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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
New Hair Remover In
 Demand, Say Druggists lPheIactine Removes Roots and AID

Since the virtues of phelactine s a hair remover became generally known, druggists in this country have been having a really extraordinary demand for this remarkable product. The fact fore ones very eyes-as well as the surface hairs, is, of course, mainly re- sponsible for it's large and increasing sale The new method is not to be com- pared at all with the usual depilatory, electrical or other processes. It is en- tirely safe, non-irritating. on-poison- ous odorless-and instantaneous! A stick of phelactine, used. in accordance with the simple instructions which ac- company it, can be purchased any where on a money-back basis, so cer- tain is it to satisfy and delight the user.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17

the farmer what to plant, and where he can get seed-that is the most important not that they have not the money to buy, but they just can't get seed, they are scarce. You must take something definite to the farmer if you want his ae- tention and cooperation"
 MT. Mauldin will confer further with the committee, giving them the benefit of his experience, and offering his serv- Ices whenever needed.
 AUBURN TO HELP
 Frank Willis Barnett of The Age-Her- aid stated that he was just from A0-
 burn, where he had consulted with President c. c. Thach of the Alabama Polytechnic institute, and Dr. Thach had agreed to back the movement, offering every man connected with the agricui- tural department of the college to mal;e speeches, or to be used in the campaign in any way necessary, and that Dr.. Thach has asked him to make this state ment to the committee. This announce ment met with hearty approval MT. Barnett further stated that he had visited the Baptist ministers conference Monday morning, and that they had told the committee that waited upon them that as editor of the Alabama Baptist he
 was devoting the front page of the paper this week to an article calling upon the Baptist preachers-1500 in number-to support the movement, and that he was sure that they would fall in line. ". D. Wood reported that the Method ist union was in line, and that all Meth odist ministers would aid in every way possible.
 The Civic association was requested to take charge of all speaking dates, and to arrange for mass meetings all over the city and district, beginning immediately. The first meeting will be held at Ems ley.
 Chairman Frye announced the appoint ment of Murray Brown and Louis Pizitz as a committee to confer with Chairman Oscar Wells of the finance committee, as to details of raising funds, outlining the plans of the committee to Mir Wells and his committee.
 The committee will meet again Thurs day morning at II o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17

Ing the coming summer months and notices to this effect are being post ed fin the downtown district Practi- calIy every merchant has signed up, agreeing to close Thursday afternoon and several hundred clerks will be given this half holiday during the summer months. R. E. Rarden and V. o. Bishop were appointed as a com . mittee to see the merchants in this matter and 1t was announced today that on Thursday the town would prac- tically close up.
 Ruth Farley, the 2-year-old daush ter of Mir. and Mrs. Leonard Farley, died this morning at o'clock from an illness of ptomaine poisoning at the home of her parents on Welling ton street. The funeral was held this afternoon at o'clock from the fam fly residence. the services being con ducted by the Rev. c. M. Davenport, pastor of the Jonesboro Methodist church Interment followed at Arnold 8 chapel with Jacobs in charge
 The following have been elected vestrymen for Trinity Episcopal church: Lee Moody, Dr. w D. Taylor, F. B. Hill. A. K. Williamson, G. B Ethridge, A. c. Mitchell and Ben Per ry. The close of the year shows the church to be in excellent condition.
 Frederick W. Bruns and Miss Rosa Etta Mckinney were quietly married last night immediately after the evening services al the First Baptist church by the pastor the Rev M. K Thornton, in the pres ence of a few relatives and intimate friends. The bride made pretty pic. ture in a rose cloth coat suit with ac. cessories to match. She Is the daughter of Mrs. W. NJ. Mckinney and was reared in Bessemer. She possesses a charming personality that has made her a favorite among the younger set, while the groom is the youngest son of Mir. and Mrs L. E. Bruns, and is promising young bust ness man. MT. and Mrs. Bruns will be at home with the grooms parents, MT. and Mrs L. E. Bruns on Fifth avenue.
 DANCE AT WEST LAKE
 : Everything is in readiness for the open ip, dap pca XAact al.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
MERCHANTS TO CLOSE

