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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
The silent hour steals on, n,
And nnky darkness breaks within the
east.
King Richard III.
The Music Festival Guarantee

The directors of the Birmingham
Music Festival association decided at
a meeting yesterday TO hold u festl-
val in May with the Cincinnati or
chestra and certain operate cclenrl-
ties as attractions, provided the full
guarantee proposed was completed by
the end of the present week.
Those who have had exper;g--e in
festival management say that raising
a guarantee was never { ,;.lt mat
ter; that it has been pa y easy
in the recent years lince Birr- ,gham
has grown to be great city. All
that is needed in getting up the guar
antee subscriptions is little effort
on the part of the carvassing commit
tees and responsive attenrlon on the
part of citizens of civic pride as wei.
as those who feel an especial interest
in music.
A $4,000 guarantee is what the
association asks for and this will be
sought IN individual subscriptions of
$100. 1t is thought that 100 citizens
will be ready to respond to this good
cause. Already several citizens have
come forward voluntarily and asked
that their names be placed on the
guarantee list. Whatever is done
must be done without any delay as
the option on the orchestra has only
a few days to run. 1t will never do
for Birmingham to let music festi-
val go by default.
j. H. Holcombe is president Of the
festival association and he will be .ad
to receive subscriptions to the guar
antee fund by telephone OIL through
the mail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Music Festivals

Music festivals in southern cities do
not draw as many out of town Wis
itors as some other attractions, but
the number of those who come to Bir-
'mingham to hear orchestra festivals
increases year by year." said a club
man. Il believe il a festival is held
in the coming spring it will attract
very large number of visitors, pro-
vided it is well advertised within a
radius of 100 miles Every town has
music lovers and the only way thc~
can hear symphony orchestra is to
come to the large city.
What Birmingham will have some
day-and J hope it will not be long
Is local orchestra capable of playing
symphony music 50 that a series of
high class concerts can be given during
the fall and winter. Orchestras of
New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and
other big cities rarely go on tour ex-
cept in the spring. Damrosch used
to come south during the winter, but
he is in such demand in the now
that he has cut out the south alto
gether'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

believed that the democratic party
will be able to furnish enough of them
to go round.
Of Alabama's III presidential post
offices only four are of the first
class-Birmingham, Montgomery, Mo-
bile and Selma. Nineteen are in the
second class and of the others the
salaries average about $500. The
few vacancies in Alabama offices will
be taken up as soon as the President
can get to them,' which will per-
haps be between April and midsum-
mer. The majority of Mr.. Taft's
postmasters hold commissions expir-
ing in 1914, but not a few extend well
into 1916.
Ii the usual average in the number
of applicants holds good, ten demo-
Gratis will get up petitions for each
office, and each applicant will live on
hopes between now and the appoint
ing time; and, after all, few things
are sweeter than anticipation.
All the public will ask of the Presi-
dent is that he will man the post
offices with good material.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

cation had been made of the suffrage
parade on Monday. In that way a
vote on the veto was not reached IN
the Senate. The bill covers sundry
civil expenses of the government TO
the amount of $115,000, 900.
The Indian appropriation bill was
not passed in the Senate. 1t was
talked to death by Senator Fall Of
New Mexico. 1t carries but S12,-
100000.
The two bills will speedily be passed
in April and then the expenses of the
next fiscal year will be provided for.
No more will remain to be done SO far
as the regular appropriation bills are
concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
THE 1ioLDEN YEAR

BY Alfred Tennyson.
We sleep and wake and sleep, but all
things move;
The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun;
The dark Earth follows, wheeled in her
ellipse;
And human things, returning on them
Move onward, leading up the Golden
Year.
All! though the times when some new
thought can bud,
Are but as poets seasons when they
flower,
Yet seas. that daily gain upon the shore.
Have .ebb and flow conditioning their
march
And slow and sure comes UP the Golden
Year,
When wealth no more shall rest in nodded
heaps,
But, smit with freer light, shall slowly
In mana streams to fatten lower lands;
And light shall spread. and man be liker
man,
Through all the seasons OF the Golden
Year.
Shall @ eagles not be easlesG wrens be
that?
The wonder OF the eagle were the less.
But he not less the eagle. Happy days,
Roll onward, leading up the Golden Year!
Fly, happy, happy sails and bear the
Press;
Fly, happy with the mission Of the Cross.
Knit land to land, and blowing heaven.
ward
with silks and fruits and spices. clear OF
toll
Enrich the markets Of the Golden Year.
But we grow old. All! when shall all
mems good
Be each mans rule; and universal Peace
Lie like a shaft Of light across the land.
And like lane Of beams athwart the
Throush all the circle Of the Golden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Good Spring Trade

