The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-17

guest of the family However. this shower of bricks was nothing when com pared to the shower of bricks which fell upon Admiral Dewey when he eave a certain house in Washington to his new ly-made wife.
 The chief trouble of the Taggarts. whose odoriferous divorce suit ia now attracting attention, seems to be a total lack of familiarity with the water wag- on.
 MT Jimmy" Britt of California is known as a coming pugilist." If any amateur mug mutiators,' see him com ing they would do well to get out of the way.
 The country is awaiting in breathless suspense for Governor vardaman's ulti- matum on the Wanamaker- Washington incident. It will probably be written on asbestos paper with a f1re-proof type writer by stenographer who Is accus- toned to taking down hot stuff.
 Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan have an ad- vantage over the obscure magazine con- tributors that works a genuine hardship. Whenever these gentlemen feel inspired to write they can send the product right along'' with no fear of ultimately receiv- ing stereotyped reply to the effect that the editor regrets his inability to make use of the enclosed manuscript, which is returned with thanks.
 The steaks at Saratoga are said to be almost as high as the stakes, especially if a person dimes at Father Canffelds' Governor Higgins of New York is going abroad. There is no special significance, governmental or fiduciary, attached to his trip. None of the governors affairs have been investigated.
 Now that the material injunction has been employed to prevent Cupid from att tending to business. the poets will have to revise their verses Until recently the god of love was supposed to triumph over locks and bars. high windows. lack of funds and parental wrath, but in the in- junction he has struck a snag which may well give him pause. The idea of formal. cut and dried document of a court being
  from running smoothly is particularly distasteful to-a person of aesthetic tenn perament. It is too cold, too formal, too matter of fact. The longer we live the more does materialism supplant the TO- mantle fashions of an earlier day.
 The trouble with a great many fellows who perpetrate pipe dreams Is that they toi, fI,o oIro rI fbar go out and convert their reveries into realities.
 A rather discouraging future is predict ed by Mr. Bodine. superintendent of the compulsory education of Chicago, who says that women are gradually driving men back to the rough manual toll which their superior strength and endurance will alone withhold from the ever-encroachng new woman" In course of time man will become a back number; all the de- sirable jobs will be held by women and the male animal will present sorry spectacle The "eternal feminine" will prevail The outlook is, to be sure, trihe disheartening, but as long as the fair sex continues to look under the bed and screech at sight of a mouse there is hope.
 Madame Stegomyia is averse to tobacco smoke, but if she thinks any considcra- tion will be shown her on that account she has another guess to make.
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 lover the fence is out they say.
 And so thought Convict Bill, As he scrambled over high stone wall And hastened over hill.
 PAUL COOK.