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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

From the Rochester Herald.
 The lighting song of the American college collection is the famous "Boola- Boola' of Yale university. No matter what else is sung, the "Boola-B -Boola' is Yale's hallmark Not once but thou sand times have the sons of Eli rolled il out when defeat was staring it's best teams in the face, and thousand times have the warriors taken fresh heart and rolled back the opponent. Only last fall when Yale went against Princeton and any bookie in the country would have laid the odds far against the New Haven eleven. the famous song was sent across the gridiron and when the whistle blew the snake dance went writhing across and around the field with the note of entreaty taken out of the song and the victory note in its place. At every concert by the glee, mandolin and ban jo clubs, "Boola- -Boola" Is the center .
 And this war song of the Blues was written by a Hawaiian. When all the American universities were in the mak- ing, Yale was among the first to well come the men from Honolulu. In the last 40 or 50 years there has never been a time when the islands of the Pacific have not sent a contingent across to New Haven. Some of the men have been sons of Americans on the islands, some have been natives. Now there is a large Hawaii club at Yale, and it is regarded as a signal honor to be invited to it's smokers, for the visitors are clever men and good fellows. In early days, when there were few songs, one of the Ameri can students heard the Hawaiian singing to himself refrain that had a sorority that appealed to the Yankee. He asked for the words, and then said: Why don't you make that into collegessong? What do the words mean?'
 victory said the Hawaion; just vic- tory"
 We could use that song here fre- quently," laughed the American, and be- tween the two the song was made up, with tropical words and the rolling re- frain that has since become the most widely known college song on the conti- nent. Yale men do not claim great musi- cal beauty for it, nor any literary ele- gance-it is just their fighting song, that's all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
FRENCH GIRL yS. AMERICAN GIRL Edwina Stanton Babcock in the January

Atlantic.
 A young French girl enters the thea with her father She, takes her seat directly in front of the privileged Amer ican girls finishing their education abroad. Her untouched flower-like face is alight with anticipated pleasure, with a soft vividness of intelligence that could never be cursed with the word "brainy." Her hair is bound with It. tie old-fashioned snood and tiny buckle, a strangely simple evening dress covers the exquisite ardor of her slender body. Quickly four faces, the faces of the over indulged, the -precocious, the over athletic, the over-dressed, turn to study her. There is something to learn in this little French maid, whose eyes never meet a mans, who is never al- lowed to walk alone on the street, whose unconscious grace envelopes her like a veil who is sheltered like a delicate bird, yet trained to the utmost energy, reserve. accomplishment and usefulness. Have the privileged eyes to see? Will they compare her with themselves? Will they learn?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
"G. B., STILL KNOCKING

Bernard Shaw ('When the Book Was New.")
 If the people who delight in the TO- mances of MT. Stanley Weyman and the detective stories of MT. Conan Doyle be. lcnged to the same social stratum as those who formerly read Les Trois Mousquetaires'' and ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue," I should conslude that we were in a period of precpitous ~degen- eration. I was brought up, romantically speaking on D'Artagnan and Bussy p'Ambroise; and I cannot say that find Gil de Berault in any way up to their standard; whilst the descent from that ingenious automaton, Detective Dupin, to such prince of duffers and dulards as Sherlock Holmes is one which, after couple of attempts. I have given up as impossible. I therefore ap- proach Under the Red Robe" full of prejudice against 1t.
 I thought it puerile to the uttermost pubushable extreme of jejuniority. It is not without a painful effort that I can bring myself to confess even now that when I was IA sons of the romances wove for myself may have presented me in the character of a dark-souled villain with a gorgeous female passion ately denouncing my as "Spy.' Trait cr!. "villain.' and then remorsefully worshippng me for some act of trans cendent magnanimity on my part. But when I was IA boys had to keep these audacous imaginings to themselves on pain of intolerable ridicule.
 Since then the new public has been manufactured, under the education act; and nowadays there is fortune for the literary boy of IA, or even the literary adult who can remember vividly what a fool he was at that age.
 I do not know how old MT. Stanley weyman is, but can certify most posi- lively that his Gil de Berault and Renee de Cocheforet are nothing but the dark souled villain-hero and the gorgeous fe- male aforesaid, and that the old situa- tion between them has accumulated nothing round it but few commonplace duels and adventures, with very feeble composite photograph of the Richelieus of Dumas and Lytton and a bold annex ation of the Lyttonian incident of the cardinals pretending to send the hero to execution whilst really sending him to the arms of his lady love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
SHILLALAH
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
 The s,..Aalah, which showed at Louth that 1t had not entirely lost its old im- portance as a factor in deciding elec- tions, is no raw limb of tree. It is all most as much a work of art as well balanced cricket bat. The old shillalahs were as carefully looked after by their loving owners as is rifle in the wilds. Cut from the sturdiest of young black thorns. and showing as little taper as an ebony ruler, it was weighted with lead or iron at the end nearest the grip so that it's center of gravity was about four-ffths of the way from the hitting end. When properly seasoned by being kept in the neighborhood of the farm oven for few months, it became a thing of supple steel. And the proper pronuiciation of the nave of this fear some weapon Is the melodious one ol ''shill-alily,' with the accent on the "all."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
S0UTH'S ANNUAL YIELD

