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TOLD HUSBAND MONEY WOULD BE THROWN AWAY i -- “But Just to Please Him, I Decided to Try Tanlac,” Says Mrs. Torbert "When my husband told me he wanted me to take Tanlac, ] told him that it was no use and that our money would just be thrown away." said Mrs. Minnie ror bert, who resided at 710 Seventeenth street. Ensley "Hut he kept teHing me about what he had heard other neople say about it. and just to please him 1 decided to try it. I had been in very poor health for over two years. atHYo.trg principally from stomach trouble. At times I W’ould have indigestion so bad a lump would seem to form in my stomach after eating and I would suffer for hours. My stomach would till up with gas and I cou’d hardly breathe. I also had head aches a great deal and would get dizzy and have smothering spells. "For more than two years I was in th> condition and during that time 1 got so weak 1 had to almost quit trying to do my own housework. In fact. I was all run down and was so nervous I never enjoyed a good night's sleep. I was a so very bilious at times and even the si oil of food would make me sick. I tried nearly everything trying to get well, but • I just kept going from bad to worse and nothing did me any good. "I am now on my third bottle of Tan lac and feel so much stronger that 1 .vas <*oing my ironing when you knocked on the door. This medicine seems to he the very thing I needed. I now enjoy my meals and I sleep so good I do not c.vn wake up when the bay cries, unless r.y husband shakes me. Jt certainly is a relief to he able to eat and sleep once more like I used to. I fee! just as wvll and strong now as J did before my trouble began arid owe it all to Tanlac. "My husband has also been taking Tan lac and he says he feels just fine. Tan lac is the best medicine we ever had in our house and we are going to keep it there." So many people and there are thousands of them who complain of being nervous and run down. They are not sick exactly, but feel tired out and good for nothing most of the time. They need something to build them up and throw off the symptoms of tins weakened, debilitated condition produced by mental anguish and physical over work. That something has been found. It is Tanlac, the new medicine, that has been accomplishing such wonderful re sults In all cities where it has been in troduced. The system, besides being purified by Tanlac, is toned up and invigorated os the medicine aside from assisting the blood relnvigorates the constlutlon, over coming as it seems to quickly do, nervous ness, indigestion, non-assimilation of the food, headache, backache, kidney trouble, general debility and many other com plaints that are so common to the thou sands of half sick, depressed men and women. Tanlac is sold in Birmingham by Patton Fope Drug Co. and the Jacobs’ drug store, in Bessemer by Pegrain-Patton company and in Ensley by D. W. Morris Drug Co. —Adv. _ CHARLESTON ON EVE OF BECOMING GREAT PORT ONATLANTIC Railroads and Terminals to Make It One of Greatest Coal Markets PEOPLE REALIZE FUTURE PROSPECTS Charleston to Reap Full Share of the Advantages Opening of the Canal is Giving to All Southern Ports By HOI.I.AND New York, September 8.—(Special.) The future of Charleston, S. C., the men of eapitni who invested in the Clinchfleld coal district and the construction of a railroad from that district southerly to Spartanburg, S. O., believe. Is of such brilliant promise that these men of capi tal now feel justified in saying that Charleston is likely to become within a few years one of the greatest of Amer ican seaports. In this view T. Jeffer son Coolidge of Boston, Thomas Fortune Ryan, the Rlalr brothers and Norman R. Ream shared without anv modifica tion. In tlie last six months of Mr. Ream's life—lie died In December of last year—he frequently spoke with enthu siasm of the future of Charleston. His was an Interest stimulated by sentimen tal associations. He took part as a young officer In civil war days in the siege of Charleston and at that time, as he afterward said, he began to ap preciate t he wonderful opportunities which lay in the grasp of that city for becoming a great seaport. When the great awakening to her in dustrial and commercial opportunities be gan in the south, about the year 1880, it was often spoken of by men of Impor tant affairs as a singular fact that Charleston seemed to he sleeping while other southern cities were awakening to their opportunities. In the spring of 1883, the late John Garrett, the great construc tive force of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, visited Charleston, not with busi ness purposes in mind, hut to enjoy the opportunities of Charleston are and he spoke with some regret of the apparent indifference of the citizens to those op portunities. Nevertheless Mr. Garrett seemed to be sure that great Impulses which were stimulating the south at that