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Stenographic Company Organized.
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The Shreveport Mtritigraph and
Stenographic Company organized
the past week by Misses Belle john
ston and Olive SmaIf, will undoubt-
eddy receive liberal patronage, as
the demand for stenographic work
is increasing with the growth OF
business enterprise. Both members
of the firm are capable young bus
mess women, we'll trained in the
most approved methods. Miss john
ston is the sister of our live real
estate agent. Mr.. J. E. Johnston. Sht
was a successful teacher, but turneC
to business as a better paying oceu-
patton, and took a thorough course
at Draughn's.
Miss Small has recently come t
Shreveport from Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, where she was private sec
rotary to United States Senate
Sanders. Miss Small has also he'll
the responsible position of princlpa
of shorthand department i'll tn
business college Of Atlanta, Ga.
| The office of this up-to-date ne'
| business firm is located in the Com
mercial National Bank.
/ promptness and accuracy guaran
teed.
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OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED REvIEw
Hoaxes on Hens

II the experiment lately carried out
at Orpington, Kent is continued there
is a possibility of a strike in the fowl
houses for shorter hours of labor, says
Tid-Bits. According to William II. Cook,
who has 200 yards of fowl houses con-
tanning 5000 birds on his poultry farm
at Orpington, hens are greatly in
fluenced In their egg layin gcapacity
by artificial light and during the dark
mornings and early nights since Christ
mas last he has had his fowl houses
lit by 800 lamps. divided into 80. 16
and eight candle power. The result
has been an increase in the output of
eggs of between 80 and 40 per cent.
The lights are graduated according
to the clock At p. m. the 81 candle
power lights are switched on; at $50
these are replaced by the t6 candle
power lamps, and half an hour later
the eight candle power lamps are SUD
stituted for a quarter of an hour. Then
the hens are left in darkness, and
promptly go to sleep. This artificially
heightened day, of course, completely
deceives the hens, and so long as they
can be begulled into thinking ii is still
day they will continue the work of egg
production. The graduating of the
lights in the manner mentioned, thus
giving a rough imitation of the setting
sun, is necessary in order to prevent
the hens going to sleep on the ground
and becoming a prey to parasites,
which they would do if the lights went
out all at once. This ingenious system
of increasing the output of hens is also
employed in the rearing of chicks. IN
the ordinary course the latter only feed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-07
Gold placers in Alaska

