumania to reconstruct the
damage that was done, the Kaiser will not be
able to pay off his debts quickly and in an adj
vantageous manner.
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cred It's full status and began press
Ing on its opponent
Today we are watching the extreme
struggle. and in particular do we as
sist at the debate as to whether this
late autumn or next spring shall see
the enemy in a position confessedly
hopeless. That he is now beaten we
all know; but the present gigantic
struggle all the way from the upper
Mouse at Verdun to the North Sea
poses the question whether we shall
be free from the tragedy before the
close OF the year, or whether another
winter must be endured before the
enemy suffers Moscow and awaits
a Waterloo.
When the war shall end no man can
tell. but there will come time sharp
ly defined when the nature Of it's end
will be apparent, not only to the gen.
eral reasoning, but to every observer
of the enemy or the allies. We are
watching at this moment a critical
combat which shall determine whether
that moment is to come this autumn
or next spring.
AS for the matter of the first princi-
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Reprisals

The persistent burning of towns and villages
by the retreating Germans cannot be~condoned
by any appeal to morals. It is wanton piece OF
ruthessness, perfectly in accord with the barbar-
Gus policies of the Hun and matching his Smelling
of churches and sinking of hospital ships.
There is only one cure for the practice. Sc
we're reprisals by the Allies. Our government
ought to send brusque note to the Most High
informing him that for every village burned
every church destroyed, every factory burned,
similar toll will be exacted in Germany. The
Germans are keenly enthusiastic about the policy
of ruthlessness applied to their enemies, but do
not relish the same medicine when it is admin
istered to them Proof of this is seen in the pub
lie meetings held in the Rhine district cities ask
ing the German government to come to an under
standing with the Allies to stop aerial lombard
ments. Allied flyers have dumped enough high
explosives on the Rhine cities to give their in
habitants an idea of what the French and Bel
gian cities have suffered, the result being that
the Huns whimpering and crying under the
punishment.
It is characteristic of bully that he can enjoy
immensely the suffering of victim but blubbers
and screams if punishment is inflicted on him.
The Huns enjoyed the spectacle of the sinking of
the Lustania, the bombardment of hospitals
the cruelties inflicted on Belgium and the count
less other atrocities that satanic ingenuity could
invent to torture innocent, helpless or suffering
men and women. Now is the time to make them
feel the sting of their tortures which they de-
vised and practiced.
Germany has been storing up the wrath of
the Allies for four years. No Frenchman or Bel
gian can overlook the desoation wrought on
his country with no other purpose than mere
lust for despoliation and havoc. No Frenchman
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Go For Them!
rom the Saturday Evening Post.

From the Saturday Evening Post
~ ROM the twentyfirs of March the eighteenth of
n July the Allies were the defensive and falling
- back Whenever the Germans struck they won
ground. Two more such pushes carried them St
Quentin to within sight of Amiens and Ailete
to the Marine would have put the Allies in des-
perae position Then Foch attacked Marne salient
took the initiative out of Ludendorfs hands,
since has been rolling the Germans back.
Now the Germans had substantially the same army
in August when they losing that they had in April
when they were winning; and the same generals. The
Allies had almost the army. Only couple of
hundred thousand fresh American troops actually par
ticipated in the fighting They had pulled themselves
together, effected better military organization made
their means responsive their will Ten per cent
did it.
Always 1t is just that last ten per cent that puts
thing over. and the last ten is always II
one will only call it out and put 1t in action
That is the situation of the United States in
OF this years war BILL It is
your situation right now-personaly and individually
yours Ten percent more will power the sixteenth ounce
OF determination; saying to yourself you've got top"
that is what this years fiscal program means for you;
what this Liberty Loan means
Subscribe all think you can pay for in the next
four months and then and take it of your ex
penditures Your expenditures Go for them!
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all the way from the immediate front
at Metz, which is right under the
American long range IRE and which
were 1t German town, we could
knock to pieces tomorrow, around by
the st. Gobain apex to the North Sea.
Upon this new clean-cut salient, with
the railway to Verdun delivered and
therefore. the supply assured, with the
enemy heavily handicapped in num-
bers, the attack OF last Thursday was
launched.
Observe how the attack exactly FOL-
lows, though on larger scale. the rule
and method Of the first great prelimi-
nary operations. Now, as then. the
fronts are lighted" sector by sector
until the whole is afiame. In other
words. the enemy. attacked in one
place and beginning to concentrate for
its defense, is suddenly compelled to
stop by anxiety for another. Now.
as then. he is led northward and still
more northward.
He is forbidden to reinforce the
south and the critical front where his
, lateral communication fringes the Ar
dennes. Now, as then, but on larger
scale, successive attacks come unex-
pectedly, from his viewpoint, almost
at random, until he is wholly engaged
and can no longer manoeuvre at all.
! Take the salient beginning Septem-
| Der 26. Gouraud on the west of the
Argonne attacks over nearly twenty
miles, while east Of the Argonne a
portion, but only portion. remember.
of the American forces attack a sim.
