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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-19
BY WILLIAM S. WALSH

seller, Henry Young, making use Of little
nook in the rear Of the shop to examine and
discuss the recent publications. This came
10 be- known as Hawthornc'S corner
Hawthorne gave Bright the complete
manuscript Of THE Marble Faun." known
in England as Transformation. Bright
had it richly bound. and it remains one Of
the valued possessions Of his descendants;
as indeed it might well be in more senses
than one. Considered merely as an auto
graph, it is worth a tremendous sum.
THERE is a story told about Sydney
Smith that represents him as carrying
a concealed pun into the pulpit with him.
The most familiar version is that which
Lord Houghton used to tell. When settled
al his small living in Yorkshire. Sidney
willingly assisted his brethren in that neigh
borhoOd in their clerical duties On one oc-
casion he dincd with the incumbent on the
preceding Saturday. The evening passed in
great hilarity, the Squire, kcrshaw by name,
being conspicuous by his loud enjoyment Of
the visitors Jokes.
Il am very glad that have amused you.
said Sydney Smith at parting; but YOU
mus, not laugh at my sermon tomorrow.
Il should hope know the difference be-
tween here and a church," remarked the
Squire, a little tartly. perhaps.
I'm not so sure Of that.
I'll bet YOU a guinea on il"
Take you,' said the divine.
Next dav the preacher assembled the steps
Of the pulpit, apparently suffering from
severe cold, with his handkerchief to his
face. and at once sncczcd ont the name
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-19
BURIED PUNS

HORACE Z. SCUDDER, in some rcml-
IL nisccnccs Of James Russell Lowell,
pointed out that the poct-critlc even IN his
Sobcrcst ESSAYS would sometimes hide away
a Jest for the dclcctation Of specially discern,
ing readers. Thus in a review OF Richard
Grant Whites edition OF Shakespeare, Low
ell remarked incidentally:
"Tocvcrv commentator who has Wantonly
tampcrcl with the text or obScurcd II WIN
his inkv cloud Of paraphraSc we teeI IN
clincd to apply the quadnSyllabic name Oh
the brother Of Agis, King OF Sparta.
Professor FELTON, Of Harvard, We are told,
va, the first to remember or discover that
the name Of Agis's brother WAS EudamidaS
A MORE Opaque mystiicatlon IS con-
"A tanned in a passage in the first chapter
of Nathaniel IIawthorncS Our Old Home
opaque only because he purposcIy seeks
to conceal every clue 10 the fact that pun
is buried beneath the surface.
The chapter is headed Consular EXpcn-
,n,c. Speaking Of the lights and shadows
d., the Consul's Office at Liverpool, where he
VA, stationed during the presidency 81
Franklin Pierce, Hawthorne dwclIS win
sr,.raI measure on the visits Of young
ENGLISH friend, ~ scholar and literary ANA
tour. between whom and myself there sprang
MP an aticctiouatc and. trust. not tranSi-
tory regard.
This friend used TO come and SIT or stand
ly the Hawthorne i.rcslic talking viva
,iuusly and cloqucntly upon literature and
lie and the difference between American
and English characteristics, with such
kindly endurance Of the many rough rcpun-
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
NEW SENATOR PLANS
TO OPPOSE BAILEY
Ashurst, Of Arizona, Expects to David
to Texas Solon's Goliath on
Floor Tomorrow.

Senator Henry F. Ashurst OF Arizona
has asked permission to play the part
of a Senatorial David to Senator Bailey's
Goliath in the initiative and referendum
drama that is staged for the Senate
this week. Senator Bailey gave notice
before the holidays that he would ai-
dress the Senate tomorrow In support
OF a resolution he introduced early in
December announcing the initiative and
referendum and other measures advo-
Gated by the new promoters OF popular
government" as entirely out OF keeping
with the spirit of our institutions. 1t is
understood that this address will be
Senator Bailey's farewell word to his
colleagues and to the country, and that
It will signalize his retirement from pub
lie life. He will resign Immediately. ac-
cording to reports.
Senator Ashurst was elected from the
new State of Arizona, which not only
adopted the initiative and referendum,
but also the recall of judges. The new
Senator feels that II is incumbent upon
him TO come to the defense of the po-
litical propaganda. and some of his col
leagues are disposed to credit him with
great courage for going out to meet a
man who is generally condeded to be one
OF the ablest orators in Congress. Sen
ator Ashurst harbors no fears as to his
capacity to meet his adversary.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
I9I2-I9I3.

