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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
POILU'S RUSE TO
 ROB BANK FAILS;
 TAKEN BY GERMAN
By Associated Press

Ak La Chapelle, December IA French soldier wearing the uniform of captain of the Belgian army today called on the German chief of police here and demand ed that he loan him three German police men to sea, ch local bank. His request was complied with and the soldier posted one policeman at the outside door of the bank. He then assembled the staff of the bank and the manager in a room, the door of which he locked. After this he ordered the two other policemen to stand watch over the prisoners and they also were put under lock and key
 The soldier then entered the vault of the bank, coolly took one million marks and walked away from the building. The policeman stationed as a sentry at the door became suspicious and shadowed the supposed Belgian and watched him enter cafe from which he emerged a few min utes later dressed as a civilian. The po- liceman then arrested the thief and turned him ever to the Belgian police.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18

number of the members of the medical fraternity of Birmingham and rAe county
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
DECISION TODAY
 BY JUDGE GREENE
Shaw Requests Bail Pend ing Supreme Court De-
 cision on Appeal


 A decision as to whether bond will be warrtnt charging embezzlement, while the supreme court of Alabama is considering the validity of the warrants sworn out ty Ed Burgess, local police officer, will be given today at F o'clock, when the defendant will appear before Judge Dan Greene.
 Sheriff A. Wallace from Charlotte, N. C.. where three indictments were found against Shaw for embezzlement, came to Birmingham about a week ago to, take the president back with him.
 Just before the sheriff arrived Shaw, who was president of the Grocery Baking company in Birmingham, had been ar rested on warrants sworn out by Dep- uty Ed Burgess. Judge Greene yesterday was to have issued the order to allow the sheriff of Charlotte to take the pris- oner back with him, but suspended the execution of it when Shaw gave notice of an appeal to the supreme court against the warrants holding him here in Bir- mingham.
 AS the case now stands, if Shaw is not allowed bond tomorrow by Judge Greene he will have to remain in the city jail until the decision of the supreme court is handed down, which may take from eight to ten months.
 1T Shaw does not press his motion for an appeal to the supreme court it is ex- peeted that he can then be taken back to North Carolina to answer to the indict- ments held against him sn that state
 Some time ago Shaw is alleged to have gone to Charlotte, N. C., and promoted a grocery corporation there. Some time later, according to the police, he is al legged to have been found $15,0O0, and next S2e,O00 short, which was said to have been the entire capital invested in the company which he is alleged to have or.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
LOOKING FOR JONES.
 REPORTED MISSING

No trace of E. Jones. 2005 Avenue A,
 who has not been seen since last Satur-
 day afternoon, has as yet been obtained by the local police officials. According tc Mir. Harris, news seller, Jones was
 last seen Saturday in his office at 20o5
 Avenue A.
 The police are puzzled over the case and believe that he has met with foul play X description of the man follows: Fifty years of age, five feet and nine inches high and hair slightly gray. Clean shaven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18

were present at both the clinic and ad- dress given by Dr. Lynch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
NEGRO SN.ATCHED
 PURSE OF WOMAN

Mrs. E. r. Matlock of 1919 Eighth ave- nue, north, was relieved of her mesh handbag valued at s25 by. an unknown negro last night about 9 o'clock, near 73z West Twentieth street, according to q report turned in to police headquarters. 1t was ssid that Mrs. Matlock was on her way home and as she approached the house a negro concealed behind a clump of busaes nearby, snatched her handbag. and ran down the street. Officers Bur,Sett and Wyatt rushed to the scene, but were unable to fini any trace of the negro. The handbag contained about 80 in cur rency besides other small articles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
HERACLE WHISTLES
 PLESTINA JAN. 15

Nashville, Tern, December 17-(Spe. cia1.)-John Heracle, heavyweight wrestler from Delaware. at presenf working on government barges here has received word from Promoter F. H Moffett of Knoxville that he will ar. range his match with Marlin Plestins in Knoxville on January 15.
 Plestina claims the championship O. the world, along with Joe Stecher, Ear Caddock and a flock of others
 The big shipbuilder is in fine trim and plans to give Plestina a regular scrap. Heracle has wrestled Zbyszko Hackenschmidt, Stecher and practical ly all the others, and his physique ant stamina guarantee his putting up z good battle against any of the top notchers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18

