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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Seriousness of Youth
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I never realized what really serious matter this business of living is until this summer. Probably at a very youth full period of my own life also was overwhelmed with the immensity of our universe, the boundlessness of the siderial consultations the dread of the unknown. If so, have quite forgotten about it There are so many things right up in the forefront of life to occupy one's att tention that most of us find very little time to speculate about the distant hori- zon.
 But my vacation this summer afforded me splendid opportunity of getting a thorough, though probably incomprehen- sive, course in philosophy, social science, political economy and sundry other little studies of that ilk. But was unappre- ciative enough to bolt Every time I saw that sad-eyed, long faced group bearing down on my corner of the veranda or strolling toward me on the beach, I boted.
 No, l hadn't made the mistake of stop- ping in a house blessed with an assem- lbage of attenuated old fossils. Quite the contrary. Our would-be philosophers were youngsters still in their teens, attending high school and college. Their elders could be seen any evening gaily sprint
 
 ''fandango," but they, oh bless us-when- ever they wanted to have a good time they arranged for an impromptu debate with subject something like this: Re solved. That the Nietschen Philosophy of the Gradual Subjection of the Masses To Breed a Race of Supermen Is Inevitable. D
 Our house was not the only one so in- fested It began to get so bad that there was talk of forming an organization for the protection of ordinary human beings who were quite content to let the world go on its way without their divine inter- vention.
 After awhile the humor of the situation appealed to us. Nobody could tell these precocious youngsters anything. They knew 1t all. Everyone of them belonged to at least six literary societies and any, one of them could tell you authoritatively whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays They did not al- ways agree in their opinions but that was another sign of progress, of individual thought. And so the days rolled mer- rily on.
 Until they organized life-saving corps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

This was too much. Everybody who wasn't in 1t was in mysteries over 1t. And those who were in 1t almost had mysteries, too, but not the same brand. Their hys- terics were the kind all great people have when they feel that upon their failure or success depends the lives of many peo- pie.
 They raised enough money to rig up a tent with few cheap cots, a .table-oh, witness ye immortal gods an operating table they called it--a medicine chest stocked with peroxide and other simple remedies. And then they hung around and waited for someone to be obliging enough to drown or nearly drown. They waited in vain.
 The most serious case they had was stubbed toe. The fellow who owns that toe will be nightly careful he doesn't stubb 1t when volunteer life-saving corps Is around. They nabbed him and wouldn't let him go home, in spite of his expostnlations that he was all right. They took his bathing suit off, wrapped him in a blanket, why, nobody could tell, and pi ioceeded to administer to the injured toe. I won't go into details. but each member of the corps had a different remedy so from pulling his toe with a .clothespin to bathing 1t in hot turpen- tine they finally cured 1t. At least he said he was cured.
 All other cases coming under their care were treated with like impartial enthus- iasm and vigor. At the end of the sea- son they issued bulletin of cases taken care of by them-164 of them; 100 of these were scratches. but they were list ed as touch of blood poison;' 164 people had been coerced and sometimes forcibly dragged inside the hospital tent and administered to, willy nilly, whether they wanted to or not. We all breathed a glad sigh of relief when the summer season was over.
 The young folks 1t seems have reversed the order of things. They have become serious and learned. They argue and debate while their big sisters dance and brothers play. But let us be thankful that they will also be big sisters and brothers some day. and by that time their ego will be so worn and battered that they will be moro nearly human.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
BRADLEY SAUNDERS TALKS ABOUT THE NEW HUDSON SIX
ODDS AND ENDS OF AUTO
 WORLD IN BIRMINGHAM

compelled to carry goods that are not fresh and attractive. His stock is right up to the minute because it is con stantly replenished. The result is that the small town merchant can give his customers a city service, and many such firms have enjoyed a large ex- pansion of trade.
 The imposition of a tax on motor vehicles proposed by the Senate as a substitute for the gasoline tax meas ure recently suggested by the finance subcommittee. is manifestly unjust and burdensome for the motor car manufacturer as we'll as owner, ao- cording to Melville Drennen, local dis tributor of the overland company.
 Mr Drennen points out that his ob- jection is not inspired by political af- il ations or the fact that it means a cureai!nent of his company's profit. but thc. it means that Congress has singled tac most progressive of Amer ican industries to bear the brunt of . situation which is not in any way of it's making. All motorists should resiGt the tax, stated MT. Drennen. and the other automobile men in the city are of the same opinion.
 
