The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12

6 HE Rev E. K. Means of New Or 0 leans preached last Sunday in a
 Mobile church and endeavored to prove by biblical quotation that hell is really a place and not a condition of punishment in the existence after death He failed to state the exact location of hell; whether 1t is above the ground, be- heath the earth or in the skies, and this seems a conspicuous flaw in the argu- ments of tlleologlans who support Mr Means view of the question. Aside from the ideas derived from poets and cer- tain cartoonsts who have endeavored to depict the fate of unpopular citizens after their demise we have at best but a hazy idea of what really constitutes hell. There are some people who contend that both heaven and hell are divided into zones which correspond with the zones of the earth in some respects, although they number seven instead of three. But when 1t comes down to real topography we are In the dark It has pleased the world to think of hell in visionary way while the devil Is a sprightly old gentleman, with forlsed tall, horns and a rubiound glow which emanates constantly from his per- son while on duty, although at times he has been seen as a hideous black mon- ster of no very pleasing appearance. How ever, these matters appear to be large ly the product of an over-wrought imag- nation.
 A Philadelphia man has some rather unique ideas of reform. He says that marriage Ihould be made compulsory at the age of 21 years and there should be law making inhdelity a felony punish able with ten years imprisonment after the first offense, twenty after the sec- ond and hanging after the third. He would also prohibit women from doing any other work than that of domes- tic character. If this ingenious citizens Ideas were put into practice there would be pretty how-de-do and the epoch of the festive married man and the flirting wife would be at an end But the first clause would be a real hardship. Some men do not find the woman they want to marry until they have reached middle age, and the same rule might apply to the fair sex. Then again the average i fortably at the age Of 21. A great many of them are not yet out of college and are about the most helpless individuals it would be possible to find. Taken all together. the Philadelphian's plan is ir- teresting but not feasible
 | The Atlanta News deplores the fact that when Candida" came to town there were some people In the audience who were so untutored or else had such an over-de- veloped sense of humor. that they Uttered during the most absorbing passages of the play. As the News correctly says, Can aida" was histrionically perfect. Whether the same degree of excellence character ized the play as a dramatic production Is open to question. s me people like George Bernard Shaw's play and some do not At any rate Candida" is one of the best acted plays that has ever visited the south, and Is rather unfortunate in not drawing large audiences in such cultured centers as Atlanta and Birmingham However, 1t would not have been surpris- ing if one of our stout but honest Iron moulders had overlooked the finesse of Shaw's exquisitely fashioned handwork, but that such a thing could happen in