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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-02
Ladies' Separate
Skirts

This is good Separate Skirt sea-
son, and the demand seems to be
greater all the time. We have good
line of sizes in the plain colors that
we are making special prices on dur
ing this Cleanup Sale. Here is sure
ly saving proposition for you, as
these are the seasons best Skirt val
ues and styles.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-02
81 Brings You This Brand
New Model
ST a Week Quickly Pays for 1t

There is no interest or extra fees to pay
when you buy the genuine Hoosier Cabinet
Enormous production enables the Hoosier
factory to sell at remarkably low prices.
All grades of Hoosier Cabinets sell at lower
prices than any other cabinet on the market.
You can buy any Hoosier in our store to-mor-
row for the low cash price which is fixed by
the Hoosier Mfg Co..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
Brought Many Inquiries

The enormous pulling power of The Age-Herald has been demonstrated to me this week." said Charles Denegre, local distributor of Franklin pleasure cars and service trucks. "A story ap- peared on the automobile page of The Age-Herald last Sunday to the effect that I had some Franklin cars on ex- hibition and was ready to demon strate them. This was a mistake on the part of the automobile editor. I fully expected to have the new Franklins the later half of this week, but thus far they have not arrived.
 The story caused fully 100 personal inquiries from all sections of Greater Birmingham about the Franklin auto mobiles. AS soon as I get my shipment of cars shall make the announcement to the public. I feel safe in saying they will be here before Saturday, and cer- tainly not later than next Monday or Tuesday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
THE WAR AND WINE
From the Westminster Gazette.

From the Westminster Gazette.
 Some extraordinary figures are to be in- cluded in the annual "Gilbey" report on the years vintage that is in course of preparation. No less than 100000 900 gall Ions of the years French wine-a fifth of the entire annual production of France has. it seems, been requisitioned for the uss of the French army. as well as an- other 100000 gallons from Algeria. The value of this huge supply is estimated at E20,0O0,0d0, and to store 1t warehouse &C., conmodation has been communicated in every department of France that is not in German hands And Italy. like France,
 Is reserving much of her wine for the use sof her soldiers.
 The French vintage is not so large as it was expected, to be. In the northern vineyards the grapes are comparatively few and of poor quality. and the weather that accompanied tho last four months of lighting has ruined the champagne vim tage But in central and southern France. where most of the vineyards are situated, though the quantity is disap- pointing, the quality is very high. Con- va descent soldiers, as well as prisoners |of war, havc been working as substitutea for the men who have been taken away from the vi1eyards to the front.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
LIFE AT THE .WEIl7TE HOUSE

sticks beat back the guests while tho food was being fetched from the kitch- ens Then an evening aparW had all the charm of riot. A diplomat complained not so long ago that even at the exclu- sive receptions for the corps the Ameri- can young ladies surreptitiously cut all the buttons off his clothes for souvenirs.
 Another diplomat, new to these demo- cratic shores, arriving late for a New Years day reception. was astonished to find that the negro hasixman who had driven him to the White House had slipped in ahead of him and was the first to grasp the presidential hand! He could not understand that the executive hand is as much the peoples property as the mansion. MT. Washington did not shake hands. but since then every presidential paw has been squeezed by the populace almost beyond the power of flaxseed poultices or massage to bring it back to anything like original shape. The shake is expected to be wholesome and hearty even Boston gentleman complained. under Tyler's administration. that he had caught cold from shaking the Pres- ident's hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
Sees Big Future for cordoya

John O'Connor, editor of the newly es- tablished Alabama oil Bulletin at Cordo- va, was in Birmingham yesterday and he is already most enthusiastic Cordova booster.
 "Cordova. of course, has a great future if it becomes the center of an oil field,' said MT. O'Connor. "but it is destined to be a real city even if the oil should not pan out as we all now expect. That river alone Is worth millions to Cordova. The town is right in the heart of coal fields. ana I believe Codova will one day be the center of great wood
 working industry. The logs can be floated to town on the river and there is la fine field for spoke, stave, axhandle, barrel. veneering and all kinds of wood working plants.
 T have also had some experience in the brick business and the shale in the vicini- ty of Cordova is fine, so that the brick industry will ultimately be important to Cordova. Some day we will float down the Warrior river on barges all of the brick that Mobile and New Orleans and other gulf cities can use. I have cast my lot with Cordova because I believe it has a real future and want to be of what assistance I can in developing it. When I came from Beaumont to Cordova it did not take me long to see the possibilities.
 You will do we'll eb keep an eye on Cor dova.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03

