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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
THE BATTLEFIELD IS
 STILL PICTURESQUE German Officer Tells of
 Observation Duty
 TIME PASSES FAST
Battle at Night Is Beautifully Terri ble-NO Human Voice Is Heard and When Firing Ceases Winds
 Whispers Are Audible

Hanover, February 1.-(Correspond- tnce of the Associated Press .)-Though the modern battlefield at night is the abode of terror, it does not lack pie turesaueness, according to a German officer whose opportunities to be i'm pressed have been many. In a letter to a friend here he wrote:
 Being on observation duty at night is not as lonely a job as you think. Time passes very quickly. There are nights, however, when every minute seems an hour-all that depends upon circumstances and your own frame of mind.
 War here is more intense than Ii is in the east. My observation post lies close to the lines of the French or hill From there I report the move ments of the enemy and direct oui artillery fire. Over me fly hundreds oi shells and shrapnel from both sides. A share of them came last night.
 Until about 10 o'clock all was quiet From out of the dark night came ths usual battlefield noises. if noises on, could call them. Somewhere men spoke In an undertone-what language I dc not know. Then came the sound Of foot steps A man coughed in a. suppressed manner and the steps of another wer, recorded by the faint voice of two me tallic substances striking together Then the steps and other sounds van ished and replaced my revolver.
 French Trenches Open
 "There was nothing to be seen un til to my right the rifles in Frencl trench began to sputter. Little tongue of purplish fire seemed to leap acros the ground and through the air wen the wall of thousands of bullets. Wha they shot at I could not discover false alarm, of course. But they kep 1t up valiantly and the excitement com municated itself to the trenches i front of me and to those beyond on m left.
 Tn less time than 1t takes to writ 1t the entire field from sleer Searchlights which had lain still be gan to move about frantically. Her and there other lights appeared as somebody had turned on the electri current of a city
 Headquarters wanted to know wha was the matter. After confessing m
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
MAY DISPOSSES HIM
 OF ROLL TOP DESK

want to inform you that have not "passed on" all the new pur- chases. for I have yet in my posses- .ion aome of the bonds issued under the Drennen administration, which the Iegislature, apprehending the coming of incompetent business men, were wise enough to secure with a mortgage upon some of the achOolhouses, and the very city hall that you exploit yourself in, like . Cxar, but I can't say how long will be the holder of them. and should the ownership change you had better step lively, George Ward. and provide the interest In proper time, for if you don't, the trustee will dlspOssess you from that beau tifuI roll top desk and revolving
 chafr now occupied by you. md you may have to get down to pine
 table and cracker box, towards which your admitted incompetency
 in administering the city's affairs
 points.
 You further talk of some of tn things B, Steiner could tell the pee ple. We'll none of the good people i Birmingham have ever asked me an questions; if they will. I will cheerful answer them and give them all in formation that I have, but to give it you, George Ward, would be wastin time and energy, for you have nc business ability or unselfish judgmer to appreciate and use 1t for the publl good. Besides you say that this har pened before 1900. more than 15 veal ago: and the public has about reache the conclusion you are now only try
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14

It's easy to understand why. Creams and lotions only get at the surface, while Stuart's Calcium Wa fers go right into the blood and in stead of a sluggish deposit in the skin the impurities that cause skin dis eases are destroyed in the perspira- tion that is exhaled through the pores in the form of invisible vapor You'll never have a good complexion without pure blood, but you positively will have fine beautiful complexion if you use Stuarts Calcium Waters.
 They contain no poisonous drug or any kind, are perfectly harmless and can be taken with absolute freedom, and they work almost like magic Cal cium Sulphide. their principal ingredi- ent, is the strongest blood cleanser known to science.
 No matter how bad your skin may be, Stuart's Calcium Waters will quick ly work wonders with it. It's good-by to blackheads, pimples. acne. boils. rash eczema and a dirty "filled-up' complexion. You can get box or Etuart's Calcium Waters at any drug store at 50 cents a box, and you will be positively delighted with their won- derful effect A small sample package mailed free by addressing F. A. stuart Co.,, 175 Stuart Bldg, Marshal, Mich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
DYSPEPSIA GONE! NO INDIGESTION
 GAS, SOURNESS- TAPES D|APEPS|N

