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[_AN EXAMPLE OF THE SIMPLE LIFE
K> MHS. .1. H. HF-lll
She spun (he thread, wove the Roods and made the dress
a matter of submitting to circumstances
as the continued interest In living inter
ested to the extent of taking hold of some
one thing and making it worth w hile. We
have a ver> varied correspondence from
over this state, and often letters from
other states, and especially are we grat
ified with the enthusiasm of many old
women.
About a year ago a letter came from an
CONVULSIONS AND
BRIGHT'S DISEASE
An established recovery in chroific !
ferlght’s disease with albumen, dropsy, j
retinitis and convulsions should interest j
physicians
G. \Y. Kirkpatrick of the Globe Milling I
Company 148 Laguna St.. San Francisco,
was in bed believed to bo at the point of
death for nearly nine weeks. Dr. Proc
tor told his wif** he was liable to die at
any moment. There was dropsy and tin?
eye symptom and he had reached i he con
vulsion stage. In making one of the tests,
after boiling Dr. Proctor dropped the
tube. On picking it up he found the sam
ple had not run out. It had solid fled,
showing almost solid albumen. The doc
tor administered Fulton’s Renal Com
pound. This was in Ilk in. Patient’s ap
pearance at our office well and hearty
in 1813 Is answer as to the results and
their permanence.
The ability of Fulton s Renal Compound
to reduce albumen in many cases of
Bright's disease is not a matter of opin
ion, but a FACT IX PHYSTCH, and wo
will mail formula for albumen test that
will show th** percentage of albumen from
week to week. As tic albumen declines
^improvement commonly follows, rccover
Hies having been report' d in thousands of
Wttaees. Formula and literature mailed on
request. John J. Fulton <San Fran
cisco. Norton’s drug store is local agent.
Ask for pliarnphlet.
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Music
ct
I 111 1_ I
dS Record!?
If you thank you have
danced to the best dance
music that your talking
machine can produce, call
in and let us play for you
some of the new dance
records we have just re
I calved. Or we wfll send
you a descriptive circular
from which you can choose
I the records you desire.
Nmr tango records mails
in the Argentine, the home
of the Tango. New One-Step*
and Turkey-Trots—die kind
of music that hits you feet
first. New Hesitation Waltzes
that just carry you around.
And all of thaSe records made
under thesuperrisionof Mr. G.
Hepburn Wilson, the world’s
greatest authority on modern
dancing.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
All Columbia Record, may ba
played on 'Victor talking machine,.
Likmwite, all Columbia Grafonolas
will play Victor record*.
I Columbia Graphophone Co.
h 1818 Third Avenue Birmingham, Ala. I
I ml site said: ”[ hope to have a dress
it the fair, tailor made, with my own
lands; not only that, but 1 planted the
seeds and picked the cotton with which
o furnish the cotton warp. I carded and
jpun all the threads and dyed them, both
wool and cotton, buying the wool right
»ff the sheep's back, spun the thread and
wove the doth.” Wo were disappointed
lot to have had the dress on exhibit, but
nstead we met Mrs. M. M. Gassaway of
Albertville, Marshall county, and she told
is at once. “I am the woman who made
hut dress. I Intended having it here,
•ut our county is holding a fair now and
L felt a duty to show it at home, so l
lust ran down here to see your other
work, as 1 expect to make a good exhibit
In 1914.”
She -talked with the happiest interest In
“verything and everybody. She allowed
lotliing to escape her, and we were so
imtji-’ssecl with her quaint, old-time style
hmi| her vigor that we wanted her pic
tnr**. She gave us one, “but, wait, don't
show it until I gel that dress on."
A few days ago the picture came with
.'i sample of material, and I am introduc
ing t<» you this, morplng a character of
remarkable type—one who, if she had
been given the opportunity of an educa
tion. would have founded more than one
bouse in Alabama. She W’ould have been
n leader among women. As it is, she has
made the best of every opportunity and
her example is worthy of recognition from
every source.
She Is very modest in talking of what
her life's work has been. She has “simply
tried to do her duty as best she could."
Rut this did not satisfy us. We wanted
to know something more of this plucky
woman from the mountains of Alabama,
and we met a friend who gave the inter
esting story of her life.
