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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
At the Biiou

Those who have not seen the snappy
musical show. Keep Moving" at the
Bijou this week, have missed a perform
ance that has real merit. Not only is
there plenty Of comedy to provoke many
hearty laugh, but the musical numbers
are excellently handled The leading
roles are in good hands, and there are
many good voices in the caste Quite
an array of pretty and shapely girls
make up an unusually good chorus, which
is well trained. Fox and Stewart are
comedians who put over something new
and clever, and their antics keep the
audience in good humor There will
be matinee today and the usual night
ly performance the remainder of tho
week
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12

but one of the five acts that go to make
up very acceptable offering. Their mel
ody is harmoniously mingled with a pic
turesque western setting, their act be-
ing entitled "a Cowboys Life at Twi-
light" Sampson and Douglas are old
favorites of Birmingham, while Stone and
Hayes in Green Goods" are making a
distinct hit. The headliner is Charles
Kellogg, the wonderful nature singer At
today's matinee four new acts, includ-
ing The operate Singers, will make up
a new bill, in which Kellogg will con-
tinue as the headliner.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
SOPRANO SOLOIST
WITH HUSSAR BAND
/. MAKES DECIDED HIT
Miss Marianne Conway, an
American Product, Is One
of Attractive Features
of Band Concert

Miss Marianne Conway, the soprano So
loist, who is singing twice daily at the
State Fair with the Natiello Hussar band,
has proven one of the most attractive
features of the daily programme Miss
Conway was great yesterday in her sing
ing of "Giannina Mia CFeim, Beautiful
Roses" and other selections.
Miss Conway is just the kind of per-
son who makes anyone feel at home in
her presence, either while listening 10
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
Notion Specials!
Notions Uere neUer
priced so lou before

No offering in this sale will prove more con-
vincingly that its savings are worth while
than these from the Notion Store:
1oc steel crochet hooks, flat
shape, sizes to 13 ~
1oc nickelpIated safety pins, full finish, all
one size or assorted sizes r.
on the cards, per dozen ~
Best quality English twill tape, 1oyard rolls,
1-2 to 1-inch wide, up to zoe, 10o
all widths, special lVN
One lot of hair pin cabinets, 1oc Eo
size, assorted sizes and shapes, at ~
Large size hair pin cabinets, fitted, all sizea
and shapes, 15c values, M
special Ff LUZ
Real human hair nets, full size, M
all shapes, special lVN
10 gross real human adjustable caps To-
and hair nets, full size, all shades LUZ
(Man FIoor)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
81 crepe de chine
waists S4.95

Just 200 of these waists for today's selling.
That will be all! Made of fine, heaviest
quality crepe de chine, in white, black and
flesh
The models are new, many of which are dis
played for the first time for the special sell
ing today. I'D Floor)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
S1.75 indexed leather
dictionaries S1.25

Just 90 of these latest Census Edition Uni
'versal Self-Pronouncing Websters Diction-
aries. Flexible binding of durable Morocco.
Colored illustrations and special supple
ments, including correct Ell glish, correspon-
dence, letter forms, maps, etc. Also latest
census statistics. modernization of the
original volume by Noah Webster.
Books, Main Floor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12

The Cheyenne Minstrels are putting on
a clever act at the Lyric this week, being
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
$3.50 Gossard
corsets S3.l9

The fourth day of October Record Week will
be remembered for many months for many
things, but no offering will make more
lasting impression than this one of new
clean, fashionably modelled front lacing Cos
sard corsets. Make note of this and be sure
you come for yours today This price is for
but one day. I'D Floor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
1t will pay every woman in
town to come here early--tOday

allotted special merchandise for
Record the values better We
making big and today going be banner day. Be hand
today help S
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4th day October Record Week
So silk teddies S1.95

Who would hesitate spending 1895 for such
exceedingly good Teddes as these? Made
of the same good crepe de chine for which
you would pay silk store 125 the yard.
These are in flesh color four pretty styles,
some deliberately lace trimmed, others more
simply lace trimmed. I'D Floor)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12

