The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17

chance. Our teams we keep. It would not
be profitable to sell any of them. We en-
deavor during the season to keep even, that
Is, make expenses. We do not hope to
make money. The beer we put on the mar
ket is of the very best quality; but we
know to our cost, perhaps, that the general
public fails to appreciate good beer on a
frosty day. They are not now applicable to
the lines:
The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year,
When it is most too hot for whisky straight
of evils" there cannot be any doubt in
MANY men must mix many liquors when
the wind blows cold"
49,
Speaking of beer it is said That the best
American market of one of the most de-
servedly famous of the great breweries of
the west IS Pittsburg; the second being Bir-
mingham, Ala. Birmingham is n great
town for beer-drlnking, and since men will
drink, it is vastly better that they drink
beer instead of whisky. AS to the "choice
of evils" there cannot be any doubt in
any intelligent mind
There was a possum feast in this town
yesterday, the arrangements having been
made by John Bradley, an expert and one
of The best of all good fellows. 1T has
been the custom of Masons in Virginia for
two hundred years to have a possum feast
on the 9th of December, the festival of st.
John the Evangelist" sand William Ryan.
1.-The origin of this pleasing custom 1 do
rot pretend to know, and why the possum
should be the great dish of the Masons on
that day. l know not but the custom ex-
its, and it is very interesting ONE
The Rev Father O'Reiley, the Catholic
priest of this parish and pastor of St. Paul
church, has been very painfully i'll for two
or three days; but last night was greatly
improved. He hopes to be strong enough
to celebrate mass tomorrow morning. Fa-
Their O'Reilley being indsposed, the Rec.
Father Kennedy his learned and eloquent
assistant, will be the celebfant at mass at
ST. Pauls this morning at 1880 and at 1890.
All the people in this valley will be glad to
know that Father OReilley is convalescent.
He is perhaps the hardest worked man In
Birmingham; and he carries sunshine wher-
ever he goes. Provision is being made TO:
additional assistance ia Father O'Reilley.
Colonel Robert Mckee has returned to
the city from Montgomery, where he has
been spending two or three days with
friends.
David NJ. Scott, of Selma, representing a
New York clothing house, and one of the
most popular commercial travellers in the
south, is at the Morris
Former Governor Thomas Goode Jones
was in Birmingham yesterday.
Editor T. w Ayers, of the Admission Re-
publican, was in the city yesterday.
Captain G. F. Thompson, of New York,
is at the Florence He is accompanied by
Mrs. Thompson.
J. Milton Browne, Louisville; P. 7.
Shanks, st. Louis, and D. P. Miller, New
York, are at the Florence.
II. L. Mckee, of Selma, is in the city to-
day.
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Robert f. Gould, of St. Louis, is at the
Norris
DIR. w. II. Sanders, state health officer.
was in the city last night on his way to
Montgomery. DIR. Sanders has been at Ala
bama City the past several days investigat-
ing the smallpox epidemic there and taking
steps to stamp it out. Steps were also
taken to prevent the spread of the disease
to other communities 1t is understood that
smallpox is prevalent in nearly a dozen
counties of the state.