For this time of the year business
is very good indeed" said Colman
Blach. of J. Blach G. Sons. We have
had very brisk winter trade. And
there Is every indication that the cloth
ing business will be very active by
the middle of this month. Easter
coming early will have the effect of
precipitating early shopping In all lines
of goods-men's wear as we'll as wom-
ems.
Men dress better now than they
used to. They buy underwear, suits
and hats of better quality and they
naturally pay more attention to style.
Speaking of hats, this is the season
of the year when soft hats are in
great demand. A stylish soft hat is
the very thing for between seasons.
The hat worn during the winter be-
gins to have an old look and 1t is
much too early to think of straw hats.
From now until the first of June soft
hats will be greatly III vogue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
sssssss.ssssssssssssssssssssssssss
"Boss. LORD

Edward G. Riggs, in Harper's Weekly.
II is not easy to tell of Chester s. Lord
who has just resigned the post Of man
aging editor of the Sun, in column or
two. There is not a newspaper man in
this country who would not like to read
a volume or two about him. And it
would take an entire Harpers Weekly
even to scratch the surface of this mans
career in newspaperdom. The average
life of a managing editor on the metro
politan press is about two years, and yet
Lord has been for 81 years the chief cap
tain who has steered the news columns OF
the Sun every hour of the day and night
Only a newspaper man can quite appre-
ciate what that means.
There is not newspaper man of ac-
count who does not know what Lord has
accomplished for the Sun Like Dana, he
has been a great judge of men. His dis
cernment has been little short of miracu-
lous. Calm, dispassionate, without the
slightest atom of impulse, as wise as a
serpent and as gentle as a dove, Lord
got about him staff that has been re-
garded by newspaper men as the most
thought, with placid idea of the Dig
nifty of his place, ever ready to concede
the other fellows point of view even
though maintaining his own, Lord was
never knew in all the 90 years of his man.
aging editorship of the Sun to utter an un-
kind word to any man on the paper, no
matter how humble his station. He ruled
by kindness. He did not believe in the
old maxim that molasses catches more
flies than vinegar; he was convinced that
both moral and worldly wisdom called
for consideration and on many occasions
extenuation. He is naturally kind man.
And yet in no newspaper office in the
country was there nicer discipline than
on the Sun under Lord. If fellow was
beaten on a story he did not discharge
the man as some of the jumping jacks OF
Journalism would have done. He reMem-
bered the good work and the beats" that
the fellow had turned in and recollected
full we'll that in this vale of tears and
competitive human nature any chap, no
matter how brilliant or keen, was likely
to have one put over on him by the
equally keen and brilliant members Of
other newspaper staffs. Lord was Just
man. He was fair and square, and the
members of his staff would break their
necks for him. With high merit OF his
own, he was ever ready to recognize
merit He encouraged the efforts of office
boys in the Sun office to become men,
bers Of the general staff. He never de-
nounced, he always encouraged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

The work of excavation for ancient
Egyptian relics which has been personally
watched by j. Pierpont Morgan as di-
rector of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art of New York, and actively managed
by Albert NJ. Lythgoe, the curator of the
Egyptian department of the museum, is
just announced completed, and Mr.. MOI :
gan's departure from Cairo is now prob
ably matter of only few days. The
excavations have covered period OF two
years on concessions granted by the Egyp-
tian government on the west side of the
Nile valley, the most important achieve
ment being that Of the unearthing at
Luxor of the palace of Amenhotep ILL.,
who reigned some 400 years before the
Christian era. Indeed. not only was the
great rambling structure uncovered, but
a whole village of ancient houses and
shops was found. The sun dried bricks
used in the construction of the palace
were stamped in the name OF the King,
and also stamped on them was the name
of the castle. which was House of Re-
joicing.' The expedition has also recov-
cred many specimens of polychrome pot
terry and rare manuscripts. and the FAM
Gus iinancier is said to be highly graft
lied at the rewards which the project has
obtained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Lawyers In the Cabinet

