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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
THE wARDENs OF THE WALL

Ethel Talbot in Harper's Weekly.
 And I came to a place upon the great caravan highway, where there was for- tress that had held hundreds of men; and there were 10 old, old men In charge or if it-Narrative of a traveller through Tibet. xx-;tb rones of pearl, with sandal wood, With cedar, calamus and myrrh, The camels through the solitude
 Rode to the queen of Nineveh. Frnn, China by the desert way.
 Through Balkh and Heliopolis. The caravans by night and day ~ R.ie southward to Semiramls. win, ,.,e3dered silk and shining jade.
 With silver and with ivory, xv;th flowers that knew not how to faoe' With carven bronze and ebony \ tbe,sand warriors held the wall
 vvberefrom the caravans wound on. Into the night that 1oios them all
 The scented caravans are gone. r .ony since, the last great gilded prov
 pcra southward the last reveler, And hrr srily the vultures now
 Follow the lonely. traveller. An1 on the fortress in the sands
 Now all cay long the Vultures slt, And ter. old men with shaking hands
 ..re all the vrardens left of it. And seldom to the fortressed gate
 Between the vultures and the snow Comes one to hear the wardens prate
 Of the lolt thousand, long ago. And how the armored warriors came, With scented cedar wood and myrrh, With broidered silk like changing hama
 Over the snoYa t0 Ninfyeh. .,.. .....-. X e.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
WHERE DO OLD socks GO.

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 It is extraordinary how uncurious in mind habit is apt to make us. We accept ordinary everyday sort of things as they come; then we pass on to something else and entirely omit to inquire where they go. That, when you come to think of 1t, is tremendous problem
 What, for instance. happens ultimately to old socks? The average man.. whose socks are every week motilated by a steam laundry, must purchase at least two dozen pair year, which is the equiv- alent of 4S socks. Add to that the pair of superfine silk hose he bought hurriedly that night he was going out to dinner and
 remembered in the nick of time that his laundry had not come back, and you get
 the round sum of 50 socks.
 If, for the sake of argument, you place
 the male population of the United States, which buys socks thus prodigally, at 10,-
 GOO (and that strikes us as a very modef- ate estimate), you arrive at the stupen-
 dous total of J00,0o0000 socks bought and discarded annually. Now. an ordinary | sock, even after laundry has worked its wicked will upon it, contains. at a rough | estimate. about one square foot of ma
 terial Therefore, the socks worn in the | United States. which apparently disap- pear annually, contain in them altogether
 500, ,000, ,0O0 square feet of wool, cotton, silk or other material With the object O, bringing those figures better within tn, reach of the Intelligence of our gentle readers we made a laudable effort to re duce them to square miles. but the ar tempt was abandoned at the point where
 you have to divide by 30ss At any rate we may safely hazard the assertion tha the mileage of abandoned socks would b, sufficient to overwhelm. as with a black | tan and striped blight, fair sized city. The important question remains. Wha
 we ask it in a spirit of pure philosophi' In f,.y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
Shaw Versus Colquitt

Leslie M. Shaw, who was once Sec retary of the Treasury, is now presi- dent of manufacturing company. In one of the advertisements of his com pany he says: Our factories are located inside prison walls, with 800 prisoners under contract, in Maine, Illinois and Kentucky There Ire no strikes or labor troubles in prisons. Our company is supplied with factory buildings, storage ware iouses inside the prison walls, free # rent. We have free heat, free light, free power We pay for our labor 52 cents per man per day. Our competitors, who employ free abor, pay an average wage of $2 per lay These are ideal conditions of profitable manufacturing.
 MT. Shaw thinks this is all right, but Governor Colquitt rises up to re- monstrate. He thinks the convicts in the Texas penitentiary should work on the public roads of the state. He would take off stripes and offer them to the counties for road construction at the cost of their maintenance and 50 cents day. q should want" he says, "25 cents day of this amount to go to the family of the convict and c5 cents into the treasury of the penitentiary system. In this way public roads can be built cheaply and efficiently. For many years there has been an agitation about working convicts on the public roads. l am not in favor of doing so if they have to wear stripes and be under shot gun"
 The two plans are before the coun- try, and the Colquitt plan is winning more favorable opinions, ten to one, than the Shaw plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
In the Financial World