Washington. December ESPECIALLY
During the summer of 1912 Henry NJ
Aiken of the United States Geological
survey visited the Ruby Innoko and dis
tricts in Alaska and made a report on
the gold placers in thtose districts.
The mining centre of the Ruby district
Is about % miles south of the Yugon
river al Ruby and comprises half a dozen
creeks all within an area a few miles
square. The first discovery of gold N
this district was probably made on the
Ruby creek In 1907. near the site of the
present town. This discovery proved to
be of no great Importance and it was
not until 1910 that the discoveries on
Long creek and its tributaries created
widespread in terest in the region. Ex-
act data regarding the amount of gold
produced in the district are not avail
able but the total in 1912 yas probably
between $150000 and $l750Q0.
The Innolxo-I Iditarod regino lies in west
central Alaska and embraces most of the
upland area north of Kuskowim river
that is drained by Innoko and Iditarod
rivers. In all 81 claims located on five
creeks were worked in the Innoko dis
trict in 1912 by a total force of about
40 men. The total value of the placer
gold produced in the district was proba-
bly, I'm excess of S250O00.
Twenty-nine claims located on eight
different creeks, were worked in the
Iditarod district in 81. Thirty-six plants
were engaged in the work and about 975
men were employed. The value of the
total gold production of the district in
cluding Moore creek, for the year was
probably about 80. 10000.
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nineties, Hagar moulded her character
and her life. A visit to New York
marked the end of her petted but re-
pressed childhood and brought her to full
realization of her human opportunities
AMI responsibilities Her awakening and
development are described with the un-
derstanding, the romantic fervor, and
the richnes of style of which Miss John
ston is mistress.
This who know Miss Johnston only
through her books-all of which so far
have been historical-may think of her as
a student with her interests centered
In the past. This is far from correct
Mis- Johnston is an active worker for the
feminist cause, leader in the movement
that is making for fuller justice for half
the human race. She marched in the
great suffrage parade recently held in
New York and on several occasions has
spoken In public for the cause. Her new
book is at once an absorbing novel, and
we believe a powerful and effective con-
tribution to the cause of justice.
While "Hagar' is tho story OF a suf-
fragist, woman who writes and speaks
for the cause, yet sustains perfectly her
duty and devotion to family ties.
Hagar instinctively revolts from the
narrow limits of thought imposed upon
the women of her family. She reads and
thinks for herself. Yet 1t is only her
minu tnat is aHenateu from ner people
Her affection never wavers, and when
circumstances force her to give her care
to her father, whom she has not seen
since childhood. she makes the sacrifice
cheerfully and proves herself charming
and efficient companion. Her nature is
at once serene and intense. She herself
sums 1t up admirably when she oonfesses
to her lover-"I love you. My love is
quiet but 1t is deep"
The story g TOLD in ma nara ,,,io ctv1a
The Virginia home at Gilead Balm, the
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every point of her advancement. She has
wasted no energy on. trifies, but has
busted herself constantly with large mat
ters. She has shown from the beginning
the consciousness of the true artist; she
has never failed to take her art seriously.
Books like Lewis Rand" are produced
only by brooding AMI contemplative
spirit. 1 have returned these volumes to
the shelf with a lively interest in what is
to follow them. We may take judicial
notice, in the manner of lawyers of GER
tain facts-that Miss Johnston still has
youth as an ally; that she permits nothing
to interfere with her vocation; but that
she is Immediately concerned with the
development of her art. Her pen has,
from the beginning, been competent for
all its tasks. She writes with exceeding
grace and vigor. Her books abound in
felicitous description; rich culture and
a trained taste speak in all her pages
1t is safe prediction that she will make
no mistakes In the choice of medium or
material.
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"HAGAR.' .


BY Mary Johnston Houghton. Mifflin
Company, publishers, Boston.
The whole south and Alabama in par
ticular pays homage to It's fair daugh-
ter. Mary Johnston, the eminent author,
whose brilliant mind, facile pen and vivid
imagination have placed her today among
the foremost writer's of the void.
Miss Johnston is admired as few wo-
men are admired-he beautiful character.
her ready wit, her broad education and
her sweet modesty making her an ex-
ample of lovely young womanhood that
Is worthy to be emulated in any sphere
of life.
Her books, which are read and re-
read by the people of the south, are a
Joy and delight to the entire literary
T world, and as each new contribution
appears. there is a demand for her books
probably a greater demand than fore
those of any other woman writer OF to-
day.
Her latest novel, "Hagar," is tho story
OF thoroughly modern American wo-
man-southern by BIRTH cosmopolitan by
force of circumstances, a suffragist by
conviction, and a home lover by every
womanIy instinct.
In "Hagar'' Miss Johnston has writ
ten the book that her admirers have
always wished fora powerful story of
the present day. "Hagar" is the story of
a girls life-a girl born in Virginia in the
years following the war, when woman
was still being set apart on a pedestal,
content for the most part to be moro
worshiped than understood.
Through the changing eighties and
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TAKE SALTS IF YOUR BACK HURTS
SAYS DRUGS EXCITE THE KIDNEYS

Drink lots of water-you can't drink
too muchi also get from any pharma-
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in glass of water
before breakfast each morning for
few days and your Kidneys will act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice. com
bined with lithia, and has been used for
generations to clean and stimulate
clogged kidneys; also to neutralize the
acids in urine so it no longer Is a
source of irritation. thus ending blad-y
der weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot in
ture: makes delightful effervescent
lithla water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep their
kidneys clean and active, Try this, also
keep up the water drinking, and no
doubt you will wonder what became or
your kidney trouble and backache.
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many foreign cities visited with her
father. the New York apartment, and
finally the little French village where 1a-
gar's own romance comes to her-all are
sketched with a brilliant touch which
puts them in their right places as inte-
gra1 parts of the story.
"Hagar'' is frankly feministic through
out, yet it Is by no means an exposition
of the Cause. II Is a love story and will
be read with interest by all who enjoy
a well written novel, regardless of opin-
ions on social or political questions.
Among the beautiful encomiums which
have been passed upon Miss Johnston and
her books, none is more complimentary or
covers the sub ect more completely than
Meredith Nichosons. which In substanc
is as follows:
We have. in Miss Johnston a writer
who has been exceedingly fortunate at
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Salts Harmless to Flush Kid
neys and Neutralize Uric
Acid, Thus Ending
Bladder Trouble

