The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-14
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

ana insane organization Of the present
day His remarks are pithy and to the
point. A great many people share the
opinion that the real hero would scofn
TO receive a mercenary reward fo1 his
deeds of heroism and thew are riqht
What he wants is an office and the ap-
pause OF the populace, knowing full well
that the money will come afterward and
in much larger quantities than would
ever be afforded by the Carnegie fund.
Again the greatest heroes are believed To
be dead heroes and these men could GER
tainly have no objections to Mr. Carnegie
providing for their widows and ornhrns
after they are gone, for 1t is a well es-
tablshed fact that the laurel wreath of
fame cuts very poor figure when It
comes to a question of paying grocery
bills.
Robert Fitzsimmons has demonstrated
that he is orator of no mean abilities
by a graceful little speech which he de-
liyered to an audience in Boston the 9TH
er day thanking them for their cordial
reception. The Australians oratory Ia
not that usually affected by gentlemen
who adorn the prize ring. 1t does not
consist of belligerent asseverations of how
II can lick him." but is smoothly fiow-
ing, revealing both sense and sentiment.
"Lanly Bob might make better lee
turer than an actor.
1t costs 81 a day to keep a constructive.
says DIR. W.. A Evans of Chicago, an6
the financial loss to the country during
l.
an appalling illustration of the spread of
! the great white plague" in the United
States, but not so appalling as the bru-
tai suggestion Of this man of science that
wooden shacks be put up on the vacant
lots of Chicago for the occupancy of con-
sumptives. He would have offered
more humane suggestion had he advised
that hopeless sufferers be put out of their
misery by chloform or some other death
equally painless.
The Wentz mystery will go down in
history as a remarkable example of a
clash between the past and the present
in the mountains of West Virginia. The
ignorant mountaineers believed that
Wentz was wrongfully driving them from
the land which was theirs solely by right
of long inheritance and occupancy, and
with no conjunction they removed from
their midst this disturbing factor with
his business-like ideas and his plans for
developing a region that is far behind the
rest of the country in civilization. This
is the most reasonable explanation of
the disappearance of the young million
aire and the subsequent discovery of his
body In the mountains Like the reve-
nue. officer and the sheriff, he was not
wanted in that picturesque but benighted
land of the feud and the wildcat distiller.
Crusty old photographers and country
editors are searching their thought cells
just now for appropriate adjectives to
describe the commencement girl, who is
zealously at work on an essay that has
not yet been adorned with blue ribbons.
Sweet girl graduate is painfully shop
worn and trite but is still popular and
for the sake of gallantry a phrase that
should belong in the same class wirh
ruby lips and "alabaster brow is per-
mitted to pass muster. The girl gradu-
ate is rather hard for the average man
to describe, anyway, as he seldom knows
the technicalities of feminine attire.
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