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The sun., 1916-11-26
BROOKLYN ACHIEVEMENTS.

This Stores
Especial
Christmas
HelpfuIness
This is q peculiar Christ
mas season, in more ways
than one.
One jumps right into
December the day after
Thanksgiving.
Just the date-line, De-
cember lst," is enough to
startle one into the realiza-
ton that il is but q very few
weeks to Christmas.
Only % shopping days
counting from tomorrow;
and tomorrow is the best,
most valuable one Of the LOT,
to you.
Then. it's q Christmas
season in which many stores
and people-are feeling
the pinch OF short stocks
and high prices.
Careful shopping is i'm
portant-essential.
The store that's best sup
Piled, that has bought best,
can provide the largest as
sentiments, and at the lowest
prices.
This Store Is Singularly
Fortunate In Both
Respects.
We have never had so
large q stock OF Christmas
go0ds-or, in fact, goods Of
every description-as now.
We have been busy, busy,
busy-getting ready for the
demand that we knew would
fall upon Us.
The Time Is Now
And the Ceods Are Here.
And, better YET, the al
ways low prices OF The
Store Accommodating shine
all the more brightly by
comparison, in this holiday
season, than ever before.
This isn't a glittering
generalization. but q hard
and.fast fact, which we in
vite you to verify for your
self.
Brooklyn's Greatest Store
Is Ready for Christmas
with its hne stocks.
with It's courteous, helpful
service.
with its great delivery sys-
tenn, expanded for the occasion.
with It's comfortable. spacious
buildings.
with lie easy access. from oil
Ave Boroughs OF New York.
with It's
Low
FOR QUALITY
Let the significance Of these
four words sink deep into your
shopping consciousness!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08

Simeon Strunsky, in Harper'S Magazine.
1t is odd about the bookstalls of New
York Uptown the booksellers windows
are crammed with the latest" the
latest of Shaw, Bennett, Roman Roll
land, Dunsany, Tchekoff, Chambers, Nc
Cutcheon, Jack London, Kathleen Nor
ris, the war correspondents, the eff
ali the names and titles you saw last
Saturday in the publishers notices or
read about in the literary notes, tech
nically known to US in the profession as
"slush." But the classics are good
enough for the money diggers, the tired
business men, the cutthroat competitors
OF downtown. Balzac, Epictetus. Benja-
min Franklin, Thackeray, Thomas Paine,
Walter Scott, Voltaire and the standard
encyclopedias are the bulk of the down.
town shopkeeper's trade; together. it is
true, with books on poultry raising, card
games, 100 selected parlor tricks and files
of famous magazines for 1886 or there
abouts. In other words, the traditional.
solid literary virtues have their strong
hold in the shadow of the skyscrapers
The romance of the skyscrapers Is sung
by new novelists and poets, whose works
are to be had only In the bookshops on
Fifth avenue. The people of the sky
scrapers themselves read Carlyle and
Browning, Byron and Shelley, and 1 am
afraid they read owen Meredith's LII
citle'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
Good Roads Association

THE Incorporation of the Alabama
Good Roads association Is great for
ward step and is destined to mean much
in advancing the cause of good roads in
this state" said ]. A. Rountree secre-
tary of the association, yesterday. 81 am
in receipt of official notice from the sec
rotary of state that our papers of incor-
poration have been passed upon and ac-
cepted and that we are now duly incor-
porated under the laws of the state.
THE articles of incorporation confer
sweeping powers upon the association en-
aiding it to do almost anything neces-
sary in carrying out the purposes of the
organization. Many of the leading men
OF the state are officers and incorpora-
tors of the association and indications are
that the association will continue to do
good work for the cause of roads in Ala
bama."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

