The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-25

6 HE cry has gone but for more (OD "dress suits" at Amherst and
 the call was sounded by Presi- dent George Harris. Furthermore, Am herst will be satisfied with the dress suits, or 'evening clotheso that its more prosperous alumni are thinking of dis carding and will gladly apply them to the persons of poor students who have no glad rags with which to venture forth into society. It is rather startling, to say the least, when a college president assumes the role of an 'ole clo'' man, especially at college alumni dinner, but President Harris of Amherst is evidently not afraid of the pert paragraphers. He ayers that if the stock of dress suits at Amherst were larger a great many stu dents who do not "mingle' now would go out and shine in a manner to promote their college career is quite apparent to those who know, and it would not be a bad plan for alumni of .lege to endow their alma matters with thei- cast off l clothing In addition to whatever sums of money they can spare.
 Another thought Certain facetious contemporaries quote dress suit" and seem to think that evening clothes" is the only proper way in which to desig- | nate those garments which are most in evidence after nightfall. As a matter of fact "evening clotho may mean either "clawhammer, ct cetera, or | nightshirt, while dress suit" means | "habiaments" and nothing else.
 I Captain Jackson, commanding Company l., First infantry, United States army, says that the noble red man is not fit for soldier, even when he is a Carlisle student. Six braves who recently enlist ed and were stationed at Fort Porter, Buffalo, have deserted. Four are now doing time" on Governors Island. ."They wouldn't stay clean. They O scarcely | anything they were told to do." That is the judgment passed on at least six In- dian soldiers and athletes who joined the army thinking that about all they would have to do would be to play football and baseball After all the simple children of the forest' haven't changed great deal.
 l Dr. William Osler, the noted medical authority, who has been appointed the head of the medical school of Oxford university, says that the usefulness of a man ends at 40 years and that when he has reached the age of 60 retirement or chloroform should be his portion. Of course. every man Is entitled to his own opinion in such matters, and there is no doubt that Dr. Osler is an eminent au- | thority in medicine, but his statement can be refuted by many Illuminating ex- amples in history where masterpieces in prose and verse, in marble, in bronze and on canvas have been accomplished after the 40-year mile stone had been passed. Moreover, the noted gentleman would question the ability of every Presi- dent of the United States from Wash ington down to Roosevelt. Grant and Roosevelt are the two youngest men who have been elected the nations chief executive, and we have never had a President under 40 years of age. pr. Os- Ter is himself 56 years old. According to his theory, we will have to put the chlo- roform to him in just four more years.
 FINANCE.
 Over the hills and far away
 The fleeing banker flew;
 Same old story, alackaday,
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 Now Sir Wilfred Laurier deliberately taps the United States with the unfeel- ing hammer of his criticism by saying that our common school system is re- sponsble for lynchings, murders and