president Wilson and eight members OF
his cabinet are lawyers, and doubt ii
any other administration ever had quite
SO many said a business man. .'Whie
Mr. Daniels. Secretary of the Navy, and
maybe one or two others, have not been
practicing lawyers, they were law stu
dents and were admitted to the bar.
Law training is great thing. and
think that every young man who intends
to go into business should take law
course. No branch of education enables a
man to think SO clearly as the law. One
Of the strongest men in the new cabinet
is Mr.. McAdoo. He is first class lawye,
and a first class business mana great
combination
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

new yorker. in retorting, will pride him
self uron the absence of servility within
his borders Neither of these beliefs Is
more than half true; the New Yorlser-in@
the-street has as good manners as any
one else but he has also men who work
his elevators for him, and prejudice him
IN the eyes of the foreigner servility
when it occurs is rather more servile than
elsewhere
AS having been for a -ime a member
OF that calling which rejoces in the CITY,
can speak with some authority. I do not
TANK any other trade or profession In the
world could seriously challenge the supre-
macy of the New York elevator attendant
III TINS particular. / know, of course, that
the young duchesses employed in those
lunch establishments which correspond
to our tea shops deserve honorable men
ton They are very rude indeed and
laughty--a shade more so 1 think than
the staff of temperance hotel in this
couptry-but they are, after all, young
women, and of a class from which one
expects little courtesy, unless one is a
nut, dude or buck. Also they may be put
to shame, which certainly can be said o.
no liftman anywhere in the union. l saw
neat rout OF this kind in one of Child s
lunch places-popularly~ known as the
Cafe des Enfants''-near Times Square.
frenchman, obviously new importa-
ton, was paying his bill at the cash
desk. The girl flung him nickel change
so carelessly that it rolled back, almost
under her elbow. The Frenchman waited
n fc, I, u 10, hi nj
she only waved to him to reach for it,
with the air of an offended empress. The
Frenchman removed his hat and bowed
affably You may keep it. my good girl. :
he said. 'as the reward for your polite
ness.' 1 was next to him in the queue
and it pleased me greatly to see that she
grew purple to the ear sand that she
handed the money over to him without
word. An elevator man would not have
been confused. He would have pocketed
the nickel and cursed the Frenchman be-
cause 1t was not more.
Another class OF the American aristo-
crat who is supposed to know a thing or
two about rudeness is the hotel clerk
He is, however, very bad third Like
the waiter and the bell boy, he is insolent
S'is hitei eiiiht'citiS peloiS tuc 'ie'i9s''e's
wea lthy guest he grovels with subser-
vience elsewhere unknown. Now, the lift
man is insolent TO rich and poor alike
to the millionaire as to the clerk, to the
pretty girl as to the drunken loafer.
There is something yer yadmirable seen
| from a few thousand miles distance In
this fidelity to siman type Even so
there are traitors. -Four times have
come across liftmen approximating close
~ to civilized manners. They were all
colored men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
southern cite. that Grow Fast

II believe all the southern cities are
growing faster now than ever. but not
many of the larger cities make such
rapid progress as Richmond, said
Frank Jones of Roanoke, Va, and bir-
mingham. Roanoke is going right
ahead. 1t has "a population of $4,000 or
10000 now and it 5 will probably have
900 when the next census IS taken. l
was in Richmond the other day ana
found that city on a solid boom.
But when it comes to southern cit
les Birmingham is easily keeping ahead
of all of them in the matter of re-
cent growth. This city never seemed
quite so busy as 1t is today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
HEROES OF THE FILMS
From the New York World.

