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BIG DECREASE IN
10 UNITED STATES
Trade With America Has
Fallen Off—Hope to Re
coup Losses Under
New Tariff
St. Petersburg-. January 10.—The Rus
sian export chamber has been demoting
many of its semi-weekly meeting to
various aspects of trade relations with
America, which continue to interest
Russian industrial aijd commercial cir
-ler. Tho blow dealt to an expanding
trade in which the United States had
risen to second place in imports, is
A reflected in reports for the first seven
months of 1913. During that period
Russian exports to America decreased
by 2,000.000 roubles, or over $1,000,000.
The new American tariff is expected j
to recoup for Russia some o? this loss
by increased trade in certain articles,
such as eggs, hides and wool.
* One of the organs of the Russian
ministry of finance dwells upon the
Panama canal’s menace to the Rus
sian merchants’ predominance in Mon- l
golia. Mongolian wool and hides even
now largely go to San Francisco by
way of Tientsin. To save this raw
material for Russian industries, the
* ministerial organ advocates that "feed
* ers” should bo built to the Trans
sib. ri.in railway, traversing Mongolia
to it* main centres, such as Urga, Kob
du and Ulaeutai. On the other hand.
Russians view favorably the develop
ment of Siberian and Manchurian tim
i * r exports to America. Hopes also arc
entertained that Europe may become
* large consumer of Siberian fish, via
the Panama canal. The freight rates
'ia tho Suez canal are prohibitive, and
Cw Japanese profit by buying the
. whole catch at ridiculously low prices.
A
TRY A LITTLE SALTS IF KIDNEYS "
AND BLADDER ARE TROUBLING YOU
\ Salts flushes Kidneys with
out injury; also neutral
izes uric acid, ending
Bladder irritation
Kidney and bladder weakness result
from uric acid, says a noted authority.
yT he kidneys filter this acid from the
blood a,,d pass it on to the bladder,
where it often remains to irritate and
Inflame, causing a burning, scalding
sensation, or setting up an irritation at
the neck of the bladder, obliging; you to
reek relief two or three times during
the night. The sufferer is in constant
dread. the water passes sometimes with
p scalding sensation and is very pro
fuse; again, there is difficulty in avoid
ing it.
i ladder weakness, most folks call it,
because they can't control urination.
While It ts extremely annoying anti
sometimes very painful, this is reaitv
one of the most simple ailments to
overcome, (let about four ounces of
■lad Salts from your pharmacist and
taka a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast, continue this
for two or throe days. This will neu
tralize tiie adds in the urine so it no
longer is a source of irritation to the
bladder and urinary organs which then
act normally again.
•Tad Salts is inexpensive, harmless,
and Is made, from the acid of grapes
ind lemon juice, combined with litliia,
and is used by thousands of folks who
are subject to urinary disorders caused
by uric acid Irritation. .Tad Salts is
splendid for kidneys and causes no bad
effects whatever.
Here you have a pleasant, efferves
cent lllhta-water drink, which quickly I
relieves bladder trouble.
THEATRICAL NOTES 1
"Peg of My Heart” will be here shortly
for three performances at the Jefferson
theatre.
"The Blindness of Virtue,” a strong
English comedy, will be an early at
traction at the Jefferson.
“Offfftcer 660.” that comedy ot risible
tricks and many mysterious moments
woven around the life of a more or less
distinguished picture thief, who, in the
play, has chosen a select New York
neighborhood in upper Fifth avenue, as
the base of his operations, will be the
attraction at the Jefferson shortly.
Mrs. Fiske is to bring "The High Road”
to Birmingham this month. The play is
from the pen of Edward Sheldon, whose
first contribution to the stage was "Sal
vation Nell,” in which Mrs. Fiske
achieved such a remarkable success. In
"The High Road” Mrs. Fiske practically
visualized four distinct type of woman
hood, all united in the character of Mary
Page, whose life story the play depicts.
The interest concerns important epochs
in a life of which the early years were
spent upon a small farm and under con
ditions that were all but crushing.
