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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

and things that nobody else can under stand, and that's why I say you may write me down now as believer in the existence of many very remarkable things that the world of spiritualism holds"
 Yes, I'm doing a lot of new stunts, too, real ghosts and things appearing the most daring I've ever done" Thurston said in answer to my question about his work. Really, half of the time my heart is in my mouth, because I'm so afraid they won't get over Take, for instance, the act where I enclose the girl in a sheet and the people standing about hold ing her with grip of iron and then she disappears. I offer s1o0O to anybody in the audience who can discover the secret of how it is done. You can take it from me that I'm very much relieved every time that stunt goes over, because I'd hate like the liis .hief to have to pay one perfectly good thousand dollars out to somebody, and I never quite know whether I'm going to have to do it or not. Trick, did you sayi Oh, that's all in the game. I'll give you the thousand if you'll expose it."
 If you've been to the Jefferson and have seen the ''act,'' feel sure you will say it's "safe bet for me that I'll never get the thousand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
Dolly Enjoys the Distinction of Boarding Thurston, the Great Magician in His Den and Trying to Solve
 Some of the Mysteries of His Magical Power
Bv poLLY DALRYMPLE

1 0TO OHURSTON-isn't it queer that mo- l body ever calls him colonel or l S major or general. or even mister?
 I may as well tell you at the very be- beginning that he is a perfect peach of a fellow; he's terribly good looking and awfully attractive. He's not a bit stuck
 up or proud or hard to meet. He doesn't clothe himself with mystery or anything
 else, except what he has to, the same being very smart looking citizens
 clothes, well made and up to the minute in style, and he's just as nice as he can be. He'll even go so far as to laugh at your old jokes and enjoy thoroughly your aslnine observations about his mag ic power, as though he really thought you were clever
 When you remind him that the last time he was here, he promised to put you on'' to some of his clever magician's tricks, he laughs outright and declares that he has a very poor memory and that you must be thinking of somebody else-perhaps in the long ago-some other magician or wizard.
 But this relaxation occurred in the middle of our conversation, so we are blandly putting the cart before the horse instead of telling you of the few tense moments which preceded this statement.
 Some people had predicted that Thurs ton wouldn't be interviewed. This made me rather tired, and also sort of knocked the concelt out of me, because it plainlv showed me that they'd all forgotten the famous @ interview I had writtsn with this distinguished entertainer some years ago. But such is newspaper fame. If you Write a good story, it is forgotten the next day If you right poor one weii' the prlck bats will make you re- member 1t, whether your readers do or not.
 Anyway, when your chief says:
 Go round to the Jefferson and get story With Thurston; see if you can find out now LIS done; you write some pretty clever interviews (sometimes). and and"
 Well, at any rate, it sets you to think Ing that after all you are some pun klhs, else why the flattery? Why select you! Why? Why? And so yo,I go
 When I called on Thurston I was ter- rloly pleased to find that he remembered me. He was as cordial and charming s ever and also a bit triumphant in his manner which rather made you feel as though perhaps you were destined to he the canary, but afterward I found that the triumphant smile had an entirely dir Ierent meaning. I knew within A varv hew minutes, 1n fact, exactly what it means, and this is the answer. Tburst,m IS very happy man; the smile meant that the stage and the plaudits of the world and the tremendous success he ha made Cmany considering him a more Ilnlshed artist in his work than Hermann the Great) counted for nought in com pafison to the gerat happiness which ,la
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
RANDOM NOTES

MT. and Mrs. Louis saks are in New York.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Houseal spent the weekend with relatives in Cedar town, Ga.
 Miss Chita Beasley of Elkton, Tenn, is the guest of relatives in the city.
 Mrs Jelks Cabaniss and little daugh- ter, Elizabeth, of Atlanta, are the guests or Mrs. Cabaniss' mother, Mrs. John M. Cartwright.
 Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Illinois will arrive on Thursday from Jackson, Miss. and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs, solon Jacobs at their home on Red mountain.
 MT. and Mrs. w. C. Agee, who spent the past few days in the city as the guest of Mrs. John P Evans, have re- turned to their home in Selma.
 