From the Manufacturers Record. $2,690. .OO0, 900 from its factories. $2,6O0, 100000 from it's farms. $40, GOO from it's forests. $2S0, 100000 from It's mines. $1,000. 100000 of cotton with seed. $73O, 600 of grain.
 s20O, 100000 of live stock. % 175.000,0O0 of dairy products. $17O, 900 of poultry products. $15O,OO0O GOO of fruit and vegetables. $9 .0O0, ,000 of tobacco.
 $50,000.00O of sugar products. $62s. 100000 of exports.
 24.000, 100000 feet of lumber. 1,250, 100000 pounds of cotton goods. 1,104. .000y 900 bushels of cereals. 10O.000.6O0 tons of coal. 25,ooo.ooO barrels of petroleum. 100000 tons of coke.
 6,400,O00 tons of iron ore. S,200,000 tons of pig iron. 2,395.O0O tons of phosphate rock. s5O,O0O tons of sulphur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
REDUCING WEIGHT
From the Newark News.

From the NeWark News.
 This special dietary was arranged by the medical officer of the workhouse at Keighley, Yorkshire, to reduce the weight of two very heavy men. For breakfast porridge, skim milk, stewed fruit, and watercress in season; dinner, bread, lean meat or fish, and vegetables; i; supper, bread, tea, stewed fruit, water cress and lettuce.
 No more than 20 ounces of solid food was allowed on week days and 22 ounces on Sunday. The patients, between 60 and 70 years of age, strictly adhered to the diet prescribed, and between May and Christmas, 1909, their weights fell from 25G to 1s2 poundls and 24S to 1Ss pounds.
 Their health and bodily condition have so improved that they are able to walk about, leaving the chairs to which they had been confined for years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
HOW CoLORED FIRES ARE MADE Icron, Ha rnarss Weeklv

FTOm f1dTpeTS w cchiy.
 For the production of red, green. yell low and blue fires. one-fifth part of the composition Is shellac. As this is a con- stant quantity it is apparent that the shellac has nothing to do with determ- ming the color. It holds the other ele- ments in desired form, and regulates the rate of combustion.
 Another fifth part of these several compounds is the chlorate of potassium. This is used for the detonating effect. Of itself, 1t would give white light. and would burn with intense energy It imparts 'go" to the rocket.
 The remaining <hree- -fifths are what give color to the flame For producing red fire, nitrate of strontium is used i; for green. nitrate of barium; for yellow, nitrate of sodium, and for blue, ammo nia sulphate of copper.
 Violet and purple flames are compos- ite. To produce the violet. lime and copper and sulphur are burned together. For purple, strontium and calomel are burned with just little copper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

bill No. 1, and its course and the votes taken upon it will be watched with in- terest It will be seen who stand ready to take from county fee every time a jail door is opened. Let us see what the fee brigades strength in the present legislature really is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
| LOVE- YOU