Few plays of equal or greater weird
ness, of such absorbing interest And of
more complex detail than "Bella Donna.”
are said ever to have been written for
the American stage, or any other, for
that matter. It Is one of those dramas
that is really remarkable. The name part
in this play was alloted for the Ameri
can production by Charles Frohman to
the celebrated Russian actress, Nazimovn,
and her extraordinary talents are at all
times given the fullest scope The cast
and production to bo seen during her
coming engagement is the same as whs
identified with her Empire theatre en
gagement in New York city. Nazimovn
in "Bella Donna,” comes to Birmingham
this month.
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From the very outset ol her career
Mme. Melba has been a welcome figure in
_ octet? : an.i the manner In which sh
ims kept UP her social duties is .me ot
the surprising points in her career Sh
lias never allowed herselfe t.. b- exploit? I
socially because of her perfesslonjl ceieli
rlty. In the fashion,,!,!, world, particu
larly in l.ondon and Paris, she rills her
place independent of her „rt and enter•
tains on a scale of lavish ,legance.
Mme. Melbas fii-t appearance In Italv.
whlcl. might be called the home of opera,
was not made until site had conquered
the rest of Europe. Hrussels. l.ondon.
Paris. St. Petersburg. Nice Monte Parle,
all had accepted her as an incomparable
singer before she went to Milan. Flor
ence, Turin and Uenon capitulated In
turn, and the conquest of Italy was com
plete.
George Evans has composed several
now songs for his new programme of
minstrelsy which will h' Introduced at
the Jefferson next month, it is h well
known fact that the little minstrel star
has boon the author of a score or mors
of songs, both words and music, whh-h
have attained enviable proportions on the
hooks of tin publishing houses, “in th«
Good Old Summer Time’* probably was
one of the largest seller? ever known.
7'V>r this season’s production he has
written “The Moony. Moony Man.”
“When You Hear D»m Church Bells
Chime.’’ “This Is Dinah’s ’Wedding Day.”
“When th< Hoses Bloom in Dixie Hand”
and several others.
Dance music for Pavlowa and her as
elates at the JcOrson theatre will l*e
provided by an orchestra of .le musicians.
This is £ complete symphony orchestra,
and is under the directorship of Theo
dor© Stier, 'Well known as a conductor
In this country and abroad. Mr. Stier
conducted tub orchestra on Pnvlowa’a
former \meriean tour. Tin musical part
of Pavlowfe”s programme Is in Itself an
entertainment of very general delight.
AMUSEMENTS
(Con tin tied on Prevloun Pnse)
than that of last week. He will be ‘'Hat
timer,” tiie young lawyer who becomes
interested in Nance, and raves her from
a possible trial and term in Jail, and aft
erwards learns to love her. It is a part
in which Mr. Mac Owen will appear to
better advantage than he did last ween.
Mr. .Longman will bo seen as “Edward
Ramsay,” the millionaire; Mr. Broaee aa
the Bishop: Arthur I.a Rue as "Tom Dor
gan,” the thief; Cypher** Weaver as “Of
ficer Hooligan:” Air. Monroe as “Fred
Oberrr.uller:” Miss Poynter, a3 “Name
Olden;” Miss Youngo, as “Mrs. Kdward
Ramsay;” Miss Chase as “Nellie Ram
say;” Miss Lessing as “Airs. William Lat
titner,” and Miss Reader as “Mag. Mona
han.'*
Tho story Is of a young Kiri who sought
to escape arrest by Jumping Into or. await
ing carriage, which proves to be that of
the Bishop, whom she claims is her
father. They attend a garden party to
gether and sho is recognised by Air. Ram
say as tho girl who stole his pooketbook
earlier in the clay. The complications!
corns thick and fast. The arrival of Tom
Dorgan. an ohl associate of Nones#, and
the two are arrested for a theft, l-nttimer
becomes interested in the girl and saves
her from jail, falls in love with her ami
marries her.
