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Apple peels and cores are now TAX
ing the place of the time-honored cab
bage leaf in the finest smoking tobac-
co, according to Hood River people.
Formerly the supply was obtained
from Eastern fruit districts, but here
after Oregon dried apple pumice is to
add flavor to smoking mixtures.
T. Coleman DUPONT has bought the
Hotel Waldorf-Astoria in New York,
one of the best known hotels in the
world, it was announced by George
G. Boldt, the former owner.
Relief for the car shortage which
threatens to close Wyoming coal
mines was sought at a conference at
Federal Trade Commission at Wash
ington and State Fuel Administration
officials. Complaints have been made
to the State Fuel Administration that
many of the mines must close down
unless cars can be supplied to remove
the coal already brought to the sur
face.
The gigantic activities of the Red
Cross War Council from the date OF
it's appointment by President Wilson
to Jan. 8, 1918, are portrayed by the
report of appropriations received in
Denver from the national headquar-
ters in Washington. All appropriations
from the Red Cross war fund during
that period amounted to $77,843, ,435.35
of which $44,657,795.99 was for for
eign relief work. France, with an
appropriation of $30,519, ,259.6O, took
the lead United States relief entailed
an appropriation of $2,612,53260.
Mrs. Olivia Dunbar Donaho, 9de
was burned to death in her residence
at Church Mill, Miss.
The lone American soldier that the
Germans took prisoner in the trench
raid Jan. 28, against the American
lines was Private John Jill, according
to his comrades.
The five remaining Americans in
Belgium have been denied the right to
enter Holland since Jan. 16, the Span
ish minister at Brussels has informed
the minister at The Hague, State De-
partmant dispatches said.
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Can Recite All of Bible by Heart.

Can ReCIte All OF BLDG by FedFts
The most wonderful feat on record
has recently been accomplished by
William Frederick, New York sales
man.
He has learned the entire Bible of
by heart, and can repeat any passage
in it from Genesis to Revelations and
state where it may be found. 1t has
taken him 18 years.
A similar task was once undertaken
by an eighteenth-century strollina
player, about whom Sir William Rob.
ertson Nicoll has written. But he
gave in after IL years, by which time
he had succeeded in memorizing about
two-thirds of the Old Testament.
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Chicago Grain and Provision Prices.

Chicago.-Corn-No. 8 yellow, $1.78
No. yellow, $1.63Q 1.65.
Oats-No. 2 white, S8@8SAc; stand
ard, $50 SOC.
Rye-No. 2, $2.13.
Barley-$16 60@1.75.
Timothy-$5.0O@8.25
Clover-$21.0OQ30.0
Lard-$25.40.
Ribs-$23.35 Q24.1O.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Prices for Metals.

Bar silver-86Bc.
Copper-$23.171a.
Lead-$7.O0@7.2
Spelter-$7.69.
Tungsten concentrates, per unit
$4,000.
concentrates, so per cent, $2O.OO@22.5C
per unit; crude ores, 60 per cent, $22.0C
@25OO; Is per cent, $12.00@12.50; 10
per cent, $9.40@12.20 per unit.
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Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and Poultry.

BUTCcT1 1
Chicago. - Butter, creamery, 41@
Eggs-Firsts, 6O@62Ac; at mark
cases included, $1,000; refrigerator
firsts, 43Q44c.
Poultry-Fowls, 25c; springs, 22c.
Potatoes-Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota, bulk, $2.1O@2.15; do, sacks,
$2.O5Q2.10.
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Boston Wool Prices

Boston. - Wool - Secured basis -
Texas: Fine y months, tbs, $1.6S@1.72;
Territory: Fine staple, $1.S5@1.9O;
half blood combing, $1.7O@175; three
eighths blood combing, $1.45 q 1.5O;
fine clothing, $1.6O@1.65; fine medium
clothing, $1.55 q 1.6O.
Pulled: Extra, $1.SO@1.S5; AA, $1.7O
@1.8O; A supers, $1.60@1.65.
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Grain in MinneanoIis

Minneapolis, Mlnn.-Barley, $40 d
1.54; rye, $2.O5Q Q2.O7; bran. $32.5O; corn
No. 8 yellow $1:e5 g ITO; oats, No.
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HIDES AND PELTS.
Dry Hides.