Henry Clews. in his Saturday review, says in part
 "The destruction of the Equitable build ing by fire had a marked effect upon business in the financial district. In the safes and safe deposit vaults of this building between $500, 900 and $1, ,000, 900, 000 of securities were placed for safe keeping. A considerable proportion of these securities were being actively dealt in each day, and their temporary lock- ing up in involuntary escrow would have meant serious complications had it not been for the prudent action of the Stock Exchange governing committee. As 1t is, the marvel is that so great a catastrophe in the financial district could take place with so little positive disturbance fin financial affairs. That it did not create serious Arrangement is excellent testi- mony as to the efficiency of modern financial machinery. The building con tained vast amount of records and doe uments, the loss of which will prove a serious inconvenience to corporations lawyers and individuals, and yet the dis aster will cause no serious loss outside of the destruction of the Equitable prop erty. The destructiveness of the fire was almost a foregone conclusion when it is remembered that probably no building in the country contained such an accu- mutation of inflammable material In the form of libraries, documents, furniture, etc, which had been accommodating for the past 30 years or more.
 ''The stock market apparently requires some stirring influence to lift 1t out of present inertia. Good news has been largely discounted and unfavorable news seems also to have lost it's effect. It must be admitted that the favorable in- huences are somewhat hidden and diff cult to discover.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
gone if it could not undermine a

gone if it could not undermine a ministry once year.
 The gains of the socialists in Ger many are far reaching. They de- mand lower tariff rates and many oth- CT things that make living cheaper. They have come to stay, and the Kaiser will have them to deal with while he lives. He calls them bad names. He says they are enemies of the empire. So perhaps they are as it is at present constituted, and they propose to rebuild it to suit their own notions. They boiled in the 1907 election 3,258,96S votes, and the reader can judge the trend by com- piling their vote on Friday last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
Leg Reportcr. Necessary

"The fire which put the telephones out of commission said William Wei born last evening, twas a hard blow to that class of newspaper reporters which uses the lazier method of gather ing news.
 T was at one time connected with a newspaper, and learned that after a reported has had some experience. he gets careless. or indiffirent, or lazy. As a result. instead of going out ta see people. he invariably uses the tel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
MASTERY OVER FORTUNE

Charles Lamb.
 There is some merit in putting a handsome face upon indigent circum- stances. To bully and swagger away the sense of them before strangers may not be always discommendable. Tibbs and Bobadil, even when detected, have more of our admiration than contempt. But for a man to put the cheat upon himself-to play the Bobadil at home, and steeped in poverty up to the lips, to fancy himself all the while chin deep in riches-is strain of constitutional philosophy and a mastery over fortune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
TRAGEDIES IN HEADLINES

From the Chicago Tribune. Pastor Goodsole Forgets His Handker- chief"
 Amateur Santa Claus Tries To Smoke
 a Pipe" "Grocer by Mistake Sells Scotch Snuff for Pulvertized Coffee"
 x-Prizefighter Not Pleased With 1n- itiatory Ceremony-Cleans Out Lodge Room" Mistress Makes Mistake of Scolding Athletic Cook While Latter is Suffering From Toothache." "South Side Dip Carelessy Inserts Hand in Pocket Lined With Fishhools." Boy Tries Flying Machine of His Own Make; Will Be Out Again in About Six Weeks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It's time enough to trust most people when you have to-
 A girl always knows enough not to know too much when her mother is around.
 A man comes home ottener in a good huunr' with hiJsself than with the rest of tl,e world.
 Getting tanglcc up is the job of the 9s9, and untanglipg them is the job of the other one il. the thousand.
 The reason tie mother of a big family work: so hard without ever complaining is she dot snt get paid for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
Good Advertising Masted

More than half vr the advertise ments carried in the want column Of Sundays Age-Herald." stated William Wilson last night, "urged those inter- ested to call certain numbers over the Bell phone In every instance, no ad- dress was given.
 psinee the fire put the Bell phones out of commission, temporarily. it will be impossible for those interested to gain connection with the people hay ing articles for sale.
 .'The result will be, 1t is probable, that The Age-Herald will receive in- structions to run all those ads sec- ond tlme.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

ephone, which. on account of the prob ability of his making mistakes. Is dan gerous. There has always been a de- mand for the leg reporter as against the highbrow.' and since the majority of the Birmingham telephones are use- less. for time, all reporters will nee- essarily become users of legs.
 Therefore, it is an i'll wind that blows nobody good"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
The War,s Work

"A certain Birminghim newspaper. !" said Walter Nicholls yesterday, '.is making use of street car advertising.
 "The card employed Saturday read, All the late sporting news.
 Some wag, knowing we'll the ground on which he stood, added a word to the line of advertisement, and at the pres ent time it reads, All the late sporting news-late'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
POPULAR MUSIC

From Tit-Bits.
 Your poem used? I should say not.' answered the editor.
 would you give me candid criti- cism of it?'
 "Certainly. It's clumsy and vulgar and unspeakably idiotic" "Good."
 ..Good?"
 "Yes; set to music it will become q popular song
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
Six-Scvenths Native Born