From the Kansas City Star.
 N7OME French soldiers digging trench nN) few miles from the extreme west " ern end of the Gallipoli peninsula, in the spring of 19a5, came upon several an- cient tombs. Later communicating trenches uncovered a wealth of archaeo- logical treasures, and the soldiers had to be curbed in their curiosity to dig there, for the place was under heavy lombard ment by the Turks. The discoveries at tracted the attention of the scientific world and investigation was made. At the recent annual meeting in Boston Of the Archaeological institute of America Prof. G. H. Chase of Harvard reported that the town with which thfs graveyard was associated was very surely the Athe- nian colony of Elasus, famous in antiquity for a mount which was the tomb of Pro- teslaus, the first Greek to fall in the ex- petition against Troy.
 So here, in this great war. we have mod ern soldiers digging their shelter trenches into the very tomb of another soldier who fell in one of the greatest wars the siege of Troy, which occurred more than 5000 years ago. The spade of the modern soldier, touching the trappings of those ancient tomhs, linked war of to- day with war as 1t was carried on close to the dawn of history in those parts, and history dawned in that region Of the Aegean sea almost as early as it did any, where, except in Egypt The valley Of the Nile had gerat civilization while yet barbarian Europe lived in caves and rush houses and used stone implements, and looked out across the Mediterranean as our own Indians fixed wondering eyes on the first European that landed here. Tales of those great and distant people
 across the sea to the south must have drifted into the villages of Europe; and, eventually, that civilization came across to the Europeans How 1t came Is inter- esting at this time when events of the
 great war are centering around those very places.
 F Look at a map and you will see the Aegean sea is virtually lake studded with islands, almost encircled with land, with the long island of Crete across its mouth. That sea is 400 miles long, longer than Lake Michigan and in places twice as wide. All that region was known as the Aegean world fv9 Thousand years ago. The Aegeans. who lived all around that sea and on the islands. were great and gifted white race. and they had no racial connections whatever with the Cracks Egyptian mariners used to sail
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
New Years Celebration

I've served my time in many hotels, in many towns" said Fred Shireman, of the Tutwiler, "but never before have l witnessed such a New Years eve cele- bration as the one here Sunday evening when 1917 was ushered in. The spirit of the people of Birmingham was what im- pressed me most of all. It isn't often that hotel arranges party. an enter tainment. what you will, that such CO., operation is given by the citizens of 8 town. We served supper to 461 people. Besides that, there were many who came in after F o'clock to enjoy the dance By actual count there were over 1Oe0 people in the foyer of the hotel New Years eve. It was beautiful sight and was 8 great inspiration for me too look ahead to 1918 for another mammoth af- fair"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03

Harrison Rhodes in Harper's Magazine
 for January.
 6HHE White House Is far and away
 the most desirable residence to let
 8 the national capital. CThis in spite of the nobility of vice presidents. which or course obliges them to the generous tra- dition of Fillmore, who said. when hewas called to the executive mansion, This IS my first misfortune."D It Is the most personal. most picturesque of the govern ment,s possessions. It's history is the history of many of our American ideals.
 In the early days of the virginian dy- nasty of Presidents there were "levees' and drawing rooms at the White House, ana 1t sheltered something very like court. The court ideal dies hard. Even now the red velvet rope. which in more effete civilization separates the social sheep from the goats is occasion ally almost put into use when new ad- ministrations try to have receptions where the privileged few are allowed g brief encounter with tho royal presence in the Rlue Room. serving temporarily as a holy of holies. The White House. as is natural, Is the constant theatre of the conflict to be observed everywhere in American life between our wish to have an aristocracy and our wish not to-. But, on the whole. the disinterested ob- server must adjudge victory to our deep seated democracy which makes 1t really unsuitable that the White House should ever be exactly fashionable.
 We never forget not only that the pres |idential residence is our house. but that the President in 1t Is our man. The. al- most utopian democracy of public recep- tions at the White House Is both engag- ing and picturesque. Tn the early days congressman used to come to them with bowie knives in their high, cowhide boots. and In Jackson's time guards with stout
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
WHEN RILEY RECITED