1900 pairs of pure thread silk hose, in black
white and colors. Made with Isle tops and
silk tops. Never since we have been selling
hosiery have we had such silk hose as these
for 79c. (Main Fioor)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
81 flannelette gowns
79c !

lot of women will warmly remember the
fourth day of October Record Week because
of the good LOO gowns we are going to sell
today for 79c. These are dollar gowns in
every way-in fact they are exceptional for
LOO, and will only be sold one day at 79c.
Choose from four new styles that are gen
erously made up of an extra heavy quality
of flannelette. I'D FIoor)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
81 corduroy bath
robes S2.95

Making bath robes of corduroy was a happy
thought Bath robes of corduroy are beauti-
full and practical and we would like to see
somebody wear one out.
These are made full and roomy and wide and
warm, in light and dark colors, including
pink, light blue, lavender, navy and black
Remember, these are on sale for 295 for to-
day only-if you don't get one for 2.95 today
you will never get one for less than 400.
I'D Floor)
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Children's $40
coats S6.95

Again the Junior Store offers group of its
new merchandise for one day of the October
Record Week Sale. This time in our 1000
coats, to 14-year old sizes, for SOS. They
are handsomely tailored in girlish Styles in
fabrics that are seasonable and the styles
suited to young girls. ed Floor)
The Hartford republican., 1916-03-10
BEGs TO BE SHOT.
Denver Man Pinned Under Wreck Is
Burned Alive.

watertown, S. d., March 1.-Two
persons were killed and eight injur-
ed, three seriously, when a south
bound passenger train on the South
Dakota Central for Sioux Falls, plum
ged twenty-six feet through bridge
about ten miles south Of here.
The dead:
David Lovejoy, of watertown, a
passenger.
F. E. Dooling, of Denver, passen-
ger.
The weakening of the bridge by
fire is believed to have been the
cause of the accident. The engine
and a mixed mail and express car
passed over safely, but the three
coaches behind plunged through the
weakened structure.
F. E. Dooling, of Denver, travel
ing man, was pinned in the wreck
and burned alive. AS the flames
crept near him he begged the other
passengers, who were trying tosave
him, to shoot him.
The mail car was pulled down
through the breach in the bridge by
the falling coaches. but the engine
rolled to the side down the embank-
ment. Fire soon broke out in the
piled up coaches below the bridge.
The Hartford republican., 1916-03-10

Around the stove of the cross roads
grocery is the real court of last re-
sort, for 1t finally over-rules all 9TH
ers. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
has been brought before this court
in almost every cross roads grocery
in this country, and has always re-
ceived favorable verdict. 1t is in
the country where man expects to
receive full value for his money that
this remedy is most appreciated.
Obtainable everywhere. m
The Hartford republican., 1916-03-10
Waste RUNS RIOT
IN old ENGLAND
WORKING CLASSES SPEND MON.
EY WITH NO THOUGHT OF
DELUGE TO COME.

London, March 4.-Everywhere in
England and perhaps most in tae
great manufacturing centers, you are
struck by the evidence of the abound
ing prosperity of all classes.
| Everybody is making money, and
the prosperity has permeated even to
classes where one would scarcely ex-
pect to find 1t.
That this abounding prosperity is
| merely temporary and that very hard
times are to come when the war Is
over is, of course, apparent to every
thinking person, but 1t is very diff
cult, not to say impossible, to con-
vince those who are enjoying 1t that
| it is at once Fictitious and evanescent,
and that the day of reckoning can
not be indefinitely postponed.
Warnings, however, are not lack
ing either in the daily press or in the
magazines, but they make little i'm
preston on the masses of workers
who are now in receipt Of incomes
such as they had never dared to
dream of.
The reckless manner in which the
money is spent on all kinds of lux
uries by practically all classes in Eng
land, is a constant source of astonish-
ment to neutral travellers arriving
here, who have seen how the people
of Germany are denying themselves
everything. It is enough to mention
as proof of this that during the first
six months of last year the money
spent by the people of Great Britain
on wine and alcoholic liquor exceed
ed by $40,O00,O0O the amount spent
during the same period of 1914.
The editor of "The Economist"
sounds a strong warning to the prop
rietors of large landed estates who.
he foresees. will be ruined by the
score while their old and perhaps ia
nous mansions will be bought up by
ambitious Americans and other neu-
trails who have made money by the
way, and their paintings, carved oak
panels, and ancient fireplaces will be
scattered.
England after the war, he says.
will see a repetition of the years
which followed after the long Napole-
onic wars during the beginning of
last century and the landed proprie-
tors can not hope for any Corn Laws
to be passed for their benefit as then
while 1t is more than likely that
Lloyd George or one who follows In
his footsteps will tax land for all 1t
Is worth.
The Hartford republican., 1916-03-10

