The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-28
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

who can afford to take the trip an6 do
not will have cause to regret it in later
years. for it will be a long time before
another exposition on such a stupendous
scale will be projected.
The explanation vouchsafed by Admiral
Rojestvensky regarding the attack made
by the Russian Baltic feet on fleet of
English fishing vessels in the North sea
is either a remarkable example OF inca
pacity or a revelation of imbecility.
Either indictment is bad enough. For
sooth. the willy admiral is alleged to have
said that the night was rather hazy; that
a fleet of ten torpedo boats, which the
Russians supposed to be Japanese vessels,
appeared between the two divisions of the
fleet and seemed" to discharge torpe-
does. Thereupon the vigilant gunners op-
ened fire and routed-a fleet of harmless
trawlersl Now the all-absorbing question
is what became of the ten torpedo boats?
No one seems to have spied them except
the Russians, and they disappeared as
soon as the fishermen were defeated. 1t
Is barely possible that the strange craft
may have belonged to that mythical fleet
over which the Flying Dutchman" is adj
miral, but at any rate the explanation of
Admiral Rojestvensky is very queer and a
tribe hard to understand.
The lay of the deserted cats s being
sung along the eastern seashores, where
these pets have been forsaken In large
numbers by their patrons who now revel
in the gaities of city life. 1t seems that
the seashore cats are ''up against"
tough proposition, for rats and mice are
scarce on the beach and other provender
is hard to find. Moreover, it seems that
the city cats are abandoned every spring
when their owners HE them away to the
summer resorts. Now cats are not as ex-
pensive as automobiles and families who
wish to maintain feline while in the city
| and one while at the seashore can do
so, but they ought not to desert one for
the other 1t appears that the cat tribe
is in an awkward predicament. Cats are
clearly not appreciated as they should
be by those people who fit from town to
the seashore. or vice versa, and here is
a good field for philanthropy.
With Judge Parker and Grover Cleve-
| land both booming from the stump the
havoc wrought in republican ranks by
such big guns ought to be widespread.
| Although both of these gentlemen pre-
vously announced that there would be no
stump for them they seem to have re
considered and democracy will profit
| thereby. The other leading lights have
done about all that could be expected of
them and deserve a rest, even If they do
not get it.
| From the present indications there will
not be a great scramble among surface
motormen for positions on the subway.
There won't be much to see down there,
and week after week of monotonous,
dreary travel is apt to make mole out
| of a man even if it does not land him
In an asylum. The constant succession of
! white pillars has already been discovered
| to have an injurious effect on the eyes.
| and when 1t is considered that the sub
| way motorman will never have a chance
to see dog fight, a runaway street
riot, it can easily be understood why
places on the subway are not in great de-
| mand. p c.