Bessemer will close their stores on Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock dur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
special Bargains
 by Merchants in
 TOday's Age-Herald

Porters feature "NIansco" union suits for men, s1 to g.
 Loveman, Joseph & Loeb present full page of store news for today's shoppers. Saks feature mems oxfords at s4.5O. B and ss.
 Joe & Lee Slaughter want you to be a "tailor-made" man this spring.
 M. Well & Bro. feature Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes at s15 and s20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
CALOMEL MAKES
 YOU SICK, UGH! "Dodson's Liver Tone" better than calomel and can
 not salivate

Calomel loses you a day! You know what calomel is. It's mercury; quick silver. Calomel is dangerous. It crashes into sour bile like dynamite, cramping and sickening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put into your system.
 When you feel bilious, sluggish, con stipated and all knocked out and be- lieve you need dose of dangerous calomel just rem member that your drug glst sells for 50 cents a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which is en- tirely vegetable and pleasant to take and is a perfect substitute for calo- mel. It is guaranteed to start your liver without stirring you up inside, and cannot salivate.
 Don't take calomell It makes you sick the next day; it loses you days work Dodson's Liver Tone straight ems you right up and you feel great. Give it to the children because 1t Is perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe. Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
Chapel Hill Men Are Loyal

Raleigh. N C.. April 16.-Five hun- dred students of the University of North Carolina. who are drilling and studying military tactics. will request the war department to detail a regu- lar army officer as instructor, ac- cording to reports brought here to- day from Chapel Hill. Students and members of the faculty who have had military experience in the National Guard and elsewhere are acting as in- structors at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
New York State First

Washington. April 16.-New York has won the honor of first raising a regiment for the regular army after the United States went to war. The organization will be designated the First Reserve Eng ineers, and will be officered almost en- tirely by men taken from the engineer officers reserve corps. Its 1900 members got their training in public construction work in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17

ing and a large number of invitations have been issued. A number of improve ments have been made at this popular resort within the past few months and It Is expected that record breaking crowds will attend this season. The skating rink Is open every Sunday afternoon now and on April % will be open every day. H. C. Grigsby will have charge of the dancing and a jitney line will also be operated In connection with the opera tors of the lake and dance tickets will be sold at the drug stores, one of which will pay the trans portation to the lake on the regular Jft- neys operated by the management The bottom of the lake for about 20 or % feet has been cemented and will be greatly appreciated by the bathers Music will be furnished by an orchestra during the season and band concerts will be given on Sunday afternoons.
 George D. Cochran, who has a large wireless station at his home on Clarendon avenue, between Twentieth and Twenty first streets, has received a letter from the radio inspector at New Orleans stat ing that ai amateur wireless stations must be dismantled and that all wires and aerial masts must be taken down immediately MT. Cochran was asked to notify all amateurs in this district of this government order.
 The Bessemer Hatikwah club will give whist party on Wednesday evening, April 9, at the club rooms on Second avenue, between Nineteenth and Twen- teth streets. A committee has been ap- pointed to arrange for the occasion and all members are urged to be present.
 Interest is growing in the nonofficial military company which was recently or ganized and drills are being held twice a week Ex-Lieut. Roy F. Ling of Com pany D, Fourth infantry, A. N. G., and John Hagerty, who has had military training. are in charge of the organiza- tons Any one interested in this matter is requested to meet at the fire depart ment on Thursday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
CITIZENS OPPOSE l WATER CONTRACT
Construction of Bessemer Courthouse Taken Under
 Advisement

Bessemer, April 16.--(Special.)-A peti- tion Is being circulated among the citizens of Bessemer which will be presented to the city council at its meeting Tuesday night, asking that action on the proposer contract of the Alabama Water company be deferred until June 1. There is much interest in this matter and the contract is meeting with some opposition. A number of other matters will come before the council.
 The Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron com pany has announced that beginning May they would pay off twice a month in- stead of monthly as has been the rule heretofore. The announcement has been posted and the employees of the company are very much gra titled at the change.
 The board of revenue of Jefferson coun- ty held it's regular meeting in Bessemer today with Dr. R. F. Lovelady absent, Routine business was disposed of and bills ordered paid. The matter of a court house for Bessemer was brought up by citizens, and it was stated that the board had the matter under advisement
 MERCHANTS TO CLOSE
 The majority of the merchants of Bessemer will close their stores on Thursday afternoon at o'clock dur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
Schooner Founders at Sea and Part of Crew Die From Exposure in the Boats

