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sons motto: ~What attracts my atten-
tion shall have it," and thereby sue
ceeded in maintaining fresh to the last
h1D interest In life. "The King Over the
Water" is rather an exception to the rule.
being in truth an eiYusion Of historical
Jacobitism. Its main purpose Is TO
prove that Thackeray's "Esmond" Is all
wrong about the character OF the old
Pretender. James. and mixed 1t up with
the very different character Of the young
Pretender, Charles Edward. This II
does abundantly prove. but 1t goes on
to maintain that the old Pretender was
an important person as well as respec-
table character. and in this 1t entirely
fails The Maid of France" was a much
more fortunate subject II was IN
manner laid upon" Andrew Lang to
write about Joan Of Arc. Hereditary
Scottish Anglophobia and psychological
curiosity were among his motives for the
task as we'll as enthusiastic faith in his
heroine and longing to confute all
gainsayers He says: in tragedy
without parallel or precedent the Flower
Of Chivalry died for France and the
chivalry Of France. which had de-
serted her; she died by the chivairy
of England. which shamefully entreated
and destroyed her; while the most
faithful Of Christians perished through
the celestial science and dull political
hatred OF priests who impudently called
themselves the church," The acumen
which years of practice had given the
veteran in historical and psychological
research comes into admirable play III
the controversy with the elaborate dis
para cement Of Anatole France. whom
Lang seems to have convicted OF loose
ness OF citation almost Froudelike and
such as to justify his critics severity
Of censure: Il know not how TO under
st and the method of making very strange
statements and supporting them by
references to books and pages in which
can find no such matter" This pro-
test in the name Of chYalry against the
unworthy treatment q Joan Of Arc is
as chivalric II not as eloquent as that OF
Burke n behalf Of Marie Antoinette.
1t is a very fitting elimination of an in.
dustrioue. successful and valuable liter.
AIRY career.
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SHE FOUND ZOLA HEAVY.
Nine. SteinhrtI says There Was Ap.
parcntly No Lishtness In IIim.

Nine. Steinheil who in "My Memoirs"
tells many interesting anecdotes found
Zola too pompous for her taste.
'Zola lacked In conversation what ne
lacked In his writing" she says. deli
cacy. refinement. lightness. He was
heavy. ponderous and rather aggressive.
81 teased him one day: How is the
chase after human documents going
on?' asked.
"QuIte well, madam. hunt my
quarry everywhere, and all day long.
Human documents. slices of life, search
ing character studies. that Is all there 10
In literature
"'But what Of the writer's personal
ity? Is that of no account whatever
lit shouldn't be. ! try TO eliminate
my personality from my books
"And don't You succeed?' l asked.
"'I have the misfortune of being DOS
sessed Of temperament which cannot
get rid OF. alas came the
pompous reply"
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SCIENCE J0TTINGs.

Professors WinogradsSy and Mo,ish
OF Berlin have discovered a species OF
bacteria which they call Sp!rophyllum
ferrugineum and which grows only In
solutions that contain carbonate Of iron
These iron bacteria will not grow In any
medium free OF this iron salt.
striking peculiarity Of these iron
germs Is their use OF carbon from car.
bon dioNide in the total absence OF other
sources OF carbon. To a nutrient me-
dlum holding inorganic salts N solution
Iron filings were added and carbonic
acid gas supplied to the extent OF / per
cent. Of the air In the flask. With inor.
ganic salts. metallic iron and no other
source OF carbon there was :. great In
crease in the carbon present in the cul.
ture. Great masses OF the iron bacteria
were formed by growth and ..iultiplica.
t!on. The microbes in order to gain one
part OF carbon produced from Iron car.
Donate no less than 200 parts Of oxide
OF iron. =.
The raising Of wild animals for their
fur Ia a subject Of such general inter-
est that the Biological Survey Of the
Department OF Agriculture has been led
TO conduct experiments In tho breeding
OF mink at the National Zoolosical Park
In Washington. The Survey wishes 10
ascertain whether rearing the animals
In captivity can be made commercially
successful. The experiments seek 10
supply facts In regard to their housing.
feeding and mating and in seneral to
determine the best methods uf caring
for the animals. Preliminary hints on
mink farming can now be- obtained
from the Department Of Agriculture at
Washington. The experiments are said
to be the frst of the kind ever UNDER
taken by the Government.
In a recent lecture Sir Oliver Lodge
gave a striking illustration Of the mi.
nuteness OF the atom. The amount OF
gold In sea water, although very small.
seems considerable when stated 10
atoms, for u single drop OF sea water
contains 60,000.000 atoms or gold. That
figure. however. indicates merely one'
fiftieth OF grain In ton q sea water
and II would take lO0,000.oo0 atoms ID
be visible under q microscope Of the
highest power.
Continuing his experiments as 10
whether fish possess memory or asso.
ciation Of Ideas Mr.. OXner has obtainea
some further results. lie already touna
that by placing u red cylinder conan
ing food and also an empty sreen t$i'
inder In an aquarium with single nm
the latter soon learned TO enter 'ns
red cylinder each time II Was immersed
and to avoid the green cylinder in
his later researches he hnds thdt ue
Ash goes into the red vessel and Wa"s
until some crumbs are dropped into -
which he then eats
\ more slrikinH point Is that a. d. ~
, lines the rsh enters the baitsd go
vessel, even though he does not apW'.
to desire food. seeing that lie does nos
eat at sucn ti.nc. the ia,,ur .! "Hase.
was therefore eliminated here ana
have 10 do with a habi, or 's"ss
action.
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LIZZIE" GOING SLOWER.
Not the BOOK. hut One Header Who
Felt That u WINGED Her.

