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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

to show the inexhaustible drama of life in little corner of isolation, to put us in sympathy with the earlier men, was an achievement.
 The best historical novei' is but a tour de force, swarm1ng with errors. Into the old dull monkly chronicle of Jocelyn, or whatever his name was. Carlyle breathed life. The hedonist. the indifferentist, or the Advocatus Diabol may object to liam the Sacristan, given to too frequent libations, will have his friends. But to make that dreary monastic dead chronicle throb and live was more than art. -
 Of course, the reappearance of any work of Carlyle's gives the devotees of the easy obvious and the opportunists or literature the chance to make full cry against Carlyle. Wasn't he Scots-Ger- man, an apostle of force and Frederick the Great? We'll, nobody is going to pc allowed to enter 30 odd volumes at the custom house of posterity. There were two Carlyles, as Sir George Trevelyan mas lately observed. The earlier, generous one survives The stun apout the eterni- ties and the immensities the philosophic- prophetic plague, the shallow political economy. the dyspeptic's worship of the drill sergeant, Thomas contra mundum. goes into the limbo of dead authors. The great humorist, poet. rhetorican. the shrewd dry peasant, is extant.
 Who said of John Quincy Adams that he had "an unerring instinct for the tugular?'' Rufus Choate, it is believed. Carlyle had that instinct in literature. Look at his triumphant malignancy in the portrait of Coleridge in his decline. Remember his judgment of Charles Sum- ner the beautiful, impeccable, unftman pedant Charles Eliot Norton used to tell of Carlyles saying that MT. Soom- ner talked to me for three mortal hours aboot the puir, lsufferin'. downtrodden African nagur, blank, blank himl AL ways, "the same old sausage, frying in his own grease.y as the elder Henry { James said. But his vigor, his seizure of the salient in character his humor.
 his poetry and passion, eloquence, and CONSEQUENCES or the tear Tn mortal things preserve his best. The didactic Carlyle 1 is gone. The narrative Carlyle of the
 French Revolution" tragedy and com edy rather thanihistory lives. He studied
 his materials carefully He built won
 derful play and pageant on them. Mad
 ness, terror, pity, heroism. and grotes- querie succeed. He sees with the eye of
 Lallucination. A sort of wild, breath
 less march of figures, but how he makes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
THE SHEPHERD PSALM-By Frank Willis Barnett

fitness under the figure of a shepherd. The words of Jesus concerning the Good Shepherd are so beautiful that they should be read with the 2srd Psalm as the best commentary on it.
 
 Another scene must have come to many of our boys. It was tho night of all nights when the shepherds were watching their flocks, and an angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid, but were comforted when told to fear not for He came to bring good tidings of great joy the birth of Savior-and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host. praising God. and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men,
 But thank God an army studying the 23rd Psalm meant that it would be peace made in the spirit of the Prince of Peace and mot a peace won by . modern Caesar who sets might above right, for the second figure of David is that of host, of God of mercy. whose love was not for the passing mo- ment but would follow him all the days of his life, and he should dwell in His, house forever. Is 1t wrong that we should have the confidence of David and believe Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies and that our God will deliver into our hands the worlds peace breaker?
 The Shepherds Psalm, the tender pas toral poem of trust in Gods loving care, has sung it's way into thousands of weary hearts, Joe Mitchell Chapple told me that when he was conducting in the National Magazine the contest to decide what poems, hymns, or stories should be included in Heart Throbs' that more thana thousand sent in the 23rd Psalm as their favorite. It was sent by Christians, by Jews, by Protest ants, by Catholics: ey high and oy low;
 It's the gem of the Psalms it's Ian guage is chaste and simple, its figures homely and inspiring. the notes of It's music are rest, peace, trust, satisfaction, joy and fellowship. It's message we all need today. It's song on Have Faith in God" for the central idea is of our Heavenly Father. There is rest in His bosom, He has grace for all our needs" "The Lord is my shepherd l shall not want"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
RoJGH wEATHER AHEAD.

