The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18
TIER comparing the opinions of
 the republican and democratic. papers anent President Roose-

papers anent President Roose-
 velt's letter of acceptance it is rather
 difficult to arrive at a conclusion but our
 executive seems at any rate to be an
 admirable juggler of words. His ability
 to consume an hour in speaking or sew eral colums of newspaper in writing
 without imparting useful information has
 been often remarked upon. No flaw could be picked in the grammatical construc- tion of the Presidents letter but in per-
 spicacity he is sadly lacking during
 campaign when 1t behooves him to say as little as possible about some of his
 achievements in the past while hurling rapid fire tributes at himself and party
 without going too deeply into facts MT.
 Roosevelt's literary training as writer
 of books has stood him in good stead
 since he began to indite campaign docu
 ments.
 Walls of protest against a needless op- presson of the English language seem to
 be growing fewer now but still there live
 savants in the land who are anxious to raise their voices for reform. The great
 American populace is perhaps more wide- ly known for the violence it does to it's spoken language than any other people
 on the globe. No other country boasts such a varied assortment of slang and on account of our cosmopolitan popula- tion, nowhere else in the world is one tongue spoken in more different ways. Students of character place much stress A
 profile, nose, chin mouth and above
 all. the eyes, but notning gives surer index of a mans mental attachments than his conversation and if you listen long enough to him he will give you a
 more faithful picture of his character
 than you could draw after hours of stud ying facial lneamenis. Yet, despite this
 fact the men who speak absolutely cor rect English are a mere drop in the
 bucket numerically when compared to the vast host who do not belong to this class. Intelligent business ana professional men
 make little errors inadvertently and while they would not think of putting such expressions in their letters they slip gibly from their tongues It is probable
 that as many people blunder on the past tense of the verb "come" as any other
 word. There are scores or persons who
 pride themselves on their conversational powers and yet they will invariably use
 come instead of 'came" in the past tense.
 Commander Peary states that he is proceeding very successfully with prep arations to make his dash to the North pole next summer. With a heart full of hope and a store of valuable information gained at the expense of much suffering the explorer will start out with prospects | of at last solving the secret of the | frozen north. Let us hope that the honor will fall upon his shoulders and that it will not be left to Norwegian, Dane. En- glishman, German or Frenchman. After we have reached the North pole there will be few practical advantages to be
 derived from it's discovery, since it is not
 believed to have any population that 1 could be annexed and it cannot be used as summer resort until airships be- come popular modes of conveyance, but
 it will be a great honor to the United States when Peary raises the stars and
 stripes in that desolate region-if he gets there.
 Candidate Alton Brooks Parker has | come out into the limelght at last and
 when he reached New York Gothamites
 immediately placed him under fire. The
 result of their inspection has been the
 discovery that Judge Parker shakes hands
 we'll a prime qualification of all success | full politicians. Up at Esopus visitors l were so inthralled by the fieeting glimpses
 of Judge Parker's pet lamb, the fine