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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
DISTINCTIONS in the Senate

The President is working hard to
bring the Senate into line with the
House on tariff. problems. He has en-
countered in that body snags and
threats of bolts. Free wool seems to
be easier to secure than free sugar.
The sugar senators may, however,
agree to duty of l cent pound with
a further provision that the retained
duty shall be entirely abolished IN the
course of three years.
The Senate democrats are also IN
clined to dictate many other terms,
and altogether it is doubtful whether
a bill drawn in accordance with the
pledges of the Baltimore platform and
supported by the House and the Presl-
dent can be passed in the Senate.
And yet the Senate democrats are
as much bound by the pledges made
at Baltimore as are the House demo-
Gratis. The men who cast the votes
that turned the republicans out will
have something to say if the Senate
gets in the way of a real downward
revision of the tariff. Every vote and
every act in the Senate will be closely
scrutinized. Pledges are made to be
carried out, and if the party does not
live up to the Baltimore standard it
will encounter defeat in 1916. That
much is certain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
Convention in Richmond

The fourth biennial convention of the
Young Women's Christian associations of
the United States will be held in Rich
mcnd, opening Wednesday afternoon.
April Is.
Few organizations of humanizing or
elevating character have the appeal that
the Young Women's Christian association
has and the far reaching work of few
organizations Is so well understood as
that of this association. A feature of the
biennial convention will be an address
by Miss Jessie Woodrow wnson, a mem
ber of the student committee of the ma
tional board The programme booklet is
an elegant publication. Said an old men,
ber of Birmingham's Virginia colony:
when l looked over the fourth biennial
convention book 1t gave me a longing for
old Richmond. AS a frontispece there il
a large and fine photogravure of st. Paul 5
church--the spacious and stately Episco-
pal edifice, in which Jefferson Davis and
Gen. Robert Z. Lee worshipped during the
war. Scattered through the pamphlet are
many beautiful pictures-the governors $
mansion, the church at Hampton insti-
as one of the three or four distinctly
tilte and the Hotel Jefferson, which ranks
beautiful and magnificent hotels in the
United States. There are also
beautiful half tones of Miss Wilson, Dr.
Bible. DR.. Mcclure and Mrs. Robbins
'The programme booklet is charmingly
written, and is brimful of historic infor-
nation. can imagine fewer tourist trips
more attractive than one to Richmond on
April o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
Huerta Losing Ground

Huerta has an army of but $4,000
men to put down half dozen revolu-
tions. He sees that the task cannot
be accomplished with so small an
army, and he offers to step down and
out, leaving Pedro Lascurain to serve
as provisional president to the end of
the Madero term Lascurain was min
lister of exterior relations in the Ma
dero cabinet, and he could constitu-
tionally serve out Madero's term
something that Huerta could not do.
The succession of Lascurain would
to some extent avenge the cowardly
murder of Madero and Suarez and the
butcheries that have been carried on
ever since. The disappearance of
Huerta means no doubt the disap-
pearance of Felix Diaz, and the out
side world is weary of both, and so is
Mexico.
1t is not safe to accept Henry Lane
Wilson's views on Mexican affairs. He
was an enemy of Madero and friend
of Huerta. He will soon be displaced.
He has represented Huerta better than
he has the United States at the Mex
ican capital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

The health of the ex-Empress Charlotte
of Mexico, a sister of the late King Leo
pold of the Belgians, who was reported
by several newspapers to be dying, con-
tinues fairly good. She takes walk in
the park at Brussels nearly every day.
Princess Charlotte, daughter of Leopold
I, King of the Belgians, was married in
1857, when only II years old, to Maxmil-
ian, the Austrian archduke, who was in
duced to accept the crown of Emperor of
Mexico in 1868, and met the fate that has
so often overtaken those who would be
rulers of the Mexcans. He refused to abb
dicate, and in 1867 was shot. The death
of the Emperor deranged the mind OF the
Empress, and ever since she has been
mad. Macmillan was a brother of the
present Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
a-Hungary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
prominent selma visitor