Halifax. N. S., April 16.-FouE survivors of the crew of six of the three-masted Boston schooner Hattie Fl. Barbour, which foundered off Cape Cod during a northeast snowstorm April 10 were landed by an American tank steamer here today. Capt. E. B. Dickinson and the cook, John Smith, died of exposure and were buried at sea. From o'clock on the morning of April 10 until the aft ernoon of Friday, April 13 the men had been exposed to gale and sleet squalls, without food or water.
 The Barbour was 300-ton schooner and was built at Brewer. Me, in 1883. She left Perth Amboy March A with coal for St. John, N. B.
 Boston, April 15.--After 59 in an open boat, Theodore Doucette and four other members of the crew of the schooner John s. Beacham, were rescued at sea by the steam trawler Wave, eight days ago, and brought here today.
 The Beacham was bound from Liver pool, N. S., for New York with wood pulp when her seams opened in a gale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
Florida Man Dies Here

lSttawa. Ont. April 16.-The Canad- ian casualty list. given out today in- cludes Griffith F Dudley, Port Mescle Fla. who died of wounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-17
DANCE AT WEST LAKE

Everything is in readiness for the open ing dance at West Lake Wednesday evSn-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
Peace Motion Receives
But Scant Support in
the House of Commons

London, Nov. "A. ]. Balfour,
Secretary of Foreign Affairs. replying
in the House of Commons yesterday
to a peace motion by II. B. Lees
Smith. Liberal member from North
ampton, declared:
THE aims for which Great Britain
entered the war were not and are not
either imperialistic or vindictive, but
one and all are needed for the double
purpose of the emancipation and Sc
curity of Europe"
Mr.. Balfour asked the House to
show by an overwhelming majority
that:
We believe in the cause in which
we are struggling and which we
know we can bring to successful
termination. Great as are
ready to continue them, and con-
great, righteous and unselfish OBJ
.jects we have in view are finally
secured.
Andrew Bonar-Law. Chancellor of
the EXchequer amid loud cheers,
moved closure. which was carried,
2S2 to 3S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
America Pledged to New
Magma Charta, Says Mail

London. Nov Taking as its text
the announcement OF the first Amer
lean casualties in the world war.
ne Dally Mail prints a eulogistic edl-
tIrlal on American participation In
the hostilities, in which it says:
Ihe hrst lives of their countrymen
oHered in this greatest of all Amer
lca crusades-greater than the War
OF Independence. greater than the
ClNli War-have significance all
lEelr own and seem to write in let
tefs OF blood a new and Tremendous
page in the worlds history.
Never again will it be possible
Tor Americans to think they have
one set of interests and Europe an
other. They have been drawn into n
conflict which is Transforming the
destinies of the whole world. and in
the fashioning of whatever dispen-
sation is to be evolved from it Amer
can power, American ideals and
American disinterestedness will play
a great part,
But, as Ambassador Page insisted
in his speech at Edinburgh, it must
be a cooperative and not a lonely
part"
Quoting Ambassador Pages asser-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
BY JANE MCLEAN.

