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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05

Misery writes: T have such very severe cough and cold and have not been able to get anything to help me. It is weakening my system"
 Answer: Use the following and. your cold and cough will vanish and you will soon be strong again. Get 2 F oz, bottle of Concentrated Essence Mentho- Laxene and take every hour or two. This can be taken pure or made Into q directions to use will be found on bottle. This is mild laxative and will drive the cold from the system.
 Lucille asks: '1 have tried to cure dandruff. itching scalp. falling hair and badness with numerous tonics, etc, but in vain. What do you recommend?'
 Answer: l have been recommending g Plain Yellow Minyol for the past seven years and scores of my patients are de- lighted with the quick, pleasant action of this remedy in stopping itching, Ia H. ing hair, dandruff, etc. It gives the hair health, lustre and vigor as noth- ing else does. Obtain in 4-oz. jars with full directions.
 Naude writes Gan you please prescribe medicine which will relieve Ine of such distressing symptoms of Kidney and bladder. as the following Pains in small of back. soreness in re- ,gion of bladder. frequent calls at night but scanty flow with pain, burning and foul odor, puffing of limbs etc"
 Answer: Those seeking relief from Kidney and bladder disorders should begin taking Balmwert Tablets, a very successful formula sold in sealed tubes with full directions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
..AMERICANISAf,

''AMERICANISM'
 (Woodrow Wilson's Speeches on the War, compiled, edited and Annotated by Oliver Marble Gale; the Baldwin Syndicate. publishers, Chicago.
 Oliver Marble Gale, who has 'com- piled, edited and annotated' the Presi- dents principal speeches in the first year of the war, giving comments and war dates their historical setting, sig nificance and consequences, and with brief quotations from earlier speeches and papers, says in a "foreword" to the very interesting and readable volume the following:
 One of the most interesting and sig nificant facts noted in glacing back over the course of the war is this: The cen tral powers have been getting worse all the time in their political morality. and the allies have been getting better.
 The issue between them is now per- fectiy clear. The central powers are seen to be fighting for the glory and success of everything that is hateful to human ity The allies know that they them selves are fighting to make the world a fit place to live in.
 '"rhe issue was not so clear at first, It was only as the allies came to realize the unbelievable evil that Germany stood for that their own purposes were purified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
A Great American Artist

John Jay Chapman, in the Yale Review.
 The remarkable thin gabout Innes is, of course, that having been born in America in 1925, he nevertheless made of himself a painter. One feels thaShe was about as great a painter as he
 was capable of becoming-about as great as if he had been born in France or Italy. He is perhaps a little more queen and less masterly than he would have been if he had been born in fa- voring times; but he has arrived; he is Ia personality in the history of paint
 ing. This is perfectly wonderful Accomplishment under the circum- stances and is one of the most encour- aging facts in the history of American art.
 Every artist invents his own tech nique. He begins in childhood. Elm pirically, and through practice, experi- ment, and contemplation he gradually ,perfects his vehicle. The writer does the same, inventing style that is pe-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
DOBRUDJA CAUSED
 BULGARIA'S LAPSE
Germans Unable to Hold Them in Line and Charges of Treason Were
 Openly Made

