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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
STEVENSON AT SCHOOL
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 A tall boy, very slender. with piercing dark eyes and black hair, surmounted by a Highland tam-o' -shanter, living within himself little known by his fellow stu dents and seemingly without enthusiasm for his college work-that is the way Robert Louis Stevenson. the writer, IS re- r.embered by pr. D. s. Stephens, cnahcei- Tor of the Kansas City (Kan.) university who was a classmate of Stevenson in the University of Edinburgh in 1s6s-W. ip the same class was robust blue- eyed light-haired boy who always was q leader in class work and in the university activities. He was Henry Drummond Inter known to the world as scientist and a writer.
 "Few of us expected much of Steven son ,, pr. Stephens told visitor, ''bu' all the upper ciassmen felt sure Drum mond would be heard from later Tn llie stevenson always wore 2 tam-o-shantei ana he usually had Scotch plaid sasr ocross his breast and around his waist l We didn't feel well enough acquainted
 uitt, him to ask why he clothed himself tbat way. He made us feel always thai
 he preferred to be by himselg. Drummone
 won several prizes in scholarship pu steyepsor,'s name was never in any suci list. Drummond used to argue with th'
 rrofessors, but if Stevenson ever disagreed | with them he kept it to himself.
 l .rhere was one professor In whon
 e,evenson showed particular interest JIe never missed a lecture by pr. Davit Mosson, professor of English literature
 ana rhetoric, and the influence of pr
 Masscn's teaching is discernible in hi
 writings. The professor was persona friend of Thomas Carlyle, whom he TO
 se,nbIed in appearance. His Life of Mil
 ion. and other books are masterpieces O style.
 ..stevenson's style Is of the purest. ant l,t was to style that he was paying mos
 attention at Edinburgh. He used to imi
 tate the style of Shakespeare. and Milton
 and Scott and other great writers. H
 studied each in turn. meantime absorbinl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

From the December Review of Reviews 4 SUMMARY of the tendencies in "A book publishing at any one sea-
 A son of any particular year must necessarily be limited. It does, however, generally reflect certain book-publishing and book-reading tendencies which are | more or less indicative of a permanent trend. It has been the custom of thls
 Review to give in it's December mum
 Der brief international notes about the
 most representative and important serious
 books of the season. In the informa-
 tionai paragraphs that follow there will
 be noted an increasing tendency among the longer established publishing houses | to increase the number of titles of works | of biography and "reminiscences and those devoted to travel and description. One | of the most successful booksellers Of New York recently remarked that the increasing interest in books of biography and memoirs is one of the striking signs of the times in the reading world
 The year just about closing has been ma rlxed by the publication of an unusual
 k large number of noteworthy historical, biographical and descriptive works of the
 nature referred to above. In our Jan
 uary number we had something to say
 about Lieutenant shackleton's book. 'The
 Heart of tho Antarctic" This had been
 brought out some weeks before, but 1t
 reached the public and the reviewers in | the early days of 1910. Then came Dr. Sven Hedin's 'Trans-Himalaya," MT. A.
 Radclyffe Dugmore's Camera Adventures
 in the African Wilds." Commander
 Peary's North Pole" and MT. Roose-
 yelt's African Game Trails" Among the
 notable biographies and volumes and
 memoirs and "reminiscences which ap-
 pcared during the year and were duly
 noted in these pages. were: "The Jour
 pals of Ralph Waldo Emerson," the lives
 of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Edward
 Bulwer the 'Recollections" of George
 Cary Eggleston. and the regular standard
 biographies of Senator Orville H. Platt
 and Dr. Daniel Colt Gilman, the Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney, rev biography of Karl Marx. the Tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
VOLCANO AS A LIGHTHOUSE

From Harper's weekly.
 The best lighthouse on the Pacific coast of Central America is a volcano. It is several miles inland from the port of Acajutla, In the republic of Salvador, and is so active that it serves as a per- petual beacon for vessels in that part of the ocean. The volcano is the prop erty of the government and fine source of revenue. The republic Of Salvador collects lighthouse fees from every vessel that drops anchor at Aca- jutla, just as though 1t had establish ed and maintained the volcano at great expense as a guide to mariners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
Sweet odor. at Christmastide

