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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30
DOLL LY-ET1TES
It's a TREAT on NEW YEARS DAY to listen to the other Fellow say: "What1l you have?"
listen to the

got so that every day In the year is hilarious celebration with you. Why, I can remember when New Years eve was a strictly family affair. Everybody sat around reminiscing. Hot coffee and oysters and cold turkey formed the collation. at about 1o:3o o'clock and im- mediately afterward everybody ad- journed to the church for the watch night services. What ails you Mir. Cau- dle? Didn't hear you groan?
 Exactly so; those were days when people were happy; when each man loved his own wife, and when every body was satisfied without the noise and hustle and confusion of New Years eve trunks and regrets and remorse the morning after.
 But what will we tell the Tattletales? They've engaged their table long ago, and they'll be so disappointed if we don t join them? They won't be half so dis appointed as you'll be. You'll feel bet ter, though. for not going, for the night
 $ just one awful orgy, screaming and yelling and men kissing other men S wives and everybody performing some thing scandalous. Why, the thing re- minds me of election night, Christmas Eve, football night, in the days gone by up east, and the Fourth of July all mixed up together.
 "What's that? You don't believe could
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

ual immigration of trained and care fully selected Jews into agricultural colo- nes away from the towns-never into the cities where they tend to become de- pendent on the charity of the rest. But it is most important that the immigra- ton should be carefully checked ;hat there be no rush and overcrowding be- fore the land is prepared to support them. It is process that must go on steadily for years, beginning at the first with very few and very selected men to prepare the way. All this must be car. ried out with due attention, as Mir. Ball. four points out in his letter-to the rights of those now holding the land who have owned it for many generations"
 And where does Britain come in in that settlement?"
 We should be, so to speak, guarantors and protectors of Palestine.' replied Dr. Masterman. All history from Babylon and Ninevah to Napoleon and now this war shows that the real gate to Egypt is Gaza (with Beersheba). They are the true frontier. And they should be held by the power that holds Egypt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30
DOLL Y-ET TIES
DON'T say too Rashly on NEW YEARS DAY: Have Drink" (Some People NEVER Swear Off, " you knoW.)

that old Tattetale is putting up the money for F guests at s plate for a New Years Eve supper. I know who is paying the check; it's MT. Caudle, if you please. I know your high handed way about those things Whats that? Ask the management if old Tattletale hasn't engaged a table and if you have? I'm on to that sort of game MT. Caudle You've engaged other tables before now so I've heard in old Tattletale's name And to think of the bills will owe next Wednesday! When I think of where I'll get the money to pay for all the Christ mas things I've bought Socrates hemlocH position doesn't seem half so dreadful Oh. dear! Oh, dead! and you'd go tomor. row evening and spend sl0O on those old fool Tattletales and other rubbish if Ic consent.
 What's that? Why, don't I resolutt this New Year to be economical? Oh. ME' Caudle, how could you, how could you bt so unkind and so mean? Here I an at the close of another year the most saving, the most economical. the mos self-sacrihcing wife alive and this is al the credit I ever get from you, sir Whats the use? What the use? Btu there's one thing certain and sure Mir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30
Human salvage in France

From What Our Red Cross Is Doing
 In France by Marion c. Scheitlin,
 in the American Review of Rtviews.
 A big section of France must be re- habilitated. German shells and Ger man wantonness have razed more than 1000 French villages and towns. 4 Red Cross worker in a report illustrative of the utter devastation cites this in stance: In company with man who had owned mill in a town of about 2000 inhabitants, tIfis worker returned to it after it had been evacuated by the Germans. The miller had lived his life in the town and knew every street, lane and house in It.
 When we reached the place." said the Red Cross worker. "my miller friend had to get a surveyor to locate the site of his mill, so complete was the raging of every building in the town"
 The Red Cross is not going to un- dertake the task of rebuilding the viI- lages of France. But 1t has initiated on the human side A comprehensive plan of giving a fresh start to those who have been left destitute by tha ravages of the Germans, but who are able to work. This is the plan. To begin by reconstituting 50 families of i've members each in each of four vfl- lages. The hope and expectation IA that they can be made self supporting and that the movement will spread
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30
MAKE THE FARM HEN A
 BETTER PA WING PROPOSITION
Get Rid of Scrubs or Grade Them Upward With New Blood-The Farmer Has a Golden Opportunity in Natural Advantages
By PROF. JAMES B. sroORMAN Former expert for the United States
 Department of Agriculture