time would ultimately be felt by Charleston. There seemed to be a time when New port News and Norfolk would command the greater part of the export trade which originated In the south. Prior to the war, when there was no Newport News, Norfolk commanded a large trade, particularly with the West Indies and South America. The construction of the greatest shipbuilding plant of the United States at Newport News and the termi nal facilities there created by the late C. P. Huntington made It possible for that new and artificially established port to take rank with the leading sea ports of the Atlantic coast south of Bal timore. The buildeif-s of the Clinchfleld railroad took heed of the fact that Charleston was the nearest seaport, as the bee flies, from the Clinchfleld district to the coast. In one of his conversations upon the purposes and achievements of those who are associated with the construction of the Clinchfleld railroad, Mr. Ream Bald that they believed it was the highest economy to .secure n straight line, no matter what the original cost of survey or construction might be. from the Clinchfleld coal district to the seaport The range of that straight line had for its terminal Charleston. The railroad it self was to he a new gateway from the Ohio valley to the sen. It is, therefore, outside capital which, having recognized the opportunities Charleston offers for creating a great seaport, undertook to establish one there. In July of this year a report reached this city of the progress In the way of the development of Charleston as a groat port which has already been made. These activities are due entirely to the energy and constructive foresight of those who manage the southern railroads and of those who have created the Caro lina. Clinchfleld and Ohio railroad sys tem. The managers of the southern line, those who were the predecessors of Fair fax Harrison as executive head of the system, especially the late Samuel Silen cer. were persuaded 10 or 15 years ago that It would be not only to the great advantage of tlie Southern railroad sys tem. hut incidentally to the great advan tage of Charleston if adequate terminal facilities were established here. The Southern had in July substantially com pleted its terminal at a cost of about $500,000. Mr. Ream looked upon the per fecting of terminals at Charleston for the Clinchfleld railroad ns sure to be a \er.v important factor In securing the success of the Clinchfleld system. Within u few months, possibly a year, the rail road will have completed a great pier which will offer abundant terminal fa cilities for the Clinrhfield. so abundant as to provide a capacity for handling 4000 tons of coal an hour. No longer will Charleston be numbered among the cities which have neglected their opportunities. Tlie city Is to he an influential factor in the adjustment of the new commer cial relations between the Pacific and tlie Atlantic coast which is made neces sary by tlie completion of the Panama canal. Charleston will he the port upon the Atlantic coast at which the railroads "ill call. How greatly the citizens of Charleston have been stimulated by this new Impulse and how considerably their activities will affect the general prosper ity of tlie United States are illustrated by the fact that a steamship line op erating between Charleston and Norfolk, Va , has been organized. Apparently these two excellent ports upon the At lantic front are to co-operate, neither being a rival of the other, hut each stimulating thp other's business. In the Old days, no railroad made direct en trance to Charleston. Mr. Garrett, in speaking of this fact in 188.3, said that it seemed to him astonishing that the only wav to get Into Charleston was by n shuttle line which connected the city proper with the mahi line, which rail some two or three miles distant. Now a criticism of that kind would be impos sible A subsidiary of the Seaboard Air Bine hns Just made entrance to Charles ton proper. New Orleans hns expended several mil lions in perfecting terminals. Houston, in co-operation with the federal govern ment. has completed a ship canal which will make Houston a true seaport. Mo bile is to be the scene of lirngirtant com mercial development. Including terminal facilities. Upon the Atlantic coast. Charleston and to a lesser extent Wil mington, N. C.. Norfolk and Newport News are to reflect the great commer cial awakening which has been In part estimated by the Panama canal and In part by the realization of the citizens of the south of ultiea are. ABOUT POVERTY AND INFANT MORTALITY Social Service Department fly MRS. SIDNEY M. ULLMAN The Medical Review of Reviews prints the following article relative to the rea son for the enormous death rate amongst infants of the poor. The children’s bu reau of the United States department of labor is responsible for the figures given in the article. ft is a known fact the more completely we investigate, the