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harked intently. but he could neither
see nor hear evidences of giant.
A peaceful windmill stood waving
it's arms in the stiff breeze. Suddenly
there was a snort from a rudely awak-
ened horse. and a clatter OF tlnWare
like a familiar brand Of automobile
getting under way. With has lance
poised high above his head. Don
Quixote de la Mancha charged wildly
into the revolving arms OF the wind
mill.
Slippity. slappity. slack!
The lance snapped short. the horse
reeled in indignation. and the rider
was tossed ignominiously to sitting
position many yards away. The wind
mill kept on turning.
"Pick me that cute little daisy, Dull
cinea." smiled the Don, as Sancho hur-
ried to his side to administer first aid.
The horse Rocinante merely rolled
the disguised whites of his eyes at
Sancho Panza, and said nothing.
X X y x
0rUESS that giant won't bother
anybody any morew exclaimed
Don Quixote. proudly. as he collected
himself of the ground.
Then the knight and his henchman
resumed their glorious march.
Down the highway came a party of
monks, escorting the buxom neighbor
of the Don's, who was renowned for
her skill in sailing pork.
Hist! 'Tis the fair Dulcinea," whis-
pered Don Quixote. The villains have
captured the fair princess"
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Good Homemade Candy.

Peanut Butter Fudge-Cook to-
gether two cups granulated sugar
two tablespoons peanut butter and
one-half cup sweet milk until 1t forms
a soft ball when dropped into cold
water. Add one teaspoon vanilla. cool
and beat until creamy.
Pour into buttered plate and when
nearly cold cut into small squares.
Crackerjack-Crack is some
thing that is enjoyed by both old and
young.
lard can full of the corn take two
and one-half pounds light brown
sugar, two tablespoons glucose, one
cup black molasses. Put on the fire
and add a very little water to dis
solve the sugar.
pound of butter substitute and cook
until Just before it breaks in water.
Take one teaspoon soda lightly
dissolved in water and add just be-
fore you take it from the fire.
When it foams pour it on the corn
two persons-one to mix and one to
pour the liquid.)
when mixed, butter the hands and
spread it on the table. When warm
break into pieces.
Keep in airtight box or can as the
air makes 1t sticky.
Sea Foam Fudge-Take two cups
brown sugar, one-half cup sweet
milk, two egg whites beaten stiff with
one teaspoon sugar added, cup nut
meats.
Cook sugar and milk until it
spreads or forms medium hard ball
in water. Remove from hre and
pour over beaten whites Of eggs
Beat until a light cream; add nut
meats cut up fine. When 1t starts
to harden pour on buttered pan and
cut in squares to cool,
Evening star., 1921-01-02
NEXT PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
NOT OFFICIALLY ELECTED UNTIL FEB g