LOVE YOU E. B. in the Louisville Courier-J Journal. A Christmas under Spanish skies!
 A day of languor, love and dreams, That all my soul beatifes
 With sweetest ecstacy's extremes! What magic charms have conjured up Such fantasies of deep delight? I drain a Spanish Circe's cup.
 And thrill to read in eyes of night. T love you. and I love but you,
 I love your hair. your eyes. your
 mouth: I love you as the flower its aew.
 love as lotus loves the Southw A villa in a verdant vale, <. Blue peaks somnolent in the sun. "A bower of blooms, afar a sail, < The white waves breaking one by
 one. lounge at ease with cigaretre,
 My lady's face is very near, And oft these words. I'll ne'er forget, Are breathed with passion in my ear: i: 'I love you as the stars love night, I burn with life but in your arms. I love you as the sun its light.
 You are my world and all its charms.s The music of mandolin
 Blows faintly from distant tower A melody that softens sin.
 And sanctifies its bridal bower, Beyond 8 white bird scars and dips, And wheels above the kissed
 sea -4.t follow not, but list to lips That whisper love alone to me: 'A love you as the night its pail; I love you as the North its frostS You are my hope, my soul. my all; Without you all my life were lost" Oh, happt day in Sunny Spain!
 Oh, 4.-ivPful hours so swiftly spenti Alas, winch shall know again
 Such lu1ury of sweet cYptent? and swee Ner than the lotus blooms, And swe.I er than the jksamine's
 brea U E1i- f1 Far sweete0 of the rSouth's perfumes My lady'fylips thai, wnispereth: .I love you b the bloom it's blush; love you| [, the sky it's b1ue I love you the dawn its flush;
 love yqu md love but you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
TRADE IN GAMBLING TOOLS

than either of the others These goods have an advantage over loaded work for this reason: They do not favor your op- ponent when shaken on the square. Ifl you have never used this work you.should| not be without it fo< single day Wo, also manufacture shaped or ouffed| transparent dice that will go for square goods 99 times out Of 100. Our latest and one of our most clever productions in the transparent line Is our adhesive dice. They are about the same strength as shaped work, but have this, advantage they size up perfectly all around. Wise ones will stand for them just the same as the novice We guarantee every dice sold by us to be perfect in every respect. All this work is made by practical dice men. who, upon receipt of your letter, know exactly what you wish to have the dice do. No guesswork about filling your order. All our dice are guaranteed to stand any. rough usage you may wish to subject them to. No mercury or cheap amalgams used in their construc- tion."
 Varieties of loaded dice, listed according to numbers, are then described.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
RErLEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Imagination conceives great works lack of 1t carries them out.
 Aft-r God created the world men be- gan the work of recreating 1t.
 Women ought to have the right to vote so they wouldn't want to do 1t.
 You can convince even yourself that your own lie isn't by telling 1t often enoagh.
 Even if a man knows better than to quarrel with his relatives he doesn't know better than to let them quarrel yith bim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
Paying Taxes Promptly

,"I am delighted with the manner in which the property owners are paying their taxes this year." said City Attorney Romaine Boyd yesterday. Practically all the threatened suits have vanished, and everyone has come to realize that the tax levy under the new code was legal and right.
 'It saved the city about $10o.O0O. but does not oppress any individual, and will enable the city to get through the year . great deal easier. Taxes up to this time. have been com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
A ROUGH TRIP. Beware of the fiagon, Good fellows and chumps The old water wagon
JUNGLE WATTS" BOOK.

O1NSlLE w ALI Q DOOhs
 The prose poems of Walt Mason of Em- poria, known to newspaper readers all over the country as Uncle Walt" have recently been published in very attrac- tive volume, issued from the Caslon presses of Chicago for George Matthew Adams, MT. Mason's publisher. The dec orations were done by Will Bradley, the illustrations, unique in conception, were done by William Stevens and there is fine frontispiece by John T. McCutcheon. the noted cartoonist. Last but not least, and first in the order of arrangement, there is an excellent picture of Uncle Walt, whose rugged features bespeak immediate attention. The book contains practically all of MT. Masons best work in that vein which he has made char
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
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acteristic and the contents are guaran teed to drive away the worst, case o "blues' on record.N The fame and popu larity of Walt Mason .aregJustlys deServe' and book of his quaint phfi9soph, has been eagerly awaited.%s9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE,.