ROUGH WEATHER AHEAD. When bold Jack Frost IS on his way The feeble sun disdaining, It does no good to dream of May, You waste your time complaining. Just make the old home place m-proof And start the fires to blazing; Shut fast the door and mend the roof, Against the storm kings raising. Yet, snug and warm, what sweeter charm When close indoors we're keeping, Where the clean hearthstone is bright
 and warm
 And the cheery flames are leaping
 GRATITUDE
 "I just met man who acknowledged that he didn't know anything about the newspaper business" said the editor of the Morning Bugle.
 Well! well!'
 Furthermore. he said he didn't think he could run my paper any better than I'm doing it and he didn't have a single suggestion to make"
 Extraordinary
 "Quite so. If it wasn't contrary to the ruling of the war industries board, I'd give him a free subscription for life"
 HARD TO PLEASE We may not gaze on the wine when it's
 red,
 We may not drink the stronger stun; A man goes seldom drunk to bed And the bibulous think that is tougn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times
 llc seems rather curious time to re
 print. IS the Oxford University Press
 S has done Carlyle's Past and Pres
 ent." so much of which is part of the
 for gotten English politics and sociology
 of the 4O's. The idle aristocracy, if dead,
 has died for England. "Plugson of
 Undershot," Laissez Faire, the Manches-
 ter economists. surviving. unhappily, as
 nobler and wiser England not led but vainly appealed to by Lord Roberts;
 Jeremy Bentham, even John Stuart Mill what are they but names or phantoms
 now?
 Carlyle was always "wagging his pow in pulpit" and the tiresome, discredt- ed and shallow temporary 'journalistic'' party pamphlet or windy preaching chap ters of Past and Present" are dead as a doornail. A good many members of the game e-preserving aristocracy" will be lucky if they preserve enough of their possessions after the war to enable them to live abroad. if any cheap place to live in be left. The House of Lords is be-
 coming plutocracy that mas been faith full to the campaign funds. Since 1908 the liberals and the coalitionists have made 160 peers It is MT. Henderson's labor party, with its mixture of middle class amateur socialists, of the Fabians, and the union of democratic control ! strong in the public schools, the univer- sities, and the "slum'' settlements: 1t Is
 Ramsay Mcdonald and Philip Snowden. 1 1t is the class consciousness' folks that are building up a new and far less att
 tractive 'aristocracy." privileged and ruling caste 1 Two years ago an official of the Miners
 union said that 2e,o00,00o less tons of coal
 a year were produced under the carefully
 of the miners have been raised 94 per cent 1 since the beginning of the war. The out l put of each man has been reduced by 6O
 tons year, we believe, by union arrange ments and unnecessary absences. It is
 this idle aristocracy that would now de- serve the 70 My Brothersv' homiletic l sympathy of Tammas.
 l The vital and surviving part of Past and Present" is its reconstruction of that old Abbey of St. Edmundsbury. the re- vival of a forgotten age. the resurrection <: of the daily life and habit of men alien
 and aloof from moderns. There the geniua
 of Carlyle. his eye for the salient. the ] "picturesque. the human. made little
 masterpiece. To make dead bones live.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

It is now filled with hate for the all lies. In it's blind rage it is as rabid as the most virulent Junker.
 A recent issue, according to the London Daily Express, contained a series of cartoons which pretended to reveal conditions in America. On the first page is buffalo labeled Amer ica," which has been infuriated into an attack on the angel of peace by President Wilson, who fires revolver in each hand, while Colonel Roosevelt lashes the animal with whip. An other drawing shows the United States Senate in session, every senator with his mouth padlocked, while MT. Wilson says, q was certain of your approval, gentlemen, when I entered this war for victory of world democracy" picture entltled, FroCectlon of Small Nations" has neutral citi- zen stretched on a rack of Edison's in- vention to force compliance with our laws.
 Since distortion of the truth is the chief business of the German press these days, it is not surprising that 'Simplicissimus" has "joined the pro- cession" and is yapping Justify at the allies. Had it not done so we may rest assured that "Simplicissimus" would have long since ceased to ap- pear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

Awhile back I gave a hint of the way in which Joe Mitchell Chapple thrilled a meeting of Sunday school workers at the Southern club in an after-din- ner speech in which he told of now our American lads had taken the 23d Pslam for their scriptural lesson as they waited one Sunday at Dom- remy, the home of the Maid of France.
 