When some men tell you that they
are looking for an opening they mean
that they have a corkscrew and beer
cap remover on their key rings.
Another sure thing is that the gray
hairs in a woman's head are prema-
ture.
The reason why a married man who
has never seen naval vessel knows
all about dreadnaughts is because he
married one.
Another reason for the high cost OF
living is that there are five shopping
days in week and only one pay day.
When you do favor for some people
they act as if they were being done.
Tell woman how pretty she is looking
and she will hunt up show window as
soon as she leaves you and will powder
her nose.
These society lads may imagine that
they have lot of polish. But most of
the specimens we have examined are
merely there with varnish.
After the honeymoon the sunshine OF
your life often puts in the rest of her
time making it hot for you.
The minority is always right-when you
happen to be in the minority
A mans idea of a corkng good time
is what MS vile WOuIu term an I'M
corking good time.
The only time man gets more than he
expects in this world is when he goes
out looking for trouble.
Like other men you imagine that you
are a popular speaker Well hire a hall
and charge 81 a throw for admission to
hear you, and you will wake up.
The difference between Africa, where
men buy their wives, and this country is
that in this country the wife doesn't
krow that she has been sold until after
She has been married awhile.
The reason why a young man knows
that he can support the girl to whom he
is engaged is because he has often held
her on his knees for hours at time.
A woman likes to sit down and de-
scribe her new gown to the neghbors be-
fore her husband has given her the
money to buy it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
HOTEL LOBBTEs
Wishes Wilkinson Success

According to Julius Jaffe, well known
jeweler the business men of the city
should get behind Attorney Wilkinson
and his petition for a change of municipal
government.
The Wilkinson petition" said Mr..
Jaffe, represents the best move that has
been made in local politics In years. 1t
means if successful the return of repre-
sentative government.
L did not sign the petition of Mr.. Will
kinson for the simple reason that no one
ever approached me on the subject; had
they done so, l would have gladly signed
1t. Several of my friends were in the
same fix, as they could not find any of
the petitions to sign. However, despite
the scarcity of petitions, 1 notice that
Mr.. Wilkinson secured over $500 names
or qualified voters, which should be an
eye-opener to the city commission.
''As rule. not 1000 votes are cast even
in the most spirited of elections in Biz
mingham. Going by such figures Mr..
Wilkinson has secured over two-thirds of
the votes in favor of his idea. He could
easily have secured another thousand
signatures if he had tried real hard"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08

radical section and one of his notable
reforms was abridging the power Of
the House of Lords.
In normal times he would, as prime
minister, put the home rule enact
ment into effect, and then move the
disestablishment of the Church of
England But with the war filling
Great Britain with gloom and Ger
many jubilating over the fall OF
Bucharest and Ploechti it will be-
hoove the premier and his colleagues
to bend all their energies to inspire
confidence, both at home and in the
trenches, in the entente allies.
The fitness of democracy to prose-
cute titanic war to a triumphant
conclusion is being tested now as
never before. Lloyd-George is on his
mettle, but too much must not be
expected of the superman, whatever
that is. King Georges chief minister
will do his best.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
A WIFE IN PURITAN DAYS

Agnes Reppier, in Harper's Magazine for
| December.
In the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts,,
there stands monument girt by an
| iron railing, and surmounted by a statue
/ of an angry looking woman. welding
what appears to be an ak. The casual
stranger takes it to be Carrie Nation on
| her way to smash a few saloons-which
shows that the casual stranger is lamen-
| tably ignorant of local history. For
this is Hannah Dustin, who, in the spring
of 1897, was snatched from her home by
Indians. Her husband saved his seven
children from the savages; but his wife,
weak from childbirth, and a nurse or mid
wife who attended her, were carried
nine days flight into the forest. On the
tenth night Hannah arose, and with such
aid as the nurse and a young boy dared
give her she killed 10 Indians sleeping
by their fires. She then-to prove her
deed and win the promised bounty
scalped the corpses, scalped them with
awful deliberation in the freight, tucked
the hideous trophies into her belt, scut-
tied all the canoes but one, and the three
captlves returned triumphantly to Haver-
hill.
The general court of Massachusetts,
voted the sum of $50 to this dauntless
heroine, and Governor Nicholson of Mary
land sent her a pewter tankard, as a
token of his respectful admiration-which
was all very we'll for gentleman who
lived al a comfortable distance. But how,
one wonders, did Mr.. Dustin feel when he
woke at night and saw his spouse sleep
which had dealt out death to men Com
pared with such woman. the suffragists
who broke London windows or sashed
unresisting pictures seem like children
demolishing dolls. DR.. Cotton Mather,
who tells us the story with unwonted
eloquence in his Magnolia Christi Amer
icana heads it appropria tely "Dux Fenlina
Facti." A woman never forgot she was
woman in those days. Whatever her
leadership, whatever her prowess, she
feminine Christine Zellers. who was to
Penn sylvania what Hannah Dustin was
to Massachusetts,, slew three Indians who
strove one summer afternoon to enter
her house through window-"after
which," says the unperturbed chronicler,
'she returned to her domestic duties
Like a meteorological person
Went on cutting bread and butter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
RR q Asu1NcrnN

