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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07
URGES CREATION OF
 AN ECONOMIC STAFF
German Paper Suggests Husbanding Its C0un-
 tries Resources

Amsterdam. January 20-(Correspon- uehce or the Associated Press)-Tha Cologne Gazette Is urging the German government to appoint an economic gen- eral staff" which will have power to enforce immediate measures for the con- servation of food supplies. Such a meas ure' It maintains. will double tho use- fulness of available stocks of foodstuffs.
 To denne the duties of such a general starr, says tho paper. would help our enemies, and so We must restrict our selves to hints. We must husband our resources, and at the same time pro- mote their most rapid development We must learn to build fleets in as many months as we formerly took years We must form servioeable armies and ont Of comparatively inefficient material. With prisoners and machines we must sew our fields. work our mines, increase our production of war material
 We must put to useful work thouxandr or heads and hands that have heretofore been unproductive. We must cheek our HUMILITY In arts and science which only peautify; we must reshape our forcea an1 direct everything to the attainment of our great aim.
 This war Is being fought against a superiority of two to one Doubtless we nave won great victories. but there |, stlil gigantic work to be done"
 fror. Carl Oppenheimer devotes stx coiumns in tho Berlin Vossische Zeitunr to urging his countrymen to adopt a vegetarian diet during the remainder of tho war. The attempt to raise cattle for meat, he things, Is likely to mean foo heavy a drain on the supply of grain.
 'Mheat is undoubtedly the most exner- sive of all popular foodstuffs," says the professor. Tt is also undesirable from national economic point of view hs cause we must import a vast ouant,tv of fodder for our herds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07


 New York from their native countries, and eight striking types of beauties are snown in the act. Dame Fashion finds them and the transformation to American beauties is rapid and complete. There IS Turkish beauty, an English beauty, a fTench, German, Spanish, an Ital- ian Russian. Swedish and an Aus trian. It is said that owing to the excess number of musical comedies and shows tbdt have gone back off the road recently the management of the act was able to secure the handsomest and most striking types for this act, and as result 1t is an assembly of the handsomest women in vaudeville. Beautiful costumes, a gor- geous stage setting and all the effects of big Lasky production will be seen. The comedy, the dances and the musical numbers are in keeping with the other Lasky productions seen here in the past. Heaps of hilarity" is said to express admirably the melange of laughs and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07
Making St. Paul's Fire-proof

London, January 29--(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-The guardians of St. Paul's cathedral have just spent an emergency appropriation of $25,ooo to make the big building as nearly fire-proof as possible. They have taken out all the woodwork which 1t was possible to re- move, and replaced 1t with iron or steel; 1; and they have Installed an elaborate system of fire mains and hydrants. ae- companied by special apparatus for forc- ing the water to a height above the top of the dome. Until these Improvements were completed St. Paul's was regarded by the fire department as a dangerous building in case of fire anywhere in the block of tall buildings which surrounds 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07