Booth Tarkington in Golfers Weekly.
 In his platform career" during those years when he went about the country reading his poems. James Whitcomb Ri- ley saw with his eyes and heard with his ears what people thought of him. Never any other man stood night after night on the stage or platform to receive such solid roars of applause for the "'reading' of poems-and for himself.
 He did not Tread" his poems: he did not 'recite' them, either; he took his whole body into his hands, as it were. and by his wizard mastery of suggestion left no James Whitcomb Riley at all upon the stage; instead, the audience saw and heard whatever the incomparable come dian wished them to see and hear He held literally unmatched power over them for riotous laughter or for actual copicus tears; and no one who ever saw an exhibition of that power will forget it -or forget him.
 There he stood, alone upon the stage, a blond, shortish, whimsical man in even ing clothes-a figure with "a whole lot of style" and whole lot of It's own style too! He offered deferential predatory sentence or so; then suddenly face and figure altered, seemed to merge com pletely into those of a person altogether different from the poet, and not MT. Riley but Hoosier farm hand, perhaps, or a thin little girl stood before you, done to the life" Then the voice came, "done to the life," too-done to the last half audible breath at the end of husky chuckle or wistful sigh. There was no visible effort on the part of the magician; the audience did not strain or worry for him as audiences so often do for those who entertain" them, because his craft lay not in contortion, but in a glamorins suggestion that held spectators rapt and magnetized.
 Nat Goodwin's opinions upon the pro- ductlon of realistic pathos in comedy may be accepted as academic, MT. Goodwin said: T used to recite "Good-by, Jim until heard Riley do 1t. Then asked the Lord to forgive me, and never tried 1t agsin!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Matrimony demonstrates the fact that fool and his money are soon parted. And as soon as the money has gone. a fool and his honey are soon parted.
 Every man who rides hobby imag- ines that he is the only jockey in the race.
 Once in while you will run across the fellow who once paid a nickel for char ity tSg on tag day and who is saving the tag as passport so he can show 1t to St. Peter and get into heaven.
 Johnny Fay Is in favor of the saloons closing at Il p. m. He claims that if a man isn't full by that time, he isn't half trying.
 When man manages to ride on a street car without paying the representa- he feels that right has triumphed over might.
 It is easy enough to laugh at trouble when 1t comes to the other fellow.
 A lot of citizens have so much rabbit blood An them that they want their pet newsps 3a to do their kicking for them.
 fa een ascjne testimonial is head ed: Esn1.dfst T{4 on Either Side." 1t is sys sTlaaat pAt the patient wasn't a lsw5sf
 nvsry ola aid thinks it is perfectly ahsnaefa tfa way married women fail to nlarage tIseif hugbands. Some aasrtsd men can make them- sslve Non1S Anywhere but at homo. hay .Ature didn't give a woman a eeps dumor for the reason that if she haH she would laugh and grow fat. Eesa lation is~one thing that is sure to 'con o those who wait. married man may be henpecked at h21 ., But he isn't . bit afraid of the tAi <kens he meets when he is away from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
THE PAST AT GALLIPOLl