w n AsHINGTON, December T.
WNW Especial when the important
v " Macedonian city of Monastir
came once more into possession OF the
Serbs few days ago, attention was dl-
rected to the neighboring town of Och
rida, situated to the northwest distance
of 80 miles. The National Geographic
societys latest war geography bulletin
gives the following information concern
ing this picturesque place which, after
centuries of comparative obscurity, has
had turned upon it the searchlight Of
1listory-in-the- making:
"Clustering on the northwestern shore
of one of the most beautiful of the AL
bantam lakes are the cottages, churches,
and ruined castles which go to make up
the historic town of 1000 inhabitants
knowns as Ochrida, the same name by
which the lake is known.
"Ochrida or Ochri, as 1t is called by
the Turks, stands near the site Of the
ancient city of Lychnidos, once the CAPT
tai of the Dassaretae and later one or
the termini of the famous Via Egnatia,
a great military and commercial highway
which the Romans built to bind the
Adriatic to the Hellespont.
''An English woman traveller, approach
ing Orchida from the direction of Mon
astir, gives the following simple picture
of the beauty of the natural setting
which this tenth century capital of the
short lived Bulgarian empire enjoys:
AT the foot of the mountain the west
ern slope of the Pindus range) we entered
a rich, fertile country, passing through
shady lanes, bordered by hedges, heavy
with the perfumed masses of pink roses,
elder flowers, golden broom and an end
less variety of other blossoms; in fact,
We remarked in this country, growing
wild, almost every plant which one is
accustomed to see in the cottage gardens
of England
"Orchida reached the pinnacle Of its
glory in the tenth century during the
reign of Gear Samuel, the most powerful
of the <Bulgaro- Slavonic monarchs, man
who mounted the throne following the
violent deaths of his three elder brothers,
and one unauthentic story tells Of his
having put out the eyes and then stran-
gled his father who stood in the path OF
his march to power. If,that legend De
true most grievously did Samuel pay the
penalty of his crime for his own death
was brought about, after reign OF
nearly 40 years by the pitiful sight OF
Is 900 of his captured troops sent back
to him by Basil II dhe slayer OF Bull
gars) with their eyes plucKeo out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
OCHRIDA ON SERVIAN FRONT

"a less gruesome story of the monarch
of Ochrida is that of the romance of the
young Servian King VladHlir and of SAM
uels daughter, Kosara. Samuel, SO the
legend goes coveted Vladimir's city OF
Dulcigno, on the Adriatic coast In the
war which ensued Vladimir was defeated
and driven to the mountains where, upon
witnessing the hardships suffered by his
soldiers, he decided to purchase their
safety with his own person. The good
shepherd giveth his life for the sheep
said the King as he surrendered himself,
and was led captive to Prespa, village
near Ochride, where Samuel had a strong
castle in which he kept not only his ma
terial treasures but his hearts delight
the fair Kosara, his daughter.
Both vladimir and Kosara were ex-
tremely pious. and while the captive was
praying in his dungeon the vision of an
angel came to him; in the same hour
Kosara was hidden by an angel to go
and wash the feet of the captives in her
fathers castle. Thus the two met, and
the familiar but never old miracle OF
love at first sight happened. Kosara
went to her father and declared that she
would marry none other than Vladimir,
and the Car, knowing that the captive
was of royal blood, consented, had the
fortunate Vladimir arrayed in purple and
fine linen, and after the marriage cere-
mony restored to him his city with the
addition of Durazzo and its surrounding
territory. And so far as history knows.
there is no reason to deny the assertion
of the legend that they lived happily
ever after
For nearly 200 years Cup to 176D
Ochrida was the ecclesiastical head
quarters of the Bulgarians in the west
of the Balkan peninsula, and at the
time of the outbreak of the present war
it was the seat of a Bulgarian and a
Greek bishop.
1.-THE lake of Ochrida, which the town
overlooks, is a picturesque expanse OF
water, having an elevation of about a
mile above sea level, with a maximum
length of IS miles and a width of eight
miles. The chief outlet of the lake is
the River Drin, which flows north and
whose rather flat banks, lined with will
lows, through whose branches many chill
dren are to be seen, suggest a Dutch
scene.
I'm the shallow places along the river
the traveller sees many groups of women
busily engaged in laundry work, their
skirts tucked up above their knees. This
fact occasions no embarrassment to the
supposedly fair washerwomen, but upon
the approach of stranger all clutch
wildly for wisps of veil with which they
hastily cover their mouths and chins.
1.-TWO important occupations |of the
Ochridans are the manufacture of silver
filgree work, in which they are highly
skilled, and the dressing and making
up of furs into pelisses, extensively worn
throughout the regions formerly under
the suzerainty of the European Turks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
Farms for Farmers