! liar front. Gouraud makes little pro-
gress compared with the Americans,
i which is exactly as 1t should be, for
! the Americans are on the extreme
wing of the attack and the attack
is being conducted against great
salient where it is the wings that
count. Just as the enemy concen-
trates to meet this peril he checks
Gouraud-where he checks doesn't
matter mueh-in the Champagne, and
loses heavily in counter attacks at the
sector which really matters, between
thte Argonne and the Mouse. The
British suddenly come into play twen-
ty-four hours later against the only
open sector in the north, on the left
wing-that is, the only sector without
water defense-the sector in front
of Cambria.
They thoroughly make good The
water line attacked is turned, and the
Cambria junction, so vital to the Ger
man lines, is put out Of action with
in forty-eight hours, for though Cam
brai is unoccupied 1t is under close
range. The enemy Is compelled to con-
centrate what he has left, probably
from the north to meet this menace,
and again. within twenty-four hours,
| Plumer, with the British second army
strikes still further north upon the ex-
IRENE left wing, accompanied by the
Belgians.
Everything Is In movement from the
upper Meuse to the North Sea, and
! even as l write comes news from the
last sector attacked. which is impor-
tant only because the enemy will there
!, be pinned and cannot withdraw his
men-I mean the sector south of Cam
brai and north of st. Quentin, which
has been engaged.
| In the presence Of that phenomenon
the striking success in Palestine-the
only complete local decision OF the
war save Tannenberg-and the COL
lapse of the Bulgarian defence are
i but subsidiary. They are none the
less significant. They are part of the
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whole plan The eastern fields coulo
not save Prussia even had she the men
to reinforce them, but their failure
proves her present peril. .
Taking for granted the complete cob
lapse Of the Balkan defence, which IL
probable, and the impotence OF tbs
Turkish empire to react, which is Ger
tain, we now have to watch for the
decision in the west. for it is this de
cision which we are now observing
1t may be delayed, but the end is now
secure and the only question which
remains is whether the issue will be
immediate or deferred until spring.
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to Verdun. He had Eassed his troops.
as was wise, for the purpose Of attack
within that salient. The counter at
tack caught him now congested with
in the bulge and therefore In bad
position for defense.
The problem was how to keep the
enemy congested within the angle OF
Arras, st. Quentin and st. Gobain,
Rheims and Argonne: how to prevent
him from reinforcing the now danger
Gus thin line to the south and east
OF Verdun and keep him In this bad
posture while the American forces
were growing. For six weeks. all
through the latter part of July and the
whole Of August, the problem was sue
cessfully solved by the system of grad
ually extending attacks that ran from
Rheims northward and westward to
Arras.
Foch made no attempt at a rupture
In the enemy line. Far from 1t. His
whole object was carefully to pin the
enemy and prevent any general re-
tirement; to keep up the congestion
into which the enemy had fallen, with
full half of his armies In the hun.
dred miles between Arras and Rheims
and with three-quarters Of them be-
tween the Argonne and the North Sea.
He struck first upon the Marine pocket
into which the enemy had thrown
all the available men in the neigh
borhood to avoid disaster; then on
August 8. in front OF Amiens, with
similar effect; then on August FL, in
the sector Immediately to the north
of that; then on August 26 in the sec
20 IN hA ~
Meanwhile he exercised a contin-
uous. uninterrupted pressure against
the apex at st. Gobain, pressure
which began on August and is CON
tinued to this day, 80 that the enemy
position, so vital to our plans, and
he has put into it, first and last, the
equivalent of say, twenty-four divis-
ions.
In the last of these operations the
British, on September 2, in q brilliant
action, forced the last permanent ar
tificial line north Of Queant and COM
PEELED the enemy to adopt a new
water line against the tanks. covering
Douai. Then came a sort Of lull.
Those who did not understand the ma
ture of the plan thought perhaps that
the enemy had been driven back to
the Hindenburg line" or some other
nonsense of that kind.
What really happened was that he
had been forbidden to reinforce the
weak sectors to the south and had lost
in prisoners alone all the results of
his drive in the spring, some 1000
guns, and in killed and wounded,
apart from the prisoners, more than
he could replace in fighting season
from the new recruits and hospital
returns. But all this was only the
preliminary and the main shock was
to come. It's first chapter is no true
part of it, only sort of clearing
ground. For the first time the large
American army with certain French
contingents, took the field alone and
cleared the salient at St. Mihfel 1t
was singular proof of the way in
which the enemy Is forbidden by its
northern fighting to reinforce in the
south.
Quite apart from the killed and
wounded. one-third of the Austr1ans
and Germans holding the line from
Fresnes, around by st. Mihiel to Pont-
a. Mousson, passed into prisoners
cages. The salient no wise quite clear
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been reversed-its machine worked
backward-during the last few months
and then to look into the details.
Just as on July 10 the French and
American counter attack between Cha
teau Thierry and Scissors turned the
tide of the war, so the enormous &C.
ton launched September 26. just ten
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