It Is always the merest trifles rath-
 CT than the big things of life which
 indicate the manners and tastes of the average person. A glaring social er- Tor, particularly rude action or tact less speech are not made with too great
 frequency, but other less obsrusive faults are often committed--sometinle solely through ignorance or want of thought.
 It is just as grave a mistake to be too polite as to be abominabiy rude. The painstasingly polite person Is very trying to encounter, for extremes oft en meet and he generally succeeds in being actually illbred. For instance, there is always the man who. in the mistaken idea that woman should always precedc him. allows her to
 fight her way first into a crowded train. descend unaided and walk before him into restaurant that is rather full He fondly imagines that he Is being exceedingly polite and 1t is only when the errors of his ways have been point ed out to him by some kindly soul that he suddenly realizes how aggra- vating he must have proved to the women he has had the pleasure of es- corting.
 Removing his right glove before shalx- ing hands with lady: raising his hat when he offers a damsel his seat in a car: carefully piloting his fair companion across a crowded street: walking on the outside of the pavement. and refrain ing from sitting when talking to a lady who happens to be standing, are all in stances of those little things which mark the good breeding and thoughtfulness of a man. Unfortunately, in some cases, these things do not come by instinct, but rather through the hard school of ex- 
 On the other hand. woman requires to be just as careful of her manners. It Is very exciting, no doubt, to talk loudly and Initiate casual hearers into tho mys- teries of an intimate conversation with another woman.
 Unfortunately, the listeners are only sontemptuously impressed with the fact hat the speaker is incapable of control- 1 ing her own voice. If the voice is leard in place of entertainment the feeling is replaced by one If decided irritation. It Is just as tire tome to have the attention diverted from he play by loudly whispered comments IS by the continual crunching of sweets 'r fidgeting of someone in the vicinity.
 woman who is untidily or carelessly lressed Is quite as rude as man with ,ut collar. He would never dredm l # going out without something round his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07
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 Those sufferers who are in and ont of bed half dozen times at night will ap- preeiate the rest. comfort and strength this treatment gives. For any form of bladder trouble or weakness it's action is really wonderful
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 To prove The Williams Treatment conquers kidney and bladder diseases, rheumatism and all uric acid troubles no matter how chronic or stubborn, if you have never used The Williams Treatment, we will give one soc bottle t3e dosesl free if you will cut out this notice and send. if with your name and address. with i0c to help pay disfribu- ton expenses to The Dr. D. A Williams Company. Dept, gro New P O. Bldg. East Hampton. Conn. Send at once and you Will receive by parcel post a regular 50c bottle t32 doses) without charge and without mourning any obligat lions. One bottle only to family or address.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07
FORGET RIFLE IN
 USE OF THE SPADE

London, January 2s.--tCorrespondence of the Associated Press.)-'We sometimes get so interested In tho progress of our work with the spade that we forget to use our rifles when opportunity offers, writes an engineer officer from the front
 There is a trench position in front of our position here which Is for the time being held partly by the English and partly by the Germans, with sandbag barricade between them. Last night it rained and blew with great violence, and khe barricade came down.
 "On one side was a British soldier. and on the other a German. Instead of trying to shoot each others heads off, they quietly began to pile the sacks fin position. First the Englishman put up a sack, then the Germans. until all was finished. Then they said Good night and dropped back in their sentry posi- tions.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07
THEATRICAL NOTES

With company of minstrel favorites. embracing such players as Arthur RiRby, Sam Lee, John P. Rogers, Tommy Hyde.
 James Meehan. William H. Thompson.
 Jim Doherty. Eldon Durand, Leroy
 .Lasses" White. Will CawIey, Master Paul Van Dyke. and many others, George
 Evans Will be seen at the Jefferson Feb ruary IS.
 A new programme of up-to-da min stRelsy in an all new scenic frame and with an all new wardrobe empelIishment will be offered. Of course, the singing corps will offer new songs and the big orchestra of the company, under the skillfu baton of Eddie Cupero. will be found full and satisfying. These yearly productionsI, of high class ninstrelsy which Honey Boy" Evans has 10 mag terfully managed to produce, have been found really excellent in character and enjoyable to the lover of this time-honored amusement. The little minstrel star him. self is always delightfully."- entertaining and the monologue moments with Honey Boy are sure-fire case of unrestrained laughter. This year he is particularly happy with big war. map and sort of geographical lecture upon the war zone.
 George Arliss, who will be seen at tho Jefferson in February, in Louis N. Par ker's comedy. "Disraeli," was intended by his father to be a journalist, being himself publisher. and journalism hav- ing been the calling of the forbears on the paternal aide for two centuries But newspaper work had no interests for the young Arliss and he soon gave up the p1 ofession of the press for that of the stage much to the disappointment of his family at that time.
 Miss Billie Burke fin "Jerrvn wtIl h. at the Jefferson in March. Jerry is American, the work of Catherine Chis- holm Cushing. who has furnished at least two of the most successful comedies seen on the American stage in recent years Kitty MacKay, and Widow by Proxy" Charles FrohmAn presented Miss Burke In Jerry toward the end of the last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07
LASKY'S BEAUTIES"
 LYRICS HEADLINER
Famous Organization of Gorgeous Women From All Nations in Mini-
 ature Musical Comedy