facilitating headaches, dizziness or inc testinal gripping. This will all 60. and. besidss. there will be no sour food left over in the stomach to poison your breath with nauseous odors.
 Papes Diapepsin is a certain cure for out of order stomachs because 1t takes hold of your food and digests 1t Just the same as If your stomach wasn't there
 Relief in five minutes from all stom- ach misery is waiting for you at any drug store.
 These large 50-cent cases contain enough Tapes Diapepsin' to keep the entire family free from stomach disor- ders and indigestion for many montha It belongs In your home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
Time it! In five minutes your
 sick, upset stomach feels fine.

Get from your pharmacist 60-cent case of Pape's. Diapepsin and take a dose just as soon as you can. There will be no sour risings. no belching oi undigested food mixed with acid. nc stomach gas or heartburn, fnllness ol heavy feeling in the stomach, nausea
 When your meals don't fit comfort of lead in your stomach, or If you hav' heartburn, that is q sign of indigestion ably. or what you eat lies like . lumI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14

corporations of the district to handla
 his products. These were seen and
 shown how the employment of more
 girls would add to the general up-
 building of the city and his goods re-
 ceived share of their orders, proving
 the advantages here for such an en- terprise and the Phillips Tendon over all factory Is now occupying this field very successfully.
 These are only few of the many such instances that were constantly occurring along about that period. The new industries were looked after, their difficulties removed or minimized and the city is now the beneficiary. Many more industries can be located ln Bir- mingham if gone after In the righk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14

will never have public office again. or get political nOurishment, that when your term of office expires, you will have to go to work like we, the people. Or, in other words, you will have to come down to plain corn bread and bacon. or, as Q, Henry says, gro hog and hom- iny.v As to your concluding re- marks "abOut treason and to be shot" I can only say. George Ward. you have been reading too much of the present war news, and I am afraid 1t hns caused you to boil over with a feeling of emOtiOnai in- sanity. But there is one cOnsOla- ti0n. should my fears prove true. that Tuscnloosa is not far from Bir- mingham. 0, you dreamer, you big noise, you may have gotten some nOtOriety in the past by jumping on cripples. hut this will give you mo- tOriety of . different sort.
 Now, MT. Editor, I will say to you fc George Ward, that the day for the pol tician to becloud his inability and ineff ciency to cope with his duties by givin his time, energy and attention to grand stand plays in the newspapers, is a thin of the past. That the people are san and sensible and that they measure public official by what he actually e complishes and not by what he sa, through the press. and the best mott that MT. Ward could adopt would to clean his own skirts by actual wor along the line of duty, not mere shan show and fuss. and his future will sho better results than his past.
 Thanking you for your courtesy in a lowing me space to refute an uncalled f' and slanderous personal attack on m I close with the kindest feeling to all u neonle of Birmingham for whose Urea ment I have the highest appreciation, ar wish always to be considered tr, friend to Birmingham and her people.
 B. STEINER. New York, February 10. 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14

fore your usefulness. if you ever had any, in the community has entirely ceased. In other words, will you stake your job against the truth of your assertion?
 I think have infringed enough on the kindness and good nature of the news- paper and will close my article by re- ferring to your abuse and your charges in connection with my election to the presidency of the Chamber of Commerce. George Ward, if you live one thousand yeArs do not believe you could be elect ed president of that honorable and worthy body. I am proud of having served them, and in my humble efforts and ways, prob- ably contributed something to the peo- ple's good and benefit of Birmingham in it's earlier days
 PREDICTS THIS IS
 WARDS LAST OFFICE
 In fact, I predict, George Ward, and you know I come from the race of prophets, that after this, you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
SOME INDUSTRIAL
 "REMINISCENCES
Nv N. F. THOMPSON