"The Episcopal churches are never So elaborately decorated for Christmas as al Easter, but the spruce used at this sea son gives out most pleasing odor; and although I am not of the Episcopal com munion rarely fail to drop in one of the Episcopal places of worship during the Christmas-tide, to get a whiff of the spruce, if nothing else," said cosmo- polite.
 T have attended Episcopal services at some of the large churches in New York at Christmas but the odor of the gar lands of green twigs never seemed quite so sweet to me those as in the churches of the south. There is 8 psychological side to grateful odors, as well as poetic. It is all very subtle and cannot be analysed, perhaps; but in church the ef- feet on the faithful of certain fragrant exhalations Is, I think. elevating and altogether spiritual.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Dollars shrink Just as fast as trou- hles swell.
 pompous man seems to be the hap piest mortal on earth.
 The more frightened a bride is to have people know it, the prouder she is if they do.
 The man who gets mad with his wife about a thing wouldn't if it was some other woman.
 man with a temper is always proud of the way he can control 1t, esDe- |cially when he explodes from 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
Policemen Under Civil Service Rules

Chief Bodeker will lay before the legis- lature that meets January 10 bill that would remove the police departments of Alabama's three large cities from control by politics, substituting efficiency from top to bottom for "pull'' and intrigue. George Bodeler submits the bill in the belief that full efficiency at all times can not be secured without it, and he Is deal ing frankly with all concerned, for he prints in full his proposed bill.
 No doubt a police department under civil service rules would be preferable to enc controlled by ward politics, but if the larger cities in the state are to have a commission form of government, a ques- ton may arise as to the need of the change proposed by Chief Bodeker. How ever a police department under code that makes good behavior the test may be useful and preferable under any form of government. The Bodeker bill should, however, be considered in connection with the commission bil and they should be made to fit each other. Mr. Bodeker seems to have foreseen the rule of a commission and he may have made all necessary provision in his civil service bill looking to the great change from the aldermanic system to commission sim nlicitv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
BY WAY OF CONTRAST.

Here's story in this newspaper which says that former Senator Clark of Mon- tana pays taxes of s2O0 day on his $, 000,0oo mansion in New York, which con- tains a pipe organ that cost $3oo,ooo, s2,- oOo,0oo worth of pictures. s5Oo,OOO worth of rugs and gold dishes galore"
 Well, does such magnifcence make you envious?'
 "Yes, to certain extent, but 1t wouldn't if I could only find somebody who would stake me to dish of beans for lunch."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
TREND OF MODERN READING

innate Life' of Alexander Hamilton, a biographical study of John Brown, literary and biographical study of Mo Here, and "A Sailors Log,' by Admiral Bob" Evans. Still another notable bi- ography, which we noticed in these pages. was published in Spain and translated into English, the "reminiscences of Cap tain General Weyler. This month We mention an unusual number of important works of this character. It is indeed an unusual season that sees the. publication of so many and such important books about people as the memoirs of Modjeska or Rosa Bonheur, of Alexander H. Ste phens. or Jane Addams, and of Elihu Vedder, as we'll as the scholarly and en- tertaining written biographies of the late Leopold IT. King of the Belgians; of Cecil Rhodes, of Edmund Clarence sted- man, of Grover Cleveland, of Thomas Edison, of Goldwin Smith, of Fiona Macleod" and of Lewis Carroll" and the "authorized" biography of Count Tolstoi.
 The publication of several notable his- tories was continued during the year These included the third volume of Dr. Jusserand's "Literary History of the Eng fish People," the seventh volume of John B. McMaster's History of the People of the United States.e and several volumes of that monumental work, 'The Docu- mentary History of American Industrial Society" Public announcement was also made of the publication of the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedias Britannica, which was first issued in 176s. Among works of general reference we had sew eral volumes of the "Schaff-Herzog En- cyclopedia'' and the Catholic Encyclo- pedia." and the last volume of Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians" Interpretative historical studies were rep resented by Dr. Van Dykes Spirit or America" and Dr. Andrew D. Whites Seven Great Statesmen Prof. Percival Lowelps study of the Evolution or Worlds" Hudson Maxims Science of Poetry" and the first volume of Prof Hugo de yries' monumental work. "The Mutation Theory marked the progress of scientific research.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
LONG WATT IN STORE

