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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
SINGING SMALL NOW

Chronicle.
 One characteristic the Kaiser has in common with a person whose name is familiar to all readers of Shakespeare. and that is his ,ability-to, roar as gently as sucking dove when roaring like . lion fails to accomplish his purpose. Less than six months ago he was in- sisting on a good German peace," a peace wrought by the sword" and pro- nouncing soft peace an insult to his people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
 ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN

From the Washington Star.
 The suggestion has been made that tho Kaiser be compelled to hand his sword In surrender to Albert, King of the Bel sians If the plain Belgians get chancs at him en route he will not be in condi. ton to maintain his role in so pictur esQue a formalltY
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ozYMANDIAs OF EGYPT

By Shelley. met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs
 of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand Half sunk, shatter'd visage lies. whose
 frown E, | And wrinkled lip and sheer of cold com
 mand Tell that it's sculptor we'll those pas-
 sions read Which yet> survive, stampd on these
 lfeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the
 heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words ap-
 pear: ~ ss.. .s @ M My name is Ozymandias. king of kings: Look on my works. ye Mighty. and de-
 spair!' Nothing beside remains Round the de, Of thAt colossal wreck. boundless and The lone and level sahds stretch far away
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and the county board in following suit.
 As the influenza is easily commu- nicable, the public should be all the more careful to avoid contact with those who may be affected. In the meanwhile let everybody keep cool head. There is no excuse whatever for panic, or even panicky talk.
 * % * It is perhaps just as well that the av- craze pedestrian in Birmingham isn't gun-toter, otherwise he might not be able to resist the temptation to take a shot at least once day at some reckless mos torist.
 Recent developments in Europe have not added to the security of Lenine and Trotzky If they escape the assassin's bullet that may yet be legally executed by firing squad.
 x :. *
 If you feel like taking your hat off to him when you meet a young soldier back from France walking with crutch or a stick, it won't hurt you to obey the im- pulse.
 Those giant Liberty bombing planes being assembled in France at record- breaking speed will help considerably in making the world safe for democracy.
 # x #
 Don't let "peace feelers' deter you from putting every dollar you can spare into Liberty Bonds. There is no peace in sight until Germany surrenders.
 # ~ q
 Regulation of shoe prices came at the psychological moment for the man who had just had his shoes half soled for the third and last time.
 It is said that Prince Max was at one time an inmate of an insane asylum. II she means what he says about peace, Max has fully recovered
 The fighting "reminiscences of Prof. Corbett seem a bit tame, now that we are getting so much red blooded matter from abroad.
 Paris goes to church these days with conviction that Paris churches will never again be Iombarded by German superguns.
 Retrbution is a fearsome word and the Germans see it written in flaming letters over Belgium and northern France.
 Delmonieo's is bankrupt and the war is held to blame. Shall dinner at Ders" pass into the limbo of forgotten things?
 
 Crown Prince Frederick William has probably decided that there is no chance for him to win any more medals in this war;
 * < * The fact that King Alfonso himself has had Spanish influenza may recon cile few snobs to mild attack.
 < < # It's a rather curious thing. but the press agents of movie vampires seem to take their jobs seriously.
 s # # These are trying times for speculators Stocks have conniption fit on the slightest provocation.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE GREAT ASSET.

THE GREAT ASSET. Whatever this life
 May hold in store, When we sit right down e. And think it OCT, About where to leave off
 And where to begin, The first thing of all
 Is the will to win. Though we dig in the Aearth Or trail a star And the road we choose Doth lead afar, s7st, In the deserts waste l.f,..- Or the markets din, We'll never get on
 Without the will to win
 A FRIENDLY DIG. "I trimmed this hat myself. "Yes?" "Now, don't say it looks like it'' T won't, my dear. If there's anything pride myself on it's tact"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
"Tongest Route Is Shortest

1ind 1t Is easier and cheaper to run ooWn and spend the night at Birming- ham and go by train to Pell City than it IS 70 h1re car and drive the B miles over the mountain" said James Ensley, the lawyer of Ashville
 It makes 1t right inconvenlent to have to make the trip. I wish there were better roads between the two towns. 1 always find plenty of life in Birming- nam. It is' certainly an inspiration to the towns around it. It's enthusiasm for the war activities is contagious. Ashville IS going to do it's part to win the war. our men and our women are thorough ly enlisted"
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Keep Up With War New.