Lloyd Mckee Hooper, one of the most
prominent and most highly esteemed
young business men of Selma, spent yes
terday in Birmingham. His concern ham
dled last year about 490o0 bales of cotton,
which was about q third of Selma's cot
ton business last year.
Trade conditions in my. town are salts
factory said Mr.. Hooper. I'm fact, Sell
ma is one of the busiest cities In Ala
bama. Our people are prosperous, as a
rule, and the farmers all through the
black belt are progressive and prosper
GUS.
Il visit Birmingham frequently and am
always glad to be here. 1t Is good TO
keep in touch with a great, bustling city
like this. Birmingham is making Won-
derful strides and 1t will keep on striding
Every time 1 am here I notice marked
progress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
A Rnre Gold Coin

"The gold dollar is now a rare coin and
hard to find at any price," said Tom Ell
lard, who wears one as scarf pin.
'I begged fellow a few years ago to
sell me the one wear and gladly paid
him $3.50 for it. i remember back in the
70's my father, who was farmer here in
Jefferson county, carried his cotton to
Montevallo, there being no market to any
extent at Elyton. On one fthese trips
he received four 81 gold pieces and
brought them home and gave them to
my sisters. At that time 10 cent, % cent
and so cent greenbacks were in use
have a 81 greenback, issued on April g.,
1861 1t has picture of George WASH
ington extending the width of the bill on
one end facing portrait of Martha
Washington on the other. have the bill
framed and feel that with that and this
81 gold piece I'll not be dead broke-that
is. If / hold on to them, and I think |
will be able to do so
BY the way, 1t may not be known that
for many years the farmers of this Sec
ton would haul their cotton to Montevallo
and if the prices were not satisfactory
would go on to Montgomery, the trip
consuming 10 days or longer. Time was
no item in those days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
IN THE HIGHLANDS

BY Robert Louis Stevenson.
In the highlands, In the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces.
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes;
Where essential silence fills and blesses,
And forever in the hill recesses
Her more lovely music
Broods and dies
o. to mount again where erst haunted:
Where the old red hills are bird enchanted,
And the low green meadows
Bright with sward;
And when even dies, the million tinted
And the night has come, and planets
gIinted,
Lo, the valley hollow
Lamp bestarr'd!
o. to dream, o to awake and wander
There, and with delight to take and ren-
der,
Through the trance OF silence.
Quiet breath!
Lo, for there, among the 1npwers and
Only the mightier movement sounds and
passes;
Only winds and rivers,
Life and death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
That German Dirigible

When the German military dirigi-
BILE warship Zeppelin w dropped to
earth at Luneville, France, she was
seized at once by the French author
tiles. The warship carried 10 passen-
gers, of whom four were German Of
ficers in uniform. The captain in
charge explained that the ship had
been lost in the clouds, and that there
was no desire or intention to land in
France.
1t appears, however, that the Yep
pelin had not been taken over by the
government. The ship still belongs to
private parties and will no doubt be
restored to them. The incident is more
ludicrous than serious, and the joke
is on the Germans, while the French
have become fully informed of the
progress made in airships in Ger
many. The Luneville landing at a
French military camp was clearly I'M
intentional. The clouds did it and the
clouds are beyond the jurisdiction of
either France or Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
DEARrH OF GENTLEMEN ON STAGE

Louis Sherwin in the April metropolitan.
The uncomfortable fact is that not
single young male American actor has
come to the front in The past three years.
The only actor in the country whose repu-
tation is of recent growth is Frank Reich
er. a German. When an author or man
ager wants a jeune premier who has
personal force, distinction and manner, in
what direction does he turn? To H. b.
Warner, Richard Bennett, Charles Cherry
or some ofsthe Englishmen whose pros
perity makes the native actor so indig-
English, but he had been in the United
States long enough to be considered an
established factor in our theatre.
The plain fact of the matter Island al
most any American actor will admit 1t
so long as you promise not to quote him
there is just at present a dearth of gem
tlemen in the American theatre. You
can find plenty of clever actors to fill fan
mel shirt parts-miners, Pitisburg million
aires, COW punchers or plumbers. But
when it comes to impersonating men OF
breeding, good manners and character,
managers are nearly always obliged to
fall back upon foreigners.
A peculiar condition is that for some
reason university men in this country do
not go on the stage. Plenty of them are
anxious to. What it Is that discourages
them nobody seems to know. The the
atrical profession is crowded, but not
nearly as crowded as the law or medicine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
Ysaye Monday Night