Brunson and Moody. forwards; Bryan (4) and Godbey t9, centers; Smith (9, Thomas @ and Trent. guards.
 Woodlawn-Lawley and Crook (e), for wards; Richie @. center; Buchanan, Col Her and Mccall guards.
 Referee, Clements.
 Lineup, third game:
 Birmingham-Sou Burney and Griffin (2), forwards; Miller @. center; Gwin and Baeiey, guards.
 Stockham "Y''-Lay and Harrell (S), for wards; Petisch @. center; Powell and Malone guards. Referee Hutto.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
To Have Complexion
 That Men Admire

"A man may admit with great sophisti- cation. that powder and rouge are necessary aids to beauty" says a well-known writer, "yet deep in his heart he dreams of the woman whose loveliness needs artificial touching up. Women who appreciate this, who give consideration to the masculine viewpoint, avoid using anything that might indicate their beauty is not all their own
 Such women in increasing number are ac- quring the mercolized wax habit. By apply ing the at night as they would cold cream, washing it off in the morning. they secure, and maintain entirely natural com plexions. Their faces exhibit no evidence of having been 'beautified.' Nothing is added to the old .complexion-the latter instead, is any drug store tan ounce is sufficiently absorbs the devitalGed outer skin, gradually, almost imperceptiby. The fresh. clear, satiny under-skin which appears, bears a healthy, youthful bloom not comparable with the fixed artificial color"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18

Cold and hungry, without hat on her head, and nothing but a flimsy middy blouse covering her shoulders, Lydia Farley, little 1s-year-old girl. was brought to the police station last night.
 She was just hunting her people in town, she told the night sergeant. My step-father down in Winston county told me to go to Birmingham and find some work. and I tried hard, but I couldn't get a thing to do," she said. q have a sister and brother somewhere in Birmingham. but I don't know where they are"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
NOTED SPECIALIST
 HEARD BY DOCTORS
Dr. Lynch Conducts Clinic and Ad. dresses Medical Society at Meet
 ing Last Night

Dr. R. Clyde Lynch, professor of Tu- lane university, of the Louisiana School of Medicine. conducted a clinic yesterday afternoon at St Vincents hospital, and last night addressed the Jefferson County Medical society at the Civic association.
 Dr. Lynch is an expert on disease of the ear. nose and throat, and his clinic and address were on suspension, bron
 chosopy and esophogoscopy. A large
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
Minus Hat, and Hungry,
 Little Girl Sought Job

She touched the sympathy of the po- lice officers who were gathered around the central station near midnight and they donated enough money to buy her something to eat
 And to have seen that little girl eat would have caused some of the phi lanthropists to sit deep in thought for some time.
 back to the police station and given a cot in the city jail, where she will be allowed to stay until morning, when her sister and brother will be sought by the police.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
SOUTHERN FIELD
 TRIALS SEASON NOW UNDER WAY
By Associated Prs.

Montgomery, December 17.-Undef Favorable auspices the mid winter sea- |son of the Southern Field Trials club |opened today near Letohatchie with the running of II brace of dogs in the
 |derby stake, six brace remaining for
 Thursday. together with a second
 series drawn from the showings oi Itftlay.
 Birds were plentiful for the event
 land at the conclusion of the days .work five animals, Becky Broomhill,
 'derby winner in the Continental trials; Gunner of Joyeuse, The Ace, Johnny Walker and Cannon's Frank, were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18

drawn for a special series during Thursdays programme. Drawings for the au-age stake. which will be started Friday morning, are announced, as follows; Louisiana Bill Fisher and Dr. John Davis. Dean.
 Comanche Rap. Crane and Mohawk whitestone Jack, Rowland G.. I. Robert The Devil, Crane ana Eldorado, Avent.
 Gunner, Babcock and Momoney's Pinto Bess, Avent
 John Case. Pitchard, shores Ruby Pearl, Martin.
 Cobb Hall, Harris.
 Conscript, Babcock.N Albert's Kingstone, Peyton. Nariobi, Holloway.
 White Sox, Carr.
 Guynella, Pritchard.
 ColoneTs Clean, Holloway. Pearl of Joyeuse, Babcock. Commissioner Don, Ayent. Shores Ben, Martin. Dr. John, Newland.
 Bessie Flyer, Lucas. Jersey Prince, Martin. Ottleys Tap. Carr. Oxford Lamar, Peyton. Unospeek, Carr.
 Eugene Ms Kid, Farrier. Comanche Dickey, Avent. J. R.'s Boy, Farrier. DeSoto Frank Holloway G. I. Ringing Bells, Crane. Miss Peg. Babcock. Ottley's Sam, Carr Ferris Jake, Pritchard. No Vary, Peyton. Parmitie Fritz, Dean Bell Beach, Lucas. Collins Dock, Babcock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-18
PERSONAL