Flint butcher. lb. b................ 80
Flint fallen. lb. 28
Flint bull and stag, h.. ......... IA
Flint, culls and glue, lb. ........ IL
Salt hides, &c to &c Id. less.
Horse hides 1/2 to 2/3 price of green
salted.
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HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
(F. o. B. Denver, Carload Price.)
HNy.
@ QUOTATIO N s

Buying Prices-per Ton.
Colo. upland, per ton .22.00@24.O0
Nebr upland, per ton 5000 @ 22.OO
Prairie. hay (new CROP,
Colo. and Nebr, per ton. 90 @ 22OO
Timothy, per ton 25OO@ $500
Alfalfa (new crop) per ton 2OOO@22.00
South Park, per ton ..25.00@2 $500
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .23.OO@25.00
straw, per ton ............ 5000 10U
Grain.
Oats, Nebr.. 100 lbs, buying. .2.6G
COLO. oats, bulk, buying. ........... .2.60
Corn chop, sack, selling. g........... Big
Bran. Colo. per 100 lbs, selling. .1.7O
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Paris.-Taking advantage of the fine
weather, members Of the Lafayette
escadrille continued their brilliant ex-
ploits over the French front during
the last few days, bringing down three
German machines and losing none
themselves.
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LAST CALL MADE
FOR FIRST DRAFT
MEN SELECTED WILL BE SENT TC
COMPLETE STATE QUOTAS
IN CAMP FEB. %.
VENICE IS BOMBARDED
KAISER CALLS WAR CHIEFS TO
CoNFERENCE-DEATH ORDER
PUTS CLAMP ON STRIKERS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Feb 5.-Provost Mar
shal General Crowder announced that
the movements of the men selected in
the first draft will begin on Feb. 23,
and continue for period of five days.
This will complete the operation of
the first draft, as all states will have
furnished their full quotas.
The movement will bring the
strength of the National Army up to
the 685,OOO men contemplated in the
first draft.
The number of men which will be
started to the cantonments on Feb. %
are: Camp Devins, Mass, 6,575; Up
ton, N. Y, 1900; Dix, N. j., 1000;
Meade, Md, 5000; Lee, Va, 5000;
Jackson, S. c., 1858 (negroes) Cor
don, Ca, 1000 (negroes); Grant, ILL.,,
5000; Taylor, KY, 6,284; Dodge, Iowa,
1884; Funston, Kan, 1882; Travis,
Texas, 1858; Pike, Ark, 1000 (ne-
groes).
Besides the regular portion contrib
utory to Camps Devins and Upton,
New York will send to the former 2,521
men and to the latter 4,287 men which
were to have gone to Camp Dix. The
reason given for the change is that
there is more room for them at Camps
Devins and Upton.
West Virginia will send 1870 men
to Camp Meade instead of Camp Lee.
Mobilization Of all certified account
ants who come within the draft law
has been ordered so as to supply va
cancies in the army business organiza-
tion.
ROme.-Venice and a number of
towns on the Venetian plain have been
bombed by enemy airmen, according
to the Italian official communication.
While no damage and no casualties
resulted from the attack on Venice,
considerable destruction was wrought
in the towns of Padua, Treviso and
Mestre, where number of civilians
were killed or wounded.
Amsterdam.-Dr Kuehlmann, Ger
man foreign minister; Count Czernin,
the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister,
and Gen. Won Ludendorff, the Ger
man chief quartermaster general, a
semi-official announcement from Ber-
lin says, will arrive in Berlin to par
ticipate in deliberations on political
and economic questions affecting the
common interests and territories of
Germany and Austria-Hungary. Count
Botho Won Wedel, the German ambas-
sador to Vienna, also is expected to
attend.
From the meager accounts of the
economic situation in Germany reach
ing neutral countries-and they are
meager to a degree-the general
strike that prevailed throughout the
empire last week has virtually ended.
Paris.-Taking advantage of the fine
weather, members Of the Lafayette
escadrille continued their brilliant ex-
ploits over the French front during
the last few days, bringing down three
German machines and losing none
themselves.
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Price of Sugar.

New York. - Sugar - CentrifuRa1
6.005; fine granulated, 7.46.
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From the meager accounts of the
economic situation in Germany reach
ing neutral countries-and they are
meager to degree-the general
strike that prevailed throughout the
empire last week has virtually ended.
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Red Cross Bag Blue makes the laundresa
happy, makes clothes winter than snow.
All good grocers. Adv.
Edited.

The romantic maiden made the fol-
lowing ecstatic entry in her diary:
although he has known me only
two days, he loves mel"
Nothing could exceed her anger and
much later, that her kid brother had
been reading her sacred little book.
She knew it, because he had scratched
out the word although" and substi-
tuted because"
Many widows are said to be gar
rulous. Possibly that's why they are
widows.
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DRESSED POULTRY.
Less 10 ner cent commission.
Live Poultry,
Eggs.