Department of Agriculture
 The last census figures show that the average annual value of eggs pro- duced on each farm was a little less than $5S and of poultry raised at $42- an average total value of poultry products of S100. When the expense of feeding and marketing is deducted, the net profits are therefore small.
 This showing is poor in the face or the natural advantages offered by the farm for poultry keeping. The farm hen usually has free range. This is an advantage which can be made to yield dollars and cents. The feed bill for the grain eaten is the cost of production only This is an additional advantage which makes the cost of producing eggs less, therefore it should increase the farmers profits. Lastly, the farm hen can procure a greater abundance of natural food. This is not only cheap CT but more satisfying than the com mercial feeds sold to take the place of grubs and insects.
 With these natural advantages to her credit the farm hen ought to excel her competitors. But she has not done so The average egg production Is GA eggs a year for each farm hen The average weight of eggs laid by the poorest grade of farm fowls Is about 20 ounces to the dozen; by the better grade of mixed barnyard hens, largely of Plymouth Rock origin, about 23 ounces, and by hens from blood fiocks of specially bred Leghorns or American varieties, 24 to 35 3-5 ounces per dozen. Evidently. the kind of fowl kept has much to do with this poor showing.
 From these facts and figures we should learn two lessons. First, the farmer has a golden opportunity at hand if he will keep better hens and more of them. Second, the average farm hen can be graded up to lay more eggs and larger eggs as we'll as be- ing made more profitable for tabe use.
 The day of the livestock scrub on the farm is rapidly passing. The farm hen should be improved by cross breeding or be displaced by standard breed. The progressive farmer everywhere recognizes the importance of improved or pure- bred stock. There Is no reason why this prog ress should not include poultry. It has been shown by the Illinois experiment. station that many farmers are keeping cows with little or no profit; others are a downright loss. It is the same with farmers who keep scrub hens. A wise farmer will discard scrubs of all kinds.
 The great trouble is-too many farmers lack system in the management of their hens. This is particularly true of the middle Atlantic and many southern states. The experiment stations have called attention to this fact time and again. The most important suggestion made is the Improvement Of farm poul- try stock
 There Is too much indifference about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

Cross. and some other organizations, are fitting such as he with artificial legs that bend at the knee and act almost like the one he lost He is htted, finds that he can climb on and off his car and goes back to his former modest sphere of usefulness. Jean is lucky-he does not have to be reed ucated,
 But Jacques. whose eyes were pierced by bits of shrapnel. must perforce start lire all over. Jacques was a mechanic or the better sort. Without the eyes ne gave for France he cannot go back to his trade. So he Is taken in hand by the Red Cross. taught basket-weav- ing or one of a dozen other trades adaptable to the blind, and placed on a self-supporting basis. Jacques Is happy to think that he can take care of himself and the state is spared the expense of a dependent. There are thousands of Jeans and Jacques in France and Belgium and not one of them is to be & charge of the public who has not been mutilated beyond possibility of re-education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30
Re-Education of French Wounded

From What Our Red Cross Is Doing
 In France" by Marion G. Scheitlin.
 in the American Review of Reviews
 In this wars vocabulary the word "re-e education" covers one of it's most interesting and humane phases. Jean, who was teamster, had his leg blown away by German shell. He has wife and children. He leaves the hospital borne down by that which he believes to be his helplessness and the vision of his faithful wife having to work for him and the children. Perhaps, he thinks, he can learn to be a cobbler Nearly all the poilus who have lost neither limbs look to the cobbler's bench. Then Jean learns that the Red
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30
SINGLE COMB BR OWN LEGHORNS

Like others of the Leghorn tribe the Single Comb Brown Leghorn is a heavy egg producer and a non-sitter Breeders must depend upon the hens of other breeds or use artificial means to hatch and brood the chicks. Because of the rich red and green-black colors of the male and the soft brown plumage of the female this breed is much admired. It is popular with the fancier as well as with the farmer.
 Several of our popular American breed CTS owe their quality of heavy egg pro- duction to the Brown Leghorn, which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