T believe we have an old-time darkey m HetIin' said w. A. Stephens. "who Keeps up with the war as well as many O. our best posted white men.
 ne ooes odd jobs about the town and eVeryoody likes him. for he is polite and lalthtuL He said when the first expedi- ton went to Mexico that it would not do much in the way of fighting. His idea now is that if the Mexicans give any more trouble our boys will peck em up after they done Ticker the Kaiser"
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highly? Is he so much better than any other physician here?"
 T don't know about that, but he car section of the camp dotted with tents and it seemed as if the sky had fallen on earth and million stars were wink seemed impossible that the quiet sleep ing camp was in day time a hum of ac- tivity. To all purposes it was a. peace full valley and was was thousands of miles away.
 That is what misled the Germans They misread the psychology of the Ameri- can people. The leaders thought that because for centuries we had followed a The Kaiser and his little group of war lords figured it out that the United States was nation of shopkeepers and that sthe pursuit of the dollar was the national sport. Russia made the same mistake about England and was badly beaten in the Crimean wat. be- cause her diplomatists had told the Czar that the English had ceased to be war rors and had become land of mer- chants whose sole idea was trade Wednesday informing we drove 25 miles to the edge of Georgia, where l spoke to house full of stalwart farmers That afternoon in the car again and 20 miles into Piedmont to catch the Sea board for home. Up the next morning to Austinville, out from Albany, where I got in good lick for all of the war activities, making it easier for the so- licitors to follow with the canvass for subscriptions.
 Back to Birmingham that night and up at a. m. the next morning for Heflin and 15 miles out in a car to near TaIia- poosa, Ga. where the farmers of Gle burne had come together, and oh. how eager they were to hear about what the ready to drive the Hun beyond the Rhine. It is actually pathetic to note the inter- est of many of those who are out of touch with the great throbbing war ac- tivities as we see it in the great cities.
 
 Home again that night and out Satur- day morning bright and early for Dora, and then a 15-mile trip through the coun- try up beyond the forks of the Mulberry and the Sipsey into the hills of Walk CT to find a handful of anxious. stalwart men. It's the only time I have asked those wko had sons at the front to hold up their hands without number go- ing up-yet the war is creeping closer to them.
 !! Back to Dora and to sulligent I have
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Way to Beat the kaiaer

had an old negro woman to ask me the other day when the war was going to end" said c. B. Boman. and I replied as soon as we crush Germany She misunderstood me and thought I had sald as soon as we cuss Germany. lhen why don't you do it?' she asked
 Tier ole man, who was standing by. said; Mandy, you ought to be shamed oo yourself; don't you know he is a preacher% That don't make no differ ence'' she replied, it's time for preachers to cuss, if it takes cussin to beat dat ole Kaiser"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08

BEGINNING THE DAY-Grant, D Lord. that | shall not fall vic- tim to seIf-pity. Take all whine out of me. Give me to stand up straight, to walk right on; to deal my blows in the open; to take my punish- ment like man. For Christ's sake. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
MERE AUToMAToN.

'I hate to think of third person sec ing what you write to me-"
 Its only the censor"
 "Still, isn't he human being?' I'm afraid he isn't much of one after he's read a thousand love letters
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OUT OF LUCK.