When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with lot
of drugs that excite the kidneys and ir-
ritate the entire urinary tract Keep
your kidneys clean like you keep your
bowels clean, by flushing them wiz
mild, harmless salts which removes the
bodys urinous waste and stimulates
them to their normal activity. The
function of the kidneys is to filter the
blood. In "a hours they strain from ii
500 grains of acid and waste, so we can
readily understand the vital tmpor-
tance of keeping the kidneys active.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-07
"SHALI, WOMEN VOTE 90

Sf1AiLl4 NOMf4N NOIEs
"A BOOK FOR MEN. BY Conway Whit
tie Sans The Neale Publishing Com
pany. publishers, New York
The expectation. raised by the title of
this book will not be disappointed in its
contents. Here is a book in which the
whole subject of suffrage is argued out
in the ablest and most incontrovertible
way by lawyer who has studied the con-
struetion of society. past and present and
utters this work In order to help prevent
society's destruction, which he feels is
threatened by woman's changed attitude
toward man.
As every one who reads must Know, the
question "Shan Women Vote?'' has been
universally discussed, but almost invari-
ably from the standpoint of the suffrag-
cite. THE counter argument" as MIR.
Sans Justly claims, has not been ade-
quately stated" Here. then. for the first
time fair and generous attempt is made
to arrest the Threatened decentralization
of woman by teaching her to respect the
DEGREES that We're established by the
greatest OF all iudges--the Creator of the
Universe, To this end the author dis
cusses with breadth and freedom the re-
lations of husband and wife. father and
child and in a critical conclusion sums
up the dangers that would arise If the
capricious political whims of women
should be seriously regarded.
Mr., Sans has called his book "a Book
for Men," 1t is, however. more essen
TALLY book for women--women who are
wise enough to be willing to be instructed
In the highest standards, and who do not
yearn to destrict their sphere of author
ity to the blind dropping of a ballot in the
ballot box.
Is suffrage a disaster or a blessing? Tt
the man or woman who sincerely wishes
to know what womans rights and priv
ileges are, the answer is given in "Shall
Women Vote?"
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FRUIT LAXATIVE FOR SICK CHILD
GIVE CALIFORNIA SYRUP Of FIGS

and you have well, playful child again.
When Its little system is full of cold,
throat sore, has stomach ache, diarrhoea,
ineigestion, colic-remember a good liver
ana bowel cleaning should always be the
first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep california
Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a tea
spoonful today saves sick child tomor-
row. Directions for babies, children of all
ages and grown-ups are plainly on each
bottle.
Ask your druggist for 80 cent bottle
OF california Syrup of Figs" Beware
of counterfeits sold here. Get the gem
uine, made by California Fig Syrup
Company" Refuse any other fig syrup
with contempt
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Cleanses Tender Little StOm-
ach, Liver, Bowels With
out Injury

Every mother realizes that this is the
ehildren's ideal laxative and physic, be-
cause they love its pleasant taste and
1t never fails to effect a thorough in
side cleansing" without gripping.
When your child is cross, irritable,
feverish, or breath Is bad, stomach sour,
look at the tongue, motherl Ii coated,
give a teaspoonful of California Syrup
of Figs" and in few hours all the
foul. constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out OF the bowels
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And Inkes Would Cease

Did you ever stop to think what would
happen if there was no such thing as an
4 know what YOU want me to say.
.'what?"
THAT IL there wasn't there wouldn't
be anything for about 80 per cent of tho
short story writer's 10 hang their action
interest upon"
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in daylight, but Mr.. Cook keeps a
light on in the incubators for an extra
four or five hours, so that chickens
pick and scratch until quite late at
night their growth being accelerated
during the winter months by almost
one third
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-07
'TIARPER's BOOK FOR YOUNG NAT
URALISTS''