 It was peculiarly appropriate se- lection Of scripture and l have often wondered if 1t was chosen on account of it's fitness, or if it was just a happy coincidence. Joan. while not a shep- herdess was peasant lassie, and led the simple life of country girl help ing her mother with the spinning, the sewing, the cooking, the house clean ing and worked in the fields with her brothers, and took her turn in watch ing the village cattle in the pasture lands down in the valley of the Mouse.
 
 History. as the world rolls round. throws some strange things on the screen. It Is said that politics makes strange bedfellows. It is also true that war causes some strange all dances. We have proof of this in the present lineup of nations, for what stranger things has the whirligig of time brought round than England rush. ing to the defense of France?
 
 In the autumn of 142S the fate of France seemed trembling in the ball ance, bound up with the fate of ths city of Orleans The English army had just laid siege to that city, and if it fell France was lost; just as in 1872 the British army was batter ing against New Orleans, imperilling our American democracy--but now England, France and America are from overrunning the world.
 Going back to the year 1400 it was England which was the nightmare of France in the sense that Germany is today. The fear of the British was uppermost in the minds of the French, for with a weak King and a greedy tie waiting for the slaughter. or shsep ready to be driven into the sea. Their villages were burned, their churches were a pile of ruins, their crops were. devastated.
 But now nearly 500 years have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

passed, the Maid of Orleans, true to her vision, saved for awhile her city and her country but later was imprisoned, tried for witchcraft, condemned and burned at the stake. and all before she became a woman-and yet, thank God, her spirit goes marching on, and encamped about the orchard in which she dreamed her dream is any army of liberation which once more will set France free.
 And because of the history of the sainted French maiden, and on account of her peasant origin, I said that the great Shepherds Psalm was the one in all the Bible which was fitting to be studied on blessed Sabbath day, for it smells of the soil and is sweet with makes it's best appeal to those who live much in Gods great outdoors and watch the silent stars by night.
 
 For thousands of years the shepherds have watched their focks by day as the sun rode high in the heavens and
 
 by night when the moon made her pil- grimage across the heavens and the stars looked down on earth as they twinkled so serenely in the sky. Under the light of sun and moon and stars Da- vid had watched the flocks and this idyll we know as the Shepherds Psalm opens in an atmosphere of rest and still. ness, and is as mild and soft as day In June.
 I dare say that as our boys sat around the hillside on the day in France of which Joe Mitchell Chapple spoke that many of them, fresh from the country, had their hearts tinged with thoughts of home as they watched the river in the distance, with the valleys crossed by the sluggish waters of the river in dozen channels, or got the long view of the forest-crowned hills beyond, or saw all about them the humble home of the peasants.
 Originally the whole Hebrew nation was nomadic, and the great ancestor of the race had dignifed the occupation Of shepherd Abraham had pastured his flocks in the hills near Bethel and in the south country Like David, the au- thor of the immortal pastoral ode, he had habits. It's no wonder that David was struck with Gods care of him and that he set down his thoughts of His watch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
pack From Nerr York

T got home Friday morning after pleasant visit to New York, in which combined business and pleasure said M V. Joseph.
 Since my daughter now lives in the great metropolis it is much easier for me to spend my time there. Things are humming in the east and war aotivi- ties are seen on all sides in a way we who live in an inland city can hardly appreciate. am glad to be home again and am ready to get into harness and pull for my firm or for my country. The fourth Liberty Loan is going to be a big undertaking, but Birmingham has made 8 reputation at Washington for doing things"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
LOVE OF COUNTRY