Sofia. Bulgaria, November 30.--(Cor- respondence of the Associated Press) One of the principal causes which con- tributed towards the rupture of Bull garia with Germany was the treatment by the latter of the Bobrudja question, which robbed Bulgaria of the prospect of attaining her national aspirations, and the tendency of Germany to favor Turkeys claim to the restoration of the strip of territory in Thrace, which the Turks. under German pressure, had 'ceded to Bulgaria in September. 1915, as the price of Bulgaria's cooperation in the war.
 When German diplomacy, early in September of this year, realized that Bulgaria was bent on withdrawing from the war, a serious attempt was made to conciliate the Bulgarian gov ernment by the abandonment of the condominium established in northern Dobrudja, and a protocol to this effect was signed in Berlin between the cen tral allies It was then hoped that this concession would induce Bulgaria to continue the war, but it proved to be without success.
 The feeling produced both in Berlin and Vienna by this development can be readily imagined. The former Aus tro- Hun garian foreign minister, Baron " FocLeff, the Bulgarian minister in Vienna, was moved to wrathful indig- nation and described M. Malinoff, the Bulgarian premier, as a traitor.
 There is much irritation in Bulgaria over the Dobrudja question. The Bull garian government which, in it's sev- era1 conversations with the German Austrian ministers at Sofia declared itself content to reserve the question of the Dobrudja settlement by the peace congress, maintains the same att titude today. The government hopes that the fact that Bulgaria was the first state to withdraw from the war, and thus hasten the conclusion of g general peace, will not be overlooked.
 The scarcity of foodstuffs in Bull garia constitutes a serious problem for the government, and if supplies are not soon forthcoming there is great danger of famine. One cause of this dearth of supplies was the wholesale and systematic draining of the coun trys resources by the Germans who, instead of reinforcing the Macedonian front, garrisoned the interior of Bull garia with the sole object of collect ing the produce of the country for dis patch to Germany. When the present government put an end to this exporta-
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Take plain bitro- phosphate is the ad- vice of physicians to thin. delicate' nervous people who lack vim. energy and nerve force, and there seems to be ample proof of the efficacy of this prep aration to warrant the recommends ton. Moreover, if we judge from the countless preparations and treatments which are continually being advertised for the purpose of malSlng sc thn and People ns, and renlacing ugly hollows and angles by the soft curved lines of health and beauty. there are evidently thousands oi men and women who keenly feel then excessive thinness.
 Thinness and weakness are usually due to starved nerves. Our bodies need more phosphate than is contained in modern foods. Physicians claim there is nothing that will supply this de- ficiency so we'll as the organic phos- phate known among druggists as bitro- eoId by Letaw's Pharmacy in Birming- ham and most all druggists under
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you and try them out on your tempera- ment
 For instance:
 Why not resolute to wash the elsin- gese in soap that doesn't cost as much as Coudrays 'Savin de Laitue,' and give the difference to charity?
 Why not resolute to subscribe to the Atlantic Monday or some other "high> hrow'' publication and improve your mind instead of "Snappy Stories and things like that?
 Why not resolute to stop dragging ''conservation" into the conversation whenever you can?
 Why not resolute to practice "conser- vation" by using all the floral foliage for salad, when the flowers are thrown out?
 Why not resolute to stop frownins fercely at women who do not pause in their knitting when The Star-Spangled Banner is being played? Why not resolute to stop writing Pro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED BY EVERY DOCTOR AND
 USED IN EVERY HOSPITAL
 Says Editor of "Physicians' Who's Who"

guarantee of satisfaction or none, money back By feeding the nerves directly and by Supplying the body cells with the necessary phosphooEiS food loaanes elements, welcome transformation in the appear ance the increase in weight frequently being astonishing.
 Hospital, N. Y. C., showed that two pa tients gained in weight 23 and 2I pounds, respectively, through the ad- ministration of this organic phosphate both patients claim they have not felt as strong and well for the past twelve years.
 This increase in weight also carries with it a general improvement in the health. Nervousness, sleep1essness and lack of energy. which nearly always accompany excessive thinness. soon disappear dull eyes become bright and pale cheeks glow with the bloom of iNerfect health.
 sAPhysicians and hospitals everywhere are, now recognizing it's merits by it's Frederick Kolle, M lD., editor of New York Physicians Who's Who.' says:
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THIN, NERVOUS PEOPLE
 NEED BITR0.PH0SPHATE
Strength 
What It Is and How It Increases Weight, and Nerve Force in Two Weeks Time in Many