By Alpheus Hyatt Verrill. Harper Broth
ers. publishers, New York.
Written with the aim of helping boy
collectors to gather and arrange their COL
lections inteligently, 1t is difficult to i'm
agine a book more valuable or interest
ing to every boy than ''Harper's Book
for Young Naturalists.' by Alpheus
Hyatt Verrill. Here are no dry discus
SONS of species, no long technical terms
to frighten the boy, but valuable sugges-
tions and directions from actual expe-
rience. Taxidermy, trapping, catching,
and mounting insects, dredging at the
seashore-all are explained. Directions
are also given for the making of mu-
scum; then follow the divisions devoted
to birds and bird nests; insects. Ash, rep
tiles and batraohiRns; mammals, marine
invertebrates, rocks, minerals and fossils,
Indian relics and botanical collections.
The illustrations are all original and
many unique photographs show the SUBJ
jects in their natural haunts and atti-
tudes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-07
"PEG q, MY HEART,

PEG o. MY HEART
"a COMEDY OF YOUTH BY J. Hart
ley Manners. Illustrated by Martin JUS
tice Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers
New York.
Probably the most original noveliza-
tion of a drama extant is that of Peg o.
My Heart 1t is by Hartley Manners,
author of the play, and its unusual fea-
ture is that as far as the book and its
interests are concerned the career of
young Peg in the house of Chichester
which is the entire substance of the COM
edy now on view in the Cort theatre,
New York, becomes only an incident.
The central character is not Peg, but
taht unseen parsonage who figures in al
most every episode and of whom Peg
continually speaks-her father.
Frank Owen OConnell, patriot and ex-
lie, is the prototype of Mr.. Manners tale.
Mr.. Manners spent the summer at
Larchmont, and there the concluding
chapters of the novel were finished
He himself tells the story.
when Peg became known as a gen.
uine success. says the author, 'I re-
ceived the customary propositions of
hack novelization. These came from the
monthles and from the evening papers
and weekly newspaper magazines which
run fiction features, especially of the
popular sort. I rejected them all; first,
because always feel that what one can
buy for cent or a nickel, or at most
10 cents will scarcely command S2 one
often passes the known drama of cheap
novelzation up for the unknown play
which is all mystery and all enehant-
ment-and perhaps infinitely poorer, save
for its plots ascetic concealment For an
other thing, Peg has been a very dear
child of my brain, and didn't want to
see her vivisected by the ruthless hand
of the gangster-fctioner My plays may
or may not be art. but I can't stand
them to be geographically chromoed.
: Nevertheless, l struggled through 1000
words-and the paper seemed green when
as soon as the ink was dry. | stole fur
tive looks at the tale. When l had my
20, 600 worls destroyed the whole thing
L then made a new and braver start
q start which had better be called des-
perate sortie. This time I reached the
start which had better be called a des-
perate sortie. This time I reached the
15, 900 mark, and then I was deepr in the
slough of despond than ever. If any New
York newspaper man, no matter how high
or low, ever wrote piffle SO banally pif-
fish as that, he should not only be dis
charged, but sent to an institute for
sprained mentalities I burned that copy.
'I did not Immediately start to write
again. On the contrary ] removed my
self from Peg and from the immediate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-07
THE FRIENDLY ROAD