from behind. Nobody knows exactly
what he is doing.
Word suddenly spreads around
that the trench has been taken. There
is some excited talk among the sold
iers and words of cheer are heard
here and there in the dressing sta
tions among the wounded. The bonn
bardment has ceased and everything
is quiet as though from dead exhaus-
tion except an occasional report Of an
exploding grenade or the sharp pop
of a rife.
The Hartford republican., 1916-03-10
Children Cry
FOR FlETcHER'S
CA ASTORl "a
MOTHER WHO KILLED
SON ENDS OWN LIFE

Auburn. N. Y, March Edith
X. Melber, who was serving a SEN
tence OF twenty years for the murder
of her 5-year-old son. George Mer-
ber. by forcing poison down the
child's throat and leaving the body
in swamp on the outskirts of AL
bany. January 6. 1911, committed
suicide in Auburn Prison for Women
this morning. Mrs. Melber quarrel
ed with another inmate yesterday and
The Hartford republican., 1916-03-10

"she wears too much jewelry.
Think SO?
II do. No fun to hold hand like
that. You can get the same sensa-
tion by holding a handful of curtain
rings and q wrist watch. Kansas
City Journal. kfhS,,z.i
The Hartford republican., 1916-03-10

Proper Treatment For Biliousness.
For a long time Miss Lula Skel-
ton, Churchville. N. y. was bilious
and had sick headache and dizzy
spells. Chamberlain's Tablets were
the only things that gave her
permanent relief. Obtainable ev-
erywhere. m
The Hartford republican., 1916-03-10

was sent to a punishment cell, where
the body was found hanging from a
fixture by an improvised rope made
out of a bed sheet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13
MASSACHUSETTS PLANTING
TREES AND SAVING BIRDS

81 MASSACHUSETTS is ably seconding
Ml the efforts of the national gov
oVS eminent in the conservation of
wild bird life and very likely is exer-
cising primacy over the other states of
the Union in that respect. Coupled
with Its work in the matter of bird
conservation, Massachusetts, has adopt
ed forest principles, leading even New
York and Pennsylvania in this respect
1t has been given out in the news
that the state of Massachusetts has
bought at a cost of $4,000 the bird
and game farm" in Carver and Ply
mouth. that state. and will turn it over
to the state forester as a state forest
reserve. This is the second purchase
of a large tract Of land for reforesta-
ton and bird conservation which Mas
sachusetts has recently made, the first
being known as the Winchendon re-
serve.
The bird and game farm of Carver.
Mass, has had a reasonable amount of
publicity. Many years ago a group Of
farms was bought by one Edward c;
Turner of Arlington, Mass. who used
the combined acreage as an experiment
farm. Later, this tract was taken over
by the Massa chusetts Game Sanctuary
Association, Thomas W. Lawson being
the principal investor and John E. Thay-
err and Clement Houghton the trustees.
That association few years ago
leased the tract. on which the breed
ing of game birds had been success
fully carried on, to the American Game
Protective and Propagation Associa-
ton which continued. and enlarged the
work which had been done by the Game
Sanctuary Association.
Now. the state of Massachusetts, buys
this land. comprising 5000 acres. and
adds to it 1000 acres of wild, waste
land adjoining it, putting the CONSOLE
dated tracts under the management of
the Massachusetts forest commission.
It is to be planted with pine trees with
about $4,000 seedlings to the acre. The
Is made that under the
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ownership of the state the tract will
be planted with white pine as rapidly
as the work can be done, and when
trees are grown to a sufficient height
gin to get returns on it's investment"
Under present conditions this land.
which is nearly all covered with a.
nothing to the local communities or to
the state in taxes.
1t will appear as a strange situation
that there are no owners of the 1000
acres which Massachusetts, takes IN
for addition to the bird farm tract A
writer on this subject says that if there
ever were any titles to this land thew
have been lost, and that in the regis
tries OF deeds there are no records of
this tract. Townships in which the
land is situated have not been able to
find any owners from whom to collect
taxes.
Connecticut is standing with Massa-
chusetts IN the campaign for the pres
ervation of bird life. Only a few days
ago the announcement came from Bos-
ton that E. c. Converse, a millionaire,
has turned his 1900 acres at Green
wien; Conn. into bird sanctuary to
aid the national movement for the con-
servation of bird life. This large estate
Is known by the name of Conyer's
Manor Under the ownership of Mr..
Converse. it has to all intents and pur-
poses been bird refuge. but work for
of birds will now be I'M
dertaken in methodical way. A bird
census will be taken at the start, and
made as the work pro-
crosses. Special attention will be given
to the increase of insect-eating birds.
An ornithologist of high repute will be
given direction of the sanctuary, and
his work will include the raising of
wild ducks, and the winter feeding and
protection of insectivorous birds, in
the setting out of nesting boxes
and destroying enemies OF bird life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13