 T can't get enough. Hupmobi1es."
 This Is the loud cry of Gentry Elston, manager of the Birminn- ham Motor company, these beauti- ful autumn days. MT. Elston is worried. He should be. It appears that the new 1915 Hupmobile has made a great hit and customers arc calling for their machines faster than the manufacturer Is shipping them in. This explains why Elston is frowning and sending "S. o. S." messages every few minutes.
 Just to show that Elston Is now "salving' the populace with his talk of more Hupmobiles tho fol- lowing is his list of sales the past week: Crawford Johnson, Rick Woodward, Dr. A. F. Towle, W. M. Mason of Virginia mines, Joe Mudd. assistant city attorney, Miss Leona Loveman and M. c. Satterfield. Ac- cording to Elston, there are many others just waiting for the ma chimes to arrive to become devotses of this sturdy little machine,
 sss
 John Gordon, the southern repre- sentative of the Dodge Brothers automobile, which will be placed on the market within 8 few weeks. arrived in Birmingham yesterday. He will be the guest of Bradley ], Saunders, the Alabama distributor of the Dodge car. MT. Gordon is en- thusiastic about the prospects of his company, and is also optimistic about southern commercial condi- tions. He stated that the cotton ate
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clInder runabout to disabuse his mind about the alleged superiority of the four cylindered machines I told him to go ahead and use my car in whatever man. ner he desired and to bring 1t back when he got ready To show you that the Hudson Is It's own best salesman my friend came back enthusiastic from trip over the nearby country roads and at once purchased the last 1915 model I had on the floor. have just received a let ter from him in which he enumerates at length the merits of the Hudson as he finds 1t out the longer he owes one.
 '"The automobile is responsible for hav- ing speeded up the world.'' continued MT. Saunders, after brief stop at the Coun- try club for refreshments, and now every professional man realizes that he cannot get along without an automobile. Large industries have realizes this and are equipping their salesmen with motor cars. And in the newspaper business in which speed is the all important factor a reporter having a runabout could secure more news and accurate news than the present method of logging 1t to the scene of crime or fire. In a few years every professional man will have an automo- bile for he will not be able to get along without 1t and keep up with the rest of the community. Speed, Is the essential
 
 are lost In the commercial and profess sional world.'
 The trip was over and Mir Saunders suddenly recalled that he had not once mentioned southern business conditions, the general business conditions of the country and the buy-a-bale movement and he smilingly added:
 You see I am so enthusiastic over the Hudson's that I let the other chaps worry about business conditions. As for the buy-a-bale movement I arh heartily in accord with it, and I have bought two bales, one for the Hudson company and one for the Dodge Brothers. And speak ing of the Dodge company brings to mind that this ear of mystery will soon be here.
 '"The Dodge car will be the sensation of the year. Already over 10000 of the leading dealers of the United States and Canada have applied for sales rights. The Dodge car is a real car of mystery as no one outside of the designing engi- neers know it's specifications. It will be the equal of any 5000 machine on the market today, and 1t will be sold under 5000. At least one dozen prominent rien have applied for the first Dodge car that arrives in Birmingham. There will be a carload of them here within 30 days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