The waiting room was crowded
and the little woman who sat on the
edge of her chair and looked fur
lively about her, fidgeted uneasily.
Evidently she was in hurry, ana
the time that must pass before she
was uShered into the presence or the
doctor filled her with foreboding.
She looked around at the other
patients, hoping perhaps that she
might persuade one or two OF them
TO let her go into the office first, but
there was none with kindly enough
look to warrant such request. Most
of them looked bored with life, and
two or three so utterly wrapped up
in their own thoughts that there was
no need Of approaching them.
Finally, after waiting an intermin-
able time, the nurse beckoned her to
come and she stumbled to her feet
and went in. The little man who
looked up at her over his spectacles
nodded, and then went on with
something he was inscribing in a
notebook. Finally he looked up and
said brusquely:
"Well?"
"Doctor, I'm SICK" she began.
Cant you give me omethingg
There was a tone like prayer in
her voice.
NO lime 10 heSt.
i've told you what to do" he re-
turned, and you don't do It. You're
tired out, tell you. You've got TO
take a rest"
But, doctor, I've told you can't" "
What would they do if you were
not there to look after them?' he
threw at her, impatiently. Suppose
you were dead?"
Then I'd have to stop" she whis-
pered, "but I don't, see how can
till I stop breathing"
We'll, you won't have long to
wait at the rate you are going" he
growled, not unkindly. Look at
yourself" and he thrust mirror be-
fore her. You're a young woman
and look fifty. You're shaving your
self to death for those kids, and it's
all wrong"
cut it all out and take a rest. Go
home and go to bed. I'll manage
the rest"
But" she quavered uncertainty.
Now. don't begin that" he said
impatiently. Il could see an excuse
for it If you were the kids mother,
but you're only their mothers sister.
l tell you you have the wrong idea
of duty. You can't go on this way,
Something will have to be done"
But we just manage to get along
nicely now" she protested. Even
If I do give up and take a rest,
there's so little money"
you needn't worry about that
part of it; but for a time you must
rest and give up thinking about
duty"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
ALPS w ell That
@ Ends Well q

heaven to her. Just to lie down at
night and feel that she might have
hef breakfast brought to her in the
morning, or that she might lie still
ana not move hour after hour, know
ing that everything would be taken
care of. Her head began to swim
with the deliciousness of the sensa-
ton, and then she slid over against
the desk in a huddled little heap.
1t All Comes Back.
When she regained consciousness
she was lying in her own bed at
home. The shade was pulled down
and the room was in order. There
was no trace of her clothes, and she
lay still, trying to think what had
happened. She remembered slowly
the trip to the doctors office-the
advice he had given her-and then
the sudden delightful trailing off
into unconsciousness. After that she
remembered nothing at all of what
had happened.
She tried to raise her head from
the pillow, and as she did so the
door opened softly and girl of about
twelve looked in. She wore a white
apron over her school dress and she
came over to the bed with a little
air of importance that was charming.
can do anything for you, iauntie
dSdI Sne SAID SO1tly.
The woman in the bed turned her
head and smiled. What happened ?"
she whispered.
You tainted in the doctors office
and he brought you home" the child
said, trying to smile and fight back
the tears that would come, but a big
tear forced its way down her cheek
and she turned away to hide it.
What is it, dear?" the weak voice
asked softly, holding out the mother
ly arm that had always been ready
when the children needed it.
Emily sank down on her knees by
the bed and cried softly. We've all
been so selfish and let you do so
much" she murmured, but we're
going to take care of you now. The
doctor said l could take charge of
things. and Dot is going to do it
when l am at school.
You're to lie in bed and rest, and
the doctor says If 1 look after you
right l may learn to be a real nurse
in a real hospital when l grow up"
The child looked up, the tears still
on her eyelashes. And you aren't
to do a thing but rest for a month,
she finished, kissing her aunt gently.
The woman in the bed drew a Ion"
breath and settled herself comfort
ably on her pillow. She was almos.
afraid she might wake up and find
it all a dream.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
Fashions of To-Day By May Manton

What will Christmas be with
out dolly. and what would dolly
be without an up-to-date cos
tune. Here is a really fasci-
mating one which shows all the
newest and smartest features,
yet is is so simple that it can be
very easily made. There are
only two pieces in the little
draped skirt and the blouse is
of the tie-on sort that involves
no difficulties whatsoever. The
little circular cape will involve
the minimum of time and of
labor. You can make the dress
all of one material or you can
make the skirt of one and the
bodice of another, and anything
that is both pretty and prac-
teal is desirable.
For the medium size the
dress will require, rs yards
of material o7 inches wide, Is
yards SO. and the cape, %
yards 27, 5s yards SO.
The pattern No. $3.50 is
cut in sizes IS, 22 and 20 inches
high. 1t will be mailed to any
address by the Fashion Depart
ment of this paper. on receipt
of ten cents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07

