The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06

ship the more apt they are to have clashes and stir up trouble. Inasmuch as Birmingham is the focus for the teem- ing population of the state it is entitled, as it were, to have more crimes than other towns in Alabama. A manufactur- ing city will always have more crime to suppress than a purely mercantile town.
 Whatever other criticism may be made of President Roosevelt's astonishing reply to Judge Parker regarding the repub- lican methods of conducting the cam paign, he at least struck familiar chord in the last sentence of his letter when he said, "so far as in my power lies I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more" The clause is thoroughly Rooseveltian and typical of the man. It breathes of the strenuous west and Is a survival of the rough, poker parlance that has given the Eng fish language as spoken in the United States so many picturesque expressions. "A square deal" is not grammatical, no matter how you consider it, but 1t Is exactly the phrase that appeals to some people. It Is American to the core, and by thus concluding his remarkable docu- ment President Roosevelt again shows that he is very smooth politician.
 When the Italian and French legislators assemble for business It is a toss up as to whether the session will end in fight or a frolie. In sunny Italy the descend ants of the Caesars hurl inkstands at one another and in sunny France a slap on the face seems to be popular way to show displeasure in the chamber of deputies. After the slap is administered free fight is apt to follow and the same results are brought about in Rome when one deputy hits another deputy on the cranium with an inkstand. In Farce the job of being a legislator is exciting and diverting n the extreme. It is far from | being the dull routine that our United | States senators have to endure Over here an American statesman seldom goes so l far as to call an opponent a liar but l they do things differently in Rome and
 Farce. Over there legislator is apt to
 be called a thousand .'diavolos' or forty ''diables" before he knows it and get his
 face slapped into the bargain Lawmak- ing in Rome and Farce hath a grid l iron" aspect and the deputies may yet 1 adopt football armor.
 | The nation pays willing tribute to the | charms and talent of Miss Julia Marlowe.
 Even the dramatic critics are constrained to treat her with respect and the masses
 low down before her art without thought | of the price of tickets but with what | shock do we of aesthetic temperament
 learn that she whom we have worship l ped has come out .n a public endorse 1 ment of Peruna! The peerless Julia ac-
 tuafly says that she is glad" to write
 her endorsement of the remedy as nerve
 tonic and takes her pen in hand most 1 heartily" Alas, what are we coming tol
 Actresses of less renown and even states
 men have fallen victims to the Peruna
 advertising agents but this from dirnpled
 Julia is too much.
 Verify Friday, November 4 in the year
 of our Lord, 1904, was a busy day among
 the politicians The fact that Judge Par
 ker has given the republicans a severe
 attack of conniption fits is clearly appar-
 ent. The campaign battle cry was heard
 all over the land and the end is not yet | Democrats and republicans made the fur | fly with such admirable enthusiasm that | apathy was routed forever more and yes-
 terday was a day like unto Friday Be-
 fore the clmaz is reached Tuesday morn
 ing we may expect some more extensive
 developments. PAUL COOK.