She is 63 years old. She married young
and was left alone in the world in mid
dle life, with a home in the town of
J Albertville. At the age of 50 her house
burned, and with this .she lost overy
| thing she possessed. A great sufferer
from rheumatism she came to this city
1 and entered a local hospital. As she grew’
j better she sought work and-secured a
j position as housekeeper with Mrs. A. O.
;<{Ondcloek. At first she received the re
j numeration of $5 a month, but then she
could only sit in the home a no have a
general supervision of things while Mrs.
Uondelock was busy with office duties,
as she grew stronger she became more
useful and her earning capacity increased
- -her salary became $10 and t hen $14 a
month. She held this position three years,
never spending her Income. Resides her
salary she made extra money with nee
dlework. She then returned too her native
county and bought about two acres near
Albertville and purchased lumber, en
gaged carpenters. While they did the nail
ing. she sawed the pieces to fit. She
ceiled one room entirely herself and did
all of her papering on the walls. When
the house was finished she made herself
comfortable, began her patch and gar
den: raised her chickens: planted an or
chard and flowers, and began to live at
borne. Though comfortable, her heart
yearned for the old home place that had
been rebuilt with a a three-room cottage,
though with only 50 feet front of ground.
She succeeded In selling her country
home at a profit and bought her "hobby"
back and now she is comfortably domi
ciled under the "vine and tig tree" she
loves best.
8he is too busy with her home indus
tries to think of anything but content
ment and her duties. She lives alone,
and cares for the premises herself; plants
a regular “crop" on her enclosure; pre
serves and cans quantities of fruits from
.her orchard and garden. Her chickens
'constitute her live stock industry. And
the hours of twilight are spent with her
varied handiwork accomplishments. She
makes a specialty or rag rugs, and taKes
a great pride in her own design—In one
she 1ms recently woven a hunting dog,
with bright colors she has dyed for the
purpose. A woman of w'onderful re
sources and varied experience, who has
The house she lives in
learned the true meaning of “home, sweet
home. And sometimes as she sits and
rocks in her split-bottomed rocker sh«
loves to tell of experiences out west.
When the lands of Oklahoma first were
opened she became a western homestead
settler. When she found the spot that
appealed to her, she dismounted fron
the stage of newcomers, and wrapper
her blanket around her for a night’i
lodging, with mother earth for her pil
low, and the covering of the western
sky until she could build her shack. With
her undaunted nerve, she lived in th*
wilds until she could get her titles cleat
to this bit of promised fortune—and with
them she returned to her native state, tc
await future development.
i In her home now she has two nieces
who attend the high school of her town,
and they must certainly imbibe some «>f
her spirit of independence and happi
ness in her simple life.
After all life is to to; just what we
make of it. The changing scenes come
to us to man us for the next, and on
down till the end of time. Upon our
nerve and purpose dej»end our greatest
success, which does not always come in
dollars and cents, and/ really after all
the greatest wealth comes with the con
sciousness of doing one’s best.
The simple life brings more of the real
good times, that spare the body, strength
en the mind ard saves the soul.
Mrs. (lassoway knows i»r* Other way. She
traces only the fruits of her daily labor;
aiie loves her home; she Is happy in it.
and as Mrs. Gondeloch says, “she is the
most contented, biggest hearted woman
I ever knew. She is the most economical
; woman., and every dollar she spends
counts for something in her life. She is
unselfish—self-sacrificing, and she is hu
man."
Tn that Tittle cotiage on the fertile soil
of Alabama she has planted a home,
and has reaped a harvest of good fel
lowship among her people. She is grow
ing old In years, hut she is young at
heart. She never tangoed, or turkey trot
led, but she is the specimen of the coun
try girl who Jumped the rope and could
saddle and bridle her own horse, and she
has ripened into useful old age. There Is
r-o waiting to die; there is hoping for con
tinued years for this good old woman.
She speaks for herself in a recent let
ter. “T w.ll have a. booth at the fair,
and already have a heap 01 'junk' for it."
“The industrous man Is light hearted;
the man who works is the happy man. '
CITIZENS EXPRESS
VARIOUS OPINIONS
ON SPRINKLING TAX
(Conllniieil from Page Five)
ham out there, we had an ordinance by
which we compelled the street ear com
pany to sprinkle First avenue, on which
U operates, from one end to the other.
