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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
Conscience in Congress

A clear case of conscience in Con-
gress! The wonders of this old world
are by no means exhausted, and when
q veteran republican congressman
from Michigan rose at his particular
piece of bench and stated that he felt
compelled to follow the dictates of his
conscience another one was added to
the list.
It appears that 45S progressives in
tended to vote for the progressive can
didate for Congress who was William
y. Mcdonald. They really voted
through an error of some sort for a
Mr.. Sheldon, and the 45S votes were
duly thrown out under the plain terms
of the Michigan law, resulting in the
trs-election of H. Olin Young, the man
with a conscience. Mr.. Young held his
seat until the facts were all brought
out and then he decided that he did
not care to hold a seat to which he
had not been really elected. In a husky
voice he announced the decision of his
conscience and stepped out of Con-
gress.
Whether Congress will seat Mr.. Nc
Donald or will decide the seat vacant
remains to be seen, but whatever it
does will not obscure the record of H.
Olin Young, the man from Michigan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
TELEPHONE
Bell (private exchange connecting all
departments), No. 1900.
There's no time for a man to recover
his haIr that grows bald by nature.
COMEDY of Errors
Weather Conditions in the Southeast

WeaIner JOnultlOnS III the ooutnedSt
Low night temperatures and dry
weather seem to be confined to the
southeast, of which Alabama is a
part. The southeast grows about half
of the crop, and conditions in this part
of the cotton belt begin to attract at
tention among market writer's and
spinners.- %
But there is no occasion for alarm
so long as time for replanting remains.
The soil was we'll filled with mois-
ture early in the season, and an eX-
cess of rainfall is still credited to Ala
bama at least.
Conditions may change in "a hours,
and it is altogether too early to say
that the cotton crop will not come
along in the southeast in good form
and proportions. The farmers are alert
and where replanting is necessary they
are giving it full attention. Let us
keep a stiff upper lip at least until
the weather clerk has a chance to
veer the rain clouds to the southeast
where they would be warmly welcomed
at the present time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
California's Anti-Jap Action

The efforts of the President and of
Secretary Bryan to meet the COM
plants of Japan based on an actual
treaty have by no means been fruit
less. Japan at least knows that the
federal government did all it could do
to uphold the treaty against the re-
served powers of the state. The legis-
lature of California adjourns today,
and Governor Johnson will no doubt
sign the Webb bill.
But this bill will be put through the
courts, even to the United States su-
preme court when no doubt the line be-
tween the governments treaty-maklng
power and the reserved rights Of the
states will be drawn. 1t is very impor-
tant that this line should be fully and
definitely defined. Nor is this all. A
referendum movement is springing up
in California, and the Webb bill may
after all vanish from sight. The neces-
sary 10000 signatures would soon be
attached to a petition for referen-
dunn under California's law.
Whether diplomacy will await a
referendum or a decision by the su-
preme court is not known. The whole
matter has been we'll handled by the
administration, and the public may be
sure it will continue to be we'll handled
by it until all friction and sense of in
justice on the part of friedly natior
is removed. The Japanese are very
sensitive and they express themselves
in the street openly, and yet the in
telligent among them must see that
the President and Secretary Bryan
have done and will continue to do al
that our complex system of govern;
ment renders possible. The fact is, tht
Webb bill itself admits of series Of
leases that will keep all Japanese OF
their lands without mourning losses
of any sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A EIoIIrisI,fuC City

'Dothan, where the Alabama Bankers
association met last week, is an exeep-
uonally attractive city," said c. M. Will
hanson, cashier of the American Trust
and Savings bank
1t is a comparatively new town. but it
Is substantially built and all its business
interests are substantial. 1t has five
banks and all of them are prosperous.
Dothan has population of about 5000 1t
Is situated in a fine agricultural section.
and as 1t has an excellent citizenship it
will never stop growing.
The bankers were Hospitality enter
tanned and the annual meeting was. IN
the whole. one of the most interesting
ever held
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
TRIED IN VAIN

From an Exchange.
During highly intellectual gabfest in
the lobby of a Washington hotel some
time since mention was made of the
wonderful influence welded by wifey in
all affairs.
Reminds me of one heard few days
ago." smilngly remarked Congressman
Sulloway of New Hampshire. 1.-TWO ac-
uuaintances were sitting together one aft
ernoon when one took the other to task
for the latitude in boasting lie allowed his
wife,
Look here, Jake he exclaimed, why
on earth do you permit your wife to go
around saying that she made man of
you? You never hear my wife say any,
thing like that
NO. was the prompt response of the
other. but. have often heard her say
tat she tried her hardest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
WASHINGTON SOCIETY

