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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
SEEMS SP0OK|SH
 THINKS ONE LADY Vitalitas Made Her Thin While Husband Got Fat
 Out of Same Bottle

"There is something about this Vii talitas that seems uncanny or spook ish." said a heavy lady to one of the Nitalitas demonstrators.
 Tt is making me thin. I have lost 26 pounds in three weeks, while my husband, who is taking out of the same bottle, is getting fat on it. He was as slim as toothpick while Well, you can see for yourself what I am. And I was a lot worse a month ago.
 I've got Vitalitas for my stomach trouble and also because he was run down and had rheumatism in one ankle. It helped both of us and then we noticed he was gaining weight about a half pound a day and I was falling off even faster. I have taken brought me down like Vitalitas has. would like to know how it hap pened to act so oppostely on him and me"
 Vitalitas does not act oppositely but acts with wonderful precision in one direction, that of correcting. unhealth- ful conditions which cause fatness in one person and leanness in another; or dysentery in one and constipation in the other Nothing in nature has so marked curative and corrective effects as this new earth fluid. It forces from the system Arrangements generally of stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels and blood.
 Investigate Vitalitas at Averyt's drug store, 109-111 goth street.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
FIGHT ON CHANGE

Washington, January 7.-(SpeciaD While the Senate is displaying no re- markable haste in confirming M. 0. Chance, the Presidents appointee as Washington postmaster, it is believed that in the long run he will be confirmed On the file of the postoffice and post roads committee, of which Senator Bank head is chairman, is the interesting story of this man who from the position of a $750 messenger worked his way up through several administrations, until he is today about to become the con- offices in America.
 The hesitation of the Senate is due to the fact that there has been some ques- ton as to the democracy of MT. Chance. This question has it's foundation in the fact that although he came into the pub lie service under Adlai Stevenson. dem ocrat who adhered to the doctrine of
 turning the rascals out" he had ser vice and received promotion and honor at the hands of Elihu Root and Presi- dent Taft.
 Through it al,' observes MT. Chance, in effect, 'I remained a true-blue demo- crat. I even went so far in 1912 as to pay the expenses of a democratic voter from Washington to southern Illinois. No member of my family ever voted any other than the straight democratic ticket"
 On the file are letters from Root and Taft and Cortelyou and other republicans testifying that while Chance was giving position under republicans it was gen orally known that he was a democrat. Mir Taft wrote MT. Chance that while he could not declare that Mr. Chance had informed him that he was demo- crat, he (Taft knew that Chance had done so if Chance now said that he had. NJr Ta od ha cerned with the politics of his appointee but with his ability.
 A brief history of the man, as con- tained on the file in the committee rooms, follows
 Appointed in 1888 by Adlai Stevenson, then first assistant postmaster general, assistant messenger at a salary of S750;
 made in 1891 clerk in the postoffice de- partment, and during the second Cleve- land administration made private secre- tary to Fourth Assistant Postmaster 1 General Maxwell became chief clerk to ! Fourth Postmaster General Bristow Gre l publican) when the republicans came 1 into power; in 1901 was recommended by
 Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou
 to fill the post of private secretary to Mr
 Root Republican,, Secretary of War was made a member by President Taft | of his committee on economics and eff ciency;" appointed during the recess ot Congress in 1915, postmaster at Washing | ton.
 ! There are in the hands of the commit.
 tee certain protests against the confirma. tion of the President appointee. But as 1 stated, it is regarded as probable that
 the Senate, after hesitating bit, vii | confirm the appointment. But because l the Senate and the President are tempo rariy arrayed against each other, the situation is regarded with considerable interest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
'COLAGROSS KILLED BY DEWEY HOWELL Fatal Difficulty Started in Fun-YOuth Held by
 Police