rom the Kansas City Star
 's hoped Judge Baldwin of Connecti- cut, who says he is waiting for Roose- welt to apologize" has supplied himself with something to read.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
THD VALLEY OF VAIN VERSES

By Henry Van Dyke, in Atlantic
 Monthly s.f The grief that Is but feigning, And weeps melodious tears Of delicate complaining From self -indulgent years; is The mirth that is but madness And has no inward ,giadnessas Beneath It's laughter. straining To capture thoughtless ears; The love that Is but passion Of amb er-scented lust;
 The doubt that is but fashion; The faith that has no trust;-- These Tharmyris disperses, In the Valley Of Vain Verses Below the Mount Parnassian, And they crumble Into dust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

Lafe Young's swan song was a poor ending of senatorial career that ought never to have been begun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

No decent mule would consent to be driven down Pennsylvania avenue in its present condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

The peace trustees do not know how to go about 1t to secure peace under any and all circumstances. and they may have to Givide up that fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

A spelling match is proposed between the Harvard students and the Wellesley
 ghls The betting runs heavily against the former.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

Lafe Young in the seat of the lamented Deliver is enough to show the nature of sandpat politics. Lafe will not, how ever, stay long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

MT. Carnegie has given away $179, ,O0O 0G0, and still he fears he will not die poor. Won't some one help him in this season of giving?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

Andrew Carnegie desires to die poor and in peace. He finds the one as diff cult to corner as the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

Winona, Minn., shows a loss in popu. laCion. It got on the wrong side of the tariff question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

Among 91,973,266 Americans, many goo6 volunteers could be enlisted in an emer. gency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

John R. Mclean does not want an Ohio toga and James Smith, Jr., should not be permitted to have New Jersey toga
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

Mayor Gaynor says the people have an easy remedy against cold cars. They can walk, as he himself does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

every word of Dr. Masson's lectures. And the same was true of Dr. John Watson, known as Ian MacLaren, and Barrie Low, the Scotch novelist, both of whom were students at Edinburgh about that time. And Masson's influence is to be seen in their writing as well as in those of Stevenson"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

The dove of peace needs no altitude rec ord. It prefers to get in touch with war like folks down below
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
About Persons

Robert c. Brickell, attorney general eject. is registered at the Morris hotel from Huntsville.
 w. s. Andrews, general superintendent of transportation for the Queen and Cres- cent route, was in Birmingham yester- day.
 R. G. Riley, president of the Planters Oil company, which company recently completed a s1Oo,oo0 plant here, was in the city yesterday. He resides in Ma con, Ga. John W. Wood and E. W. Mihm of the Queen and Crescent route, of Meridian, were in Birmingham yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
The Iron Market

From now until the middle of Jan- uary the pig iron trade will be at it's dulest. No activity is ever looked for during the holidays and if there Is any considerable buying movement in the early part of January 1t will come as an agreeable surprise. There is a very hopeful feeling, however. that there will be decided improvement in the market before spring. Rogers, Brown & Co.'S Cincinnati report just to hand says:
 The usual quietness in pig iron a t the holiday time has been held respon- sible for many things. Just now it is making itself felt to great de- gree. To the holiday time and what goes with 1t may be attributed a large per cent of salesmen's regret o-report' messages and consequent dullness in .ke market. There are lighter. spots Of better business here and there but | locally the market is reflecting the t:me~of year.
 "Pig iron production for the month of December will be the lowest for this year. A number of furnaces have | blown out recently; there are more tc follow, and 1t is figured the tonnage for the month will be more than 100,- 0o0 tons less than in November.
 Prices are without change and they are as low as they can consistently go and now furnaces which have beer holding on have decided to blow out rather than continue a losing con. test.
 ''One or two of the larger manii- featuring interests continue to buy smai
 lots when special analysis material is needed, but not enough to make any current interest. Operations in the various coke districts are reduced le the lowest level of the year, due rt general conditions and especially Ioca labor influences which are always vital. | ly affected during the holiday season
 This large let-up in labor operation
 of the coke fields Is not unusual, bu
 Is more pronounced now. coming a. it does on top of the dull weeks be fore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