EEgS.
Eggs, graded No. l net, F.
O. B. Denver ............ .55
Eggs. graded No. 2 net, +.
0. B. Denver ............ AS
Eggs, case count, misc.
cases, less commission. .16 90 @ 1850
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Calf and Kip, Green Sailed.
Green SaIted Pelts.
Dry Flint PeIts.

Wool peIts .:.......... 80
short wool peltS .......... 80
Butcher shearlings, No. 1..... 20
No. 2 murian shearlings ..... 06
Bucks, saddles and pieces at value.
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Flour.
hungarian patent ................4 .4.So
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Butter.

Creameries, ex. LIST grd., lb.. so @52
Creameries, End grade. h.. 40
PROCESS 40
Packing stock (net) .......35 OBS
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Fruit.
Vegetables.

Apples, Colo, new fancy, box. 100 2.25
Pears, Colo. LIS % 2.O(
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-09
LIEUT.. SHARMAN HAD
TO STEAL UNIFORM
TO GET INTO ARMY
Liberty Loan Speaker Most
Interesting Talker-Has
Had Actual Trench
Service

At the urgent request of the Liberty
Loan committee, Lieut.. J. D. sharman.
a veteran of the war for two wears and
eight months. is in Birmingham and
will remain here during the next few
days. He is an accomplished speaker and
will assist at the various meetings in
telling actual experiences of the war.
Lieutenant Sharman has been men
toned in dispatches for DISTINGUISHED
valor ON the field of battle and has
been recommended for British war dec
Grafton. He has been through some of
the most thrilling engagements of the
war and is acquainted with every charac-
ter of horror that is perpetrated as a rou-
tine of Hun methods of warfare.
Lieutenant Sharman enlisted in Cana
da at the outbreak of the war as a
private. He was turned down by the
medical department but having deter-
mined to go to the war, he asked for
an assignment to the motor division
This division was filled so that ne was
in fair way TO be robbed of his ambi-
ton to see service at the front. AS he
explained Yesterday there was .grea,
deal Of confusion dgrins tbs first DAYS
of the war, SO that he walked into Ia.
cetnmissary department and proceeded te
confiseate uniform. and thereupoa re-
NAMED hidden in tent for As hours
before the transport sailed He slipued
aooard and was not discovered until the
ship neareG England. He was too min
poriant to be thrown overheard, he said
II was 100 expensive TO turn the snr
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-09
INSTITUTE FOR
HOME SERVICE
TO BE HELD HERE
Branch Of American Red Cross to Be
Established Here Training Class
to Open April Is

The home service institute. which
will be held in Birmingham under the
auspices of the local chapter of the
American Red Cross, is regarded as
one Of the most important and neces-
sary things done by that organiza-
ton The institute viii begin on April
is and viii be in session for two
weeks
1t Is the purpose Of this branch Of
Red Cross work to reinforce every
home from which soldier who was
the mainstay Of others has gone. The
operations OF this service are strictly
and absolutely confidential. according
to members Of the local chapter
TIE home service section is designed
to assist in obtaining information con-
corning soldiers Insurance. help iii
STRENGTHENING Observation-Disclosures con-
corning allotments. and it may be
Consulted on the most personal -anx-
fe1ies of the soldiers relatives
This work is also known as the
civilian relief work and the Birminy-
ham chapter has a committee doing
TINS work at present. DR.. George Eaves
being chairman and Mrs. HI. L. Moore
secretary
Applicants for enrolment in the in
stitute are requested to be sent T.
DR.. Eaves, 1912 Empire building.
tee Of 50 being charged The number
il limited TO - students.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-09
DOWNTOWN STORE
OPENED BY BINDER
ELECTRIC COMPA

An attractive retail electrical shop
has been opened at sos Twentieth
street, north, next to the Traders Ma
tiona1 bank, by the Binder Elevator
and Electrical company, which has
moved its offices from the plant and
warehouse at 209-2t1 Twenty-second
street, north to the new estahlish
ment All office work for the plant
construction department and retail as
Establishment will be handled at tne
Twentieth street address. while the old
building will be devoted exclusively to
the electrical repairing, motor and ele-
vator work.
c. N. Binder. president and general
manager of the COMPANY, will have
personal supervision of the retail store
and. will divide his time between The
store and the plant. A complete line of
lighting fixtures, portable, floor ana
desk lamps and household appliances
VIII be carried at the store.
While less than five years old. the
Binder Elevator and Electric company
is we'll known in the Birmingham dis
trict. 1t has the southern agency for
the Warner Elevator company of Gin
cinnati. and through its motor wind
ing and electrical repair work Tor
mines it has grown from a one-man
shop to a factory employing nearly Il
score of electrical mechanics
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-09