more certain do€*s it become that fundamentally certain social defects are responsible for the high in fant death rate. Poverty and ignorance are the real basic problems to be solved by municipalities in any attempt to com bat the infant mortality rate. The children’s bureau of the United States department of labor (bureau pub lication No. 11), presents the results of a study of infant mortality in a suburban community. ,The infant mortality rate as outlined in the study was based upon a comparison of a number of babies born alive in Montclair in 1912 with the num ber of these same babies who died before they were d year old. It is obvious that the number of such deaths per 1000 live births gives a more exact infant mor tality rate than the usual statistical meth od employed. j It is noteworthy that the town studied, Montclair, is rated as one of exceptional v/ealth. It is pre-eminently a town of homes, with the discouragement of indus trial enterprises. The mortality rate for the selected group of 1912 babies was 84.G per 1000 live births. In 1913 the general rate dropped to 64. while the estimated infant mortality rate for the birth reg istration krea of the United States for 1910 was 124. One ward of Montclair Is congested, particularly by a negro and Italian pop ulation. Tt is very striking that the in fant mortality rate in this one ward was 130.4. while the highest Infant mortality rate in any of the other four wards was 9.68. Tt is also significant that, while this congested, ignorant, impoverished ward had the highest death rate. It also had the highest birth rate. In 1914 the Infant death rate in this congested section was lewer than the average for the entire town, a result probably ascribable to the educational endeavors of the board of health and the medical and nursing assist ance given through the baby •clinic. Generally speaking, all the sanitary and health problems of the town were cen tered In the one congested and ignorant fourth >vard. Here were housing condi tions the poorest, here was room con gestion the greatest: here were rentals the lowest; here were homes the poorest: here were the fewest bathtubs; here was the grimmest poverty and the greatest ignorance. * ... Obviously, a low Income involves in adequate and undesirable housing accom modations, insufficient nourishment for mother and child, overwork of the mother and a lack ofaptoptr medical and nursing assistance. "The infant mortality rate in Montclair was Approximately two and a balf times as high among families where the Income was less than $12 a week as among families where the income was $23 a week or more.” A comparison of infant deaths among babies of mothers working or non-work ing indicates that a larger proportion of babies of working mothers fail to sur vive their first year. As far as literacy is concerned, the infant mortality among the literate was 76.9, as compared with 10fi.4 for the Illiterate. Among those able to speak English the babies presented a mortality rate of 74.4, while with mothers unable to speak English the rate was 114.3. The milk supply in Montclair lias been of an unusually excellent standard, and the rich and poor have been able to se cure a good, pure milk for the babies. With excellent supervision of the water supply and a splendid system of sewage disposal, the general sanitary condition of the community may be said to be above the average, but the infant mortality rate is dependent primarily upon the social and economic status of the families. The expenditure of municipal funds in suburban communities, as well as in larger municipalities, must be directed primarily along educational lines, In order to achieve the beat results in reducing the infant mortality rate. Merely clean ing up a city is an insufficient attack upon the problem. The greatest reduc tion in infant mortality rate, however, will not become possible until society it self recogmffces its responsibility for the underlying etiological relation of poverty to high infant mortality. Nurses Prime Minister’s Son London. Aug. 1.—(Special.)—Lady Cyn thia Asquith has proved the most de voted and skilted of nurses to her hus band, Lieut. Herbert Asquith, one of the fighting sons of the Prime Minister, who was recently wounded in the terrible fight in the Dardanelles. I.ady Cynthia is. of course, the eldest daughter of the present Earl and Countess of Wemyss, and. therefore, a sister of the Lord Elcho who married that talented and popular daughter of the Duchess of Rutland, Lady Violet Manners. Her husband takes but a mild interest in politics, largely probably, because the Asquiths are not blessed with any too much money and it is necessary for the Prime Minister's sons to make a comfortable pile before they can waste their time over the 111 paid "plums” of political life. The Only Way “What’s Jones' idea in living In the city all summer and going to the country In the, winter?” "He loves peace and quiet, and that's the only way he can get it." HUNTSVILLE A 1300 Reward for MIrrIdk Florist. Tax Commission Inclined to be Rea sonable Huntsville, September 9.