The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-04
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

the vigorous and trenchant style of MT. Dlxon's articles makes them of more than passing interest. Of those who busy themselves concerning the past. present and future of the negro, as his condition affects the white people of the south, the author of ''The Clansmanp is perhaps able to obtain the widest and most will ingly proffered hearing, but, overlooking the advertisement thus given his books, MT. Dixon Is tiltng at wind mills
 People who don't take "dare' relieve the foolkiller of much arduous work and permit him to look after individuals who are less accommodating. Were it not for imbeciles who refuse to back out" and lunatics who didn't know that 1t was loaded" the foolkiller would never be able to hold down his Job without an assistant.
 The dear college boys are beginning to give city police trouble. The former havs wrong impression of what constitutes a good time," which the latter endeavor to correct, with the result that there are broken heads and sundry battered and tattered collegians landed in jail Of course the husky innocents must have their fun and so long as papa pays for he racket why should law-abiding cit.atns complain? To be sure, it is the privilege of college student to be a hoodlum
 DIDN'T WANT IT PATENTED.
 When at the bar Bill Bailey took
 A drop to kill the blues,
 lie said, Cut out the medicine
 And give me plain old booze"
 Two hundred French books in the public library at Dawson, Yukon territory have been seized on the charge that they arc not fit to read. We cherish the suspicion that the Yukon is becoming effete. Ere long. George Bernard Shaw will be put under the ban by Dawsons virtuous lt- erary censors
 Cissie Loftus has just been robbed of a s4OO coat Cissie came very near to being forgotten for a time, but she is all right now "Cissie" attained to fame by wink ing. A cigar bears her name
 Whether the "hero of Port Arthur is to be called Kondrachenko or Kondra- tenko, there is not much danger of get ting his name mixed up with that of any body else.
 Lavish displays on billboards, great electric and painted signs, house-top ora- tory, house. toulouse persuasion and half page advertisements In the daily newspa- pers will be some of the means employed by the ring in Philadelphia in the cam paign to prevent the new city party and their democratic allies from carrying the November election. The machine" Is making a last stand, but the country has already made up it's mind about the sit uation in Philadelphia. Ring rule must end
 The fact that the hero of play now being presented in Birmingham produces a $500 bill just at the time when it is needed to prevent a lot of unnecessary woe shows how hard it Is to keep a good man down in melodrama.
 The Pennsylvania youth who tried to play the role of an knight errant and rescue his ladye faire from dungeon, where she was confined on the practical charge of highway robbery, came to im- mediate grief. Verify, these be cold and unsympathetic days The pretty theories the austere figure of the law has sup- planted those gallant knights of ye olden time who paid their devoirs without re- straint
 MATRIMONY.
 If at first you don't succeed.
 In your heart you feel a pain