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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
Confederate Memorial Day

By legislative enactment today is a
legal holiday in Alabama. 1t is also
legal holiday in Georgia, Mississippi
and Florida. It is Confederate Memo
rial Day and is observed in many of
the southern states whether or not it
has a legal status. In the Carolinas
May 10 is Memorial Day and in Ten
nessee the second Friday in May is
Confederate day and is legal holi-
day.
On Sunday nearest the 26th of
April-this year tomorrow-the Con-
federate veterans in Birmingham, as
in other cities of the state, visit the
cemeteries and with fitting exercises
decorate the graves of the Confed-
crate dead. 1t is beautiful and ten
der custom and after the last veteran
shall have passed over the river, sons
and daughters of veterans will con-
tinue to lay flowers on the graves of
those who were slain in action or who
risked their lives for the Confederate
cause.
1t has been 4S years since Lee sur
rendered to Grant at Appomattox and
the chasm between the north and
south, wide and deep for many years
after the mighty struggle, has en-
tirely disappeared. Thank heaven,
sectionalism has passed never to
return This country was never so
firmly united as it is now. But so
long as there is a vestige of manly
feeling left Confederate valor-the
splendid chivalry of southern youth
and manhood should be recalled with
pride and grateful hearts on these re-
curing memorial days. Both north
and south honor, as they should, their
heroes. They fondly cherish memories
of their valiant dead.
Here in the south in all of the ter
rible tragedy of internecine strife
there was romance and chiyalry and
daring scarcely paralleled and never
surpassed in the annals of war. The
rank and file as well as the great
commanders furnish inspiration to
the young of today, albeit love of
peace more than ever animates all
true Americans. But no matter how
peace loving nation becomes its
standards of patriotism and righteous
ness would be lowered in proportion to
the lessened veneration Of the living
for the memories of those who fought
and died in defense of home and state.
The banks will be closed today.
Many business concerns in Birming-
ham will be closed this afternoon and
Saturday half holiday will be more
strongly in evidence, than usual. In
decorating the graves Sunday the
veterans will be assisted by young
men and women and the sympathies
of thousands here will be touched and
quickened by the acts of devotion on
the part of gray and tottering sur
vivors of the lost cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

excepting New Orleans, no city in the
south ever had parade SO brilliant.
Yesterday afternoons extensive
parade was creditable in spite of
the rain. There were not so
many commercial or industrial
floats as there should have been
but it was clearly shown that Bir-
mingham was a manufacturing, job
bing and shopping center.
The potlatch festivities were to have
been concluded at East Lake last
night, but owing to the inclement
weather they could be carried out
only in part. They will take place in
full Monday night. Visitors and
residents alike have words of praise
for the Indians" big and little, who
have labored to make this first effort
of perpetuating an honored Indian
custom permanent.
birmingham was never so profusely
decorated as it has been this week
and when the time comes for starting
to work on next years spring festival
citizens generally will be ready to put
their shoulders to the wheel. There
will certainly be NO doubters or
croalfarc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
Age of odd Fellowship