The noiseIess soup spoon calls for a noiseless soup mouth.
  Investigation committees naturally be- come whitewashers. Washington looks very much as it did on inauguration day.
  No songs are sung about the old broken bucketshop. Lorimer and Ballinger are the White wash Twins. War scares are misfits in the Christmas sea son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Information of Policemen

q was very much surprised to read tn other morning of the inability of som' visitor to learn from various traffic DO licemen the location of the Birmingham High school" said Traffic Officer R. . Carroll yesterday, whose station is al Twentieth street and First avenue.
 q am positive that the visitor was mis- taken when he said that l was asked For if he asked any policeman at all il was I, as he designated my corner. was on duty all of the day when the wis itor was supposed to have taken his amusing pilgrimage, and had he passed my corner I would have been accosted. And if any inquiry had been directed to me about the Birmingham High school, of which all of Birmingham is pardonaoiy proud, I would have supplied the ques- tioner with correct instructions. am sure that am no better informed than the other members of the traffic squad, anyone of whom I am sure could have given information as to the High school The policemen are sometimes taken ad- vantage of by irritated persons who ma no greater pleasure than in the pump ing of officers. We are at least human and should not be charged with gross lS- norance when as q matter of fact we possess average intelligence but are pos sessed of no chance to display 1t.
 q nm free to confess that there are many institutions in great big Birmlng- ham of which am not well informed, but I affirm that I know the smallest oe- tall about the High school and eouio have given dependable instruction as 10 the way to reach that place.
 Now that the subject of informed po- lceman has been started l would With all modesty suggest that 1t would be well to have compiled small booklet giV- ing information of the multitude or buildings, streets, avenues and institu- tions in Greater Birmingham that might be overlooked or forgotten by policemen in the rush of remembering the many things about our city. have no sugges- ton to make in detail, but 1t would De well to have such a booklet or general information as 1t would prove valuable and would free the under-rated police- man of many embarrassing moments, and also of unjust censure from many esti- mable persons who are attracted to our city and seek information of policemen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
Angeles Express.
INFATUATED.

The star who does "salome.'''
 Miss Garden, we're told, Is now SO used to scanty dress, She never catches cold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

STILL LAMMING LAURA. While we've never been guilty Of reading her books, Is Laura Jean Libbey AS young as she looks?
 Birmingham Age-Herald. While we are conducting This search after facts, Is Laura Jean Libbey As young as she acts?
 Youngstown Telegram. And here Is another i The bardlet indites: Is Laura Jean Libbey As wise as she writes? B Nashville Tennessean. Here's one other question By which we are harried: Is Laura Jean Libbey Yet single or married?
 Los Angeles Express. Now all those bardlets Are to this but feeders; On the opposite page -A You'll see she's got the readers.
 St. Louis Times. We looked over there And saw Laura Jean; She's seven, we'll swear, And maybe sixteen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

The holiday recess is the bigges achievement of Congress this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

If the Senate washes Lorimer clean who, pray, will wash the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
NOME GuIITY

"I wouldn't bleach my hair"
 Exclaimed sweet Gladys Maud; And every bleached blonde there Proceeded to applaud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 According to reports from Mexican sources a revolution has as much chance of success in Mexico as Chihuahua pup has of growing hair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

The democrats consider MT. Taft ari excellent judge-maker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
SIGNS OF THE TIMES

From the Chicago Tribune.
 In Mattoon: Meals. 35 cents; lunches 20 cents."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
THE REFINEp BURGLARS.

