The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-25
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

divorces. He devoutly thanks Heaven that he lives in a country where chil- dren are taught Christian morals and Christian religion in their schools. Edu- cation in this country is getting to be fearful scapegoat When a frenzied reformer can find nothing else to worK on. trust him to trot out the evils that turk in the American system of conn mon school and college education.
 The original manuscript of Edgar AL len Poe's imaginative poem, "Ulalume," has just been sold for $1OOO This sum would have been a Godsend to the strug- gling poet in the days of his diversity, when Virginia Poe lay dying in the little cottage at Fordham and he knew not which way to turn for the bare necessi- ties of life.
 Mrs. Theodore Sutro. club woman. musician and society dame, has just had published the love letters which her hus- band has written to her during the twenty years of their married life. These letters were written on every Christmas, wedding anniversary and birthday of Mrs. Sutro since she became wife. While the letters are beautiful and the apparent idyllic married life of MT. and Mrs. Sutro is a shining example in these days of rapid divorce and domestic en- tanglement, no love letter is one-hun- dredth part as interesting to the world in general as it is to that particular person to whom it is addressed. Consequently. there Is no danger of an inundation of love letters in book form.
 ENUI IN EDEN.
 No wonder Eve got lonely
 When her Adam was away;
 Without a single party
 And no bridge whist to play. 
 The output of books in 1904 was 200 less than it was in 1903, but there is no danger of a book famine. The two hundred vol umes that were not published will never be missed.
 Poor old Dr. Chadwick is hunting for work and his daughter is trying to learn how to make maps in lumber company's office at Jacksonville, Fla. He has re- sumed his practice and says that he has 'been put in a hole, and to get out must scratch" lie might scratch for that million Mrs. Chadwick is alleged to have salted away somewhere. Yet nearly every one feels sorry for Dr. Chadwick, as he appears to have gotten the hot end of a brick" in the person of his dear Cassie.
 President Henry S. Pritchett of the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technilogy says that the profession of politics is to be exalted. All politicians will agree with him as a unit. The more exaltation there is, both as regards salary and office, the better pleased our political Napoleons will be.
 Washin- on s lirthday is not quite so strenuous as the Fourth of July and the death list is correspondingly small, but the day is observed in a way we'll suited to the dignity of man who was not only the father of his country but the hero of a cherry tree incident. People l who Gecry Fourth of July. orgies car | take comfort in the solemn, eminent proper manner in which the nation hon l Washington.
 SUBJECT TO 4.4aMOvAL. l If you were a grand duke In Russia far away, | You would stand a chance of going To heaven any day. l It is believed Lat Birmir sham has enough funds to provide Vulcan with an umbrella It ought to be purchased right away. PAUL COOK.