Maurice caheen, son of MT. and Mrs. Ferd Caheen. and pupil of the Exeter academy of Exeter, N. IT., will arrive in Birmingham tomorrow to spend the holidays with his parents.
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06

commented, when the article was fln- ished. Remember what I told you the other day? It's just like putting match to finder. Now we're off"
 Conward smoked a few minutes in silence, but Dave could not fail to see the excitement under his calm exterior. He had, as he said, decided to "sit" in in the biggest game ever played. The intoxication of sudden wealth had al- ready fired his blood.
 He slipped bill to Dave. "For your services in that little transaction" he explained.
 Elden held the bill in his fingers gingerly, as though it might carry in- lection, as in very truth it did. He realized that he stood at a turning point-that everything the future held for him might rest on his present deci- sion. There remained in him not lit tie of the fine, stern honor of the ranchman of the open range; an honor curious, sometimes terrible, in its in- depreciation of right and wrong, but a fine. stern honor n""ort"nlosS. And he
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06
CHAPTER VI.

Whatever the effect of this cOnver- sation had been upon Edith, she con- cealed it carefully, and Dave counted it one of the fortunate events of his life. He had been working under the spur of his passion for Irene, but now this was to be supplemented by the friendship of Edith. That it was more than friendship on her part did not occur to him at all, but he knew she was interested in him and he was doubly determined that he would justify her interest and confidence.
 But just at this time another incl dent occurred which was to turn the flood of his life into strange channels. Dave had been promoted to the distinc- ton of private office-a little six-by- six "box stall" as the sport editor de- scribed it-but, nevertheless, a dis tinction shared only with the manag- ing editor and Bert Morrison, compiler ofSthe woman's page. Her name was Roberta, but she was masculine to the tips and everybody called her Bert.
 Into Dave's sanctuary one after noon in October came Conward. His habitual cigarette hung from its ac- customed short tooth, and his round, horid face seemed buffer than usual. His aversion to any exercise more wig orous than offered by a billiard cue was beginning to reflect itself in premature rotundity of figure.
 "'Lo, Dave!" he said. "Alone"
 Almost" said Dave, without look ing up from his typewriter. Then, turning, he kicked the door shut with his heel and said, "Shoot!"
 "This strenuous life is spelling your good manners, Dave, my boy," said Conward, lazily exhaling a thin cloud of smoke. If work made man rich you'd die a millionaire. But it isn't work that makes men rich. Ever think of that?"
 If a man does not become rich by
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06

again, and when she spoke 1t was in a lower, more confidential note. !
 "I shouldn't have told you this, Dave. I shouldn't know it myself. But before that things hadn't been-well, just as good, as they might in our home. {. They've been different since"
 The shock of her words brought him upright. To him it seemed that MT. and Mrs. Duncan were the ideal father and mother It was impossible to as- sociate them with a home where things hadn't been just as good as they might" But her half-confession left no room for remark.
 "MOther told me-" she went on, af- ter a long silence, and without looking at him. "A few years ago, If some one had only told me, when I was your age,' she said"
 'Why do you tell me this?" he sud- denly demanded.
 Did you ever feel that you just had to tell some one"
 It was his turn to pause. "Yes," he confessed, at length.
 -"Then tell me-"
 So he led her j:OWn through the tragedy of his youth and the lonely, rudderless course of his bOyhcod. She followed sympathetically to the day when Doctor Hardy and his daughter Irene became guests at the Llden ranch. But bot"rr the end he stop ped. Should hc tel! her all? Why not? She had opened her life to him. So he told her of that last evening with Irene, and the compact under the trees and the moon. Her hand had fallen into his as they talked, but here he felt it slowly withdrawn. But he was fired with the flame of love which had sprung up in the breath of his reminis- cence. And Edith was his friend and his chum.
 "And you have been true?" she said, but her voice was distant and strained.
 "Yes."
 And you are waiting for her"
 "Yes, I am waiting. .. It must be so."
 Tt is cold" she said. 'Let us go home"
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06

