The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

ham and a delegate to the International Peace conference, has just remarked that unmarried men are the curse of the country. Recently General Corbin ven tured to say that young army officers ought not to marry. Evidently there is A difference of opinion here. It will be rotieed that the general bases his obJec- ton to married soldiers on the ground that they do not receive enough salary to to support a wife, while Mss Dun ham simply states that the unmarried soldier is the curse of the country and there is an end of 1t. This method of ar gument is peculiar to the fair sex, but no one has yet dared to assert that 1t is not effective,
 In October the poets may well tune their Tyres to the choicest melodies. One never sees the beauties of the fall in town but trip out into the country Will serve to convince him of how much he Is missing. In October the woods deck them selves in their gayest colors, the harvest is at it's prime, and all nature assumes that pensive air that foreshadows the final departure of summer and the advent
  busy to note the changing beauty of na- ture all around her, but the hills that hide the coal and iron are now tricked out in their most bewitching garb. Neither smoke nor cinders can altogether oblit- crate the painted leaves or conceal from view the transformation that Is being wrought.
 The case of L. F. Loree, who has just resigned his position as head of the great Rock Island system including the Frisco has served to call attention to the fact that he drew and is still drawing one of the largest salaries paid in the United | States Mr. Loree assumed the manage ment of Rock Island affairs for yearly l salary of $75,000 and bonus of $500000. 1 Although he has stepped out he will continue to draw the $Io,00V a year be- cause the terms of nis contract state that he shall be paid that sum annually for years regardless of whether he is con nected with the company or not Here is 1 a little lesson in the value of brains. i While MT Loree has yielded to MT. Win chell, the fact that he could command I 1 his ability as a railroad man. He re- | ceives S25000 more than the president of | the United States and about $70,000 more ] than the average mercantile man who 1 makes a success in life, not to mention the bonus of s50OO00, which brings his salary up to fabulous sum. MT. Schwab is another man who drew a big salary for while and IS now out of the run ming, so to speak, but the chances are that neither Loree nor Schwab will ever | suffer for the comforts of life.
 It seems that in addition to the malevo- lent microbe there Is the benevolent mi crobe who helps us to digest our food. Recent experiments have shown that food
 that has been antiseptically treated and
 deprived of all it's microbes is not so nourishing as the food that Is eaten. microbes and all. Animals that have been fed on antiseptically treated food
 have died, while others that ate the microbes along with their daily provender
 flourished If this be the case our hats
 should go off to the benevolent microbe.
 Heretofore people have started at the very word microbe, without stopping to
 consider whether some of the species
 might be better than others. The beney-
 olent microbe is all right and science is
 ready to give him an introduction into the
 very best society. F. C.