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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25

ton, and after two councils had been held, a crusade was definitely resolved
 upon. The pope himself delivered an impassioned address to vast multi tude of clergymen and laymen and as he warmed up to his subject, telling of pilgrims murdered, robbed or beaten. of shrines and holy places desecrated, of heavy taxes for visiting Jerusalem, the pent-up emotions of the crowd burst forth, and cries sof Deus vuit God wills itD rose simultapeously from the audience.
 From all parts of Europe, thousands
 upon thousands hurried at the sum , mons of the pope to engage in the holy war The most distant islands and savage countries" says William of ardent passion. The Welshman left his hunting, the Scotchman his fellow ship with vermin, the Dane his drink ing party, the Norwegian his raw fish. It appears that William didn't mnid talk ign crack at the weakness of cer- tain people who, if they could get at him now, might crack his head for his uncomplimentary indictment. But
 I'll leave William and move on.
 It is said that in the spring of 109t not less than 6,O0O,0OO persons were ir
 motion toward Palestine. The words "Deus vult," by the injunction of Urban were made tha uo rory of tba CT, +arnr;s 60 and that everyone that embarked in il ! wore. as a badge, the sign of the cross hence the name crusade Was there ever such an army of chivalry, or rather. as some say. four armies-if disorderly and anarchic multitudes, the mere dreg;
 name? I haven't time to tell of theil fate or the growth later of real crusad. CTS. the gentry. the yeomanry and serf. of feudal Europe, or the story of how after unbelievable deeds of heroism, tn, remnant of gallant army fought it: (ios9) got sight of Jerusalem and late
 on how Godfrey of Bouillon was elected
 King of Jerusalem.
 I Now. I have given you this brief out line leading up to the first crusade |, whet your appetite for the second. third fourth, fifth. sixth and seventh crusades
 You can get what I have set out an much more from any good encyclopedia
 and, if interested, in special histories.
 have always been interested in the man,
 attempts to rescue the Holy Land frol
 the desecrating hands of the unspeakabl Turk. of whom Gladstone spoke prover
 wheD he said. They ought to be kicked bag and baggage, out of Europe |
 ' At this writing there is much that
 leave out. although greatly tempted |
 give some effects of the crusAdesxheyon
 the religious aspect. It's a great study
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
THE TYPHus IN JEnUsALEM

Jerusalem has not only many cases oi typhus, but the doctors say the disease is on the increase, says Theodore Wa ters, in the Christian Herald. How can they help but be? Filth and squalor among the inhabitants. conditions insani- tary to the last degree. People living as they did a thousand years ago. It is not the fault of the present authori- ties. They have done all they can up tc da te to change matters for the better. But the job is huge-bigger. in fact. than che can appreciate without close investi- ;ation It is the heritage left by past ulers. Centuries of fatalism and oppres-
 ion have left the seal of<their influence upon the people and they are not to De changed in a day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25

and of the negro in the regiments raised in New York city--the more or less edu- cated negro of the mulatto type. While their conduct in camp is a bit different. on the field of battle both fight with the same enthusiasm and skill in the use ot the sharpened blade.
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 It is improper to make predictions as to when this war will end, but nosone be. lieves the Germans can hold out for any great period against the wonderful work of the allied armies inspired and aided America has put in the field. The mora ie of the Germans is tottering. The German and the Austrian troops are jealous of one another and each is beginning to in- dulge in abuse of the other.
 Whole regiments of Germans and Aus. trians are being taken prisoners, and many of them are apparently welcoming relief from the fighting line. &
 That the allies will soon reach the cd Hindenburg line and beyond is openly expressed by the members of the general staff of the allies, and undoubtedly .tkS German army will soon be driven back into German territory.
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 The German Emperor and his gener- als are now said to be contemplating a naval attack upon the allied fleets. Tn desperation it seems that they have been driven to this as a dernier re- sort. The German people are demand ing it on the ground that for many years Germany has boasted of her great naval Strength. Yet for four years she has covered in the Kiel oa- nal or thereabout. M
 In tEe mean time Germany has been adding to this fleet and it is said to te much stronger than it was two
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
Germans Begin to Fear
 an Allied Invasion