ing a majority. The electors desired
to have Jefferson for President and
Burr for Vice President, but the Con.
stitution provided no means of their
designating that, and when each re-
ceived the same number of votes the
election for President was thrown
into the House. Jefferson was elected
there. but only after q severe COP
test. This contest led to the adot-
ton of the twelfth amendment,
which provides the present mode OF
election. -E-e
The galleries OF the Heuss wSll
houbuess be crowded to capacity
when Vice President Marshall calls
the Joint session to order at I pm.
on lhe afternoon of the second We'd
nesday In February to ascertain who
really was elected President and Vice
PRESIDENT. 1t is always customary fof
the vice President to solemnly VA
the gaileryites that no applause wHl
be tolerated, which warning. OF
course. Is usually cheerfully disr~-
sarded for. an inning or two. Tia
most exciting phase OF this gathering
occurs when the senators. two by
two. preceded by the sergeant-at-
arms. the Vice President, and tyo
pages toting the boxes containing the
returns. arrive at the entrance to the
House and the chief doorkeeper ex-
citedly announces: .Mr. Speaker. the
Vice President and the senators os
the United States" This assemblage
IL admitted in dignified fashion. am
after all dignitaries are seated sis
boxes are unstrapped and the count
ing takes place.
This year the ceremonies will be
closed by this announcement from
Vice President MARSHALL: II do hereby
declare Warren Gamaliel Harding
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| A CCORDING to the terms Of the
~ Constitution of tho United
IA States. Warren G. Harding
| and Calvin Coolidge are not
oHcially and definitely elected Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United
states until the returns from the
electoral colleges Of each stste are
duly and solemnly tahulatsd by a
joint session Of the Senate and House,
which will be held on the ninth day
of February
The method of electing the Presi-
dent provided by the Constitution fol-
lows: Each state shall appoint, in
such manner as the legislature there
| OF may direct. a number of electors,
| equal to the whole number of senA-
tors and representatives to which the
state may be entitled in Congress;
| but no senator or representative, or
profit under the United States shall
! be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet In their
respective states. and vote by ballot
for President and Vice President. one
| of whom at least, shall not be an in
selves"
The body of electors. when they
meet in their respective states to vote
| for President and Vice President are
| called the electoral college. Congress
may determine the time for choosing
the electors and also the time for
their meeting in the college to choose
| the President. They are now, of
course. elected in the year of the
presidential pr election: on the first
November, the day appointed by an
act of.1s46. BY this act the day for
choosing the electors is the same
| throughout the United States, al
though this is not required by the
Constitution. in all the states the
electors are chosen by popular vote,
and in most of the states the ballot
ing is by the Australian system.
1t is not necessary that the names
of the presidential candidates should
pc upon the naiiot. in point OF law,
for the party candidates. The cleo
tors meet for their final voting in
their respective state capitals on the
second Monday in January. Origi-
nally. by the act of 1892, the meeting
of the electoral college was required
cember. and the popular election was
to be thirty-four days preceding this.
but by the act OF 1887 the second
Monday in January was fixed for the
! meeting of the college. The electors
| meet in their respective state capi-
tails on the same day They organize
by electing one of their number
chairman and by choosing a secretary.
II an elector should die between the
popular election in November and
the meeting of the college, the re-
naming electors may select some ene
to fill the vacancy. The electors bal
lot, all voting for the candidate for
whom they were elected to vote. They
must name In their ballots the person
voted for as President, and in distinct
ballots the person voted for as Vice
President.
The law requires three certificates
of the result of the ballot in each
state to be kept. One is filed with
the Judge of the United States district
court of the electors state; one is
sent by mail and one by messenger
usually one of the electors-to the
President of the United States Senate.
Aecarfling to the Constitution. 9TH
President of the Senate shall, in the
presence of the Senate and House of
Representatives. open all the certifl-
Evening star., 1921-01-02

childhood commenced he determined
to make up for the shortcomings OF
his first.
He imbibed deeply of the paper
backed lore Of the Sixteenth Century.
The adventures OF that age had 1t all
over Jesse James. Jimmy Jesse mere
ly fossed out with his gang and pick
ed of a few rare birds with a flock of
sawed-trigger .44s, while the knights
of Quixada's books eased or with but
q sword and slew armies. giants and
monsters.
0UIXADA took it seriously. He be-
X gan to Thee and Thou,
Madame" his housekeepeF, who fear
ed the worst when she caught him
patching a rusty coat OF mail with
her kitchen utensils. In his zeal to
become a knight, Quixada mortgaged
his property and rented his extra
horse for billboard purposes. Then
he mounted his remaining animal. a
collapsible nag gloriously rechristen-
ed Rocinante. And followed by his
bay window servant. Sancho Panza,
snueiy wedged to a sway-back mule,
he departed in quest of adventure.
The tin roof of a far-off inn he mis-
took for silver. and he hied him
thither. The landlord, behoiding the
crowd Of sight-seers outside. hurried
where's the calliope7" no demand
ed. thinking there was . circus in
town.
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Knight" explained the gentleman on
the horse with the languid neck.
haughtily eyeing the crowd through
the pasteboard patch of his helmet.
You look like Saturday Night al
ready" laughed the inn-keeper. But
Quixada's fat purse bought him new
name and knighthood. The landlord
solemnly christened him Don Quixote
de la Mancha.
Sancho Panza didn't know what it
was all about. especially when his
lanky, gray-bearded master kept talk
ing about a chicken named Dulcinea,
who, he said, had pearls for eyes, SOLID
gold tresses and a complexion as OF
spring flowers. Sancho was trying to
puzzle out what dame like that
would look like. when the Don uttered
a squeal of excitement.
"Hark! 'Tis a giant on the horizon"
Sancho shiyered until his somno-
lent mule shook like a shimmy queen.
He scanned the fields fearsomely and
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beat it. The Don and Sancho nabbed all
the food left in the retreat, repaired
to the tall timber and declared recess.
After a series of minor adventures
they landed for a night at an inn, and
the two hard-worked Grants were soon
lost in slumber Presently the Don
arose, in the midst of a dream that he
was surrounded by fat-stomached
giants. He had no time to don his
armor, and attired only in his abbre-
waited nightshirt and a red cap. he
slashed at the paunches of the giants.
The floor streamed with blood and the
inn-keeper, feeling it trickling down
through the floor, rushed up to discover
that the knights trusty sword had slit
open all his goat-skin wine sacks. teav-
ing his establishment about as attrac-
tive as William j. Bryan's cellar.
Don and Sancho were ingloriously
bounced, and only the curate saved them
from punishment befitting the crime.
The unwearying knight insisted oi
Evening star., 1921-01-02
\ CCORDING to Terms of Constitu-
n tion, Returns From the Electoral
Colleges Of Each State Must Be Duly
and Solemnly Tabulated by Joint Ses-
sion of the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentat1ves

