BURGER’S BURGER’S BURGER’S It’s the Goods! The Goods! The New And Better Goods That Makes this Store the Greateet Retail Establishment in the City New DeLuxe Spring Footwear Styles! This season’s footery excells all efforts of the world’s most skilled footwear artists, that gives to the foot chic styles, symmetrical lines of grace and individuality. This will be a season of two tone footwear in striking and harmonizing colors. We are now ready to show you all the newest 1915 creations—fawn, battleship gray, natural buck, sand, black cloth and ooze calf inlays and quarters with patent and dull vamp, short tongues ,small ornaments' shorter vamps and receding pointed toes. Louis XV heels. Combinations of these will be the season’s most stylish and popular footwear. Special Values for Monday $5 Values $4.45 Just four styles—patent vamp with fawn, battleship gray and black cloth inlay, dull calf vamp and foxing with brocade inlay, short tongue and new Louis XV heels. These four styles are among the most popular effects in vogue for 1915. Burger’s footwear insures satisfaction. Modestly priced at $3.50 to $0. With competent, courteous shoe fitters to serve you. A visit from you will prove most pleasing. (Shoe Department, 1st Floor) JNew Spring Showing Laces & Embroideries Luckily we were favored to receive all of our importation orders from foreign manufac turers. Many handsome match sets of two and three widths each, 18 inches to 45 inches, so much in demand now for the latest fashioned creations, where many fluffy frills are required to complete both bodice and skirt. Some of the highest grade novelties for afternoon, reception and evening gowns, combinations of pastel color ings in many beautiful designs on net chiffon, georgette crepe and transparent organdy foun dations. We invite you to come and let us treat you to this showing of the most beautiful selection we have ever offered to our many appreciative customers. Batiste and Swiss Flouncings Soft and sheer; many new styles in large hand loom scal loped edges with dainty floral designs done to bring them into the newest effects for spring dresses. Very adaptable for misses’ and children’s uses; worth from 50c to 65c a yard. Monday special.35c Point de Paris Laces—Assort ed widths of edges and one width insertion to edch pattern. Many effective designs. These Lac^s are very durable and de sirable for many uses of both outer and undergarments, soft and filmy; worth 15c to 25c yard. Monday.12V&C Tor chon Laces An assortment of widths from % to 3 inches wide. Many match sets. Plenty of edges, both torchon and cluny pat terns; worth 15c to 20c.10c For Spring Cleaning Vacuum and Carpet Sweepers, Wizard Mops and Liquid Veneer Bissell’s stand a r d Carpet Sweeper; $2.50 kind _$1.75 Duntley’s Pneumatic Vacuum Cleaners; $8.00 values . . .$5.95 Wizard Mops $1.50 Mop and $1 wortli of oil for .$1.50 $1.00 Mop and 50c wortli of oil for .$1.00 Liquid Veneer 25c Liquid Veneer.15c 50c Liquid Veneer.39c (3d Floor) Silks! Silks! Wonderful New Spring Silks M a February Sale Delightful and precious things, at prices low, low! LOW! All now, all fine and of first import ance in spring fashion. The prices go from 50c to $0 a yard, and they average less than half their actual value. You will find the new- colors and plenty of fine black silks, on account of the emphatic part they will play in the new' fashions. A few specials for tomorrow : Pre-Mere Chiffon Taffeta Full 36 inches wide, a beautiful soft finish and high lustre, all the new spring shades to choose from, absolute ly pure dyed taffeta j»d will not split or crack from wear. Fashion has pro claimed Taffeta the most popular fab ric for spring wear. Pre-Mere represents the highest grade at the popular price of $1.49 yard. 40-Inch Silk Poplin In new spring shades; sand, putty and Ftelglnn blue, for early spring wear there is none so beautiful as these soft silks, and to make them more at tractive we are selling them at 95c yard. $1 Messailne Monday 85c Yard The best dollar Messailne made; we offer Monday our entire line of stand ard $1 Messaline, 36 lndhes wide, made* from very high grade silk. All new spring Bhades. Plenty of black and white, at 85c yard. (Silks, 1st Floor) Specials In The Store—‘3rd Floor House Dresses Made of gingham or percale, light and dark shades. Many pretty new styles, low or high neck, full line of sizes; $1.25 and $1.50 values.