Another musical comedy flying the Jesse Lasky standard Is "rhe Beauties" in which William H Weldon, William J. Mccarthy and Eileen Van Biene are starring at the head of a company of 16 people They compose the headline feature at the Lyric this week. .oFhc Beauties is by William Le Baron and the music by Robert Hood Bowers
 The theme of the musical comedy is new. Eight beautiful women appear in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07

seson at the I1yceum theatre, New York. and both the play and the star scored tremendous success. The reviewers all declared that the piece gave the popular young actress tho best oppor- tunity she had yet had of displaying her charming personality and at the same time of exhibiting her skill as a come dienne and the public flocked to see her. The piece tells the story of the adven- lures of a Chicago girl, in a quiet Phila- delphia snburb-Miss Burke impersonat- Ing the Chicago girl. of course.
 "A pair of Slxes." which will be at the Jefferson shortly, has produced more laughs than anything on the American stage in many years. It was 10 months hit in New York. at the Longacre the atre. It is full of fun. thrills and laughs galore-is proper expression in describ- ing this wonderful comedy H. II. Fra zee's steadily advancing stagecraft is very markedly Illustrated in this play of laughs and mystery.
 Tn the burning of Lcuvain, and the in- vasion of other parts of Europe by the Germans, many works of art famous masterpieces and great pieces of statuary were destroyed partially or totally. and countless others were hastily gathered and rushed to places of safety, notably the great vaults of Paris and London.
 Several of these great paintings and pieces of statuary which were destroyed or which have been taken will be re- produced in life at the Lyric next week by Henrietta De Serris and her IS models from the Academy of Sculpture, Paris. The posing of the models. the scenic in- vesture and the settings are said to be absolutely true to the famous paintings and pieces of stauary The act Is one of the greatest of the Keith headliners and just at this time is particularly strong as a vaudeville act.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
NO APPREClABLE PROGRESS
In None Of the Various Battles in Eu-
ropsan Fields Has Progress
Been Made.

Paris.-Comparative quiet reigns il
France and Flanders, while the hun
dreds " thousands constituting the
fighting forces in Russian Poland,
The Carpathians and East Prussia are
still deadlocked in a series Of desper
ate engagements that have resulted
in great losses.
Londoa.-The British parliament
has been asked by the British govern.
ment to give It q blank check for
army purposes. 1t is expected that
lie Parliament will vote d nominal
I'm under each of the Is groups OF
Expenditures, and il it does this ii
VIII haze voted supplies without limit
For ar army of 5000, 900 men, to be
accounted for when the war is over.
Premier Asquith, in a statement be
fore the House of Commons, announc'
ed that the British casualties, includ'
ing killed, wounded and missing, up
10 IeD. 4. numbered 1o4 ,000.
An ,..dication that Italy is pursuing
her policy Of waiting is found IN a
royal decree Just issued which orders
hat soldiers Of the second category
classes Of 1893 and 1894 shall be re,
tanned under the Colors until May 81
next. Second category recruits are re
Earded as belonging to the permanent
army for the first eight years of serv
ice. They then pass to the mobile
militia and afterwards to the terri
torial militia. This term of military
service is supposed to be finished at
the age Of 80 years.
Berlin.-The naval measures Of
Germany against British commerce
are in no sense a blockade; no hos
tile action against neutral shipping Is
contemplated, and Germany's wa
ships will endeavor to avoid sink
American or neutral ships, taking e
ey p~recaution to that end IS a:
nounced.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
THE RUSSIANS WON VICT0.iY
Battle Near Warsaw Hardest Fought
and Most Costly in Lives Lost
o. Any Durinu War.