ont to these Aegean ports to trade. A ship sahing out one of the mouths of the
 Nile would sight the mountain tops of
 Crete in three days, and there 1t would stop first. So Crete was first civilized by
 Egyptian traders.
 It was always trade that carried civili- zation, just as it was almost always trade that caused wars. The Egyptian traders brought copper to Crete five thousand years ago, and then copper mixed with tin, which made harder bronze, and while
 Egypt was building the pyramids Crete learned from her the use of potteries and the closed ovens and then glassmaking.
 Gradually this knowledge spread all over and around the Aegean sea, and about
 4OOO years ago all that region shook off
 the lethargy of the Stone Age and stood erect, civilized For nearly thousand years the Aegeans flourished; the beauti- ful sea was dotted with galleys that traded to the seas ports as steamers to- day sail back and forth between Chicago. Milwaukee and other lake ports. The Greeks were not yet there They
  Indo- European race that had worked it's way around north of the Caspian and
 Black seas. driving herds as they mi grated, pausing long in the valley of the Danube. finally drifting down across the Balkans to the Aegean sea. James Henry Breasted, in his fascinating new book.
 Ancient Times" says: We can imngine ] y>, -l,r v-f< must have looked out upon the white sails that flecked the blue surface of the Aegean sea-" The vanguard arrived about two thousand years before Christ. In 1000 years they had captured it all, Crete. Troy, Greece all of 1t. The modern Greeks are descendants of those old con querors who absorbed the civilization of the Aegeans and improved 1t. Descend ants of the Aegeans yet survive in vari- ous tribes around the shores of that his- toric old sea.
 The expedition against Troy did not take place until the Greeks had been well settled in Greece for 500 years at least. Then they sent a great army upon the campaign that Homer inmortalized. and in that siege of Troy, Protestilaus. whose tomb the French soldiers uncov- cred, is supposed to have fallen If h1s shade had capacity to think and feel 1t
 must have been startled at the sound of cannon, and even the ring of steel spades against the stone slabs of his tomb must have surprised it, for iron was just com- ing into use when he lived and was too rare and precious to be used in spades.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
Urawary Mexicams

Fleeced by GuardlsmeE1 1T T is alleged by a Laredo, Tex, cor H respondent that there are num- ber of disappointed Mexicans in that town who would like to get various sums of money back from guardsmen now at home.
 When the Missouri troops left tLaredo it is said that it was necessary to call out military guard to pre- vent Mexicans from razing military buildings which they claimed to have bought from the soldiers. The mess hall, the Y. M. c. A. headquarters and other structures at the camp were about to be appropriated when the guard interfered.
 As proof of their assertion, the Mexicans showed receipts. They were signed, Sergeant Cheatem," George Washington" and Abraham Lincoln" !" Some persuasive soldier sold the Y. M. c. A. building for $6.
 The joke is on the Mexicans, of course, but it isn't such good joke after all. Practices of that sort may cause more sophisticated persons to  smile at the evidence of our native shrewdness, but when the relations between the Mexicans and Americans along the border are none too cordial swindling ignorant natives, even on modest scale, isn't going to improve the state of feeling.
 When Pershing's column first ad- vanced into Mexico the distrust of the natives was quickly banished by the fair dealing of the regulars, who paid for everything they got and paid so 1iberally that a thriving business sprang up
 If any more humorous guardsmen are tempted to take advantage of the Mexicans, they should remember that fleecing an ignorant native is very much like taking candy from baby. And the consequences are apt to be far more serious. A wronged Mexi- can is just about as safe to have in one's vicinity as rattlesnake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
Sixty-one-one

If take the liberty of calling atten-. tion to the mechanical makeup of the New Year number of Sixty One-One," said Herbert D. Todd, secretary to President oscar c. Wells, of the First National bank, and editor of the clever magazine, T think I am excusable, for really I believe that everybody will agree with me that 1t is quite the most attracr tive number from this point of view that we've ever issued. The, photographs of J. H. Woodward. vice president of the bank, Walker Percy, one of our direc- tors, and Lucius Frierson. in charge Of the safety vault department. are as fine reproductions as I have ever seen in magazine. They are as good as photo graphs themselves Sixty-One-One sends greetings to all its friends and hopes that it's fsiends will give us their encourage ment during the new year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03