Sheffield January 7.--(Special) ) Dominick Colagross, aged 36, is dead, and Dewey Howell, aged IT, his as- sailant, is held in the Sheffield jail charged with murder. He was struck with heavy piece of iron by Howell at the Southern shops where both were employed. The difficulty between them started in fun, it is said.
 About 10 o'clock this morning Cola gross was removed to his home on Twenty sixth street, where an oper- ation was performed on his skull this afternoon by Doctors Blair and B1ako in the hope of saving his life. Cola gross leaves a wife and several chil- dren. Howelps home is on the Coosa river. He came to Sheffield several months ago and accepted a position at the shops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
MOLASSES PRICES SOARING BECAUSE
 OF WARS DEMANDS
Sweet Mixed Feeds and Cheap Candies Affected by the Prices of
 Blackstrap

Both man and beast are seriously af- Fected by the unprecedented demand and advance in sweet mixed feeds.
 On account of the enormous demand for blackstrap molasses for use in the manufacture of explosives, the price has advanced to such figure as to make It's use in mixed feeds practically impossible except to those manufacturers who are protected by contracts made prior to the recent spectacular advance.
 The price has risen within the past few months from cents per gallon to over 20 cents, and it is difficult to get at any price.
 Sugar refneres are in many cases to- tally unable to supply the requlre- ments of the trade at any figure what ever, and the present conditions would indicate that in very short time many manufacturers of sweet feed products will have to withdraw from the market until the blackstrap situation IS re- 1ieved, and such relief is not in sight at the present time and probably will not be until the close of the war.
 Manufacturers of cheap candies, vine gars and various similar industries will also be hard hit by the shortage and ad- vance in prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
1O1 YEARS OLD, BUT
 HALE AND HEARTY

Columbus, Miss, January 7.--(Spe- cial )-America's oldest Elk, Harrison Johnston, celebrated his 101st birth day today. MT. Johnston is hale and hearty and enjoying splendid health in spite of his advanced age, and to- day he walked several blocks early in the morning before many people had breakfasted.
 He is Americas oldest Elk, being a member of the Columbus lodge. He is remarkably active for a man who has passed the century mark. Each sum- mer he spends several months at At lantic City enjoying the surf bathing and ming gling with the crowds. He is well known in the east, where he has been summering for many years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
STEAGALL SECURES
 CAPITOL JOB FOR c. ERNEST JONES
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in the campaign of Henry D. Steagali against Henry D. Clayton, then mem Der of Congress. MT. Jones supported MT. Steagall, despite the fact that Judge Clayton was a fellow resident of Bar bour county When MT. Steagall was beaten, MT. Jones took his medicine phil osophically, and later when Judge Clay ton was appointed to the federal bench he again had an opportunity to rush to tho support of Steagall In the second race, Barbour county offered one or more of it's sons against the statesman from Dale. but nothing could induce MT Jones to abandon his liege of affection. And MT. Steagall was elected
 Thus encouraged MT. Jones offered for the state senate. He told the peo- pie of Barbour county that if they elect ed him, he would, in all probability, se- cure the passage of a bill under the provision of which department of print ing would be created with the result that school books would be sold to pupils at cost, or comparatively speaking, at practically nothing. The people needed and MT. Jones in a trice was Senator Jones. Of course, he did not secure the passage of his bill, but that little incl dent is altogether beside the question.
 And now to cap the climax, Senator
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
400 GUNS PLAYED ON
 CZERNOWITZ FOR 50
 HOURS SAY RUSSIANS
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(COntfnued from Page One) the whole circumstances of the landing of troops in the Dardanelles
 In connection with the submarine &C., tivity in the Mediterranean, an Athens dispatch notes that alarm is felt there owing to the fact that none of the nine ships laden with grain purchased in America either has arrived or been sig nailed.
 LOSSES ARE APPALLING
 Vienna, January 7-(Via London, January S)-Russian losses on the Bessarabian frontier and the Stripa re- zion during the New Years fighting were at least 50,000, according to the oHlclai statement issued by the war of- flee today. The statement follows:
 Russian theatre: Yesterday on the northeast front comparative calm pre- vailed, fighting occurring only on the Styr. The enemy occupied the. church. yard north of Czartorysk, but was soon repulsed by the Austrian landwehr. This morning the enemy repeated his attacks in east Galicia. Russian sharp shooters advanced upon our line north. east of Buczacz before daybreak and penetrated our trenches for a short distance. Our Honved infantry regi- lncHtS ANoo. IO anu 1f, Dy QulCk counter attacks, expelled the enemy capturing numerous prisoners and three machine guns
 According to the declarations Of prisoners, before the last attacks against the armies of Generals Pflan- ger and Baltin, Russian troops every where were informed that great bat tie. with view of breaking through hostile lines, was imminent and would bring the Russian army again into the Carpathians.
 trustworthy reports of the enemy's losses in New Years fighting on the Bessarabian frontier and on the Stripa region make them at least 50,000.
 Italian theatre, Artillery fighting continued at many points along the front being occasionally rather active in the region of Col Di Lana. Near Flitsch. in the territory of the Gorizia bridgehead and on the Doberdo pla- teau artillery also was active.
 Southeastern theatre: The troops of General Koevess. after violent fighting, forced the Montenegrins from their DO sitions near Mojkovac on the Tara river near Goduso north of Berane, and west of Rozaj, half way between Ipek and Play. Our advanced troops are now within 10 kilometres of Berane."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Z LOCAL BATTERIES LOSE COMMANDERS Captain Moon, Captain Finn, Captain Fray and
 Lieutenants Resign