From the New Ork w oriu'
Answering a plea for separation de-
cree in New York court Samuel Sas-
chik AYERS that his wife wishes to leave
him because he is not like the heroes de-
picted on the films. in the moving picture
theatres.
Thus has a new danger TO prosaic man
come to the view of the courts. The
matinee idol Of the speaking stage has
long been a familiar figure. He was
tall, sometimes with tn eaid OF high
heeled shoes, strong, or seemed so, and
manly. Long eyelashes swept his dark
eyes; when he spoke his voice of molten
music played havoc with young women's
hearts and made trouble for every day
suitors John Doe. five feet six, SANDY
complected'' and working In bank
might be decent fellow in his way. but
what was he beside Walack In Rose
dale?"
The moving picture hero has no voice.
except a rather squeaky one just given
him by Mr.. Edison-but think of his ad-
vantages! No four walls Of theatre
confine him.. He gallops madly through
leafy lanes. He rescues the wiilowy hero-
Inc from bandits, floods, fires, storms, Iie
leads forlorn hope on the firing line.
He fois the villain. fights Indians. defes
kings. thwarts conspiracies. And Sadie
In the audience sacks the traces of choco-
late caramels from her fingers In the
friendly obscurity Of the lowered lights
and thinks Of her unromantic Tom or
Dick who has just taken a civil service
examination.
Perhaps the world was made for lovers,
but it seems arranged to keep them
guessing,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
THE MEN OF STONEHENGE
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
m HE estate containing stone
henge on Salisbury Piains in
the south of England. was sold
minder of primitive days, this collec-
tion OF huge stones. 10 or IL feet high,
six feet broad and three feet thick. Ori-
ginally arranged in three concentric
circles, part Of them have been carried
away, and some of them overturned
From the position of certain stones
with relation to their shadows, it has
been inferred that stonehenge may
have been originally temple OF the
sun dating back say 5000 years, and
therefore extremely modern in COM
parison with some of the relics found
entombed in the earth of England.
There are tribes in remote places today
who worship the sun in similar fashion
They represent high stage of civiliza-
ton, that could have been attained
only in the course of hundreds of thou
sands of years after the first of the
human kind began emerging from the
ape like horde in the dim past.
Written history. of course, is miss
Ing. but Tile nlStOIy VI EliBidiu may
be traced far back beyond Stonehenge
through the record written in the rocks
and clay of English soil.
One investigator tells, for instance,
of his excavations in the Island of Jer
sey. He dug down through perhaps 20
feet of rubbish that had been deposited
by a glacier in the Ice Age. There he
found the remains of prehistoric
hearth. Big stones had propped up the
fire, the ashes were there, and heap
of food refuse. An expert identified
the bones to be the remains of a woody
rhinoceros. a reindeer. wild OK, and a
pony such as now runs wild In the
Mongolian deserts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
official snlnrie. In Washington


'The high cost of living is felt in
ies-no more, no less" said Charles
F. ODonnell of the District of Co.
lumbia. 1T used to be that congress
men with families accompanying them
to the national capital could, by strict
economy, live on $4,000 a year, whicn
was the salary up to few years ago
Congressman now get $500 a yea~ and
the increase just about enables them
to meet the increased cost of livin
Cabinet officers now get $4,000 a
year, as compared with $4,000 few
nomical to make both ends meet ON
the present pay. 1t will not be long
think before the cabinet salary will
be raised to $4,000 a year.
The President is perhaps the only
high official who is able to save
little money out of his salary He
gets $4,000 a year and is allowed
$4,000 a year for travelling expenses,
but only so much of the latter amount
expenses actually incurred. 1t is gem
eTdify thought lnat the PfeS1dent can
live on $4,000 or $4,000 year, but
something depends. of course, upon the
size of his family. He not only pays
no rent but fuel, light and water are
furnished by the government The gov
crnment also provides certain serv-
ants-a cook, two assistant cooks, a
butler and a janitor. 1t also keeps
up large green house so that the
White House may be we'll supple.
with flowers free of cost to the Pres
ident.
II do not know whether President
Wilson has any musical taste, but
may be assumed that his wife anu
daughters have. The United States ma
rine band is not only available for
all White House functions but IN
recent years a large orchestra has
been made up of members of the ma
rine band especially for White House
service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

An immense mountain lion, the largest
ever captured in Colorado, was caught in
a most sensat tional manner by Uri Hotch-
kiss, a famous hunter and trapper of
Colona, six miles east of that place.
Hotchkiss heard of the lion. and in COM
pany with his son, George, and another
companion, they started out with a pack
Of dogs. The dogs struck the trail and
freed the lion. Hotchkiss climbed a tree
in which the lion was swinging, armed with
a rope. The lion chased him down the
tree several times, but finally Hotchkiss
got within about three feet of him and
threw the rope around his neck. The
men on the other end of the rope attempts
ed to pull the lion out of the tree, but
were unable to do so. Hotchkiss worked
around behind the lion and twisted his
tail until they Jared him loose After
getting the lion down they threw another
rope around his leg. Hotchkiss brought
him into Colona. The lion stands fully
three feet high, is nine feet from tip
of nose to end of tail and weighs l46
pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
Ready for Business