Gates and the votes shall then bs
counted
In close presidential race. sBah
as that between Tilden and Hayes.
the counting of these returns becomes
a serious matter and attracts wide al
tention. This year. however. Vice
President Marshall will experience no
exciting thrills in presiding over the
meeting that will count the electoral
college returns.
The day appointed for the counting
in Congress is the second Wednesday
in February. If no candidate for
President receive a majority of the
electoral votes, then from the three
highest ION the list of those voted
for the House of Representatives.
shall choose Immediately by ballot
the President. But in choosing the
President the votes shall be taken
by states, the representation from
each state having one vote; a
quorum for this purpose shall con-
sist of a member or members from
two-thirds of the states. and a ma
jority of all the states shall be nee
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bZAf.lrexyord

Swiftly he charged into the group
of clerical obesity and felled a fat
monk from his horse Sancho, follow
ing his masters orders, quickly frisk-
ed the other outraged monks, which
is to say he searched them for the
vietor's spoils. Two lads from the
back nabhed him and painfully sepa-
rated him from the shredded wheat
that adorned his chin, and he Shrek
ingly desisted. The Don. rushing to
the rescue of his valet, lost an ear and
half his helmet, but he succeeded in
forcing the victims to kneel before
the fat and f1ustered housewife and
beg the princess pardon.
"Oh, what will my husband say"
walled the emancipAted heroine. He
will never believe that L didn't make
eyes at this old nut"
The Don took her tears to be joyful
ones, and he and Sancho, suffering
only from the subtraction of an ear
and a few handfuls of beard, departed
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elected President of the United States
for the term beginning March 4tf.
1921" An announcement along simi"
lar lines will inform the world this
Mr.. Coolidge of Boston will shQrtrt
fill the job now being held down q
Mr.. Marshall.
The boxes containing the ballots az.
ways become the personal property =;
the retiring Vice President. They a. =
well worth having, because they a.
uerfect specimens of the cabinet,
makers art, made of polished ma
hogany and cleyerly inlaid wite
hollywood and redwood. These boxss )
are made every four years by II;
Senate carpenter under the person 4
direction of the sergeant-at-arms.
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essary to a choice In the election
of the Vice President. if a majority
of the electoral college do not unite
on a candidate, then from the two
highest on the list the Senate shall
choose the Vice President; quorum
for the purpose skall consist of two
thirds OF the whole number of sena-
tors. a majority of the whole number
being necessary to a choice"
X X j.
If no President is elected by either
the electoral college or the House be-
fore the expiration of the current
presidential term on the 4th of March
following, and il a Vice President
should be elected by that time, the
Evening star., 1921-01-02
Not Fair.

UH G.. WELLS, Bertrand Russell
and many other writer's" said
a noted lawyer. "after flying trips to
Russian conditions. They are doomed
to failure for it is only after a long
residence that one can speak authori-
tatively about foreign country.
Otherwise We are apt either to ideal
ize everything or we are too severe
and make wounding, false criticisms.
Like the Englishman.
"An Englishman." he continued,
during a months flying trip over our
country unfortunately had his pocket
picked.
"Americav he exclaimed to a friend.
America, the land of the free-and
easy,'"
Evening star., 1921-01-02
Expected 1t White.