By Sir Walter Scott.
 Breathes there a man with soul so dead. Who never to himself hath said,
 This is my own. my native land?" Whose heart las ne'er within him burned AS home his footsteps he hath turned
 From wandering on foreign strandy If such there breathe, go, mark him well: For him no minstrel raptures swell! High though his titles, proud his name, Bcundless his wealth as wish can claim. Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentered all in self, Living. shall forfeit fair renown, And. doubly dying, shall go down Tc the vile dust from whence he eprunBs UEwept. unhonored and unsung.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
Y. M. c. A. Handle. Soldier.

It's great thing that we have the accommodations to take care of large numbers of troops stopping over for a bit of exercise and cleaning up," said W. $. Stallings, the we'll known Y. M. c. A. secretary.
 For example. on Thursday 500 sol- dier boys visited the pool, showers and tubs for bath. Like healthy fellows they made descent on the cafeteria and after they had gotten their fill it looked as if a swarm of locusts had passed by and cleaned the establish ment out. Most of them just wanted 9 piece of pie and a cup of coffee, but some got regular meals"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
Comments on Accident

Il happened to be crossing the via- duct shortly after the awful automo- bile accident happened on Thursday afternoon" said William Leary, "and I do not think ever saw more com plete wreck.
 That any of the occupants of tho pleasure car escaped was miracle l did not see the collision, but I saw CTS must have been going at ter rifle gait to so completely demolish big machine. I have driven cars for years and have never had an accident for do not get any pleasure out of fast driving"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
Army of 4,sOO,ooo
 In France Next Year

~ ENERAL CROWDER recently NJ told the House appropriations committee that the enlarged military programme calls for an army of A. SOC, ,000 men in France next July, aft CT all deductions for casualties and rejections have been made.
 At present there are about 3,200,- 900 men under arms. More than half of these are abroad, constituting the army of General Pershing, which is in active service and ready to under take major operation whenever Gen eral Foch deems it advisable. It is estimated by General Crowder that half of the 2,70O,000 men who will be called in the next year will be drawn from registrants of 1s to 20 and 52 to 36 years.
 This huge increase in our fighting force will be expensive, of course, and there will doubtless be need for the full amount of the new $7,O0O, ,OOO, ,O0O army estimates, but the undertaking presents no obstacles of physical na- ture that cannot be surmounted in plenty of time to accomplish the pur- pose of our government to throw an overwhelming force against Germany next summer.
 There was time when many Amer ican citizens, in every way patriotic, doubted the ability of our war depart 1nent to put the great army in France that is already there and giving an admirable account of itself. The sub- marine having been to large extent eliminated by effective conveys and our shipbuilding plans going ahead swimmingly, the task will be accom- plished.
 If it does not mark the end of the war, 1919 will sound the death knell of Hohenzollern hopes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
Parson Barnwen Indispensable

T do not know what we would do without 'Parson' Barnwell," said John T. Yeatman, "for he is not only a preacher of note, and a great patriot, but is also jolly good fellow as ev- cry kiwanian who was at last Tues days meeting will gladly testify
 He made a great presiding officer. and injected about as much pep into the meeting as even the braves could stand. for he sure set a hot pace in fun making. It's great thing to get a bunch of busy. tired business men at a luncheon and entertain them and send them back to their work with a new joy in their hearts,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
REDUCING TRAFFIC,

