The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-12
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

this incident but the real interest in the book centers on the chariot race and it is for this magnificent descriptive pas sage that the reader hurries through page after page until at last he sees in fancy the plunging horses and hears the rumble of the chariots. In Bulwer Lyt- tons Last Days of Pompeii' the erup- ton of Vesuvius, one of the grandest word paintings In all literature, is the superb climax of the book, and in Quo Vadis' the struggle between Ursus and the bull is the authors masterpiece. although for sustained vivid coloring and rapidity of movement this novel Is remarkable. Fortunate indeed is the novelist who can seize upon a theme, real or imaginary. that inspires him to such heights of splendid imageryl
 It is reported that the waiter who usu- ally attends upon Senator Platt at the Fifth Avenue hotel in New York has been arrested for intoxication and has been replaced by another man. Per- haps the association drove him to drink.
 
 no possibility of his losing his prospec- tive job as Vice President of the United States, either by food fire or earth quake, MT. Fairbanks has rendered his resignation as a United States Senator to take effect at the close of the Fifty eighth congress MT. Fairbanks is s safe and sane man.
 Last summer was a profitable season for college youths who had to make mo- ney during vacation to help pay their way through college for another session. Num- bers found employment at the fair in St. Louis and the presidential campaign enlisted the services of many more. Sta tistics show that politics paid the best, although there were a great many young men, and women too, who devoted them selves to selling books, tutoring, working insurance, acting as walters and wait resses in hotels and restaurants and working on farms. The modern college student is not afraid of work and he is better for the sensible view he takes of life.
 George Primrose is again before the public with a minstrel company of his own. Primrose is one of the most talent edN of the burnt cork artists" who date from the palmy days of minstrelsy and while he is older now than he used to be, he is able to manipulate his feet with remarkable skill. There Is no doubt that he has been buffeted about the world long enough to know the business from top to bottom.
 A merchant recently died in Schenecta- dy, N. Y, at the age of S4, who wore one hat for fifteen years and had not had his hair cut for twenty years. The case of this man shows that any one can save money if he will just make up hIs mind to do 1t.
 By growing Justify New Jersey chanti- cleer gave warning to a farmer that his hen house was being robbed. To the woods with the watchdog's honest bark! Of course the suggestion that girls of the exclusive set,'' in its varying de- grees of exclusiveness, should know how to cook before they wed is not one to find favor with the girls themselves. If girl really knew how to cook when she got married she might have to do ir some fine day, whereas if she never learns the art 1t is reasonable to suppose that she will never be forced to officiate at a frying pan jubilee. The wisdom of this argument is apparent. P. c.