Taken all in all, Americans shoulc
be satisfied with the parting year
There was neither war nor pestilence
trouble with Mexico has been svertec
by wise statescraft; arbitration at las
has been adopted to settle disputes be.
tween labor and capital, as witness the
fight between the ffty-odd railroad:
and their engine drivers, &c; business
has been improving in a solid way
there were record crops; the people are
exceedingly prosperous, and, when all
is told, We are happy nation. Then
there was the reform impulse, mani
Tested more in 1912 than ever before
a desire that would not down for the
speedy realization of ideals in govern
ment, a political awakening. Every
where there has been a demand for
the abolition of the old political ma
chimes, or bosses, that degrade our citi-
zenship; in short, moral revivication
in our national and State politics and
the peoples decision to have and to
trust in popular rule
The people are prosperous, and the
government as result is sharing in
such prosperity The excess of the
Federal administration ordinary dis
bursements over the income at this
time last year was something like S24,-
100000. This deficit to-day is only
S2,2I3,ooo. But, remember, this deficit
in reality is only nominal, because there
is still to be collected 100000 of the
corporation tax, which makes it appear
that at the close of the governments
business for 1912 there is an actual
and very substantial-surplus of at least
$25.ooo,ooo. Added to this fine showing
is the estimate of the Secretary of the
Treasury that for the first six months
of the fiscal year, which will end June
80 of this year, there will be another
excess over the expenditures of SI5,-
100000, so that the total surplus for
the fiscal year will amount TO $4,000
600. Let US add that year ago, in
stead of having to record the present
surplus of S25.ooo,ooo, there was de-
felt of more than $Is,ooo,ooo, and our
good fortune seems complete.
Then why not, we ask, look 1913
straight in the face, thirteen" or no
"thirteen?" There is more business;
activity is greater than ever before; we
may allow our wives and children lux
uries; We can afford to spend a dollar
without looking at it twice; we are in
peace with all the world. Why permit |
the "I3" superstition to make our lives
miserable without rhyme or reason?
Welcome, 1913!
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
COMES TO HEAR
BAILEY'S SPEECH
Swan Song of Senator from Texas
Brings Friend 1000
Miles.

Just to hear Senator Bailey Of Texas
make his swan song speech in the SEN
ate Thursday, John Stevens, OF Coving-
ton, Hill County, Tex. came to Washing
ton yesterday, 1000 miles from his home
in the Lone Star State. Stevens is one
of the best-known Texans who saw serv-
ice in the old pioneer days when bad
men We're numerous and when gun"
law prevailed. He is a straight shot,
and his reputation in Hill County is that
of a man who is always ready to shoot
when it's the right thing to do and
when the Sheriff can't keep order in the
county.
Stevens is a great admirer OF Bailey,
and when Bailey toured the State some
five years ago, and when, as the Texans
tell it, Bailey men and. anti-Bailey men
were ready to shoot at the drop of the
hat, Stevens followed Bailey all over
the State, determined to protect the
Senator's life at all hazards. Stevens
Is rated by his friends to be worth
quarter of million of dollars, owns
ranch of some 1000 acres. and last
year made $4,000 profits.
Yesterday Stevens friends took him to
the Library Of Congress and to the
Washington Monument. 1t was his first
visit to Washington. and he said the
Capital City looked better to him than
he had anticipated. He liked the broad
streets, and said they reminded him of
the big plazas in Mexico City.
A choice seat has been reserved for
him in the Senate gallery, and he will
hear all of the Senator's speech He
thinks Bailey the best orator in the
country.
In the party with Stevens will be Wal
ter Collins. Democratic State chairman
"Shep." Williams. of Paris, and NJ. H.
Portwood, of Greenville
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
The Kaisers Dilemma.