"Of course, every music lover will go TO
the Jefferson theatre Monday night to
hear Ysaye, the wizard of the king of in
struments," said an old member of the
musical set. This will be Ysaye's first
appearance in Birmingham and it will be
an event in our musical history.
Il have heard Ysaye many times in
New York And in Europe, but 1 am look
ing forward to next Monday as eagerly
as l ever did to any musical entertain
.ment. Educated musicians delight in lis
tening to this violin c-febrity and the
person without musical education who can
turn a tune will revel in his masterful
playing. The theatre will doubtless be
filled to its capacity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
The Dixie Land souvcnirs

"A very attractive as well as unique
souvenir of Dixie land is that which Con-
gresham Tom Heflin Is sending to his
member of the Chamber of Commerce.
1T consists of a boil of cotton in a
pasteboard box in cube form. On the up
per flap and the bottom of the box are
extracts from Mr.. Hefins famous cotton
speech delivered in Congress December
IA, 1911.
''On three sides of the box are striking
scenes in the cotton belt-darkies Picking
Cotton and In Dixie land and on the
remaining side is the legend, "A Souvenir,
boil of natural cotton fresh from the fields
Of Dixie; Compliments of j. Thomas Hef-
lin, M. c., Fifth district, Alabama.'' -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
The Pig Iron Market

The local iron market Is still quiet, but
inquiries are increasing The nominal
quotation is s13 on a No basis, but It is
said that some iron has been sold as low
as $3.50. 1t is believed that a large buy
ing movement will start up before the end
of the month and that prices will take
a quick upward turn. Matthew, Addy &
Co.'S Cincinnati report says in part:
For several weeks to come consumers
Of iron are going to have more or less
trouble in getting raw materials. for the
floods have upset things over a wide ex-
tent of country. Take the Norfolk and
Western, for instance, over which most
of the Pocahontas coke must be shipped.
We are told that railroad will not be in
shape to operate full for more than IL
days. The Chesapeake and Ohio. also an
important coke producer, is in bad shape
No authentic word has been received from
the Important furnaces at Ironton and
Ashland, but they have been isolated by
the high water. In the Mahoninx and
Shenango valleys the steel works have
suffered enormously. number of blast
furnaces have been under water there and
it will take a long time to restore them.
In the Connellsvile field the coke busi-
ness has been practically paralyzed by
the tying up of the railroads. Every
where furnaces depending upon ConnelIs-
vile have been forced TO bank.
apparently the south has ESCAPED un-
scathed. Shipments from Birmingham
and Tennessee are moving freely, al
though the railroads are declining to ac-
cept freight for many places because of
inability to reach them.
everywhere the waters have receded
ard the work of repair and restoration is
proceeding rapidly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
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Penal Sentence of Mrs. Pankhurst

The sentence of three years penal
servitude at the Old Bailey sessions
of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, leader
of the militant suffragettes in Great
Britain, is but another illustration OF
81 remarkable situation. The militant
leaders are endeavoring to compei
parliament to grant to women the SUI
frage. After Mrs. Pankhurst had peeh
san+enced she said: 81 don't want to
commit suicide. Life is dear to all Oh
us. But want to see the women Oh
this country enfranchised. l want to
live until that has been done. l Will
take the desperate remedy other wom-
on have taken and will keep 1T up as
long as I have an ounce of strength.
I deliberately broke the law and was
not Historically or emotionaliy IN
clined but with a fixed and set pur-
pose. | honestly believe this IS the
only way. This movement will go on
whether | live or die. These women
will 90 on until women have obtained
the common rights of citizenship
throughout the civilized world"
Mrs. Pankhurst and her co-workers
NAV be law breakers-they are GER
tainly revolutionary-but they are not
criminals in the ordinary acceptance
of the word. They want the ballot, and
they seem to think that it can be OBJ
tanned by acts of violence. They may
misjudge the situation. They may be
guilty of poor politics, but they are
not guilty as mere criminals, al
though Mrs. Pankhurst has been SEN
fenced to serve three years.
Mrs. Pankhurst will probably not
serve three months, or even three
weeks. She will not eat, and the gov
ernment will not permit her to die
in prison. 1t is a situation that has no
parallel in English history, and the
Asquith govrnment will be puzzled
in dealing with the new prisoner from
the Old Bailey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