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Perry and fam ily who have spent the winter at Ter race Court, will return to their summer home on Shades mountain in the early spring.
 Friends of Mrs Norman Orcutt Of Kentucky, who is the guest of MT. and Mrs. M. D. Orcutt, will regret to learn that she continues ill with typhoid fever and has been carried to the Birmingham irfis1nary.
 MT. Norman Orcutt of Kentucky is the guest or his parents, MT. and Mrs M. D. Orcutt, having been called to the city on account of the illness of his wife. Mrs. George Evans will spend the re- nalnder or the winter with Judge and Mrs. Richard Evans, at the home of Mrs, Leila Minderhout, on South Eleventh avenue.
 MISS Louise Heacocke who is a stu dent of the Judson at Marion, arrived
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

From time to time in army life one
 gets a true index of the interest the general public takes in everything to
 do with men of the army, and their well-being. One of the ambulance companies of this section has just had an experience that would make, Santa Claus, who had long white beard and used chimneys, look beginner
 in the gentle art of giving things
 away, and also shows how close to
 the heart of the public are the 'gin-
 tlemen" of the army. Santa Claus, o. course. had to have a substitute and this substitute came in the person of an extremely good looking young woman from one of the big north ern towns.
 The ambulance section of the san- itary train of this camp has the dis tinction of having all it's men enlist ed in either the regular army or in volunteer organizations organized at Richmond and Raleigh. Ambulance company 318 GA. D.) having enlist ed all of it's men for the regular army last spring. Most of these men went into the service about New York, from whence they were sent to Fort Slo- cum; others were enlisted in Detroit Ohio, from which post they were all sent to Fort Oglethorpe and finally brought together to make up Provi- sional Company A of that post. In August the command was ordered to this camp. The men who make up the company are from all parts of general, for example. one from Odessa or the Black sea, from which place in the Russian uprising of 1905 ne was wounded with the insurgents, with whom he was fighting, and when he woke up he was on his way to Siberia, where he spent several cool and unpleasant years; Belgian who came to the company by way of Tor onto; a professional wrestler from Johnstown; horseshoer from Kan sas and former bartender whose would like to tell him to fill 'em up again, that another little drink wouldn't do us any harm. There was no special section of the country, no special one save the officers of the who had any special interest in ambulance company SIS GA. DD. This was not noticeable until the company from Raleigh and the other from Richmond and the draft began to come into camp, then it was seen how very small was the mail of the S1Sth GA. D.) ambulance com pany. The companies and attachments with the local ties got great boxes of food and candies and cigars and cig- arettes and letters by the score lothing stirring for the regulars. This
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Huntsville Avenue c. L., S. c. will meet this afternoon at o'clock at the home of Mrs. Dora Fell
 The Red Cross unit of the Eleventh Avenue Methodist church will meet this morning at 10 o'clock instead of the usual Monday meetings.
 The Woodlawn Red Cross Unit No. 1 will meet at the Woodlawn city hall this morning.
 The Worth While club will meet this afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. T. w. Riddle at the home of her mother, Mrs. John T. Reed, on Huffman road
 There will be a meeting of the advance class in parliamentary drill this morn ing at 10:30 o'clock at the Civic associa- ton headquarters in the Jefferson County Bank building.
 Arena chapter. No. 173, O. F. S., will meet this evening at o'clock.
 The annual meeting of the active and advisory boards of the Mercy Home have again been postponed to the second Tues day in February.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
Carter,s Pill. Purely vegetable