From Norman E. Mack's National
Monthly.
When President Wilson and his family
moved into the White House on the after
noon of March 4, society about made up
its mind that there must necessarily be a
social revolution, or rather, reorganiza-
ton, in sight. Surely, after having been
successfully opposed by the republican
party for 16 years 1t seemed that one of
the celebrations of the democratic victory
at the polls must be to keep right. on turn
ing things upside down. Many predic-
tions were made before and after the in
auguration that the President and Mrs
Wilson contemplated making many
changes in the social programme which
lad prevailed during the last four years.
In fact, If all reports were to have been
believed, the Presidents family had no
other thought in mind than to see Just
how much of a stir they were capable of
causing among members of society at the
capital. Days and weeks finally went by
and society finally quit holding it's breath
that it might watch the punctures dissi-
pate every bubble of rumor that had been
blown upa The President and Mrs. Will
son have caught up the official and social
lines that were already strung when the
new administration came into power and
things have been moving so evenly ever
since that it is really hard to believe, in
many ways, that so important event in
the history of the country has occurred
as the restoration to power of a domi-
nant political party after years of strug-
gle. True, there is a new cabinet and
many new faces in the chambers of the
national legislatures but so far as any,
body is able to see there has been no ma
terial change in the basis OF social life
at the capital
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY

By Henry Timrod.
Sleep sweetly IN your humble graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column Graves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame Is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is In the stone!
Meanwhile behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tornbss
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
Small tributes! but your shades will smile
More proudly On these wreaths today,
Than when some cannon nodded pile
Shall overlook this bay.
Stoop angels. neither from the skies!
There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor. lies,
/ BY mourning beauty crowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
"I don't care, I don't care,
What they think of me-"

or can't live. But do care what they
think. do, / do
Out of breath and with tear stained
cheeks the bundle of energy and nerves
called Eva Tanguay fell back on the
divan. Petulantly she went on:
THAT wretched song has been the
cause of all my trouble. 1t has cost che
all my friends. 1t has cost me the re-
spect of everyone who has ever seen me.
Everybody thinks I'm crazy or impossible
to get along with. The most terrible
stories are told about me. And why?
Because that wretched song, L Don't
Care has pursued me night and day from
the first time | sang 1t. I'm not going to
cry any more. But l can't tell you how
many hundred times that song has made
me weep.
'I never cried when I was a little girl
in Holyoke--in Holyoke, Mass" she con-
fided after finding a comfortable place on
her divan Il was the best little girl you
ever knew, and yet some people have
been unkind enough to say I was head
strong and made my people no end of
trouble. I was born in I.o1yoke "a years
ago, II you want to know. although one
horrid manager says I'm over 40.
"To be sure, life in Holyoke is not Wild
ly exciting-that's why i came to New
York and went on the stage. I started
in the corus, but wasn't in it very long.
Managers are not slow to find out what
girls have a good figure. They gave me
a chance in The Chaperons.' ] had a
good song, My Sambo Girl, and it started
me on my career. That was 12 years ago.
OF course, now I've got this large apart
ment filled with bric-a-brac. limousine
and a nice little bank account, yet Tn
not the hapipest of mortals Creature
comforts can't make person happy, even
if they are fond Of luxury. The truth Is,
I'm not quite happy In my mind. Peo-
pie say such awful things about me. I'm
sure you've heard the most dreadful
stories. But couldn't be as bad as all
that, could 1? The stories are prepos-
terous.
Those were wild, carefree days-my
| chorus girl days, l mean," she went On.
Il was quite popular and there was rare
ly night that didn go out to supper
my bird-and- bottle nights / called them
wasn't particularly interested in my
work In those days-I was far more inter-
ested in enjoying myself. l suppose was
as fond of gayety as any girl in New
York. But when 1 made progress in my
work I realized that l couldn't continue
pleasure seeking and still do justice to my
managers. Really. l was very conscien-
tious about that So / decided to cut out
hte suppers and devote my time to my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
Alabama Land Congress

Keen interest is being manifested in
the. forthcoming meeting of the Alabama
State Land congress" said President n.
F. Thompson.
"The initial meeting at Mobile last No
vember was most gratifying success,
but the meeting to be held next fall in
Birmingham will open the eyes of the
whole state. Not only will the attend
ance be large and representative, but no.
table men from other states will partici-
pate and we expect to have an address
from the United States Secretary of Agri-
culture, David F. Houston, who enjoys
the reputation of being an uneommonly
fine speaker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
DRAMA IN cONcORDIA

From the Kansas City Star.
At the Performance of Queen Esther"
by the high school pupils in Concordia,
horse was led across the stage in one
scene, and a woman in the audience ex-
claimed: Now, isn't that natural? Just
like 1t was real. They have everything
like it was real in shows nowadays"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
WE'RE CONVINCED.