The new cabinet having been in
stalled, the democratic administration
has rolled up its sleeves and is now
ready for business. Appointing loyal
supporters of the party in power to
office has in other years occupied
great deal of the Presidents time.
Although the number of offices has
multiplied greatly since the last DEM
cratic administration the civil service
law has reduced federal patronage to
a minimum. The vast majority of the
men and women on Uncle Sans pay
roll hold their positions by the merit
rule without any relation to partisan
politics. This is not a pleasing pros
pect for the great horde of applicants
which will now besiege the President
and the heads of departments but it
is understood that President Wilson
is an ardent civil service reforner,
and if that be true he will be very
slow to make even those changes
which the law still warrants. Repub-
licans holding, four year commissions
will complete their terms unless Sc
rious charges should be brought
against them.
BY congressional enactment the en-
tire consular service is on a secure
non-partisan basis and no one holding
a consular office can be displaced ex-
cept for cause other than politics. 1t
is still left to the President to app
ambassadors and ministers plenipo
tentiary, but all secretaries of eci-
bassies and legations are protectsd
by special act Of Congress.
That one time rich field of federal
patronage, the fourth class postoffice,
has been placed entirely under civil
service rules and unless the new ad-
miFfistration sets aside recent execu-
tive orders the fourth class postmas-
ters that are now in office will stay in.
But there are nearly 5000 presidential
postmasters-first, second and third
classes and these will be duly consid-
cred and democrats appointed to take
the place of republicans as the COM
missions of the incumbents expire.
Of the presidential offices between
700 and 800 are of the first class,
paying salaries ranging from $1,000
up to $4,000. By special acts of Con-
gress the New York and the Chicago
offices pay $4,000. There are about
$500 postoffices Of the second class
with salaries ranging from $4,000
to $4,000 inclusive, and the balance
are of the third class with salaries
from $1,000 to $1,000 inclusive. The
third class postmaster is allowed only
one or two clerks and he is supposed
to do a good deal of the routine work
of the office himself. The second
class postmaster is assisted by several
clerks and he has little or none of the
grind. The first class postmaster is
required to give his office only a
general supervision but he must be
on hand all day to receive kicks
from the public. Sensitive natures
that cannot bear to listen to COM
plants would be i'll placed in city
postoffice, but many good party
men" are so hardened as to endure no
! end Of kicks with absolute composure.
The republican party has always had
an abundance Of such types and it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06
rHE oRGAN on rnE AUTO.

THE ORGAN OF THE AUTO.
The auto has an organ now.
Each day you hear it play
The while it strikes pedestrians and
whirls them from its way;
To slow and solemn music it sometimes
speed along,
And then it rises to the hills of halleiu.1
song.
o, the organ of the auto
Makes music sad and gay,
While the cold, unsentinental
Dodge-dodge away,
How glad we are to greet it-how fine q
fellow feels,
With the music of the masters a-runnin'
round on wheels
mphonies--sonatas.-f as air to all:
"Turkeytrot' and BUNNY Hug" and the
Dead March in Saul"
Rare organ of the auto,
What joy your art revealsl
observation-disclosures,
Whirlin' round on wheels,
Frank j.. Stanton, in the Atlanta Con-
stitution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-06

WEBB and her chum, Miss Jeanetta Alex
ander, are considered practical and con-
servatve. The young women wear wide.
lace collars on their suits, fiuted caps
Of waterproof crepe de chine, and carry.
dainty light silk parasols with fringed
edges, to protect themselves from the sun
while lounging on the sand. The bathing
"earmuffs" protect Miss Webbs ears
from the sun.
Other costumes at Palm Beach, show
new brocaded silks and colored embroid-
cry. The silk reticule for carrying hand
kerchief and powder puff is part OF the
bathing costume; SO are the long beach
gloves of chamoisette, which protect the
arms from the sun. There are few long
neck bathing suits. bur many of the
smartest costumes are made with the em.
pire waistline and tight skirts.