ORPHEUM OFFERS
EXCELLENT BILL
Vaudeville Bill With Two Head
liners and Three Other
Splendid Acts
The splendid vaudeville that the !
Orpin uni has been offering for sev- '
eril weeks will be continued this week
and Ala linger Semon will offer a five
act bill with two of the big time head
liners as lho features and a trio of
other nets that are good.
Lvorv where in vaudeville the Paul
ham troupe of bicycle riders is known
for i.s originality and the thrills the
aer < ffors. Instead of the usual trick
riding, tho team plays a regular gam
of basketball on the stage, riding tin*
bicycles instead of running about, j
Their passing and throwing is said |
to 1*0 remarkably accurate and their
skill In avoiding collisions is unusual.
There ire five in the act. four riders
and the i, force.
Willard and Bond are blackface com
edians will, an entirely new and al
together pleasing farce comedy en
titled “Detectivlsm," which tells ol the
attempt of "Pinkerton Ketchum ’ to
till "Ambrose Hemingway'’ from Pit ;
huig, Kan., how the modern detective
hokls down his job.
AJr. and Mrs. Fred Thomas are two
of Vaudeville** cleverest * ntertuin rs ,
of the higher class and their sketch I
is regarded as u welcome addition to!
\ every 1 *11. it is a novelty comedy of
fering and the personality and natural
talent of the two members of the oum
j finny has a great deal to do with its
[ fcUCCCtPS.
Al Nnttle is the eccentric comedian
who is also a musician, or the eccen
trie musician who is also a comedian.
Ho is just as good in his comedy as
hi* music, and is a pleasure every,
where.
Aifita Hagtling has gotten entirely
away from the usual juggling methods
in her act. which is an European nov
elty, She is said to he the only lady
juggling with seven balls and on a
concert drum. The stage setting is
I smart and attractive and the cost tun* s
■flegant. nut* of the features of the act
I » juggling with three lighted torches,
| the flames *>f which change colors
I i hi co times.
Spider!—No; a Hat
i From the New York World.
Mrs. Finley .1. Shepard had just eri
| sconced herself yesterday at a table in
[the Dutch lunch room of the Woman’,}
I Exchange. Madison avenue* and Forty
third street, which Is one of her pet
| > hilanthrop’es. Mrs. John Astor had
[dropped into a scat at the other end of
jtl'.e room.
| The pleasant babel was at its loud
est when the whole roomful was j
thrown into intense excitement bv *
; man at a center table who was waving
bis arms and making wild grabs at bis j
head, crying hysterically:
“It’s a spider!"
Women pushed back thei^ chairs and ;
made rs if for flight. Approaching !
Hutch handmaidens with la*den tra.vr
backed into the kitchen with little
f-hrleka Every rye was on the heairs
rbove. but there was not a spider ’n
sight.
‘ Ah. I’ve got it!’’ shouted the vic
tim.
With a mighty pull he dragged awav
the crawling thing which he hftJ
found on hi* head where the hair was
short. Canto with it the hat of the won.
r.n at the table behind him.
The whole room burst into a roa“.
• be victim, a young physician, find
precept tately.
Duelling Prime Ministers
From the Tendon Chronicle.
Although none of our premiers can
match the fire rating record of the head
of the Hungarian cabinet, who has just
fought his third duel tilts year, a good
number of them figured on the duelling
ground. John Wilson Croker wrote In
1841: "Within the lust hundred years
six persons have fought duels who have
been prime ministers—Pultene.v (Ford
Hath) Ford Shelburn*. Mr. Fitt. Mr.
Fox. Mr. Conning and the Puke of Well
ington. T might nisi* add Peel, who twlre
challenged, and Cnstiereagh. who was al
most a first minister. Of late years the '
custom has certainly decreased, and the |
House of Fords has not now. T dare aav, l
above half a dozen who have actually j
fought.”