instinctively felt that to accept this money would compromise him for evermore. As he turned the bill in his fingers he noticed that 1t was for one hundred dollars. He thought it was ten.
 "I can't take that much" he ex- claimed. 'It isn't fair"
 "Fair enough" said Conward, we'll pleased that Dave should be impressed by his generosity. "Fair enough" he repeated. "It's just ten per cent of my profit"
 "You mean you made a thousand dollars on that deal2"
 Exactly that. And that will look like peanut to what we are going to make later on."
 "We?"
 "Yes. You and me. We're going into partnership"
 'But I've nothing to invest. I've only a very little saved up"
 'Inyest that hundred" o..
 C" NUED NEXT WEEK)
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06

was only his news sense that respond ed; his delight in the strange and the sensational. He was not yet inOculated with the poison of easy wealth.
 His nights were busy with his inves- tigations, but on Sunday, as usual, he went out to the Duncans'. Mrs. Dun can explained that Edith had gone to visit a girl friend in the country !: would be gone away for some time. Dave felt foolish annoyance that she should have left town. She might at least have called him up. Why should she call him up? Of course not? Still, the town was very empty. He drove with Mrs. Duncan in the afternoon, and at night took a long walk by the river. He had a vague but oppressive sense of loneliness. He had not real ized what part of his life these Sunday afternoons with Edith had come to be.
 A few days later Conward strolled in, with the inevitable cigarette. He smoked in silence until Dave complet- ed story.
 Good stuff vou'ro
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06
"If Man Does Not Become Rich by
 Work He Has No Right to Become
 Rich at AL" Dave Retorted.

work he has no right to become rich at all," Dave retorted.
 What do you mean by that word right Dave? Define it."
 Haven't time. We go to press at four"
 That's the trouble with fellows like you," Conward continued. You haven't time. You stick too close to your jobs. You never see the better chances lying all around. Now SUD- pose you let them go to press without you today and you listen to me for a while"
 Dave was about to throw him out when a gust of yearning for the open spaces swept over him again. It was true enough. He was giving his whole life to his paper. Promotion was slow, and there was no prospect of really big position at any time. He remem- bered MT. Duncan's remark about newspaper training being the best
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06

The week was 8 busy one with Dave and he had no opportunity to visit the >Duncans. Friday Edith called him on the telephone. She asked an incense quential question about something which had appeared in the paper, and from that the talk drifted on until it turned on the point of their expedition of the previous Sunday. Dave never could account quite clearly how it hap pened, but when he hung up the re- eeiver he knew he had asked her to ride with him again on Sunday, and Ehe had accepted. He had ridden with her before, of course, but he had never asked her before. He felt that a subtle change had come over their relation ship.
 He was at the Duncan house earlier than usual Sunday afternoon, but not too early for Edith. She was dressed for the occasion; she seemed more fetching than he had ever seen her.
 She led the way over the path fol lowed the Sunday before until again They sat by the rushing water. Dave had again been filled with sense of &eenie Hardy, and his conversation was disjointed and uninteresting. She Tried unnecessarily to draw him out with questions about himself; then look the more astute tack of speaking Uf her own past life. It had begun in an eastern city, ever so many years ago ' '
 Chivalry could not allow that to pass. "Oh, not so very many v" said Dave.
 "How manyf" she teased. Guess" <'Nineteen," he hazarded.
 ooh, more than that"
 '"Twenty-One?"
 "Oh, less than that" And their first Eonfidence was established.
 "Twenty," thought Dave to himself rReenie must be about twenty now" ' "And I was five when-when Jack Mied," she went on. "Jack was my brother, you know. He was seven. Well, we were playing, and I stood on The car tracks, signaling the motor man, to make him ring his bell. On Game the car,> with the bell changing, and the man in blue looking very eross. Jack must have thought I was awaiting too long, for he suddenly EuShed on the track to pull me off," She stopped, and sat looking at the Eushing water.
 'T heard him cry, oh, daddy, dad My!' above the screech of the brakes"
 "Sorrow is strange thing" she went on, after pause. q don't pre-
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I;-Living with his father on Elden has reached the age of eighteen efdent to the auto in which pr. Hardy. eminent eastern physician, and his daugh- Ser Irene, are touring the country brings leg is broken, and he is necessarily con- Ened to his bed. Friendship, and some thing more, develops between Irene and David.
 CHAPTER II.-Irene greatly enjoys the pnconventional freedom of ranch life, and Into affection. On Dr., Hardy's recovery Btanding that David will seek to improve his position in life and they will meet again.
 .' CHAPTER III.-The sudden death of his 5athgr leaves D2yid f with cres praccds af tbs ranch, the. elder. man having through years of dissipation wasted the income His debts paid, David goes to the nearest town, determined to keep his promise to Irene by acquiring an education and mak- ing himself worthy of her. He secures the first work offered driving a team for a coal dealer, and meets man named Con ward, about his own age, by whom he IS led into dissipation
 CHAPTER IV.-Naturally of clean mind. David determines to get away from his Encongenial surroundings, and Fate Duncan, who sees the inherent good in the boy and welcomes him to his home, where he meets Edith, his hosts pretty daughter, and begins the coveted education.
 CHAPTER v.-Attracting the favorable attention of the managing editor of a newspaper, David becomes. reporter and general Worthiness falls in love with him, though with the memory of Irene in his heart, David does not perceive 1t.
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tend to understand, but it seems to have it's place in life. I guess it's a natural law. We'll" She paused
Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06

