The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07


 OIX months ago Benjamin Lawtor O died at the age of 90 years. He had been bookkeeper for Mrs. Hetty Greens father. She received her first allowance from him of $1.50 week When she entered on her amazing
 career as a A Gentle Side to busi s Hetty Greens Character woman he
 was kept in her services as a bookkeeper. Every day until his death he came to her office, where he sat all day, asleep most of the time after he reached his dotage He might have retired on a pension, but told Mrs. Green that to quit the habit of many years would kill him, so he stayed on and drew his salary until he died.
 This is only one of the stories that are coming to light and revealing a softer side of Mrs. Greens character. It is said that about thirty families were dependent upon her for support, most of them associated with the Green family as servants, friends or relatives. These people drew their al lowances regularly, but she is reported to have made many bequests for va riaus charitable purposes which were not mentioned in the newspapers. In fact. her aversion to all forms of pub licity was such that her good deeds were seldom known to any but the direct beneficiaries. Only her vast financial affairs were kept promi- nently before the public, because these could not be hidden from prying re- porters.
 It is not good to spend long life in amassing riches and die without ever having used any of that wealth to tighten the burdens of the less fortu- nate. Mrs. Green was a match for the keenest financiers of her time, and making money was the chief object of her life, but there were times when the proverbial tightness of her purse strings was relaxed.
 vATHEN Colonel Roosevelt pledged w MT. Hughes his active SUD- port the republican standard bearer naturally rejoiced. It may be as- stunned that nothing which could have happened would have cheered the can didate so much as the colonel's pres ence at the now historic lunch where
 only the two sat over Still Full of the dishes and dis Militant Fire coursed in a heart-to-
 heart fashion just as if they had never been in opposing politi- cal camps.
 But the fact that Colonel Roosevelt loves the trappings of the soldieer and the smell of powder, even more than he loves political warfare, is evil denced by his restive attitude toward the Mexican situation and his eager ness to talk war above everything else. When it was intimated from Wash ington that the President might call for 25O,OOO volunteers, the colonel was prompt in saying that he would ask for a major generals commission for the purpose of raising division of 12,OOO men of the Rough Rider'' type. And while no one doubts the sincerity of his proffer to MT. Hughes to help in the campaign, presumably by speechmaking. it is apparent to the public that when the tocsin of war smote the colonels ear he lost inter est in everything except the prospect of a volunteer command.
 The villagers of Oyster Bay, 5000 strong, formed in procession on the Fourth of July and marched in review before the sage of Sagamore Hill. Of course, the colonel's neighbors called for speech. The former moose made happy talk, but it was all about war; all about the part he was ready to play if his services were needed.
 Most of the Independence Day ora " touched on Mexico and the citi-
 soldiery, but party politics as a
 ,lym for patriotism enlivened
 ajority of the speeches. If the