Caudle that economical Or not economi- cal, resolutions or no resolutions. I'll not break mine of last year and go to
 your New Year Eves party tomorrow evening Now. that's settled, once and for all. sir. There's some initiative and positively no recall to that propositionl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

has been used extensively as foundatIon stock.
 Brown Leghorn eggs are white and larger than those laid by other varie- ties of Leghorns and find ready sale in certain markets. The chicks grow rap idly and reach maturity early.
 Full-groWn Brown Leghorns are usually larger than any other Leghorns. The hens weigh from Az to 51s pounds, while the males weigh as high as 51a to $ pounds. They are active, Care good for aSers and thrive on open range. They are also ideal for backyard flocks and keep the table well supplied with eggs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

enjoy myself anywhere? We'll, can, sir! What? At Daughters of Rebekkah meeting or a Dorcas society sewing bee; or one of those hen party luncheons,
 where ail the women present have their digestions spoiled, and all those absent their regulations? Oh, MT. Caudle, what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

Ole Miss, every body ought ter put de Bes' Foot Fore mos on NEW YEARS DAY, but not fer de Purpose uv Givin' de Other Teller CT Kick. NaW'm!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

The granite produced in the United States in 1916 was valued at s17,41S,5s2. 22 per cent of the value of the entire stone output.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

has been killed in the warning countries of Europe There is a serious shorta~e in well bred fowls. and this shortaae will grow more and moro acrte. Tn this there is an opportunity for the American hen: it is the subject Of na-rs weak's article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

A great deal or poultry has been slaughtered in this country during the past year as the result of the greatly in creased cost of feed. A great deal more
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15
VIGOROUS MEN AND
WOMEN ARE IN DE-
MAND

If your ambition has left you, your
happiness has gone forever unless you
take advantage of Conkey Drug Co.,
Leo Fihe, A. G. Luken and Glen
Thistlethwaite's magnificent offer to
refund your money on the first box
purchased .if Wendelrs Ambition Pills
do rot put your entire system in fine
condition ard give you the energy and
Vigcr you have lost.
Be ambitious. be strong, be vigorous.
Bring the ruddy glow of health to your
cheeks and the right sparkle that de-
notes perfect manhood and woman.
hood to your eyes.
Wendells Ambition Pills, the great
nerve tonic, can't be beat for that tired
feeling, nervous troubles, poor blood,
headaches, neuralgia, restlessness,
trembling, nervous prostration, mental
depression, loss of appetite and kidney
or liver complaints.
In two days you will feel better. In
a week you will feel fine, and after tax.
ing one box you will have your old
time confidence and ambition.
Be sure and get so cent box today
and get out Of the rut. Remember
Conkey Drug Co., Leo Fihe. A. G.
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ers everywhere are authorized to
guarantee them. Mail orders filled,
charges prepaid by The Wendell
Pharmacal Company, Inc, Syracuse,
N. Y.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15
LADIES!LOOK YOUNG,
DARKEN GRAY HAIR
Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sulphur
Recipe and Nobody Can Tell.
Brush It Through the Hair.

Gray hair, however handsome, de-
notes advancing age. We all know
the advantages of youthful appear
ance. Your hair is your charm. 1t
makes or mars the face. When 1t
fades, turns gray and looks streaked.
Just a few applications of Sage Tea
and Sulphur enhances its appearance
a hundred-fold.
Don't stay gray! Look young!
Either prepare the recipe at home or
get from any drug store a 50-cent bot
tie of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound" which is merely the old-time
recipe improved by the addition OF
other ingredients. Thousands of folks
recommend this ready-to-use prepara-
tion, because II darkens the hair beau
tifully, besides no one can possibly tell.
as it darkens so naturally and evenly
You moisten sponge or soft brush
with it, drawing this through the hair,
taking one small strand at time. By
morning the gray hair disappears;
after another application or two, Its
natural color is restored and it be-
comes thick, glossy and lustrous. and
you appear years younger.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is delightful toilet requisite.
1t is not intended for the cure. mitiga-
tion or prevention of disease.-Adv
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15
Dayton Pastor Speaks
at County Meeting