Flows the skip-stop plan working in your town?''
 ''Splendidly." replied the selfish citi- zen. "So many people who are unfa- miliar with the new system are being passed by conscientious motormen that can nearly always get a seat"
 ZOOLOGY. The clumsy hippopotamus Must be very honest cuss; I do not think he could be base, Because he has an open face.
 Luke McLuke. He may be honest, but, dear me, I m very glad that I'm not he; A mouth like that is pretty, but How very hard to keep it shut
 Newark Advocate. The zebra seems luckless brute, A fact nobody can dispute. Although he may have done no wrong, He must wear stripes his whole life long
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, our eyes have seen wonderful things. We have seen Thee moving among men. They told us the world was sadder nnd dead. Bur chivairy has burnished her armor. courage has found her sword and sacrifice has found cross. "Oh be swift, our souls to answer Thee; be jubilant, our fcetw In Christ's name. Amen. H. M. K.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
SENSITIVE.

we had falling out over his war gar- den last summer"
 "oh well. You should make up now"
 T don't know about that. He insin- uated that my criticism was an attempt to cripple an essential industry. alloy no man to question my patriotism
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
German Caricaturists Assail MT. Wilson

N ERMANY'S humorous papers NJ are still funny, but not in the way they intend to be. In prewar times "Simplicissimus," "the Punch of Germany" was popular abroad be- cause it contained real wit and it's caricatures, though mordant, held the saving grace of laugh. And "Sim- plicissimus" was fearless, or appar- ently so. The Kaiser himself was a target for it's shafts of ridicule. Prus- sianism in its various manifestations inspired many of it's jokes and pie lures.
 But . change has come over "Sim- pIicissimus," perhaps the best known publication of it's kind in Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
CARLYLE, A GREAT DRAMATIST

them stand out, if they attract him to putting the least tag on them. Forget the Cant and "Quackery' theory. Re- member any one of thousand of splen- did or engaging episodes and passages The brief elegy on the Princesse De Lamballe, for example, or the dry little remark about the Madame De stael that was to be. playing. child. about the knees of the Decline and Fall. It is not history. because it is readable and nov ing. Take out all the pedantries, eccen- tricities, sermons. what life is in the book, how good it is to read! Carlyle. looking back to it, might have said with Swift: Great God, what genius had when I wrote that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
A LONE ExHIBIT

From the Washington Star.
 Captain Koenig. the captain of the U- boat Deutschland. is being taken excel lent care of in Berlin, so that he may be exhibited as one submarine commando CT who got back alive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
THRICE WELCOME
m the Chicago News.

From the CnlcaBO NEWS.
 We'll. well. here Is our old. familiar friend of other-days, the war cloud in the Balkans! Turkey and Bulgaria are making faces at each other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
"MARRIAGE WITH THE GLovE'

From the London Chronicle.
 form of marriage by proxy recog- nized in Holland is known as mar riage with the glove" If girl is voy- aging to the Dutch Indies to join her fiance there as his wife, she can go through a wedding ceremony at home with substitute for the bridegroom. But for the joining of hands gloves are not removed-hence marriage with the glove" The bride then sails for Batavia the waiting sweetheart is saved any tremors about those assaults to which even betrothed affections are liable to srccumb during idle weeks on shipboard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
CALL FOR THE UNGoDLY

From the Baltimore American.
 A New York corporal was saved from death by Bible in his breast pocket Now let the ungodly come forward with the usual tale of pack of cards stop ping a buliet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
IMPROVEMENT SURE.

"If you shoot like this over here, how are you going to shoot over there?" asked the wrathy instructor.
 Much better" answered the rocky "The knowledge that I'm shooting at a German is bound to improve my aim"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
ART NOTE


From the Neenah CWis.) Times.
 F. L. Fadner is displaying some hand some hand-painted oil portraits in his show case outside of his photograph gallery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22
oMINous SIGN.

When is the honeymoon over?"
 Opinions differ"
 .'Yes?" a
 But when Imogen discovers that Clar- ence Augustus doesn't make quite as much per annum as father does. we may safely say the honeymoon is waning"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

BRIEF AND TO THE POINT. After this war Is over the old-fash- toned politician who used to make speech anywhere from an hour and half to two hours long will be at a disadvan- tage"
 ''How so?''
 "The four-minute men are creating a demand for short, crisp addresses with punch in every sentence"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

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