If the correct relationship which the infant" industries of Birmingham have borne to the growth and pros perity of the city could be portrayed, it would form one of the most inter- cst'ng chapters in it's history.
 Having been intimately connected with some of these. will give few
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
CASE FOUGHT OUT
 IN ALL THE COURTS

Are you ignorantly or Intentionally re- flecting on the ability of such gentlemen and the stability of our decisions. for you must know that the validity of the Birmingham amendment of 1898 was tested in the courts in a suit brought by the May & Thomas Hardware company, and 1t was sustained first by Judge Charles A. Senn of the city court, and his de- cIsion was affirmed by the unanimous opinion of the supreme court written by Chief Justice Thomas N. Mcclellan, and
 in which that eminent jurist of Birming-
 ham, Judge Henry A. Sharpe, concurred.
 To say that the people of Alabama by
 voting for the amendment, the legislature
 by enacting it, the members of the con-
 stitutional convention and our courts by
 confirming it by approving it, were led
 astray or "tricked," would mean to say
 that George Ward would have the peo-
 pie believe that by his ingenious ability
 as high financier he has been able to
 sec something that the people who voted
 for the measure, numbering thousands,
 have failed to see, and that the legisla- ture of many minds and brilliant talent have failed to see, and that the members of the constitutional convention-men of affairs and business lawyers of the high est training, and undoubted ability-have ] failed to see. And as to which. you George Ward, though sitting in passive silence for years and years with this knowledge, have refrained from advising the people or the legislature. It strikes me that 1t comes down to the question, were the people corrupt? Was the legis- lature corrupt? Were the members of the constitutional convention and of the supreme court corrupt? If not corrupt were they all fools and tricked? And is George Wards mind and perception SC | far superior to the minds and intellect of all the people, all the legislatures and all the members of the constitutional convention of 1901 and all the supreme | court judges. George, you may think it but no one in Birmingham believes it. and I surely do not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
The Road of Successes

HrOn PUCK.
 Author: It's be a fine feather in your cap if you produce this play.
 Manager (glancing over scenario): I'll be the goat-why?"
 Author: Why, you'll have the laugh on the 19 short-sighted managers who turned fl down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14

ing to raise a cloud of dust to hide your inefriciency. short comings and failures. You have the city records on hand and you, can readily ascertain. hut to my recollection at this late day it was during the Van Hoose admin ,istration at a commission, contingent on success. after having failed through all other agencies, we were employed by the then city officials to straightep out their financial affairs, which was evidently done to their full satisfac- ton. for they gave us longtime rotes in payment of our services, which were paid promptly at maturity.
 IMPOSSIBLE TO TRICK
 so MANY GOOD PEOPLE
 You also devote a great part of your article to the assertion that the peo- pie of Alabama were "tricked" by the constitutional amendment of 1898. The best answer to this would be that a statement of this kind first presupposes | that the citizens of the state of Ala bama, who voted for the amendment | to the constitution, were "corrupted or tricked" by me, fact which would, l of course, be so absurd and so ridic- ul,us that it is hardly worth while to 1 answer 1 Probably no man in Alabama, not l even you, George Ward, were you in- | of your own eminent ability, could cor rupt the people of Alabama. Secondly 1 the majority of the legislature would have had to be corrupt in order to l submit the amendment and it strikes
 me that you are treading on exceed ingly thin ice to charge that the leg | islature, composed of some of the best and most prominent citizens Of Ala bama were "tricked" by me or any | one else. Third, but not last, in order | to carry the scheme through, as you | George Ward, term it, and which is SC | merged with "trickery," the majority of the men who participated in tn, constitutional convention of 1901 would | have had to be tricked corrupted | for they adopted the increase of 1898
 1t certainly strikes me that thes' 1 men of brains and patriotism, who's, l character and regulations are abov, reproach. would certainly have no condoned the passing of this act as al | amendment to the constitution wher 1t is apparently tricky" and fraudu lent. George Ward. you could hardl.
 say that men of the type of John E
 Knox, David c. -Almon, Cecil Browne
 Thomas l.. Bulger A s. Carmichael
 Thomas w. Coleman, Ed deGraffenreid
 John c. Eyster. John D. Burnett
 Charles w. Ferguson, William S. Fitts
 A. c. Howze Thomas G. Jones. Tennan
 Lomax, Henry r. Reese William H
 Sanford, George A. Searcy Henry (
 Selheimer, John B. Weakley, Jame Weatherly, Judge R. w. Walker an others of the best of Alabama, coul l, be purchased by myself or anybod , else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
Through sleeper to Richmond