THE REFINED BURGLAR. 'I dearly like to burgle,'
 Remarked Porch Climber Dan, Because the work is very still And I'm quiet man. "I hate all interruptions,
 The pedal soft for me; And when I'm all alone, alone I'm happy as can be. Now, as for robbing others
 Of-sleep they sorely need, Or making any racket that
 A restless ear might heed, I'd never, never do 1t,
 The simple truth to state, Because I'm such thoughtful chap And so considerate. I've often fondled babies
 Who woke up in a fright; To see me rock cradle, bo, Would fill you with delight T never harm a lady
 When one wakes up, bow And backing through a window, say, Madame, leave you now T never track the carpets, Or scatter lingerie; l always do conduct myself
 With great gentility. And while I'm just burglar, AS certain records show, take my stand for culture and Hate anything that's low"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
"CHALKn REEsoN.

"CHALK'' BEESON.
 ''At Dodge City a few years ago, at the time of the great southwest reunion, Charles w. Fairbanks, then Vice Pres ident of the United States, was the prin cipal orator. He, Senator Long, Judge Madison, and Chalk Beeson were being driven in an open-faced hack down the street toward the reunion grounds. There was a long procession and multitude of enthusiastic onlookers. man on the sidewalk who had been excitedly await ing the advent, yelled out: Hey, Chalk! is that the vice? Yep, replied Beeson, that's him.'-Ralph Faxon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

TIMES HAVE CHANGED. s'He must be a literary person." 'Why so?"
 His hair is long and unkempt his linen soiled and his clothes ragged" My dear sir, that fellow Is merely a tramp That was a. literary person who whirled by us just now in a s7o0o limou- sine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, m excellent thihs HI ~-or,.u king Lear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
.JIJSTIFIED

"A North Dakota editor shot two men because he suspected them of having stolen some whisky from his office dur ing his absence"
 I'm not at all surprised. The winters are very severe in North Dakota"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
Talks of the West

"I have spent a good part of this year in the far west and while there is much to interest and attract people out in that section, I prefer Alabama as a state in which to live, and l would rather live in Birmingham than any other city in the country" said Jerry Jerallie, a well known citizen and com mercial statesmen. who represents a local safe company.
 San Francisco has been splendidly rebuilt and Los Angeles is great tourist city, but dollar will go twice as far in Birmingham as it will any where out west.
 If I were asked to name the city residence if had to change my home I would say Denver. That is fine city in every way and nearly every body there seems to thrive. After Dem yer the place I liked best was Kan sas City, Mo. That is a wide awake, progressive city and it is growing fast. I was in Kansas City in the fall when the campaign for statewide prohibi- ton in Missouri was at its hottest. The merchants and bankers felt almost to a man that prohibition would simply par alyze as large a commercial center as Kansas City and they worked like beavers against the statewide proposi- tion. And what was true of the situa- tion in that city was also true of St. Louis.
 Tt seems that in all cities that have tried it prohibition has proved a farce. And the larger the city, the greater the illicit traffic. St. Louis would have suffered an irreparable commercial loss by prohibition and temperance would have made no net gain. I was sure the fanetical agitators who tried to write prohibition in the organic law of Mis- souri would be defeated, but the enor- nous majority of over 100000 against the amendment was a surprise"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

In St. Louis "W. T.. Mccullough, dealer. in artificial limbs. Mccullough has good legs Step in and see them."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

In Platte Canon. Col: Private grounds. You must not shoot or pick the flowers without permission"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
OR A BALDHEADED MAN

Near Clybourn Junction: "Schmeltz & Oeder, general market."t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

In Philadelphia: We are the largest slightly used dealers of automobiles in the city" Ai
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23

On a State street optical shop: "Bro- ken lenses duplicated"