A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE.
 The gybgoggle is one of the rarest ana most curious animals in existence ana can only be found in one section Australia and in Madagascar. It is sort of vampire, a cross between a kan garoo and an immense bat, although unlike either of these animals in many characteristics. It stands three fee high. has a head and hoofs like horse with short, heavy hair covering it's body, and immense wings which mea sure twelve feet from tip to tip. It car swim and fly with the greatest ease.
 Clinton Democrat, Lock Haven, Pa.
 At the risk of being thought impertil nent, we advise the editor of the Clinton Democrat to sign the pledge at once, i'll he has not already done so. It would bd foolish to think that a change of brand would help him now. When a man has reached the point where he is obsessed by gybgoggles it is time for him to re1 form Pink elephants are as household pets compared to gybgoggles. II
 "OLD BILI1' IN LOS ANGELES
 B. P. Walker of the Osborne Farmef went to Los Angeles not long ago and the Los Angeles Times sent a reporter toI hunt him up and ask him about ''BnI Shiftless.'
 "Mr. Walker allowed a reporter to in-l terview MT Shiftless," says the Times "Old Bill was somewhat reluctant to talk.l having just gone against a couple of small| sausages in a Seventh street parlor. Los Angeles said MT. Shiftless, is a peculiar I on 441A asked a dozen men where certain build ing was located. Finally I found one who lived here. He told me the place I was looking for was right behind us. In my town our most distinguished look ing citizen is the Presbyterian minister. In Los Angeles the most dignified look ing man is the doorman at a hotel at Fifth and Spring streets. Talk about street railway systems, continued MT. Shiftless. this system in Los Angeles has, them all beaten block. Most of them have sign in front which says, 'Take| the next car" You can't make a mis- take on such a system. I was at Cata- lima the other day and a man told me where I could get swell fish dinner for thirty-five cents. I went in. It was a fish dinner all right, but I had to play the fish. I stopped at big hotel here in Los Angeles and tried out the service there. I wrote postcard to myself and got 1t in ten minutes. The clerk apolo- gized and said I should have received it fifteen minutes before.' '"
 FAMILIAR.
 'I presume you were much impressed by the Orient, MT. Hotfoot7'
 Well, not as much as I expected had already seen most of 1t in musical comedies PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
Notes of the Legislature


 William B. Bankhead, son of United States Senator J. H. Bankhead, was in Birmingham yesterday en route to his home in. Jasper after spending sew eral days in Montgomery. He said the opening of the legislature and the election of the presiding officers pre- cipitated the liveliest scenes ever fea- turing an Alabama legislature.
 'The fight for speaker between Judge Almon and Lee Long was very warm and spirited" said MT. Bankhead, "and for the whole time up to the calling of the roll no one could tell who would be chosen. When the deciding vote was cast for Judge Almon the house and galleries went wild, while Lee Long made one of the most graceful speeches ever heard, submitting the entire vote to Judge Almon.
 "The race for president of the sem ate was not quite so spirited. Senator Frazier retired in favor of Hugh Nor row of Jefferson and the best of com ments were made upon his action. Sen- ator Morrow enters upon his duties as well equipped as any man that ever occupied the position. This is true of Judge Almon also. Morrow is an able lawyer and a | tactful parliamentarian, and upon every | subject he is well informed. I pre- dict and know that he will reflect great credit upon Jefferson county. The legislature now in session will no doubt make history for this state. Some of the most important questions are tied up in that body. I person. ally believe the representatives are sane and careful, and will have done Alabama proud when their services are ended"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
HARMON HIS CHOICE
he sprIngfieId Republican,.

A Harmon man has appeared in Sena- tor Johnson of Alabama. Wilson is strong" he tells his home folks. "but Harmon is older, has had q great ex- perience and 50 far seems to be the choice of democrats''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
HE STOOD THE TEST rom the Chicago Tribune.

