The age-herald., 1900-09-28
'KETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE


 as to pull teeth for them, says that on one occasion when visiting tribe of Indians he had to leave his hat outside of a hall, and he asked one of the Indian chiefs if it would be safe to leave 1t. "Yes," replied the Indian, mo white man within fifty mile of here"
 The Indian has one trait, however, that seems remarkable to the white man. He will keep his promise. In Arizona the other day an Indian was acquitted of the charge of murder A year ago he engaged in a pitched battle between some Indians and deputy sherlffs Some were killed on both sides. The Indian hid out for a year, but sent word to Che authorities that he would be on hand when the pow wow opened. Ac- cordingly he traveled hundred miles over rough country and walked into court as the trial of the other Indians began.
 
 A similar case happened some years ago. An Indian killed another Indian, and was arrested and brought to trial before some of his tribe. He was sentenced to be hung, but as he was remarkably good base ball player on the tribes team, and the sea- son being at it's heighth, the court in re- sponse to the urgent demands of the tribe So9PSuoSo liS SASCullOu duu lSl buG luuldIb go on his promise to come back at the end of the season and be hung. The Indian promised and went back to his base ball playing. Tis team won the championship that year. and the Indian was again re- prieved for another season. The second sea- son over, the Indian on the appointed day walked into court and was duly and legally hung by process of law.
 The following facts showing the bad taste people will read the Bible even if it re- quires pair of field glasses are taken from a Louisville paper. Over the organ in one of the new churches is an arch and a dome. In this dome Is frescoed an open Bible. The work was done some weeks ago with great care and trouble. Across the face of the Bible were freseoed according to instruc- tions the words Pax vobiscum." But when the congregation inspected the church or surveyed from their pews the organ and the dome above, they noticed under Pax Vobiscum'' another inscription. It was too small to be read with the naked eye, so of course great many were curious to find out what the inscription was. Finally, one member could subdue his curiosity no long CT, so he got a pair of field glasses and turned them on the inscription. To his hor- TOT he read the following:
 This was done in hell of rush,
 The inscription was right across the face of the Bible. Who the offender was could not be discovered. The contractor was im- mediately notified, and he proceeded to erect scaffolding and had the offending in- scription removed.
 A negro boy was on trial for his life. He was about sixteen years old. He appeared callous to his surroundings and his ex- pression or features did not indicate any excitement or concern about the trIaL They did not indicate anything positively. Neg atively, they indicated a great deal-a lack of intelligence, lack of care and train- ing and an absence of morality. He was just an animal, very black one, with all the passions and lack of control of such He had not friend in the world No one except the sheriff cared anything about him-the sheriff cared enough not to let him get away. The Joy had made two great mistakes in his early life. He had been born poor, and with a shop-worn skin. Then he had committed a crime. It was doubtful whether he was not too deficient morally to be responsible for his crime, buI ldle Htu SIuSlSQ IlIfl OuL TOT dH eX- ample. The jury sentenced him to ten years in the penitentiary.
 1T have at last found place." said a coffee fiend recently, "where I can get good coffee I seldom eat much breakfast but am dependent on my morning coffee for the happiness or unhappiness of the rest of the day. I have been very unhappy recently. I did not know where to go for my coffee. You see, I have not been in Birmingham very long and did not know the ropes I think I have drank coffee at every coffee fountain in town. have been to all sorts and conditions of restaurants and drank all sorts of coffee, but never found any entirely satisfactory At last I happened into the Woman's Exchange. It was between meals, and I did not ex- pect to find things at their best but the coffee I got was delicious. It is astonish- ing to me that good coffee, like good cook ing, is so rare. It is estimated that there are 75,C00,000 people in the United States, and allowing one cook to every ten peo- pie, there should be 7500,000 cooks Suppos- ing one cook out of ten to be good one, there remain GOO good cooks. Yet I ven- ture to say that the number of those who can make good coffee should be again di- .vided by ten, leaving 75,000 good cooks who can make good coffee. And yet out of this number how few you ever meet with--I mean, drink with, no, 1 mean-well you know what mean.'
 A great man lives, acts and dies having done many deeds, made some friends and many enemies. He is well known in his time, so well known that no one takes the trouble to tell who and what he is It is taken for granted that every one knows him. No one chronicles the fact that the sun rose and set on a certain day, and to a less extent it is true of these lesser suns. man is not really dead, says a philosopher, until every living person who knew him has passed away. Then the peo- pie left in the world suddenly wake up to the fact that great man has lived and died and little is known of his real thoughts, hopes and fears. Such has been the case with Washington, Cromwell, Burns and others. Then the biographers get to work and each writes of the man as they i'm agine him to be- and the real man as God made him is never known, and posterty only knows that this man wrote this, and that one did that, while the things ne thought of doing and did not do, and the