.Bitro- Phosphate should be prescribed
 by every doctor and used in every nos
 pital to increase strength ana nerve
 force and 10 enrich the blood
 Joseph D. Harrigan, Former Visiting
 Speciaiist to North Eastern Dispensa-
 tory says Let those who are weak,
 thin, nervous, anaemic or run down
 take a natural unadulterated substance such as bitro-phosphate and you Will soon see some astonishing results in the increase of nerve energy. strength of body and mind and power of endur-
 ance"
 Bitro-Phosphate is made entirely of the organic phosphate compound re- ferred to in the National Standard Dis pensatory as being an excellent tonic and nervine and a preparation Which has recently acquired considerable rep
 utation in the treatment of neuras- thenia The standard Of excellence. strength and purity of ifs suhstance is beyond question. for every Bitro -Phos- phate tablet is manufactured m strict accordance with the l.. S Pharma- capoeia test requirements. Bitro-P -Phos-
 phate is therefore not q MAtent ne.li- cine and should not be confused with any of the secret nostrutnS. so-callcd tonics e widely advertised cure :" | CAUTION .--AIthough Bitro-PhOsphate
 ness, sleeplessness and general weak ness. owing to it's remarkable flesh growing properties 1t should not he used by anyone who does not desire to put on flesh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
ALASKAN INDIAN
 TRIBES AT PEACE
Younger Generation Has Brought About Truce in Feud Existing
 for Many Years
By Associated Press

Sitka, Alaska. November 3o.-war mostly of the smoldering variety. but which in past generations has blazed up and drawn blood, no longer exists between the Sitka and Wrangell clans of the Rock Wan Ton, caste of the Thlinl.et Indian trible of southeastern Alaska. Peace was declared at a meet ing November II. the same day on which tho world war armistice was signed.
 Democratic principles, taught tho younger Indians by the United States government teachers. prevailed at the peace conference. The Indians decided to set aside their tribal customs. Dis putes, the Indians decided. in the future will be settled by the white mans law instead of by hostilities.
 Ne Indian now living can remember the time when the Sitkas and Wran- gels were at peace. There has been bad blood between them for years. The last futile attempt to make peace took place Tn the early eighties, when Jack Yaquah father of one of the delegates at the last meeting, led his tribe of Satkas to Wrangen to make peace. A war cry greeted their arrival and near- ly all the visitors were massacred by the Wrangells. Chief Yaquan was among the Sitllas killed.
 l Old men of the tribes. it is said, re- ! fused to let the hostility die and en-
 daevcder to keep alive the fires of 1 hatred. With the passing of many Of I the old tri.esmen. however. the young l CT men. lnbued with the ideas of mod
 eru civilization tausht them in the gov l ernment schools, decided tLey wanted 1 peace.
 1 In 1917 Chief Shaks of the Wrange.;e opened peace negotiations with Jack Yaquan of the Sitkas. He urged the sending of peace delegates to Wran, sell, where, he proposed, the leaders
 of the two clans should heal the old
 wounds. So at the close of the fishing season a delegation of Sitkas went to
 Wrangell and. after 2 week of "pow- vows" decided to let bygones be by zones and to abolish the old customs. Chief Shaks. he fsther of .l.e peace
 move, died before tlie meeting was rol'. So now ther. is Nsece oaktha north :
 ern waters and islards andSthe t;t;sas
 ana Wranpela wiii nr lnn@er ilre ln fear of each other. When out on their hunting and fishing trips or when i'y ins their winter trap lines thesf VII;
 visit each other and be friends.
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"KILTIE MCOY."


 By Patrick Torrance Mccoy. Illus
 trated with photographs. The Bobbs-
 Merrill company, publishers, Indian
 apolis.
 Slangy. breezy, very life-like, abound ing in new details, this personal mar rative of the first three years on the front in France is of enthralling in- terest. The writer is a big, Virlle per- son. overflowing with vitality, who has seen much and done more, and who has a remarkable knack at portrayal and description. There are 21 chap ters. every one of which is exciting and not one of which falls behind it's fellows. The fighting authors sense of humor is pervasive. Nothing could be more amusing than his account of his feelings when he first puts on kits
 Kiltie Mccoy uses the names of his friends, tells of them individually and manages to make each one stand out clearly before the reader. When F'isch- CT is killed the pang is personal one; when Geordle falls, the reader knows him we'll
 The book bears in every word the stamp of authenticity. It is a human document of amazing interest. The frequent use of dialogue gives the live iiness of fiction, but it is all fact, fact fact.
 hlltlt AC1bJ SSiioat tiOi "'ioii i'S SN"' onetted his first German and his percep- ton that the drill had been so ground into him that his actions were auto matic; the single instance of German mercy and the many of dastardly cruelty and treachery; the story of Louise, toic ;n her native Dutch-a girl of IT, takef | in Lille given over to the general : harem beaten. kicked, abused finally escaping, scanned with scars, her hall ha nY.ipSt and nuns that fill small cemetery neal l Albert-all is told without exaggeration but so clearly, so vividly, that the reader 1 feels himself an eyewitness l One incines, after this recital. to agree with Kitie's verdict that the only good German is one that is fertiliZins 1 the ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
GONE ASTRAY: LEAVES FROM AN
 EMPORER'S DIARY"