OUT OF LUCK. What is that Hun grumbling about ?'' 'Ie says all he got out Of this war was g sackful of silverware and when the Americans captured him he lost that"
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ries the choicest line of magazines in his reception room of any doctor in town"
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PAUL COOK.

three speaking dates for today, and all in churches. I will get back to Bir- minghamx and leave again Tuesday morn ing on another gruelling trip. It will be my third week out, but I have two more weeks ahead Out of the month I may once a week, for when get into the city I generally arrive late and have to get out early and sleep at hotel. Don't think I am grumbling. for l am having the time of my life, for the crowds to whom I talk have not as a rule even so much as heard of any audience limit ing speaker to four minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
cMmlNaMaAaufH
HAM. HAW.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 We used to say that the English had no sense of humor. But the war seems to have changed things. We laffed right out loud when we read the following joke in London Opinion:
 Actor-Well. Hodge. how is' your daughter getting on in London?
 Old Hodge-Thank ee, sir. She's all right so far-but with thees airrraids on. she never knows but wot next min- ute she may be hurled into maternity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
\ TEST WORTH WILLIE

From the New York Evening Sun. in the machines they have marked 70. K. ]" is measure of poetic justice worthy of Gilbert's Mikado
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
IMPORTANT PRELIMINARY.

IMPORTANT PKELIMINAKI Now. as for the Kaiser?" What about him?"
 "We must decide his fate.'' Permit me to remind you of an old adage."
 "weIl"
 First catch your hare.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
JUDGING FROM THEvoTE.

T dare say a great many people go to Washington these days who haveAno
 l' legitimate business there." ''That seems to have been the opinion formed by considerable number of con gressmen regarding the White House pickets'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
Fails to Levy school Tax

 T am sorry to state that we have been unable to get the people of Cleburns county vote the three-mill school tax,' said W. G. Parker, the postmaster Of Heflin.
 It means that our public schools will not open until November IS, and then run for about five and a half months, With quite number closed for the year, though some may have a summer school for several months
 wish our people could see their way clear to give their children a better chance to get an education. I find, how ever, that the citizens of Clebarne are responding more literally to all of the war activities as the war progresses and the needs are better understood"
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pr. Charles Gore

T was delighted to hear Bishop Gors on Sunday at the Atlanta auditorium. 7" said Dr. Eaves. "I was there as sub stitute for Chaplain Couve and had pleasure in starting the institute, going with the ministers meeting and lunch- con, at which also the Rev A. T. Guttery of Liverpool spoke
 These two gentlemen represent the two chief religious forces Of England, the bishop, of course, speaking as the mes. senger of the established Episcopal church and MT. Cutlery representing the free churches. But they are evidently ex changing roles, and Bishop Gore can be trusted to speak for his 'nonconformist' brethren, as we'll as the rest of Eng. land.
 "Fe is a fine classical orator, and a simple English gentleman who goes straight to the mark Ie is an omen Of good that both here and Atlanta the whole body of the clergy unite to wei come these messengers of our allied democracies."
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Go to your bosomJ Knock therej and ask your heart what 1t doth know.
 Measure for Measure.
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SUPERIOR FACILITIES.
 ''Why do you recommend Dr. Pillers so highly? Is he so much better than any other physician here?"
 T don't know about that, but he car
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The Washington times., 1918-10-20

of the gate before sundown and were still coming long
after it dark. The Tchetchens herded them into
circle about mile from the walls They half
mile or more from where were, but when the
up could plainly hear the shouts and that
told us the Tehetehens had begun their evil work.
All night long we heard the screams Sometimes they
would be very near if fugves coming way.
Then would hear shouts and the hooheats of horses
There would be piercing shreks and then only the sound
of hoofbeats growing fainter The Tchechens whose cap
ves did not bother us-hey seemed to be saving
for something else. But could not sleep that night
Sometimes cannot sleep, although / am safe
forever Those to the night time, and
with my friends all about cannot shut them out
of my
When the first gray mist of dawn spread over the
plain the excitement still at its height. Then, sud-
denly, everything quiet. We too far from the
city to hear the voices the minarets but knew that
silence meant that the hour for the First Prayer of Islam
had arrived Even in the midst of their awful work the
Tchetchens nStnctively heard the call and stopped to
knee toward Mecca. l remember now wondered that
morning while the bandits rectng their prayer to
their Allah for his grace and cOmmendatOn how my God
would feel if His people should to Him in prayer at
the sunrise after such a night S work as that.
More than before | loved my God and trusted
Him that morning while the Mohammedan bandits were
praying to him they call Allah.
think less than 300 of that company of Armenians
were alive when the came up and could
the plain One little group moving about hudded
together All around them the TchetchenS search
ing over the bodies that scattered over great
circemaking the daylight they had missed moth
ing of value in the and robbery during the
night.
During the morning the Tchetchens busted themselves
with the young women among those who had survived
the night We could them go up to the little group
of survivors and drag some of them away.
II when the Tchechens began to tire of this that
we saw them preparing little way from where were
in fiat place the plain, for of the pastmes for
which wild CrcasSian tribes famous and which they
frequently repeated aferward learned, long
The Washington times., 1918-10-20
By Aurora MdrdigdIiGn
CContinued from Last sandayJ
CHAPTER K.