|WHEN the kaissr's lsgions that Hateful day in August, 1914, there was not man, woman or child in the Ifatherland who dreamed that they would be in danger of an invasion. That tho foot of an enemy would ever be set on the sacred soil of Germany was possibility so remote that it was not even worth considering, even after the gallant Belgians had thrown themselves in the way of the German advance and seriously upset the war lords plans.
 After four years the victorious allies are driving the German armies back |step by step toward the Rhine. Now the French strike a blow, now the British, with Americans helping both of our allies, and every thrust takes
 
 it's toll in men, territory and guns. As the news filters through Germany i-and the Germans are getting the truth at last-there is uneasiness and dire foreboding, especially in the Rhine country. G l
 A dispatch to the London Express from Amsterdam states that dwellers along the Rhine are fearful of an al- lied invasion, knowing they will be the first to suffer. Allied air raids, started in retaliation for German bombardment of open towns and cities, have brought the war home to Germans in fearful form.
 Germany has thus far escaped such horrors as have been visited on France and Belgium. How much longer will this. security be main ltained? Not later, we hope, than the lspring of 1919.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Some men carry lucy penny so they
 won't be flat broke four days out Cr
 seven.
 Don't laugh at Lots wife Just wait till
 well built girl in tight skirt passes
 you on the street.
 When people owe me money I hate to
 see them buying 15 cent drinks. No winners wears a long face when he
 happens to be short. If a girl is wearing a $10 hat. she doesn' | care if you do see the hole in her stock
 ing.
 When we use ourselves as a standard
 of comparison we discover that other peo-
 pie do not amount to much. A lot of men are prone to yelp when a newspaper happens to make a misstats
 ment. But we can tell you right here that if you were as careful what you say as the newspapers are, and were correct, as often as the newspapers are, you would
 be mighty good citizen. You can know girl for 10 years. But you can't get acquainted with her until you have been married to her for 10 days. The reason why woman likes to brag about her figure being natural is because she has done lot of lacing and lot ot i, upholstering to make the thin places look trick and the thick places look thin and the long places look short and the shOr:
 places look long. It has always seemed strange to us that little wife can boss big husband when a big wife can't do it. The honeymoon is over when he quits shaving every day and she quites hiding her store hair. 1 A man may be truthful about other things. But you can't trust him wheI he describes the size of fish and hail l stones.
 l man can't have a good time unless he spends a lot of money. But it is diff i ferent with a woman. 1 Once in while you will find an en gagged man who is as henpecked as if ns l was married. A man can't understand why his ex cuses do nos sound as logical to others a: l they do to himself. l No matter how slender a princess ma,
 be today. the betting is that when she i' as old as her mother she will be as 0if
 around the beam as her mother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
FORESTALLING HER.

"Is it good idea for a man to talk over his business affairs with his wife when he goes home at night?'' Tt is a good idea in many cases" re- piled MT. Gadspur. "Yes?' By doing so man who is tired out and has troubles of his own can prevent his wife from telling him all the. griev ances against the neighbors she has ac- cumula.ed during the day."
 MANY A TIME. What was her wedding dower?" Health and good looks." You can't capitalize health and good looks" Tt has been done in the movies'' E SWAT FEM!
 I killed Joe Box, as No doubt twas best;
 He came to work
 Wearing his vest!
 New York Tribune
 I gave mine host
 A. fatal punch
 He made me wear
 My coat at lunch.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer slew Sam Blk,
 'Twere better so.
 Twas 102
 He talked of Snow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25