$1.00 Ladies’ Muslin Gowns Medium and low neck, some are neatly trimmed, others very elaborate; are slightly mussed; $1.25 and $1-50 val ues .75c ! OFFICIAL PROGRAMME FOR TEMPERANCE DAY IIN ALABAMA MARCH 5 State Superintendent of Education Wil- | Ham F. Feagln has designated Friday. March 5, ns temperance day this year ' and has adopted as the officiai programme, the temperance day programme arrange*! by Mrs. Chappell Cory and Mrs. F. M.j Jackson, state superintendents of seten-; tilic temperance Instruction. These ladies are asking many papers in the state to I print*this programme as they will be ofi great assistance to the teachers through out the state. The Age-Herald herewith reproduces the programme In full: Official programme temperance clay for Alabama teachers: T^aw of Alabama requiring temperasiee instruction in public schools: “Every teacher shall give instructions as to the nature of alcoholic drinks, tobacco and other narcotics, and the effect upon the human system and such subject shall be! taueht as regularly as any other in the | public schools.'' "If you ask me why r went any of the: bad roads myself, I will answer you. very trulv, that it was for want of a good guide; ill example invited me one way. j and n good guide was wanting to show me a better."—Chesterfield’s Betters. Arranged from temperance literature by superintendents of scientific temperance instruction. Mrs. Chappell Cory, Roebuck' Springs. Birmingham; Mrs. F. M. Jack son, ££00 Pine avenue, Birmingham. PROCBAMATIOX. Tn keeping with the snlrtt and purpose of an act entitled, “To Educate the Chil dren of Alabama on the Evil of Intem perance." section 6 of which reads as fol lows: l “That there shall be one day in each! scholastic term of the public schools set apart to be known as temperance day, i when a suitable programme shall he pre pared to the end that the children of Alabama may be taught the evils of in-, temperance.” T have designated Friday. 'March 5.1915,1 as temperance day for the current schol astic year. Tn further compliance with the above. I hereby adopt this as the official programme for the regular ob servance of the day. WILBTAM F. FEAGTN. Superintendent of Education. PROGRAMME. “GOP SAVE THE STATE" (Tune, “America.”! God Mess our native land: Firm may she ever stand Through storm and night: When the wild tempests rave Ruler of wind and wave. Do thou our country save. By Thy great might. For her our prayers shall ri*e, To God above the skies; On Him we wait: Though who art ever nigh. Guarding with watchful eye. To Thee aloud we cry, God save our state. RESPONSIVE READING. Leader—Intelligent people now agree that intoxicating drink is the foe of human happiness. Great men and women have spoken against strong drink and taught valuable lessons. What did Mar tin Lot her. father of the Reformation, say of the beer industry? School—“Whoever first brewed beer pre pared a pest for Germany. T have prayed lo God that He would destroy the whole brewing industry. All Germany could live on the barley that is spoiled and turned into a curse by brewing.” Leader— Name thre narcotics about | which we have studied. School—Alcohol, tobacco and opium. Leader—What is the danger in using them? School—Those who take a little want more, and the habit is formed which en slaves and destroys every part of man’s nature. Leader—What is the effect of these nar cotis on character? School—They deaden conscience, destroy the love for that which is good and pure, the knowledge of right and the power to do right. Leader—How does alcohol affect the blood? School—Alcohol has such a thirst for water that if takep in any quantity it sucks the water from the disks and makes them shrink up and harden so that they cannot act. Tt often ecrowds them lip together and so clogs the tiny passages where the blood ought to flow. Jt is a blood poison. Leader—How does Alcohol affect the heart? School—Tt sometimes quickens the ac tion of the heart a short time, %ut this Is always followed by a depression in which less work than usual is done. Tt paralyzes the nerves which control the heart action. Leader—What injury does alcohol inflict on the brain? School—(1) It weakens the blood ves sels, so they often burst. (2T Tt impairs the substance of the brain. Leader— How much alcohol must be taken to produce these effects? School—The daily drinking of alcohol in what Is called “moderation" will produce them all. MY OWN COUNTRY. (Tunc, "Old Black Joe."! Home land of love—Columbia rich and free; Love land of homes, far famed for, purity; Rich land of peace and great prosperity;! Home land of love, blest from above; 1 My own country. Fields, harvest-wed, enrlcliede with gold en grain. Hills, cattle-spread, enrift with carbon vein, Streams, water-fed, refreshed by Heav en’s rain, Home land of love, blest from above; „ My own country. Father of youth, sent out the world to bless, Leader, forsooth, in paths of happiness, Guardian of truth, a friend to righteous ness. Home land of love, blest from above; My own country. O, Land whose fame will through the ages stand: O, Land whose aim is service hand-to hand; O, Land whose name is known from strand to strand: Home land of love, blest from above; My own country. Refrain: Columbia! Columbia! the land so dear to me. My heart is thine, as thou art mine; My