Montgomery, January 7.-(Special) designations of the commanding off, cers of the two batteries of field ar tillery in Birmingham have been re- ceived by the state military depart ment and an order soon will be issued for an election to fill the vacancies. Those who resigned were Capt. H. A. Moon, adjutant of the first battalion of field artillery; Capt. Frank Finn and Lieuts. w. l.. Furman and R. l.. Pitt man of Battery A, and Capt. J. M Fray and Lieuts. w. S. Pritchard and J. P. Smith of Battery c.
 The department announced that com missions in the medical reserve corps, A. N G., had been issued to the fol- lowing Birmingham physicians: Dr. R. F. Ashworth, Dr. Leon A. Fox and pr. Julius B. Cooper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08

ness must in large part return with wars close We sold to Germany, Austria Hungary and Belgium about $40, 900, 900 in value annually. Much Of this must return with the coming Of peace. Our annual sales to Mexico should increase by s30,OOo,oO0 to reach their former limit.
 eve are, furthermore, the source from which purchases for rehabilita- tion must be made Already from both groups of belligerents there is assur" ance of heavy purchases of munitions of peace to offset in part at least the sales of munitions of war.
 'If my analysis be sound we shall lose the abnormal part of our export trade and shall fall back to a basis which we may fairly expect will be larger than that before the war. We may keep if we will the first place. It depends upon ourselves. About it only this one thing can be said with certainty: This opportunity and the prosperity affected by it will be just what we choose to make it.
 Meanwhile other enterprises now in a large part deferred by abnormal export conditions will come into life and effect. There must be readjust- mants from present conditions to fu- lures ones, the stress of which will de- nend upon the wisdom with which the present is utilized.
 "But there seems nothlng that threatens the continuance Of a general prosperity based upon sound and well understood economic forces. Our mer- chant marine is larger than it ever has been and is growing. Our com merce. therefore, is increasingly under our own control and we may hope will soon be free from the restric- tions which the necessities of those upon whom we may have had to de- pend for the carriage of our goods have imposed upon it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
DAUGHTERS OF 1872
 INVITED TO MOBILE
Tablet in Memory of President Jack son to Be Unveiled in Battle
 House ROtunda

Mrs. Robert Woodrow, regent of the Daughters Of 1872. announced last night the receipt from Mrs. Harry Inge of Mo- bile president of the Alabama organiza- ton, of a formal invitation to members of the organization to attend the forth coming unveiling exercises in Mobile
 Next Tuesday the daughters will unveil in the rotunda of the Battle House at Mobile a tablet to President Andrew Jack son. Officers of the national society of the Daughters of 1872 are expected to be present and the exercises are expected to be unusually impressive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Churchill After Brigade

