The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
Outnaneuvered.

censors, may rest from their labors.
 Outmaneuvered
 When NJ. Viviani, as premier of France, introduced the bills providing for the separa- tion of church and state he flung his Oppo- nents the shattering declaration We Erenchmen have extinguished tho heavenly lights. Though M; Hsrriot has ot,saidnng- thing as sensational from religious stand point, he intends to- go further than his predecessor in enforcing the laws against religious bodies. He contemplates" among other things to send back to Rome the papal legate. Now the papal nuncio in Paris, MOn- seigneur Cerretti, happens to be dozen of the diplomatic corps and for .nat reason M HerriOt must entertain quite friendly rela- tions with the prelate. Naturally M. HerriOt feels the embarrassment of the situation. Re" gently he was abliged by the farms of diplo- matic etiquette to make a personal call at the nuncio's palace. He stepped from his car. and rushed to the entrance, card in hand, intending to hand it to a doorn1an and let it go at that. He staggered back in surprise. when the nuncio opened the door himself with the words: How glad am to see you, mon cher Monsieur Herriot." Herriot was caught, came in the house somewhat flustered, and was forced to listen to the nunciO's arguments for the better part of an hour, the very thing he had hoped 10 aVOlu.
 When Napoleon Trembled. Lord Curzon, foreign minister in the Lloyd George and Baldwin cabinets, having retired from public life, has completed the first volume of his Life of Napoleon" His lord ship argued that century was necessary before a proper valuation could be placed en the life and work of the great Corsicun, and consequently undertook to write the book. In his description of the personal character ot Napoleon he says that the little corporal never trembled nor felt frightened. Talleyrand says different. A few days before Brumaire IS General Bonaparte came to Talleyrand apartment at midnight to talk over the com ing coup detat. While the two were whis- pering there was a loud noise in the street below. Bonaparte paled and he trembled. Talleyrand says: We both thought that people had come to arrest us by order Of the Directory" Napoleon trembled 50 violently that he could not blow out the candles. The uproar in the street was due to an accident to some of the cabs that were used in those days to collect the money from the gambling houses. The other time Napoleon trembled was on the retreat from Moscow, when he saw the glory of France perishing on the end less snow-covered steppes. In his own memoirs he says: II shuddered and, felt ill. but remember at once that a sovereign must not show the least emotion"
 Decline Of PetrOgrad
 Recent storms in Petrograd have sent flood waters over the lower floors of the winter palace, quays have been destroyed, bridges washed away and buildings have collapsed. It is another step in the disintegration of that great city founded by Czar Peter. Since the bolsheviks seized power the city has steadily gone downward. Petrograd really is an arti- fieial city. Its life depended on the imperial court. Once that disappeared, there was no reason for it's existence. It is built in a dis nal swamp and the buildings are resting on piles The bolsheviks, after moving the capi- tai to Moscow, abandoned Petrograd to it's fate. No repairs are carried out. and grass grows on the desolate Newski Prospekt, once the finest avenue in Europe's capitals. The reds reason: "We did not build that artifi- city city and we are not concerned whether it exists or dies" Nineveh and Babylon lost their glory, but no city had such a speedy collapse as the city appropriately called Lenin- grad.
 FROM THE WISE.
 God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest.
 -J. G. Holland.
 Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but kind word is never thrown away.
 Arthur Helps.
 Worship your heroes from afar; contact withern them
 Mime. Necker.
 Gentleness cOrrects whatever is offensive in our manners