~ HARLEs DENEGRE, manager | of the Southern garage and
 local distributor of the Packard automobile, tells the only war story along automobile row last week. MT. Denegre stated that his firm landed contract for 1s0 trucks of the two and three-ton variety for immediate ship ment. It taxed the entire resources of the factory, but by din of working 24 hours a day for over week the con tract was filled. Mir. Denegre did not state which of the warning nations will receive the consignment of "stripped' trucks. The order amount ed to s5000o0.
 H. B. Hodges, manager of the High land garage, who recently joined the .buy bale movement, states that business is brisk at the well known Five Points automobile station. Mir Hodges stated that the Buicks are finding customers right along, and that he can sell an Oldsmobile most any time.
 As for the Fords s, the Brownel Au- tomobile company finds it rather diff cult to manage deliveries such is the insistent demand for this popular ma chine. Ted" Brownel states that the Ford can do anything but climb tree This statement is disputed by Sergeant of Detectives Sydney H. Darnell, who has the privilege of using a city-owned Ford. Sergeant Darnell Stated that the Ford can climb @ tree and come down on the other side on high speed. Darnell must be looking for a new Ford, but anyway the Brownell brothers welcome all enconiums of the sturdy machine they are selling.
 Apropos of adding a few more lines, let 1t be stated that the Brownell com pany has bought their bale of cotton, and 1t is conspicuously displayed in their show windows Patriotism? No. that's good, sound business.
 new relationship is growing up be- tween the wholesaler and the retailer as result of the application of the motor truck to their transportation problems.
 It would seem that with large and speedy motor trucks the small town retailer would lose business because of the fact that the big wholesaler in in the city reaches out for his GUS toners in the suburbs and country, and that is the case to some extent. Yet there is some comfort in the fact that through the motor truck the small town dealer can now get anything he wants from the city, and what is more to the point get 1t quick. The small dealer is now in close touch with the city through the speed of the truck that supplies him. He is no longer
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away all gloomness and peevishness, and strengthen your petered-ou nerves.
 When ambition deserts you and vi- tality sags down near zero; when you're Tagged out in brain and body and your nerves lack .vim-the Kel- 1ogg's Sanitone Waters ginger" you up to concert pitch, put the punch" in your muscles, and make you jingle all oyer with health. $1.00 a box at drug gists.
 Send your name and address today with six cents in stamps to help pay postage and packing for free soc trial box of Kellogg's Sanitone Waters, to Block Rat1is RKstlliGgg rec cH Ia2{ moffmaster The regular s1.00 size of Kellogg s Sanitone Waters are for sale ina Bir- mingham at Adams Drug Co, 1901 2d Ave, Averyt's Chain of Drug Stores, l09-113 N. goth St. Dewberry Drug Store, 2031 Ed Ave, Norton Drug Store, 1880 2d Ave, John l.. Parker, jst Ave. and goth St, Patton Pope Drug Co.,, 300 \; goth St, Gum Drug Co. 4th Ave. and goth St, Eugene Jacobs Drug Store, 1904 Ed Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

To glide down some of the easy slopes on Highland avenue with the high speed clutch on and the car moving slower than a walk and then to make a steep incline with the clutch still on Thigh" and the machine fairly flying up the hill was one of the features of the trip.
 ''rhe latest creation of Howard D. Golf fin, the engineer that designed the 1915 Hudson," said MT. Saunders, 'is the best automobile for Its price on the market. It Is the superior six-cylinder machine. It is the car that you will eventually own.
 "A friend of mine, a doctor who had been touring in England the past summer with a four-cylinder macnme, came around to see a few weeks ago. I of- fered him the use of my Hudson six
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s1o per day. The Ford on that day meets him at tho depot and he calls upon his customers He does three days terri tory in one day. The records show that every dollar invested In this way is worth s of increased earning.
 This salesman reports that on January 1 last, he resolved to double the volume of his business in 1914 as against 1913. With his Ford schedule he had equalled his total business for 1913 on May last or within a period of four and a half months. And he travels now three days Instead of six days week. This sys- tme of prearranged Ford service in towns to be covered is in use by score of big distributing companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
21,976 FORDS
 SOLD IN SEPTEMBER

The Ford Motor company announces that in the month of September there were sold and delivered 21,976 Ford cars. This was a gain of |, ,479 cars over Sep- tember. 1913. This is significant, not only because 1t shows that the Ford produc- tion is rapidly being increased to meet the stupendous influx of orders, but also because 1t demonstrates that the Ford Motor company Is maintaining the 900,OO0- car schedule necessary to give Ford pur- chasers between August l, 1914 and Au- gust l, 1915, a share of Ford profits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
A Bitter PIaint

My wife is the most exasperating woman on earth,' said the man with Iit- erary hair.
 T thought she was wonderfully pleas ant"
 There you are. She won't sympathize In my work. I'm one of those humorists who describe family quarrels, and she in- sists on remaining absolutely good na- tured."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
.ELYS CREAM BALM OPENS CLOCCED
 NOSTR|[S AND HEAD-.-CATARRH GOES

dissolves by the heat of the nostrilsy penetrates and heals the inflamed, swollen membrane which lines the nose, head and throat; clears the air pas sages: stops nasty discharges and q feeling of cleansing. soothing relief comes immediately. sEtt se..s5 5sfszs
 Don't lay awake tonight struggling for breath, with head stuffed: nostrila closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh or a cold, with its running nose, foul mucous dropping into the throat, and raw dryness is distressing but truly needless
 Put your faith--just once-in "Ely's Cream Balm" and your cold or catarrh will surely disappear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Saunders Says He Lets Others Worry About
 Condition of Business
Too Busy With Hudsons to Feel Any Anxiety. Dodge Car of Mystery Will Be Here In Next Thirty Days