a trade secret. 1t was hard for a man
10 succeed in business unless he had a
.Tade secret. Nobody would believe In
the superiority or even in the excel
renee OF his wares unless there was a
trade secret involved somewhere in the
process of production.
Inc trade secret lasted a long time.
A writer on the subject Of German su-
pIemacy in dyes has pointed out that
"ithin the memory of those of middle
age, vegetable and mineral dyes and
coiors were in general use, but German
coal-tar products are recent develop
l,shts winch have pushed most OF the
oio materials and processes into the
background by their cheapness. uni
i1rh'isy and simplicity of use.
II Is admitted that most of the old
oyes and color pigments, genuine indi-
go and carmine. for instance. are bet
Ter than the German synthetic prod
uo.s. put they are more trouble to
MAKE and use. This authority recalls
that old-fashioned dyers made more
or less of secret of their business.
Each dyer claimed to possess some
wonderful trade secret known only to
!he elect. and when a foreman possess
ing such secret died or went on strike
the ave works had to take chances. AS
a result the product was not regular.
IN ordinary practice no two patches of
aye were exactly alike and pieces of
cloth dyed at different times would not
match.\
when ironmaking. papermaking and
S'assmaklng were small one-man in
oustries, they were full of trade Sc
crets. The pianomakers and the
buggy and carriage builders worked
the trade secret for all there was in 1t.
out II Is significant that today the
most energetic, persistent and per-
suasiVe automobile salesman will not
say anything about trade secrets. He
VIII not even allude to secret pro-
cess He pitches his song in another
Key; He talks about the best material,
skIied Workmanship. high-priced en-.
gineers and designers and economical
administration Of plant and distribu
ton or product. He says not Q word
about trade secret
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13
PASSING OF "TRADE SECRlET''
,177HE TRADE SECRET" furnishes

