The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

1 ter is that no one laughed more heartily
 over the doggerel than the Kaiser him | self, especially when he got to this verse;
 Dere's Grandma dinks she's nicht schmall | beer,
 Midt Boers and such she interfere. She'll learn none owns dis hemisphere. But me-und Gott. . There are many good stories told of I the admiral whose services were valued
 so highly that he was kept in the service
 six months over the retirement age. | The admiral was the ranking officer of | after dinner speakers In the navy and | his fame rapidly grew to outer circles. l It was always customary to put him at | the end of the list because the speak CTS ahead of him would always be sure of a good audience. Nobody ever went | home when he was down for speech. Not long ago at a dinner given to him at Delmonico's as chief of the New York commandery of the naval order of the United States, he was the recipient of
 many compliments. He replied by saying: This is honor enough to take any | mans breath away. l hope that it does | take mine away before 1 get home. Such reception would be most pleasing .o any but a diffident man like myself. I am in the same boat with the fellow who died and then came to life, His wife said feelingly as she showed him some
 fiowery obituaries:
 John, don't you feel glad over that?" " Mo- he replied. I wish to God I had
 died'"
 These lines from his report to Admiral Dewey on the battle of Manila are worth
 remembering:
 Out of the jaws fo death, out of the
 gates of hell and only little smoky from
 the trip"
 Howard Gould calls his wife, who is suing him for separation, extravagant
 and she retorts that he is the stingiest
 of rich husbands. The husband furnishes a bill of particulars with his assertion.
 When they were watching in the Medter- ranean, he says, they made the acluant-
 ance of an Irish professor of Greek. Mrs. Gould, he declares, was impressed by the professor that she bought an Egyp- tian vase costing $140 to present to him. In London last summer she saw bull dog named Bunk that struck her fancy. Bunk was purchased at a cost of S250. In May last she saw some short horn cat tie and admired them. A bull was pur- chased immediately; bull 5000 These are just few of her alleged little ''extrava- gances." Mrs. Gould declares that her allowance was S1200O0 year but she was never permitted to spend that much on herself. She declares that MT. Gould would encourage her to buy and then refuse to pay when the bills came around. It is said that all of the Gould family with two exceptions will stand by How ard through his matrimonial tangles. The exceptions are possibly Mrs. George Gould. who was Edith Kingdom. an actress. and Anna Gould. who was re- gently divorced from Boni de Castellane.
 Why do the people love the railroads? Something happened over on Long Is- land the other day that may serve to answer this question in part. Years ago when railroads were welcomed as friends and could count on getting free right of way from farmers, James Vandewater of Cedarhurst gave the Long Island rail- road strip of land. For more than thirty years the road made no use of it. yandewater died in the meantime and his son got the impression that the land was to revert back to the original owner in case 1t was not used for tracks. The railroad opposed this contention and brought suit to have the son evicted as squatter but lost. Then they resort ed to violence. Before daylight one morn- ing a squad of 15O men in charge of civil engineer invaded the premises, knocked over Vandewater's barn. clubbed him and terrorized his family.
 New York newspapers and public mer are again discussing the question of whether higher education for women tends to interfere with marriage and pro- mote race suicide. Dr. G. Stanley Hall of Clark university has once more de- clared that 1t does and every one Is busy declaring that 1t does not. Dr. Mary Roberts Smith Is the only person who has ever gone to the trouble to give the