They did so, and It kept down the dust.
! Now we have two street car lines there,
one running out First avenue and the
other out Second avenue, and the peoeple
| living in YVoodlawn believe that the city
| should compel both of them to sprinkle
the streets just as the old town of YVood
lawn did. I’m not criticizing the present
city administration, understand, but mere
ly giving an idea how the people feel
about it.
“First and Second avenues are about the
only streets where there is any great
amount of traffic, and therefore have se
rious dust problems. If the street car
companies were compelled to sprinkle
these two streets there would be no need
of any further sprinkling. That's why 1
think the people would object to paying
a sprinkling tax. If there were other
streets that needed it, and did not have
street car lines, they might be willing
to pay the tax.
“There Is no question in my mind but
what the law enables the city to force
the street car companies to sprinkle the
entire streets over which they operate. I
huve not looked the matter up, but I am
satisfied that is the case.
“If the sprinkling tax is to be imposed,
of course I think the tenent of the prop
erty should pay it, not the owner, unless
he himself lives there.”
G. I). Leonard
O. D. Leonard, who lives on First ave
nue, East Lake, is not in favor of the
idea at all. “There are too many taxes
already,” he says. “I do not believe the
people in this neighborhood would submit
to h sprinlking tux. The city should
sprinkle the streets, and if it Is not able
to do it I think we should just go without.
All of these conveniences are mighty nice,
but when we’re poor sometimes we have
to g<» without them. If many such taxes
are imposed on the citizens they'll soon be
like the city—they'll be broke.”
COTTON GOODS
MARKET REVIEW
New York. March 7.—Cotton goods mar
kets are generally quiet, with prices held
fairly steady. The storms have inher
it red grea tly with communic ation to mill
centers In the southern section and with
transportation in all directions, it still
is noted that .heavy coarse Roods and
very line plain corniced yarn cottons are
in alight demand, and prices offered are
not remunerative. Mills are exercising
closer scrutiny over stocks and shutting
down looms not working on orders. Print
cloths rule steady and staple printed
Roods are firmer, with a tendency noted
to shorten discounts. Staple ginghams
are moviuR regularly. There is a fair
demand for the lower-priced dress Rin
Rhatns, but fine domestic giiiRhains are
very quiet. Brown drills and sheetings
are quiet with dullness reported on some
constructions. Bleached cottons hold fair
ly steady. The demand for line and
fancy cottons is less than usual, due. It
is believed, to the disturbed weather con
ditions and the Interference with retail
distribution. Kxpoft trade Is light, so
far us no worriers are concerned, but
shipments continue quite full. Jobbers
are doing as large a tmde as they expect
at this season and report a continued
desire on the part of the buyers to limit
their orders to small lots and to order
frequently. Prices on cotton goods are
as tollcws: Print cloths. 28-inch, MxM’s.
394 cents: 38 Inch, litxGt's, cents:
brown sheetings, southern standards, 8
rents: tlckiiiRs. eight-ounce, cents:
staple print, 5*4 cents; staple ginghams,
cents: dress ginghams, 9*. cents.
PARA WAY SENTENCED
TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Elkton, M<1.. March 7.—J.lames Paraway,
the 16-year-old negro youth who confessed
that he killed James R. Coleman, a Kent
county fanner, last December, was con
victed of first degree murder today and
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Faraway's attorneys tried to prove that
the boy is mentally deficient. During the
course of the testimony it developed that
Para way's mother traded him to a farmer
for a pig when he was a small boy.
Norman Mabel, who yesterday was
found guilty of murder hi the second de
gree. yas given IS years in prison*. Rob
bery was the motive for the crime.
The two negroes narrowly escaped
lynching following their arrest ami were
taken to Baltimore for safe keeping.
So much dissatisfaction was expressed
oVfcr the verdict that the sheriff, fearing
trouble tonight, placed the prisoners
al oard the first train for Baltimore and
lodged them In the penitentiary two hours
later.
COMERANDHOBSON
AT TROY SATURDAY
Troy. March 7.—(Special.)—B. B. Co
mer. candidate for governor, and ('apt.
R. P. Hobson, candidate for the Unit
ed States Senate, spoke here today at
the courthouse. Mr. Comer spoke from
10 o’clock to 11:30 and Captain Hobson
spoke from 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m.