low-mildneSs of the tobaccc taining the desirable body are simply a revelationl ' smoke themwithout tiring yC For your own satisfaction y compare Camels with any ( in the world at any price. you'll best realize their quality and the rare en they provide.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-02-14
WILLINGLY GAVE UP WEALTH
Or. Remsen, Discoverer Of saccharin,
Was Satisfied That It's Use Wca
Injurious to Health.

A romantic history is attached ia
the discovery of saccharln. The dis
coverer Of the chemical derivatIve OF
coal tar, to which the name saccharin
Is popularity given. Is DR.. Ira Remsen,
chief consulting chemist Of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
He was ut first very enthusiastic as
to the possibilities Of this artificial
sweetstuff. which has a sweetening
power about 500 times that OF sugar.
Its manufacture was organized on a
large scale. and soon enormous quan.
titles were being used In making Ice
cream and the soda water sirups to
which Americans are addicted.
Doctor Remsen was making an in
come Of something like 100000 year
from his shares In the company when
about five years ago his friend, Doctor
Wylie. head of the United States pure
food bureau. suggested doubt of the
wholes0meness Of sacchnrin.
Doctor Remsen thereupon submitted
himself to rigorous tests Of the action
Of saccharin on the digestive organs
and on the heart. AS a result he asked
the department to issue an order pro-
hibiting Its use as food-sweetener.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-02-14
FROM EVE TO MODERN DAME
Evolution Of Feminine Attire From tho
Simple Flo Leaf Is Most Inter-
estina Study.

When Eve first started out to dress
to cover up her nakedness, she picked
the fig leaves soft and green-admired
perhaps their dusky sheen. But soon
her daughters found this shade quite
unbecoming to maid with tresses
neither gold nor red; so substituted
grass instead. which made them yel-
low skirts when dried and satisfied
primeval pride. And then the blondes
found peacock blue was quite their
most becoming hue. and robbed that
bird Of plumage rare to decorate their
sunny hair; while raven locks of the
brunettes were strung with bright red
featherettes.
From beasts they took both fur and
hide, and still their wants were not
supplied; they found the silk worm
at his loom. at which his business took
a boom; they sheared Angora sheep
and goats to make therefrom their
winter coats.
From fields Of cotton and Of fax
came fabrics to adorn their backs |;
and now to Hooverize on waste, they've
spider webs with beadwork traced |!
Ewes modesty Is quite forgot-we've
evOluted such a lot.-Mrs. v. w. s.. In
the Kansas City Star.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-02-14
Adventure in Fiction.

In each army Y. M. C. A. building
in the training camps of America
there Is circulating library of books
provided by the American Library az
ISOLATION, and one of the duties of
the secretary is to see to the circula-
tion Of the books among the soldiers,
In Y. NJ. c. A. building ut Camp
Forrest a bright-faced young soldier
leaned against the counter and earn
estly inquired, "Have you got any al
zebra bOoks"
The secretary. delighted at this
manifestation Of interest in higher
things, scanned the book shelves.
"No, my boy" he replied. "I'm sor-
ry to say that l haven't. have sew
eral arithmetics, but not single al.
zebra. VIII anything else do?"
"Oh. give me any good book Of ad-
venture" said the boy.
And presently the secretary recov.
cred sufficiently to realize that the
soldier wanted book by Horatio AL.
ger, and selecting "Pluck and Luck, or
From Porter to President" he sent
the applicant ON his way rejoicing.