The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-01
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

The world is waiting for an American Shakespeare. Just now the outlook is rot encouraging but we have the soil for eultivating dramatic genius and a great dramatist may be considered a certainty of the future. Will he be catholic, will he be a realist or an idealist? That is a question hard to answer. but we must have master playwright before the stage is much older and the country will soon grow impatient of his com ing
 Dr. osler says he did not mean that all men should be choloroformed at the age of sixty, but sticks to the rest of his assertion and believes that four-score years marks the age of retirement. Al though he is an eminent medical au thority the name of Dr. Osler was not familiar to the generality two weeks ago but it is now, all because he made a rath- CT remarkable statement in the face of a bulk of proof to the contrary, and was contradicted by every newspaper in the country. Dr. Osler has at least been well advertised and his coup was accomplish ed at the age of 56.
 Tom Watson's magazine has made it's first appearance and is causing enough talk to warm the heart of it's circulation manager There is a bright future be- fore this publication. It will probably be "Lawsonized" by the brilliant Georgian and may soon be in politics what Every bodys" is in the world of finance. The list of contributors to the first issue is noteworthy, and if MT. Watson does not succeed in building up a great magazine those who know him will be surprised. He is not a man to fail at anything save running for the Presidency.
 More than one billion pounds of coffee was imported into the United States last year and practically all of it was con stunned by the American people. Here is suggestion -or health crank to ponder over. One billion pounds of coffee means many cup and still we manage to get along somehow wit out an extraordinary number of nervous wrecks, without crowding our asylums and with the larger part of our population still outside of sanitariums. Here of late there is q dis position to look more favorably OH the cup that cheers. but does not inebriate." It is noticeable that much of the agitation against drinking coffee is inspired hv manufacturers who have "something just as good' to offer
 A Mississippi negro asserts that he is held in peonage by the postoffice depart ment because the postmaster general will not allow him to resign his position as postmaster at Way Station, a small town in Madison county. It is indeed a remark able spectacle to see a federal office holder, and a negro at that, trying to deprive himself of a piece of pie." The Mississippi negro says that he is losing money by. being kept in office He might strike for a raise in salary.
 SHOCKING.
 He claimed he was chauffeur,
 And drove an auto car,
 But he really was a lauffeur
 Who haunted every bar.
 TIP FOR MOTORISTS, On the primrose path is easy travel A And most anybody can steal,
 But don't think that you can hustle
 To heaven in au automobeal.
 BAD FOR CORNS.
 My lady's feet will soon be larger
 That's what the experts say; And when at a dance she begins to prance They'll be always in the way.
 PAUL COOK.