The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31
'Mongst Pleasant Persons
A Yell by Mail
By c. s. PARTRIDGE

A Yell by Mail. Pooh pooh, Harvard! Pooh -pooh., Yale! We learn our lessons through the mail! We're no dummies, were no fools Rah. rah. rah! Correspondence Schools. New York Sun. We Are Not So Fast. So much is said about eighteen hour trains between Chicago and New York and Chicago Is named first just for the fun of it--that Americans believe they are just the fastest little things In the world. But they are not.
 The Review of Reviews has recently published statistics that are startling to persons that are amenable to sur prise. The average speed of the thirty fastest trains in the United States, ac- cording to the startling statistics. is 45.22 miles an hour. The comparative speed in Germany Is 45.77, in F'rance 4T.70. in Great Britain 52.S2 miles.
 But it is added that if the actual run ming time instead of the schedule time were taken America would make bet ter show. And it may be added. too, that we have less safety with the less speed for the railways of the United States carrying fewer than three fourtbs of the number carried in Great Britain kill more than thousand. while the British railwoys did not bag but seventy-six in year.
 Still. 1t is fiue to travel; 1t broadens nne so.
 The Rabbi RetortS.
 Not often has anything sharper been said than that reply of Rabbi Fleisch- or of Boston to President Eliot of Har- yard University, who had recommended that Jewish youths join militia compa- nies and thus regain the ancient mar tial spirit of Israel and. incidentally, inn their physical development.
 Rabbi Fleischer said that physical deve1opme ent was most excellent thing in man. but he said tn Gre were very ct, ppf hc good fighters The Jew. he said. had got out of the habit of fighting and hnd lost the primitive mans desire to hill because he had been so long civil. ized. You can't brutaliZe him again" tFn Rahhi daclaraa
 The reply is especially pointed in that 1t goes to one supposed to teach by precept and example the message of the Prince of Peace.
 Sarcasm on Script.
 f1vc dollar bill tsho 'un) money was laid on the long mahogany coun- ter. Then sofl gurgle and reach Tor the water on the side.
 "Dingw went the cash register. A fat, puugy Land reached into the haven Of odd IS cent pieces and threw forth
 As the reader may have imagined, the hand contained it's quota of script ana a silver dinlc-all told $4.S5-four one dollar scripts, one 50 cent script, one 25 cent scrlpt ana the aloreSaiu lV cent piece.
 Sarcasm was In order surely. It cacle.
 Haven't you got any 10 cents scripts -"
 A smile (reaO went round and the drinkee gathered up lis various col ored homemade and wandered out tn- uo the night.
 Captain Edward J. Griffith, Assistant Chief of the Fire Department, made brief visitation to headquartsrs on Madison Avenue yesterday after long confinement to his home on South Me Donough Street. where he has been very i'll, Captain Griffith Is not yet rulIy recovered and has not resumed his duties.
 
 Mir A. Armstrong. a clerk for the Ho- tel Summers, Is gradually recovering his strength after a long illness at his home on South Jackson Street.