London, January Maj. Winston Churchill, former first lord of the ad- miralty who resigned his subsequent abinet post of chancellor of the duchy of Lancaste and went to the front with his regiment, has been appointed to com mand a battalion of royal Scots fusll1ers at the front in France.
 According to Reuters correspondent at British headquarters, this Will prove a stepping stone to the command or brigade which is said to be Major Churchill's immediate ambition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Missing Treasurer Heard From

Rutland. Vt, January "A letter was received today from John J. Murphy, formerly treasurer of the Marble Savings bank of this city, and the Rutland Hotel association, who disappeared November 25 MT. Murphy wrote from Augusta, Ga, explaining that his sudden departure was due to mental fatigue brought on by overwork. His accounts as treasurer were examined after he went away and were found to be correct.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Serret Succumbs to Wounds

Remiremont, France, January G.. General Serret, who was in command of one of the divisions of the French army in the Vosges, died today from wounds received in a recent engagement. It was necessary to amputate a leg and the general did not recover from the shock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Morris Succeeds La Monte

Washington, January 7.-George W. Norris of Philadelphia was designated today by the federal reserve board vice chairman and deputy federal reserve agent of the Philadelphia federal reserve bank, succeeding George M. La Monte. Vance Mccormick of Harrisburg has been selected a class or government director of the Philadelphia bank to take the place made vacant by the advancement of MT. Norris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
HUDSON CELEBRATES
 77TH ANNIVERSARY

Marion, January 7-(Special)-Judson college, celebrated the seventy-seventh anniversary of the founding of the in- stitution today with appropriate exer- cises which consisted of decoration of the portraits of the founders and an ad- dress by Miss Annie F. Kirtley on the history of Judson college. The young ladies of the Pierian society presented pr. Bomar with check for $50 as the first funds for the building of the pro- posed swimming pool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08

Jones is about to add another star to his crown When Representative Steag- all asked concerning the patronage to which he, as congressman, was entltleo he was informed that he could name man capable of lifting an elevator MT Steagall however knowing that Senator Jones was a statesman, state otllclaI realized that he should not be assigned the duty of manipulating the interior aivver for the benefit of congressman and newspaper correspondents. So he put the case very pointedly, and as result secured position in the post office.
 When he undertakes his new obliga- lions Mr. Jones will abandon the pen which he has been wont to use in smat- tering ink on the face of the liquor traf- fic. But Alabama's loss will be Wash
 ngton's gain, and Alabamians having residence here are preparing to meet the newcomer at the station with the pro- verbal brass band and other things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Healing Facial Wounds

Washington, January 1.-The American Red Cross appropriated $40O0 additional. making $6000 in all, particularly in use in Europe in healing and obliterating facial wounds of soldiers and for instructing those blinded by wounds to read and write by modern methods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
SEOOTIIONS@ @| |A AnD 2SGREEN
By RICHARD F. LUsS1ER

T HE political parsons should
 read with great deal of \ interest the letter of the Rev. Dr. Beecher on another col umn of this paper in regard to Sunday moving pictures. Commis- sioners Weatherly and Hornady also should read this letter and let it sink in their respective crani- ums that after all there may be just as good men advocating nov ing pictures on Sunday as there are against it.
 Dr. Beecher has the right dope when he states that it is the preachers that should be educated and not the public.
 Geraldine Farrar will appear for the last time today at the Strand in Temptation, Lasky Para mount feature.
 'Divorced," with Hilda Spong, is the film attraction at the Tria- non today It is a picture in which intricate domestic questions are involved
 At the Odeon Two "Graustark," with Francis x. Bushman, will be shown today. The story of this picture is familiar to all the read CTS of best sellers as "Graustark. the novel of George Barr Me Cutcheon, reached a sale of mil lions.
 "The Prisoner at the Bar" with Warda Howard and Darwin karr, an Essanay three-part feature, Will be shown today at the Princess theatre. In this film Miss Howard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
THE: WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, January 7-Weathei forecast for Alabama: Partly cloudy Saturday; colder south portion; Sun day fair, slightly warmer.
 Mississippi: Partly cloudy Saturday colder in extreme south portion; Sun day fair, slightly warmer.
 Georgia: Partly cloudy Saturday in north; local rains and colder south portion; Sunday fair; slightly warmer west portion.
 Tennessee: Fair Saturday; Sunda1 fair, warmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Bulgars and Greeks Clash