Londong. -- The Petrograd CORE
spondent Of the Daily Mail wired that
the battle between 35 and 40 milc5
from Warsaw Is the hardest fought
and most costly in life of any during
the entire war,
Many military authorities here say
that the formation in which the Ger.
mans are attacking Is more solid than
any record in the history Of organized
warfare.
Along q narrow front Of seven miles,
near Borjimow, they concentrated So,'
900 men and 500 guns, and after two
days furious bombardment with as
p~hyxiating shells, they advanced upon
the Russian lines in a dense forma'
ton, 10 men deep, evidently hoping to
conquer by sheer weight OF numbers
Some part OF the Prussian guards were
brought up and employed in this ter
rifle attack, with orders from the kai'
ser himself to break through the Rus
sian line at any cost.
Under the eyes OF the z the huS'
SLAMS gained a signal success. Not only
were the German attacks repulseG
with enormous loss, but the Russians
themselves took the offensive, struck
the Germans left flank, crossed the
little river Bzura at its mouth by the
vistula and took Dekhova, just about
Sochaczew, capturing a German brig
ade.
While the Germans with three-quar-
ters Of their forces along the Bzura
continued to hammer at the Russian
line, the Russians threw their forces
across the Bzura at Kamion, near the
junction of the Bzura with the Vistula,
and captured German fortified posi-
ton. At the same time they drove
the Germans across the Bzura at Oak
hova, close to Sochaczew.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
SHARKS TOOTH IN 4 WELL
DUO Up In California Where Ancient
Sea Monster Probably Met
!. Death In Landslide.

Santa Ana, Cal..-From a depth OF
1852 feet we'll diegers employed by
Joseph Mefford drew up a sharks
tooth In an excellent state Of preserva'
J ton. The serrated edges of the tooth
rare as sharp as the day the ancient
sea animal met death, possibly be-
meath a great landslide. Attached to
the tooth Is a piece Of petrified bone.
The relic was found south of Santa
Ana in a vicinity where well borers
have frequently found shells and wa
ter-worn rocks at a depth of from 450
to 675 feet. A few months ago a
piece OF petriied bone, three inches
in diameter, was brought up southwest
Of the well in which the sharks tootf
was discovered
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
HIS BEES ON BoTT
Right Method for the Winter Seas
& Declares This Missouri
IVA Apiarist.

C~hicago.-1f you are an apiarist ard
syour bees do not thrive in the long
winter season, try raising them on
~ bottle. H. H. Thale Of haywood,
Mo- who has 500 colonies of the little
Honey makers, has found this method
very successful.
Thale resorted to bottle feeding OF
baby bees when he discovered that
cold spells like that of the last two
days materially cut down the number
% bees. He places the bottle on the
ledge Of the hive and through a little
valve a mixture Of sugar and water
strickles into a steel trough which ex.
tends into the hive.
It furnishes the bees plenty Of nour.
ishment and helps along during the
breeding season. Thale last year
marketed 1900 pounds Of honey
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
ARE GAME
Nit Sessions Test Old Mem.
bers' Endurance.
inner A~ntagonisms Conquer Age and
lend Strength to Participants in
SS Ship Purchase Bill Debate in
ss%gMs Senate Chamber.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK.

(Staff Correspondent Western Newspaper
Union)
Washington,-Nieht sessions Of the
senate which, p~aradoxically, are the
order of the day, are tests of the en-
durance of the aged participants. The
senate at night is a study of deep in
terest, though n pities while he
2tMdies.
%S There is no gamer bird than the
oad bird" said the man in the gal
MY, whom the dignity Of the sena-
st0rial garb did not halt from compar-
tng an aged one to a cock in the pit.
Aenator Jacob J. Gallinger of New
hampshire, seventy-eight years old,
vas then in the last round of his
Seven hours speech against the ship
p~nrchase bill. g.
ION an average the senators Of to-
lay are younger than those of a day
not long gone by, but age still rules
aSand the word senate still holds Its
Significance. Gallinger Is seventy
eight years old and there are other
men in the cha mber who are older.
Then again there are younger men
whose physical stamina cannot COM
pare with that of the veteran physi.
clan of New Hampshire.
Lodge is a much younger man than
Gallinger, and so is Root, but neither
nf them, to go back to the cockpit,
could stand the gaff as Gallinger stood
It and is willing again to stand it. If
Ill the opponents of the ship purchase
l Bill physically were Gallingers the adj
SvOcates of the measure would have
nothing to hammer against from now
until March 4 but a REINFORCED con
crete wall.
IN days when something big is at
ttake the senators give over all en-
ticing social engagements. The din
sner at the home of the cabinet Off.
Ger is foregone; the reception at the
Army and Navy club goes begging
tor senator guests; the Geographic
society lecture, one Of the most po-
tent attractions Of the Washington
winter, shows a dwindled attendance.
The capitol is the scene of action and
no senator must desert it.
When some senatorial opponent Of
the measure under consideration is
\ Milking r%elevantly or i~rrelevantly to
tie subject the other senators wander
Into the cloak room to smoke, or
down to the restaurant to drink dubi-
Gus milk or eat doubtful doughnuts.
They make It a point v to go be-
yond earshot of the warning bell
which announces mo quorum or the
approach Of a vote.
One learns from the senate gallery
that age can stand much when it Is
strengthened by the spirit Of bitter
&Antagonisms. Words are drawled out,
but, speak slow or fast, the senator
who holds the floor is the senator
who holds the fort against the enemy.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12