April 26 marks the anniversary OF
the founding of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows in the United
States" said an elderly brother odd
Fellowship was an institution In Eng
land in the eighteenth century, but
the first lodge established in America
was in the city of Baltimore. 1t was
on the 26th day of April 1919. There were
only five members of that lodge, but
the order spread fast and today the
membership under the jurisdiction Of
the sovereign grand lodge which in
oludes Canada, is nearly 1,600, 600 There
are, 1 understand, more than 1,250,000
ODD Fellows in the United States alone
I'm 1869, when the fiftieth anniver
sary was celebrated. / was not old
enough to belong to the order, but
recall the occasion well. In every city
there was an imposing parade. The CEN
tennial will doubtless be celebrated on
q grand scale
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
always inaccurate, history of the
United States the American Indian
is pictured as standing with reluctant
feet" upon the shore of the Pacific
ocean, while a white man is pushing
him from the rear and advising the
maroon brother to move on. That pic
ture is recalled by an article by John
M. Oskinson, Cherokee, who writes
an article in the Journal of the Society
of American Indians upon the troubles
of the Apaches who have been pris-
oners of war at Fort Sill.
Geronimo, the fierce old war chief
of the Apaches, dictated, a few years
ago, the narrative of his life, his easus
belli, his capture and his longing for
freedom. A sentimental savage, and
not business man. Geronimo would
have been glad to go back to the Gila
river country to live upon Gila mon-
sters and sit In the grateful shade of
the cactus IL he could have felt the
tingle of freedom in his blood. But the
Apaches of a younger generation do
not relish freedom which looks to them
good deal like thinly disguised con-
fscation of property.
According to Mr.. Oskinson
I'm the first place two thirds of the
prisoners of war held originally at
Fort Marion, in Florida were friendly
Indians whose leaders had led in the
chase of Geronimo and the renegades;
of these leaders four, Choto, Noche,
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From English Friends-From Letters
and Journals of Charles Eliot Nor
ton" in the May scribner.
~uPPOSE you and l were to go out
there some pleasant morning to-
~ gether. We should walk slowly
IN the shady Denmark Hill, and COM
ing along by high black fence on the
left. should ring the bell at the avenue
gate. which would be opened for us by
David the coachman. or MS Wlle, OF
one of their numerous children, who
would greet us cordially. and from
whom we should learn that Ruskin was
at home. Going up the avenue we should
hear a bell rung to announce our ap-
proach, and before we reached the front
door 1t would be opened to us, ana we
should hear that Mr.. Ruskin was very
busy, and desired not TO be disturbed
unless we came, which l had told MN
we might very likely do on one of these
days. We go through the hail. through
a little room or passage at the rlght
filled with flowers in beautiful bloom,
and should stop to look at the touching
srortrait nv Turner of himself as a
youth. through which In his old age he
lad thrust a knife-and we should then
PASS into the middle parlor hung round
with 10 or 12 of Turner's finest draw
ings. and with two or three OF William
Hunts over the fireplace. A long WIN
dow at the southern end of the room
looks out over the flower beds and the
lawn. We should hardly have time to
get even a general view Of all this be-
fore we should hear Ruskin's quick
light step through the hall and he
would come in with the most warmly
y elcoming smile. both hands out
stretched, and most cordial words of
pleasure al our coming.
You would be struck at once with the
sweetness and refinement of his LOOK
with a certain touch of quaintness III
lis dress and manner which gives a
pleasant flavor to his originality with
The peculiar and sorrowful tenderness
of expression in his eyes, with the mo-
b;iity Of his mouth, and with the fine
nervous, over-struns organization be-
trayed alike in gait. in carriage. in
slanner. In expression. In shape. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
SYMPHONY Festival Sent.

There will doubtless be 3 steady de-
mand for tickets for the symphony festi-
val which will be held here at the JEFF
ferson theatre May and G., said an old
citizen who never misses an opportunity
Of hearing good music.
The Cincinnati orchestra would well
be worth the price of admission, but in
addition to this splendid organization we
are to have Mrs. Aldrich, Miss Christine
Miller and Miss Elizabeth Cunningham
as soloists Symphony orchestras are
expensive luxuries, and 1t is confidently
believed that the public will appreciate
the efforts that have been made by those
who have made the forthcoming concerts
possible >,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
A Credit to Birmingham

The potlatch has demonstrated one
thing-a leader with a talent for or
ganization combined with determine
tion and enthusiasm with few ener-
getic assistants can achieve almost
anything.
When the idea of having a potlatch
celebration was first brought up in
the Chamber of Commerce it seemed
to take well. Oscar C. Turner, who
had established reputation for being
able to do things, thought a potlatch
would be good thing for Birming-
ham and he accepted the chairman
ship. The finance committee pro-
ceeded promptly to devise ways and
means and preparations progressed
steadily. But some good citizens who
had enlisted in the potlatch cause be-
came timorous lest their novel under
taking should not turn out to be what
Was expected. In other words, in the
language of modern phrase makers,
some people got "coldf feet"
But Mr.. Turner and his lieutenants
never lost heart. They worked on
hopefully and the result was reyela-
tion to the public. Thursday nights
pageant was magnificent. Nothing
20 fine was ever seen here before. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

