The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12

N~T prominent on the front page or
 \| The Age Herald. It was rather
 remarkable error, but was nothing more
 than one of those 'bobbles" which the
 greatest minds are apt to be guilty of in
 moments of mental alteration. But no
 sooner had the morning advanced far enough for breakfast to be disposed of than n host of intellectual Wilies b. gan
 to besiege the office force over the tele-
 phone, and the unfortunates who hap
 pened to be on the day shift were kept
 jumping, while Miss Central came near
 having an attack of nerves from over work. Each and every one of the individ- uals who climbed over each other to get connection with the office was bent on 'caling down The Age-Herald headline
 man. There is not an editor of a weekly journalistic scrap, with a patent med cine advertisement on the last page and
 six columns of boiler plate" on the first
 page in the country who would not recog- nize the mistake at a glance, but the aforesaid intellectual Willies were de- termined that the entire editoria, staff
 should be told of a blunder that had been
 noted before they had gotten out of bed. With what uncton they fingered over the disclosure. Witt what a ''smack-the- lips sort of satisfaction they introduced
 their remarks by some airy persifage, and then with many chuckles worked around
 to the startling statement that some one
 had blundered!
 Eventually the excitement died down. | f.a. 1i ee cident was forgotten by these most con
 cerned. But not so with the intellectual fellows They will chuckle over 1t for a ! week. There are always a lot of these brilliant individuals sitting around who do not have enough business to occupy all their time and are continually on the lookout for opportunities to assert their superiority. Newspapers make mistakes.
 Of course they do. They make many blund ders and so do all other human insti- tutions. When people get so they will
 not make mistakes jails and peniten- tiaries will go out of business; accidents
 will never happen; war will be a thing of
 the past; get-rich-quick schemes will be
 laughed at; there will be no further need of law or religion. preachers or police
 men; there won't e>any more unhappi- ness and people will die of old age. The fact that a New Jersey man wants 1 s20,OO0 for his collar bone reminds one of how invaluable a collar button can scme- times be- Collar bones and collar buttons
 are intimately associated-at least in male
 minds. There is probably no other article on earth that man wants more than he wants a collar button just at the
 psychological moment when he discov- CTS that there Is not one to te had. There is no substitute. no makeshft that will do, and there are few men who have
 not dressed in hurry, broken the shank of their last collar cutton and realized with peculiar. sinking sensation that they have no other. Oh, the misery of trying to wear a collar without the rear ecrable piece of linen climbs and crawls and twists about your neck until you are frantic, Humanity Is heir to many woes, but what can equal the plight of man without a collar button?
 -"Ohio woman held" Who Is holding her., we would like to know?
 You may have your faults. All of us are more or less weak, but it does not re- qure strength of moral character to re- frain from rafficking in comic valentines. If sentimental folk want to spend their money on those airy creations of lace paper and sushy verse which breathe de- votion, why, all right Such things do no harm. although strong minded people look tines with some austerity. But the comic