John D. Rockefeller used to be spoken
OF in awestricken tones as worth bill
lion dollars, but in an authoritative state
ment not long ago his wealth was put at
not over s30O,0o0,000. On final appraisal
the estate of e. II. Hartman amounted
to less than half in actual dollars and
cents the figures given in forecasts at
the time of his death. Whether Mr.. Nor
gan left $lOo,t0o0oo or more or less, the
same is true-rumor tends to run ahead
of the facts when a money magnate long
in the public eye renders his final ac-
counting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
MUSIC IN ENGLAND

From the London Chronicle.
Musical Opinion this month gives a
list of the various ragtime titles. Here
are some of them: Grabs Crawl"
'aTortoise PATROL "Spooks' Parade,
Chicken Reel Turkey Trot," "Top
Dog" "Shoe Ticlxler Rag and BODY
lops" To these are added some OF the
equally hideous' cal1ewalk names: Ma
Gumelastic Girl merry Monkeys
Pumpkin Coon" Hot Stuff" Gin and
Bitters" and "She Had Her Spats On
Thus onward is the march Of intellect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
PLANNING A LIFE

From the Kansas City Star.
Every high school boy ought to read
the chapter from Theodore Roosevelt's
autobiography in the last magazine issue
OF the outlook. 1t describes the way in
which he set out to improve his physique
so he could hold his own in the world.
He was a frail. sickly boy. afflicted with
asthma and he did not become robust
man by accident.
In an encounter with some boys when
he was IA years old he first realized how
unfit he was physically. So he asked his
father to let him take boxing lessons.
From that time on he worked steadily to
get strengthening, wrestling, riding
horseback and living much in the open.
If he hadn't set himself definitely to
the Job he might have continued a sckly
man. Instead he chose to direct his de-
velopment according to an intelligent
plan. His life shows the difference be-
tween planning and drifting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

LARGE touring car rolled into a
n suburban town. MIR. and Mrs.
= Nuritch, swathed in motor togs
and lounging luxuriously on the cushions
of their $4,000 machine, sat up suddenly
and looked about.
"oh!" cried Mrs. Nurlteh. covering her
face with her hands.
put on more speed" said Mr.. Nuritch
to the chauffeur, land get through this
town as quickly as you can" To his wife
he said: "close your eyes. dear, and don't
think about it. Wen soon be out of the
place and wen never take this route
again"
"oh." exclaimed Mrs. Nuritch. with a
shudder. 'this Is Dingledale, where we
used to be so poor!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
WANTED. A KEEN CUTTER
'opular Magazine.

From the Popular Magazine'
:. successful but irascible playwright
was in his New York studio one morning
trying to whip scene into good snape'
The more attempts he made, the more
irascible he became. Finally during
one of the painful pauses, his secretary
ventured to ask:
"Where is the paper CUTTER?
81 don't want any paper CUTTER snout-
ed the dramatst. I'm tired OF living.
What want is throat cutter''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
LOOKING FOR HIS UMBRELLA

From Harper's Bazaar
He was a professor of the research
type, and about the most widely known
of the library habitues; also he was very
absent minded.
One rainy day, leaving the library with
his daughter, he realized he'd left his
umbrella in the reading room ana went
back for 1t. After waiting and waiting
and waiting, the young woman went
back for him. And she found him Dig
ging through the card catalogue looking
for s.JrmbrelIa" under "U."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
LITERARY IMPRESSIONS

Owen Hatteras in April Smart Set.
Robert w. Chambers-A spring wood
Lingering kisses. gasp. "a Yielding,
surprised by minister.
Richard lie Gallienne-Perfumed cigar
cites. silver lace... a choir of tenors..
the Blessed Damosel in a Tuxedo. "a
Chopin nocturne.. moonlight on the clean.
ders.
George Moore-Perfume spilled in a
sacristy...a silken garter in a psalter..
Lola Montez baking bread. the Pope al
Maxm's...
Jack London-A pool of blood. "a from
bone cadenza. .eorned beef and cabbage
:. a bull in a blizzard. "a stevedore play
ing Rachmaninoff. =.
Henry JamesAShooting the chutes,.
eating hair. stranded in a captive bal
loon...
Arnold Bennett-Grease spots. mus
tache, spectacles and pimples-but M
man.. windows, doors, nails. paint ans
vines-but no house,.
William De Morgan-Paralytic al
chess. ancestral portraits. 1.-The scent oi
moth balls.4
Maeterlinck-Dining in an ossuary... q
prestidigitator performing for the blind, :.
Chinese cooking. Mother Goose plu'
Swedenborg...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

governor may act, and action by the
governor would in that case be hon
ored in the Senate. The amendment is
drastic So far as taking the election
of senators out of the hands of legis-
latures is concerned. Perhaps the last
senator's chosen by legislature were
the two recently selected in Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
the meal?
GENESIS.