badge of affluenee, Il not of respecta-
hility, seems ohave existed feroe 1913.
Made of beaver skin. plush or SILK,
bility. seems to have existed before 1913
fore that year, but they rather approxi-
mated truncated cones than the cylin-
droid shape which has since obtained
AS witness the shaggy, yellow
"grandfather's hat" with the flaring
bell crown of the "rippeeanoe and Ty-
Ter too period, the lofty stoyepipe which
Lincoln wore, and the tile of today,
which no presidential Inauguration and
no household can be without For
century at least the high hat has been
civilizations symbol of somber splen-
dor; it has ben the appendage of mans
highest estates. in whatever sphere of
existence. In London no gentleman of
the stock exchange will venture across
the street, however hot the August day,
not thus bedecked IN Darkest Africa
savoir vivre by receiving the explorer
clad in "stovepipe,' though lacking
every other adornment save a smile of
greeting, and possibly also a loincloth.
by the high hat alone may all exalted
pcrsonages" be recognized; and in some
Instances, we regret to add, there is no
other mark of identification. Who
would today enter an equipage of state
that Is not driven by a coachman
adorned with plug" no matter how
old its vintage? The tile is ever re-
served for occasions when it tops the
utmost pulchritude of which, man Is
capable; and great indeed is he who
can wear it as gracefully and "as easily
as camel bears a Bedouin family tent
and furnishings and ALL, or blithe lit
tie Sandman donkey a load of grass"
A womans crowning glory is her hair;
a>man's crowning glory Is his tile. May
not badness, inquiries the Journal of the
american Medical Association, now so
frequently observed in the human male
be concomitant with the vogue of the
beaver h~.2 This structure fits tightly
on the head. Is it not therefore possible
Ii leads TO impoverishment of the scalp.
which is the soil for hair to grow in?
Neither hair nor plants will grow well
IL the soil be poor. A scalp favorable
to hair growth is thick and pliable, and
moves freely on the skull thin scalp
drawn tightly over the skull will lessen
the blood supply in the vessels and
cause death of the hair roots VIII not
the tightly pressing beaver ahe derby,
too, for that matter) have the same de-
vitalizing effect? Women and savages
are seldom or never bald; why should
civilized man be so? Is the reason 10
be found in tho stiff hato
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SHIPS LIKE VILLAGE

Ernest Peixotto in Scribners Magazine
Next morning thow strange at sea- l
was awakened by the bleating of a lamb
and by lusty cockcrow. The Royal Mail
steamers of the west coast are a. strange
little world. Built for an ocean where
storms are unknown, they combine eer-
tain comforts not to be found on much
more pretentious boats.
Their saloons and cabins are exception
ally large and open directly upon the
promenade decks that stretch the entire
length of the ship, there being, properly
speaking, no steerage and no second class.
The natives and others who cannot af-
ford the first class ticket travel in the
"euberta." as it is called a deck at
the stern rooted with canvas but other
wise open, where in picturesque con-
fusion, surrounded by bags and bundles,
they lol in hammoeks or lie wrapped in
shawIs.
Upon this deck the hencoop faces-a
big two story affair, partly with ripening
fruits, bananas, oranges and the like, and
partly with chickens, ducks and other
forlorn looking fowl, fattening for the
tdDle. Between uecks StaIos your peel
and mutton on the iloof, gazing mourn
fully up at you as you look down the
hatchways.
Upon this homelike boat, quiet and con-
tented, with no unseemly hurry, you
meander down the coast at 10 knots. The
air is soft as a caress and for at least
eight months of the year the sea as
placid as a mountain lake, a CLASSY mir
ror rejecting an azure Sky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
o14EER DRINK

From Cassells Saturday Journal
An Englishman met frenchman AT
hotel in London and asked him what
he would have to drink.
Il ,~iIl take a drop of contradiction,
said the Frenchman
Contradiction? What on earth do
you mean?" questioned the Englishman,
well, you put in re whisky to max
IL strong. ze water to make 1t
weak. re lemon to make 1t sour. ze
surar to make it sweet: then You say,
Here's to you,' and you drink 1t your
self" was the quaint reply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