Although about three millions more foreigners were found here in 1910 than we had 10 years before, yet the total number was but 18,342,5 ,500. In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

St. Louis is doing a great deal of cackling over 21I story building. but Birmingham accepts its 20 story building as a matter of course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
HARMoNIzER NEEDED

From the Rome Tribune-Herald.
 Oscar Underwood has made quite rep- utation as harmonizer in the democratic party. That's what democracy needs mere than anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

Andrew Carnegie borrowed $500 and turned it into s4Oo Ooo, 900, and his endless conceit was gratified when he could tell the story to the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

President Taft has reached a point where no cannot be stampeded. He may be defeated, but he cannot be scared out of the race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

New York's wealth and power are not sufficient to secure national political convention, except possibly that of the socialists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

McNamara's S hair has turned snow white since he entered San Quentin pen itentiary. but this will not help him to get pardon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

Modern China has an ambition to make English it's language. A bigger task has perhaps never been undertaken in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

China will be full fledged republic alQut day after totmorrow, and then it should begin to chase the Russians out of Mongolia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

The day is coming when Pierpont Nor gan will create in New York an art mu- scum that all the country will be thank full for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

It Is Carnegies fondest boast that he was able to put one over on John D. The latter's speciality is oil, not ore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

The democrats are preparing to win the right in November to make the co,in- try happy and prosperous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

California's women voters take hold of the ballot in way to make men ashamed of their neglect of civic duty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

The colonel communed with the sphinx in Africa and he is living up to what he learned there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

The misunderstood MT. Lorimer is too good to live in this wicked world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

The trust is not scheme to help con sumers but Is one to create muti-mil- lionares.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

Brooklyn's s7OO,OOO ball park is evidenc, of the growth of the American game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

The ground hog will soon be in our midst again for a few seconds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

January is after all trying to live up to it's reputation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

January Is fast contracting the low temperature habit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

Paris sees the Seine rise again and is not surprised. It has acquired the habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

Only 10 per cent of the books publish ed in this country in 1911 were novels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
HONEST GAS METER

Winter has not forgotten how to be cold and biting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15

Entered at the Birmingham, AIa-' postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1Sfs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
BACHELOR RENEGEs

Los Angeles Dispatch to the New York World.
 "Jimmie" Iage has quit. He decided
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-02

Diagram showing the relative
amounts of digestitie protein and car.
bokydrates in different kinds of hay.
The section inciosed in light lines rep
resent the carbohydrates; those in
closed in heavy lines, the protein.
fed, the body suffers, because it is
absolutely necessary to keep the body
in good condition. Thousands of
horses are fed all they can eat, yet
are poorly nourished because the food
contains little except fuel substances.
The flesh forming substances are
used to replace the waste that goes on
In all living tissues. Energy produc-
ing substances are used to furnish the
energy required for the nervous and
muscular activities of the body, and
when fed in excess they may to GER
tain extent be stored up In the form
of fat for use later, when needed for
either energy or heat.
One of the most important sub
stances in any foodstuff is protein. All
nutritive substances which contain
nitrogen are classed under the general
term of protein. Protein is composed
of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
sulphurs, and phosphorus.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-02
EVERY FARMER
CAN USE PAINT
Adds to Appearance Of Place and
TO the Dura biIity Of Any
Kind of Farm
Building.

Any man can do an average job Of
painting, and can thereby not only i'm
prove the appearance of his place, but
can add greatly to the durability Of
the buildings.
The average farmer, II there is such
a thing, seems to think that paint is
used solely for ornament, and he Is Of
all men most keenly practical, he
eschews what he regards as an un-
profitable luxury. 1t is, perhaps, the
rule rather than the exception in some
sections to see houses and agricul-
tural implements sadly in need Of re-
paint.
OF course paint does improve the
appearance of property, but it Is far
more useful as a protector rather than
an ornament. The expenditure Of q
small amount of money and time in
painting a valuable piece of farm ma
chinery or building will add great
" to the length of its life. oAnother
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-02

