The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16

i :. Only his steel-gray eyes. which seem to look you through and through, and his aggressive nose and chin give the impress sion of fighter who knows no surrender, who fights with every weapon a his com mand according to the rules of the game as he understands them.
 Away from business MT. Ryan is as genial as he is gentle. A most simple man In his habits he smokes but little, drinks hardly at all, and goes but little in society. His great interest away from Wall street lies in the State of Virginia, from which he came"
 Is there any reason for the assertion attributed to a major general of the United States army that one had "as well be tried by crocodiles as a military court?r Unfortunately, there are a large number of army officers who, in private conversation, agree that the majorgen eral mas not exaggerated the situation. Of course they will not say so openly, for the President has no use for an officer who expresses an opinion The discussion was started by the case of Lieut.. Col. Ayres, whose wife was recently excluded from the reservation at West Point. An interview attributed to Col. Ayres in which the army system in general was criticised, and the remark of the major general in regard to crocodiles and mill tary courts was quoted A man who signs himself "Honorably Discharged D has written letter to one of the news papers, declaring that the rank and file of the army have no respect for military courts. He says in part:
 The writer has been present at many trials by court-martial in the United States army in the capacity of clerk of the judge advocate, and would say that fully half the trials he has known of have been merely farces or d meeting of officers for social or other discussion, the sentence having been predetermined. He has recorded other trials where soldier witnesses have been practically forced to testify as desired by the prosecution, and after the taking of evidence has been completed and the court cleared the sen tence of Private Brown, being tried for alleged neglect of duty and the usual ac- companying charge of conduct to the pre- judice of good order and military discip- line has been arrived at somewhat after the following style:
 Lieut.. A.-Well, what do you know of him?
 Capt. B.-Why, we ought to soak him; he refused to scrub out Mrs. B. room last week.
 Lieut.. A.-Dear me, what nerve the fellow has got, 1 think we ought to give him six months anyway, to tone him down, for the other day l asked him to go to town for a couple of bottles Of whisky, and he replied that as it was against the regulations he "preferred not to go on such an errand.'
 Capt. c. added his testimony to the effect that he had been waiting for chance at Brown for a long time; not that he is bad soldier@he is really a very good one--but he is so damned smart that one can never get him to do a little job outside his proper duty, and you sec if we give him six months we shall have him all to ourselves And so poor Brown got his"
 Perusal of the lost and found columns of the New York newspapers gives inter- est.hg results. In the last few days among the articles found on subway or elevated trains in this city were boot blacks outfit, fishing tackle, a basket of clothes, some baby carriage handles d doctors outfit, a music stand. seventy four umbrellas, four pairs of trousers, q few overcoats and several pairs of over als.
 and Found" advertisements for year noted the loss in New York within that period of 9l5 watches. S73 pocketbooks 7l0 diamond pins, 4S5 bracelets and other hun dreds of chains, necklaces, etc. How many things went without advertising there Is no saying.
 Paris had partial count of things lost in 1903. The list and estimate totaled 6, ,O0O umbrellas and walking sticks. which Is believed to give the French capital a championship. Also lost and found in Paris that year were two artificial legs, one of them woman's.
 Are New Workers different from other people? Are they colder and less cour- teous and is hospitality lost virtue among them? There is much evidence which would seem to answer these ques- tons in the affirmative. Here is one case: A man who used to live here and was a big man in his college club went away. Coming back on visit, he ex- pected warm welcome at his old haunts So he walked into his club, pre- pared to shake hands and make the fel- lows really think he was not unmindful of their heartfelt greetings. Hello, P, what are you doing here?' was the uni. versal salutaton. No one even took the trouble to get up and shake hands With him Another man, who had what be considered some warm friends in lwal street, went away and came back afte, two years. He, too. expected af warn greeting. The best he got from the mar he thought his closest friend was .Hov dye do, been about six monhts since saw you" man who liveS in New York fifty years ago came back the othel l day on a visit Here is what he had f, | say of the people:
 l 'The pathetic part of the crushing crowding hurrying stream o3 human ma chimes passing from work to- the Brookly, homes was the fact that nowhere did on, see face that looked entirely happy an, contented Every face had the Nev