The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-11
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

/ sistants deserve a rest now and then, 1t
is presumptous to dictate just when a
man shall be buried. Sunday funerals
the fact that a great many friends of
the late departed attended the final obse-
quies, and thus made a great show at
the funeral
Miss Rebecea ]. Taylor d clerk in the
war department, was removed about eigh-
teen months ago for making uneompli-
mentary remarks about Car Roosevelt
and has just lost her suit for re-instate-
ment. Therefore, it may be understood
that he who heneeforth dares to venture
an opinion against the powers that be
while holding government office is
guilty of lese majestic and stands an ex-
cellent chance of being discharged. II
is fortunate that cartoonists and news
paper photographers are not at the mercy
of Theodore I. for it is painful to specu-
late how expeditiously and suddenly they
would lose their jobs.
Out at Cripple Creek the shades of bad
men long departed are no doubt troubled
by the unseemly disturbance which now
makes day and night hideous above their
graves. In the old days the residents Of
Cripple Creek stuck knives into each
other or fired pistols at strangers with
a careless abandon that was startling.
They also hanged their friends now and
then for a little matter Of cheating at
cards or stealing a horse, and when they
got too much red eye into their systems
they are reported to have conducted
themselves reclklessly about town, but
their little festivities appear tame In
comparison with the reign of terror that
has been inaugurated as a result of
disagreement between the operators and
the miners. After ALL times have not
changed so much since 1S49, and the ten
derfoot stands as good a chance to get
hurt at Cripple Creek now as he ever
did.
A much-abused woman in Chicago
pleads for divorce from her husband
on the charge that he did not like moth
er's bread and was hard to wake up.
The poor woman would thump hubby
every morning. raise him out of bed and
set him on his feet, but still he would
not wake up. When he did get his eyes
open he would Sass" her and go back
to bed. No wonder the poor woman got
tired of. living with such a brute. Her
husband is no doubt one Of those indi-
viduals who doesn't care If he never
wakes up, and in addition he dared to
criticize mothers breadI' 1t is a
wonder some sorely-tried spouse does
not ask for divorce because hubby has
cold feet.
A steamboat captain was arrested the
other day on a Mississippi boat and fined
$50 for taking a hand in a penny-ante
poker game. 1t was an insult to the
shades of the old river pIungers who
once staked plantations, slaves and for
tunes in cotton ON the flip of a card,
while the steamboats, ploughed down the
Mississippi and the law was quiescent.
But times have changed now and Just
because veteran Of those early days
endeavored to refresh his memory of the
glorious past by INDUCING in a little
game with several friends for a stake
so ridiculously small that it made him
blush, forthwith appears minion of the
law and hales the whole party to court
AS the captain handed over his $50 he
realized more than ever that things are
different now. P. C.