BY David Grayson. Illustrated by Thomas
. Fogarty, Doubleday, Page & Co, pub
fishers, New York.
Are you tired of the humdrum? And
who is not, at times? Even David Gray
son, that master of optimism, who de-
lighted us with his Adventures in Con-
tentment' and Friendship" grew weary
and so we find him dropping his work,
shouldering his pack, and with only a tin
whistle and his thoughts for company,
taking to the open road. Why not jog
along with him and meet the friends
he made upon the "Friendly Road?e And
rightly does he call it the Friendly
Road" The Clark family, the Road Men
der. the young minister, and even the
boys who come forth to the tune of his
whistle, all respond to his gentle and
charming personality as he laughs and
whistles, lends helping hand and talks
of many things" upon the way.
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also begin to care for its demure parody
of the manner i'm which the old narratives
of adventures were written, when adVen-
ture had yet half of the world to make
known to the other half"
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (REVIEWS
LATER).
ADVENTURES. BY Jack London
The Macmillan Company. publishers, New
York
KING EDWARD AS I KNEW HIM"
BY c. w Stamper. Dodd, Mead & CO.,
publishers, New York
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freedom of Thy children and do the work
of the day in cheerfulness and hope.
Whether Thou leadest us to joy or sor-
row, pleasure or pain, success or failure.
grant us to learn the secret of Thy peace
and to do Thy will. Amen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-07
"GrIJJvER,s TRAVELS"

LILY Elk = I kA ' ELS
BY Jonathan Swift. G-emuel Gulliver).
With an Introduction by William Dean
Howels and more than leo illustrations
by Louis Rhead Harper Brothers. pub
fishers. New York.
An old friend in new dress is "Gul-
liver's Travels" beautifully gotten up
with magnificent Illustrations from the
clever pen of Louis Rhead and a most
entertaining introduction by the hon
ored Mr.. William Dean Howells.
Beautifully bound and ornamental to a
degree, excellent type. and altogether a
splendid addition, "Gulliver's Travels is
delight to the scholar and a joy to the
reader of the classics.
, Mr.. Howels. whose word concerning
literature is always scholarly. says:
My knowledge of this book foreran
the sort of personal acquaintance which
! made with it when | came to read IT,
for it was one Of the great books in diff
ferent literatures which my father told
me of, and taught me to love from his
own love of them. Just when it came
into my life direct from the author
could not say. but I seen to remember
scrubby little volume, apparently sec
ond-hand. which | used to treasure wher
I was about 10 or IL years old: treasure
next to Goldsmith's History of Greece. -
and value it. with its rude woodcuts, al.
most as | valued Cervantes's Don QuiX.
! ote. My father had told me of the satir-
ical intent of Swift in writing the book
but | did not grasp the notion very close.
| lY; perhaps some phrases of it were
! blinked in my scrubby little volume, al
| l dare say they may be In this large
| handsome one; or perhaps Swift was moi
always very mindful of his purpose him
self. 1t was all we'll enough for him tt
make a mock of the puerile nature of tn,
quarrels between France and England II
| the disputes of the Lilliputians, but If h'
could not always keep that up he coulc
never forbear the far more subtle ant
sanative irony which plays through thes,
i most delightful studies of human nature
| l should not expect the boys, or ever
the girls who (more than grown people
will delight in the witchery of one O.
| the most amSing fables ever invented
to feel the play of this under-current II
| 1t. 1t will be quite enough for them tC
| float about its surface of adventure anc
let it bear them at will to the coasts o.
| the pygmies and giants of that fairy
! world which the story visits and sojourn!
in. But wish the elders of such reader.
| could, when these have glutted them
| tice the admirable gravity with whicl
| the scheme is maintained and If possibl,
make them feel the beauty of the exqus
| itely simple and lucid style; no better
| style in English prose was ever written
| or can be. because there is never any.
| thing better than entire simplicity and
| lucidity. When the young people have
| learned to prize this they will. perhaps
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story. and surveyed the situation | had
contracted to write something. vet | saw
that the customary novelization would
In any event prove worse than useless
so | seized up OConnell, and l Won
dered that I had not thought of him be-
fore The opening of the novel is 20 years
preceding the beginning of that small
portion of the tale which forms the play.
We are with O'Connell the fiery but i'm
practical young patriot OF Ireland. We
see his wooisg, his marriage to an En-
glish lady who loves and believes in him.
his migration to America, his deprva
tions. his happiness in spite of his poverty
his ultimate tragedy In the illness and
death of that lovely flower his wife,
and the growing silver lining to his cloud
of woe in his baby daughter Peg. a bub-
bling spring of sweetness, sunshine and
good cheer tempered by just touch of
racial melancholy. There are my char
acters, and l hope that I've told the story
In a way that will make them prove as
real TO other people as they We're to me.