 The true value of the average article enjoying daily repeat resale over the retail counter today is rarely appreciated by the purchaser, frequently not even in the slightest degree. Nothing inspires ap- preciation quite so much as the knowl- edge of some interesting facts concerning any particular thing. jackknife or a vial of pills are no exception and it is not inappropriate to draw attention to an old standard family medicine which is to. be found on sale over every drug counter in the world. The president of the Carter Medicine company recently remarked.
 Our pills are a purely vegetable com pound to which attribute the fact that we have not only remained on the mar ket for over 50 years--well into a second generation-but we are continuing to re- ceive an ever increasing demand. Bene- fits must necessarily be derived from the use of our pills to account for this. We advertise them for just what they are and never make any false or misleading claims. We are keenly aware of our responsibility, and are careful to employ such words as will convey nothing but an honest impression. We know our products are worthy of the fullest con- fidence, and we want the public to share in our knowledge. "-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
Put a Gyroscope on Your Money
 Organized Spending
By w. H. J. Taylor President of the Retail Credit Mems National association

We hear much these days of or ganization, of cooperation, and particularly or organized saving. Organized spending. if we but stop to analyze the matter, has even greater power.
 One gleans the harvest field. The other sowS the seeds that bring forth the grain. The wise farmer not only puts this years crop safe- ly away in the barn, but prepares the soil for that of next year. He has studied the rotation of crops, and by continuously sowing and reaping maintains his prosperity.
 So with the world at large. We call it business, or trade. It is merely a proper interchange of the results of mans productivity. What your particular field of endeavor is does not matter so long as you pro- duce and keep on producing-so long as you SOW and reap and plant again Whether your field is bank ing or business, medicine or mer- chandise, matters little. The main point is that you must be a pro- ducer and help the world along.
 You need things the other man has. and he in turn needs what you develop. As ready means of ex-
  a sign of value. It is merely a voucher, an 0. K of credit, a sym bol of substance. It has value only when it is used. Let it lie idle and it is as wastefu1 as war.
 To spend is to help the other man produce. It is the foundation of savings, for on spending power the world depends for saving power. Who will hold that the house is any stronger than its foundation?
 We each have the possibility of helping little. It is the potential ities of the people that make for prosperity. For every dollar saved there must be 10 dollars spent, nol wasted-spent in the sense of pass ing on the power to producer
 If each person does his or her share wisely, then indeed is the strength of organized spending a driving force that nothing can stop or even retard. The waste of war, disease, catastrophe can be met and made good because of the latent strength of this vast vitality.
 Let us spend individually that we may save nationally. Let us freely buy that we may freely save.
 Useless things, like useless peo- pie. can be spared at any time and never be missed. But all other things will have our united support by organized spending, the united buying power of the united people of these United States.
 Copyright, 1918, by King Features
 Syndicate, Incl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

night. and if it doesn't straighten you vigorous by morning, I want you to go pack to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the medicine entirely vegetable, therefore 1t can not salivate or make you sick.
 l guarantee that one spoonful of Dod liver to work and clean your bowels Of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and mak- g bottle of Dodson's Liver. Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It Is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like its pleasant taste.-Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
Rheum atisnn
Try This Prescription-It Has
 Helped Many
Old, Stubborn Gases Especially

It is known as Prescription No. C-2223. Eugene Jacobs drug store keeps 1t all prepared. Anybody who has suffered the torments and racking pain of rheumatism are advised to keep off the damp ground. keep the feet dry and drink lots of pure water and take daily dose of this famous Prescrip- tion C-222S. It has helped hundreds Of eases, especially the old, stubborn kind Eugene Jacobs drug store tells us that this prescription keeps down and expels uric acid from the blood Those terrible aches and pains, swol- len muscles, aching back and every trolled by following the simple direc- tions that go with this famous pre- scription.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
Just Once! Try Dodson's Liver Tone! Take No Ca|ome|! Listen To Me! If bilious, constpated headachy or sick, guarantee relief without taking dangerous calomel
 which sickens and saliyates

Stop using calomel It makes you sick. Don't lose a days work. If you feel lazy, sluggish, bilious or consti- pated, listen to me!
 Calomel Is mercury or quicksilver Calomel. when it comes into contact with sour bile, crashes into it. breaking it up. This is when you feel that awful knocked out if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness. coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour. just try spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone.
 Here's my guarantee-Go to any drug store and get 50 cent bottle of Dod-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

hight at the end of the first day of the drive to enroll 2500o0 shipyard workers, said state directors of the public service reserve now are established in 42 states and that 25 states have completed re- serve organizations.
 First figures of enrolment of work CTS will be made next Saturday. From now until February 16, when the cam- paign ends, there must be an average daily enrolment of 13,SSS for each of the Is working days, but labor department officials tonight expressed the belief that the campaign would be g. success.
 William E. Hall, national director of the public service reserve, today called meeting here next Friday of state di- rectors of all states east and south of North Dakota.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
MRS. ExuM ENTERTAINs

