The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-29
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

I offense does not merit death the first bull let finds it's mark.
 Admiral Dewey was recently sold in Madison Square garden for s5s00. The Ad- miral is a noted trotting stallion and his price compares very favorably with that of first class automobile.
 Wireless telegraphy has become a well established fact, for signor Marconi now has his picture on an Italian postage stamp, but wireless wrepulling Is recog- nized as an impossibillty in politics.
 William E. Brockaway, said by the po- lice to be the most expert counterfeiter In the world, has recently been released from the New Jersey state prison after serving a term of seven years, nine months and twenty-four days. He is now S3 years old and his days of criminal activity are finished, as he can hardly see to sign his name to an affidavit. man so old in years and so we'll schooled in crime presents a sad picture. It would have been far better for him had he died in prison instead of being released to wait the end in a world where he has no place.
 The White House menagerie may be soon increased by gift of two Hons sent by King Menellk of Abyssinia to Presi- dent Roosevelt The Roosevelts find 1t hard to keep aloof from savage pets. When the President Is not chasing them for sport other hunters are sending them to Washington, and quite number of remarkable gifts of this kind have been received by the Roosevelts since they en- tered the White House Most of the con tributions go to some zoe and this will probably be the fate of King Menelik's lions.
 bill providing for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory to the union as one state contains clause which says that at least one of the sena- tors shall be of Indian descent. This measure is proposed by leading republi- cans and if ever made a law would cause some interesting complications in the nations legislative halls. Of course man of Indian percentage would be chosen for his educational and lawmaking quali- fications, but 1t would seem strange to
  rigines seated in the senate and gravely pondering over policies of state. It is not improbable that visit of other days when grave faced warriors sat about would rise up before the eye of the In- dian senator. But poetry is out of place in Washington, and it is more probable that the Indian statesman would quickly learn to play a good hand at poker, en- large his capacity for highballs and as sume all the other characteristics of a genuine American politician. Indians they were given chance might develop into first class wire pullers.
 A London scientist proposes to fight that towns murkiness with electric rays. He might also avoid so much fog by moving the town.
 This is hard winter on New York as we'll as Chicago. In addition to an alarm ing epidemic of pneumonia in the me tropolis there is so much suffering from the cold and so many other diseases are rampant that all the hospitals are over flowing and patients are now lying on pallets on the floor. While MT. Carnegie is engaged so zealousy in trying to get poor quickly he might take a pointer from this deplorable state of affairs in the greatest city of the land and invest some of his money in a new hospital. There is always room for one more insti- tuition of this kind and the man who thus spends his wealth reveals himself a true philanthropist. P. c.