HhHNHE TRADE SECRET" furnishes
the text for many conversations
q and for numerous discourses in
writing. The phrase trade secret" is not
az much employed in the daily intercourse
of men as it was generation or CEN
fury ago, but it is still used and there are
persons with pretention to wisdom who
say it is too much used.
In the youth of industry when certain
class of work was done by man who
carried on the industry in his home. and
perhaps with the aid of an apprentice or
two bound for long term of years and
also bound to secrecy as to his master s
affairs, there were such things as trade
secrets The master by experience and
experiment found a better way of reach
ing a desired result than had been known
before. or a better way Of doing a thing
than a workman in the same line in
another street or another town, and he
kept the information to himself He was
in possession of trade secret. Some
times the secret was really valuable TO
the trade and to humanity@and sometimes
the information was trivial or untmport-
ant. Sometimes he carried the trade Sc
cret with him to the grave and sometimes
he bequeathed it to a son, an apprentice
or some other favorite. 1t is suspected
that the trade secret even of those re-
mote times was often a myth and was
used to draw trade as an advertisement
When the trade guilds became potent
factors in the economic life of the civil
lied world there were such things as trade
secrets. but the processes of production
were kept from public knowledge that the
members of the guild only could supply
the public's wants. 1t Is not established
that there were trade secrets between
members of the same guild.
In the early days of American manu-
facture there was great deal of talk
concerning trade secrets Every spin
ner. weaver, miller. boatmaker and
manufacturer Of shoe backing, hair
Testorer and eradicator Of wrinkles had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13

reveals the light of a candle inside
and hear some one saying. weakly:
II thought l was dying. and ! tried
to tell the fellow next of mot her-to
tell her l was all right. but I guess
I'll live
There is a terrible rumbling crash
that seems to tear away the hin and
the earth shakes as one of the over
in a French or a German trench the
soldiers do not know. Immediately
several high explosive shells tear
across from the German side and ex-
plode with deafening crashes in the
woods on the left.
The earth shakes again and stones,
ground and pieces of trees fall back
into the wood near the soldiers, who
again press on after rrouching for an
instant Then there is the report of
several exploding grenades from some
where in front. and all is quiet again
But not for long, for almost instantly
the silence is broken by several sharp
reports from somewhere in the rear
and an instant later shells tear through
the sky overhead with the sound of
ripping silk to spread injury and death
a second later in a German trench.
work. Swim" says one of the SOL
d1efS ana there are similar eJacuiatlOHS
from several of the party whose
tongues have been momentarily loos-
ened by the throb Of nervousness a
second ago. Then some one in the
crowd with a boyish voice and French
righteousness tells a funny story of an
experience several days before.
Here the road is barricaded. The
Germans have a machine gun trained
on the rest of it an. it is necessary
to begin walking in the trenches Sew
eral entrances are gone over and vari-
Gus signs read before the right one is
discovered. Progress Immediately be-
comes laborious. Somebody leads the
way. To get hopelessly lost in this
tangle of bitches Is usually matter of
few seconds to the unacquainted and
new ones are being dug all the time.
The trenches are better this winter
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diers. 1t has rained steadily for the
last five weeks except for day here
and there. and the soldiers are wet to
the skin from the march up. In their
pockets, where it is less wet, they
carry a few delicacies given them in
these dry: themselves they are not
bothered about. They have had months
of this. The rain fills everything.
There are ten men in the company
and the writer. The soldiers have
fought together for over a year They
represent most of what remains of
two companies of fine fellows-five
hundred IN all. Danger has made them
inseparable friends. Each excursion
back has seen something taken from
their ranks. On each trip up the men
wonder who will be the next
Because of its continuity this won
der has become sort of subconscious
thought with all. and with their resig-
nation to fate they joke about it. A
year at the front has left it's marks on
their minds and faces.
As We pass out of the town there is
a rumbling of distant thunder. 1t
is the heavy guns at work in far-of
scctor-possibly an attack. 1t seems
near in this wilderness of dead things.
Suddenly there is the poop, poop.
poop, poop of a machine gun, several
sharp rife cracks, the sharp report of
an exploding grenade and all is silent
again. We have taken an outside road
which in daytime is viewed by the
Germans from their positions on the
top of hill a quarter of a mile away.
The roao is forbidden to army equip
it at night. Now the careless pound
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the voice from somewhere in the
waste over the trenches begging for
help, cursing for help and crying for
help. 1t says the same things over
and over again and is now faint and
almost indistinguishab My guide.
who has seen a years fighting. shakes
his head and says there is no help.
1t is hard to try not to listen to II.
1t is useless almost for the voice calls
on and dies away as we go back.
The four days is well earned rest.
It's great to be alive ten my friend
remarks with a shrug.