The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-10

played out before an unappreciative au- dience that pays scant heed to the per- sonality of the actors. Great minds have marveled at the pathos and humor of life, before which the skill of the paintsy. the poet and the novelist is dead and eolorless. Newspapers herald stories every day that are uneauaed in fiction Trase- dies in the street are recounted that Dickens himself could not have conceived and the curtains are drawn from before the windows of mansions that are in reality little better than living tombs. It is all in the days news-all a part of the battle of life
 Secretary Taft shook hands with 5000 persons at reception in Manila Maybe ne Is training for a presidential junket. some people are so optimistic.
 when the peace envoys gathered about the table at Portsmouth yesterday morn Ing they did not indulge in whist. The game they are playing would make whist look like 'old Maid"
 WITH THE ANGELS
 Little Bobby Stout
 Ran with a shout
 To greet dear Billy, the goat.
 Did Bobby come back?
 He did not alack!
 He met dear Billy, the goat
 
 Clark Griffith, the New York baseball magnate. came very near being killed hv poison. He was not mistaken for an nm pire, as some people believe. The poisop e had
 Down in New Orleans when Mime sti- gomyia begins to sing the people get up and go away.
 John Edwin Jackson had double-page picture in a recent issue of Life which suggests very strongly that Mir Jackson mas been looking over Edward Bellamy's Hooking Backward" MT. Jaelsen--that name is popular in ragtme-tries his hand at depicting society, with the result that the fashionable rich are seated within n coach the newly rich are on top, hay Ing the time of their lives, and the coach is driven by a bloated trust magnate, cracking his whip over the toiling masses who arc playing horse" There Is no iiner passage In MT, Bellamys great book than that in which he thus pictures so- ciety riding on coach and the common people straining under the lash of hunger to draw on the vehicle containing their more fortunate but no more deserving fellows,
 One Professor Ross says that people want fewer children and more pric-a-brae nowadays. The reason for this deplorable state of affairs is no douht largely duo to the fact that hrio-arhrao has to be paid t1rbila grow the more they cost.
 The Women's Rescue league has invited John D. Rockefeller to contribute a trine to help crush out white slave traffic in New York The woman who makes this appeal has her wits about her She says the league is dealing with tainted so- ciety and therefore tainted money Is just the thing. Inasmuch as money has hither- to been conspicuous ally of the devil. his satanic majesty would no doubt be vastly surprised to see 1t lined up on the other side in the person of John David son Rockefeller,
 Californian claims that he can cleo trify eggs so that they will take the place of the long-sought-for elixir of youth. Some eggs notably those diseov- cred to be passe. have been known to ex- ert very powerful influence. but when a man claims that he can extract the elixir of life from hen egg he must also remember that we hail from Missouri ADVT. There was young lady named Eohols, Whose face bore great many frechols, She used cold cream Till she looked like dream. Then married man with the shechos. 'The Russian suite ignored the elevator and climbed the stairs to the second floor. The Japanese arrived moment later and were lifted to their floor" Does this mean that the Russian peace envoya are trying to impress us with their fond ness for the strenuous life or that they are nervous? A prospective billion dollar debt is enough to rattle anybody. PAUL. COOK.