n was from the edge of a sandy plateau l caught my
first view of Diyarbekir For two days we had
- ridden with the Tchetchens who had stolen from
the monastery-the youngest and most pleasing of the
Armenian girls and brides who had taken refuge there
1 told last Sunday-and we knew that peril
awaited us in this ancient city of the Turks.
When the Tchetchens, each of whom carried girl
his horse drew up at the edge of the plateau to
talk together about taking into the city the walls of
the city spread ont far before u.s. with here and there
inaret rising over the low roofs of the buildings Just
beyond the city the beautiful blue Tgris-the River
Hiddeke of the Bible And far could see dotting
the great plains that watered by the Tgrs
panes of Christian refugees from the north and east and
west thousands and thousands of them who had walked
of them hundreds of miles. Nearly all the Arme
mans who permitted to live that long brought
to Diyarbekr where those who not massacred in
the city outside the walls turned south into the
Syrian and Arabian deserts to be deserted there.
More than million of my people started
toward Dyarbekr when the deportatons and
began Only 100000 l have heard, lived to reach the
ancient city the Tigris And of these than half
maSSacrpd within the city and outside the walls by
the merceSS Kurds Tchetchens Zaptieths and Turkish
soldiers Only young women and some of the children
saved from death the deser-and these were lost
In harcmS with the children, placed in DervlSh mon
asteres be taught AOhammedanism, they might be
sold slaves when they grew up
very wicked Inside the city there several ancient
forts built centuries agOOne of them in the days of Mo-
hammed- and two great prisons. Already more than
5000 Russian prisoners of had been marched from
the Caucasus TO Dyarbclr for confinement in these prIS
Nail Pacha had taken away all the clothing of these
prisoners and had compelled them. by refusing to give
them food TO work large house the pacha
was building for himself.
When the refugees began to arrive at Dyarbekir in
great numbers Nail Pacha crowded the Russians into
of the forrcSSeS closely they had almost room to lie
down at night The other prisons he then filed with the
Armenian who had been permitted to accompany
their from of the smaller Armenian villages
the north When the prisons full of these eXiles
he had his soldiers them. Outside the city their
women waited on the plains taken away without
being told what had been the fate OF their husbands
sons and brothers.
When more Russian prisoners arrived Nail Pacha
crowded Armenians into the prisons in the daytime and
killed them and then compelled the Russians to carry out
the bodies and the blood before they could lie
down rest from their day labor in the fields or on the
soncwOrk of his house The soldiers of Nail Pacha
told with great enjoyment how the bodies of little Arme-
nan children had been mixed in with cement and built
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sent away.
Afterward learned why the city itself was crowded
with refugees while many others camped outside
the walls. The Kamaikam promised protection from
further deportation to all who had managed to preserve
enough money to bribe him These he allowed to go
within the city and occupy deserted crumbed houses.
When their money out the protection ceased and
they sent out of the city in little companesaways
to be killed at the gates by Tchetchens who had been
notified to wait for them
When the Tchetchens saw they could not enter the
city with at they lifted from their horses and
ordered us to sit in circle they could guard easily
there than of Three of the girls
were younger than l. None more than twenty, al
though several had been brides when the
The older who had taken refuge in the monastery
killed by the Tchetchens as not worth botherng
with, as told last Sunday.
The bandit leader then went into the city by himself
All that day and the next and most of the day after that
we sat in the sand in the burning SUM- The Tchetchens
fOraged bread and berries and gave Just little of what
they did not want themselves Only each day would
they let us have water On the second day of the girls
became hot with fever She cried for water, and when