I know of no stranger thing that for nearly 1900 years the Holy Land of the Christians should have been in the hands of the infidels, and that the followers of Christ who visited it were there by sufferance of the adherents of Mahomet.
 Iiknow of no more religious and TO- mantle undertaking than were the crusades, the military expeditions of the western Christian nations in the middle ages for the recovery of the Holy L4hd from the Saracens, the sol- diers wearing the figure of the cross, or having banners with crosses on them.
 Remember, that the first crusade right of Christian pilgrims to visit the Holy Sepulcher. On the conquest of Palestine, however, the object of the crusades changed. or at least enlarged. and the efforts of the subsequent cru saders were directed to the rescue or the WnOle ldIiQ lioili tIie WAAS had repossessed themselves of it.
 From an early period in the history of the church, it was considered a pious act to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulcher, and to visit the vari- ous spots which the Savior had con- secrated by His presence. When Pal estine was conquered by the Arabs in the seventh century, that fierce but generous people respected the religious spirit of the pilgrims, and allowed them to build church and a hospital in Jerusalem.
 Now, am but setting down here the framework of the crusades, the things known to most of us, with no thought of going deeply into the question. mass over much that is interesting to the time in which the brutal hordes ot Deliuk Turks from the Caucasus put pilgrims, and their atrocities produced 1 a deep sensation over the whole world l of Christendom.
 pass over the alarm and first steps 1 of the Byzantine monarchs, and the complications of the popes. and starr with Urban II, whose sympathies kindled by the burning zeal, of Peter the Hermit, native of Amiens. il France. who had made the pilgrimag'
 to the Holy Land, witnessed the cruel ties practiced by the Turks and TO turned home to begin a whirlwins
 campaign to arouse Europe to aris'
 and wipe out the indignities.
 I defy you to find such another stor! as the first crusade. Peter the Her
 init had done his work well. and feel ing that Eurobs was sufficientl'
 stirred. Urban openly took up the ques
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
Champagne and Money
 But Clothing's Scarce
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 NNTAR'S paradoxes are plentiful w in Austria, if we are to be- lieve reports coming from Vienna through Switzerland. Ordinary work men are earning from $80 to $100 a week and are frequently seen drinking champagne in fashionable bars, but the cost of clothes is prohibitive, even for such affluent persons as they, and bread bought secretly, without a bread card, costs from $2 to $3 a pound.
 A moderately good suit of clothes for a man now costs from $500 to $400. Shoes bring $6O a pair. It is easy to imagine the prices prevailing for other wearing apparel.
 Public insecurity" is much greater than it used to be in Vienna, proud capital of the Hapsburgs. As, in Der lin, even though it is graced by the sacred proximity of the Kaiser, when ne puts up at Potsdam, crime is ram- pant in Vienna. Thieves do not pay much attention, it is inferred, to jew elry and trinkets. They are anxious to obtain clothing, however, because of the fabulous price it commands. There are doubtless any number of secretive persons who dispose of all garments that are brought to them without asking questions. A Viennese with decent suit of clothes or pair of shoes had better lock them up in D safe overnight and let the family jewels go hang, if he wishes to foil thieves.
 SS-t, there is presumably brighter side to the picture. There are excel lent harvests in the wine districts. Austrians will be able to drown their sorrows in the juice of the grape, and maybe forget the sneers of their Ger man allies, who say they are poor soldiers. Master coopers are offered $15,000 a year by Hungarian vine yard owners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25

years ago. Its officers have shown decided tendency to take big risks when something worth while was 10 he gained. Newspaper reports are To the effect that the Kaiser has decided to nermi% an eng1Gsmest with tue British navy and allied .esL
 The New York Herald says: ITO no one will this unieasLing of the Ger mans be more we-cone than to tho grand fleet of England and to the two divisions of American. battleships as- sociated with this noble company These sea forces of civilization havv and, though tkeir performances are hidden in the self-created mists of their northern rendezvous, it is know1 that day in and out the watch and ward of tho Noitn sea and even of the Eight of Heligoland are untiring and persistent. As consequence the high sea fleet can hope for no surprise at- tack, be the sea or weather what it may, nor will any German hulls lift themselves above the horizon without finding an alert foe eagerly awaiting Lhem.'
 The unleashil.g of the German flee: is said to be the only thing which will satisfy the Iool1e of Germany after the tremendous losses they have sus- tained since the American army has gotten into action
 If there be any one thing which can end this war quickly it will be such action on the part of Germany as IS indicated above.
 All the world will eagerly await the battle upon the sca--the first clash of dreadnaughts in inc worlds history.
 .A2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
I NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE SPLENDID Fl j DRIVES THE ALLIED ARMIES ARE MAKING

