The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-28
PRETTY and pathetic little

WI Is going the rounds about child
4 who lost her rag doll Honey
suckle," and is inconsolabe. Although she
lives in a magnificent city hotel, with all
the Injuries and excitement of such
life to distract her attention, she weeps
bitterly and nothing can take the place
of "Honeysuckle." Rewards have been
offered and a great metropolis is interest
ed in the search for the missing rag doll
There is comedy and pathos in this ca
lamity of childhood but in after years
it will be the same old story with some
thing greater to take the place of Honey
sucl<le." Then the sorrow which now
makes the little miss so fearful will
awaken only a smile. Now she thinks,
no doubt that there is no better or
dearer friend than "Honeysuckle." Yet
how trivial will appear her loss when
she looks back to it through the dim vista
OF the yearsl There is no phase of life
more touching in its pathos than the
woes of childhood. To the four-year- old
the loss of a doll is a subject for ire
mendous grief but as she grows accustom-
ed to the world and misfortune's grim ar
ray. 1t will take more than toy to bring
tears from her eyes. Just now the little
''mummer" of "Honeysuckle" feels that
she is more unfortunate than John w.
Gates. who is reputed to have lost over
S2.o0o,0 600 in the wheat market, or Frank
G.. Bigelow, the defaulting bank president
of Milwaukee, who has lost all, including
honor.
DIR. Eliot of Harvard, says that money
never smells and churches that accept
the Rockefeller donation do perfectly
right Therein DR.. Eliot shows himself
possessed of head like the proverbial
tack. He wouldn't be president of Har-
ward If he didn't have a lot of common
sense.
CHIRK UP
When you fall into the dumps,
And the world seems full of chumps,
up.
Chirk
When you are feeling very blue
And fate is unkind to you,
up.
Chirk
When a friend affects a loan
Try to stif1e down that groan,
up.
Chirk
If your girl goes back on you
And you don't know what to do,
up.
Chirk
No matter how the old world wags,
Though you dress in silk or rags
up.
Chirk
Lies too short for groans and signs
You must laugh If you want to rise
up.
Chirk
Roy Knabenshue, the airship Jockey"
who was so successful in sailing Captain
Baldwin's machine 1.-THE Arrow" at
the St Louis fair. and at Los Angeles
Cal, has arrived in Toledo, o., and an
nounces that he will begin work on an
afrship of his own continuance. Incident
ally, he will no longer be associated with
Captain Baldwin. Knabenshue will be
given a fair trial. We certainly need air
ships that merit the name, and the only
requirement we will make of Knabenshue
is that he turn out a craft that will
fly.
That was a lively bout furnished by
Chancellor Sledd of the University or
Florida and President Marion Of the uni
versitys preparatory department. These
academic fisticuffs are so rare that they
are rendered all the more enjoyable when
they do happen. Unfortunately, many
of our college savants are not habitually
in training for rough and tumble af-
fair and their encounters, for this reason,
are usually brief. 1t appears that Chan
celIor Sledd and President Marion rolled
down a flight of steps together and that
Marion was on the bottom when they
stopped rolling The affair grew out of
personal misunderstanding and must
have been edifying IN the extreme to
the student body.