The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
TIE serried ranks of office-seekers lCp fall back from Washington. J.

NY Tall back from Washington. J.
 Rivers Carter has been appoint ed! While 1t is not every man who parts his name in the middle that can have himself made postmaster of Birmingham. Mr Carter has turned the trick very neatly and the field is left to the "also- rans." It has been many day since there was such a stir in Alabama republican circles but all is over now. The com batants have ceased their strife, darkness descended on a silent paddock last night and the entries who ran so nimbly are being rubbed down preparatory for run hing again, mayhap, some other day There were rumors that the mud pile would be resorted to and s<ilat it would be ticklish proposition for the republi- can referees in Alabama to recommend the winning man to the powers that be at Washington. But the suspense is a thing of history now and the referees heave a long sigh.
 Here Is a tale of city life. An aged woman was run down and killed by an electric hanson occupied by three women passengers en route to the theatre They ordered the driver to proceed and rode away, leaving the victim lying in the street. They could not afford to be late at the performance and rustled into their seats with never thought of a gray head lying upon the pavement and a form stricken with age that had been sacrificed beneath their juggernaut wheels. Is the automobile fad to blame. or is this merely another example of mans inhumanity to man2
 A Massachusetts court has decided that when a man takes four drinks day he Is addicted" He may be addicted but 1t Is hardly probable that he is satisfied.
 Stage mobs are getting to be so realis- tis and so full of purpose these days that the services of special surgeon are required to care for the wounded after the curtain goes down. The hunt for realism has become so intense in these latter days of dramaturgy that Thespians may eventually reach the point where they will stab each other with real dag gers and slay each other with real poi son. It might help some.
 Whatever disparaging remargs may be made anent Timothy L. Woodruff's abil- ity to run for office, no one can deny that he Is a connoisseur of female beauty. Not only is Timothy L. to wed stun ming belle, but his son, John E. Woodruff is going to marry on the same day a girl almost as pretty Father and son evil dently know a pretty woman when they see one, although the Woodruff vest has never been regarded as the offspring of an artistic temperament.
 Verify, 1t is hard to lose the St. Louis fair. The Pike was transported to New York for an engagement after the big show closed, the Boer war will be seen by frenzied visitors to the metropolis next summer, other. features are being scat tered over the country, and now 1t is stated that some of the plaster art works at St. Louis will be used to decorate the streets of Washington when President Roosevelt is inaugurated.
 Miss Anna D. Vorwerk, the young church worker of Cleveland, whose opin- ion that Adam might have objected to having his rib extracted had he known that 1t was to be converted into a help meet evidently enjoys the sti~ she has created, for she Is out with an announce ment that bachelors are a menace to civilization. She says this as casually and cheerfully as If there were not few million bachelors who might take offense at her remark Bachelors have been assailed before, however, and they are not the persons to have mysteries because somebody thinks they ought to get mar ried. What makes female reformers vio- lently opposed to bachelors is that so many men are bachelors by choice. and so many women are old maids through necessity.
 The Tin Can trust is being held on the charge of contempt of court. This ought to be pleasant news to the Unappreciated Order of Homeless Ours.
 Once there was a man of great mental attachments and moral worth who la- bored hard for the wherewith to support existence. Although his ability was un- doubted, his fees were small He never wrote letters to the newspapers, he did not make bad, typewriter speeches on