own country. LESSON IN FINANCE. Leader—What did Gladstone say is the duty of government? School—A government should so legis late as to make It- easy to do right and difficult to do wrong. Leader—Do you know* how much money is invested in the business of alcohol in the United States? School—In the year 1906 there fere $416, 000,000 invested. Including money from foreign capitalists. Leader—What is the United States an nual drink bill? School—Our annual drink bill is about $1,500.000,000—out of all proportion—larger than our bill for clothing, food and edu cational work. Leader—Is It.true that this revenue is needed to run the government? School—It Is not true. More money Is paid out each year to take care of the criminals and paupers that are made by strong drink than the revenue received. Uncle Sam is fast finding this out. Leader—What does King Alcohol cost the city of Washington per year? School—It costs per year $854,000 more than It receives from the licensed sale! of alcohol. This shows that the city is running behind its finances on alcohol at the rate of more than three-quarters of a million dollars each year. Leader—What did Cardinal Manning, the great English churchman, cay of Eng land’s drink bill? School—“It is a great demon, sowing broadcast and what springs In its furrows? Deaths, mortality in every kind, disease of every form, crime of every dye, mad ness of every intensity, misery beyond the imagination to conceive.” Leader—When the Titanic sank In mid ocean 1600 lives perished—how many are carried off in one day by alcohol? School—Alcohol carries down to prema ture graves every day more than 200i> American souls. • Leader—If the capital now invested in 1 alcohol were put to useful channels, what would it accomplish? School—It would employ more than s million and a half additional men—and wage earners—and largely solve the prob lem of the unemployed. This tremendous | increase in the demand for labor would cause a general rise in wages. LeadeY —What do we know of the cost of the tobacco habit? School—It costs time, strength, health, character, life and sometimes costs a man his soul. It is interesting to study why and how. Leader—What is scientific management of modern industry in every branch rap idly coining to demand? School—Total abstinence. Recltations.to select at will, for low er and higiier grades; Primary classes: "The first little drop of strong drink that fs taken Ts the first step to ruin, we children all know; If the first little drop be 1n earnest forsaken. We shall never be drunkards—Oh, never. Oh, no'. Lower grade classes: Taste not the wine, 'tw ill only bring! sorrow, Por shame and dishonor, quickly will follow Those who love drink. Response: Girls—Is it manly to drink? Boys—Oh no! For it leads ere you think, unto ruin's wide bring, It neither is manly to smoko, drink or swear: Of habits like these it is best to be ware. NEVER MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE DRINK ✓ You’ll need jour wit about you, boys. On life’s great battle plain; You’ll need a sure* ami steady arm, A clear and active brain; For if you falter in your aim There's always this to dread: If you should fail to hit the mark. You may get hit instead. So never make friends with the drink, my boys. All that’s worth having in life it de stroys ; Death lurks behind Its alluring .ioys So never make friends with the drink my boys. —Selected. THE TEMPERANCE BOY. - 1 am a little temperance boy. Good friends, do you doubt it? Only listen and I’ll soon Tell you all about it. These are little temperance feet, So you’ll never find them Walking to a beer saloon. Bragging me behind them. These are little temperance hands, Poison never psissos; But with water pure and eobl, TW will fill your glasses. I Amlrthese lips shall never taste, Brand.', beer or whisky, Sooner would 1 see them all, In the Bay of Biscay. And these eyes shall never k* >k, Where the^red wine glistens; God forbids it in His book. To tlie child that listens. So. my friends, I think this truth, You will soon discover- - That T am a Temperance Boy, Temperance all over. AN APPEAL FOR THE BOYS. By V. K. Burnett. A question in importance overshad owing all others faces us today. It is this; What is to bo the character of our citizenship in the new century we are so soon to be entered? However great our interest in politics, in tar iff, or silver, or labor, we realize* there Is still a greater question—on.- which, indeed, is the end of all polities and government—the child. Building character is the ^roat work of our puhlic schools. We want to place on this broad domain a peo ple “who shall know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.’’ The putting into tin* generations that shall follow us the character that can be trusted anywhere is the thing to be aimed at. We want our boys to be # “Truly equipped for life's mystic bat tle, Helmet fastened and sword in bund.” We must fight the great battles of | the world through the children. The j secret which decides the fate of any battle is found in the preparation which goes before. It is true of battles for reform. The eye of this generation should be: fixed upon the young. There is an army marching forward, in which every man may be a hero, made strong In mighty conflict. Put your ear to the ground and you may hear them, “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching.” Whether they march to victory over self, victory over fo'*s without as well as foes within, depends upon the hab its they are forming duiing childhood and youth. Within recent years an insidious vice has sprung up all over our land, and our brightest boys are falling victims to its prey. * This vice is the narcotic habit in all its forms, and especially in its worst form—the cigarette. The evil has grown" to such mighty proportions that rtato legislatures and school boards have listened to the appeals of the crave land of white ribbon women and nave given legislation and secured the en- ' foreement of the laws In many places. Parents, will you aid in the educa tional work? Will you aid in the en forcement of law? I ask you to look in the faces of so many of our boys who have formed this habit and see how' the better nature is being crushed out by this vice, and know' that no boy is safe so long as our laws are violated with impunity. Your boy may be tempted and may fall. Just as good boys have fallen. Place the barriers | of enforced law about them. The man who would wrong your son by selling this poisonous drug to him deserves greater punishment than he who robs you of your property; yet you are raising no voice, lifting no hand to protect them. Why? Partly because you do not know the dangerous nature of the “deadly cigarette.” A committee of United States senators appointed to investigate the nature of cigarettes, when legislation against their sale was pending, brought in a report that they are all injurious to youth, and Con gress passed the law' that the women petitioned for. A petition for this law was signed by the teachers and minis ters of the District of Columbia, and £57 physiicans. The president of Ada, O., school, where are over 2000 young people fit ting themselves for teachers, says: “Several boys from here died last year from use of cigarettes.” Two boys wero sent to the Insane asylum from Hiram college from their uses in one year. The school boards of New York, San ! -- . . — - ■ - Francisco, St. Louis. and many small er cities, arc pushing vigorous cam paigns against the hahit. Why should not all schools take bold of this work? Why spend money ho freely and per mit conditions that make it of none j avail ? Now, friends, .to you all we appeal. I and to the school children themselves Can you see this destruction of our young manhood going on a I oround > ou and lift no warning voice to save? I hi lan til ropy and patriotism alik urge you by example, 'and couiihcI all your powers as citizens to Have our boys from this great foe. Save them from tobacco, and you can Have them from alcohol. We appeal to you in the name , of all you love and hold dear, to h**lp us wrest this nation from the nico tine habit. “MY SON!” Yes, sir, I know; and your words arc kind, an* i tell you, sir, I’ve tried To think we can find the things we've lost, when we get to the other wide. , I’d give all I’ve got. sir, to know ’twas, true, but I can’t, I .lust can't see How some of those lost, those dear lost things ’ll ever come beck to me. I shall see her there; I know she stands right close to the pearly gate. Waintin’; and soon I, too, ’ll be there; she won’t have long to wait, But when she asks for the boy—our boy—at she left when she went away— Asks all those questions a mother will —Oh. wliat am i going to say? Well, as I know he’s been dead this many and many a year. Do you think I'd dare to ask up there, “What! haven’t you seen him here?” God gives men power for good or ill that ain’t for this world alone; They can lift a soul to the gates up there in the light of the great white tin one, Or sink it low as they sunk m> boy — such beautiful eyes he had Brown like his mother's—you’d never have thought such eyes could have turned out so bad. An' he wern’t bad either, but true and good, but—perhaps you know the rest—• There was only one for to bring him up. and I tried to do my best: But the world, *an' the flesh, an thf drink are strong an* some men’s hearts are stone. An’ 1 tell you it seemed sometimes as If I was fightin' ’em all alone. For them as ’ll lift their fello.vinen there's waitin' a starry crown. But honor and power and wealth Is got by them a* ‘11 pull V.n down. Most men they -hope for the crown sometime, hut they want it the shortest way, An’ they do their