NEW PARIS, O., May 15.-The con-
vention Of tho six Jefferson township
Sunday schools will be held at New
Paris Methodist church Sunday after.
noon, May 20 at 2 o'clock. Rev. Ira
D. Warner Of Dayton Oak Street U.
B. church will deliver the address.
County President c. r. Coblentz will
have charge of the round table. Har-
~ Bragg. Methodist, New Paris; Mrs.
Mary Gray. Methodist. Gettysburg; A.
H. Wilson. Presbyterian, New Paris :
Wilbur Duffield. Presbyterian. Gettys.
burg; Everett Hunt, Pleasant Hill:
Mrg. Margaret Reinheimer, Christian,
New Paris, will take three-minute
parts In the round table. Mrs. NJ. O.
Penland and Miss Gertrude Hawley
will be In charge of the music. Rev.
F. F. Mclaughlin is acting township
president and he with Revs. George
F. Critics and e. j. Vance will assist
with the program.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15
Traitors Caused Braue Roumanian
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had been there for the first time the
night before. This woman had not
slept the whole night. She was fright
ened to the point Of death and could
not speak German. She knew some
French. SO Powers explained to her
that we were Americans and that we
expected to pay for our lodging and
breakfast; that while we were travel
ling with the German army we were
representing American newspapers
and she was not obliged to provide for
us as enemies" Convinced that we
were not going to harm her, she told
about the way the Turks behaved the
night before. She said they tried to
choke an old woman across the street
to death after she had provided lodg
ing and food for them, and that as
they left that morning they destroyed
all her household furniture. Powers
told Turkish officer what he heard
about the terribleness of the Turks
and asked as personal favor that the
Turkish staff do something to protect
the home where he had stayed. He
said he feared the poor woman would
die of fright If she was not protected.
That night seven sentinels were sent
to guard her home. but they misunder-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15
Young Folks Congress
ls Inspiring Affair

NEW PARIS, May 1s~-AH Inspiring
meeting Of the jefferson Township
Boys and Girls congress was held
Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian
church. The High school orchestra
and chorus assisted With the music
with Mrs. Iona 8. Howles directing.
Miss Coda Hill sang solo and VIII
bur Duffis!d gave the opening and clos
ing prayers, while Miss Orayce Gray
read the scripture lesson. Miss Zelma
Nunamaker presided at the piano. For
the girls, Miss Evelyn Northrop was
elected president and Miss Lois Baum.
gardner. secretary, and for the boys,
Roy Arnold was elected president and
G. 0. Ashman as secretary. New col
ors were adopted, or rather one color.
red, was added TO the congress colors
of blue and white, making the national
colors, the colors OF the organization
On Monday night, June 4, when the
County Congress Of boys and girls hold
public program in the Presbyterian
church here, an enthusiastic gathering
is looked for Miss Clara Clemmer,
secondary county superintendent Of
West Alexandria, was present and in
her usual enthusiastic way "kept
things going"
PAL lAniIJM WANT ADA Paw
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15

! morale OF the Rumanian forces wat
completely shattered. Won Mackenser
entered the capital in triumph. One
disloyal Rumanian at the Kings head
| quarters was responsible.
This incident was only the begin
ming of many thrilling hours I spent
there. One day I watched the German
batteries shell Slatina. and twenty
four hourse later l was entering the
burning city with the invaders. That
night we slept in an abandoned hos
pital which had been hit by three
shells The rooms were filled with
broken beds, torn and bloody linen. old
clothes, medicine and empty cham
payne 3ottles. In one room sixteen
such TASKS were found on bare table
surrounded by overturned chairs
grim evidence Of gay party on the
eve of the evacuation.
When we awoke the next morning
at 4:30 o'clock the flames which the
night before were at the outskirts OF
the city we're scarcely seventy-five
feet from the hospital From the bal.
cony-therc had been two. but shell
had destroyed one of them we
watched the remaining citizens drag
household goods fro madjoining build.
ings. The flames could not be extin-
guished, because the retreating Ru-
manian army had destroyed the water
system. There was no water in the
city except what the Rumanians car
ried by bucket from the Alt River.
Boy "Found" vaIuabIes.
We had little food and were hungry.
The captain who was our escort hunt
o1 H. ,ft h.
an who could speak German, and then
ordered her. 'in the name of the I'M
perial German General Staff" to get
breakfast. We went to the kitchen,
stood around the brick stove and drank
her black coffee under protest. be-
cause the kitchen was in much the
same condition as the hospital A
shell had exploded in the courtyard,
killing or wounding some one, because
there was spattered blood everywhere.
While we were standing beside the
kitchen stove a small boy, aged about
seven, came running in with a gold
necklace, set with fine stones. 1t was
his booty He found" it, he said, in
jewelry shop. His mother jerked 1t
away and threw it into the cupboard
excitedly, and told him to get out
which he did. Evidently he under
stood what she meant. for few min.
utes later he returned wearing new
pair Of shoes and stockings. He
found" those In drygoods store!
Turks Choked Woman.
One evening we entered Alexandria.
a large Rumanian city about fifty kilo-
metres from Bucharest and an equal
distance from the Bulgarian border.
We had no place to sleep. We were
hungry and tired. At first Powers and
l were taken to the same house where
a Rumanian woman, her two children
and white haired old father lived. The
husband was in the Rumanian army.
German, Turkish and Bulgarian troops
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15

