The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-22
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

Is strange that such medieval lawless- ness can flourish in the heart of great nation and the mountains of Kentucky. as well as those of Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas, furnish object sons that could be studied with profit. 
 Again Professor Starr of the University of Chicago Is to the front This time he advocates a return to the wild" He does not mean that we should answer inc call of the wild' which is mentioned by Jack London but thinks 1t would be good Idea If people should go back and pick up some of the habits thev usad to have when they were savazes. For instance, he thinks if mothers would car " their children strapped to their hacks a la Minnehaha, there would be fewer round-shouldered people. Undoubtedly. but think what a picture a society queen would present humping along to euchre Test with twenty-five pounds of youth ful aristocracy strapped to her well groomed shoulders, and what would pe- come of baby in an IL" road crush |?
 The esteemed London Times has aecd- ed to cut its price to one cent and will
 henceforth give the yellow Journals a race for the publics patronage If is re. ported that this step has been taken be- cause the Times has been compelled to sucoumb to the modernization of T,ondon journalism and 1t has been discovered Abat the introduction of American newsnaner
 methods may restore the paper to its
 former prestige. However, it is not be.
 lieved that the Times has as vet been
 jaundiced by the influence of the yellow
 sheets in this country.
 Governor Vardaman of Mississippi re- marks that President Roosevelt is politi-
 cal boil weevil, pregnant with peril! He also states that the nations chief execu- tive is more to be dreaded than war pestilence and famine. Clearly Mississ- ippfs governor makes no bones' of ex-
 pressing his views of a person and one cannot but regret that he has chosen politics instead of remaining in the field of Journalism As an editor he should
 be beyond compare. It will be observed that his smile Is homely and next to the people. At the present day in Mississippi the boil weevil is a topic for discussion second in importance only to the woes of the colored brother.
 A Michigan judge advised a husband who was suing for a divorce on the ground that his wife beat him to spank his unruly spose. Before giving such ad-
 wise off hand it would be a good idea to inquire into the size and physical prowess of the wife. It would be a difficult job for some husbands to spank some wives and in this case 1t seems that the hus- band is handicapped by physical dsabil- ity.
 It is now reported that there is some
 possibility of a balloon battle at Port Arthur another battle Tn the clouds" as
 1t were. The Russians say they have
 plenty of balloons stored in the garrison
 at Port Arthur and are certain that the Japs also have a supply. because the
 Japs captured a shipload of their balloon
 equipment intended for Manchura. A
 balloon battle would be very picturesque and interesting for the correspondents, while the participants would be absorbed
 in speculating whether they should fall into the sea and be drowned or tumble to the earth and be mashed. PC.