Mrs. Culpepper Exum entertained a few friends at luncheon yesterday at the Tut wi!er in honor of Mrs. Thomas Gailor of Tennessee, who is the guest of Mrs. Robert Daniel. The guests included Mrs. Gailor, Mrs. Daniel, Mrs. Crawford Johnson, Mrs. William Walker, Mrs. Rob- ert Jemison, Mrs. T. O. Smith, Mrs. Rivers Carter, Mrs. Robert Jemison, Jr., Mrs. Ross Smith, Mrs. Middleton Barn well, Mrs. Kinback of Kentucky. Mrs. F. II. Cabardss, Miss Frances Baldwin of New York, Mrs. Hill Ferguson and Miss Ella Hubbert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
Plan to Save CoaI

Washington January 2S-A plan for saving more than 100000 tons of coal year by reducing in all cities the num- Der of street car stops and by limiting the use of power for heating cars has been proposed to the fuel administration. It is receiving attention, but there is no indication as to whether fuel admin istration officials view it with favor. The number of stops would be held to eight in each mile and heating would be limited to 45 degrees Fahrenheit, as the proposal has been made. |.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
DINNER R-DANCE AT
 SOUTHERN CLIIR

It. will be of interest to the many members of the Southern club to know that the club will begin a series of din- ner-dances to be given twice month at the club. The first one will take place tomorrow evening from S:30 to 11:30 o'clock.
 Eimber of reservations have already been made and the affair promises to be one of the most delightful social events of the month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
Y. W. c. A. ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the Young Woman's Christian association will be held today at 12:3O o'clock at the rooms of the association. At noon luncheon will be served and all friends and mem- bers Of the association are invited to attend
 Following the luncheon, the election of officers and 10 members of the board nre to beselected. Reports of the officers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
ALLIANCE FRANCHISE
 MEETING POSTPONED

On account of the inability of Dr. Delamarre to arrive in the city Tues day, the initial meeting of the Alliance Francaise organization will be post poned until Wednesday at S:S0 o'clock at the Ridgely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
Bryan Says He Expects to See Entire America
 SalOOnless in His Lifetime

New York, January 2S-William Jen- nings Bryan speaking today before the annual union meeting of the Protestant ministers of New York city, held under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon league
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
MIR. AND MRS. WELLS
 ENTERTAIN

MT. and Mrs. Oscar Wells entertained at dinner last evening at the Tutwiler. cornplimenting Dr. Stockton Axson, sec- rotary of the National Red Cross, who is spending a few days in the city. Cov- CTS were laid for 20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Brown an- nouncs the marriage of their daughter, Clara Peck, to MT. G. Maynard Holmes of Aberdeen, Miss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

declared, T expect to see the entire coun- try saloonless before I die.'
 MT. Bryan assailed what he called .the subsidized press of the country" assert ing that "an editorial in a New York newspaper is like getting a whiff of a whisky bottle''
 The speaker praised the administra- tion at Washington for keeping liquor out of the army cantonments and the navy. The making of a ''bone-dry" na- tion, MT. Bryan asserted, was freeing more slaves" than the emancipation proclamation signed by Lincoln.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
MUNDY- BOWMAN

The following invitations have been issued:
 Mrs. Mary H. bowman requests the henor of your presence at the marriage os her daughter, Annie Lytton, to the Rev. Thomas Gustave Mundy. on Wednesday, February G. at 1l;SO o'clock, St. Andrews Episcopal church. Bir- mingham
 At home. St. Johns rectory, Albany, Ala"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
NEWS OF SOCIETY AND
 ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
will be luncheon given for
 II Mrs Antninette E,1nlr If Illinois

