The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06

tai energy. If he had not have been he would not have accomplished the ex- traordinary amount of work which he has accomplished in the last twenty-five years, but the very accon nplishment or that work shows that his activity IS neither feverish nor abnormal, nor dls- eased, but regulated and controlled; Tor If 1t had not been regulated and controll- ed 1t would have accomplished nothing Further MT. Lodge writes; Theodore Roosevelt apprehends very quickly. When he has thought subject out thoroughly and knows what he means 10 do, he acts promptly When, after tuil consideration, he has made up his mind as to what Is right he is unbending, but no man has been in the White House for many years who Is so ready to take ad vice. who has made up his mind more slowly, more deliberately and after more consultation then Theodore Roosevelt"
 With ali due respect MT. Lodge seems to beg the question in endeavoring to excuse and explain
 As if we did not have troubles enough of our own it seems that Camille Flam- marion continues his investigation of the other planets and especially of "Mars' and writes in the current issue 1 of Hapers Magazine an entertaining and suggestive account of his speculations.
 He says In part:
 "The geographical details of Mars have only been discovered since the year 1S5s-Now the geographical map of the planet. Mars has just been made with infinite care by Signor Schiaparelli. director of the observatory at Milan. One might really consider 1t territorial sphere of continents, islands, coasts, pennsulas, gulfs waters. Moreover, clouds, rains, inundations, snows, sea- sons winters and summers, springs, and autumns, prevail as they do here and the intensity of the seasons is absolutely the same with us, the inclination of the axis being the same as ours.-When on beautiful starry night we examine Mars under a telescope. one cannot but ask oneself if the sun which Eliminates a world so like our own does not likewise shed light on living beings. If the rains do not fertilize crops, if this atmosphere be not inhaled by beings, or if this sphere of Mars, which turns with rapid ity in space be like an empty train on a railway. containing neither passengers nor goods"
 Tn Lipplncotts for November there is a charming article by William Roscoe Thayer entitled Legends and Pageants of Venice" In the opening lines of his 1 article he writes most delightfully."- of the l relic-worshiping medievals yet in per- 1 fectly sympathetic manner. Of the &C., ouisitlon of the body of 'St. Mark" he ] records the legend which is familiar to many. "Three merchang who had gone
 to Alexandria on a Venetian ship, had a
 great desire to carry the body of St. Mark hack to Venice. Accordingly, they
 won over the guardian of his sepulchre,
 took the body and put it in basket. l which they covered with cabbages and
 pork. and then hurried to their ship.
 And because they doubted the pa- eans' says the Chronicler Da Canale, they laid the holy body between two quarters of pork and fastened 1t up on the ships mast. and this they did be- cause the pagans would not touch porl."'
 Reasonable short stories in Pippincott are '"The Prisoner of Mademoiselle DC Biencourt' by Charles G. D. Roberts
 Uncle Luke's Downfall'' by c. T. Re | were. "The Tale of Cad" by Allison M
 Lederer and others.
 In Leslie's Magazine the initial arti- cle Is a timely and suggestive one or | 'The Business Clergyman" by Arthur Goodrich, who is the author of Docs Il Pay to be a Doctor?' The writer as- sumes, contrary to old ideas on the sub 1 ject, that preacher should not only hold up the spiritual side of his posi- tion bu that he should also be a good business man and man of executive ability. He tells of Bishop McCabe of