1 WHISPERED by the splendid work of the ] Americans last month, both the British and the French are making drives which are destroying the German armies like moving machine in a wheat field.
 | The Americans are supposed to be held in temporary reserve for the present to days.
 ITO the Hindenburg line-and beyond" is now the cry on the lips of every all.ed soldier in France
 The world has never known such fight ing as the British, the Canadians and the French are doing, since enthused ry the arrival of more than million Amer ican troops who went into action like known to fight with the enthusiasm. the eagerness. and the bravery of the Amer 1can troops in the SOfSSOnS section The Rainbow division was particularly effec. tive agaInst the Germans, fighting like veterans. I speak of this division becaus of the great number of Alabama troops in it. They fought with artillery, machine guns, rifles, pistols, bayonets, bolos, gun butts and fists. When the Germans en- countercd them they knew they were up against the real thing.
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 And the American negro troops are per forming miracles with the bolos, or long knives. They have sharpened these like razors and in hand hand combat with the Bocnes, are terrors.
 Irwin Cobp's article in yesterdays Sat- urday Evening Post about the work Of the American negro regiments in France is worth everyone's reading. He tells both of the work of the Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama cotton field negro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
Believers in Her Cause

q feel confident" said Mrs. w. D.
 Nesbitt, that the men of Alabama will
 give the women the vote without being forced to do so by the federal suffrage amendment; however, we are anxious to have the petition of 10000 names pre- scented to the Alabama legislature from this district in order to show the true equal suffrage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
.ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
2,e.s3,uea,

THE ACID TEST. Congressman Twobble writes that hs is at my service.''
 ''The next time you have to make trip to Washington, why not take him at his word?'
 ~"How?" '"See if his influence is great enough to first class hotel for less than H day.c HAVE YOU swATTER7 This scientist declares that ny n more deadly than rattlesnake." Perhaps he's right Furthermore, If you will so your way a rattlesnake will go his, but fly looks you up."
 A HEROINE. am sure that certain Miss Dorothy M. Is worthy of better verse. Ha She padded right out of the social swim To work as a Red Cross nurse.  f8 TOUCHING IT. ''The doctor advised Reggie to take more exercise" And Regeie?"
 .Repliad with some show of indignation that for the duration of the war he was not only preparing his bath without as sistance. but was shaving himself"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
Apple Display Worth Seeing

If you haven't yet seen the display of Alabama raised apples in the win dow of the Tltwiler Flower shop said H. Key Milner, 'ft is well worth a trip to get a view of the beauties. I never dreamed that such fruit could be pro- d9ced in the state, but they were all grown at Auburn. No wonder Professor Starcher is proud of his job. They were exhibited at the Southern Nurserymen' s association, recently held here, and were highly praised by apple experts from all over the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Ben TiIlman Was n Power

remember in my young manhood when teaching in one of the South Caro- ina colleges how the late Ben Till man was forging into notice" said Judge John H. Miller
 He certainly had the state in an up- roar. The old landed aristocrats and the Bourbon politicians were at first inclined to discount him, for had they not ruled the state for 100 years and more, and "ho was this upstart among the people to get m their way. But Ben was not rehclhg With a sword but was using his famous pitchfork. He kept coming, and no one was strong enough to keep him out of the governors chair or bar his way to the Senate. The old man had plenty of sense and downright ability and as he grew older he grew less fierce and was mighty power in the Palmetto state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
Prayer For Deliverance
 From Nations Enemies