There are two theories regarding i'm
migration from Europe after the WAY
One is that it viii come with a rus
The other is that inducements for STAY
ing across the water will be ~irrcsjsi
BILE. So many men will have been
killed of, it is argued, that the resump-
ton of industries will create compet!-
ton for the labor of those who remain,
and raise European industrial condi'
tons above the level at which they
stood prior to the war. The surest
way to know which Of these forecasts
is the right Il will be to wait and
see
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
LOVERS DIE SIDE BY SIDE
French Girl Is Killed While Helping
Fatally Wounded French
Officer.

London.-"By the side Of a young
French cavalry officer who had been
hit in a fight on the Aisne we found
the body Of a pretty girl" said ser.l
geant Payne. who Is at Bristol, Eng-I
land, wounded. Both were dead
When the young man Joined his resil
ment the girl left 2 convent school and
attached herself to the Red Cross.
Hearing that her sweetheart had not
returned from a charge in which his
regiment was engaged she went outI
with the ambulance men to look for
him. Going in advance she found him,
and while attending to his wounds
was killed. They we're buried side by
side"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12

R,mc,-The Trjbuna, dealing edito.
rally with ~Germany's sea war ION"
prorlamution, declares that neutral
countries never will submit to sarh
".ntolerable arbItrariness" and will IN
SIT that beiIigerents continue the Gus
tom Of boarding and examining ship,
before sinking them. The newspaper
adds that Germany will be held re.
r.u.irlc for the stalking Of any yes
.rls without tins fDrInality.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12

CaIro.-To hinder the advance OF
British forces the Germans in East
Africa placed hives containing wild
bees in bushes on each side Of the
road Wires led to the lids Of the
hives. German machine gun fire and
the sting Of the bees repealed the Brit
lsh attack.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12

Washington. - Informal discussion
nv President Wilson with his advisers
Of the German notification Of the dan.
rers to which neutral ships may be
subjected in the newly prescribed war
zones around Great Britain and Ire.
land. and the use by the British liner
Lusitania Of the American flag, fore.
Swallowed a diplomatic correspondence
between the United States and both
Great Britain and Germany, respect.
lysly, on these questions.
" gsvsssss
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12

The conclusion Of experts in the
United States health service that the
number of persons in this country ad-
dicted to the use Of narcotic drugs has
been exaggerated will be received with
general satisfaction, but the fact that
it is based on the official statistics Of
the importation Of such drugs may
cause some people to wonder whether
there may not be surreplitious imDor-
tations of which the custom house
officials are unaware
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
WJheImina's Cargo.

New York.-The sale Of the cargo
NJ the american steamship Wilhelmina
to the Belgian relief commission will
not be considered by its owners unless
and until the ship is seized by the
British authorities, according to a
statement issued by Noryin l.. Lind
helm and former Senator Charles A.
Towne, counsel for the w. l.. Green
Commission Company Of st. Louis,
owners Of the cargo.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
FOR SALE.

Good Pea Vine Hay. Cheaper
than you can buy from dealers;
any amount from one bale up;
also about 800 bales Grass Hay;
have several nice heifers with calf
by Hereford Bull; also 2 nice
helfers with calf by Ho.stcin; will
come in soon,
PELTZ C SON.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-02-12
Clash With Roumania.

Paris.-Austrian troops violated the
Roumanian frontier near Turn Sew
erin, a y a Journal dispatch from
Nish. The Austrians are reported to
have fired on frontier guards opposing
their passage. A furious fight fol-
lowed.