The late Baron Marshall Won Bieber
stein, because of his career at Con
stantinople, was taken to have beer
Germany's foremost authority on thu
near Eastern question. And yet those
familiar with Germany's foreign policy
know that Won Observation-Disclosures, the
Kaiser's secretary of foreign affairs
who died suddenly on Monday last, III
reality possessed a far more intimate
and comprehensive familiarity with the
Balkan situation. For a number OF
years he served his master as minister
to small and apparently insignifcan,
Roumania. Compared to the prominent
mission to Constantinople, the Bucha-
rest representation did appear incon-
spicuous, and no doubt this was the
cause of the widespread rumor that the
Emperor had sent his college chun
and intimate friend out there, so to say,
into exile, because he had fallen from
grace
Nothing could have been farther re-
moved from the truth. Won Kinder
len-Waechter was the one man needed
in that locality, for the King of Rou-
mania is Hohenzollern and kin to the
Kaiser, the only one in whom Germany
could place confidence in the game OF
chess between the Balkans and Turkey
and the Balkan nations among them
selves. Without attracting attention in
the chancelleries of Europe, Won Kin
derlin-Waechter thus was enabled to
familiarize himself as to the true con-
ditions, and no move was made in
Berlin that did not have its conception
in Bucharest, if it pertained to the
near Eastern question.
Probably there was no other diplo-
mat who possessed his masters ear
and confidence to the same degree as
that enjoyed by the late minister, and
no sooner had the present imbroglio
begun in 1910, with the annexation by
ustria-Hungary of Bosnia and Here
govina, when the Obscure" minister
was recalled from Bucharest and placed
in full charge of the German foreign
Office We ali know how successful he
has been in averting war which then
threatened because of Austria's unwar-
ranted proceeding. He was no less sue
cessful in settling the Morocco issue
with France in a manner so satisfac-
tory that the relations between these
two fre-eating neighbors never were
more cordial than at this very moment
The loss to Germany is great, but it
is not irreparable; for we all have had
occasion to learn repeatedly in cases of
that in the last analysis
Emperor William knows how to be his
own foreign minister, and quite sue
cessful one at that.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
MarylanTs Auto HoId-ups.

Even those residents of the District
of Columbia, whose sole policy toward
automobiles is one of agile avoidance,
must feel glow of satisfied resentment
at the report that the Commissioners
are soon, by official process, yet unan-
nounced, to force the Maryland govern
ment to treat District motorists using
Maryland roads with justice in the en-
forcement of the Maryland laws.
! All persons-certainly none more
keenly than the owners and users of
automobiles-are aware that motoring
is yet luxury which must be paid
handsomely for. The license fee is a
legitimate cost, and even fines imposed
for illegitimate speed may, seemingly
in paradox, be accounted legitimate
cost. But the fees and the fines. to be
fairly legitimate, must be levied Justly,
and even the most generous must find
their choler rise at the almost CON-
ically disproportionate share of the au-
tomobile revenues which the State of
Maryland has derived from people of
the District.
In less than two years the people of
the District have paid more than
$4,000 to the State of Maryland for
the use of Maryland roads-not all of
the best kind and condition. And in
1913 it is estimated they will pay more
than $4,000. 1t is related, unoficially
but quite reliably, that these amounts
are more than 20 per cent of the total
revenues Maryland has from automo-
bile Licenses.
The imposition of fines upon District
motorists in Maryland has been COM
planned of as being quite negotiable.
The petty annoyances to which certain
bailiwick busybodies have subjected
District motorists are an overplus of
the general injustice
By whatever way the Commissioners
will proceed to secure a reciprocity
with Maryland through which the auto
mobile owners Of the District will have
fair treatment, it is safe to predict that
they viii so surely succeed that District
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
lSTA ESMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY

When Representative William B. Nc
Kiniey waves his good-by to Congress
next March none will regret to see him
leave the House more than Representa-
tive Charles +. Booher of Missouri.
Booher became a friend Of Mckinley
under peculiar circumstances. At the
opening of the Sixtieth Congress Repre-
sentative De Almond of Missouri went
to John Sharp Williams. then the Demo-
cratic floor leader. and asked him to give
Booher a certain committee assignment
that he wanted. Booher's understanding
was that he was to get II. But when the
committee assignments were announced
he was on one of the less important COM
mittees, to wit, the one on Coinage,
Weights, and Measures, OF which Nc
Kinley Of Illinois was then chairman. He
went over and told his friend De Ar
mond OF his disappointment, and De Ar
mond put It up to John Sharp Williams.
The consequence OF the talk between
John Sharp Williams and De Almond is
history. familiar to all who take an In
terest In carnage. Each called the other
a liar a few times, and there was one Of
the most entertaining little fistic encoun-
tiers between them that had gladdened
the galleries in many a year
Booher had to stay on the Coinage.
Weights, and Measures Committee, much
to his disreiish- But the funny part$or
IL Is that a few weeks later Booher
wouldn't have changed committees for
anything. He found that he was on the
very niftiest committee IN the House. be-
cause Mckinley, who was and Is richly
cluttered I'D with all kinds OF money, en-
tertained the members In a lavish man
ner upon the slightest rretext- Every
few days he gave them big dinner.
When they met for a business session
the committee table was laden with fruits
out of season. 1t was right at that time
that Mckinley, who is agreeable and
generous to a fault. became known as the
human Christmas tree. Booher would
have been a supreme chump to take any
other committee assignment. Mckinley.
knowing that he hadn't wished to be on
the blamed old committee in the first
place, seemed to try to make things
especially pleasant for Booher. 1t was
just like being at a big house party with
the host anticipating ones every within.
So that Booher viii feel real regret
when he sees Mckinley packing up his
things to so home.
Mrs. Champ Clark once said Of her
husband when momentarily vexed with
him:
Champ is utterly unlike any other
man that ever lived. in each and every
single particular"
Speaker Clark, by the way. is not a
man to go about harboring grudges, the
way an elephant Is said to do. He has
forgiven everybody that he thinks threw
him down. at Baltimore. with one ex-
ception. that exception being. of course.
Mr.. Bill Bryan.
Clark hates Bryan SO bitterly that one
friend Of the Speaker was saying the
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01

mittee of the local branch. and Washing
ton suffragettes are busy getting up the
list Of fifty or more speakers who will
address the crowds in all parts of the
city during the week OF the inaugural.
While the time OF the suffrage leaders
OF Washington is now largely taken up
with making the arrangements for the
housewarming TO be held at the local
headquarters at 400 F Street Thursday
at o'clock, four committeeman were
selected yesterday. They are Mrs. Fred
T. Du Bots. chairman of the committee
on woman's clubs; Miss Fola La Toilette.
daughter OF Senator La Toilette OF Wis
consin. head OF the committee that is to
have charge OF the organization OF the
actresses Of the country; Miss Flora
Wilson, daughter Of the Secretary Of
Agriculture, and Mrs. Arthur T. Ramsay,
On the committee on musicals.
The housewarming will be free and
open to the public. There will be four
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
OPTIMISTIC AT 7e.

