The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-06
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

comfortably installed at Oyster Bay al- though 1t Is doubtful if a man of Mir. Roosevelt's strenuous disposition can be comfortable anywhere. The natives turned out to give him a welcome, which was conspieuously half-hearted. but that cast no damper on the Presidents buoy ant spirits. The fact that in order to see the President 1t will first be necessary to see Corteiyou gives some foundation to the suspicion that the distinguished exile Is thinking of perpetrating another book
 Now that 1t Is possible to milk COWS by electricity farm hands may be expected to have an easy time in life, although 1t will probably be some time yet be- fore the new method in milking is uni versally introduced. The main advantage Of the electio milker Is cleanliness and the device probably saves work Tn ad- dition festive bovines will not be able to kick over the bucket any more. But it is to be feared that the electric milker will do away with the charming milk maids that poets sing about and that would be calamity. No farm could be a success without the pretty milk maid. whether her charms are imaginary or real, although electricity would no doubt make the milk maids work more pleas- ant than 1t Is now.
 It is enough to make Cupid hide his head with shame, but Kansas City woman has actually deserted her hus- band because he was too kind She ayers that he agreed with every thing sine said, so there was no possible chance to start an argument. The husband has very little to say about the matter, but he probably thinks a great deal. In the meantime he has been granted a divorce and may consider himself lucky. Cruelty is often charged in a plea for divorce is often charged in a plea for divorce or dom indeed that man is so kind to his wife that she cannot live with him. This Is merely another example of where strenuousness would have had salutary effect. The aggrieved husband should have spanked his spouse several times in order to make her respect his admira- ble qualities.
 It Is something of a shock to learn that
 
 St. Louis is citizen of Baltimore, wheth- CT in good standing or not is questionable. Nevertheless the man that people are gladly paying out their shekels to see Is no more a Zulu prince than the Hon. William Jennings Bryan, who sickens at the very thought of royalty. This distin- gulshed gentleman Is, however, very good prince for an amateur, and when the people do not know the difference, he Is Just as interesting as the real article. In fact the fond populaee has been pay ing out money so long for the pleasure of being humbugged that it is rather late to begin kicking about the Pike. There are undoubtedly other frauds along that interesting thoroughfare and there are frauds in majority of all the museums but still these frauds are interesting and they are nothing less than gold mines.
 The wireless telegraph station of Nikola Tesla in Colorado. which was at one time fruitful theme for Sunday newspapers, has been taken down and thus has anoth- CT dream of this fond philosopher per- ished. The lumber will be used for build ing residence and a plumber has bought the pipes that connected the station with the Colorado Springs water system so that the venture will not prove a total loss. Tesla has penchant for promising great things and 1t Is indeed a pity that he cannot carry out all his plans. If Tesla could have his way we would have hello girls in Mars today. P. c.