The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-09


 was not unusual. The poorest peon south of the Rio Grande knows how to die like a man, with final puff of his cigarette and a shrug of his But that his executioners were so unnerved that they made a butchery out of what was intended to be legal execution testified to the of Angeles and the hold he had on the popular imagination.
 # r Prick As Art Collector
 and Large Benefactor 1DICH men dying are often exag- 0N gerated in their wealth, but the late H. c. Prick left far over $100,- GOO, 0-considerably more than the estimated fortune he was assessed.
 He bequeathed a vast sum to his family, but he left more millions to educational institutions, to say noth- ing of art collections. His art gallery is the most valuable of private kind in the United States. This is to be maintained together for the benefit of the public.
 While living Mir. Prick was noted chiefly as a collector of art, but there was scarcely any branch of charity or education that he did not remember in his will.
 Millionaires of other days gave princely fortunes in the way of en- dowments for educational or cultural purposes. Pierpont Morgan, Carnegie and Rockefeller were lavish in their gifts. MT. Prick has followed the ex- ample of multi-millionaires in their good deeds. Such will be the ex- ample for those in the days to come.
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 A Tennessee jury sentenced girl to 21 years Imprisonment for killing a man. Is chivalry at a low ebb in the grand old state of Tennessee, or should we rather say that justice and common sense are beginning to figure in such cases at last?
 "Where is sugar going now?" asks tha~ Philadelphia Inquirer, That is a question hard to answer, but precious little of it is going into old-fashioned long toddies. once the delight of the southern coloners heart. * # # l Hon. Wilde is said to be game little fighter. He must be. Any man whc | goes into the ring weighing 107 pounds l for the express purpose of fighting must have more than the average share of pluck.
 l General Denikine is said to draw a salary of only s60 month. Can there be any further doubt of the mans pa, such paltry sunni l x * * Reckless drivers of Cleveland art thoroughgoing chaps. A Cleveland woman was run over by two automo piles the other day before she could say "Jack Robinsonr'
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 diste. declares that there is room fol improvement in women's clothes. Wher a modiste moralizes the devil shoult watch his step.
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 Heigh- -ho! Time is beginning to hans heavy on the hands of Gabrielle D'An nunzio Whats the use of having personality if you are no longe played up' on the front page? | # # x l Our departing bolsheviki, who pre- dict soviet America" in five or si, years. will hardly live, to see thei 
 prophecy come true.
 Even if there is wet Christmas it won't mean anything in particular tt the camel drivers who live in the Sa hara of bone-dry state. Will some one wipe tear off tn cheek of Emma Goldman, who ha grown old trying to overturn tn 1 American government? It is suggested that if America in vades Mexico Villa might become ou ally. But would he and Pershing ge along well-together? Cartoonists who picture the Amer ican eagle sweeping down on Mexic remind us of the sad fact that ou aviation programme has gone to pot. l x x X