The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD
. VETERAN BooKMAKER who
 I" ought to know what he is about, D says that the biggest fool is the

N VETERAN BooKMAKER who VA ought to know what he is about, z says that the biggest fool is the man who bets on a race horse. The im- peachment is not at all new, but is in- teresting from the fact that it is made b. a man who is noted for his success on the race track The casual frequenter of the track. who bets more as a pastime than anything else and has not the leis- ure or the inclination to study turf plung- ing as a science, is the man who makes bookmakers wealthy. The case of Pitts burg Phil" and other successful turf gamblers, merely shows what intense ap- plication, cod-blooded daring and mt- mute study of form will accomplish. The gambler who studies horse-racing as college professor does his sciences is the man who makes the ''bookies' feel badly, while the goat who trusts to blind chance for winning invariably comes out short He is no match for the boolSmaker. When it is remembered that bookmakers are to the race track what stock market manipulators are to Wall street and that both subsist on the fleece of sheep" it is easy to see why so many of them acquire wealth.
 WON'T BE MISSED. When a youth says "slushl' and
 "Fudgel'
 And such like taffy phrases The world won't blubber when he turns
 His toes up to the daisies.
 
 Up in Baltimore there is a woman who is the wife of a tailor She might have been the wife of joiner or a baker, had fate intervened, but as matters stand. she Is the wife of a disciple of the shears. The lady is not remarkable save for the fact that she weighs 2SO pounds. There was a fire, the tailors wife was in the second story, smoke was issuing from the windows, a po- liceman stood on a barrel below telling her to jump. There you have the combi- nation. The lady jumped. Her tonnage was 2S0 pounds. She landed on the police man.. It was hard on the force and nat ura'ly the policeman was taken to the hospital for repairs. It is announced that the fat lady was not hurt. This was
  The trouble with a great many of these Before and After Taking pictures is that the second series shows the sub jeet in jail.
 FEELING.
 (Sung ad libitum to a popular air) Way down in his heart!
 He's afeeling blue. afeeling blue Because that Easter bonnet
 Is just about due. just about duel If he lad his way
 I'm telling to you, telling to you! Wed all wear fig leaves
 That cost nothing new, cost nothing
 new
 President H. c. King of Oberlin col lege advances the unique theory that crime is most frequent on Saturday night because of bodily and mental ex- haustion after a weeks work. When man is fatigued by sustained labor he is more apt to yield to temptation than when he is at the height of his bodily and men tai vigor. The explanation Is spacious, but President King might have mem toned mean whisky as contributing cause. It is to be presumed he means that overworked humanity cant resist the temptation to tank up.' After that the rest is easy work for the devil.
 The Indiana doctor who telegraphed an offer of a compromise in a divorce suit did well to use the wire. He wasn't talk ing any chances of an argument.