Anonymous" The John Lane com
 pany, publishers, New York city.
 The manuscript of this volume, en- titled Gone Astray." was brought to the publishers by person well known to them. Whilst it does not purport
 to be an actual transcription of the Kaiser's diary, it sufficiently reveals his extraordinary selfish and amb itious character to render it valuable psychological study, setting forth IS it does, his ideas and opinions regarding g personal, domestic and political matters from the days of his boyhood to the present hour. Whether viewed from the standpoint of a personal document or the result of a lifelong study by a marvelously gifted student of char
 acter. the volume will undoubtedly prove interesting and enlightening tc every reader. To understand this anti democratic ruler is to understand the | real enemy we are fighting.
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Why not resolute to be not so rash as to say Have a drink?" (You know there are some people who never Swear off.")
 Why not resolute to try and think of something to order for luncheon when your "best beau" invites you out besides breast of guinea hen and Vir- ginia ham?" It's not only expensive, but fattening.
 Why not resolute to answer the letter you got three years ago from a girl you used to know at boarding school who heard about you from mutual friend and cared enough to send you line?
 Why not resolute to conserve personal financial resources by never losing at bridge? Chats big order; try it ouD.
 Why not resolute not to die in hurry? It isn't fair to yourself, and it isn't fair to the community.
 Why not resolute never again to kick about the thing you get that you didn't want Christmas? Remember, it's better
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loved him, but she had wanted to get away from the factory. After a while he took to staying out very late every Saturday night, and there wasn't very much for Susan to do, and she had never seen the country, of which she cherished an jdesl taken from picture iE a Sun day newsbaper. So she decided to run away ard go to the country, and walk through fields and beside brooks, and at night get shelter by helping women with reir housew orll. The noval is the story of how she carried out her plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
"A RUNAWAY WOMAN"


 Wright Charles Scribner's Sons Pub
 fishers, New York city.
 The heroine of Louis Dodge's story, '"rhe Runaway Woman" is Susan Herkl~ mer a young woman who had been HIoloeJ 10 eJlI IeuIsp 9ul uoI! penoseA Inv n mysterious character with whom she lived for more than a year The sotdness of the life led her to run away. The novel is an account of her adventures in search of happiness. She meets Coot Mann, gentleman vagabond' also running away from the routine Of a railway auditors office. The scenes, though at times sordid. are often idylhc. It is a novel of rare charm.
 Susan lived in oIe r~rs4n in city street called Pleasant Lane, which was anything but pleasant, and did nght housekeeping for herself and for Herki wer. who had taken her cut of the fac
 tory when she was only Y. She had neve, thought of asking herself whether she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
E YOU ALITTLE NEW YEARS RESOLU UTION IN YOUR HOMIE?