Tchetchen would have slapped her for her cries she
showed him her tongue, which had begun to swell When
the Tchetchen this he called TO his comrades and they
afraid lest the fever spread TO others of They
paid attention TO the poor girls pleading for water
but dragged her hundred feet and left her. Once
she got to her feet and seemed TO be trying get back
Tchetchcn went out to her and struck her down
with the end of his She could not get up again. and
we saw her rolling about in the sand until she died.
On the evening of second day of waiting outside
the walls there great cOmmOtOn at the city south
gate, and presently of refugees all women
pouring ont onto the plain. All that day groups of
Tchetchen hOrsemen had been gathering from the
rounding country and taking up positions nearby. Now
we knew why these hOrSemen had come-they had been
notified that company of refugees to be sent out of
the city.
think there must have been more than 1000 women
and some children in this band They began to come out
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NN these pages nine weeks ago began the story
of Aurora Mardiganian, the only Christian
~ Armenian girl to escape the Turkish mas.
sacres Of the Christians in Asia Minor which began
in her city, Tchemesh- -Gedzak, near Harpout three
years ago on Easter Sunday.
Little Aurora's father and elder brother met
their death at the hands of the Turks Aurora, al
though only fourteen, was well-developed and
very pretty girl The Turkish governor had already
marked her for his harem. He promised to spare
her mother and brothers and sisters if she would Join
his harem slaves, but her devoted priest and her
mother refused to let her make the sacrifice.
The Pacha summoned all the Christian men and
massacred them. The Turks carried of to their
harems scores Of the prettiest girls.
Then with the 1000 Christian women and chill.
dren of her city Aurora was taken into the desert
where she was stolen by Musa Bey, the notorious
Kurd cheftain. Musa Bey sold her to Kehmal
Efendi, from whom she escaped by jumping into
the Euphrates. She rejoined her party of refugees
in the desert, and again took up the long tramp
under the cruel scourging of the Zaptieths.
She has told of the fate of the young women of
Keban-M n-Maden, and of the Butcher Shop at Arab
kiro; how she was stolen the second time from her
mother; of the "crucihxion'' Of sixteen beautiful
Christian girls near Malata Of the fate of the school
girls of KirkGoz; of the cruel massacres in the
Charnel City; of her being sold into the house Of
HadJ Ghafour, and Of the raid on monastery on
the plains To-day she tells Of the German officers
at Diyarbel1ir.
With the permission Of the American Committee
for Armenian and Syrian Relief of New York City,
the diary of her terrible experiences win be con-
tinued from Sunday to Sunday on these pages until
she tells of her arrival in New York
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my people lasted. They planted their swords wi
were the long, swords that come from
many to the kurds and TchetchenS in a long row in
sand, that the sharp pointed blades rose out of
ground as high would be a very small child wi
we saw these preparations all of us knew what was ed
to happen When Armenian children are bad their md
ers sometimes tell them the Tchetchens will come and
them 1t they don be good. And when the children
And when the Tchetehens come what will they id
their mothers say:
The Tchetehens are very wicked robber horsen|
girls"
Already was trembling with sickness of heart
cause of the awful night before and the things had 81
that morning when daylight came The other girls be
me were trembling, too and felt as if they would rat
die than see any more We begged our Tehetehens
take us away-to take us where we could not look NJ
those sword bladeS-but they only laughed at us and q
us we must watch and be thankful to them we
their protection.
When the long row of swords. had been placed
Tehetehens hurried back to the little band of Armenia
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Sheitan DeresSi, the
Devils Gorge" south
of Diyarbekir, where
90, 5o,oooArmenianwom
and children being de-
ported to the Arabian
deserts were set upon
and maSsacred by the
Turks.