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ANCIENTS THOUGHT
SOULWASANEXACT
IMAGE OF THE BODY
This Is Reason Egyptians
Preserved the Dead so
Carefully, Says Brit
ish Writer
Why the Egyptians devoted so much
care to the preservation of their dead
has interested scientists for centuries,
say: the New York Press. Why they !
wrapped their bodies in hundreds of yards
of spiced and oiled cloths, secreted them
at the bottoms of inaccessible caverns and
provided them with food and the wealth
ot life is related by sir Gaston Maspero.
ol Great Britain, in his most recent
work. “Egyptian Art.'* This is what Sir
Gaston tells ns:
The Egyptians formed a somewhat
coarse idea of the human souk They re
garded it as an exa» t reproduction of the
body of each indivdual. formed of a
substance less dense than flesh and
bones, but susceptible to sight, feeling
and touch.
The double, or to cull it by the name
they gave it, the ka. was subject, though
in u lesser degree than us terrestrial
type, to all the infirmities of our life, it
drank, ate. clothed Itself, anointed itself
with perfumes, came and went in its
tomb, required furniture, a house, ser
vants, an Income.
-'lust Have lomh
A man must lie assured beyond the
lomh or the possession of all the wealth
he l ad enjoyed in the world, under tin
penalty of being condemned to an eter
nity of unspeakable misery. Ills fam
ily s first obligation toward him was to I
provide him with a durable body, and
H ey therefore mummified his mortal ,v-|
ma-his to Hi- best of their ability, buried i
the Miniums at the bottom of a pit where
It could only be reached with the creu'
est difficulty,
Toe body, however, In spite of the care '
mlo-ii m preparing It. only veiv temotelv i
t. called the form of tiie living person. |
It was, besides, tutiiiuc. and easily de-i
stroyed; It could lie broken, methodically
dismembered and the pki-s scattered or
burned. If It disappeared, what would
become of tha double? l-’or its support '
Matties were provided, ri presenting the!
cxWt t form of the individual.
Effigies in wood, limestone, hard stone, |
brot.r.e, were morn solid than Hie mummy j
and there was nothing to prevent any
number ol them desired being manufne
tuitHl. One body was a single ehaliee of
durability for tlie double; ?i) gave it
'bailees. And that is the cXpianu
Hon of the astonishing number of stat
ues sometimes found in one tomb.
riie piety of tiie relatives multiplied Hie
images, and conseuitently the supports,
the imperishable bodies, of Ihe douhles
would, by themselves alone, almost as
sure him Immortality.
hot" In the temples and hypogeums tlu
Matties of private persons were intended
to serve as support to tiie soul. The
consecration they ..|yed animated
Hum. so to speak, anl made them sub
stitutes for the defunct; the offerings des
tined for tiie other world were served to
them.
Tombs of Rich Ornate
I he tomb of a rich man possessed a
veritable chapel, to which a special body
of priests was attached, formed of honks,
or priests of the double At the sacra
mental festivals the priests of the double
pertormed the neoe«u«ar t it—* they looke •
after the upkeep of the edifice and admin
isu red the revenues. The statues of tin
tombs themselves demanded particular
care.
Indeed, the clergy of the temple In
which they were placed claimed their part
Its the benefices received from ancestor
worship; veritable hi t* of donation were
drawn up in their favor, in which were
snccifted the part thev were to ploy in
the ceremonies, the quantity of the offer
ings that fell to their share for the serv
ice rendered, the number of days in the
year consecrated to each «'t;*tue.
The ceremonial Is set out in detail, and
"c are shown how, and under what con
ditions. a dead person was fed in Kgypt.
The rolls, meat and corn were placed in
front of the statue by the priests; thence
they reached the gods, who, after taking
their part, transmitted the rest to the
double.
We now understand that the statues
that do not represent t,u is arc always
and unlqui 1y portraits as exact as the
artists could render hc*u. Kach was a
stone body not an Ideal body In which
• • • ly beaut> of form or expression was
nought, but a real hod' us to which care
should he taken neither to add nor take
away anything.