Through Sleeper to Richmond
 The Birmingham Special leaving Bir- mingham 800 a. m. daily, handles a through sleeper to Richmond, arriving there 500 a. m., eastern time. Southern Railway Is the route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
B. Steiner Hits Back Hard
 in Reply to Wards Sen
 sational Charges About . the City's Sinking Fund
(Continucd from Page Fivc)

(COntinucd from Page Five)
 ing the financial insolvency then
 threatening the city, which several
 other financiers were unsuccessful
 in accomplishing. But what was
 done was by persistent. intelligent
 work, energetic and business abil-
 ity. all three of which classifica-
 tions you have admittedly failed to
 develop in the management Of the
 city's affairs.
 And our compensation in accomplishing the financial arrangement desired by the city government, has added to and may form part of the million for which Ward demagogically wishes me condemned. The balance of said million we havo made in a legitimate business by helping build up Birmingham, and every dollar that the Steiners have ever made is right here in and around Birmingham and many buildings, industries and enterprises have and use some of the Steiner mill lion." am glad and proud of 1t, and ytu UT whole article indicates only envy and jealousy.
 BOUGHT BONDS AT
 100 CENTS ON DOLLAR
 You say that I passed along to others the subsequence purchases of bonds from the city. I have no data or personal recol- lection, but I take for granted that MT Peterson in his exhibit is correct, wher he mentions some other purchases ol bonds made in later years by the Steiners from the city. I further notice, that hs particularly says we paid par Qo cents on the dollar) for them. You ol anybody else had g. right to buy then at the same price. We paid all the bonds were worth at that time, and probably a liixr more. I believe you, George Ward claimed you were in the brokerage busi ness about that time. Why didn't vol step in and buy them? What was tn character of your brokerage business | But you say we passed them on. Whel did you look into my strong box and coun my bonds to see which of them W assed on and which we have? Well. you are mistaken, George Ward | I am going to tell you confidentially great secret: I have passed on most al of the old bonds purchased. and tn sinking fund law that you are trying | jump on me about and whitewash your self, is between these present holders you and the solicitor, or such other prope official of Jefferson county. whose dut l it is to see to it that any one will b punished if he has violated any of tn terms of the constitution, and laws tho state of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
OFFERS TO PUT UP
 S1OOO AS A FORFEIT

will make a propOsition' I will ulace 5000 cash in my bank in Bir- mingham; second, let there be se- lccted by us three disinterested citi- gems of Birmingham, and will agree that If you will show them and convince them that I have by word or sign, ln the laat two or three years, mentioned to any nevws- paper, man or women. anything about the clty's sinking fund. or anything appertaining to, or In con- nection with the sinking fund. that this S1OOO shhll be forfeited to any worthy charity of Birmin gham that said committee mny select.
 If YOU will not do this. then my friend and I think that it is up to you to resigl from the city commissionership, for yo' have attacked, unnecessarily, and un called for and have villified and lfbele an old business man and taxpayer of tn city, without rhyme or reason. and there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
Faces As Fair As
 a Summers Day
Are Possible If Stuart's Calcium Wa fers Are Used for n Short Time
 After Each Meal