a st. Louis man broke his jaw While
yawning- Yep. Spring is here.
WHY?
The sunshine smiles and~dies AWAY
The planets circle through the sky
Es.ch hour fades into yesterday.
And we can only murmur, 'Why?"
Washington Star.
The iceman goes and waves farewell
And comes the coal man by and by;
The schoolboy heeds the ringing bell
And we can only murmur, "Why?'
Denver Republican.
Ere long the Christmas gifts we see,
And then we have to buy and buy
We will so broke as broke can be
And we can only murmur, "Why?"
Los Angeles Express.
The ycrickets melodies have ceased
The sweet wild flowers come to die
The plumber hungecs for the feast
And we can only murmur, "Why?'
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The styles have changed-she tells me
that
For styles are only born To die;
She's got to have another hat
And we can only murmur, "Why?r
Detroit Free Press
Spring has come eull well we know,
For the fisherman proceeds to lie
About the big ones hear him blow
And we can only murmur ''Why?'
-Dothan Eagle
Yes, spring has come, the turtle dove
Declares it, and the cloudless sky,
While lads and lassies fall In love
And we can only murmur, 'Why?'
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
EVA SAYS SHE DOES CARE

They say I'm crazy, got no sense
But l don't care:
They may or may not mean offense,
But l don't care;
You see, I'm sort of Independent,
OF clever race descendant,
My star is on the ascendant,
That's why / don't care.
CHORUS.
| don't care. / don't care,
What they may think of me;
I'm happy-go-lucky,
Men say I'm plucky,
So jolly and carefree.
don't care, | don't care,
If l do get the mean and the stony stare
II I'm never successful, it won't be dis
tressful,
Cose l don't care
Karl X. Kitchen in the Theatre Maya
zine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

President Wilson asked Representative
Gordon Lee of Georgia to come to the
White House one day last week Wher
the member representing the Rome dis.
trict saw the President the latter smil.
ingly acknowledged that Mrs. Wilson was
anxious to have J. p Bowie named rs
Postmaster at Rome, Ga. Mr.. Lee. II Is
said, had intended recommending another
applicant, but he gallantly told President
Wilson that he would surrender any pro-
negatives he might have and gladly ac-
quiesce in the wishes of Mrs. Wilson. The
President is expected to send in the NOM
ination of Mr.. Bowie within a few davs.
and the appointment will be due to .,,re
wilson, who, so far as is known, has
made her first request for patronage of
the new administration. Mr. Bowie knew
Miss Ellen Louise Axsen, now Mrs. Will
son. when she was school girl in Rome
and Woodrow Wilson was a struggling
young attorney in Atlanta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

I VA TANGUAY arose from the divan
r in the drawing room of her Morn
~ ingside Heights home. She drew
q scented handkerchief from her waist
and wiped the tears from her eyes.
but do care!' size cried dramatically
81 do care. There's nobody in this wide
world who cares more than / do. l have
been undone by a song.
"Ten years ago l sang in a musica
play song called L Don't Care 1t made
such a hit that l have been forced to sing
it ever since. In fact, l can't appear oil
any stage without singing 1t. I've got tt
sing:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

so or 81 years old when he delivered
1t. The oration was published in pamph-
let form and it should be preserved as
a specimen of classic literature"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

The Memphis cotton exchange has sus-
pended all members of the Martin Phillips
cotton firm and the Lesser-Ely firm has
been treated even worse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
NO FEAR OF A FLUKE

From the Florida Times
If Underwood's Aoom doesn't get out
of breath before 1916 the Alabamian will
be nominated for President on the first
ballot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

Approximately $4,000 was appropriated
by France for entertaining King Alfonso
two days. Even a king ought to be able
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
JUST IN TINE.

PA, here's something in this news
paper about the chorus girl lure What
does that mean, pa?"
"Ahem!" coughed pa, with a knowing
smile that suddenly froze on his face. ut
means nothing that concerns you, SON
Don't you see your mother standing in
the door? Go to her at once"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

The Kingsbridge tavern, which was pat
ronized by Edgar Allan Poe, is being torn
down. 1t seems that every great poet
must have his tavern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TINES

DREADED A COLLECTION
4 have message for the world, said
The gloomy individual on the platform.
Before you go any further" spoke up
a man in the rear of the hall. eplease tell
us whether or not your message is pre-.
paid.'',
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

Frost was felt in New York last week
and in ST. Louis 1t showed early Satur-
day morning. The snow in St Louis
lasted about ten minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
MOST OPPORTuNE.

did you enjoy the amateur theat-
rioals?"
"Oh, yes. The lights went out and
stayed out for, half an hour. When the
lights came back l went out myself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
INDIFFERENT.