The courthouse was crowded. There
wasn't standing room. Oapatin Hobson
later went fo Banks and Pronto and
will return to Troy and deliver a speech
nn temperance tonight at the city
■chool auditorium.
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TEA WILL BE ONLY
STIMULANT OF THE
SHACKLETON PARTY
Antarctic Explorers Will be
Total Abstainers Tem
porarily at Least
SIR ERNEST BUSY
ARRANGING DETAILS
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Will Avoid Two Old Routes to South
Pole and Open Entirely New
Field—Two Steamers Will
Support the Expedition
London, March 7.—Total abstinence
from alcoholic stimulants will be strictly
observed during Sir Ernest Shackleton’s
trip across the south polar continent. He
and his men propose to wrork long hours,
including eight hours marching every day, 1
but for stimulant they will rely on j
nothing stronger than ten or cocoa. The i
tea will be taken at midday to refreshen
the men for afternoon march, and the
cocoa the last thing at night to preserve
the body heat during the hours of sleep.
Sugar will figure largely In the rations.
On his last expedition Sir Ernest and his
companions took two of three lumps of
sugar every two or throe nours, and he
says 10 minutes after eating they could
feel the heat going through their bodies.
The men thus far chosen for the expe
dition are between .TO ar.d 41 years of age.
Shackleton, w'ho is 39, believes thfit men
are at their best between 26 and 40. A
man, he says, does ndx reach his full
strength until he Is 26, and whatever may
be the superiority of youth in the way of
spring, nerve and enthusiasm, those do
not weight against the staying power of
an older man or the balanced judgment
of one who has experience behind him.
Hours Arranged Differently
The working day arranged for the
transcontinental party calls for an hour
of preparation after waking, then a four
hours march and hour's rest, and another
four-hour march. Sleep time, which in
previous trips has been observed between
6 p. m. and 6 a. m.t will be cul* to eight
hours.
Sir Ernest is busy arranging for details
of the expedition, which is regarded as
the biggest undertaking ever undertaken
in polar exploration, since the distance
to traverse from Weddell sea to
Ross sea is 1700 miles. At first
Shackleton proposed to return from the
south pole • of Ross sea by one of three
routes, that taken by Scott In his 111
fated expedition, or by Amundsen in his
successful one, or a new one known as
the western route, crossing the great
range of the Victoria chain of mountains.
It has since been decided that unless
conditions prevent, the expedition will
avoid the two old routes and come out
cither through the Victoria range or by
a route to the eastward of. Amundsen’s
track. If this can be done the expedition
will open entirely new ground.
This greatly increases the difficulties
and dangers of the journey for the party
will not have the advantage of a chain
of food depots which proved such a ma
terial aid to their predecessors. They
will, however, be helped by the resources
of science to a degree never dreampt of
by lormer explorers. The expedition will
be assisted by a wireless installation
which will keep it in touch with its base
for most, of the time and will besidefs
have aeroplane sledges.
Will Have Two Steamers
Two steamers will support the expedi
tion A Norwegian steamer, for which
negotiations have been opened, will take
Sir Ernest and his party to the Weddell |
sea. whil the Aurora, which has seen
much Antarctic service will go to the ;
Mess sea to pick them up when they have j
accomplished their journey.
The first steamer will leave Buenos '
Aires sometime in Octolter and push to
the anarctic, reaching if possible 78 de
vices south latitude, where a good land
ing place was found by the German ex
pedition. If the Ice conditions are fa
vorable, winter quarters will he estab
lished, depots laid out and the start made
tiie following season.
In the meantime the Aurora will have
started from New Zealand t<* land a
party In the Ross sea to meet the trans
continental party. Sir Ernest believes
that the trip can be accomplished in five
months, but should the obstacles he in
surmountable he will have the base in
Weddell sea to fall bark upon. The first
part of the trip, that from Weddell sea
to the pole, is giving the explorer most
serious thought. The distance is about
miles and through an entirely un
explored region. The party have no data
—-- . —
Mrs. Christine Fredericks at a recent
hearing before the House Judiciary Com
mittee at 'Washington, brought <»ut some
very interesting points about the word
"Bargain."