Ex-Supreme Court Justice Leventritt
for the plaintiff and ex-Supreme Court
reared in the supreme court for the
trial of the suit of Liebler & Co. against
Lee Shubert for an accounting of the
profits from "The Bluebird.s The case
Is OH trial before Justice Blur in New
York George C. Tyler for Iiebler &
Co. testified that his company had half
interest in the production, but that
shubert hrned over only $1,000 of the
$4,000 prodts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
A LUCKY MISTAKE

rrom the Strand Magazine
A young doctor may stumble into the
good graces of patient by a nuke as
in the story fathered, like so many stories,
upon Abernethy. After a convivial gath
ering Abernethy was summoned to the
aid of well to do lady. When he pulled
out his watch and put his fingers on the
patients wrist he could not count the
pulse Drunk again. he muttered The
next morning he was requested to make
an early call to see the lady, who received
him most effusiveiy.
Doctor, she said, YOU are the first
honest doctor | have had. | was drunk .
And ever after she was one of Aber-
nethys staunchest adhsrents and best
patients.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
California's Race Problem

Should Secretary of State Bryan be
able to induce the California legisla-
ture to adopt an intelligent and just
land bill that will create no interna-
tional friction, his time would be well
spent. He will arrive in Sacramento
today, and the result of his confer
ences in the California capital will
soon be known.
The ownership of lands by aliens
is sore subject in many states, but
it assumed an acute form as soon as
the Japanese began to buy or lease
lands in California. And yet the num-
ber of Japanese in that state is an
nually decreasing, and will continue to
decrease if Japan continues to keep
her laborers from emigrating to this
country. Many Japanese are returning
to the home land. They are ostracized
in this country and they are proud
and sensitive as we'll as capable.
The question of states rights is in
rvolved, as well as the treaty obliga-
tions between this country and Japan.
The case is complex and difficult and
the people of California are not in
an amiable frame of mind concerning
1t. Mr.. Bryan will need all of his
persuasive power and tact and we'll
known knowledge of public questions
when he undertakes to induce the Cal
ifornians to be just to the Japanese.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
TEACHING THE EDITOR A LESSON

From the Kansas City Star.
She came down the street three steps
al a time and sailed into the country
newspaper office like a whirlwind She
waited for no ceremony, but wildly
asked:
rs this the printn' office?"
Eyes, madam
'I want to stop my paper
'All right. madam
stop 1t right away, too"
Its stopped. we replied, making
blue line through her husbands name on
the subscription list
"Mabbe that will learn you some hoss
sense and how to do the square thing
next time. and not to slight people just
because they are poor. If some rich,
stuck up folks happen to have bald
headed brat born to 'em you're in an aw-
full hurry to put it in the paper and
make it out an angel, but when poor
people have baby you can't say word
about it even IL it is the~purtiest child
borned That's what I'm stoppin' the
paper fur. This ort to be lesson to
every paper in Oklahoma" And she went
out of the office as mad as wet hen.-
Kaw City (Okla.) Tribune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
THE LITTLE BIRD ON THE HAT

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
John Burroughs at an Audubon society
meeting in Denver said
Women who wear feathers don't real
ize the tragedy of all this bird slaughter.
That tragedy would be brought home to
them If they could overhear the conver-
sations that go on amoung the bird folk
in forest and Jungle
Where's your wife,? many bird of
paradise must be asking these days. only
to get the sorrowful reply;
oh, she's trimming a hat for Mrs,
Van AstOrbilt'o -
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ADRIFT WITH THE TINES

see Gertrude Hoffman dance. And what Is
worse. people who pay s. to see Gertrude
Hoffman exhibit her fine contempt for
clothes seem to think they get Their
moneys worth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
HUMAN FAILING.

A citizen of a western town, in a Gym
ical humor, calls the attention of REFORM
ers to the fact that great uproar is
made about certain features of city life
and then the blatant ones some of them,
at least, turn right around and pay So to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
The Iron Market