It the body of flesh ha 1 been ugly, the
bed.' of stone must be ugly in the same
"ay, otherwise the double would not find
the support be needed. Tic* statue from
which tin* head preserved in the Louvre
"as broken off was undoubtedly the
faithful portrait of the Individual whose
prime was engraved on it; if the realism
of the expression is somewhat brutal, it
is the fault of the model, who had not
taken care to bo handsome, and not
that of the sculptor, who would have been
guilty of & sort of impiety if he had al
tered the physiognomy of his model in
the lca>t detail.
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Copenhagen. January l*» An artist ha*
tern found who claims dial In* can ro
tore the frescoes on the famous museum
of Thorvaldsen, and the municipality has
appropriated a sufficient sum tor the
1 work of restoration of a building which
was rapidly becoming a reproach to th«
Danish capital. The tinto.ue collections
of Danish sculpture within the museum
are in splendid condition, but the outsldo
decorations of tin* building, especially the
famous frescoes recording the history of
Thorvaldsen, are in a deplorable state.
Tills is especially true of the fresco paint
ings showing the triumphal entrance of
Thorvaldsen Into Copenhagen on Ills re
turn from Home. For many years many
or lists have endeavored to find soma
means for restoring these frescoes with
out since**, until recently an artist de
vised i plan which promise to be suc
cessful.
The Economist
From the t'itn iniiatl Knuuirer.
"It Isn't bv petty and ridiculous econ
omies that men succeed," said John D.
Rockefeller. Jr, at a dinner in his won
derful skyscraper residence In New York.
Some people seem to think that, to get
rich, one must economise like Blanco.
"Blanco's faithful old dog lm<l turned
sickly and savage, ami so Blanco said to
his wife on arriving homo from business
Saturday evening:
I'll shoot Tovvser tomorrow morning
before church.’
"Blanco paused, then added sternly:
" ‘So remember, please, that he won’t
nc ed an> breakfast
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the beginning may run into a. serious
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Facts Worth Knowing About The 1
Keeley Institute of Alabama
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Where Those Addicted to The Liquor
And Drug Habit Can Be Safely Treated
, And Effectively Cured
°"ly are ,thesTe fac*s worth knowing but they should be investigated and verified. For the great
good that the Keeley Institute is doing could be visited upon you, some member of your family or one of
KiSw rl ne,ndS- We,court th(i c,osest investigation and will be glad of the opportunity to give sub
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dition—the man or woman who uses liquor or drugs to excess is diseased—they have a disease that is
curable—the KEELEY TREATMENT IS THE CURE.
Recognizing that addicts to liquor and drugs violated the laws of nature, I)r. Leslie E Keeley
o\er 30 years ago conceived the idea that the treatment to bo a success must exclude drugs and with’
l.ns reso.ve, discovered a method that conforms with nature and aiwavs results in a satisfactory cure
i - LEAVE NATURE ALONE0”**8 itS<?1ff” ^ liqU°r and dni» ueers W1LL N0T NOR CANNOT
In the Keeley treatment the necessity for artificial stimulation is removed and with the neces
sity goes the desire. After the treatment the patient, does not feel a disgust for the former obiect of
us cravings, the sight of it does not sicken him. He is simply in a condition of such perfect health;
has a mind Jiat sees things in such a clear, logical manner that, the thought of going back to the
misery and despair of his former condition never enters liis mind. He is in a position to resist
temptation*; to discern right from wrong; to follow tlie dictates of his eonsci.. which alwavs
tell us the right way.
i fhs JCKKIjI’A IRKA.I MKN I is harmless! Its after effects are only good ones and the general
hea th ot the patient has been restored. The Keeloy cured victims of'the drug and liquor hahit
md that they have changed for the hotter morally as well as physically and their path in life does
not lead hack 1o the kind of companions whose influences might have liad some weight in bringing
about the condition which caused them to turn to the use of drugs or alcohol.
.. . authorized Keeloy Institutes use the same methods varying them only to meet certain con
ditions made necessary by obstinate or complicated cases.
The Keeley Institute of Alabama is conducted in a wholesome, strictly sanitarv and well regu
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