The IIarpors arc again rcprintins
Keeping IN With l.lzzle." by Irving
Bachelor. The author recently received
"A letter from citizen Of Waterbury,
Conn:
II suppose YOU were thinking OF my
Girl when you wrote Keeping Up With
I.lHHlr,' but probably YOU were shoot
ing AT the nock when YOU brought
he, down, There are BY actual count
"6i l.izHns IN this town. ana most Of
them can trut fastri thun mine. These
days a man without "A Lizzie is az
hard Ia ma AZ Il man without an
automobile. My Lizzie is going a little
slower since she read your book"
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Cotoio8uo VI ooOHe WHICH arc no DOCKS,
biblia . biblis." There il even an official
biography. the Life. Letters and Diaries
of Sir Stafford Northcots." which doubt
less attracted its due share OF attention
in 1900. when Il was published. but TO which
only y morbid curiosity could lead any
body in 1912. In fact the British official
biography 10 solemn kind Of journalism,
the weightiest Of all tho ephemerides.
Of far more pretension 10 4 History of
Scotland from the koinan Occupation, '
These four stout volumes must daunt
anybody but Scot or a specialist. bur
- . proof OF industry they are conyin-
cling. Two or three works az tbis clss.
and scope would fully satisfy the orthodox
historian that he had not lived In vain
but one OF them is an unconsidered trias
in the Lang photography. What. for
want Of . bettor name. Wa call folklore
stands upon = very di,eien, footing
In the catalogue Of Lang's actiyitios
The subject vxs al early love of hi.
Custom and Myth WAS published in
1854 and it has had dozen successorr
some u them serious psychological
treatises. some Of them avowed fairy
books all 80 unfailingIy we'll done AZ
to give their author the standing Of an
authority in this field and oil together
accounting .or many years OF time. -The
Fairy Faith" had great attraction for u
student who was an hereditary believer
in the second sight and who followed the
proceedings Of the Society for Psychical
Research with unhagging Interest,
The last decade OF the authors life.
ii may pretty fairly be said. was devot e,i
10 the solution or historical puzzles
The volume of Historical Mysteries"
ll9O<l treats Of u dozen cases the ma mes
i Q; most O! which are familiar 10 the COM
mon reader, hut a few quite unknown
10 him All hs life Lang aoed on Emer-
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Siv0 pogeS ABOUT Antnony " oOu. OF mis-
calling "Grandcourt" in George Eliot .
Daniel Deronda' -Grandison-; worst OF
all In quoting that Oxford was the home
Of impossible causes" The misquota.
ton served Matthew Arnold rightly
enough, for he vas himself Q reckless and
Journalistic" misquoter; but 1t also un-
fortunately showed an insensibility TO
the cadence OF one OF his hest sentences.
that which describes Oxford as the homo
Of lost causes and forsaken beliefs and
impossible loyalties."
Isngs Greek scholarship was not 10
exact that he could trust himself. in those
translate ions OF Homer into Biblical prose
which possibly constitute the most en-
during pieces OF his work, to his unaided
knowledge OF Homeric Greek. The OK.
acttude Of scholarship we may suppose
O have been the department Of Professor
Butcher, in Butcher and Iang's "Odys-
say." and possibly MIR. Leaf was the
authority on doubtful points in the "Iliad"
Of Lang, Leaf and Myers. although in
The preface to this latter il is explained
that each OF the three translators is re-.
sronsible Tor his own portion How
ever that may lie. Mr.. Lang's unrailins
and lifelong interest in Greek literature
resulted IL one of the most imports an,
departments Of his literary activity. Hin
translations. also into classic" English
. rroso, ur Theocg.,us. Bon and Moschus
bring those classics much nearer 10 the
English render innocent Of Greek than
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connecting the balloon with an electrical
apparatus for exploding the cartridges. .
Mr.. Ruggles was merely tax ing sd.
vantage of data collected ten years before
by q citizen OF Delavan. Wis. whose ex-
haustive research had given birth to a
volume OF statistics bearing the alluring
title. "War and the Weather" MIR.
Powers. for such was the gentleman q
name. discovered that rain came sooner
or later after most Of the great battles of
the world. and his project WAS to simulate
the din of those disastrous conflicts for the
purpose OF wringing tears from the eyes
of heaven. Mr.. Powers besought Congress
to provide money for q test OF his theory
upon large scale.
At the United States arsenal, Rock
Island. H.. there were 200 siege guns
lying inactive and going to rust for wan
OF war to give them exercise. The idea
was to take these guns to suitable l.lace
in the West where little matter Of hun
dred rounds were to be fired from them as
teats. the two experiments to cost the un-
important sum Of something like $50. 900.
Congress was in . stingy mood and
declined TO encourage MIR. Powers be-
yond the modest amount OF g., GOO, and
when this ante was raised by 81. 900 more
the Department of Agriculture carried
out = series of tests at Midland, Tex,
in August Of 1891, embodying in prin-
ciple the invention Of Mr., Rugeles. After
twice attacking the skies and expending
"rosellite' without effect the rest of the
a, ,...-. l..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
MISS SARAH COLLINS
 COMPLIMENTS VISITORS

