The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-28
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

ing luck like this. It is enough to dis courage the rest of humanity.
 Master Gabriel" the diminutive come dian who appeared in Birmingham dur ing the past season supporting Nat M. Wills in "A Son of Rest" is making a great hit as the star in the rejuvenated production of "The Man from China.'' which is now being presented in New York As "toy'' comedian Gabriel Is one of the best in the country. Although but 54 inches high, he has wit that com pares with the best of them and can sus- tain his part of the fun making with credit.
 A new religion has sprung into being which is called the Spirit Fruit" gospel and promises 10 all a living without money, peace, happiness and universal love. The new society had its birth at Lisbon, O., and is already making many converts among the strike leaders of Chicago who are being weaned away from the unions by the doctrine that com- mercial and industrial strife is all nom sense. The new religion takes a most optomistic view of things, and if 1t can only practice what it breaches will have no difficulty in securing foothold.
 President Roosevelt is being widely complimented for his speech to the boys at Groton, Mass. Pluck, common sense and decency are three very good quail fications for success in life, a fact which the President endeavored to impress on his youthful hearers. In fact, MT. Roose- welt is a first-cass sermonizer and has even appeared with credit in the pulpit. It is only when he endeavors to make a political speech and avoid politics that he wanders away into a ramification of words.
 By the way, Miss Alice Roosevelt was accorded an informal welcome to St. Louis that was all the more remarkable in that it was so enthusiastic and en- tirely unexpected. Heretofore the Presi- dents daughter has travelled around a great deal without creating a disturbance, but there was almost a riot among the 1000 people, mostly women, who surged around her when she alighted from the train at St. Louis. It reminds one of the progress of royalty in the old world but the unusual throng at St. Louis Is per- . haps accounted for by the fact that there were many strangers in town from re- | mote parts of the country who could not let slip an opportunity to see the first young lady of the land
 The victims of false teeth are already numbered by the scores but every few days another name is added to the list. Such is the penalty of human vanity. If people would only wear false teeth when <, they want to eat and quit trying to cre- ate the impression that their beautiful worries were given them by nature in- stead of dentist, fewer people would swallow them in moments of mental alteration and there would be a decrease in the fatalities reported
 Reports from the Georgia fruit crop state that the peaches6 are getting along finely and the cheering news has filled
 the minds of many people with delightful anticipations. In fact this world would | be a dreary old place were it not for Georgia peaches, watermelons, and a few 1 other things that make life pleasant.
 Even the humble blackberry and ubiqut-
 ous but elusive huckleberry are not to be overlooked among the seasons delights
 Reports from rural districts also state
 that the air is beginning to hum drowsily | fish lie sleeping in the streams and a.
 most successful summer has been in- l augurated. P.c c.