The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-23
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

N MOTHER elixir of youth has been VA discovered. and this time it Is sour milk. For the sake of buried tards who are now in no position to pro- test science might have hit upon some thing better adapted to a theme for the muses than sour milk, but so let it be, if 1t will do the work Of course no one ex- poets to live a thousand years or so by merely drinking sour milk, but according to Professor Metchinkoff the beverage will do much to prolong existence in this vale of tears. Yet so many elixirs have been discovered that the world hesitates and is skeptical. So far as the rules for living a long life are concerned they are at best woefully confusing, and the safest plan after all is to go about your busi- ress, eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are sleepy, work when you have to, play when you can and keep the prem iums paid up on your life insurance pol icy. The man who thinks he is not going to die some day is badly fooled.
 At last the contract for a $500 monu- ment to mark the grave of Gallant Pel- ham at Jacksonville has been let to | Columbus, Ga, marble works. Only $500 to honor the memory of a soldier whose very name is a synonyme for chivalry, whose career is one of the brightest in history; man who lived but brief time but left behind him a heritage of lasting fame. During all the years since he fought so bravely for the Confederate cause tle grave of Pelham has been unhonored anu unsung In the little cemetery at Jackson vile. Save for the care of the Daughters | of the Confederacy weeds would have covered the humble mound and it's very location might have been forgotten. Even Q monument costing only $500 Is better than none at all, but thls tardy honor should have come much sooner. and the donations should have been more liberal for a noble cause. It has been a hard struggle for the Jacksonville Daughters of the Confederacy to accomplish this much, and to them all credit is due.
 The movement to revive the custom of wearing knickerbockers. which Is report ed to have been started by certain of our English cousins across the water, should awaken a pleasant thrill in tho heart of the man with good calves and positive terror in the soul of him who has spindle-shanks. Knickerbockers are perhaps the most graceful garment that men have ever worn. At least they were always heater, whether on the dandy or the working man, than the trousers with which Gods noblest handiwork is today disigured. Fine trousers, fresh from the tailor and the presser, are not so bad looking but where could a sartorial Dio- genes find anything more hideous than the cheap. baggy pants" of the labor ing man. At least knickerbockers do not bag at the knees, nor do they draw up over the shoe tops in wet weather. Humanity has been guilty of perpetrat- ing wearing apparel much more foolish than knickerbockers and while no one really expects to take them up again they have been very useful in their time
 "Red' Calvin, for many years a re- porter on the St. Louis Star, died leaving an estate valued at $S00OO and now thous- ands of scribes in the land are wonder ing how 1t happened. Newspaper men