s. A MERICANS travelling for the
first time in Europe" said a sem
stor. display provincial crudeness in
many ways. but the faux pas Boston
leather profteer made in fashiona-
BILE Partisan restaurant was pardon
able. Thanks to prohibition, he was
quite uninitiated in the matter of ta-
BILE wines-he had made his pile after
we went dry.
"'Holy smoke, waiter this profiteer
exclaimed, haughtily. look what
you've brought me-yellow wine when
I asked you for whiter"
Evening star., 1921-01-02

for President and which for Vice
President. The person receiving the
greatest number of votes was to be
President, provided that number were
a majority of all the ELECTORS ap-
pointed, and after the choice of the
President the one receiving the next
highest number of votes should be
Vice President. no matter whether
the votes cast for him be a majority
or not.
John Adams was elected Vice Presi-
dent in 1889, although he did not re-
ceive half the votes. This system
soon led to confusion and to a dis
puted election. In the election of
1900 Jefferson and Burr each received
the same number of votes, each hav-
Evening star., 1921-01-02

seeing Dulcinea again. but he was dis
appointed.
They all look good when they're ia
away" he sighed. she merely frovsy
farmers wife, with cows tail append
ages instead Of golden plaits- The more
1 see of women the better I like adven
turing"
He sought out a Duke and Duches
and urged that they make him Kin.
of some quiet island. but he found ther.
unappreciative like the rest of the woYd
At length he returned home with his
faithful Sancho.
Il guess i've been reading too much
summer fiction, Sancho." he .muttered
wearily.
Evening star., 1921-01-02
Plenty of Practice.
lloyd GEORGE, the English p

LLOYD GEORGE, the English prime
l. minister. who was formerly the
chancellor of the excheQuer. and IN
this capacity levied all taxes. has a
happy wit
At gathering Of ex-soidiers recent
ly in their club at Colwyn Bay. North
Wales, he said that he once tried to
play billiards
II could generally hit one ball. but
not two" said the prime minister. Il
could never get into the pocket" h
added, although as chancellor OF
exchequer for 1--WE years I had 4
nothing but get into pocketA
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f'rsfl'p'isn efsSiafs that this Vice
President shait bsesfaN President until
an eleHtiep OF 3 rrssldsbt ia accom-
fbssbs1 II tslfhsr President nor
wee President Ds elected by March
=, the Constitution does not Indicate
wh" shall act as President. and mo-
body IN vested with power to de-
,ermins the question. There would
be an intsrrcRbum. unless the exist
ing President and Vice President
should reEign before the close of
their term, in which care. by the
provisions of the presidential sue
cession bill. the Secretary Of state
would act an President until an cleo
tion be made. The Constitution at
present does not provide that an ex-
lsting President shall hold Office until
his successor be elected.
The above Is the process prescribed
by the twelfth amendment to the
Constitution. Formerly, before this
amendment was adopted, the electors
might vote for two persons without
designating which one was intended
Evening star., 1921-01-02
DON QUIxoTE

AY off the wild oats in your
youth. and it's a hundred to
one chance they'll crop out in
your dotage.
Such was the case with old man
Quixada. He was a harmless. stringy-
necked individual for some score OF
years, when the dime novel craze that
had been suppressed in his youth
slipped up on him and beaned him. At
the age when he wore freckles on his
front elevation, he had been denied
chewing gum, licorice and Dead-Eye
Dick Romances, SO when hts second
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gayly down the big road.
The journey continued without fur
ther engagements, until they came upon
pasture whereon grazed a school OF
sheep.
AT last-an army!" shouted the Don.
"An army led by kings attired in tin
king armor."
He shouted his battle-cry and swept,
like the shell from a Big Bertha, straight
into the COB of sheep. The victory was
SO easy that he stood high in his STIR
rups and crowed:
"Where, oh. where art thou, o naughty
Olifanfaron!
Fright here. you dirty bum!" shouted
the shepherds. running to the aid OF
their sheep. with their hands full OF
alley apples and Spanish onions. They
stoned the victorious Knight. and beat
him until his two pet teeth were miss
ing. Sancho saved him and suggested
that maybe they'd been chivalrous
enough.
But they carried on until they came
to funeral procession. with twenty
cIergymen in flowing robes accompany
ing q, black-shrouded hearse.
TITS some knight they have slain.
L the varlets !" cried Don Quixorc.
'I shall revenge him."
Again he flew into the ensemble, slash
ing at flying robes with his bent and
twisted sword. The clergymen tripped
and stumbled over their garments. and
Evening star., 1921-01-02
BY HI. o. BISHOP.

AX yHAT does Father Tom
That. in substance, is
the question flashed by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-18
FUNERAL SERVICES 1
 OF JOHN E. TAYLOR
Former Business Man of City Died Suddenly on Train-Funeral
 Here Today

John F.. Taylor, age AS. died suddenly late yesterday afternoon on an Ala bama and Nioksburg train while en route from Jackson to Birmingham
 He was accompanied on the train oy his brother. former Mayor Swep Taylor of Jackson, Miss.
 The deceased was well known in Birmingham and for many years was engaged in the wholesale grocery busl-
 ness here. About a year ago he lele the city because of i'll health Wnile he travelled through many of the bor- der states he has lived most of the time in Texas He had been to Jack
 son to visit his brother and was on
 the way to pay a visit to his brothers
 at/ Birmingham, when he was suddenly
 taken ill on the train and died lew
 minutes later. The body will arrive in
 the city this morning on an early tram
 and will be taken in charge by Llge Loy.
 Funeral services will be held from the residence of his brother. r. N. Tay- szl5 Norwood boulevard th:s aft ernoon at o'clock. Burial in Elm
 wood cemetery Rev. George R. stuart of the First Methodist church, of which the deceased was member, will ot- ficiate.
 He is survived by fodr brothers and one sister. They are: Mrs l.. F. Giddens of Montgomery, s. J. Taylor of Jackson, Miss, and Henry A. Taylor ot Greensboro, Ala, and F. N. and C. T. Taylor of Birmingham. Active pail bearers will be: Harry Denman, Gus Brown, J. o. Taylor, N. M. Wilson, R. Y Harvey. Ben Beard, L. D. Burr and R. l.. EzeI. Honorary pallbearers the stewards Of the First Methodist church
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-18
LYRIC EMPL0YES
 GO 100 PER CENT
Twelve European Children Have Chance to Live by Gen.
 erosity of the Lyric Force

Although the official appeal in Bir- mingham and over Alabama at large for funds to help save, the lives of Eu- ropes millions of starving children, does not open until February 19, many individuals and some business esta5 lshments are not awaiting the coming of appeal workers to make donations to the cause.
 The Lyric theatre is the first or ganization in Birmingham to go "10o per cent for the appeal. J. 1T. Ayers, manager of the theatre yesterday turned over to J. Kirkrnan Jackson, Alabama treasurer of the European re- lief council, a check for $120 which will keep F children alive until next harvest time. The check represented the donation of every man and woman employed by the Lyric theatre. Office workers. electricians, ushers, stage hands-everyone made a donation to the general fund that was to be turned over to help save Europes dying little ones.
 So somewhere in the war-ruined countries of central and eastern Flu rope, an even dozen little boys and girls will grow to manhood or wom : anhood, thanking the Lyric employees ] for their chance to live. Without that ! check for s120, these 12 children must 1 have died.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-18
F FARMERS URGED
 ID HOLD COTTON
Cotton Association to Discuss Uniform System of Diversi-
 fled Crops

Representative farmers and business men from all parts of the state are ex- pected to attend the meeting of the Ala bama division of the American Cotton association, which convenes at the court house at Montgomery. Wednesday, Jan uary PC, at 19.SO a. m.
 The call for the meeting, which is signed by will Howard Smith of Pratt
 ville, president of the association, and other officers and members of the execu-
 tive committee, provides for a general discussion of the present situation as
 affects cotton farmers and the various
 business interests, and prosides plans foi agreeing upon some uniform system wlih
 the beat as the unit for safe and sane diversificaton in the planting of all crops this year.
 There will he free and open discus
 sion of the objects of the association what it has done and what it expects to accomplish. All state, county and bea officers and members are invited to at tend, as well as bankers, merchants, job bers, warehousemen, cotton seed oil man ufacturers aad other business men wEt may be affected by the situation in the agricultural sections.
 [ Officers of the association especially urge all holders of cotton not to sell any of it until afrer that meeting, as It f anticipated that plans may, be evolved which will result in better price ulti mately for the staple than is now pre- vailing
 Joseph o. Thompson of Birmingham general manager of the Alabama il vision, and other business men from Bir hmingham and north Alabama are to p' 1 in attendance. 1t is stated.