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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-09

howled, Now I don't know what to do!'
 "Then I'll tell you" Raggedy Andy replied, Both straws are not the shortest. They are both the long, est, So that means you can't eat either of us first.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-09
GENERAL SUMTER
 CHAPTER MEETS


 General Sumter chapter. D. A. R., met with Mrs. A. M. Marshall. The assistant hostesses were Mrs. w. c. Lloyd, Mrs. Alex Mcintyre. Mrs. J. F. Donohoo, Mrs. Julian T. Dixon, Mrs. $. E. Green. Mrs. John J. LaPage. Mrs. F. w. Mckinley rendered a beautiful vocal solo, accompanied by Mrs. Dent. Mrs. E. A. Richey gave a nice talk on Real Daughters" Election of delegates to go to Wash ington was held. Mrs. John w. Pat ton, Mrs. R. B. Smyer. Mrs. w. H Smith, Miss Maud Kelley, Miss Isla Smith, Miss Alma Burgamy, Mrs. J M. Berry. Mrs. F. E. Pou. Mrs. F. W Mckinley, Mrs. J. F. Donohoo were the successful candidates.
 Mrs. J. F. Montgomery of Ashville Ala. and Mrs. John D. Head of Brompton, Ala, were present at the meeting. TAe tables were decorated with red carnations and red candles A delightful buffet luncheon was served at l o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-09
MISS BARRETT IGNORED IN DANVHLE. VA.

Miss Jamie Barrett of this city, who is visiting Mrs. T. A. Weller in Dan- vile, Va, is being extensively enter tained notes one of the Danville pa pers.
 "A bridge tea was given Tuesday afternoon by Miss Margaret Jordan in honor of her house guest. Miss Mary billiard Harbor and Miss Jamie Barrett, the guest of Mrs. T. A. Well Ter.
 Bridge was played at four tables and Miss Katherine James won the prize, two. decks of cards, and the honorees each received bottle of L. Origan perfume. Delicious sand wiches and tea were served at the conclusion of the game.
 "The guests were: Mrs. Richard Harris of Lynchburg, Mrs. R. A. James, Hiss Mary Dillard Harbor, Miss Jamie Barrett, Miss Elizabeth Penn, Miss Annie James, Miss Marie Penn, Miss Hortensia Lucas, Miss Marion Boatwright, Miss Mary Tenn pie. Miss Catherine Taylor. Miss Emma Smith, Miss Ann Spencer, Miss Martha Fitzgerald" Besides this party Miss Barrett has been the guest at bridge luncheons, teas and numerous other parties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-09

PARIS types separate spring sketched the left the little suede Paris being enthusiastic It both light dark coos and  crepe gener y straight paed of Hee
Evening star., 1923-12-02

ing chief photographer. said. 1t is
displayed. under glass, in the front Of
the library's second floor.
Printing of the mammoth T'u Shu
Chinese encyclopedia has been called
"the greatest typographical feat the
world has ever seen.
Three years were required to print
it's $3.50 volumes with their 100000
pages. These pages hold from 100,-
100000 to 140.000.000 Chinese charac-
ters. scholars estimate. The table of
contents alone is forty volumes" Mr..
Slade stated.
The encyclopedia fills $50 feet of
shelf, space in the library. II these
rows of books were Joined into a sin
gle shelf and that shelf stood on end
II would tower almost half as high as
the Washington Monument. The en-
cyciopedia's $3.50 volumes, each a
fraction of an inch less than one foot
long, laid top of one to bottom of
next, would form a path of literature
from the Capitol to the Treasury.
Some aged Chinese students have
read the entire work once. read it
half through again and memorized
several volumes, library attendants
said.
The library's copy of the T'u Shu
was given to the United States by
the Emperor of China in 1908. 1t was
printed in Shanghai.
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will be large urn, six feet in height,
be kept continuously burning for all
time to commemorate the patriotic
heroisnn of the south.
\ the base of the mountain, on the
right of Memorial Hall, where
recess in the precipice forms a
natural sounding board of immense
power. will be built the ampitheater,
huge granite structure rivaling the
Colosseum of ancient Rome. Granite
removed from Memorial Hall will
supply the material. At the back OF
the stage, in. a blocked-out incision.
in the recess. will be built the worlds
greatest pipe organ.
Such. in brief outline, is Gutzon
Borglums plan which has thrilled
In every country having any art or
education, ii has been received with
boundless enthusiasm.
President Harding. short time be-
fore his death, wrote stirring letter
describing the memorial as the
eighth wonder of the world" History
affords nothing comparable to il,
either as monument or a work OF
art.
Solon Borglum. a brother OF Gut
zon. was first chosen to direct the
giant task. Unfortunately the out
break of the war delayed all plans
and during the war Solon Borglum
died. Great was the quandary of the
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial
Association. an organization which
is headed by Hollins N. Randolph Of
Atlanta, as to what sculptor could
best carry on the project. All worry.
however, ended when Gutzon offered
his services.
Work was really commenced upon
the mountain Virginia day, June Is,
1923. In honor of the occasion, Gov.
E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia and men,
bers of his staff went to Atlanta
to participate with Gov. Thomas w.
Hardwick of Georgia in the exercises
A great multitude assembled in front
of the mountain and heard speeches
delivered through and immense brass
megaphone from a platform 500 feet
below the summit.
Mr.. Borglum's first task was to
paint on the precipice an outline of
the figures of the central group. This
was done by means of a powerful
projection lantern donated to the
memorial by Edwin Porter OF the
Precision Machine Company. A small
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tion as the county clerks position
was now vacant.
The next record we have OF a duel
is the famous duel in upper Silesia
between Gus Parsons of Asia Minor
Harold Gelfreich. The argument
started when Mr.. Parsons asked Mr..
Gefreich why he always slept in an
upper.
At that time, the rules of dueling
in upper Silesia was to the effect
that the two belligerents or PETERS
was to meet the next morning and
try to pull each others teeth. Each
had to be a dentist graduated from
the University OF Pennsylvania. The
both of them was armed with a. for
cepts and the code provided that the
adversary had to keep his mouth
open.
These two fellows feinted at one
another for three days until finally
one of them yawned, exposing three
CANNES. His opponent, Mr.. Parsons,
took advantage of the situation IL
Thus honor was satisfied.
From that point on, dueling has
become more and more laughable. In
April of 1925 there occurred the duel
which revolutionized all previous ef-
forts in the art Of dueling. This oc-
Cured in Galatia and as luck would
have it, the argument was ever a
WOMAN. One said she had been to a
manicure and the other gave a car
castle laugh. This brought on . funny
situation.
In less time than It takes to tell
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about it, Harvey Nichols, an entire
stranger, had been called cut anc toll
that the honor If Worville Jauch. the
Galatian, must be satisfied. So Har-
vev happened to ask what was the
method of dueling in ,taa. country. He
was told that the event was put on
With dice.
Each duelist was provided with a
Set of two dice. If one Of them made
a pass, the other was SUPPOSED to get
rid of himself in a quiet way. But
If the loser was dissatisfied with the
way the dice was shook, he couil de.
mand new shake. In this way
some of the GaIatian duels lasted for
two or three years and the man who
was not exhausted by the end of that
time felt a whole lot better.
THE last great duel of international
proportions took place three sum-
mers and seven winters ago and was
all based on the frantic jealousy of
two brothers. Both of them wanted
to go to high school and neither could
pass the entrance examination, so
they decided to fight duel. This
took place in Sweden and the boys
names was both Halam. The elder
was named Hugh after his father and
the other was numbered.
The rules of dueling in that ceun-
try at that time was that you stood
at a certain distance from each other
and pulled each others noses. At the
end of a hr. and a 1-2 the judges
measured the noses and the one that
had been pulled the furthest. why Its
owner lose. Hugh was entitled to Q
draw.
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Research Made by Ring Lardner

"O the editor: have been asked
by couple of feeble minded
friends from a small county in
Minnesota to write a article
on the subject Of duels which accord
ing to the best advices is one Of the
Invest problems facing the world to-
day, second only to the question Of
whether marked cards should be used
in solitaire. Dueling has became so
prevalent that a person can't hardly
pick up a newspaper without having
a hunch that the news Of some big
duel has been suppressed.
This condition naturally has reused
world wide interest in the topic and
the general public Is in fever to
know the different kinds Of dueling in
vogue in different countries and the
rules governing same and 1t Is the
purpose of this article to describe
same.
The origin OF dueling is so impos-
sible to understand that 1t becomes
laughable. The first authentic duel
probably took place in the 10th CEN
tury between q man named Geo. Bur-
den and the county clerk of Para
quay, South America. These two fell
lows got into a brawl concerning the
relative merits Of their rival parchesi
boards.
It was decided that the matter
should be settled by a hand to hand
fight, using the stypic as a weapon.
The stypic is long handled butchar's
cleaver and the man that gets in the
first punch generally always wins.
These two fellows fought for one
hr. and 30 minutes and at one time
nearly came TO blows. The final re.
suit WAS the calling Of q special elec-
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Capitol. A book upon which two men
can sit without touching each other.
These curiosities-the smallest book
in the world, the longest printed
work in the world and the largest
book in America. respectively-are in
the Library of Congress here In
Washington.
The smallest book is a copy of the
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The
longest work is the T'u Shu Chinese
encyclopedia. The largest book is
John James Audubon's Birds of
America"
The midget Rubaiyat is only three
eighths of an inch long. three-eighths
of an inch wide and one-eighth Of an
inch thick.
Letters In the book. even those on
the title page, are SO tiny that they
can be read only with the aid of
very powerful magnifying glass.
The books forty-eight pages of thin
Japan paper are stitched daintiiy to-
gether and bound In green paper.
"The minuteness was made possible
by photographic reduction of a larger
copy of the Rubaiyat. The miniature
was acquired by the Library of Con-
gress in 1900" William A. Slade. act
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The memorial will comprise three
other features-a memorial hall near
the foot of the mountain, a large am
phitheater on the right side, on the
plains. and an artificial lake on the
left.
Memorial Hall will be quarried out
OF the mountain Immediately under
meath the central group. Thirteen
incislons will be made for removing
the granite and when the hall is An
ished these openings will form the
windows and central entrance, thir-
teen in number, each one dedicated to
a Confederate state. The length of
Memorial Hall will be $50 feet, rum
ming parallel with the face of the
precipice. 1t will go back into the
mountain sixty feet deep and will
be forty feet high from floor to CELL
ing. Floor. walls and ceiling will be
formed by the body OF the mountain.
No building material will be intro
duced into the hall except immense
bronze doors in the entrance, in the
center, and bronze frames and stained
glass in the windows Along the
front Of Memorial Hall will sweep a
broad granite esplanade. formed by
cutting a shelf in the mountain the
length of the hall. A majestic gran
ite stairway will ascend to the en-
trance from the plain.
In Memorial Hall will be gathe cred,
for perpetual safe keeping, the rec
ords and relics of the Confederacy. In
1t will be preserved the names of all
contributors to the fund for the me-
mortal, as well as copies of all Con-
federate rosters In existence, the
roster of each state in a separate re-
ceptacle. On the walls of the hall will
be placed bronze tablets bearing the
names and deeds of Confederate SOL
diers, or others who served the Con-
federacy, in whose memory their de-
cendants gave founders roll con-
tributions OF $1,000 to the fund Like
a shining band of gold these founders
roll tablets will encircle the walls OF
this sacred shrine OF southern mem
ories.
Over the windows and entrance will
be erected very large bronze tablets
bearing the names Of the governors
and statehouse officers Of the thirteen
Confederate states from 1851 to 1865,
together with a summary OF the mill
tary forces contributed by each state
to the Confederacy.
On the floor OF Memorial Hall will
be- thirteen bronze stars to represent
the thirteen states, On the esplanade
Evening star., 1923-12-02

Hay" holla House Detective, what
are you running away with?"
"a bruise on my BRAIN I angle.
mo charge" he support while
changing his musstash to catch some
body who was lifting a shop.
In Musical Dept. nearly bought 13
doz. Funograf needles for Arthur
Kickahjama. Japanese undertaken.
But when Store lady told me they
would not play without a Funograph
I got depressed. In Home Beautiful
Dept. I observe enlarged pile of some
remarkabilous objecks. They was all
surrounded with lace fluff from the
central middle of which arose a candy
portrait of Mrs. Venus.
what you call thoseT I ask to
know from Hon Sails Lady.
Self filling Penwipers," she nego-
tiate.
How fortunate"' I congratulate.
THAT will be the very presant for
Uncle Nichi. He do not know how to
read G. write, but with this 1st Ade
maybe he could learn rapidly. How
muchly you charge for that?"
"3S7$," she communicate.
''Too sad!" otter. With so much
spent together I should have merely
2.13s remainder for all my friends.
And so onwards. Mr.. Editor. What
should I buy for IS to make every
body happiest all at once?
At lastly come to Photo. Dept.
where see something very unnatural.
BUY some genuine postcards of your
portrait.
Make loved ones even more so by
send one of this.
Price rs per doZ."
"Ah there / are settled"' / holla.
with those doz, price 6s, can send
my smile to several persons in Amer
lea and some in Asia. Banzai! 1
adore to be generus when it is cheap"
Therefore 1 make strong burst into
a curio cell amidst light where stood
Hon. Photo manufacturing those
sweet faces from cameras.
20 Mr.. Sir!" I jury. ''Can you make
something entirely beautiful"
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SIR" SOME THING ENTIRELY

Prom what?" he require quite busi-
ness.
My face" I artistick.
IF you turn it upside down" he
bounce. maybe it would look like
Lake Champlain in a fog"
THEREFORE, I permit him to set
me in chair with my hair glued
to iron holder. With one % hand
he sieze up a rubber egg while with
other he hold a species of Bird which
could fiotter it's wing & say Cheap"
when he squeeze it's lung Hon.
Camera gaz at me with Borsheviki
expression.
DO not look at Hon. Camera" he
deploy. for it are not insured very
high"
So l nudge my eyes upward and
when Hon. Bird require Cheap" |
report, mot SO very"
Then snap-snip. Something hap
pen. Growells boil inside Hon
Camera who do not look healthy.
This have been very expensive
year for me-" say Hon. Foto Man with
si & grone. "Howeverly. maybe it
can be fixed with set of new tires.
Name. please. if anyT'
"Hashimura Togo" / ollicute.
every plenty" he dib. II have took
several Silebritties without injerry to
my faithful Camera. Howeveriy,
every Napoleon must meet his Water
Lulu some day. 6s please. And IL
you are alive next Thusdy, report to
this Dept. & 1 will surrender SO bony
fido portraits of your expression. We
sell goods at your own risk"
20 joyful" / relapse. II shall send
those picture to SO persons for Xmas"
"Are you confused?" he dib. do
you umagine that Xmas are Comickal
Valentines Day?"
And with these sad thoughts he
go back to his Face Shooting Gallery
while looking fatigued.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
~ ' Hashimura Togo.
Copyright 1921
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ant for 90 assorted people," denote.
'Pussibly 1 could help you" he be-
gat "Of what species are they?"
almost ALL" divulge. 1.-TWO CD of
them are le-minded."
"You could find something for them
on Book Counter" he report.
"One other of them" / snuggest,
"are very oldy man with lost teeth"
"In Drug Dept" he snuggest. there
are a sail of Sponges this week only.
What nextly?"
Another one ID" I manipulate,
require something to keep him silent
after meals"
"Cigar Dept" he revoke. There
you will find our Porto Reeking pam
tellas, Each one goranteed to burn
three (3) hours. without lighting"
"But presant 1 wish to give are for
a childish infant, aged co." 1 sur
mound.
"Neverthelessly," he dib. ''the prin-
cipal are the same. Maybe you should
look around Store and see what we
contain"
Therefore he walk off, I commence
doing so.
4 \ y \
r SEE many curio sights, Mr.. Editor,
L and Zee I get in danger Of spend.
ing money. In Book Dept. were
knocked senselus by pair of ladies
who was using pretty language while
hitting each other with Story of the
Bible by Hen. van Loony. l could not
stay in such heather surrounding,
therefore I took Hon. Elevator dcwn-
ward to Crockery Dept. where Fair
yg. Lady Demonstrates holla sweet"
ishly. won't you try cup of our
seif-stirring Coffee, free with every
12 lb. can of our Spill Proof Orange
Mamma Laid?"
I almost spend my IS there, but
was saved by a smallish. Caucasian
feminist who was very fast & knock
me into Tinware Dept where hitt
"a fatirons, price .s7$ with. the front
Of my face -
Evening star., 1923-12-02

Dueling In the United States is lin.
tied to a few cases between husband
and wife. The usual procedure is for
the husband to get mad at the wife
and challenge her to q duel. This is
fought with cracker crumbs and the
one that can choke the most cracker
crumbs down the adversary's throat
is a safe bet.
So much for the history OF dueling
and I am certainly glad my Rdmirers
insisted on me writing 1t as 1t has
been on my mind q long vile.
RING w. LARDNER.
Evening star., 1923-12-02

The giant of American bookdom,
Audubon's Birds of America" is
forty inches long, twenty-six and
one-half inches wide and two and
one-fourth inches thick. So large are
its pages that on one Of them a tur-
key is reproduced life size. There
are 435 similar, vividly colored en-
cravings in four equally large vol
umes and the Library of Congress has
the entire set.
The great books are bound in red
horsehide. They have endured ninety
six years of use, for Audubon pre-
sented them to the library in 1927.
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They were published in London and
marketed then for $1,000. Publica-
tion of the books cost about a fifth
of million dollars.
Because OF their value and rareness
patrons are allowed TO consult these
books only with the aid of library
attendant
Although Audubon's Birds in
America" is the largest book on this
side Of the world, Library of Con-
gress officials have learned of still
larger book in the British Museum, Lon
don. 1t is an old Dutch atlas, six
feet long and four feet widen
Evening star., 1923-12-02

sneekretiveness / write you
and ask to know following
- angry question:
What would be good Xmas present
for a japanese gentleman, age SO, un-
able to chew much and fond OF di-
vorce? In religion he are an Ostheo-
sophist. He have had twins twice and
was slightly sick of smallpox in 1894
What gift, presant or donation of a
Yaletide nature would polish up his life
& make it more briter? I ask to know.
This personality to who I mention
are my Uncle Nichi. He already have
a derby hat, which he wear very nicely
with his kinono. So that's this. My
soul feel all wet and disguised to think
Xmas is crolling near & near while I
got such long List of people must get
revenge on by giving something back.
But Uncle Nichi cause me most sor-
row because l axpecht he will leave me
his steamer trunk when he dies, II ever.
What Xmas presant can l give him
that will make him happy without get
ting mad?
Cousin Nogi, who are quite inteilec-
tual in the month of Dec, say follow
ing sagacity:
Togo, why you not buy him Kiddy
kar or Scooter. price 4.0Ss nat? Thusly
he could go from places to places
swiftly with his own rheumatism"
20 shells!' I narrate peevly. "At
sight of such a donation he might get
so mad he would blow out his teeth.
Kiddy Kar indeedly! That are merely
a toything for children"
How dol" snarrel Nogi. Are not
Uncle Nichi in End childhood? There
fore he would guggle with joy for End
childish play
"Katz & Ratz," I jib. So I are still
helplus to think without ade Of Cousin
Nogi or somebody else.
X X X X
Mr.. EDITOR, on my Xmas List got
A'A following individuals that threten
send me something unnecessary on
Dec. 25 & therefore must be struck
back with something equally:
cousin Nogi, who usually send me
q collar buttin, hoping I will find
silk shirt to match 1t. In reply
to this he desires a racehorse
which he can ride to the races.
2--Arthur Kickahajama, japanese un-
dertaker. He like something musi-
cal to keep his customers happy
while waiting. What is 1t?
3-Sydney Katus, jr., who got mar
ried & ought to be cheered uply.
Jumbo Fatomato, Japanese whale-
weight puggalist. He tell me last
week that he like to find some-
thing what would keep Sir John
Dempsey asleep long enough to
count ten U0).
& SO onwards, Mr.. Editor, to in
clude 20 more similar. Since last
week Thusdy, when I commence to
do my Xmas shopping prematurely
have walked in so many Dept. Stores
that warts has grown on my sleeves
from hitting so many ladies In my
way.
Last Thusdy I go to the Golden
Rule Buyzeri prom. dept. store, In
hoping that those Early Shoppers
would stay home till Xmas Fave &
give me chance to swell out slightly.
But such were truthless. Everywhere
/ twisted among counters 1 got
treated very xxx. I was straddling
Hon. Floor, hunting one of my ears
that got pulled of, when Hon. Floor
Marcher come up with vanilla ex-
preston.
'Howdoo," he exolaim. ''F'ur what
are you searching for, IL snything"
II are hunting to buy Xmas pres
Evening star., 1923-12-02

Due TO the fall In tho value OF the
mark. cash registers are now useless
in Germany.
Evening star., 1923-12-02

A BOOK too small to cover a
~ girls fingernail. An encyclo-
. pedia voluminous enough to
reach from the Treasury to the
Evening star., 1923-12-02
PICKING THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Wallace Irwin s Letters Of a Tapanese School bow

To Editor The Star who sometimes
wish for immigration Law to keep
Sandy Claus in Poland.
Evening star., 1923-12-02

SAREST SIR:-In confidentfs
sneekretiveness I write yo
and ask to know following
angry question:
Evening star., 1923-12-02
BY GEORGE ADAMS HOWARD

N everlasting shrine to the
\ glory of the past, a gigantic
4 memorial to. the leaders OF
the southern people, whose