Protein is the substance
builds up the body. The muso,. which
dons, ligaments. connective ' w.. tea
skin, hair. hoofs, part of the hou tissues
in fact every part of the bodr le' and
are made up of protein, toeeth. uu' iat
mineral matter and water. With
The next important clas. =.
stances is the carbohydrates ', Nv sae
contain carbon, hydrogen, and ov ra'sa
but no nitrogen, sulphurs or , y
phorus; they include starch sr pu0s
etc. These are used for practs ssrs
the same purpose for which co. Sal!
wood is used in the steam ensi, y
namely, to furnish energy and heat
The third important constituent :.
hay is its oils. Small ouantitia. "
oil are present in all kinds Of h., "
These oils serve the same purnosa aa "
the carbohydrates. A pound Of th.' =
however, will furnish two and w..
fourth times as much energy Or bss,
as the same quantity of carbobvdra,a.
1T can readily be seen, when the chom
ical analysis of hay is considered WIN
the price of the different grades :,
kinds OF hay should depend, first
upon the amount of digestible putr'
ents contained, and, second upon The
purpose for which the hay is fed y
the concentrated feed. e., the grain
in the ration-lacks protein, then IN.
hay that is high in this substance !,
more valuable than one which con.
tains little but carbohydrates, and vice
versa. There is quite range in ths
amount Of the different classes Of
nutrients in the various kinds of hay
On an average, in 100 pounds Of al.
falfa hay the digestible protein
amounts to 1888 pounds; in cowpea
hay, 1919 pounds; in alsike clover
hay, S.15 pounds; in red clover hay,
1888 pounds; in redtop hay, 4S0
pounds; and in timothy hay, 2Ss
pounds.
In 100 pounds of redtop hay the
digestible carbohydrates amount to At
pounds; in timothy hay, 1872 pounds;
In alsike clover hay, ALTO pounds;
in alfalfa hay, 1888 pounds; in COW.
pea hay, 38.40 pounds; in red clover
hay, 36.15 pounds.
When fed for protein, timothy hay
ranks last, but when fed for carbo.
hydrates it stands next to redtop,
which heads the list. If the total
nutrients are considered there are a
number of different kinds Of hay which
are equal. If not superior, to timothy
hay for feeding purposes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-02

the bulletin gives several very val-
able recipes for making both of those
excellent coatings for both out and in.
side Of buildings.
The secretary in addition to urg.
ing the proper use of paints for both
useful and ornamental purposes, for he
does not think anything too good or
attractive for the farm homes, en-
phasized several precautions: do not
use any paint containing compounds
Of lead about stables or outbuildings
where the fumes from decaying or
ganic matter occur, since these gases
are likely to darken the lead paints
Do not use with lead compounds any
pigment which may liberate COM
pounds OF sulphur. For example, ultra
marine blue which contains sulphur 10
form in which it may be set free
Is a beautiful blue and may be used
with zinc white, but should not %
used with white lead or any other LEAD
pigments. Prussian blue, on the con.
trary, does not contain sulphur anu
may be used with lead pigments. :.
Remember that turpentine anc
benzine are very inflammable and es
pecial precautions should be taken ho'
to bring paint containing these sun
stances near any light or open fre :,
"Many pigments are poisonous ant
the workman should be particularly
careful to remove all paint stains lrolA
the skin, and not under any circum,
stances allow any of 1t to get into al'
mouth. A man should not eat IN tn0
same clothes in which he has oee.
painting, and before eating Should ~,
only change his clothes but WASH q.
paint stains from his skin. 1t is wv
advisable to use turpentine or oenzlno
in removing paint stains from ~. ..S
hands, but by oiling Thoroughly WV
linseed oil, or. in fact. with any la. ~
oil, and then thoroughly washing VIZ.
soap, the paint may be removed, ~
vided it has not been allowed u W.
too thoroughly on the hands"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-02
tBy H. B. MCCLURE,

The nutritive substances In hay or
feed may be divided into two classes
flesh forming and fuel or energy pro
ducing substances. When the proper
amount of these two classes of sub
stances is fed the ration is said to
be balanced. II an unbalanced ration
is fed, as one containing more fuel or
energy producing substances than are
needed and less fiesh-forming mate
rial, the ration is partially wasted, and
such unwise feeding will not bring as
good results as the feeding of the same
amount of balanced ration Each
class Of substances has different Of
fees to perform in the body. If
not enough flesh forming substance Is
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-02
SYNOPSIS.

Howard Jeffries, bankers son, unoer
fhe evil influence Of Robert Underwood,
a fellow-student at Yale, leads a life of
dissipation, marries the daughter OF a
gambler who died in prison, and is as
and fails. A former college chum makes
@ business proposition to Howard which
requires $1,000 cash, and Howard is broke.
Robert Underwood, who had been re-
pulsed by Towards wife. Annie, in his
college days, and had once been engaged
to Alicia, Towards stepmother, has
apartments at the Astruria, and is APP
parently in prosperous circumstances.
Howard recalls a $3.50 loan to Underwood.
that remains unpaid and decides to ask
taking advantage of his intimacy with
Mrs. Jeffries, Sr., becomes a sort of social
1ighwayman. Discovering his true char
acter she denies him the house.