MERE will be luncheon given for
 Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Illinois
 on Thursday at l o'clock at the Tutwiler and the guests will include the liberty loan executive committee and the officers of the national council of de- fense. Following this a mass meeting will he held in the ballroom to which all men and women of the city are in- vited to attend.
 Mrs Funk is vice chairman of the women's national liberty loan committee and the national council of defense, and represents the treasury and war depart nents, and is said to be a splendid sneaker with many interesting things to tell both the men and women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
HOLMES BROWN

for the year will also be part of u Gays programme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
25 States Have Furnished
 Quota of Shipyard Workers

Washington, January 2S.-Reports to the United States employment service to-
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1918-12-19

Out of the ashes of thes backened broken world
that lies under feet today there must be made world
IN which there shall be hatreds, Un
der the banner of the Prince of Peace all be
TIERS else the heavy Hand of again upon the
world for naught.
AS stated it has been than nineteen centuries ago
that eventu night when the shepherds kept watch
their ocks the lonely plains Bethlehem and the angel
Of the Lord down to bring glad tidngs of peace
Earth Good Will Toward Men,. Over nineteen centuries
since the haired carpenter and his young wife
sought shelter in the ow stable beyond the Inn door, among
the beasts of burden and within the fires of the herds
and traders, for "the Inn FULL
1t is many, since that first Christmas morn
when the Christ child born in the manger the hope and
the salvation of the world is too long time to
he three wise with the first gifts guided to the
stable by the Christmas star.
Look at the soldier in the picture this gazing
the angel suspended the ancient city, crowned with the
star of and hope But keep mind that the plains of
Bethlehem yet rough and cheeress under the faraway
Eastern skies; unchanged that first Christmas eve
long ago.
We may rejoice that have Christmas free from
the horror of blood battle. all boys be back
eat the holiday dinner with but the expectation of their
speedy will make this Christmas festival oy We
forget that the Hun in the world know
ledge that the folks who have him in hand great
President Them in France will weary of the
until all the Hun stood for in this world made harmless
We may rejoice that Peace though bought by the sword will
finally make another impossible and will make Chris
the standard of between men and
nations &C. sly.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1918-12-19
" " Va

Germany, moved on in her evil
course, by what can be explain
ed only as fatality, acting, evil
IDENTIFY, against her own reason
and every element of common
sense, flung one insult and in
jury after another in our face
till we simply had to fight.
What was that but the hand
of God directing and order
ing the affairs of men? For,
from the very moment that
America declared wa ragainst
Germany, the unholy cause for
which Germany commended,
was irretrievably and forever
lost.
Therefore, the inevitable
conclusion must be that God is
still in His heavens. His hand
is still upon us. And, this
being puainly the case, it is for
the people of the world to vow
themselves at this Christmas
time to God as never before for
all time to come. They must
never again surrender their
liberties to Kings, or groups of
statesmen, or to soldiers. They
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-05-02
COLES CORNER-ATHENS
Mrs. Ethel Ward Is visiting he

MrS. Etnel Waru Is VISITING ner
mother. Mrs. George Mckinney.
Norman Hight and family are NOV
ing to Athens village where they will
occupy one of Bert Taylor's rents.
Everyone in this section is having a
feast and still adhering strictly to the
food conservation rules. The smelts
have been running at Moose Pond and
those who went smelling, obtaining a
good catch, have divided with their
neighbors.
Mrs. Arthur Woodman spent last
week in Athens visiting Mrs. Harry
Flanders.
Ernest Lnkletter has sold fine
Holstein COW and calf to Hanson.
The selectmen have been having the
bridge below Coles Corner made per
fectly safe for the heaviest car or
motor truck to cross.
Mrs. Willie Nelson visited last Sun
day at Gustave Linderoth's friends OF
hers from Brooklyn, who bought the
johnson place near Barker pond.
These young people intend to cut a
very large amount of wood next win
ter to help out on the coal shortage.
The electric linemen have done a
very fine piece of work burning the
brust along the road near Coles Cor
ner