stood the address and guarded tbs
home next door. which was occupied
only by German officers!
Early the next morning we walked
about the city. Every store and home
had been looted. Windows and doors
OF shops were smashed. shelves were
broken down. articles were trampled
on the floors and sidewalks were lit
tered. Out OF 1ewelry shop we saw
two Bulgarian cavalrymen ride, hold.
ing silver dishes which they had TAX
en-.
Invaders Terrible Acts.
For three weeks we travelled about
Rumania. We heard frightful stories
and saw terrible scenes. We were
fired at by snipers in an abandoned
railroad station. We rode to the edge
Of progressing battles and past battle
fields, where wounded were still moan.
ing and crying. 1t was like frightful
nightmare. We saw a German officer
take fine saddle horse away from a
Rumanian peasant at the pistol point
We saw non-commtssioned officer
whip peasant woman until she
screamed and begged for mercy. We
saw drunken officers and drunken sol
diers wining and dining the prostitutes
of Craiova. We saw them walk out
OF cafes and hotels and refuse to pay
their bills.
For three weeks we saw this sort of
thing. and we were glad when the time
came for us to leave. Our captain
guide wanted us to stay longer and re-
turn to Bucharest, but We were SO dis
gusted that we refused. For declin-
ing to stay with him on this war joy
ride, which he was enjoying because
he was drinking heavily. he kept us
at the Observation-Disclosures border
three days.
When we returned to Berlin We
wrote our stories of the invasion of
Rumania, but they never reached the
United States.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15
CAN WALK 3 MILES
Troubles Of Heart, Stomach, Digestion
All Removed.

Troubles Of Heart, Stomach, Digestion
All Removed.
To look at Mr.. David T. Remington,
Of Springfield. Mass, one would say,
"he is as sound as a nut"
And SO he is, thanks to the new com
bination of purifying and building-up
treatment embodied in Hoods Sarsa-
parilla and Peptiron Pills.
Mr.. Remington is one OF the best
known men In the State, having been
for 21 years in the State House in
Boston as Senate Doorkeeper and Ser-
geant-at-Arms.
He says he had annoying symptoms
about his heart, stomach and digestive
organs. His old friend, Senator George
E. Putnam,of Lowell, urged him to
take q course of Hoods Sarsaparilla
and Peptiron Pills, which he did, and
now,-"I never felt better in all my
life. can walk from my house down
town and back. " miles each way"
These medicines are obtainable from
every druggist. Why not begin this
sensible treatment yourself today
Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-05-15

Brings cooling. soothing. comfort n
tired, swollen, burning feet. Takes ths
soreness out OF painful corns and cal
louses and makes the feet feel fine. Nc
foolishness.
Ice.mint shr!vels up any hard corn
soft corn or toughened cal.ous 30 that
II can be picked out easily With the
fingers. It Is the real japanese secret
for fine healthy little feet. Prevents
foot odors and keeps them sweet and
healthy. Try II. It Is selling like
wild fire" here. Just ask in any drug
store for a small jar Of ice,nint which
will cost little but will do the work
quickly. ice Mint acts 80 gently, 50
magjcally that the old fashioned and
dangerous method OF cutting corns or
applying eating plasters seems barbar
GUS. You'll say 30 yourself.-Adv.