Miss Elizabeth Wolfe of Roanoke, Va, and Miss Catherine Lattimore of Waco. Tex, who were so beautifully introduced to the college set Wednesday by thier house hostess, Miss Florine Hodges, were oomplimented again yesterday afternooa with q tea from to o'clock at the Collins residence, with Miss Sarah Helen Collins as hostess
 Golden glow decorated the entire house furnishings, the brightest tint for hte hospitality and emphasizing the good cheer of the hostess and her assistants. Plants made Verdant setting, on the veranda, for the punch bowl over which presided Miss Marie Rosamond and Miss Doris Afough0n. In the reception hall, Miss Elizabeth Russell and Miss Mary Meighan greeted the callers, and the hos tess with her honorees and Miss F'lorine Hodges extended a gracious welcome in the drawing room.
 In the dining room the hostess was as- sisted by Miss Nell Cosby, Miss Mary Ellen Perkins, Miss Carrie Yates, Miss Grace Slbey, Miss Margaret Moore and Miss Mary Streit. The table, from which variety of dainties found way to the guests via the dantiest of service, centerpiece was daisies and overhead were draperies of yellow tulle. caught to each corner. A lace cover was laid over yellow satin and bon bons and frappe emphasized the color scheme. which had been chosen in loyalty to the college at which each of the honorees and their hostess are students.
 The music of an orchestra added sprightliness to the conversation of the many young people who left cards at the charming function.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
VIEWS ON TROUSERS

Washington, June 20.-(Special.)-A Washington young woman has sprung into the limelIght by writing an apostro- phe to trousers She received circular advertising a line of woolens for trous- erings in place of woolens for womens skirts, the firm who sent them probably thinking the Arvis M. Jackson was of the male gender. Miss Jackson wrote them letter in which she deplores the fact that she is not able to accept the offer ing in the advertisement of trouserings. She said:
 Relative to the generous offer, I beg to advise that there seems, unfortunately, to be a slight mlsapprenension as to gender on your part The offer itself seems most attractive, and I regret that nature-seconded by our rather stringent police regulations--has debarred me from the privilege of alleviating your anxiety to make me the recipient of your special bargain prices in trousers.
 Would that it were otherwise, Color would be no object, texture mere baga- telle could I conscientiously take ad- vantagesof your proffered augmentation of my present somewhat limited wardrobe ar your most cut prices. I'd glory in one of the superb pair you wish special ly to make according to my plans and specifications. as 1t were. and really the outlay would not be so great for you either, as I am not very long, and I like plain apparel without trimmings, any, way.
 My heart yearns--nay, pants-to take advantage of your princely offer, but, alas I am not true gentleman-not even aswoman militant"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
LINEN SHOWER
 FOR MISS MORRISON