GENESIS.
Out of the silence, song;
Out of the bud, rose;
Out of the rose, the scent
The wood wind blows.
The Independent.
out of the word, a war;
out of the steel, ship;
And, so we are told, there comes
out of the germ the grip.
Denver Republican.
Out of the winter, spring:
Out of the planet, grass;
out of the picture package. seeds;
And out of the garden, sass.
st. Louis PostDispatch.
Out OF the bureau, a rat;
Out of the drawer, a braid;
Out of the closet, a hat;
out of the house, maid.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Out of the pocket, a bill;
out of the bottle, stew,
Out of the stew. a still;
out of the dark. zoo.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
out of the silence, a song;
Out of the song, rage;
out of the rage, a gun;
Shots, and a prison cage.
Nashville Banner.
out of the North. the food:
Death from the heavens above;
Money and clothes and food,
out of the South. and love.
Houston Post.
out of the North the teams,
Coming to practice\ here;
Out of his office the fan,
Soon as the players appear"
THANK the Lord for this filler.
patti. COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
soET FoR TRAINMEN
n, Tho New York Sun.

From the New York sun
At present when a railroad train makes
an unscheduled stop the train hand whose
duty it is to protect the passengers py
tagging other trains frequently lncon-
yeniences himself to the extent of getting
off the rear car and leaning against the
bumper. Under the fuil Gre" ID" '",s
will be done away, and the trainnie" WIN
play pinochle in the rear seats OF the last
car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
SEEKING A HANDICAP.

II wonder why 1t is that a woman like
a giantess marries a man like pygmy?"
Il don't know, unless it's because she's
too much of a woman to take chance
on a fair fight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
THE w1rCHERY OF THE BERMUDA

THE WIICHEH1 OF THE bEhMUDAS
From the Bermudas, by Washington Irv-
ing.
Sails were stretched as awnings over
the quarter deck to protect us from the
midday sun. Under these we lounged
away the day in luxurious Incidence, mus
ing with half shut eyes, upon the quiet
ocean. The night was scarcely less beau
tiful than the day, the rising moon sent
a quivering column OF silver along the
undulating surface Of the deep, and,
gradually climbing the heaven, 1t lit up
our towering topsails and swelling main
sails, and spread pale, mysterious light
around AS our ship made her whispering
waythrough this dreamy world of waters
every boisterous sound on board was
charmed to silence. and the low whistle. or
drowsy song of a sailor from the fore
castle, or the tingling of a guitar. and
the soft warbling of a woman's voice from
the quarter deck, seemed to derive a
witching melody from the scene and hour
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
MYSTERIOUS PUBLICATION.

Love Lyrics of Drivelng IDIOT are
appearing in wellington, Kan, news
paper. We wonder why?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
QUIT. DIFFICULT.

A Massachusetts, man says the world
will come to an end in Is years. 1t is
easy enough to predict the end of the
world. The hard part is thinking up an
excuse when the world fails to flicker out
at the appointed time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
TAKING TIPS.

Blind masseurs are popular in Paris
probably because their sense of touch is
highly developed. sNn, there are mas
seurs who can see with sense of touch
that is truly remarkable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
LOOKING BACK.

| remember, l remember,
1t was long ago, | guess.
When Little Annie Rooney
Was the reigning song success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

The new summer capital in New Hamp-
shire is well wooded at any rate. Nc
coal will be needed. There is plenty OF
cord wood there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

Atlanta has won the pennant already
get to do this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

Colonel Roosevelt explains his ancestry
as Dutch on one side and Irish and
Scotch on the other This claim is 9
vote getter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

Secretary Lane is confident that oil
burning ships of the navy will find plenty
of oil available for the life of any battle
ship to be constructed within the next
decade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

Between the Onion Queens and the Tur-
pentine Kings nearly everybody has a
title nowadays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

Secretary Daniels is trying to make life
in the navy more attractive. He may
have to order plum duff three times a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

"Harlakenden' in Cornish, N H., is
the name of the new summer capital.
Isn't it sweet, Mabel?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05

Nine states in this country have woman
suffrage, and they broke no laws and
committed no acts of violence.