—(Special.) Mrs. John Scott, wife of the well known florist and horticulturist, who disap peared from this city Saturday, has of fered a reward of $200 for information as to his present whereabouts. Mrs. Scott does not believe that her husband became demented and wandered ofT but is positive that l|e left the state to escape business troubles that had ac cumulated for several weeks while he was very sick. The fact has been provei that Scott went to Madison in a taxicab to catch a train for Decatur that he could have caught within an hour by waiting in Huntsville. He was later seen in Decatur by two Huntsville citizens who Knew him well. It Is believed that he boarded a northbound train at Deca tur, but he has not been traced further than that town. Scott was overseer at Kildare, the es tate of Miss Mary Virginia McCormick, and besides this, had a thriving business of his own in the city. Fred Fauschenberg, manager of the Armour Packing company’s business and plant in Huntsville, has gone to Atlanta to become manager of the company’s business there. Alex W. McAllister, bead of the selling force In this district, be comes manager here, and Jack Yarb rough of Montgomery succeeds Mr. Mc Allister. Compromises are being made by the state tax commission now sitting here with nearly every property owner who lodges an objection against the increased assessment made by the commission’s agent. The compromises as a rule are liberal to the property owner, and as a result of this policy, there has been a decided change in sentiment toward the work of the commission. Hundreds of raises had been made that were be yond all reason apparently, but very few of them are being sustained to any such extent as was feared. Teachers’ Institute Greenville, September 7.—(Special.) There are 108 teachers in attendance at the Butler county teachers’ institute. Professor Thomas and Miss Gray, who are the instructors at the institute, made lengthy discussions in phonetics during today. County Demonstrator J. E. Helms made an address on “Agriculture in Connection With the Schools.” SPANISH VIEW OF MEXlUin Madrid Paper Thinks Uni ted States Is Trying to Bring Intervention Madrid, August 6— (Correspondence of the Associated Press.)—"Cannot the Mexicans ever now pull themselves up on the brink of the abyss?" asks El Imparcial today in its leading editorial, which is headed "Towards Intervention.” The situation in the distressed republl; is given a very frank review. "As Span iards," El Imparcial says, “the Mexican situation ought to occupy us quite as much as the vast struggle now going on in Europe. The Spanish colony In that republic Is most numerous. Common in terests, friendly ties oblige us to turn our eyes towards Mexico, and yet this attention which undoubtedly thousands of our compatriots, especially In our north ern provinces, are giving to the situation In Mexico, finds no reflex In the official conduct of Spain.” The Spanish journal reviews the calling by the United States government of a conference of Latin-American representa tives to take cognizance of the state of anarchy in the neighboring republic with frank scepticism of its disinterested ness. , "In- its final analysts," continues Hi Imparcial, "all of this in more or less open terms simply means the certain in tervention which the United States has laboriously and cunningly gone about preparing. The policy of ‘the United States has for many years consisted in dividing the forces of the various Mexi can parties and factions so as to render the establishment of any order impos sible. "It Is true, however, that there is not too much reason for insisting upon this shady aspect of the Mexican civil wars For after all, the Mexicans themselves have been In no especial need of inter ested, foreign suggestion to exhaust themselveB in sterile and personal strife “We may admit that In spite of every thing that has happened there, and though Mexican Boil has been wet with good Spanish blood, we should like to see the shame of Intervention avoided in some definite way. If only the Mexicans could realize the danger in which their very Independence stands, if this civil war could cease and the struggle for power in cities and In the country could LovemanJoscphiLod Store closed today Holiday 2 days more annual Apron Sale In Ordering Goods Please Mention THE AGE-HERALD_ give way to a period of peace and : building, the riches of Mexico WQuld quire very few years to rise again the midst of all the ruin." HIS REST WAS BROKEN O. D. Wright, Rosemont, Neb., writ* “For about six months I was bother with shooting and continual pains the region of my kidneys. My rest w broken nearly every night by frequo action of my kidneys. I was advis by my doctor to try Foley Kidney Pi and one 50-cent bottle made a w man of me. I can always recomme Foley Kidney Pills tor I know' they a good.” This splendid remedy foT bac ache, rheumatism, sore muscles a swollen joints contains no habit fori ing drugs. Sold everywhere. ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVURE! Operations on Wholesale Scale at Bergenop-Zoom on Dutch Frontier Amsterdam, September 5.—(Corre spondence of the Associated Press.) Smuggling on a wholesale scale Is pro ceeding at Bergen-op-Zoom. according to a frontier correspondent of the Tele graaf. The traffic between Holland And Belgium in this region has never been so heavy, he declares, although much of the business violates, at* least In spirit, the Dutch laws covering ex ports In time of war. On the two days preceding the filing of the correspon dent’s message only 24,000 kilogrammes of merchandise was allowed o cross the border at Bergen-op-Zoom, but this amount, It is claimed, was abnor mally small. “Of rice alone,” states the correspon dent, ”100 tons were sent last week to Belgium. Flour, bacon and petro leum pass the frontier every day. At »oine hours the road between Bergen op-Zoom and Putte reminds one of a migration—gives indeed the idea of a second exodus from Antwerp, only the stream is in the opposite direction. Carts of every description, bicyclists by hundreds, ami foot passengers, all with bulky parcels as they go towards Belgium, but empty handed as they re turn.” It is explained that persons crossing the frontier are allowed to carry four pounds of rice and four pounds of flour. The peasants earn about 40 cents carrying this quantity from Ber gen-op-Zooiri to Putte. Boy Breaks Water Set; Good Man Saves Him Samaritan Helps Youngster Replace Decorated (ilassware Johnny Orkins was showing his play mates what he termed "the purtiest pitcher even seen,” yesterday, when the hand some tankard slipped out of hit. nands, dropped on the six tumblers rtf the sec the 'ad was taking home and broke them all to pieces. That was a tragedy. Johnny viewed the m dismay end, brave as he t»*ie<4 j the tears had to come. He wus j crying over the ruins when a gent'eman { •tapped up and asked him the trouble. “Me mother's been wanting new glasses •11 winter,” he said, ’and we couldn't •fford to buy none but the cheap lookin' ones. She seen the coupon in the paper ttie other day and we saves etn up and today 1 goes down to the paper office ami Gets a set—pitcher, glasses and all. every pice wid a great big gold O, our own in itial, on each piece. 1 stopped to show them to the kids and breaks 'em. Ma ll be •ick—-she sure did want them glasses.'' "Come on. Sonny; they look like pretty line ware,” said the gentleman. "I'd like to know where I could get some like them.” Together the two came hack to the of fice. The kind gentleman arranged to have a new coupon supplied the lad. paid, for the handling expense htmso'f. merely a matter of 98 cents, and Johnny went home happy. The gentleman was so p'eased with the ware that he expressed a determination to clip coupons for his own family and see that his home was supplied with several extra sets of glasses. Any reader of The Age-Herald can get the set or extra tum blers as .explained in. the display an nouncements cr the coupon appearing daily In another column. j ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVURE! ROTOGRAVURE! | k,: 1 THE WAR GAVE YOU | j ■ THE PURE WHITE MINERAL OIL FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION A YEAR AGO America was getting practically all its mineral oil from German and Belgian re fineries, >Vhere it was manufactured from Rus sian crudes. Then came the war. Importations ceased, and soon Russian mineral oil was unobtainable. But mineral oil had become a vital necessity. Doctors everywhere were prescribing it. Thousands of men and women had found the mineral oil treatment for constipation of inestimable benefit. Recognizing the existence of this widespread de-' mana, the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) now offers in Nujol an American mineral oil equal in every respect to the best grade of Rus sian oil. Nujol is odorless and tasteless, absolutely neu- 1 tral, and is not digested or absorbed into the system. It acts merely as a mechanical lubri cant. Nujol is not a drug. Its use will not give quick, I temporary relief. But Nujol is a genuinfe rem edy in that it relieves constipation in the most natural way by lubricating the lining of the in testines, softening the intestinal contents, and thus promoting healthy and normal bowel activity. Write for “The Rational Treatment of Constipation,** an informative treatise on constipation and the mineral oil treatment. If you cannot get Nujol from your drug gist, we will send you a pint bottle prepaid to any point in the United States on receipt of 75c—money order or stamps. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Bayonne New Jersey id-J