The man who'll read
And pay no heed
To any fly that draweth near
Day after day
viii never slay
The pest SO many people fear,
May be the kind
Who does not mind
A million microbes, more or less;
Or else does not
lndorse the swat
Programme suggested by the press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

with a conscience alert and ready to
act up to the expressed and ascer-
tanned will of the people. We need such
men in every congressional district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

1.-THE American people," says Professor
Taft, "are sluggish, but sound" We
don't know about their sluggishness, but
a great many of them seem to be all
sound.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

They are beginning to think in some
states that everybody is pensioned but
father.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

California will not, however, object to
any lease that Japan may see fit to make
in San Franciscos exposition buildings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

Americans not wanted here is a sign
on a London shop. It's a safe bet that
no London hotel would ever put out a sign
like that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

A postmaster in Maine resigned his jDb
the other day. There are exceptions, of
course, to all rules.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

Vice President Marshall, Senator j. f..
Johnston and others are guests of Vim
young millionaire arranged for the party.
which is made up. mainly of members of
the committee on military affairs of the
United States Senate, was a Zip up the
Hudson on his yacht Mona as far as
West Point, for the annual inspection of
the military post there. Then they are
to become guests at the Astor estate al
Rhinebeck, and a trip to Albany to visit
Governor Sulzer is to follow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

Edward A. Schmidt, brewer, expended
in the neighborhood of 100000 on the most
ornate wedding probably ever witnessed
in Philadelphia, when Mis- daughter, Miss
Helene Margaret Schmidt, became the
bride of Capt. Carl Baron Czoernig Won
Czernhausen, an Austrian nobeman. The
wedding ceremony was performed II
'Baronial Hail." the reception room of
'Welvreten," the brewers home at Rad
nor The yard was turned into tropi-
cal garden, and as soon as one of the
plants or buds showed signs of willing
from the cold wind it was replaced with
fresh one. 1t took several lackeys to
keep the flowers looking fresh. Following
the wedding the reception was held on the
lawn, which at the last moment had to be
artifcially heated SO far as possible with
hidden pipes through which steam was
| forced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

, Abe Reuf has not spoken ON the alien
land bill. He once had an opinion that
meant votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

Let us hope the sign painters will not
adopt the cubist art.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

President Wilson did all he could-he
wrote and he also sent man, and very
live one he proved to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

Men like to talk about their achieve
ments, while women are content to talk
about their neighbors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
WOULDN'T HELP HIM

There was man l used to know
Who often lost his grip
His wife would simply let him go
When he began to slip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
ERLANGER COMpLIMENTED

1t is now plain what brought Dr. Fried
mann to America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

After you left l was all in"
KNEW HIS CAPACITY.
WELL where have you been?"
My dear, if l should try to tell you
all the places I've been"
Il judge by your condition that you
have been to more than seVen.n
THE HABIT GROWS.
A man will buy
On tick until
He's not afraid
OF any bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

While a work day c. four hours would
doubtless prove universally popular, peo-
pie who don't care for baseball would find
it hard to kill time during the summer
months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

Borough President McAneny of New
York has taken steps to abolish the unof-
fetal marriage mill in the basement OF
the City hall, diagonally across the hall
from the marriage license bureau. There
is room there-No. Ain which without
any particular authority the aldermen
who have been in the habit of PERFORM
ing marriages have pre-empted "The al
defmen charge fees for their services, -
writes Mr.. McAneny, varying in ae-
cordance with the apparent means of the
contracting parties. Ia other words, the
room is run as a private enterprise, the
profits from which are reputed to be
large. l am of the opinion that if it is
deemed advisable to operate a MARRIAGE
chapel in the City hall its conduct should
be under the control of some branch of
the city government and the fees and
other expenses fixed upon definite and
published SCALE"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
A TEST OF GRAVITY

A TEST OF GRAVITY.
Professor Blobbs is a serious-m minded
man.
Yes"
Have you ever seen him at baseball
gamer"
mo. Why do you ask?"
II was just wondering what his con-
duct would be If the game were tied and
a player on the home team whose batting
average was joke should walk up to the
plate and slam out home rum"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
POETICAL.

Dibbs said to his wife
He'd been to some bars
"Oh, light of my life,
Your eyes are like -"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
EVEN MORE So.

Il was glad to find you in yesterday
when l called"
After you left l was all in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13
QUITE A DIFFERENCE.

you no longer aspire to an office, Mr..
JuGkins?"
NO, darn the luck, I've reached the
point now where | simply want one."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-13

st. Louis man broke his jaw While
yawning. Yep. Spring is here.