1.-TWO hundred members of the = House of Representatives joined the Rev. Henry N. Couden, blind chap lain of the House, in the following prayer:
 Good Lord, deliver us from the
 hyphenated Americans. the pro-
 German. the spy. the profiteer. the
 pacinst, the stacker and all who
 would retard the prosecution of the war for human rights, human hap
 piness and the establishment of jIljjlpermanent worldwide peace. 'eH Fitting sentiments with which to begin . days session devoted to a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
Good Roads Barbecue

nave been made chairman of d parpecue at Franklin schoolhouse on Thursday, August ,29," said Sid w. Lee. The object of the barbecue is to give
 the women and children an opportunity to meet and enjoy each other and a day s outing, and to talk good roads, and to hear patriotic speeches by Drs. Barn.
 Well' Barnett and others We are not asking anyone to bring baskets, but we want pig, lamb, kid and beef We are
 going to leave off the sweets on ac-
 count of the scarcity of sugar, and just
 have an old-fashioned barbecue, with
 brunswick stew in addition to the meats.
 While the cue is primarily in the in
 terest of the Prescott to London High
 way we want anyone interested in good roads anywhere to be present."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
The Cross Above the Crescent-By Frank Willis Barnett

and we'll worth serious thought, but Just at present am too elated over the fact
 that after weary centuries Jerusalem is
 now in the hands of the English, and
 hope to God never to be turned back un-
 der any circumstance to the butcher of
 Europe and his good friend, the Attila
 of the north.
 Isn't it enough to send the blood cours-
 ing through your veins to know that
 while last year the Sultan owned the
 holy sepulchre and acted as host to vis- iting Christians, and kept his silent sentl- nels scattered in every part of the vast edifice. that now he has been dispossessed and England now occupies Jerusalem and guards the place where the Christ was born, according to tradition, and the holiest spot on earth to millions will no longer be polluted by the presence of serv- ants of the power which has sent thou sands of Christians to their death while Christian Europe, for selfish reasons stood by without interfering? Jerusalem had withstood 27 sieges be- fore the English surrounded 1t. It was the twenty eighth that sent the Turk about his business and served notice on his European partner at Berlin that Christianity and Mahometanism could not be yoked together. and worked TO carry out his dream of empire The Turk is, a sadder but wiser man. while the Kaiser is madder but more blinded one.
 Last night as lay aseeping there.
 came a dream so fair, I stood in old Jerusalem beside the tenn pie there.
 heard the children singing. and ever i as ..ley S.-S
 Me thought the voice of angels from heaven in answer rang. | Hosanna in the highest, l Hosanna to your King l And blessed is my waking knowledge I that that king is not to be the Emperor l of Germany, who went forth with drawn sword and engines of modern warfare. with garments streaming with the blood | of helpless old men, defenseless wom- en and innocent children, representing { himself as the agent and representative \ on earth of Almighty God, while trying ! to perpetuate the reign of the Sultan. and 1 float the crescent above the Cross of 1 Jerusalem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
SIMPLICITY OF WASHINGTON

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 If any unidentified person can walk into the Washington postoffice and can demand, and receive, registered mail ad- dressed to ar important government de- partment, then the methods of the Wash ington postoffice need to be radilly over hauled and improved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
TO A DEAD C0MRADE

By Hermann Hagedorn:
 An, not that face You were our frisnd-
 Too close to be so silent now;
 The love, the laughter, at an end
 In austere lips and brow.
 We loved you., but we went our ways,
 undreamine in our rash content
 That you were dropping numbered days Along rhe road we went. We love you but we never guessed Your ardors and your shining powers Were aiming for g farther quest Than any quest of ours. | Good night, dear scomrade! As we p0t4 Not idle praise nor tears we bring: But see! Our hearts stand roun& posa iaV@e heart tas saHsss srSsA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25

BEGINNING THE DAY-Grant me the vision, 0 Lord, during this day and all the days to penetrate the disguise of any suffering and dis cern the 1ineaments of Almighty God. Give me to welcome my dis tresses as strong friends come to teach me Thy will. If I have sinned, make me humble to confess it; if I have erred, make me wise to learn my lesson; if Thou are purifying and polishing, make me brave to bear. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
TAKING THE JOY OUT OF JAIL

From the Houston Post.
 Chicago is to have three jails exclusive ly for women, and even the patrol wagons will be driven by women. Men are not to be permitted inside. It seems to us that extreme punishment like this w.L prove a powerful deterrent in keeping women out Of the clutches of the law. We fancy that an Adamless calaboose is about as dul, as an Adamless Eden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25
THEY'RE LUxURIEs

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A 100 per cent tax is proposed on bowie knives and brass knuckles. But why stop at 100 per cent?