best an* their hard est work for a dlfforent sort o’ pay So, the world spins on at its rattlin’ gait as hard as ever she can, An’ it don’t much matter that boys are lost If they b’long to some oth er man. One night—^lead drunk—they brought him home—my boy—an’ I Ini 1 him there, The blood of a street fight on Ills face, an’ the gutter mud in his hair He never knew me nor spoke again, drunk an’ asleep he died. An* I prayed 'at his mother *d never know’ how we laid him by her side. Yes, the golden streets an* the Jasper walls—l'v© read of ’em all—but then Do you believe, sir, that over there 1 shall find my boy aguin? Fong, "Temperance Bella,” by chorus choir. (Used in connection with tl^e exer else, “Temperance Chimes," ns indi cated. ) Tune, “fling the Bells of Heaven.' —Gospel Ilyin ns. Temperance Bells are ringing, Hinging out today With a hopeful message to the . grid: 8atan's hosts are fleeing: All along the way—• ; See hi* banners 'neath our feet at* hu rled. Chorus—tuning triangle for bells;. Chime on, chime, ye Temp’rance 1 ells, chime on! Chime on, chime, ye Temp’rance "ells, chime on! Tell the world the story Ring the note of cheer. Victory is coming—Lo! ’Tie near Temp’rance Bells are ringing, Ringing out today From the pages of the blessed Book; Hear the woe and warning, Heed what God doth say— "Dare not thou upon the wine to look.'* Chorus. Temp*ranee Bella are ringing, Hinging out today With the truths of Science, loud and clear; Listen to the teaching, Listen now, l pray. "Alcohol—a poison all should fear.’* Chorus. Temperance bells are ringing, Hinging out today While the youth are training for the fight; Boys and girls are learning — H outlniied on Page Thin; > Loveman, Joseph & Loeb Lovemcin, Joseph & Loeh Now Dame-Fashion Demands a Corseted Figure Before pit returning your nrw hat gel n nrn Swlteh or bang. Spr elal tomorrou. 7.50 pr Qtt 4 00 9 QC Snllehf* 70 Mwltehea ^»eO (Beauty Parlor, Main Floor) Women can no longer permit them selves to drop into the habit of an uncor seted figure. Nor will fashion permit it. To make sure that women would again adopt a widespread use of the corseted figure, fashion demands lines which are impossible without corsets, especially the curved waist! Corsets are well boned this season to give the new lines—you can’t be fashion able or expect your new gowns to fit well without them. New Gossard Models 2.50 to 12.50. Nemo Models 3.00 to 5.00. New Loveman, Joseph & Loeb Specials 1.00 to 3.50. LaCharmante Corsets 5.00 to 15.00. An interesting corset economy is an nounced in our Buyers’ and Managers’ Sale on page 12 ''d 1 First Payment—5 Cents—Brings You the Best Sewing Machine The Standard Rotary This groat “New Era” Sale gives you advantages that cannot he offered at any other time. There are no interest charges and no extra expense—no drawing-Hio chance—no delay. Instead the Plan pays cash dividends in advance to those who will help themselves to the dividends . Only 50 Standard Machines for This Sale. Don’t Wait AVe have the agency for the STANDARD ROTARY. It is one of tin' best Sewing Machines in the world. This “New Era” Selling Plan is copyrighted and all rights reserved. It cannot he advertised by any other store here. TABLE OF WEEKLY PAYMENTS *0.05 *0.55 *1.05 *1.55 j 1st Work 11 tii Werk 21st Work 31st Week .M> .00 1.10 I .HO 2nd Work 12th Week 22»ul Week 32nd Week .15 .05 1.15 1.65 3rd Week 13th Week 23rd Week 33rd Week .20 .70 1.20 1.70 4th Week 14th Week 24th Week 34th Week .25 .75 1.25 1.75 5th Week 15th Week 26th Werk 35th Week .30 .NO 1.30 1.90 6Hi Week 16th Week 26th Week 36th Week .35 .N5 1.35 | .nr 7th Week 17th Week 27th Week 37th Week < .40 .no 1.40 1.110 Mil Week 1 S t 1) Week L'S||i Week 38tll W oek ttth 'Wffli_inm'w ...■!< lHUh'uVrk I''l"a^Pa.yinent .rat 1.00 1.50 I-05 10th Week 20th Week 30th Week 39th Week A $65.00 (LIST PRICE) Six-drawer style tlie* world’s best machine, lock and chain stitch—central needle style— STANDARD ROTARY $39.00 A f, . F I r a t payment — Immediate deliv ery then every week you pay 5 cents more than the previous week's payment. Cash Dividend t Take advantage of the cash dividend offer by reversing the payments by paying the final payments first, and iu advance before they are due. For each final payment you take up in ad vance you get 10 cent casli div idends. In this way you can save 3.80 extra on this 39.00 Standard Rotary iu cash dividends Unlimited Choice Take your choice of any st\lo or type on “New Km” terms. There are several styles to select from. Every Machine Complete With the Best Greist Attachments Come at S o’clock tomorrow morning. This is tin* surest, safest ami most profitable saving agreement for securing a good machine. We urge you to nci quickly—bring your five ' cents first payment to the department. The machines will be delivered at once. Sewing lessons free. <3d Floor)