sequence she got divorce. on some of your dear intimate fat friends who go through misery and want and hunger distress in order to trim their figures down to the narrow line they covet?
 Why not resolute to wish" some of those "nerves' that women suffer from on some of the men you know who have plenty of nerve" but never heard of 'nerves?' Nerves for men for breakfast, nerves" for luncheon, nerves" for dinner, nerves at the office when Friend Stenographer" comes around, nerves" at dances and teas and parties; don't let any man you know try to get along without theml
 Why not resolute to read a line or so of Tagore so that when the conver- that although he's a Hindoc he didn't write the limerick
 Poor benighted Hindoo!
 He does the best he kin do!
 From first to last
 He sticks to his caste And for pants he makes his skin dol"
 Why not resolute to have those bores ''the Harvey Mills in to play bridge and do it. (You've been intending to do so ever since you went to their house year ago and ate their turkey and fruit cake and drank their egg nogg and champagne)
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This is the delectab1e season when you should make resolutions" even if yor break them-in other words, when you give some seriocs thought to the year in order that you may snap your fingers flippantly at it's conclusion.
 It is difficult to get interested in such small things as your own personal af- fairs, of course, as we have become i'm bued with big international problems and questions for so long, yet we may be pardoned (and are already, I'm sure) when we take just modieum of inter- est now and then in our own dear lit- tie tiny, wee-ny. btsey affairs.
 If you are not inclined, however, to do this-let me do it for you; let me sug- gest some few resolutions and if you like any of them Gf you haven't already made your own take them home with
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tion the Germans resorted to the ruse of posting parcels through their own field post, and thus practically every German soldier became an exporter The Bulgarian government was power- less to prevent the practice
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Ole Miss, at New Years MEN "Swears Off," an VIM E N "Swears On," which is jes' de Diffrunce between de Masculine an de Feminine. Yassum!

that man forced his wife to~live on in Chicago recently that reduced her from 175 pounds to SS, and in conse-
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to get something you don't want than nothing at all.
 Why net resolute that in your home you'll step 'grouching" and quoting
 "Of all sad things that Christmas di~
 penses
 The saddest are these: Household ex-
 penses.'"
 Why not resolute to give your "bache- Tor friend nice umbrella next Christi mas instead of asking him in to Christ mas dinner en famille? He'd like the enc; he loathes the other
 Why not resolute to realize that grape
 juice" is harmless if not used to excess? Experts declare that even supposed fn-
 nocuous drinks are dangerous in large quantities, and a grape juice epoch IS fast approaching. Why not resolute never to tell your
 best-est ''risque" story to an unappre- ciative crowd?
 Why not resolute Gf you are news paper person. lastly, but not leastiy, td try and write with sense? culiar to himself. So does the musician. so OOeS the dTtnllGct bulp Ol COuiocf the age in which a man lives makes all the difference. He may be born at a time when every second man is poet or painter, so that he gets his initia- tion into art even in his infancy. This is the real importance of art age; | it gives the infants an early start But Innes was in his teens and in Newark, N J., when he first saw in the windows of the print shops those reproductions and Autographs that gave him his first intimation that there had been such a thing as landscape painting in the world His mind at once grasped the depths, the difficulty, the greatness of the matter. He clawed himself back to painting by the only cable he knew. which was cable of religious and metaphysical discussion; and he res gained and transplanted art, some- what Giotto and the precursors of I the Renaissance regained the classics, l that is to say. through interminable study and hard work A Winter Paradox From the Boston Transcript l How are your light bills these days?~
 Heavy"
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DOLL

New Years Resolutions" subject to the "IN- ITIATIVE and RECALL"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05

The famous Tugela river in South Africa on one occasion rose 40 feet dur ing a single night, owing to thunder storms in the mountains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
SECRETARY BAKER AT THE
 FRONT"

 By Ralph A. Hayes. The Century com
 pany, publishers, New York city.
 Of course, no one, except Mr. Baker himself, could know the details of this momentous trip to Europe better than the war secretarys private secretary. MT. Hayes was, of necessity, in the midst of all the stirring events of a journey that has had such extraordi- nary results for this country and our allies. He came back with a book rich in notes on the incidents of the seven weeks between Washington and Rome-a seven weeks which have had a decisive influence on the war. In the course of Secretary Bakers journey there were meetings with King George Lloyd George. Clemenceau, Generals Pershing, Haig, Foch. Petain, etc. The book is illustrated with photo- graphs taken under the supervision of the author
 Following the return Of Secretary Baker from Europe this spring MT. Hayes resigned his position and en- listed in the army. At last accounts he was private in training at Camp Meade, in Maryland.