In driving the smooth asphalt of Highland avenue Alta mont road the Miner addition and Chestnut m residential sections the worth of automobile fully tested by hills and sharp Yesterday afternoon Bradley Saunders president of the Saunders Motor company taned the writer with the performance of the 1915 GAO Hudson these excellent and then varied the trip ride real bad roads and all without change speed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
THE FORD
 INCREASES BUSINESS

The sales department of the Ford Motor company, engaged in an investigation of the use of the Ford by business houses as salesman equipment" have an in- teTesting report from a Chicago com pany. One of their district salesmen ''covers' six towns. He has made an arrangement for Ford car at each town on specified week day at the rate of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Difficult Discipline
the Newark Times.

From the Newark Times.
 I'm fraid that my discipline is not what 1t should be-" said the conscientious man. T reproved my son severely and at length for neglecting his duties to go fishing"
 Wasn't he duly impressed?"
 "No. He looked me fin the eye and ex- claimed, Jealousr
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Instantly Clears Ar Passages; You Breathe Freely, Nasty Discharge Stops, Head Colds and Dull Head ache Vanish.

Get a small bottle anyway, just to try it--Apply little in the nostri1s and instantly your clogged nose and stop ped-up air passages of the head will open; you will breathe freely; dullness and headache disappear. By morning! the catarrh, cold lin head or catarrhal sore throat will be gone.
 End such misery now! Get the small bottle of "Ely's Cream Balm" at any drug store. This sweet, fragrant balm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Stay Vigorous
 at Seventy
Kellogg's Sanitone Waters Revive Vitality in Men and Women When Life's Sun
 Begins to Set.
800 BOX FREE.

What you AHE, not what you WE'RE, is what counts in the game of life. It's up to men and women to be live ones" and not slow down too soon. Kellogg's Sanitone Waters keep your vital energy aglow--drfve
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Pointed Paragraphs.

our idea OF sa earthly angel IS a
satisfactory wife.
Never pass up your friends in
order to grarfy strangers.
IL is better TO be good for revenue
only. than TO be bad for fun
]. 10 easier for most of US 20 lind
fault than it is to find favor.
IL pays 10 be honest, but some
times pay day is long time show
ing up.
High minded people do not have
to beco@s airship chauffeurs in order
to prove it.
We earnestly commeac those meI
who are too busy making good t,
purse crouch.
No. 4alonzc, sir. isn't nece s,ri.,
a modern Venus just because she has
an oshanded way.
Its foolish 10 become caumm,
with man who treats his dog better
than be docs his wife.
\ lot Of So called society leaders
are never beard OF until they figure
n soE4e scr; of scandal.
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ihe ierGeEcy To Take Geld.

hose acute IIilamIn ltIOns of the
mucous membrane of The nose and
throat that We cali "Coldsr seem To
be the inevitable fate of some people
as the cold weather advances.
Their victims often feel thar that is
The case, and unfortunately they be-
come So resigned to their fate that
rhey do not make any etfor; to avoid
their old ruemr.
lou often hear them say, 81 have
colds al. winter, but they never
come to anything" That remark
shows ihaI people know that colds
are 10 be dreaded, not only for them
selves, but because they do some
times lead 10 something worse: To
pneumonia, Tor instance, To bron
chiiis, 20 chronic ca,arrh, or even
to tuberculosis. 1t hetrays, more
over, 4 certain relaxation of moral
hbsr, for 1t amounts to giving up
the hgn, Thai is ihc wors, thing
,hat can happen 10 the victim OF
the recurrent cod. You should
never suiitudcr to The habit OF
ulaking cold +"
The habit often yields with sur.
prising sai LANES, tor il ls quite
unable TO get the better OF those
who are in really good health. To
ight cold after YOU have caught i,
is a good thing; YOU can hardly do
less, bat it is much better to make
your telf SO formidable that it will
not dare 10 attack you.
Ia carrying on the battle you may
have 10 form a complete set OF new
habits, end break oit many cherished
old ones. The place to begin is in
the bedroom at night. Ii you sleep
with yoUr window shut. you simply
q oliver yourself, bound hand and
foot, tn your enemy. II you open
it two or three inches. you arc a
.ittle better OF, but not much. In
sisi upon sleeping in the open air as
far as possible. II there is such a
Thing as specific against colds, il is
TO te fouud in the sleeping porch
CT the Gren bedroom. Next TO that
comes the cold sponge bath in the
morning.
IL the victim of colds is a young
woman who wears heavy fur coat,
and ;hIn pumps and silk stockings,
she is hopeless she mus, continue
20 have colds. Winter clothing tn ;
does not protect the extTemitIes is
riaicglous--allhough 1t mus. be re
memberea TIA: the very robus, can
commi, follies that spell death to the
delicate. One more good rule is
this-co not feel obliged to kiss
every freud you meet between
November and May.
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SYMPTOMS OF CONSUMPTION
Yield to Vinol.

