The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-24
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

will be a daylight inspection of the tracks. In addition to these measures, there will be other precautions, and MT. Roosevelt will ride in the handsomest special train that one of the richest rail- way systems in the country can provide. If MT. Roosevelt is hurt while on the lines of the Pennsylvania company it will be his own fault.
 A North Carolina newspaper dares to speak of the flying machine and tho cot ton-picling machine in the same breath. It even asserts that the history of these two problems In the past will be their his- tory in the future. Such pesslmism re- garding airships in the face of the recent flights at St. Louis is hardly justifable, although 1t must be confessed that the fu- ture of the contemplating machine does not appear extremely bright. However, we can worry along while longer with out both of these contrivances while the inventors revel in ideas.
 The trainer of the Northwestern univer- slty football eleven says that football affects the brain of those who indulge in the game Today being the day of all oth- CTS when football is in vogue, 1t is in- teresting to consider his theories. Young men who have had occasion to strike their heads against the harsh armor of an op- ponent in scrimmage will testify to the fact that football effects the brain, but the trainer says that his observations do not deal so much with the bumps received during a game as the after effects of the great nervous strain to which players are subjected while under training and while playing. Athletes have day dreams and engage in childish methods of play when at leisure, and when lost in thought are apt to make strange motions, as if strug- gling with an invisible foe. All of this may be interesting, but the effect of foot ball on the brain will trouble few persons today. What everybody wants to know is the average weight of the opposing teams and the records of the elevens that are to meet in deadly fray.
 While the newspapers have tried very hard to have Kuroki dead for the past few weeks and General Stoessel has lost enough arms ard legs to furnish forth a dozen men, a similar mistake seems to have been made nearer at home in the case of Gen. Lew Wallace. It apepars now that the general is not in such desper- ate plight as was reported, and the cube gistic tributes that have been paid him 1 by the press as a farewell send-off will have to be repeated at a later date. How ever, the friends of General Wallace can rejoice that their alarms have been with cut cause, provided the latest reports con- corning his health are really true
 | While there is not so much boil weevil talk these days the campaign against the pest is going m,rrily forward. and an- other boil weeNil convention has been called to meet at Shreveport, La, Decem- Der 12 to Ii. When the national cotton con- vention gets through discussing the boil
 weevil and the Guatemalan ant at
 Shreveport 1t will be high time for these two representative insects to bestir them selves. The cotton growers continue very
 threatening but the boil weevil does not
 seem perturbed and the Guatemalan ant
 is clearly not afraid of losing his job as an exterminator. P. c.