as 10 keep in touch with affairs at home.
was highly gratified at reading your
splendid editorial in your paper of April 4,
entitled Good Roads More Needed Than
Ever.
You have always championed valiaRtiy
this vitality important proposition, and
your Efforts are serving to crystalline
public sentiment in favor of permanent
highway construction as military and
economic necessity.
/ dislike under the circumstances to
take exception TO any part of your edi-
torial. but feel sure it was not your IN
ere type OF road, without getting the BEN
eft OF competition from other Welt
known materials that are used in build
ing highways all over the country.
Your e ,itorial would indicate that you
considered concrete as the only type OF
permanent road material and without
seeSing to disparage any of the virtues
and merits of concrete, | would call your
attention to the fact that the war de-
partner. recognizes vitrified brick man
ufactured in Jefferson county, Alabama,
as one of the most satisfactory types for
roads that are called upon to sustain
tarffic OF heavy motor trucks.
All the streets and roads in Camp John
son near Jacksonville, Fla, are being
paved with jefferson county brick. and
the sam is true of the six-mile highway
now being constructed from Admission tc
Camp Mcclellan.
When the country as whole awakes
tc the TACT that river and highway trans
portation are essential to relieve the
railway congestion, there will no doubt
tie enough highways to utilize all of the
road materials obtainabe in our district
that is as rich in otoher minerals as coal
and iron. But | felt it was only neces-
sary to call your attention to the fact.
so that your editorials might emphasize
permanent highways without preference
of any one material or dsparagement OF
OTHERS.
You will be interested to know that 50
per cent of all the paving brick produced
in the south are manufactured in Jeffer-
son county, which bring in over half
million dollars of outside money that is
expended in pay rolls and supplies an
rually, and large revenues in taxes are
paia into the treasures of the county
and state. Except for two short gaps,
the motorist can ride on a highway OF
Jefferson county brick from Jacksonville
10 Tampa, Fla, ovec 300 miles, Yours
very truly JOHN w. SHELLEY.
Washington, April 5, 1918.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-09

back and too risky to do without .
convoy so that they made him a corporal
for his nerve and his determination to
fight for his country.
Lieutenant Sharman trained in England
for a short time and was soon on the
field of battle He is a member of the
Second battalion. First brigade, First
division of the Canadian infantry. He
enlisted in September 1914 He was in
the battle of Neueve Chappelle. the sec
ond battle of Ypres, the battle of Fest
urberg. Also at Gavauche. Plagsterret
the second battle of Ypres and at the
Somme He was wounded at the battle of
the Somme and invalided to 'Blighty'' for
10 months. subsequently, he was sent
to Canada and is en- route back to the
front. where he hopes to be within 60
days.
THE battle on the western front now
ra ginS is unquestionably the finest ac-
ton of the war; said Lieutenant Shar-
man. ut appeals very strongly to me,
to be sure, and ! wish was there.
The Germans are simply going up against
stone wall. for they will never be able
to break through The German mind
seems to be unable to get away from
the methods of warfare of 100 years ago.
when it was considered great tactics to
strike at a nations capital. If the Ger
mans had concentrated their forces in
the north of Belgium. and given up the
attempt to get to Paris, which is so
utterly hopeless, they would have now
a large part of the coast. but they cam
not see anything now.
Lieutenant Sharman said that the
newspapers could not begin TO give a
list or fair account of the crimes of the
Germans. saying that in some places
where they believed il could be done
safely. they have committed crimes that
could hardly be believed. He smilingly
affirmed that warfare was uncivilized.
He said soldiers that were previous to
enlistment, gentlemen, were able to re-
tain their breeding, while the illbred
deterioriated into savages very fast. This
latter class. he said, seemed to lit the
Germans.
Ne said further >that war was a pro,
rrcssive game in that the first horror
Of killing a man was never experienced
and when one had killed 10 men, there
was no feeling whatever over the incl
dent.
Lieutenant Sharman will undoubtedly
receive a warm welcome from the peo-
Pile of this zone who are fortunate
enough to hear him speak
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-09
ATLANTA MAN WAS
WARNED IN TIME
Relates How Plant Juice
Helped Him of a Bad Case
of Stomach Trouble