The medical profession do not be-
lieve that consumption is inherited,
but a person may inherit q weakness
pf tendency to that disease.
A prominent eisiSsa sf EVaEsTiiis
Ind, writes: II was Ill for fiye
months with pulmonary trouble, and
had the best Of doctors; had hemorr-
hages and was in a very bad way.
Through the advice Of friend | tried
Vinol, and I feel that 1t saved my
life. Il is all you recommend it 10
bs. ] beileye it " the greatest medt-
cine on earth. ! have sdyised Others
to try vinol, and they have had tho
same results" (Nare furnished ca
request.j
vinol soothes and heals the inflamed
surfaces and allays the cough. Vinoi
creates an appetite, strengthens the
ljsesiiYa organs and gives the patient
strensth TO throw on recipient palmo-
nary diseases.
Try a bottle of Vinol with the un'
derstanding that your money will be
returned if it does not help you.
6. {. cOtNIzllR, Druggist.
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quality TO any grown in the United
States. The s;rangest feature OF
Tanana valley farming is that it is
possible only because The sub
soil is eternally frozen. When the
spring begins to thaw the surface
The plow turas over the surface at
the earth above the ice, and as the
thaw proceeds moisture is given Oft
from underground, forming a per
feet subIrrigaIion system.
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In the case OF that Kansas farm
land who almost lost an eye through
is contract with the nose of his girl
/, hen he was iIyiag to Kiss her, one
1ndsrs whether il was the eyes or
e nose that was At t4uit. Oues
TN! All IN tAv, r, e,es; contrary,
I s.. The nose have ~
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restored 10 health.
Catarrh OF the throat i no, only ga
annoying disease Of itself, but Il cl-
poses the victim TO many other dis
cases. We ere constantly breathing
into our thruats numerous atmos-
pheric germs. Disease gerIlG Of II
sorts. This cannot be avoided. IL
the throat is healthy the Tystcm Is
protected from these poisonous
germs. But il thc throat i5 raw aud
punctured With numerous l.,,,e ul-
GERS, by catarrh. then the disease
germs have easy access 10 the system.
Keep the throat wen and clean.
This Is the way 20 protect yourself
against CONTIGUOUS d.- 1eca. CarElo
the throat as o.-glaiaet IN tie new
'1lls OF Life sent fr-e ~ the parUra
Co, Columbus. Ohio.
Mr. Barnes scv~: 'T had tbvCrt
trouble and had three c5c.ors treat
ing me. Al failed % % nc any
good. and pronounced Tay health sope.
i concluded to try Io--la, ana after
using four bottles cSa say was en-
tirely cured"
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lTIs one Of the proud boasts OF
81. I.onls that i, Is the best "Shases
care toai.r on tie ihestrical map,
flwaYs filling ,he houses When
Shakespeare ,s plaird Prctabl,
tue world woald more appreciate
81 LOUIS If II advertised this fac,
rs;her than that j, is the biggest
tregIng center IN The world.
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How would II do To encourage
continual war ia Aiexico rather than
discourage ii9 a place in which
perpetual war is waged might serve
the world well as horrible example
and give the yoath of every land an
opportunity t" 10 and work off its
b'ood lust. O,hcr people could
-ep away, leaving Mexico to the
l. shiers.