1T is mighty easy to make thing look
good on paper, but it is very hard to Sc
cure the results anticipated" said Charles
j. Allison, clerk of the federal court,
yesterday. Sometime ago a man was
trying to sell me very large tract oil
land for the purpose of raising alfalfa
He made the thing look like certainty,
and he proved. beyond doubt, on paper,
that could get rich in year or two.
There simply was no chance to lose, ac-
ceTding to the facts and figures he pre-
scented.
1T just happened that 1 had learned
from friend who is an experienced al
falfa farmer much about growing the
crop. l asked the man who wanted to
sell me the land few questions and |
found out that he was totally ignorant
Of the whole proposition. L had learned
enough about the growing of alfalfa to
know that he did not understand what
ne was talking about. 1 bought no land.
Growing alfalfa or any other kind of
aIming is fine thing for those who
understand that business, but for a city
man who is ignorant of agriculture, it is
as hazardous as buying stock in gold
mines. For my part, I expect to leave
the farming of the state to those who
know something about it. Farming for
city men is a luxury for the rich, which
cannot Afford
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
Enjoyed Visit to Plant

Il have never seen a more satisfied and
congenial crowd of men on any trip
than those who went to Toledo to the
Overland plant. There came in numerous
specials from every section of the couu-
try" said H. M. Bailey, president of the
Overland Birmingham company, who ar
rived from Toledo yesterday.
Il had told some Of the dealers and
newspaper men that it would take more
than two hours of brisk walking to even
get glimpse of the huge Overland plant.
Each group of rs men. with guide, was
limited to two and a half hours for the
factory inspection trip. A total area COW
ering 11S acres Of land comprises the fac
tory floor space of the plant
81 am gratified to know that each and
every individual in the Alabama party.
as well as the others, learned a great
deal and enjoyed the trip thoroughly"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
HOW JOHN WESLEY WORKED

/ Eight thousand miles was his annual
than any other man who ever bestrode
a horse.
The book tells much about Wesley's
unfortunate married life. his wife being
a masterful, suspicious, jealous wom-
of meager education, who inter-
|, opened, read, misread and inter-
d his letters, stole his papers and
ported his messages And yet this
s an invalid all his life, harried by a
aIaEing wife, never lost the sweetness
az sis Christian nature, and he laid down
ghla characteristic Methodist doctrine:
Methodist is one who has the love
al sed shed abroad in his heart by the
sai Ghost given unto him. God
joy of his heart and the desire of
AT ,ul He loves his neighbor as
nsga If, he loves every man as his own
sau
lls was the friend of struggling Amer
90. June Is, 1775, within As hours of
,attle of Bunker Hill. he wrote to
North:
aiving all considerations of right
wrong. is it common sense to use
toward the Americans? -" =
saN OF our valiant officers say two
f4s4g ,and men will clear America of these
e6a s." No. not 10000. be they rebels or
s nor perhaps treble that number.
are as strong men as you: they
IS valiant as you, If not abundantly
valiant, for they are one and all
4
sY if your lordship can do anything
Is Il not be wanting! For Gods sake
IN he sake of the King of the nation
l our lovely family. remember Reho-
ha il Remember Phillip the Second! Re-
Der Charles the First.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
FurtEer Proof That TRUTH