She said that when reputable merchants
found it expedient to dispose of goods at
reduced prices at periods when the seasons
were changing, or when unusual fade
conditions make it advisable to clear the
shelves, then bargains may be found "that
are bargains." However, she said, the
:ht assurance that the goods are being
• old at» :* bargain is the reputation of the
house behind the sale. Tn bri*tf. her con
clusion was that the wax to get bargains is
~ to trust trustworthy houses."
In emphasizing the character of the in
stitution from which g«*>ds are purchased.
Mrs. Fredericks touched, upon a vital truth
in merchandising. Few people can become
»*\ rt buyer?,' or expert judges of goods. *
l isousands ot men cannot tell a piece of
shoddy from h piece of wool when the
uods ere new.
Mercantile institutions whbse reputa
tion is founded upon fair dealing: and from
which goods can l>e purchased even by the
most ignorant, with the assurance that
there is a dollar's worth of value in every
dollar s worth of goods purchased, are
among the greatest assets of any com
munity.
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A \ EN of Birmingham have learned
aVI to trust M. Weil & Bro. be
cause whatever they bought here, i
whether in season or out, whether
at regular or reduced prices—has,
without exception, proven satis
factory. .
THE quality of the clothing we
sell (all tailored by Hart
Schaffner & Marx) has probably
done more to maintain our repu
tatiQn than anything else.
WE suggest that you now take
advantage of the “real bar
gains” we offer in H. S. & M. winter s
suits and overcoats—25% to 40%
reductions on a stock sufficiently
large and varied to give you ex
actly what you want. These suits
and overcoats will come in mighty 1
handy next winter, if not right now. /
M. WEIL & BRO.
1915-17 First Avenue s
The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes (
P. S.—Don’t think of buying a new spring
suit until you see these exquisite garments
we’ve just opened up.
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whatever to go upon, but believe that
the dogs, which proved such a blessing
to Amundsen, and sledges fitted with
aeroplane propellers, all obstacles will be
overcome.
Neither of the steamers will winter in
the antarctic. The Aurora, after landing
the supporting party in Ross sea. will
return to New' Zealand, going back later
to bring the w hole party home. The other
steamer will return to South America al
ter landing Sir Ernest Bhackleton and his
friends, going back in the following year
to pick up the YYTeddell sea party, for be
sides those who are to make the long
trip, some will be left at the base to
carry out scientific investigations. Both
ships will burn oil and will be fitted out
with tanks so that any specimens taken
may be brought home alive.
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EAT LESS MEAT AND TAKE SALTS ;
IF KIDNEYS OF nR BACK HURTS .
Says Bladder Irritation or
Rheumatism Means Kid
neys Aren’t Straining:
Out Uric Acid
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Meat forms uiic acid which excites
and overworks the kidneys in their ef
forts to filter it from the systaem. Res:
ular eaters of meat must flush the kid
neys occasionally. You must relieve
them like you relieve your bowels; re
moving all the acids, waste and poison,
rise you feel a dull misery in the kid
ney region, sharp plans in the back
or sick headache, dizziness, your ston»
aeli sours, tongue is coated and when
the weather is bad you have .rheumatic
twinges. 'Pile urine is cloudy, fuil of
the channels often get trri
: sing you to get up two ir
. during the night.
lize these irritating acids
,r the body’s urinous waste
r ounces of .lad Salts from l
; take a tablespoonful in ^
• er before breakfast for a
your kidneys then act
. '■! .r disorders disappear,
alts is made from the aefd
lemon juice, combined
las been used for gen
ind stimulate sluggish
» bladder irritation
ensive; harmless ar.d #
' effervescent lithia t
millions of men arVl /
<d then, thus avoid- t
and . . lder dis- |
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—in the strong, growing^ & M Bank has t
knowledge and assurance that his money is abs* >
lutely safe. This assurance, so valuable to yoi
costs you nothing. Besides this you receive th*
very best treatment it is possible for a bank to
-1-“I1 give, and you are paid a r
4% Paid On most liberal interest on I ^
All Savings your savings — 4 per
Interest compounded 4 cent, compounded every Protect
times a year. three months. °?ller.
Open until 8 o’clock Sat- We solicit . ac.
urdavs for savings de- *, piooi 4 aiui
posit's count, no matter how rr0m$:;.per
L__—small. * ■ —
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