One is not required to take Plant Juice,
the new herbal stomach remedy, fol
weeks and months before they receive
any benefit. In order that sheptieai
folks may be convinced Immediately thc
fc1mula is so constructed as to give al
most instant relief, thereby giving the
sufferer the necessary confidence. Tney
win then continue the use of Plant Juice
until they have fully recovered their
health. e
10 these skeptical individuals that
want to be shown, the following
signed testimonial from MI William "
AcGee, a well known Atlanta man. EN-
ploy Ell by the Georgia Railway and
Power company, and who resides at NO
573 Chestnut street, Atlanta, will be OF
interest Mr. MCGEE is man of the
highest integrity and veracity and his
numerous friends will be glad to learn
OF his restoration to health. He said:
Il have been a sufferer from stomach
trouble Isl a long time and have never
been able to find any medicine that gave
me relief My food fermented and
formed gas in my stomach, which caused
heartburn and was very painful and
caused inc to be continually belchlng the
wind and gas. | became very nervous
and at night was so restless that / could
not Sleep l always felt tired out anu
was badly rundown. My food did me
no good ana ndu pecolile ulScouidSSu
OF ever being any better as think had
tried all tine various medicines on the
market. Finally heard of Plant Juice
and decided to try it. can truly state
that while have only used Plant.Juice
for short time, am feeling the best 4
have in years, and it has given me such
wonderful relief. / am no longer troubled
with stomach trouble and can eat my
f.od now and digest it perfectly. | am
glad to recommend Plant Juice to any
one suffering from stomach trouble as
was"
A trial Of Plant Juice is all that is re-
CURED to convince the most skepticas
ths II it is the most wonderful curative or
the age. u tones up the stomach and in
vgorates the whole body, instills new life
and vigor and will make one feel like
another person if suffering from stomach,
liver, kidney or blood trouble. Every
claim made for Plant Juice is backed up
by testimonials of well known local peo-
lie OF standing in signed testimonials.
The Plant Juice Man is at Norton's
Drug Store, corner Second avenue and
Twentieth street. in Birmingham. where
he is daily meeting the local public and
introducing and explaining the merits
of Plant Juice, Free samples given.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-09
RUSHTON IDEAL MAN

Field Marshal Rushton announced
the meeting adjourned following Chap
lain Coon's address. But it would not
be appropriate to end the account OF
this meeting without giving due credit
to the gifted field marshal, who gets
better and better every time he yields
the gavel over his soldiers at feast.
He is versatile, keen and quick OF
action. with a perspective that is un-
equaled. He has the vision of a mans
job and what it takes to hold it down
he has it anchored about three inches
below HIS collarbone on the left-hand
size Of his anatomy.
He presides with grace and ease
that makes one wish that he had his
job. it looks so easy. In other words,
It was a happy thought a wise choice
and boon to Birmingham when
Frank Rushton was made the whee!
horse Of the team that is pulling the
coin wagon over Birmingham in ev-
cry campaign that is being staged in
this city to collect funds to preserve
democracy and humanity
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-09
MISSIONARY UNION
TO HOLD PATRIOTIC
ALL-DAY MEETING
Quarterly Programme. OF
Baptist Women's Mission
airy Union of Unusual
Interest

The Baptist Woman's Missionary
union will hold a Patriotic All-day
meeting at Fifty-sixth Street church,
Woodlawn, Thursday. at when TINS
an interesting programme has peen ar :
ranged. Miss Willie Jean stewart the
efficient missionary in charge OIL the
Good Will center at Pratt CITY, VIII
make talk on this work. Durlns tne
year Miss Stewart enrolled SVo emil
dren in the Good VIII center, which
has grown to such proportions that i'm
mediate enlargement of quarters ana
equipment have become urgently neces-
sary. 1t is the purpose of this asso-
citation to maintain a permanent good
will center and pledges will be secured
at this meeting to forward this work
Miss Stewart has rendered her resigna-
ton, effective June !, and her success
sor will be elected at he meeting Thurs
day
Mrs G. E. Crowell of Sylacauga Will
deliver the charge to the graduating
class in manual of the Woman's Mis-
sionary union methodsswhich numb ers
IS members. Mrs. Crowell is state
librarian and secretary of the mission
study and is also treasurer of state
federation of women's clubs
The programme is as follows
MORNING
Executive board meeting, 10 o'clock,
in Baraca room; 1880, song, America
Devotional, Beauehamp Bible Out
M,e uarren
Sentence prayers by presidents of So
cieties.
Roll call of societies by district sec