Gen. William Robertson. The only British general with an active record in the present conflict who has been made field marshal is Sir John French.
 In monarchies high sounding titles will always be in order, but in repub- lies simplicity in this respect must rule. France had to strain point to honor Joffre as it did.
 America has never had field mar shal and it never will have one. It has been chary even with military grades above major general. Only three commanders have held commissions of full general of the regular army Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. And comparatively few have been honored with the rank of lieutenant general. There is no lieutenant general on the
 
 active list now, but Congress should revive the grade permanently for the chief of staff, whoever he might be. It would be enough to reserve our highest military rank for war heroes of exceptional prowess.
 Great Britain's standing army, not large as standing armies go, has thirty-six lieutenant generals. No one cares to have many in this country, but one certainly would not hurt. In fact there are substantial reasons why the cheif of staff should be a ieuten- ant general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
FAILED TO UNDERSTAND


 The Earl of Cromer in the January
 Yale Review.
 The Germans thought the British were a decadent race, which was wholly the prey of materialism, and which would never submit to the sac rifices necessary in order to resist the onslaught of the German mailed fist. The reply was that, in an incredibly short space of time, the whole nation abandoned those time-honored tradi- tions, which had been cherished for centuries, and sprang to arms The Germans relied on the occurrence of civil war in Ireland. The result was that the Ulsterman gave his hand to his southern opponent. They antici- pated that the overseas dominions would shake off their loose connection with the mother country. The reply was that Canadians. Australians and New Zealanders shed their blood like water in order to preserve that con- nection which German politicians er- roneously held to be irksome They thought that South Africa was yearn- ing for revenge and for complete inde- pendence. To their amazement, they found that the policy of daring con- ciliation." as 1t has been rightly racy after the Boer war. led to the ex- pulsion of Germany from her South African possessions. They pinned their faith on Indian discomfort and disloy- alty, and again they found the light letters, forged by a benign democratic imperialism. constituted a far stronger bond of union than the heavy yoke im- posed by absolutism. The Sikh and the Gurkha stood side by side with their British born comrades in a supreme mare. They thought that EG ypt and the Soudan must assuredly turn against those whom they enormously designated as their oppressors. But even the religious tie between the Egyptians and Germany's bewildered friend, the retrograde Turk, of whose methods of government the inhabi- tants of the Nile valley have had some bitter experience. failed to produce any effect, whilst the perfect tranquility of the Soudan, garrison by a mere handful of British troops, rendered the most emphatic testimony as yet re- corded in history to the soundness of the foundations on which the British empire rests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
A Case of ssEaEmIeG'
WiGhouG the Prince

W4G1NWlQO G11S U T4INS@
 1ELORIDA'S inaugural ball, given 0 last night at Tallahassee, was not graced by the presence of Gov.- elect Sidney J. Catts, or any member of his family.
 MT. Catts was a Baptist minister before he abandoned the pulpit, as he said himself while on recent visit to Birmingham, to earn a living for his family. Moving to Florida from Ala bama, he soon became a spectacular figure in the politics of that state. Now that he is to be governor and draw governors salary, man of his simple habits should have no diff culty in keeping the wolf away from his door. It is evident that there may be some fuss, but certainly no feath- CTS in the Catts regime.
 
 The idea of an inaugural ball in honor of a governor who declines to be present, and without any punch, might have daunted the Floridians for a moment, but they rub elbows with so many millionaires who visit Florida every year and take along their ultra modern families, that they have caught spirit of gaiety nothing can daunt.
 There is every reason to believe that the ball was a success, and if the governor was missed by any of the debutantes present, they did not show it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-03
HOTEL LOBBIES
Popularity of Photoplaz

Tt would seem as if there was never ending popularity to David wark Grif- fith's masterpiece, The Birth of a Ma tion.''' said Brown Parks. assistant man. ager of the Jefferson theatre. yesterday, judging from the manner in which the people of Birmingham are seeing the picture this week.
 Considering that The Birth of Ma ton has already been shown in Birming- ham over 40 times, this is really phenom- enaL It does not grow old and dozens of people have told me when they have bought their tickets that it is the second, third and fourth time they have seen it; some of them five and six tiI&es. The en- thusiasm over the picture is as great now as it was the first time it was ever shown here, which consider striking tribute to this marvellous photoplay."