The hour was 1 a. m.
 Inside the dimly lighted hallway stood Mrs. Dorkins, with a grim smile on her face.
 The front door was bolted.
 "John." she said. in cutting accents. you have been dissipating at the club again!' rfL
 "Maria." spoke voice outside, rap idly, clearly and distinctly, 'he blew lugubriously on the blooming Duglew
 Instantly she unfastened and opened the door.
 Mr. Dorkins had not been dissipating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

Senator LaFollette is the first man to discover that Wall street has already selected the presidential candidates of the two parties in 1912. Both presumably live, according to MT. LaFollette, in Ohio
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

Postmaster General Hitchcock should sprinkle the country thick with postal savings banks. The parcels post comes next
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

It is too early to declare the back, bone of the winter broken. That predic- ton will do in February after the ground hog has come out and gone back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

The President is dealing out places to the folks in Lame Duck alley and he seems to be willing to take care of all left in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

The money expended in Adams county, Ohio-where did it come from? This is one feature of the case that Judge Blair seems to ignore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

The aeroplane does not break down oft ener than an automobile, but it breaks down in more inconvenient localities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

ing in far better than ever before. be- lieve a larger percentage of property owners have met their assessments more promptly than anyone expected"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
Birmingham's Advantages

' "Birmin gham and Atlanta are the great ci' of the south and they have much in common to boast of" said ID. H. Scoville of the latter city, who is spending a few days here with his brother at the Morris hotel.
 Birmingham has some good things that are not possessed by Atlanta and Atlanta has some things that give her the advantage. One of the distinct ad- vantages of Birmingham outside it's vast mineral resources is it's uniform ly wide streets and avenues. Birming- ham is a roomy and beautiful city for a manufacturing center It is in fact one of the most beautiful cities in the country.
 q came to Birmingham to buy beds for my hotel-tne Marion-in Atlanta. You have a small manufacturing plant here that builds the best iron bed on the market. It is a small new indus try that is not appreciated by the home people, as it should be.
 "The proprietor of the plant is the patentee of the lock which is the strong point in the bed. It is the best made. I bought almost 5000 worth of these beds here this week and ex- pect in the near future to buy another consignment to fit out another hotel I control"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

Chance Day n1w says the country needs more statesmen and fewer carpenters. Just the reverse is what this district needs. It may be different in Syracuse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

Mayor Busse of Chicago Is now as large around the waist as the President, and the size of his hat is unknown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

Dreams, says a psychologist. are mere ly motion pictures of events.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

John Dietz of Cameron dam, Wisconsin, was pretty good outlaw, but he was outclassed by London's highwaymen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

More ink than blood was shed over the now famous battle of London, in which two men stood off 2O00.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

J. Smith, Jr, of New Jersey does not want to be treated as a wart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

A CRITIQUE. I did not like the heroine.
 1 did not like the lover, I did not like the ballroom scene Depicted on the cover I did not think the "atmosphere" Was what you'd call convincing Observe, my attitude is clear I'm in no mood for mincing. The plot, methought, was rather trite, The characters were pale, O; Although the author strove to write, His toll did not avail, O. Before I'd read a hundred words, Ye gods! I fell to yawning; Who seeks ambrosia, finding curds, No ray of promise dawning, Doth peevish wax. Just what I did But that was shortly ended; Unto the floor "best seller" slid The nap had was splendid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

President Taft also wants jail sentences for the criminal rich. He is getting ready for 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

Champ Clark declines to count electoral votes before they are matched bearing his name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

The Detroit is to serve in the Mica league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

You may have noticed that every time Woodrow Wilson speaks he says some thing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

The whitewash of the Lorimer vindica- tion is losing its color and identity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

Carnegie is a personal friend of all the presidents of the steel company that have been bounced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12

Hamilton county, Ohio. also has vote sellers. and the quotations run higher than in Adams county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
LIKE OSHKOSH.

''Walla Walla, Wash, has been carry ing on a successful campaign of pub licty."
 "Pshaw! A town with a name like that adyertises itself automatically"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-12
DRAWING THE LINE.

Don't care how much Salonne twists. Attention to engage;s But deliver me from pugilists
 Who go upon the stage.