Miss Bessie Morrison, who is one Of the seasons brides-elect, was the recipient of a pretty courtesy in a linen shower given by Mrs. M. T. Mellon and Miss Agnes Mcdowell at the latter's home. Fifty or 75 friends of the young women responded to the invitation.
 The color scheme was effected in the tints of the prospective wedding-pink and white. Punch was served in the re- eeption hall by Mrs. NJ. R. Johnson and in the dining room. Killarney roses on the bon bon table with draperies of rose colored tulle above, added emphasis to the color note Mrs. Neil Hutchings pre- sided over the coffee urn. She wore a dainty white lingerie costume and hat crowned with pink roses. Mrs. John Eng land and Mrs. Sharpe also assisted the hostess, each attractively attired for the event Miss Morrison wore shadow lace over pink and a pretty pink hat Miss Mcdowell was in white linen and Mrs. Mellon in pink marquisette. Little Sarah Mckenzie played the part of the kind fairy. leading the bride-elect to the end of the rainbow--a colorful creation of tulle, concluding fin the fictitious pot of gold in this intance filled with dainty linens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21

enthusiastically. "I am perfectly delight
 ed with it's prospects and I am all en-
 thusiasm over my future plans. The
 Powder Puff is really a direct result of
 my venture into the 'Ad' field. saw
 the possibilities of a good weekly pa-
 per and Birmingham is quite large enough to have one of the kind that
 the Powder Puff means to be. l want
 it to be to the Magic City what Chat
 was to Mobile, when clever Amanda
 Moore (now Mrs. Goldthwafte), edited
 1t. want The Powder Puff to be to
 Birmingham what The Index is to
 Plttsburg. That, by the way, IS one
 of the cleverest weekly papers that IS
 edited in the United States and when
 you stop to consider that 1t Is only IF
 years old. think its progress is re-
 markable. Why. when The Powder Pun
 Is that many years of age expect 1t to
 be a wonder Indeed. I hope to make
 it as good as The Index-or The Club
 Fellow or the Coat of Arms, published
 in Jack sonville. Fla, or any of the
 clever weekly publications from the
 larger cities" What particular line of work VIII
 The Powder Puff essay?' l asked
 Although it sounds deliciousiy femi- nine. it's going to be very serious as we'll Philanthropy" said Mrs. Winn, has always been my hobby. When have been engaged in newspaper work formerly, I have always lent my aid in that direction, and it will be the policy of The Powder Puff to continue the work The betterment of Civic conditions, generally, will come under this head. and I expect later to add an Educational Department and Religious Department which will have contribu- | tors from Birmingham as well as lthroughout the state. Of course l must first of all make my paper readable
 and popular, in order to make it prof. table and valuable to my advertisers; and with this aim in view I have started out with every feature that l think will interest the reading public, | including society, music, the drama. | fashions, literature and art.
 Many people have said to me that ! it was a foolish move on my part to launch The Powder Puff in the sum
 mer'' Mrs. Winn continued. But l ! don't agree with them. First of all the establishment of my paper at this sea- son will give me the necessary experi-
 enee that need in conducting week ly newspaper. I will have more time
 to study conditions and formulate plans than during the winter season, which
 is such busy one. By Fall, l expect
 to have every department of my paper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21