Is Stranger Than Fiction

Is Stranger i nam FlCGA08l
a STRANGE story has been
"a brought to light by the cap
lure of Charles M. Wax, alleged to be
The "Oliver Osborne" who figured IN
"a scandal with fair New York mil
liner and whose philandering with
women caused James w. Osborne,
former assistant district attorney OF
New York, to be pilloried in court as
the guilty man.
A breach of promise suit for $780,
DOO was brought against Mr.. Osborne
by the milliner and the newspapers
were filled with sensational accounts
of the trial. Mr.. Osborne stoutly
contended that he was innocent, but
the evidence seemed to be strongly
against him.
Now it seems that Wax was the
Lothario who caused all the trouble.
This versatile Wax, according to the
records, is former convict, who has
been married several times and has
combined swindling and making
with astonishing success.
Mr.. Osborne is apparently in fair
way to be indicated and have his
good name cleared of the stain put
upon it, either as the result of an at
tempt to blackmail him or an honest
mistake in identity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08

called out Docena! Get your hand on
your baggage, as we is now nearing
the Terminal station. Hold your hats
and keep your heads inside the win
dowsr As the elevator reached the
ground floor he sang in a sonorous
basso, Birmingham
Perhaps the most unique figure is
the runner of the twelfth floor ex-
press in the American Trust. His voice
is naturally deep and to attract at
tention he tries to pronounce Going
down in a profundo basso tone. He is
really comical"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
NO ESCAPE.

"Do you believe man was made to
mourn?"
IT do" answered the pessimist. Even
when a person has little to complain of
himself, he is often made unhappy by the
hard luck stories other people insist on
telling him."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08

Everybody wants to solve the egg
problem to the best advantage" said
Mrs. ]. c. Moses of East Lake, who has
raised thousands of White Leghorns the
last few years. Il inserted classified
advertisement in The Age-Herald, stat
ing 1 had large number of pullets and
some fine ROSTERS to sell. That old say
ing, Tt pays to advertise certainly held
good in this case. Up to date 20 inquiries
have come in response to the advertise
ment. from five states, each party wish
ing from dozen to 100 pullets.
81 started to answer the inquiries but
at 2 o'clock on the first day gentleman
came to the lot, looked at the flock of
white birds, saw number on the nests
laying. and said, They look good to me;
want everything you don't want roost-
ers and all. Hold them until tomorrow
and I'll bring 10 crates on wagon to
haul them off in
He was there next day, closed a deal
running into three figures, and drove off
happy. He intends to add to ibis flock
until he gets 1000 hens. He also engaged
the first 700 baby chicks I bring off the
last of this month.
ut would have been no trick at all to
have sold 1000 pullets from the one little
cent-a-word adj
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-08
Essential Factors
In CouaGy's Growth


~ GOD roads and good schools are
VI essential to the material devel-
opment and progress of any communi-
ty. Improved highways come first in
the estimation of the good roads
booster, but the public in general
places the school ahead, and the pub
lie is right. But more essential than
either is a we'll conducted health de-
Dartment.
Now that jefferson county and the
city of Birmingham are to cooperate
in broad and thoroughly modern
sanitary plan along the line of DIR.
Carroll Fox's survey and under the
direction of DR.. F. E. Harrington of
the United States health service and
recommended as one of the most sue
cessful experts in the country, the
death rate hereabouts will be gradu-
ally reduced and epidemics will be
unknown. Health movements have
been inaugurated in this community
before with good results, but nothing
of the sort has ever aroused the en-
thusiasm among members of the local
medical profession as this proposed
joint arrangement between county
and city, and certainly nothing has
had stronger appeal to the public in a
generation than the coming of DR..
Harrington. This great sanitarian
has cleaned up Walker county and
Tuscaloosa county and has trans
formed them into sanitary models.
DR.. w. C. Gorgas, now surgeon
general of the United States army,
wrought what seemed little short of
q miracle in the Panama zone by
making it pleasant and healthfal
place to live in and thereby making
the building of the isthmian canal pos
lsible. Health conditions have never
been so bad in the Birmingham dis
trict as to be compared with disease
burdened localities, but there has
been a vast deal of typhoid fever, to
say nothing of other ills traceable to
filth and germs and the indifference
of the people to simple preventive