Many people have been heard to say That they used creams and lotions for years without effect, yet after five or six days of -Stuarts Calcium Wa fers their complexions were perfectly clear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14
HAD NOT MENTIONED
 SINKING FUND TO THEM

You say that "B. Steiner, about c.
 month ago, absented himself from New
 York and Europe for few weeks and
 appeared fin Birmingham for the pur-
 pose of stirring up strife about the Bir-
 mingham sinking fund.-" You know in
 your heart and soul, George Ward, tha.
 this is not true, and you had no rea-
 son to believe it true when you said it.
 for you know 1t was far from my mind
 to raise any question about the Birming- ham sinking fund, or to talk to anybody about it.
 I have not spoken to or written to or spent cent with any newspaper, in fact have not spoken to living soul in Bir- mingham or anywhere else in the last three or four years about the Brming- ham sinking fund.
 MT. Felix Blackburn. whom you single out first, have known for over % years. know him to be an aoPe lawyer, a high toned gentleman he takes an active in- terest in public affairs. I am sorry to l say that I have not seen him or had a chance to speak to him nor have written | to him in more than five years, and 1 neither I nor anyone else have ever spoken or written to him for me about l the Birmingham sinking fund. I know
 MT. Blackburn will corroborate this state
 nent, and neither you, George Ward or anyone else in Birmingham will dare l 10 ueIy IL.
 l have not seen MT Frank Evans fol years before my last visit to Birmingham | and then only for a few minutes, wher he called to extend greetings. Mr Evan! 1 will verify this statement, and none O. 1the good people in Birmingham will doub it, for MT. Evans is highly esteemed by | the people, for he has done great dea l for the city and his faithful work fol the public schools will always endea him to them.
 l Now as to Uncle Joe Waldrop," GOt bless him, do not remember having eve l met him, and if did. I surely have neve mentioned the Birmingham sinking fun' to him, nor was he getting any 'chest nuts" out of the fire for me. He. as yo' call him Uncle" must be probably { gentleman about my age, and old enougl to speak for himself, and I am quite sur the people will believe him.
 Now, as to these gentlemen not beini
 "capitalists" or financiers, do not knov anything about their financial strength O J ability. But I believe they are bette |1 financiers and business men than you who I recall as having been principal. engaged in holding office with your heal in the public crib, or trying to get one or operating your broker business
The Springfield herald., 1915-09-10
POST OFFICE DRUG SToRf
ASocisl Event

On Tuesday evening OF last
week a party was given at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs Charley
Huston in honor of their newly
married life. 1t was IL beautiful
night-a night that seemed al
most perfect. Even the stars III
tLeir great majesty seemed to
understand the desire of the hap
py occasion and shone out in all!
their brightness.
After playing many out-of-
doors games, Mr.. Huston sus
gested that they go to the house
and resume playing games, which
met the approval of all present.
Then came the best part of the
evening-the refreshments. l
ne,d not tell you that the good
variety of candy passed around
the circle Of meIry-makers was
appreciated, as were the delicious
cake and the refreshing lemo-
made.
Wishing to show their appre-
citation of the beauty and bright
ness of the moon which had just
appeared, the ' 0ung people were
again seen out in the open air
playing games and enjoying
themselves.
At about midnight the crowd
departed for their arious homes,
voting Mr.. and Ms Huston as
being good entertain ers.
The Springfield herald., 1915-09-10
His Rest was Broken

ID. Wright. Resemont. Neb. writes: was
bothered with paine in the region OF my kidneys.
Ny Rest was broken by frequent action ef my
kidneys. was advised by my doctor to try Fol-
ley Kidney Pills and one 60 cent bottle made
well man of me-" They relieve rheumatism and