Paris. January 7.-Irregular Bulgarian troops have clashed with Greek gen. darmes between Popovoselo and Paviani, according to a Havas dispatch from Sa- lcniki under Thursdays date The Greek authorities, the dispatch adds. will take measures to prevent bands of Bulgarian irregulars from crossing the Greek .fron- fer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Reclamation Chief Resigns

Washington, January 7.-Secretary Lane today accepted the resignation of Sidney B. Williamson, chief of construc- tion of the reclamation service. with headquarters at Denver, to take effect March 1. MT. Williamson is leaving to engage in private work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08

plunged into the icy cold waters of Lake Michigan to take a scene.
 At the Alcazar the beautiful Lois Wilson will again be shown today in 'Landon's Legacy" five part Universal feature.
 "Cross Currents" with Helen Ware, will be the attraction at the Colonial today. This is Fine Arts-Triangle feature of the very best. It is commended as an ex- cellent feature.
 AN ARABIAN FABLE.
 Tn the twentieth year of his age Bahr-Abas, son of the Shiek Ram ideh, journeyed from Damascus to Constantinople, and therein visited a place of the play wherein the actors were shadows and the stage A tent flap. Night after night he flew upon the magic carpet of the infidel Jim to every country. At length. giving the unbeliever many golden dinars for his unearthly materials, he transported them all to his fathers harem.
 But the sheik would have none of the moving pictures, and cast the appurtenances forth. More wai1ing than was their wont did the womenAof the seraglio--and at that the good sheik had grown gray in an intending tempest Of shrill sounds.
 So Bahr-Abas dwe1t apart for 40 moons. Then in the cool of an evening the shei< came unto him, and in such words as became his dignity, spoke approvingly of the strange device.
 "What pleases you now" ques- tioned Bahr-Abas, where once you raged?'
 "Then"-the sheik spoke softly and closed his left eye-"I did not know that the women were silent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
UNITED STATES IN A MORE PROSPEROUS
 CONDITION TODAY
 THAN EVER BEFORE
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wastefully done, than heretofore There is a new tone of efficiency in fac tory in office, on the farm and in the work of the railway manager. We shall enter the revised worlds arena better trained for the struggle than We were when the former game closed.
 Our horizons are wider. Names that were strange are common at our breakfast tables. Our relation With the whole world is more conscious. It is not as strange thing as it was to many of us to do business across the seas.
 "If I am correct in this analysis the buying power of the United States is greater than it ever has been and this power is more widely distributed. The selling power of the United States is greater than it ever has been and this is more widely distributed than here tofore. The loaning power of the Uni ted States is greater than it ever has been and this is more widely dis tributed also. The saving power of the United States is greater than ever before and more widely distributed.
 UNTOUCHED RESOURCES
 Back of all these lie resources we'll developed indeed, but relative to their total extent untouched and the power and the resources are in the control of a people awake as never before to opportunities which these give them"
 On the change to come at the end of the war the secretary says:
 The war order must be replaced by the peace order, and as has been said, the whole foreign trade must readjust itself to a more normal basis. Certain good customers have not bought much of us in the last year and their busi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
Local Data
Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made at United States weather bureau stations during the "A hours ending s D. m., 10th meridian time, January z, 1916: