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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
ENGLAND's STATE COACH
From Harper's weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
The English royal coach of state is an
ancient and honorable institution. This
equipage was built in the year 1761, being
first used at the coronation of George
III. Designed by Sir William Chambers,
1t is deemed magnificent piece of state
furniture. 1t weighs about four tons and
its cost was ss75,Ooo.
The body is supported by four tritons,
and the coachman's footboard is a large
shell surrounded by designs of sea plants.
The design of eight palm trees laden
with spols is emblematic of the victories
won by Great Britain over its enemies.
On the roof are shown figures of three
boys adorned with flowers. These repre-
sent the United Kingdom, and they sup
port the imperial crown on their heads. In
their hands they hold the scepter, sword
OF state and other insignia of royalty.
The panels of the upper portion of the
| coach are of beveled glass, the four lower
of copper painted in enamel
The wheels of this coach are in imita-
ton of those of the triumpi1aI oharIots or
OF red morocco leather with ornaments
OF silver gilt, the reins being of crimson
silk and the saddles of crimson velvet en-
broidered with gold.
| The royal coach is not the only snowy
equipage that figures in British state cere-
| monlals. There is the speakers state
coach, said to he the eldest carriage in
England. 1t is still in usable condition.
This coach was built in the seventeenth
century and there is tradition to the ef-
feet that Oliver Cromwell once rode In it.
| I he seat opposite the speaker is occupied
! by the chaplain and train bearer Each
speaker has his coat of arms and crest
inserted among the details of the side
panels.
State carriages, which came to be used
! in England about the middle of the six
teenth century, were introduced from
Germany The first coach ever made in
England was ordered by the Duke of Rut-
| land In 1865. Sixty years later they were
in general use and much rivalry existed
with regard to their splendor and the
number of horses drawing them. In 16zo
| the celebrated Duke of Buckingham as
tcnished London by appearing in a coach
drawn by six horses, and the Earl OF
Northumberland. not to be outdone. i'm
nediately showed himself In a coacn
drawn by eight horses.
Toward the end of the seventeenth CEN
tury the decoration of state coaches
reached its highest degree of splendor.
The interior was lined with brocade silk
or velvet; the wheels also were most or
Late; the nave was thickly embossed the
srokes were shaped and curved and ring
carved or painted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07

A Six Year Term

1.-THE proposed amendment to the-con
stituton of the United States extending
the presidential term to six years and
making the President ineligible for re-
election is, l think, popular with the peo-
ple," said j. ]. Weismann of Chicago.
1T would have been well if Thomas
Jefferson's idea of a seven or eight year
term had been Incorporated in the con-
stitution, but six years is long enough,
perhaps, to enable any statesman to work
out his policies. The -ineligibility clause
is in the Works resolution all right, of
course, but l do not think it should be
retroactive. 1 voted for Colonel Roose-
welt last November and might be ready
to vote for him again in 1916 were he a
candidate.
Senator Works resolution, if it results
in an amendment to the constitution, will
cut out Woodrow Wilson and Theodore
Roosevelt for second term, to say moth
ing of Mr.. Taft, who could hardly expect
to run again. Any amendment adopted
for six year term should take effect in
1916"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07

turn aside to speak of this trip, for on
this occasion We had sailed all over the
central west. Arkansas, Indian Territory,
and the Houn' Dawg' state, as anyone
would recognize who had occasion to
learn how far the animals voice can
penetrate, especially upward to Dai-
loon high above the clouds. During this
trip Mr.. Harmon and ! reached very
great attitudes. We established the
American record for altitude, and reach
ed a point considerably over four miles
above the surface of the earth, our in
struments registering 1920 feet, accord
ing to our measurements. At this great
height our sensations were of different
nature from anything ever experienced
on earth. The air is vedy rare, only about
one half the density of that on the sur
face of the earth. and consequently you
feel a great relief of pressure, and while
sitting STILL as is necessary in a bal
loon basket you feel light as a feather
and as If You had no body at all. Your
breathing is almost twice as rapid as
on the earth for you must get double
the volume of air for an amount of oxy-
gen equal to what you are accustomed
to. OF course, If you did any physical
work such as mountain climbers do, you
would soon be completely exhausted. You
sit like a majestic condor peacefully IN
your basket, looking about and gazing
odwn below on the great earth stretched
far beneath you, hazy and DIM some
times hardly distinguishable for the thin
stratum of cirrus clouds which at dlf-
ferent elevations slightly veil the dis
tinctness of the far stretching earth be-
low.
Below you, when the mists and I'D
erty scarfs' that veil the face of the
earth thin away. you could see at this
great height, not the mere seven miles
that is all the curvature of the earth
would let you see at its surface but
more than 800 miles in every direction;
or, to make the picture more clear you
could see all of the middle states, or
all of the country between New YORK
and Cleveland, and it would look almost
exactly aike those great maps on the
walls of the new Pennsylvania station in
New York city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
BAFFLING THE CoUNTERFEITER

Robert d. Heinl, in Leslie's.
Within the next month or two, if pres
ent promises are kept, our citizens Will
witness the greatest revolution that has
ever been made in the size and appearance
OF paper money in the United States.
Each one of the 1900, 000.000 notes of that
kind now in circulation will be supple
mented by uniform pieces of currency
about" a quarter size smaller than that
Low used. If the comment occasioned by
the establishment of the parcel post. the
rural free delivery. and every other in
novation Uncle Sam has made in the last
20 years could all be rolled into one. 1t
" ould not bring forth a tenth part of the
popular interest which will be manifested
when the people realize that each and
every piece of paper money is to be
changed That day will sound the doom
OF the counterfeiter who now raises one
t. a ten, ten to a twenty, twenty
to a fifty dollar bill, or in fact. misrepre-
sents any denomination.
The value of the new bill will be appar-
ent on sight. Any note with Washing
TONS portrait on it will be 81, Jefferson's
81, Lincolns IS. Grover Cleveland's $40,
Alexander Hamilton's $50. Andrew jack
sons $50, Franklins $780, John Marshall's
500, and so on. 1t would then be utterly
impossible for forger to boost 81 bill
to a $40 bill, as is so frequently done. be-
cause within few months after the sys-
tenn has been in vogue every man. woman
and child will have learned that George
Washington's picture stands for 81, and
not SO. We will then have the safest
and simplest system of national currency
in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
THE FA1RY GoDMoTnER.

The fairy godmother had been called in
consultation.
"You see. godmothers" explained Al
thea, its like this: There are two young
raen who seem very fond of me, and am
so fond of both of them that l find it hard
70 choose
Such things have happened before
said the godmother drily.
Perhaps. Anyway, when John comes
20 see me 1 think it is John. And when
George comes to see me l think 1t is
George
Il see. said the godmother. But don't
you feel little more confidence in one
than the other?'
That's it, godmother. Now, when I'm
out with John in his automobile I'm al
ways grabbing at the steering wheel when
we come to a dangerous part of the road.
When I ride with George 1 sit perfectly
still. That looks like more confidence in
George, doesn't it?'
"Or else it looks like more anxiety for
the safety of John" replied the god
mother, and she put on her hood and took
her. cane and went away.
Three months later Althea married
John.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Edmonds for The Cabinet

Many good names have been sug-
gested to President-eleet Wilson for po-
sitions in his cabinet but II seems to
me-" said John w sibley, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, that an
IDEAL selection and one that would meet
with universal approval throughout the
business world, would be that of Rich
ard ii. Edmonds. editor of the Manufac-
tUrers Record, of Baltimore, Md. He
may be truly classed as one of the most
representative men of the south, and at
the same time with vision as broad as
the entire nation.
No man in the generation has labored
more zealously or with such signal sue
cess TO make known to the world the
matqhless resources of this great south
land, and his versatile mind Is one great
storehouse of facts and figures as to its
needs and potentialities He commands
the esteem and confidence of his country
men in all sections and would prove a
wise and efficient counsellor to the Presi-
dent
L hope Mr.. Wilson will seriously con-
slider Mr. Edmonds and if he should de-
eide to honor bin with an invitation to
become a member of his official family.
l am sure it would meet with unqualified
Endorsement everywhere and be espe-
cially pleasing TO the south, whose con-
sistent and unfailing champion Mr.. Ed
monds has ever proven himself to be"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
ARE STAGE. TEARS REAL.

Z. X. Townsend in Leslie's.
When Miss Griffith was asked the se-
cret of the remarkable transformation
she affects in her notable part in the mov-
ing picture, CAS- the Candle Burns. she
replied, 81 presume it is temperamental.
When l play part I feel it. / become,
for the time being, some one besides my
self. The smiles and tears, the frowns
and even the wrinkles, / believe, are the
natural result Of concentration of mind
in the effort TO give a realistic touch TO
the work in hand. People may laugh at
the thought that stage tears are some-
times real. More than once | have been
swept by the emotional nature of my
part. into new existence"
/ have no doubt that Miss Griffith
speaks with real knowledge of her own
experiences. This temperamental condition
to which she refers distinguishes many
OF our ablest actresses and perhaps ac-
counts for some OF their idiosvncrasies
which might otherwise be inexplicabie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
Iron Making This Year

The production of coke and anthra-
cite pig iron in January was 2,795,331
tons. This is at the rate of about 3d.
100000 tons a year. Should this rate
of production be maintained this coun-
try will produce this year over one
half of the worlds production of the
great commercial metal. The worlds
production ranges from 64,000,000 to
70,0O0,000 tons, and this country can
produce fully 35,0OO,OOO if need be.
Last years total in this country was
39,727,1 tons, and if the total goes
this year to 34,000.000 tons the in
crease will be close to 20per cent. Such
a result really depends, not upon the
capacity of American furnaces, but
upon the maintenance of the Ameri-
can demand for the product of those
furnaces. At present there is much
talk about concessions. The year is,
however, young, and later on it may
be seen that every possible ton will
be needed. Consumption is enormous.
This is conceded. Still it may go high
er, for the needs of new country
holding we'll nigh 100,000,000 of peo-
pie cannot easily be measured. If
concessions come at all they will come
this month,
Prodigious quantities of rails are
being taken, and the demand for con-
crete reinforcing bars never was
heavier in the winter season. Car or
ders are also enormous. All in all
it is more than probable that the
present output of pig iron will be
placed, and that the year will dis
close a production never before APP
preached in any country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
Good Winter Weather

This touch of winter is welcomed by
many peope-all but the very poor-be-
cause it makes for health and farm land
Improvement, said a citizen. Every
freeze in season is good for the farm.
We have had so little winter thus far
that a cold spell now is particularly help
full and cheering.
ut begins to look as IL the ground
hog would not be vindicated. February 2
was a cloudy day. The grounding did
not see his shadow and remained out of
his hole thinking that spring had come.
He now realizes his mistake, but true
to custom once out he must stay out.
81 do not pretend to be a weather
prophet. but it is my guess that we will
have many hard freezes between now
and April
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
RULES FOR A TELEPHONE GIRL

From the New York Evening Woriu'
Chicago-Miss Minnie Warner, the
highest paid switchboard operator in
Chicago, is off for Europe with a case OF
telephonitis. after nine years of service.
She is paid $50 a month because of her
velvet voice and personality. OF her
work she said:
'"The bigger a man is the more polite
he is likely to be to girls in my position
| have found the most influential men
in the business to be the most patient
and considerate of my feelings. A gem
tleman, if he should so far forget HIM
self as to say things in hot temper. will
apologize later"
Here are a few switchboard aphorisms
out of Miss Warmers experience:
Don't argue The angry man will ar
que himself out of it 10 you let him
alone.
Don't snap Remember that soft an
swer turneth away wrath"
Don't be mechanical. Make every man
on the wire believe that your softest
tones are for him alone.
Don't be Indifferent. Make every kicker
believe you are heart broken because
the line is busy.
Don't firt. Let the other fiirt all he
likes, but you just laugh and attend to
business.
Don't be a prude. Don't hear what you
are not supposed to hear, or what is
not fit for you to hear.
Don't get tired. No matter how tired
you are, pretend you are as fresh as
the dawn and try to look it.
81 have learned that men are far more
amenable to reason than women are.
Some women are exceedingly unreason-
able at all times, and no matter what
their experience of the world. they never
seem to find out the simplest rules OF
the game 1t doesn't take a man long to
realize that he can go further with kinu
words than with harsh ones especially
with the telephone operators
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
TRAGEDY OF THE MILLS

one of many of the same kind that L
could tell you, explains why I am SO
devoted to the organized labor move-
ment believe that, through the
strengthening of the organizations OF
the men and women of labor the aboli-
tion of child labor may be accomplished.
When the unions are powerful
enough to compel the payment of wages
which will enable a man to support HIM
self and his family, there will be no
need for the children to perform man
ual labor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
Very Much on the MAN

Mr.. ,Valcourt, one of the best known
clothing buyers in the south and
clothing manager for Drennen COM
any. has just returned from an ex-
tended trip through the north and
east combining business with pleasure.
II always make it a point to talk
birmingham when away from home. -
said Mr.. Nalcourt, -and l was very
much surprised how closely in touch
the financial interests of the east are
with the Birmingham district. Why, l
found them as fully informed on the
water power and other questions con-
cerning this district as / am myself.
Birmingham certainly is on the map
these days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07


efTHERE amt no sweller flowers
than them I give that kid. L
\ tell you what, Josephine, that
child was seeing visions of heaven, and
guess we amt got flowers like they
have up there
With these homely but pathetic words
Rose Brennan told me of the last hours
of our little friend and mill mate, who
had died victim of our system of grind
ing the lives out of the little ones.
Little Lucia, the "kd'' to whom Rose
referred, had come from the Azores
when only years old, and it took less
than two years of American factory la
Dor to end her little life. She had been
happy as a child in the sunny Azores
and used to tell us of how she romped
in the meadows and gathered the
flowers. with her little brother as her
companion. She said she had never had
pair of shoes on her feet until she
came to America.
Her mother died and her father came
to this country and obtained employ
ment in mill at Fall River. His wages
were low and he saw an opportunity to
add a few pennies a day to his income
|by putting little Lucia to work in the
MILL And this little creature. accustomed
to bright sunlight, green fields and pure
air, was fastened to q machine in the
impure atmosphere of factory.
Rose made her acquaintance and
learned of her love for flowers through
a simple little incident. Rose was as
eending the stairway to the workroom
in the factory, holding in her hand
crimson geranium. The flower slipped
from her fingers and fell to the floor OF
the hall below. She retraced her steps
to recover it, but little Lucia was II
before her and was pressing the crim-
son flower TO her pale littel face when
Rose reached her side. The little one
begged for the flower, which Rose read
lily gave her, and then Lucia told of her
child life in her home across the sea.
Friendship grew between Rose and
the little girl, and the former has
me of how she used to watch her In
the workroom, how she would steal
away from her machine when the fore
mans back was turned, cling to the
for sight of the blue sky and the big
outside world, with such longing write
in her face as would touch a heart of
stone.
Though the foreman would roughly
tear her away from the picture her
fancy built in the sky and rudeE push
her back to her machine, she would
steal away again at the first opportu-
nifty. And she was wasting away all the
tiine-the hard life, long hours, drudg-
cry, impure air and insufficient nourish-
ment were doing their work.
Finally she came no longer to her
place at the mill. Rose would go TO
her humble home every payday bearing
bunch of flowers. the cost of which
made considerable inroads upon her own
slender income Little Lucia would
smile as she took the flowers and would
say they were very beautiful. but mot
like my own flowers in the Azores" And
Rose would get lovelier and more costly
flowers each time. striving to reach the
standard of the floral beauty which little
tive land.
And so she passed away, dreaming OF
happy childhood the two years in
the treadmil of labor had left with her
as only memory. And that is why
Rose thought the child had been seeing
visions of heaven.
This little true story. which is only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
MILES upN Tur Arr

In the February american magazine
Augustus Post, writing the Experiences
of an Airman," tells as follows how it
feels TO be up in the air four miles in a
balloon:
''Mr. Harmon and l made the American
duration record, IS hours and 26 minutes.
or more than two days in the air. i must
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
REFrECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR
From th\New York press.

From tneVNeW 1Ork Press.
Only one of two roles is eyer played
by love, either slave or tyrant.
What makes a woman proudest of her
husband is if he can get passes to a
theatre.
man thinks he is on a rigid diet
if he cuts out one dish his wife likes
and he doesn't want.
The reason men have no wits WHAT
ever about money is they think they
have all there is to have.
It's Just Il mans luck to get back
a ten-dollar loan the night he Is go
ing to be home, so it will come in handy
for the family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
lew team will assuredly secure.

The President-elect will walk up ex-
actly 10 steps to the stand where he
takes the oath of office. The stand
will have $500 seats. 25oo more than Presi-
dent Tafts stand four years ago. Tick
cts will be distributed by the joint con-
gressional committee in charge. The
platform upon which Wilson will be
administered the oath and deliver his
inaugural address will be raised, and
without any top or sides, either of can
vas or glass as protection. Provision
is made, however. for hasty makeshift
canopy TO throw over the presidential
party if the weather is inclement. Room
for only dozen persons in the Presiden-
tial inclosure is provided.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
SEA FEVER

8y
TO the and the 81
And all tall ship and star to steer her by
: a :
I Imustgo down to he of running
wild call and "a cear may no
all | Iaksa a awindy day will the white clouds
nd spray and
/ mustg go I
TO heg ne
al ask laughing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
10 PLACE FOR "GLooMs. ;

NO PLACE FOR "GLOOMs."
Man was born to die" observed the
funereal person, with a melancholy sigh.
Sure he was born to die," answered
the man who is too busy to NOPE. but
he wasn't born to be told about it every
Gay of his life PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07

L fanclS BlcRley, IN the FEBRUARY number
of the North American Review.
The finest of Marvell's poems in deca-
syllable couplets is that prefxed to the
1874 edition of Paradise Lost 1t is q
noble tribute from poet to his friend and
superior, is an excellent piece of criti-
cism, and has a sting in its tail for Dry
den. 1t may here be noted that at one
time Milton, Dryden. and MARVEL were
all working in the same office of the
council of state. Not even when Mr.. Dob
son and Mr. Gosse were concocting rom
deaux at the board of trade Gas Mr.. Beer
bohm has portrayed them) was so much
poetic talent ever gathered into a govern
ment office before or since
But apart from exceptional passages.
such as the royal stanzas of the "Hora-
tian Ode" the quality which separates
MARVEL from his contemporaries and lifts
him. as it were right over the eighteenth
century is his almost mystical rapport
with nature.
tain tops or troubled seas in his work; his
is the kindlier nature of the garden. 1t
was an age of garden lovers. Bacon,
Cowley and Temple spanned the century.
MARVEL, as literary horticulturalist,
makes worthy fourth. The garden
looms large in MS poems. CfomWeil
comes from his private gardens" to his
great work. The poet had every oppor-
tunity of cultvatng the taste. He was
horn at Winstead in Holderness. Roses
still riot In Winstead,' says MIR. Birrell;
1.-The fruit trees are as many as in the sew
enteenth century" The garden of Hull
Grammar school was famous; SO was that
at Nunappleton house, where MARVEL
lived as tutor TO Fairfax's daughter and
ii - ;x. ..fyrx-
The garden may be the antithesis of ma
ture. But the garden which MARVEL loved
was not so. 1t was no place of balanced
parteres and clipped hedges, but spot
where the earth's fruitfulness is intensi-
fled rather than selected.
Ripe apples drop about my head.
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their vine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as l pass,
-. ...s.l 4. Y f,I1 Ar1 ORC
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07

Mr. Tumulty will be the youngest sec
retary any President has ever had He
is 80 years old. a son of former Assem-
blyman Tumulty. He was reared in
Jersey City. He attended st. Bridgets
parochial school there and subsequently,
entered ST. Peters college. conducted
by the Jesuits of Jersey City. There
he received the degree of bachelor of arts
in 1899. He later studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1902 He was
elected to the house of assembly in 1867
and served four consecutive years. His
record as a legislator, orator and debater
won him distinction throughout the
state. He is married and has six chill
drcn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TINES
cLosE ENoCGH

CLOSE ENOUGH.
I quite agree. With those who say
A man should be on bargain day
At least thousand miles away.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
But absence of that kind oft wrecks
ORES happiness. Friend Wife objects
Il ones not there to sign the checks.
-Johnstown Democrat.
That selfsame habit of Friend Wife
Explains why it's that married life
Is oftentimes With sorrows rife