of change? With the entrance of
women into public affairs we may
in time overturn this settled dictum." -"
"Humph!" sCoffed the man from
New York. IF you will remember,
l asked our friend here from the Pa
Cihc coast, a few minutes ago, what
had been the effect of womans suff-
rage in this state and his answer
was little or none beyond a mere
doubling of the vote. You said, did
YOU not" he turned to the Cali
fornian, that as a general rule wives
voted the same way as their hus-
bands, and daughters the same way
as their fathers and their brothers ?"
Yes. that is true" admitted the
Western man. Il suppose that on
a great moral issue. the woman vote
would make itself overwh elmingiy
felt. But the trouble with that is
that a great moral issue seldom
comes to the people for Il clean-cut
decision. The politicians see to
that.
still" ne amended refecttvely.
Il don't know that it is perfectly
fair TO say the admission of women
to the franchise has been without
appreciable results. 1t is SO no
doubt on the larger questions af-
fecting the state or nation, but IN re-
gard to the filling OF minor offices
l think there has been a marked i'm
provement.
Take my own case, for instance" ,"
he went on. Il never bothered in
the old DAYS TO investigate the merits
or dement's of the candidates for the
subordinate city and county offices.
! voted my ticket straight. Women,
however, are different about these
things. In their clubs and knitting
circles and as they go about their
shopping and marketing they ex-
change views and questions, and so
manage to get a pretty accurate line
on these lesser candidates.
so now, before election, my wife
and sit down and go over the entire
list. We decide just whom we will
support and why. And as the same
rule obtains in most other families,
the result has naturally tended to
better service"
Better service" I interrupted,
There you've put your finger on the
whole thing. No one except fools
and fanatics ever expected that the
entrance of women into politics
would cause any radical or revolu-
tionary changes. Her influence and
her characteristics will make them
selves felt rather as a leaven which
will gradually modify and transform
our whole social structure.
In q mans world, governed and
influenced by men, power is. of
course, the aim and ideal, for power
is the essential masculine character
istic. But woman's middle name is
and always has been Service.
And have you noticed in the last
few years how that word is more
and more on peoples lips; how ever
and eyer m ore freuueutly II is bain q
urged as the great essential in pub
lie office? Even in the war. there
is less talk about the great, out
standing figures, the leaders and the
captains, than about the humble do
ing of ones bit Is all this merely
a coincidence with the increasing in
fluence of women in the state, or is
it a consequence and result?
isn't it fair to suppose, then" I
asked, that the old Roman tradi-
ton, the idea of Power as the meas
ure of success, will in time be sup
planted by a newer, sweeter tradi-
ton with Service as its standard -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
MEDICAL ADVICE ON BLOOD TROUBLES
GIVEN FREE BY EXPERT AUTHORITY.

their origin In a disordered condi-
tion of the blood. For more than half
century it has been used with
highly satisfactory results for Rheu-
matism, Catarrh, Eczema, Scrofula.
letter, and other blood diseases.
Our medical director, who is an
expert on blood and skin diseases,
offers his services without cost to
all who wish his aid. You are in
vited to write him fully about your
own individual case, and he will
gladly give you such directions for
treatment as your case requires.
You can obtain 8. S. S. at any
drug store. Don't be persuaded to
take q substitute. II you wish medi-
cal advice, address Chief Medical Ad-
wiser, Swift Specific Co., 22S-B, Swift
Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga--Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
Costs Nothing For Opinion OF Your
Own Case

Everyone recognizes the value of
expert opinion. This is the age Of
specialism, and when we have work
of importance to be done, we go to
an expert in his line.
Years ago it was realized that
medicine covered too broad a field
for any one man to master it's every
branch. Hench, the doctor who spe-
cialized in some particular branch
became the most proficient and the
most successful.
The wonderful success OF the
great blood remedy. s. S. S.. is due
largely to the fact that it has not
been recommended as cure-all, but
strictly for those diseases having