A message from Chicago yesterday gave the following points of feminine interest:
 Most of the women present, and par ticular those whose husbands and fathers are helping to mould the des- tiny of the nation, were so interested in the proceedings of the convention that they brought their luncheons, ana n bite of sandwiches and cup of tea intervened between the exciting pros pects of keeping tally on the roll call of the states.
 Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt is one woman amid the convention.
 Mrs. Charles Taft and Miss Louise Taft were in seats in the first row with Mrs. H. c. Corbin. Mrs. Taft wore a dark blue changeable cloth suit, with lingerie collar and waist, and blue hat trimmed with red roses. Mrs. Corbin wore a handsome black satin, trimmed with light broadcloth and a black hemp hat trimmed with a single rosette Miss Louise Taft was in a very blue silk suit with flower trimmed hat.
 Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, Miss Roose- welt and Quentin were on the scene early, occupying seats near the plat form and taking a lively interest in the proceedings. Mrs. Roosevelt wore an all black suit. and hat with black veil. Miss Ethel was in white. Sew eral of the Roosevelt leaders visited Mrs. Roosevelt and reported the latest news.
 Among convention visitors is Mrs. Sake Delong Mehan. editor of the suf- fragette paper published under the auspices of the New Era club of New Orleans Mrs. Mehan has frequently contributed articles for the northern press and eastern magazines. She says the woman's clubs of the south are doing great work in relieving the con ditions of children in mill and factory and in general sanitary cleanliness.
 The convention costume for women is natty tailored suit. lingerie waiste with low Dutch collar and small, close fitting turban-strilxing contrast to con yention costumes of other years. The small hat is every where The large hats. fiower-laden or heavy pIumed. are not popular in and out the con- yention. and the visitor who hazards the top-heavy creation quickly doffs IL, arranges her hair and remains hatless during the session.
 Many women visitors carry with them nothing but a box cf chocolates to keep the edge off their appetites and they can get out for o'clock dinner, Others carry with them a small bottle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21

It was a nice breezy, chatty, delight ful little visit, that I made to Mrs. Rob- erta Harris Winn, the clever editor of Blrminghams latest Journalistic ven ture "The Powder Puff" the other day.
 In her cozy little office in the Empire Building Mrs. Winn was busy as a bee, with editorials and personals. squfbs and advertising, and on her desk there was piled up enough data to edit a Sunday edition of New York newspa- per.
 Mrs. Winn, bright, clever, energetic and always charming and agreeable to talk to. was the typical business woman in her little domain-"lord of all she surveyed"--being editor. director, own CT and general manager of the publica- ton which has attracted the attention of the reading public of the Magic City on its two first visits within the past two weeks.
 It isn't an easy task for woman to start out to edit paper CT for that matter to enter into any business en- terprise and do the whole thing herself.
 Somehow you instinctively look around to see if there isn't some man writing dope or doing any one of the hundred and one stunts that have to be done on a newspaper, but here IS a woman--a product of Birmingham by the way, and of whom Birmingham is justly proud--doing everything. and doing 1t well-and just as happy and optimistic over the future of her paper as the best of us believing in herself and in her public. and with the direct determination to-SUCCEED.
 Funny. isn't it, but sowehow when woman makes up her mind to do thing she usually does it-doesn't she
 Perhaps it's because she has so much energy-and such keen sense of obli- gation. And such horror of-Faiiure- anyway, whatever it Is, she generally succeeds and l beliece Mrs. Vim Is going to add her name to the long iis' of those who have.
 How is The Powder Puff progress ing?" [ asked its clever editor, shs very kindly granting me few mo mcnts of her busy time to discuss tnis subject.
 couldn't be better. she replied en
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

pleasant event was Mir. and Mrs. J. E. Birds celebration of the tenth an niversary of their wedding at their new home. 40e1 Avenue D, Avondale. The house presented a festive appearances with it's decorations of smilax. asparagus fern cut flowers and pottsd plants. Near. ly 100 guests were present to do honor to the occasion. Mir. and Mrs. Bird were as- assisted in receiving their guests by Mrs. J. r. Hewlett and the following young la- dies who were their house guests: Misses Flossie Young. Tirza Sisemore, Carrie Bishop Stella Newton, Florence Stewart and Curtce 1.angston, all of Gainesville, Ga. Punch was served during the evening by Miss Luretta Whitworth and Miss Russell Mrs. A. V. 'Allgood delighte1 the company with several beautiful in- strumental solos, while Mrs. George Hays and Mrs c. E. Ball rendered sev- eral beautiful vocal selections. Mrs. .. J. Bentley was inimitable in recitation which told of How She Raised Her Betsy" and of her subsequent marriage to Josiah Linie. Miss Thelma Moore also delighted the audience with a hu- rnorous recitation. My Sisters Best Beau" An interesting guessing contest was also engaged in, Miss Whitworth winning the first prize and MT. Simcox the booby.
 I'M and Mrs. Bird were the recipients of a great number of useful as well as beau tifai gifts. number of pieces of alum mum ware were received as well as linen and art glass. The cutting of the brides cake. which contained a ring. dime and a thimble was an interesting feature.