"The pig iron trade is like a restau-
rant where they are doing a big busi-
ness in the dining room but are getting
raighty few fresh supplies in the kiteh-
en-that is, all the finished lines are
active but new buying of pig metal
is of minor volume is the way Mat
thew Addy & Co, puts it. Furnaces
OF course are not suffering, for, with
few exceptions, they are sold up
through the first half. In fact the
whole attention of the trade is cen
tered on the last half of the year. That
is the single uncertain feature of the
situation.
Matters just now are complicated by
the fact that pig iron is so sensitive to
tariff changes. No matter what part
of the iron tariff is eoncerned-be it
ere. pig, rails or other finished shapes
the whole body of the trade suf
fors. and on this occasion the men in
The iron trade are like the Biblical lamb
who before his shearers was dumb.
They are not opening their mouths.
feeling the uselessness of protesting.
with the dominant majority in Wash
ington exhibiting IT'S present temner
Eut the general feeling is that what
ever changes are to be made in the
tariff should be made at once. Let ,,s
have the agony over as quickly as pos
sihle and give business a chance to
rtadjust Itself to- new conditions.
"As noted last week, The east is do.
irg more business than is being done in
the middle west. But consumers ara aj,
busy There is no question as TO that.
the only unsatisfactory features being
the tariff uncertainty and the tendency
10 put off new contracts until tha
eleventh hour
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
TIE UPLIFT.


We are pleased to see a movement start
ed for clothing umpires uniformly. While
heretofore they have appeared for the
most part in the same general attire.
there was sort of insouciance In their
dress that was trying on esthetic temper
aments. Now it is proposed to make the
umplres of the American league wear inn
maculate white flannel suits on special oc-
easions. The idea Is a very good one but
"dolling up an umpire is apt to make
the rougher element on the bleachers long
with more intensity than ever before to
"spoli' him when he makes decision
they consider off color"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
SPOILING HER FUN.

But, my dear, l have no objection to
your voting il you want to-
"That's just like youl You are SO COM
placent it isn't any pleasure for me to
be suffragefte."
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A JOHN RUSKIN AT HOME !.

in words. At first, for five minutes per-
haps, he would show in your presence
as stranger a-little shyness and con-
straint, apparent In want of entire
simplicity OF manner. But this would
wear off quickly and In a quarter of an
hour you and he would be on easy
terms, and talking as II you had known
each other for years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
CITY INDIANS.

Are those real 1ndians?" asked an un-
sophisticated woman, who was viewing
the Potlatch parade.
The man with her looked closely at the
faces on passing float.
NO" he answered, "but I suspect some
of them are quotation-mark Indians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26
MARSHY GROUND.

"Dillberry tells me he is dabbling in
suburban lots,
Dabbling' is correct. Most of them
are under water
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CENTENARY OF THE "Tor HAT.
From the Journal of-the American Med
ical Association.
II is proposed to celebrate the CEN
senary Of the high hat, although this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

No state can claim the summer capt
tai, for the executive offices will be in
Vermont while the summer White
House is in New Hampshire
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The man has been found who pro-
nounees futurist art back number. He
should be put ON the progressive ticket in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

Togo is admiral of the Japanese fleet
ana Dewey is still on deck.
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The hatchet that once belonged to
Messrs. Bryan and Clark has been
buried with George Washington
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EXPENSIVE ITEMS.

| do not want a touring ear,
Or costly limousine,
Less someone will contribute for
The tires and gasoline.
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Times certainly have changed, says
the Baltimore sun, when an assault on
southern member of Congress is set
tied by an Investigation" and not by
the person attacked. MIR Sims of Ten
nessee, as far as we recall" says the
Sun, is the only southern member who
ever showed SO much Christian meek
ness under personal ehastisement. We
are afraid that, when he comes before
the belligerent Tennessee voters for re-
election, his record as a noncombatant
will damage him as much as bad rec
ord on the tariff So greatly does man
kind admire a 1ghter.o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

Put on the straw hat and turn on the
eectrie fan and be happy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

The annuals cannot protest against the
use of their names in zoo dances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-26

There is nothing like moving van
to show up the family furniture.
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SEVERE-rRITIcISM

A poet wrote a bit of rhyme
And thought 1t was lyric gen."
But truly he'd be doing time.
If he got what was due to him.
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EVENING IN AREQUIPA

Nearly every man is or should BIZ
edited by woman.
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Tariff revision cannot be decided this
year, 1t was finally and fully decided
last November.
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a plug of tobacco. Cut 1t off with
knife.
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last year, while some of them lost games
only
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Washington is about to become The
scene of an old fashioned tariff log roll
ing.
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While she indulged in an hours fish
ing.