The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

loose in the United States. If they re- main there is also the question of what they will do to make living. Of course tn Chinamen will all open up laundries. the Filpinos will hire out to municipal ities as dog-catchers and the Esquimaux would make good ice men, but there would still be a lot of foreigners out of jobs. However. these questions will be ,ettled in time, as nearly all questions are
 The dear old shell game continues to flourish It seems almost improbable that there are any persons in the country who have never heard of the shell game but it seems that such is the case, for every now and Ten case of shell game swindling is reported. At county fairs. as depicted in humorous publications, one sees pictures of the shell game man but surely he is not now so much in evil dence as he was in the halcyon days of his career It must be rather poor pickings for. the shell game man these days, but still there are few gulls who are willing to be caught. A great many of the great American people. with all their shrewdness like to be swindled.
 The famous circus tent of Tom John son will again be taken out en tour and will be used for the purpose of insuring democratic victory. The circus tent and the red automobile affected by Mr. John son in his own campaign did not seem to bring about the desired results, but they ought to do the work for democracy. We are not having enough of the glad hilarity that is usually expected in a campaign, and a circus tent may make some people think they are going to a cir cus If the Hon. William Jennings Bryan the Hon. Tom Watson, the Hon. Grover Cleveland. the Hon. Henry Gassaway Davis, President Roosevelt and Senator Fairbanks could all be exhibited under one canvas perhaps it would be circus. It reminds one of tales Of swaggering pirates and shipwreck on desert isles read in boyhood days to hear of the re- l cent experiences Of some castaways on the Irish coast. Six men from the ''Windover'' attempted to reach Great Britain after their vessel had been dis | mantled and abandoned one thousand miles from shore. They carried along plenty of water. but not enough food 1 The result was that they were reduced 1 to eating hemp rope boiled until tender parrafine wax, tar and other delicacies l that arc usually put on the tables of peo-
 pie in such circumstances when TO- mancer is doing the serving. Now the
 only dish necessary to complete the pie ture to the entire satisfaction of the small boys mind was several pairs of | old shoes or boots which the mariners
 were forced to devour. Ethics demand
 that they eat boots in such cases, but | if none of them wear boots shoes will | do almost as well. It Is remarkable how
 cruelty novelist can make his charac-
 ters suffer, especially when they are cast
 adrift on the sea.
 1 Jacob Riis' Life of Roosevelt has
 been thrown out of the Carnegie library
 at Council Bluffs, la. Of course MT. Carnegie had nothing to do with the mat
 ter. The trustees simply decided that
 they did not want any campaign text
 books in their establishment and there
 was an end of the matter. While we
 cannot but admire the consistency with
 which MT. Roosevelt talks up" for MT.
 Riis and MT. Riis talks up' for MT.
 Roosevelt, there is decided opinion in | some quarters that such talking ,up' should be confined to the publicity bu-
 reau of the republican campaign commit