I'm going to move along In the same
old way and live in the new year the
same as in the past"
Senator james e. Martine of New
Jerseys
Tn going to lead a decent life and
vote the Democratic ticket. take aboard
liquor In reasonable quantities and reject
1t in unreasonable quantities, enjoy good
health, and pleasant surroundings, and
leave every man free to lead his life
and vote as he jolly well pleases."
senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota,
my resolution is to search until find
q good brand Of chewing tobacco. I've
been obliged to change the brand I've
been using because they put it up in tins
and let the quality deteriorate. / want
something more progressive"
Speaker ChanD Clarks
I'm going to continue signing sub
poenaa"
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01

! other night that he hopes the two never
meet Unexpectedly. Said this friend:
IF Champ were to meet Bryan on say
an hours notice, he doubtless would get
himself In hand and the meeting would
pass OF quietly. But IL he suddenly
found himself in Bryan's presence with
out warning and his temper were
aroused by the unexpected sight of him,
they probaly would come to blows. 1
hope they never meet"
The late Vice President Sherman had
one great disappointment in his life. Ii
was that in consequence of near-sight-
edness he had never become a great
baseball player. Enthusiastic fan, though
he was, every time he went to a game
he was reminded sadly OF his youthful
ambition to be star performer on the
diamond
There were two boys teams in Sher-
mans town and he made great efforts to
be on one or the other of these rtnes
All the boys said he was a good fellow.
but poor ball player, and they were
sorry they couldn't use him. Sherman
got mad and organized nine Of his
own. He'd show 'em! Out of his own
pocket he bought the boys all nice new
uniforms and bats and balls He him
self. he said, would play first base. Ex-
cept for his eyesight he would have been
all right. He understood the fine points
OF the game well enough. but he couldn't
see the ball when it came along. and
that proved to be a handicap for a first
baseman. So what do you suppose hap
pened?
The boys in the nice new suits that
sherman had bought them up and
chased him or the team
Morris Sheppard. who is to succeed 10.
BAILEY. OF Texas, in the well-known
United States Senate. was not favorably
regarded when he. first came to Com
gress by the Rosalie Courier, a weekly
paper published down in his district.
The editor of the Courier always led
on his editorial column with a few plthy
sentences setting forth the status OF his
brights disease Following right after
the usual Brights disease paragraph the
issue after Sheppard had been elected
this comment:
Young Sheppard doesn't know a thins
about parliament We would like to
know how such people get elected to
Congress. He has had no experience to
ne him for the place. We voted for his
father for Congress because he had been
q justice OF the peace. but this fellow
has never been a justice of the peace
and had no business going to Congress"
Copyright, 1913. BY Fred c. Kelly. All rights ne
served.l
The Washington herald., 1913-01-01
"Uncle Joe" Is Optimistic
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WILL MAKE NO NEW RESOLUTIONS
% So g
Hopes All Will Be Happy

Here are some of the New Years reso-
lutions, some serious, some semi-serious,
and some positively frivolous, from a few
Of the nations best-known men:
.UncIe Joe" Cannon, of Illinois, sew
enty-sfx years old:
Some good brother might think that
the best resolution one can make is never
to take another drink or to smoke an
other good cigar. and never to look at a
pretty woman, while another man might
think, like our good German brothers,
that a stein Of beer is made to be drunk,
pretty girl to be loved. and q good
cigar to be smoked.
my set Of resolutions for the New
Year is that I won't smoke more than
one cigar at a time, and I won't drink
more than is good for me. As to the
girls-well, at my time of life-er,
don't suppose It is necessary for me to
make any resolutions about fair women.
81 wish for all the people that they
will be happy. and well and courageous.
God can give them the health. They will
be happy If they live honorably and put
forth their best endeavors.
LET every man live so that he can
face the world without fear of anything
on earth or in heaven"
Senator shelby NJ. CuIlona of Illinois,
eiEhty-three year, oldi
I'm not going to quit anything. and
I'm too old to take on anything new. I
don't do any wrong-that Is, at least that
1 am going to quit. About all I do is eat
mince pie and plum pudding. and I ex-
pect to keep IL up.
II don't smoke. don't drink and I
don't chew, and / go to bed eariy-some-
thing like Lincoln.
"One day Lincoln was riding on
stage, and the driver invited him to ride
outside on the box. Lincoln accepted the
invitation. After a while the driver
said: Give me a chaw.' I don't chew
said Lincoln. A little while later the
driver pulled up and said: Come in and
have drink I don't drink said Lin
coin. Then d. you get down and ride
inside said the driver.